I wish I could explain the choices the latest DCU film made. PLUS: Amazon drops the Sam Altman biopic, Keanu Reeves joins the next Lego movie, and ‘Digger’ just wants to win an Oscar for Tom Cruise.
A quick review of the latest release commemorating the 30th anniversary of the franchise.
All the snack news you need to know from the past month.
Eleven. Vecna. Wavy hands. PLUS: Popculturology celebrates its third anniversary, Sheridan bails on Paramount, and new drama behind Adam Driver’s ‘Star Wars’ movie.
Happy Halloween, Popculturology readers! Welcome to a spooky edition of the Friday newsletter, anchored by a new trailer for the final season of Stranger Things.
I’m celebrating the third anniversary of the relaunch of Popculturology this weekend. On Nov. 1, 2022, I resurrected the publication in newsletter form after the brand had fallen dormant back in 2015. Over the past three years, The Omnicosm has come to life, housing not only Popculturology but also Deep SNL Thoughts and Snackology.
Bill Kuchman
Today is also my annual reminder to all of you that once you’re done with your trick-or-treating, tonight is the perfect time to watch ParaNorman.
Here’s what I’ve been reading this week …
Simultaneous is the debut novel from Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer. The book published this past Tuesday, and Sony has already optioned it for a movie. If you’re like me and 50 percent of your reading is time travel-related, Simultaneous is absolutely in your wheelhouse. (Heisserer is also adapting Nicholas Binge’s Dissolution — my favorite book of the year — into a film.)
Am I excited for the final season of Stranger Things? Sure.
Do I expect the show to end with Eleven and Vecna waving their hands at each other just like we’ve seen these characters do the past four seasons? Absolutely.
And I am going to laugh as the show tries to convince us that these full-grown adults are actually high school students? Yup.
The drama around Adam Driver’s pitch for a Ben Solo Star Wars movie grew deeper in the week since the news broke. While we already knew that Driver had enlisted Steven Soderbergh to direct the film and Scott Z. Burns to write the screenplay, The Playlist reported that the film had actually received the green light from Lucasfilm.
I wish I could explain the choices the latest DCU film made. PLUS: Amazon drops the Sam Altman biopic, Keanu Reeves joins the next Lego movie, and ‘Digger’ just wants to win an Oscar for Tom Cruise.
With a $160M debut, ‘Toy Story 5’ easily earns the biggest first weekend of 2026.
Are we heading toward another very big Spidey box office? PLUS: Jim Carrey’s Grinch steals a sequel, Anya Taylor-Joy joins ‘The Hunt for Gollum,’ and Derpy Tiger gets the Lego treatment.
The debut was Spielberg’s first film to crack $40M since ‘Ready Player One.’
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