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James Hibberd

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · James Hibberd

    Ted Sarandos Explains Why the ‘Stranger Things’ Team Left Netflix (opens the original)

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    Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is breaking down why he thinks his streamer lost Stranger Things creators The Duffer Bros. and the hit show’s executive producer and director Shawn Levy to rival studios. Matt and Ross Duffer surprised the industry by announcing they were jumping ship to Paramount last August in a four-year exclusive deal that covered film and TV. They officially made the switch in April. Then Levy, who is directing the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter for Lucasfilm, was announced as leav

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · James Hibberd

    ‘Reacher’ Spinoff ‘Neagley’ Renewed for Season 2 at Prime Video (opens the original)

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    Prime Video‘s Reacher is officially a franchise: Spinoff Neagley is getting a second season. The action series starring Maria Sten as the tough and standoffish Frances Neagley will return with more episodes. The debut season launched with all eight episodes on Sept. 16. Neagley reached 40 million viewers globally in its first 13 days and ranked as the fourth-most-viewed series debut of any original in the streamer’s history. Neagley is based on the character in novels by Lee Child and follows a

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · James Hibberd

    Mark Ruffalo Decries Paramount Job Losses, Says Anti-Merger Movement Won’t “Fade Away” (opens the original)

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    Mark Ruffalo wants to Hulk smash the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. The Marvel actor slammed the deal after a federal judge cleared the final hurdle for the settlement of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a group of state attorneys general on Wednesday. The move clears the way for Paramount to absorb Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a newly combined megastudio under David Ellison, son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz. The merger is expected to result in industry l

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · James Hibberd

    ‘Digger’ Ad Fires Back at Critics With Tom Cruise Character Declaring “F**k Those People” (opens the original)

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    Don’t listen to those hoity-toity critics. Go see Digger and make up your own mind. That’s the gist behind Warner Bros.’ online ad for the new Alejandro G. Iñárritu film, which is receiving some scathing reviews (and, to be fair, many rather positive ones, as well). “Decide for yourself,” declares the text introducing the ad (below). The ad then kicks off with a critic quote saying Digger “is an ambitious film sure to polarize audiences,” before Tom Cruise’s titular character exclaims, “You know

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · James Hibberd

    Tom Cruise ‘Digger’ Reviews Are Brutally Split: From “Insufferable” to “Terrific” (opens the original)

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    The positive reviews contain strong superlatives praising Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s bold new film starring Tom Cruise, and the negative reviews are utterly scathing. Is Digger a 5-out-of-5 “audacious, risky, terrific fun” — like The London Evening Standard says? Or is Digger an 0-out-of-4, “the worst movie of Tom Cruise’s career” — as The Boston Globe says? Right out of the gate on Rotten Tomatoes, the Warner Bros. film is hovering around a dead even 50 percent split. In Digger, a nearly unrecogni

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