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Remember a week or two ago when there was a piece in The Hollywood Reporter boasting about how Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was going to “skip social media influencer screenings” and was instead “going straight to professional critics screenings”?

Looking for a new series to binge-watch, a new TV show to get hooked on with your partner or pals, or just want to know if any of your favorite shows have a new season or special out soon? We’ve got you covered. While movies are great for a one-night escape, TV shows and streaming series require a little more commitment with (typically) a long-term payoff.

I have to be honest: When I sat down to watch Minions & Monsters with my ten- and eight-year-old daughters, I did not expect the experience to end with a debate of Minion genitals. But that is what happened. Typically, after I take my kids to the movies, we spend the trip home from the multiplex discussing what we liked and disliked about the film, whether we would change anything, and how it compared to other things we’d seen recently.

When someone tries to take a movie to court it’s always for a weird reason. Movie-related lawsuits happen a lot more often than you might think. If a film gets big enough, at least someone out there is going to try to get a piece. These lawsuits usually involve other writers claiming some director or studio stole their idea, or their script — and most of these are hard or even impossible to prove.

Audiences are not going bananas over the latest Minions movie. In fact, they may be saying “Poopaye!” to those weird yellow critters once and for all pretty soon. That’s because the latest Minions sequel, Minions & Monsters just had the worst opening weekend not only in Minions history, but also in the entire seven film cinematic universe that also includes Despicable Me, which the strangely immortal, gibberish-speaking goofs were originally spun off from.

President Donald Trump received a $10.71 million licensing fee for Melania, according to his newly released 2025 financial disclosure report. Variety reports the president’s financial disclosure statement, released on Tuesday (June 30), reveals Trump reported at least $2.2 billion in revenue last year, more than double the total of $622 million in earnings he reported for 2024.

X-Men ’97 finally returned on Disney+ this week, with a huge three-part season premiere. And if you like ’90s X-Men comics, man, this show is for you. The Season 2 debut included so many Easter eggs calling back to that classic period in Marvel history. X-Factor — the classic version of the team created by Peter David and Larry Stroman — are now a major part of the storyline, as are Cable’s X-Force team, like Rob Liefeld’s old comic came to life. But those are just a couple of the obvious callbacks.

The couple that climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City earlier this week might be familiar to Netflix subscribers. The duo, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, are a couple known for their extreme climbing stunts.

Neon Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Domestic Box Office: $4.0 million I get it: The title is a tough sell for anyone who doesn’t already know the web series it’s based on, from two relatively anonymous Canadian guys who are not really a band in any professional sense (and certainly not like Nirvana in any way).

Project Hail Mary is coming home. The big sci-fi movie, based on the book by Andy Weir, is set to debut on streaming on streaming ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend. The movie is already one of the biggest box-office hits of the year; as of this writing its the third-highest grossing film in the United States of 2026, behind only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael.