Beyonce topped a box office weekend that didn’t have a lot to talk about. Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce opened with a $22M 3-day total while last week’s top film, Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes dropped to second with a $14.5M haul. Toho’s latest Godzilla Minus One also debuted, grabbing $11M with two animated features rounding out the top five with Trolls Band Together making $7.6M in its third week while the second week for Wish took in $7.4M. Other new releases made the top ten including Animal at $6.07M, The Shift with $4.35M and the new John Woo film Silent Night with $3M. The Marvels has complete dropped out of the top 10 in just its fourth weekend with the film still under $100M domestically. 

Warner Bros. has shuffled its film release schedule, planting “Final Destination: Bloodlines” on the calendar in summer and delaying the J.J. Abrams-backed mystery thriller “Flowervale Street” to 2026.

“Final Destination 6” will be released on May 16, 2025. It’s taking over the slot previously occupied by “Flowervale Street,” which was set for mid-May but has been pushed nearly a year to March 13, 2026. “Final Destination: Bloodlines” is the only major studio release on that date, but it will debut two weeks after Disney’s Marvel adventure “Thunderbolts” (May 2) and the week prior to Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” and Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” (May 23).

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” will be directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein. It’s the first new installment in the franchise in 14 years, since 2011’s “Final Destination 5.” (via Variety)

A haunting new storyline was spotted on the set of The Boys Season 5, The Direct is reporting.

Production has officially begun on The Boys Season 5, and showrunner Eric Kripke has previously confirmed that the fifth season will conclude the fan-favorite Prime Video series, aligning with the long-planned five-season arc. But although Seasons 1-4 were dark, Season 5 seems to be taking it to another level.

The first leaked set photos from Season 5 have sent fans into a frenzy. They offer a glimpse at a storyline that draws eerie parallels to historical atrocities. The images, shared by Sonya on X, depict "freedom camps" with a chilling sign that reads "Freedom sets you free," a nod to the infamous phrase associated with concentration camps in World War II.

Beneath the sign, Vernon Correctional Services' logo hints at Vought International’s involvement, fueling speculation about the satirical show's take on authoritarianism and propaganda.

The Boys Seasons 1 through 4 and Season 1 of Gen V are streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One will be streaming on Prime Video worldwide on Thursday, Dec. 12. The movie will continue to be booked in theaters.

Maintaining a 28-day theatrical window, the $200M+ Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans starring, Jake Kasdan directed, Seven Bucks production grossed $85.7M domestic, $164M worldwide through Sunday. The movie was playing at 3,150 theaters stateside this past weekend, and 4,000 screens abroad. The movie was originally greenlit for the service, and flipped to theatrical.

Johnson is the first Hollywood star since Nicolas Cage in June 1997 with Face Off and Con-Air to have two No. 1 openings in a given month. Red One received an A- CinemaScore and 90% on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter. (via Deadline)

The Hollywood Reporter has said, through their Heat Vision Newsletter, that the upcoming Superman movie “will be doing a few days of additional shooting in Los Angeles in the near term” following a recent test screening. And while it’s completely normal now for a film to do reshoots, these aren’t really reshooting. According to director James Gunn when asked if the report was true, he said, “Sort of. Not a few days. We’re doing a day and a half of pickup shots. No scenes. No reshoots. Just a handful of individual shots to enhance the film.” Pickup shots are minor shots that are filmed after the main filming of a movie has ended. They are used in a variety of reasons including: filling in gaps, logistical connections, improving quality, experimentation, establishing shots, close ups and matching shots. These are usually planned and scheduled into production and a day and a half of pickup shots on a film this big is nothing. 

Wicked may be tearing up the box office but it’s the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz film is the one making news over the weekend. A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland, who played Dorothy, went up for auction and sold for a record breaking $28 million. The slippers were one of four known to have survived since the filming and they had been stolen from the Judy Garland museum back in 2005 and recovered by the FBI 13 years later. The slippers were designed by MGM’s chief costume designer, Gilbert Adrian, and made by Western Costume Company. Along with he slippers, one of the Wicked Witch’s Hat from the same collection also went up for auction, fetching $2.93 million. 

We have our first look and release date for Reacher season 3. The Alan Ritchson lead action series will return to Amazon Prime on February 20th, 2025, and will be based on the Lee Child novel, Persuader. The series will put Reacher in the center of a vast criminal enterprise in hopes of rescuing an undercover DEA agent and catching a killer from his past. The cast for the new season includes Anthony Michael Hall, Sonya Cassidy, Brain Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Robert Montesinos, Daniel David Stewart and the extremely large Olivier Richters who will play Paulie, an adversary that makes Reacher look small. The series continues to diverge from the novels with the return of Maria Sten as Frances Neagley, one of the few recurring characters in the books but she does not appear in two of the three novels that the series had adapted so far. A spinoff series focused on Neagley is said to be in the works. 

Context is everything… and sarcasm is hard to put into a sentence. On Thursday’s episode of the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, James Gunn talked about all things DC Studios from the Creature Commandos to Superman. In the mix of talking about the upcoming HBO series Lanterns, the host jokingly asked Gunn if that meant Ryan Reynolds was not coming back to reprise his role as Hal Jordan from the 2011 Green Lantern film. Gunn responded, also jokingly, “Ryan doesn’t give a s#!t! One of the first people I talked to after I got the job was Ryan Reynolds. I was like, ‘You coming back?!’ He’s like, ‘Get the f#@k out of here!’” Now, listening to the podcast, it’s pretty obvious that this was not a real conversation. Did he talk to Reynolds? Probably. But I doubt that was the actual conversation. More likely Gunn giving a sarcastic answer to a sarcastic question. But that hasn't stopped multiple outlets treating this like it's a revelation. 

Rumors are buzzing around like Golden Snitches as Warner Bros looks for their new cast for the new Harry Potter television series. While there has been no news on the children’s roles, the faculty of Hogwart’s is getting a lot of attention with claims that Paapa Essiedu is up to play Severus Snape, Sharon Horgan to be the new Minerva McGonagall and both Mark Rylance and Mark Strong talked about for Albus Dumbledore. And while no official casting has been announced, the latest rumor has to do with Rubeus Hagrid, the character previously brought to life by the late Robbie Coltrane. Word is that Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein is up to play the gamekeeper, which will be the second powerful role the former Roy Kent would be playing after popping up in the MCU as Hercules in Thor Love and Thunder. It may be awhile before we have any of these roles confirmed, as the series isn’t expected to debut until later 2026-2027, but that won’t stop sites from reporting the rumors. 

As the press tour for Mafasa: The Lion King goes on, reporters are asking the film’s star, Aaron Pierre, about another upcoming project, HBO’s Lanterns. Back in October Pierre was announced as Green Lantern John Stewart alongside Kyle Chandler who will be playing Hal Jordan in the upcoming series that takes the two intergalactic cops and has them trying to solve a murder mystery in the American Heartland. When asked about playing the role, Pierre told ComicBook.com: “What I can tell you is that the team are just super, super excited to have this opportunity to bring this story to the people. And, so far as I’m concerned, I’m gonna do my very best to serve and honor and elevate in any way I can, John Stewart and the [Green Lantern] Corps. Hopefully, I serve that and it resonates with me.” Filming of the series is expected to begin early in 2025. 

A superhero movie shelved for tax reasons. A disgraced director attempting a comeback. And a shady company rebooting a classic comic book hero. It all sounds very Hollywood 2024 — and that was one of the goals for Alex Segura with his new novel, Alter Ego.

Alter Ego, which arrived Dec. 3 from publisher Flatiron, serves as what he calls a “standalone” sequel to his well-received 2022 novel Secret Identity, which focused on comic book culture of the 1970s and chronicled the creation of a hero known as The Lynx. The new novel takes place decades later in the same world as Secret Identity, but can be read on its own.

Alter Ego centers on Annie Bustamante, an acclaimed comic book artist and filmmaker who is sent into a tailspin when her new superhero movie gets shelved for tax reasons. She gets a lifeline when a mysterious company hires her to help reboot The Lynx comic and consult on the property (a disgraced filmmaker is directing a Lynx movie as part of a comeback attempt). Annie signs on, but she soon starts receiving messages from someone called Apparition, who warns she is in danger.

The novel took life after Flatiron editor Zack Wagman suggested Segura add a modern-day epilogue to Secret Identity, which followed the 1970s exploits of comic book creator Carmen Valdez. (via The Hollywood Reporter)