After a fifteen-year hiatus from filmmaking, James L. Brooks is back in the director’s chair with another sentimental comedy that feels like a throwback to a time when feel-good human stories ruled the box office and heartfelt humor was king.
Featuring British-French actress Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Barbie) in the title role, Ella McCay marks the seventh feature film from the 85-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker and Emmy-winning television producer behind Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment, and As Good as It Gets, as well as the classic sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons. And for anyone familiar with Brooks’s work, it seems he’s returning to that warm-hearted, character-driven comedy that defined his career — sharp, witty, and always bumbling toward virtue.
Here, Mackey plays Ella McCay, a newly elected governor navigating the emotional chaos of family, politics, and public life. With Woody Harrelson as Ella’s estranged father, Jamie Lee Curtis as her meddling but kind-hearted aunt, Jack Lowden as her frustrated husband, Spike Fearn as her lovesick younger brother, and Julie Kavner as her devoted secretary-slash-narrator, Ella must juggle her new responsibilities as one of the youngest governors ever to take office in her home state while managing the pressures of her personal life — a working woman caught between the weight of her marriage, her semi-dysfunctional family, and the impossible expectations that come with power.
Comedy legend Albert Brooks co-stars as the longtime incumbent governor stepping down and passing the torch to his protégé, Ella, while Rebecca Hall appears in flashbacks as Ella’s late mother, whose absence has left her daughter without a guiding female presence in her life. Ayo Edebiri, Kumail Nanjiani, and Becky Ann Baker round out the ensemble cast.
Also produced by Brooks himself, Ella McCay arrives in theaters December 12th.
Every once in a while, a new author comes along whose bestselling books spark a rash of movie productions. And Colleen Hoover seems to be the latest novelist having a moment in Hollywood, as her romance novel Reminders of Him has just been adapted for the big screen.
Now let’s just hope this one doesn’t arrive with all the public scandal that surrounded last year’s film adaptation of her bestseller It Ends with Us, which saw its two leads, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, embroiled in a highly publicized legal dispute and brutal PR battle. We imagine that won’t be happening again. At least, we hope not.
In Reminders of Him, heartbreak becomes a chance for love and redemption in true Hoover fashion. Here, Maika Monroe (Longlegs, It Follows) stars as Kenna, a young woman desperate to rebuild her life after serving seven years in prison for a tragic mistake that changed everything. Returning home to Wyoming, Kenna hopes to reunite with the daughter she’s never met—only to find the child’s grandparents (played by Gilmore Girls’ Lauren Graham and Get Out’s Bradley Whitford) determined to keep her away.
But when she crosses paths with Ledger (HIM’s Tyriq Withers), a former NFL player turned bar owner with his own wounds to heal, an unexpected connection blooms—one that could either redeem them both or tear apart what’s left of their fragile worlds.
Directed by Vanessa Caswill (Little Women, Love at First Sight) and co-written by Hoover and Lauren Levine (Bridge to Terabithia), the film also features a strong supporting cast including Rudy Pankow, Lainey Wilson, Jennifer Robertson, and newcomer Zoe Kosovic.
Reminders of Him is slated to open in theaters on March 13th, 2026.
When comedian Eddie Murphy burst onto the scene in the early 1980s, it was stardom like no other. Take, for instance, his feature film debut, 1982’s 48 Hrs. In the Walter Hill–directed crime flick, Murphy played streetwise, wisecracking convict Reggie Hammond, who’s temporarily freed from jail to help capture a pair of dangerous fugitives alongside a hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Jack Cates (the rough and gruff Nick Nolte), serving as his bickering and hard-to-please chaperone.
In one hilarious scene, Murphy’s Reggie takes over a honky-tonk cowboy bar, posing as a detective, shouting down angry patrons, and demanding information about the case. He delivers one of the film’s most iconic lines: “There’s a new sheriff in town… and his name is Reggie Hammond.” The moment marked the breakout of his film career, cementing him as a bona fide movie star. Eddie was just 21 years old—having been only 19 when he first joined Saturday Night Live.
Since then, Eddie has had one of the most remarkable career runs in entertainment history, becoming not only one of the greatest comedians of his generation but also one of the biggest movie stars in the world—and even a chart-topping recording artist. Now, if that’s not a life worth examining in a documentary, we don’t know what is.
Now 64, Eddie Murphy is finally sitting down to tell his own story. Being Eddie is Netflix’s new feature documentary tracing the legendary comedian’s journey from teen prodigy to Hollywood royalty.
At just 17, Murphy was cracking jokes in New York clubs. By 19, he was a breakout sensation on Saturday Night Live. What followed is the stuff of entertainment history: Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle, Shrek—each role solidifying him as one of the most versatile and electrifying talents in show business.
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Angus Wall (The Greatest Night in Pop), Being Eddie offers a rare, intimate look at the man behind the myth. Through candid interviews and never-before-seen footage, Murphy reflects on five decades of superstardom, family, creativity, and staying grounded in a business built on chaos.
The film features appearances from an all-star lineup including Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Brian Grazer—all paying tribute to the artist who changed comedy and film forever. ‘Cause Eddie didn’t just redefine fame; he laid the blueprint for movie stars to come.
Being Eddie arrives on Netflix November 12th.
Sure, Japanese cinema has Godzilla. Hollywood has King Kong. Monster movies have already been a worldwide obsession for nearly a century, with each culture creating its own larger-than-life beast. But Norway just might have unleashed its own creature feature franchise — one that fuses giant monsters with the eerie magic of Norwegian folklore. And this time, the stakes (and the trolls) are bigger than ever.
In Troll 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2022 Netflix hit, the mountains are rumbling once again. Geologist-turned-hero Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann), filmmaker Andreas (Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen), and former Captain—now Major—Kris (Mads Sjøgård Pettersen) return to face a terrifying new threat: another ancient giant has awakened, leaving Norway on the brink of annihilation. This time, it’s a “Mega-Troll” — and with it comes mega destruction.
As the country plunges into chaos, the trio teams up with new allies (including Sara Khorami and Gard B. Eidsvold) to uncover long-buried secrets of Norse mythology before the creature’s rampage becomes unstoppable. Ancient legends, modern science, and heavy firepower collide in a race against time through icy mountains and crumbling cities.
With original director Roar Uthaug back at the helm, Troll 2 promises even more jaw-dropping destruction, mythic atmosphere, and that perfect mix of spectacle and dark Nordic humor that made the first film a global phenomenon. The sequel stomps onto Netflix December 1st.
Forget what you know about the Predator franchise, which has always been defined by humans struggling to survive against an unstoppable alien hunter. In this new installment, it seems the unstoppable has just become vulnerable… and the hunter may finally know what it means to be hunted.
Writer-director Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) returns to expand the mythology with Predator: Badlands, a bold new chapter that flips the narrative on its head. This time, the story follows not a human facing the Predator—but a young Predator facing his own trial by fire.
Exiled to a deadly alien world crawling with monstrous alien creatures, Dek, a young and unproven Predator warrior (performed by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), must prove himself worthy of his clan by surviving the planet’s unforgiving wilderness and slaying its apex predator. But when he encounters Thia (played by Elle Fanning), a stranded Weyland-Yutani android, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Together, they must navigate a world where every organism is engineered to kill—and where survival may mean defying both nature and duty.
Co-written by Trachtenberg, Patrick Aison, and Brian Duffield, Predator: Badlands pushes the franchise into thrilling new territory, blending survival horror, sci-fi spectacle, and the emotional core of an unlikely bond. The film dares to ask: if the Predator is the ultimate hunter, what does it fear? Perhaps something so powerful, so ferocious, that every Predator before it died trying.
Predator: Badlands arrives in theaters November 7th.
