It really is no kind of overstatement to say that the film industry is fundamentally changing right now. There are a lot of metrics for this, but perhaps none more so than the recent box office from the weekend of May 29, which saw low-budget indie horror films from directors in their 20s, Backrooms and Obsession, tower over Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu in its second window. This was shocking to most observers, and also a thing of hope and excitement for many. The pandemic left something like a permanent mark on the entertainment business and how we watch movies. Even with outliers like Top Gun: Maverick, the Barbenheimer phenomenon, A Minecraft Movie and some significant Disney wins over the last half-decade, it’s been a constant struggle to bring audiences back to theaters. This recent surge of enthusiasm, particularly for fresh, edgy filmmaking over the familiar, is invigorating.
The last six months have seen highs and lows at movie theaters, but this time window has been a triumph for fresh and daring films across all genres. There have been some disappointments and bombs, but if there’s a uniting theme in looking at the very best movies released so far this year, it’s originality and freshness. From a dark comedy that sees major movie stars at their edgiest, to horror pictures so successful they’ve shaken the industry, to a British mystery with talking animals, to a crowd-pleasing hard sci-fi blockbuster, these pictures simply gave audiences something different. These are the greatest movies of 2026 so far.
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‘The Drama’
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Cleverly marketed in a shroud of mystery, which was the only way to market this pitch-black dramedy that rides on a shocking twist, Kristoffer Borgli‘s The Drama stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a newly engaged couple whose upcoming nuptials are rocked by a revelation from the past. Alana Haim, Hailey Gates and Mamoudou Athie round out the supporting cast of a movie whose thematic risk pays off.
The Drama is sometimes edited and strung together in a way that feels like it’s unsure of itself, but commendable and kind of shocking this movie got made, much less with A-listers, and it’s even more shocking that it’s this good. Zendaya and Pattinson fully embody their characters; their work here is in the top tier of their respective and formidable careers, revelatory in the way you’d hope a smaller film with big stars would always be. The movie has some rough edges and isn’t perfect, but it’s a genuine must-see with a surprising range of emotion. Truly, how many movies manage to be disturbing, hilarious and romantic all at the same time?
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‘I Love Boosters’
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An ensemble cast of Keke Palmer, Naomie Ackie, Taylour Paige, LaKeith Stanfield, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle and Demi Moore star in Boots Riley‘s maximalist absurdist satire about a gang of shoplifters at war with a billionaire fashion mogul. An uncompromising financial satire of the horrible realities of present day, the first two acts here are close to perfect, and hilarious throughout thanks to a commitment to Looney Tunes logic from the cast and filmmaker.
I Love Boosters doesn’t land with the same punch as the director’s 2018 breakthrough Sorry to Bother You (not many modern satires have), and it simply loses its way and its stakes in the third act, but it earns its spot here on the strength of its vision. The production design is pretty astounding, and it’s all in service of what might possibly be the funniest film of 2026 so far.
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’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’
Whether you loved it or hated it, it’s a real shame that last year’s 28 Years Laterproved to be so divisive. Surely that response is what led Nia DaCosta‘s superior, highly acclaimed follow-up to bomb disastrously at the box office. A considerably higher audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for this latest entry certainly implies those who’ve actually seen it admire it. It’s a bona fide horror cult classic in the making.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is easily the strongest film in the quadrilogy since it began with 2003’s 28 Days Later, continuing the grisly misadventures of an effectively orphaned Spike (Alfie Williams). It’s a mood piece with philosophical ambitions that doesn’t forget we’re watching it for gruesome thrills. Jack O’Connell is unnerving as a cult leader, but an electrifying go-for-broke Ralph Fiennes steals the show. DaCosta also deserves a ton of praise for staging better set pieces here than veteran director Danny Boyle managed with the predecessor. The only sequel on this list earns its spot with a blend of innovation and good old-fashioned muscular craft.
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‘Leviticus’
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Buzzy since its Sundance premiere, Australian writer/director Adrian Chiarella‘s supernatural thriller stars Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen as teenage lovers whose fanatically religious community summon an entity to combat their homosexual desires, an entity that alternately takes the form of the boys themselves.
Certain corners of the internet have cynically and lazily branded Leviticus as “the gayIt Follows,” which really betrays what an affectingly somber affair this slow-burn really is. This isn’t the scariest horror movie you’ll see this year, but it’s often genuinely eerie, occasionally even shocking. It’s perhaps most commendable for the way it weaves together its dramatic and genre elements. Bird and Clausen are terrific, delivering touching, tragic performances that bridge the gap between the horror and coming-of-age genres.
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‘Blue Film’
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Elliot Tuttle‘s microbudgeted queer indie plays out like a black box theater two-hander, with Bootsstar Kieron Moore starring as Aaron Eagle, an aggressive and mysterious camboy escort whose latest client (Reed Birney) reveals himself to be Aaron’s former English teacher, with whom he shares a sordid past. This is almost exactly 80 minutes of two people engaged in piercing dialogue that’s uncomfortable, disturbing, and deeply sad in an empathetic way.
The subject matter here might be radioactive for many, but Blue Film is one of the most beautifully written and powerfully acted movies of 2026, eschewing salaciousness in lieu of a kind of exorcism, a need to make peace.Moore and Birney are flat-out superb, and the script reveals stunning emotional and psychological depth within a tight running time. It’s also evocatively shot in a way that masks its low budget while registering as an unshakable dream for the viewer.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
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Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
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🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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‘The Furious’
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Not to be confused with The Fast and the Furious, though this coincidentally is also an action film that’s sort of about family, The Furious is the action movie to beat in 2026. Seriously, it’s all but unfathomable that any action picture released over the next six months will top this. Kenji Tanagaki’s exhilarating masterclass in escalation stars Xie Miao as a mute handyman whose daughter (Yang Enyou) is kidnapped by child traffickers. It’s a simple, familiar, all-too-effective inciting incident for a blood-soaked Hong Kong action film that deserves a far wider release than its gotten. The Furious is perhaps the best film of its kind since The Raid, and it will find its audience over time.
It certainly isn’t perfect. The dialogue is clunky as hell, with many observers theorizing AI dubbing was utilized for the North American release (though, to be clear, this hasn’t been confirmed). The cheesiness really doesn’t really matter though, when what we’re here for is so perfectly executed and relentlessly fun. There’s a symphonic distribution and variation in the action sequences here, and the emotional impetus is irresistible. What the hell’s not to like?
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‘Backrooms’
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Frankly, it’s a little surprising that many observers are still drawing a lot of attention to the fact that “YouTubers” are stacking such wins at the movies. This has been the case for years now, and it isn’t a trend. Still, Backroomsstands out as a particularly enormous event film. At 20, Kane Parsons became the youngest director to open a film atop the North American box office, with a staggering $118 million that broke A24’s all-time record. Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renata Reinsve star as an alcoholic furniture store owner and his therapist, respectively, who discover seemingly endless, ominous liminal spaces in the store’s basement.
There are even greater surreal horror movies out there, but the interdimensional vision of Backrooms is astonishing and impressively cohesive even without taking the helmer’s tender age into account. Parsons’ technical, even mathematical filmmaking strengths and voice have been on display for years, and Backrooms is a successful marriage with a feature narrative thanks to a minimalist but effective script by Will Soodik. The two lead actors are haunting as people who choose to cope with traumatic pasts in very different, hardly equal ways.
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‘The Sheep Detectives’
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The visual effects here were make-or-break for the final product, and they’re Oscar-worthy. It really isn’t overhyping Sheep Detectives to say Mazin deserves to be considered for this adapted script, too. Ultimately, the film is much less frothy and far deeper than you’d expect a movie called The Sheep Detectives to be.
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‘Obsession’
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The success of Backrooms, and especially its mad opening weekend, can be attributed in part to great marketing. The phenomenon of Obsession can be attributed entirely to word of mouth. All but overnight, Curry Barker is the hottest name in horror cinema, thanks to this shoestring-budgeted fantasy fable about a monkey paw wish with horrifying consequences. A $750,000 budget looks like far more thanks to clever filmmaking across the board, from unnerving and darkly atmospheric cinematography and art direction, admirably silence-heavy sound design to Barker’s own taut editing. Michael Johnston and breakout star Inde Navarrette also deserve a lot of credit for a perfect tone that constantly leaves you unsure if you should be screaming, laughing, or maybe crying in despair.
Obsession is a rare breed, delivering freakouts that are already plastered all over the internet on top of a narrative that’s more provocative and disturbing, even grandly tragic, the more you think about it. It’s full of timely observations of modern dating, and it’s also a fundamental morality play, where the villain isn’t really the villain. We’re only six months in, but this is your horror movie of the year, in a historic year for horror, and it will end its box-office run as one of the most profitable films ever made.
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‘Project Hail Mary’
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Project Hail Mary is by far the most tactile blockbuster film in recent memory, at a time when so many pictures with big budgets feel oddly airy and disposable. It’s stunningly shot for IMAX and full of practical effects of varying scale, and Daniel Pemberton‘s hopecore original score is perhaps the year’s most inventive. This tactility is all in service of a winning hard sci-fi story with tons of heart and just the right amount of imaginative leaps.Ryan Gosling stars in Chris Lord and Phil Miller‘s adaptation of Andy Weir‘s novel about a washed-up middle school science teacher who wakes up in deep space with no memory of how he got there.
The nature of the premise lends itself to a non-linear narrative, andDrew Goddard‘s excellent script builds a formidable emotional potency over a near-three-hour runtime that never feels its length. The journey is the destination, and Project Hail Mary‘s surprises are best experienced going in completely cold if you haven’t read the novel. Everything in this blockbuster rides on the back of a grounding, physical, funny and soulful performance from Gosling that’s frankly on an entirely different scale from anything he’s ever done. Project Hail Mary is made with timelessness in mind, but it’s also the right movie at the right time.
Two weeks ago, the legendary Steven Spielbergfinally returned to the sci-fi genre after almost a decade with Disclosure Day. Opening at #1 at the North American box office and turning in just shy of $100 million, the film surprised many and is a hit with critics and audiences, albeit not without its detractors. The film stars the likes of Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), and Colin Firth(The King’s Speech), and is based on a story by Spielberg and a screenplay by David Koepp.
Likely to be one of the best sci-fi movies of this summer, Disclosure Day is yet another reminder of how the genre and the cinematic form go together like salt and pepper. Back in 2015, one of the best sci-fi movies of the decade was released courtesy of Alex Garland, defining the early era of A24 in the process. Starring the likes of Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander, Ex Machinaearned just shy of $40 million at the box office against a reported budget of just $13 million, becoming the highest-grossing A24 movie of all time worldwide, although this record has since been broken several times.
Ex Machina became an instant hit with critics, with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff one of many who saw just how special this sci-fi gem was. In her review of the movie at SXSW in 2015, Nemiroff said, “Ex Machina is a strong feature and a huge achievement in a number of ways.” She added, “There’s a surprising amount of very effective humor courtesy of Isaac’s character, there’s an extremely riveting scenario at the core of the film, and there’s also tons of stunning visual work to admire as well.” Next month, you can try this masterpiece for free, as it becomes available to stream on Plex on July 1.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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A Sci-Fi Movie Joined the Box Office Race This Weekend
Described as “a big science fiction epic film” by producer James Gunn, Milly Alcock’s debut as Supergirl flew onto global screens this weekend, after receiving a hugely mixed reception from critics. Based on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the 2021–2022 comic series by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely, hope was high that all involved could follow on from the success of the David Corenswet-led Superman. Alas, if first reviews are to be believed, this will go down as one of the most underwhelming box office blockbusters this summer.
Ex Machina will be available to stream on Plex this July. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
Angelina Jolie is reportedly ready for the next chapter in her years-long legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt. Despite Pitt recently scoring several courtroom victories in the ongoing dispute over their French winery, Château Miraval, a member of Angelina Jolie’s legal team says the actress remains confident as the case heads toward trial in 2027.
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According to a statement provided to PEOPLE, Jolie’s attorney insisted that Pitt’s recent legal wins have not changed the core of the case. “Have made no impact on the merits of the case, and certainly has no impact on Ms. Jolie’s case,” the lawyer said.
Instead, Jolie is reportedly focused on bringing the lengthy dispute to a close. The attorney added that the actress is “looking forward to defeating the case at trial next year so that their family can finally focus their energies on healing and moving on.”
Brad Pitt Scores Key Legal Victory In Winery Battle
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Jolie’s comments come after Pitt secured a significant win in the ongoing fight over Château Miraval, the French estate and winery the former couple once owned together.
A California appeals court recently ruled that Russian-born billionaire Yuri Shefler can be pulled further into the lawsuit after previously arguing he had little involvement in the 2021 deal that saw Jolie sell her stake in the winery. Pitt has long maintained that he and Jolie had an agreement that neither would sell their share without the other’s consent. Jolie has disputed that claim.
The actor originally filed suit in 2022, alleging that Jolie secretly sold her interest in the winery to Shefler’s company despite knowing he opposed the transaction. As part of the latest ruling, members of the Stoli Group, which is connected to the purchase, are expected to sit for depositions later this year.
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Angelina Jolie Sold Her Share Of Château Miraval In 2021
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The legal dispute stems from Jolie’s decision to sell her stake in Château Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group. Pitt has alleged that the sale damaged the business and brought in an unwanted partner.
“The wine business associated with the French château has also suffered, as the business has been stymied by the dispute between the château’s indirect shareholders and by Stoli’s repeated efforts to interfere with, and gain control of, the château,” the court docs claim.
Meanwhile, in previous court filings, Jolie’s legal team accused Pitt of waging a “vindictive war” over the winery and attempting to maintain control of the property. The estate has become one of the final unresolved issues between the former spouses following years of legal battles.
The Former Couple Finalized Their Divorce, But Not Their Legal War
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Pitt and Jolie married in 2014 after years together and separated just two years later. Although the pair were declared legally single in 2019, negotiations surrounding their divorce continued for years. In late 2024, reports confirmed the former spouses had finally reached a divorce settlement, ending one of Hollywood’s longest-running divorce battles.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” Jolie’s lawyer James Simon told PEOPLE in a statement. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
However, their fight over Château Miraval remains ongoing.
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The Couple’s Children Have Largely Distanced Themselves From Brad Pitt
Their eldest son, Maddox, reportedly took steps in 2026 to formally remove “Pitt” from his legal name. Daughter Zahara also made headlines after filing paperwork earlier this year to drop the surname, while Shiloh legally removed “Pitt” from her hyphenated last name shortly after turning 18.
The couple’s youngest daughter, Vivienne, has also appeared to embrace her mother’s surname professionally, opting to be credited as “Vivienne Jolie” during her work on Broadway. Meanwhile, twins Knox and Vivienne have generally been viewed as being closer to Jolie amid the family’s ongoing tensions.
Pax is reportedly the only one of the former couple’s children who still maintains some contact with members of Pitt’s extended family and continues to use the double surname.
More than 30 years after Nicole Brown Simpson‘s murder shocked the nation, a man who once loved her is shedding new light on what he claims many people already knew about O.J. Simpson behind closed doors. Joseph Perrulli, who dated Nicole in 1992 following her separation from O.J., is opening up about his relationship with Nicole in a new book, claiming he witnessed the lasting fear she lived with amid allegations of abuse involving O.J. Simpson.
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Joseph Perrulli recently reflected on their relationship and claimed the former NFL star’s alleged abuse was widely known throughout Hollywood. “I had people in the [movie] industry telling me about, you know, informing me about his abuse, so I knew,” Perrulli told Page Six.
According to Perrulli, there was a sense that few people were willing or able to challenge Simpson at the height of his fame. “We were all powerless,” he explained. “He was still a spokesperson for a very big company [Hertz], a rental car company, and he was still a sportscaster. So, you know, everybody was powerless, and it seemed like he could do what he wanted. And he did.”
Perrulli claimed Nicole confided in him about the violence she allegedly experienced during her relationship with Simpson. According to the businessman, Nicole told him she feared for her safety after being beaten so severely by her ex-husband.
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The pair began dating after Nicole’s split from Simpson, whom she married in 1985 and with whom she had two children: daughter Sydney and son Justin. Although Nicole and O.J. divorced in 1992, their relationship remained complicated, and they later reconciled.
Perrulli said he was deeply in love with Nicole but became increasingly alarmed by Simpson’s behavior during their relationship.
A Disturbing Dream Marked The End Of Their Relationship
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Among the experiences Perrulli says convinced him to step away from the relationship were allegations that Simpson monitored him and Nicole while they spent time together. He claimed he learned that the former football star had watched them at Nicole’s Brentwood home and had even followed them while they were jogging. Still, Perrulli said the defining moment came in the form of a disturbing dream.
According to his account, he dreamed that he and Nicole were driving together when their vehicle plunged off a cliff, killing them both. The following morning, he gathered keepsakes from their relationship, placed them in a briefcase, hid it, and began distancing himself from Nicole. Despite his feelings for her, he said he felt he had no other choice.
Their Final Meeting Happened Months Before Nicole’s Death
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Perrulli said the last time he saw Nicole was during the Christmas season in 1993 at a holiday gathering hosted by the Jenner family. “She wanted to be friends,” Perrulli explained. “It was very difficult to be friends with her when I was in love with her, trying to maintain a platonic relationship like that.”
The reunion was especially uncomfortable because Nicole attended with Simpson. Still, Perrulli believed they would eventually reconnect. “I would see her again. I would apologize, but I got the phone call six months later that she’d been murdered.”
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Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were killed outside her Los Angeles home in June 1994.
O.J. Simpson’s Legacy Remains Tied To The Case
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The former Buffalo Bills star was arrested and charged with the murders, but was acquitted in the highly publicized criminal trial in 1995. A year later, a civil jury found Simpson liable for the deaths.
Long before Nicole’s murder, police had responded to multiple domestic violence incidents involving the couple. During a 1989 incident, Nicole reportedly told officers she feared Simpson was going to kill her. Simpson later pleaded no contest to spousal abuse.
He died in 2024 at the age of 76.
Why Joseph Perrulli Decided To Tell His Story
Perrulli has now chronicled his relationship with Nicole in a book titled “The Forgotten Briefcase.” He said he never intended to write about their time together, but changed his mind after rediscovering the briefcase in 2024.
“I spent close to four hours on the stairs rediscovering this woman and and and realizing who she was,” he shared. “All these little mementos. I’d say they humanized her. She was a victim. And because of the way we broke things off, I. I ignored how much I loved her.”
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For Perrulli, the memories ultimately inspired him to revisit a chapter of his life that ended in tragedy and to share a side of Nicole Brown Simpson that he believes the public never truly knew.
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Fans of neo-noir cinema were in for a surprising treat earlier this year with Crime 101. Starring Chris Hemsworth as a master thief who is tracked by a dogged cop played by Mark Ruffalo, the movie paid homage to the Los Angeles noirs of yore. However, Crime 101 wasn’t a hit at the box office; instead, it found its audience on Prime Video. The movie continues to dominate the streamer’s viewership charts even weeks after its release, thanks to an excellent 88% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The film’s success will no doubt draw audiences toward the greatest L.A. noir movie ever made. The movie in question is currently streaming on Paramount+, but it’ll soon be removed from the platform.
It was originally released in 1974, during what many consider the greatest period in Hollywood history. It features Jack Nicholson as a weathered private eye who is sucked into a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. Also featuring Faye Dunaway, the film grossed nearly $30 million against a reported budget of $6 million. We’re talking, of course, about the landmark classic Chinatown, which has been both loved and lampooned in the decades since its release.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Directed by the disgraced Roman Polanski, Chinatown now holds a near-perfect “Certified Fresh” 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “As bruised and cynical as the decade that produced it, this noir classic benefits from Robert Towne’s brilliant screenplay, director Roman Polanski’s steady hand, and wonderful performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.” Chinatown received 11 Academy Award nominations and 11 BAFTA nods. Along with Polanski, Nicholson, and Dunaway, praise also went to the screenplay written by Robert Towne, who won an Oscar for his work. Towne penned a sequel titled The Two Jakes, which was released theatrically in 1990. Directed by Nicholson himself, the sequel was both a critical and commercial disappointment, grossing just $10 million against a reported budget of $25 million. It now holds a 59% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Chinatown is currently streaming on Paramount+, but it’ll leave the platform on July 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
‘Love Island USA’ has the internet in a frenzy. Friday night’s Casa Amor recoupling delivered shocking twists, broken trust, and emotional confrontations as Islanders made their final decisions about whether to reunite with their original partners or pursue new connections. The dramatic episode quickly sparked heated debates across social media, with fans divided over several key moments. Among those joining the conversation was actress Marsai Martin, whose reaction to the explosive recoupling prompted social media users to weigh in with their own opinions.
‘Love Island USA’ Casa Amor Recoupling Sparks Heated Confrontations
On Friday, June 27, ‘Love Island USA’ had one of its most explosive moments of the season thus far. Friday’s episode marked the end of Casa Amor, giving Islanders the opportunity to either remain loyal to their original partners or recouple with someone new after days of exploring new relationships.
One of the night’s biggest moments came when Aniya chose to remain loyal to KC, only for him to return to the villa alongside Casa Amor bombshell Tiera. After the recoupling, KC explained that his decision was about “choosing himself,” a statement that quickly fueled tension throughout the villa. The emotional moment prompted several of the women in the villa to rally behind Aniya. As emotions ran high, a heated exchange between Trinity and Tiera quickly unfolded, leaving viewers stunned. The confrontation spread across social media, with many users joking that the dating series had started to resemble an episode of ‘Baddies’.
Marsai Martin Shares Her Thoughts On The Explosive Episode
As conversations surrounding KC and Aniya’s relationship continued online, viewers remained split over whether KC made the right decision. Some fans argued that KC had every right to explore new connections during Casa Amor and return with the person he felt was the better match. Others believed he misled Aniya throughout the experience and unfairly left her single and vulnerable during one of the villa’s most emotional moments. Actress Marsai Martin also joined the online discussion sharing her thoughts on her Instagram Story, writing, “@loveislandusa y’all got me defending MEN. I’m annoyed 😭”
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Marsai Martin’s post quickly circulated online, with fans debating whether they agreed with her perspective on the episode over in The Shade Room Teens comment section.
Instagram user @josephhamir wrote, “Marsai…you’re losing me bro wait a minute 😭 Are we all watching the same show??? Like are some of y’all genuinely watching with your ears closed half the time KC is not in the right 😂 At the end of the day Trinity deserved to say her peace bc he had so much to say about her and Bryce, yea more licks for you KC.”
Another Instagram user @nivsiaq wrote, “There’s nothing wrong with KC exploring but how he went about it is wildd.”
While Instagram user @kvnnedydasia wrote, “So… what he said about Aniya was all okay? as if the girls wasn’t gonna attack him after they all heard it?”
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Instagram user @drakelyn0 wrote, “Close your ears then. Matter fact just don’t tune in 😭 titi did the absolute most! Then her laughing when Aniya went to cry solidified everything.”
Another Instagram user @tkthomasss wrote, “Marsai being a bird was not on my bingo card 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭”
While Instagram user @yosidthekid wrote, “Like y’all can’t tell me the villa girls were not doing the f**** most.”
Instagram user @the_infamous_ashley wrote, “No seriously how yall mad he picked who he liked its giving what ya’ll did last season with Taylor. Like isn’t that the point of love island”
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Another Instagram user @diam0nddd_ wrote, “Oh wow I never thought I’d see the day where I had to call Ms. Marsai an airhead”
While Instagram user @1cysag wrote, “I liked you Marsai I really did…”
Political commentator Meghan McCain is weighing in on the intentionally false abuse claims against former presidential candidate Pete Buttegieg.
“Absolutely horrified at what happened to @PeteButtegieg and his family,” the former The View cohost, 41, wrote via X on Saturday, June 27. “I am so sick of dirty, cruel politics and am truly deeply upset by the involvement of his children. It is wildly f***ed up.”
She concluded, “This world has to do better.”
On Friday, June 26, the former secretary of transportation, 44, revealed that he had been the target of an intentionally fake abuse claim to child protective services (CPS), resulting in an investigation.
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“Someone decided to hurt our family this week,” Buttigieg wrote via Substack. “They explained that there had been an allegation against me, that it concerned our 4-year-old twins and that a forensic interview had been arranged for the children the following day. I could not be present at the children’s interview, nor could any family member sit in.”
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Buttigieg shares twins Penelope and Gus with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg. The pair married in June 2018, making Pete one of the most prolific openly gay politicians in American politics. As such, he has also been subjected to anti-LGBTQ attacks.
“I was bewildered and troubled, but tried to stay calm,” Pete continued in his Substack post. “I’m used to any number of falsehoods, attacks and serious problems being thrown my way. What I didn’t understand was what could have led to this kind of visit. Then, the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day.”
As a result of the investigation, the former Mayor of Sound Bend, Indiana, was forced to leave his two children with their grandparents.
“The 24 hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life,” he wrote. “I tried to get my head around the idea that I had been accused of something so serious that I couldn’t be alone around my own children and had consented to have them interviewed by strangers, without my knowing where the accusation had come from or even what it contained.”
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After the investigation and interview, authorities told Pete that the abuse claim was made by an “anonymous” individual.
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“The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk,” Pete claimed. “That was all. The officer had a couple of obvious questions. He asked if I had been to a town where the woman claimed she had met me. I have not. Then, the officer made clear that he believed this was politically motivated, and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor.”
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Neither the law enforcement officials nor CPS found evidence to substantiate the accuser’s allegation, meaning that Pete could resume watching his kids “unsupervised.”
“Now, our family is left to deal with the aftermath,” Pete stated in his essay. “I worry about any unseen effects this had on our kids, on Chasten and me and on the rest of our family. Even though the accusation was absurdly and obviously false, and was promptly rejected by law enforcement, I still worry about the harm it has done.”
Dean McDermott is celebrating a milestone in his sobriety journey.
“WOW we wee WOW!! 3 years!! Couldn’t have done it without my Family, Friends, Fellowship, Sponsor and a 12 step program!!” McDermott, 59, wrote via Instagram on Friday, June 26. “It all started with surrendering and asking for help.”
He continued, “The best decision I’ve ever made. If you’re struggling, reach out. I love you all.”
McDermott also uploaded a video, calling himself “clean Dean” and proclaiming that he is in good spirits.
Dean McDermott has a reason to celebrate after reaching one year of sobriety. The actor, 57, took to Instagram on Tuesday, July 2, to commemorate the milestone moment, writing, “Last week was an incredible week of love, hugs and recovery. Thank you to my Sponsor, my Sponsee Brothers and everyone in the fellowship for celebrating […]
“Today, June 26, I celebrate three years being clean and sober. Yes, it can be done,” he said. “I want to let you know out there if you’re suffering and you’re in pain [that] it can be done. If I can do it, you can do it. It starts by reaching out your hand and asking for help.”
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McDermott continued, “I know in your darkest days that seems like Mount Everest to do that, but reach out. … Ask for help, it’s OK. You can’t do this thing alone, none of us can.”
McDermott, who stopped drinking following his 2023 divorce from Tori Spelling, initially blamed the demise of his marriage on his continued substance abuse issues.
“Alcohol made me feel good enough. I started feeling good enough until it got to a point where it didn’t — it ended up in isolation,” McDermott told the Daily Mailin November 2023. “It ended up with me drinking a fifth of tequila every night, seven days a week and a handful of [prescription medications] by myself with a beautiful family in the other room. That’s what it led to and that’s what led to the brokenness and to what happened between me and Tori. I couldn’t do it anymore. I couldn’t live that life anymore. I was tired of the anger and the yelling.”
According to McDermott, his alcohol-induced fights “petrified” Spelling, 53, and their five children. (McDermott also shares son Jack, 27, with ex-wife Mary Jo Eustace.)
“I would wake up angry that I woke up and I have these five, six beautiful kids in my life, but I was so dark and hopeless, I couldn’t see that,” McDermott recalled to the outlet, praising Spelling’s support. “She came from just such a place of love and wanting me to be healthy and happy. … It was codependence. She put my well-being well ahead of hers. She loved me so much that she didn’t really want to tell me how it was affecting her, although I could see it in her face.”
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Spelling and McDermott finalized their divorce in November 2025, since pledging to be amicable coparents.
“We’re great coparents. Our relationship is fantastic,” McDermott exclusively told Us Weeklythat month. “We’re a united front. It’s all about the kids. At the end of the day, we’re a family, right? And whether we’re together or not, I love Tori. I’ll love her for the rest of my life, and she’s gonna love me for the rest of her life.”
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If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
Roomies, Chris Brown and Usher just stepped on stage together, and baby… social media has been all over the place ever since. Fans have been blowing up the timeline with clips from their opening night—while some are in full celebration mode praising the vocals, choreography, and production, others are giving mixed reviews and debating if the show truly lived up to the hype.
This tour was rushed, Usher got more time, Chris Brown performed like what 3 new songs from his album and the set list is still the same from the last 2 tours🙄 they played fr
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Of course, not everyone walked away impressed. Some fans criticized the setlist, saying a few of their favorite hits were missing, while others questioned whether the show truly felt like a “joint” tour, arguing one artist seemed to get more shine than the other. Meanwhile, plenty of users picked apart everything from the pacing to the stage time, proving social media always has something to say—even when two R&B heavyweights share the spotlight.
Welp, Chris Brown has ruined the Raymond Brown tour for me and my sister B/C he wants to do the same damn setlist, dance and barely sings then not add any live vocals + band—WE’RE CANCELING PLANS! Disney for Christmas it is 🥰
Spy thrillers and action shows have taken over the streaming world in the last 5–10 years, and few are operating at as high a level as Reacher. The Prime Video original thriller stars Alan Ritchson as the titular character, and although Season 4 has yet to premiere, the streamer has already picked up the show for Season 5. Reacher has become so popular that other services have begun to try and replicate its success — Netflix has settled on The Night Agent as its Reacher replacement series. Reacher is based on the series of novels written by author Lee Child, and like Ian Fleming’s James Bond writings, Child has confirmed that the inspiration for Reacher came from multiple sources. One of said sources is The Day of the Jackal, the acclaimed espionage novel written by Frederick Forsyth that was first adapted into a feature film in 1973.
Ronan Bennett took The Day of the Jackal novel and adapted it into a TV series a few years ago, tapping Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts) and Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel) as leads. The first season of The Day of the Jackal aired all the way back in 2024, and while the show has been picked up for Season 2, Peacock confirmed earlier this year that it won’t return to streaming until 2027. Production on Season 2 has been underway for a while now, which means the show should have little to no issue hitting its 2027 return date. There has been some turnover behind the scenes of the show in the creative department, which has possibly contributed to the lengthy delay between seasons.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
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Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
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Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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Who Is ‘The Day of the Jackal’s New Showrunner?
Ronan Bennett was the lead writer and showrunner on the first season of The Day of the Jackal, but he has stepped back and been replaced by David Harrower in Season 2. This creative change was brought on only by scheduling conflicts for Bennett, who remains involved with the show as an executive producer — there was no reportedly no conflict that led to him stepping down. Harrower recently wrote episodes of the Colin Firth-led spy thriller on Peacock, Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth, and Bennett is also known for his work as the lead writer on MobLand, the Paramount+ crime thriller starring Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan.
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Check out the first season of The Day of the Jackal on Peacock, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
Courteney Cox is reportedly entering a new chapter in her life after quietly ending her long-term relationship with Snow Patrol musician Johnny McDaid.
The couple, who had been together for more than a decade, are said to have parted ways amicably after growing apart while living increasingly separate lives.
Despite the reported split, Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid have remained respectful of one another, with sources describing the breakup as mutual and free of drama.
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Cox has reportedly separated from her musician boyfriend, Johnny McDaid, after more than a decade together.
According to the Daily Mail, the couple quietly parted ways toward the end of last year, with sources close to the former pair saying the separation was mutual and free of drama, with both remaining on good terms despite deciding to move forward separately.
Cox, widely recognized for portraying Monica Geller on the hit sitcom “Friends,” has spent most of her time in Los Angeles, while McDaid, a member of “Snow Patrol” and acclaimed songwriter, has largely been based in London.
Friends suggest the distance and their increasingly different lifestyles played a role in the decision.
“Johnny speaks incredibly highly of Courteney. They had a very deep relationship, and they remain extremely amicable. They are great friends and care about each other very much,” a friend reportedly said.
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“This was not an ugly split. They had simply reached a point where they were living different lives,” the source added.
A Look Back At Courteney Cox And Johnny McDaid’s Romance
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The pair first met in 2013 through mutual friends, including singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who has worked closely with McDaid throughout his career.
Their romance quickly blossomed, leading to an engagement in 2014, which had fans at the time anticipating a wedding.
Although they briefly split in 2015, they reconciled the following year and remained together for several years afterward.
Both had previously spoken warmly about their relationship. Cox once reflected that their earlier breakup ultimately strengthened their bond, while McDaid publicly expressed gratitude for having her in his life.
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Johnny McDaid Is Already Dating Someone Else After His Split From The Actress
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McDaid and Cox’s last public appearances together included a double date in Malibu last summer with fellow “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston and wellness coach Jim Curtis. They were also photographed attending the US Open in September.
Since ending their relationship, both are said to be focusing on new chapters in their personal lives.
Reports suggest McDaid has recently begun seeing someone new, and according to the Daily Mail, things are still fresh with the singer and his new lover.
Cox, on the other hand, has been romantically linked to actor Greg Kinnear after the two were spotted together in New York. However, the duo has maintained they are simply friends,
Courteney Cox Celebrates Daughter Coco’s 22nd Birthday With Heartfelt Tribute
While navigating this new chapter, Cox has continued to focus on family and remains close to her former husband, David Arquette.
The pair, who share daughter Coco Arquette, have long been praised for their cooperative co-parenting relationship.
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Earlier this month, the actress marked Coco’s 22nd birthday with a touching tribute on social media, giving fans a rare glimpse into their mother-daughter bond. The post featured a series of photos, including a selfie that highlighted the pair’s striking resemblance. In the image, Cox and Coco posed cheek-to-cheek, showing off similar brunette hairstyles and matching freckles.
Another photo took followers back in time, showing a younger Courteney holding Coco as a child while spending time by the ocean.
Alongside the pictures, the actress shared a heartfelt message celebrating her daughter.
“Happy Birthday, Co,” she wrote. “You are such a wise soul. Funniest person I know and my life teacher. I love you.”
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Courteney Cox Reflects On Close Bond With Daughter Coco After Heartfelt Birthday Tribute
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The birthday tribute followed a similarly emotional message Cox shared for Coco’s 21st birthday the previous year. At the time, she posted a throwback photo from Coco’s infancy and expressed the depth of her love for her daughter.
“My heart barely fits inside my chest for the amount of love I have for you,” she wrote. “Keep it coming, Co to the Lo. I’m so happy I’m your Bourt Lemon. Happy birthday. I love you so much.”
Although Cox generally keeps family moments private, she and Coco have occasionally opened up about their relationship. During a joint interview in 2018, the pair spoke candidly about their close bond and the typical disagreements that come with raising a teenager. “We bicker, let’s be honest, but we love each other,” Cox said at the time. “We laugh a lot, for sure.”
The actress also admitted that, like many parents of teenagers, she sometimes wished her daughter would share more about her life. “I want her to tell me everything, and she doesn’t want to tell me anything,” she said. “Exactly the opposite of the childhood I had.”
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