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| Sony Pictures, Lionsgate partner on live-action 'Naruto' movie | Sony Pictures and Lionsgate are teaming up on a live-action Naruto movie. Lionsgate announced Sony as the co-financer and international distributor of the upcoming film in a statement Tuesday. "With their deep expertise in manga and anime and global distribution prowess, Sony Pictures is a perfect partner for Naruto, and we're thrilled to join forces with [Sony motion picture group head] Tom Rothman and his team to bring this extraordinary property to audiences around the world," Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said. |
| 'The Elder Scrolls VI' gets official title 'Sentinel' | Bethesda Game Studios announced on Tuesday the official title for their long-awaited next Elder Scrolls game as The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The title reveal was announced as part of a retrospective, 40-year anniversary video about Bethesda. The studio also released a short teaser video featuring a scroll emerging from sand. The clip ends with a quote from an in-game character that reads, "The scroll offered only a shimmer, a veil thinly lifted to my eyes. A future lost. A victory undone. Sands of time scattered by fate." The quote is attributed to a character listed as Yazar, Moth Priest to High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell. The quote could be a hint about Sentinel taking place in Hammerfell, a location featured in previous entries. |
| Rob Lowe documentary trailer features insights from Paltrow, Moore | Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new documentary Rob Lowe: The Outsider. The streaming service shared a trailer for the film Tuesday featuring The Outsiders, St. Elmo's Fire, The West Wing and Parks and Recreation actor Rob Lowe, now 62. In The Outsider, Lowe recalls the ups and downs of his life and career after skyrocketing to fame as a teen idol and member of the "Brat Pack" group of young Hollywood actors. The Substance star Demi Moore, Iron Man actress Gwyneth Paltrow and other famous friends appear in the film to share their insights about Lowe. |
| Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie to reunite on Netflix thriller 'Dogfight' | Frequent collaborators Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie are reuniting on a new film. Netflix announced Tuesday that Ritchie will direct Statham in the new action revenge thriller Dogfight. Statham and Ritchie previously worked together on such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999) and Snatch (2000). The pair will begin production on Dogfight in early 2027 in the United Kingdom. Details about the film are being kept under wraps, but the movie is set in "the criminal underground of London," according to Netflix's Tudum. Statham and Ritchie are also collaborating on Viva La Madness, a new action thriller film based on the J.J. Connolly novel. |
| 'Blue Eye Samurai' Season 2 gets teaser, January premiere date | Netflix is gearing up for the release of Blue Eye Samurai Season 2. The streaming service shared a teaser and January premiere date for the season Tuesday. Blue Eye Samurai is an animated series created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green. The show follows the title character, Mizu (voiced by Maya Erskine), a mixed-race samurai seeking revenge on her father in Edo period Japan. Season 2 will see Mizu travel to 17th-century London, where "she faces new friends, old foes, and her own demons." "London in 1657 had a thriving culture of illicit activity, something that fittingly parallels our story of Japan," Noizumi and Green told Netflix's Tudum. |