Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gets an “R” rating. Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man turns children into bloodsucking ghouls. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has a longer running time than John Boorman’s Excalibur. Come fly the teeth of the wind, share my wings. It’s Morning Spoilers!
The Guide
Deadline reports James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen, and Edouard Philipponnat will star in The Guide, a “psychological thriller” concerning psychotropic mushrooms from directors Inon and Natalie Shampanier. The film stars Cowen as “a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
According to Shaw Theaters, Spider-Man: Brand New Day runs an impressive two hours and twenty-five minutes long.
The Odyssey
TLC Chinese Theaters suggests Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been rated “R” and runs two-hours and fifty two-minutes long. As the film is budgeted at $250 million, World of Reel states this would officially make it the most expensive R-rated movie of all time.
Ray Gunn
Empire Magazine has a new image from Brad Bird’s animated sci-fi noir, Ray Gunn, starring the voice of Sam Rockwell as a Chris Pine-esque detective.
Ice Cream Man
Demonically-tainted ice cream turns children into cannibalistic deviants in the “red band” (and very gory!) trailer for Eli Roth’s latest, Ice Cream Man.
Fall 2: Deadpoint
Two young women are trapped on a plank instead of a pole in the first trailer for the horizontal sequel to Fall.
Ice Age: Boiling Point
Elsewhere, the Ice Age cast is shot skyward by a volcanic geyser in the first teaser for Boiling Point.
The Littlest Hobo
According to Deadline, a live-action reboot of The Littlest Hobo is now in development at Lionsgate Canada from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s production company, Point Grey, in partnership with franchise rights holders New Hobo Productions, Inc. As always, the new series will follow a crime-fighting German Shepherd who wanders from town-to-town doing everything from solving domestic disputes to foiling jewel heists.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
During a recent interview with The Playlist, director Owen Harris provided a positive update on the troubled second season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
I’m in Belfast. We are halfway through season 2, slugging away. We are about to go off to Gran Canaria to shoot a part of it, and we have been shooting. We started shooting in November, I think, end of November. We’ve shot it in chunks. Another six episodes, and I’m doing four of them.
Batman: Caped Crusader
Amazon and Warner Bros. Animation shared several new images from the second season of Batman: Caped Crusader, including our first looks at all-new incarnations of The Riddler, Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and Roxy Rocket.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
During her recent appearance at FedCon ’26 in Germany (via Instagram), Christina Chong teased the ninth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ fourth season was “the hardest episode I’ve ever had to do,” because “someone I love very, very much is in it.”
Rick and Morty
Finally, Rick tests the limits of the “Five Point Exploding Heart Technique” in a new clip from this week’s episode of Rick and Morty.
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