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Fifteen years after the original animated hit, How to Train Your Dragon returns to the big screen in a bold yet careful live-action remake. DreamWorks has handed the reins back to Dean DeBlois, co-director of the beloved 2010 version, ensuring this adaptation honors its roots. Rather than chasing reinvention, DeBlois delivers a respectful, scene-for-scene reinterpretation that holds tightly to the emotional core of its predecessor.

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Jacob Elordi and director Justin Kurzel formed a creative bond long before their official collaboration on Amazon’s limited series The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Without realizing it, they had admired each other’s work from afar — Elordi captivated by Kurzel’s raw 2011 debut Snowtown, and Kurzel intrigued by Elordi’s breakout performances in Euphoria, Priscilla, and Saltburn.

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Lionsgate is leaning into artificial intelligence in a major way, revealing how its partnership with AI startup Runway could reshape how the studio produces, edits, and repackages content. Vice chairman Michael Burns recently detailed the studio’s evolving strategy in a conversation with New York Magazine, highlighting how AI could allow Lionsgate to rethink production costs, streamline creative decisions, and unlock new revenue streams.

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Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch has made history this Memorial Day weekend, dancing its way to a record-breaking $183 million in the U.S. over four days, and $341.7 million globally. The film’s explosive debut outperformed Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning, which earned $77 million domestically, and marks a new high point for the beloved 2002 animated classic.

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Following the delay of his DC Studios project Sgt. Rock, director Luca Guadagnino is wasting no time lining up his next film. Sources say Guadagnino is in talks to direct Artificial at Amazon MGM Studios, with Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro, and breakout Anora star Yura Borisov in early discussions to lead the cast.

Guy Ritchie’s new Apple TV+ film Fountain of Youth dropped on the platform on May 23, 2025, with John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as bickering siblings on a globe-trotting quest for the legendary fountain of eternal youth. The film blends myth, high-stakes adventure, and slick visuals, but despite its credentials, it’s been given a cool reception.

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Neeraj Ghaywan’s latest film Homebound premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the “Un Certain Regard” sidebar this week with a rousing nine-minute standing ovation. It is a big return for Ghaywan, who made waves on the Croisette for the first time in 2015 with Masaan, a film that dealt with caste and loss with sensitivity on the banks of the Ganges.