Sony Pictures has released a new red band trailer for The Machine, a film that adapts comedian Bert Kreischer’s real-life story about an encounter with the Russian mafia. For anyone just catching up, Kreischer got famous, in part, for his story about visiting Russia in college, drinking too much vodka, …

Hogwarts Legacy sold 12 million copies and drove $850 million in revenue across its first two weeks on sale, Warner Bros. Games has announced. This makes it the biggest launch ever for Warner Bros. Games, despite controversy surrounding author JK Rowling. For comparison, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II …

Survival game Sons of the Forest launched today, February 23, on Steam Early Access, and the game had a huge start. Data from SteamDB shows that the game has exceeded 100,000 concurrent players right out of the gate. At press time, it’s reached 200,000 concurrent players. Additionally, Sons of the …

HBO has announced that the It prequel TV series, Welcome to Derry, is officially moving ahead and has been ordered to series. The show, which comes from Warner Bros. Television, is being developed by the director of the movies, Andy Muschietti, along with his sister, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs. …

Early tracking estimates for Shazam! Fury of the Gods suggest the superhero movie is gearing up for a soft debut in the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Zachary Levi-starring movie will make between $35 million and $40 million for its first weekend of March 17-19. This data comes …

The wild new movie Cocaine Bear–which tells the story of a bear that eats cocaine and then kills people–arrives in theaters this weekend. But what might a sequel look like? The stars of the film have now shared their incredible ideas. O’Shea Jackson Jr. told Variety that a sequel could …

Netflix is cutting subscription prices around the world, but US members won’t see any price reductions. The streaming platform confirmed that it’s dropping prices in more than 100 international markets, with more than 10 million accounts seeing a price cut. Some of the markets getting price drops include South and …

Electronic Arts has shared new details on the future of its Battlefield series. The company has confirmed that DICE will now work together with Ridgeline Games on a “future Battlefield single-player campaign.” What this game is, however, remains a mystery. Ridgeline, a Seattle-based studio led by Halo veteran Marcus Lehto, …

Pedro Pascal stars on HBO’s The Last of Us, a TV series based on Naughty Dog’s video game that tells a story about a fungal infection that turns people into zombies infected. Pascal isn’t scared of mushrooms, though, but he can’t recommend eating magic mushrooms and then watching The Last …

HBO surprised some people recently when it canceled Westworld and announced that the existing seasons would shift to non-HBO platforms. Speaking to Variety, HBO programming boss Casey Bloys said the higher-ups spent some time thinking about what was the right amount of money to spend on HBO Max original shows. …