https://fuzzymushroom.com/newsFilm news with a Spore Score for how solid each story is, from Fuzzy Mushroom.en-gbSun, 15 Nov 2026 12:59:28 +0000 https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/new-regency-sues-mann-heat-rightshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/new-regency-sues-mann-heat-rightsSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000LegalNew Regency has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court asking a judge to declare void three notices Michael Mann served this year to take back the copyright in his Heat screenplay. The company says Mann wrote Heat as a work made for hire, which would put it beyond the 40-year rule that lets authors reclaim their work. Mann's spokesperson says he will vigorously defend the case and that it has nothing to do with Heat 2, which starts shooting on 19 January. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/gunn-skydance-hasnt-seen-man-of-tomorrowhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/gunn-skydance-hasnt-seen-man-of-tomorrowSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Rumour bustedDays after leaving DC Studios, James Gunn has gone on Threads to shoot down claims that Skydance has watched his Superman sequel and ordered sweeping changes. He says the only people who have seen Man of Tomorrow are Peter Safran and a small group of trusted friends and family, so any story built on that idea is false. He didn't address every rumour doing the rounds, and new DC boss Jeremy Latcham hasn't set out his plans yet. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/robbie-borgli-week-of-pain-a24https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/robbie-borgli-week-of-pain-a24Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000CastingMargot Robbie will star in The Week of Pain, written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, whose dark wedding-week comedy The Drama took $134M worldwide for A24 this year. A24 finances with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen's Square Peg, Dilemma Films and Robbie's LuckyChap producing, and it's her first A24 lead. The plot is under wraps, and Deadline says she has committed to shoot in 2027 after her Ocean's prequel with Bradley Cooper. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/billy-evans-shower-scene-no-consenthttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/billy-evans-shower-scene-no-consentSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudElizabeth Holmes's husband Billy Evans told CBS Sunday Morning he knew he was being filmed in the shower but 'did not give consent' to being shown fully nude, and that he asked Nathan Fielder and A24, himself and through lawyers, to pixelate it before release. He says they refused, calls it embarrassing, and adds that 'the colour grading is way off'. Co-director Lance Oppenheim told GQ in October that Evans suggested filming the shower and said he didn't care about being seen naked. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/friday-the-13th-part-13-steve-minerhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/friday-the-13th-part-13-steve-minerSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000ComebackHorror, Inc. has announced a new Friday the 13th film for cinemas in 2027, the 13th in the series and the first since the 2009 reboot. Steve Miner, who gave Jason his machete in Friday the 13th Part 2 and his hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part III, directs from a script by David Fliegel. The Barsamian family is paying for it independently, with Heretic producers CatchLight Studios on board and Cineverse, the company behind Terrifier 3, distributing in North America. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/adam-driver-ben-solo-criminalhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/adam-driver-ben-solo-criminalSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudPromoting Paper Tiger, Adam Driver told the Associated Press he still can't see why Disney turned down the Star Wars film he spent years developing with Steven Soderbergh: 'Steven Soderbergh wants to make a Star Wars film. What are we debating?' He called the decision criminal, or at least that it 'felt criminal', but says everyone has moved on, and that Soderbergh has already written something else that's among the best things he's ever written. Earlier this month he said the ship had sailed on playing Ben Solo again. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-friday-6-7m-rob-a-bank-stumbleshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-friday-6-7m-rob-a-bank-stumblesSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Box officeJohnny Depp's Ebenezer took $6.7M on Friday including Thursday previews from 3,535 North American cinemas, putting it on course for an opening weekend of just under $20M and the No. 1 spot. It has an A- CinemaScore, and half of the people buying tickets said Depp was the reason. The weekend's big stumble is Nicholas Hoult's How to Rob a Bank, which made around $2M on Friday and is heading for a $4M-$5M opening. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pratt-gunn-guardians-4-would-lovehttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pratt-gunn-guardians-4-would-loveSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000ComebackDays after James Gunn was replaced as co-boss of DC Studios, Chris Pratt told Sweden's MovieZine that a fourth Guardians of the Galaxy with Gunn 'would be awesome'. Gunn directed all three films, ending with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in 2023, and Pratt says that if Gunn wanted to come back and bring it back, he would love that. He admits he hasn't spoken to Gunn since the news broke. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ink-hillsborough-headline-us-cuthttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ink-hillsborough-headline-us-cutSat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudDanny Boyle says the American version of Ink, his film about the birth of Rupert Murdoch's Sun, will show in full the newspaper headlines that are blacked out in the UK version, including the 1989 'The Truth' front page that falsely blamed Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster. He blamed Britain's tougher laws for the UK redactions; in an October interview with the BFI he said the Sun had refused permission for some of that material. A new US cut is being prepared for the film's 11 December release, and Boyle hopes the change will eventually reach Britain, where Ink opens on 8 January before streaming on Netflix. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/vader-lightsaber-auction-recordhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/vader-lightsaber-auction-recordFri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000BuzzThe lightsaber Darth Vader swung in the Cloud City duel in The Empire Strikes Back, and again in Return of the Jedi, has sold for $4.875M at Heritage Auctions, nearly five times the $1M+ estimate. That's a world auction record for a screen-used Star Wars prop, beating the $3.75M paid in July for Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and severed-hand rig from the same fight. The hilt started life as a 1950s camera flash attachment. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/christian-cousins-kindergarten-cop-dies-43https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/christian-cousins-kindergarten-cop-dies-43Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000TributeChristian Cousins, who shared the role of Dominic in Kindergarten Cop with his twin brother Joey, has died at 43 after a battle with liver disease. His half-brother Jonas Roeser shared the news on Instagram, remembering him as 'a character, full of passion and energy, with big stories and even bigger dreams'. The twins also shared the role of Bobby Ewing in Knots Landing before leaving acting in the mid-1990s. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-1-5m-previewshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-1-5m-previewsFri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Box officeEbenezer took $1.5M from Thursday night previews in North America, as Paramount opens Ti West's Christmas Carol in more than 3,500 cinemas. The studio is still projecting around $20M domestically this weekend plus another $20M overseas, on a $38M budget. Amazon MGM's How to Rob a Bank had $900K in previews, so Depp's comeback starts the weekend ahead. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pattinson-bond-frontrunner-test-dealhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pattinson-bond-frontrunner-test-dealFri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000RumourPuck's Matthew Belloni reports that Robert Pattinson's Bond test deal covers three films, where Josh O'Connor and Jack Lowden had to commit to four, and comes with a lot more money. Belloni reads that as Amazon MGM being keen to land a proper star for its first 007, and calls Pattinson the lowest-risk pick. Nothing is official yet: Denis Villeneuve directs Bond 26 and has the final say, with Nicholas Hoult and Callum Turner also in the mix. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/springsteen-spielberg-jaws-skinny-dippinghttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/springsteen-spielberg-jaws-skinny-dippingFri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudToasting Steven Spielberg at MoMA's film benefit in New York on Thursday, Bruce Springsteen said naked night swims on the Jersey Shore were one of the great pleasures of 1975, until Jaws came out and Spielberg ruined them. After 30 years of friendship and trips on Spielberg's yacht, the Seven Seas, he claims he has never seen the director go in the sea, or even the pool on the boat, and decided Spielberg must be scared of the water. Then he played Dancing in the Dark. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/rothman-spider-man-best-picture-pushhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/rothman-spider-man-best-picture-pushFri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudSony film chief Tom Rothman is putting the studio's full weight behind a Best Picture Oscar campaign for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the year's biggest hit in North America. He has hired awards consultants and plans Q&As, screenings in cities from London to Tokyo, and a re-release before the end of the year, and he blames awards pundits for only thinking about art films. No live-action Spider-Man film has ever been nominated for Best Picture. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ray-gunn-story-trailer-birdhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ray-gunn-story-trailer-birdThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000TrailerNetflix has dropped a second, story-led trailer for Ray Gunn, Brad Bird's long-gestating animated noir set in the mile-high city of Metropia. Sam Rockwell voices one of the last human private eyes, hired to dig into megastar Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson), with Tom Waits as his one-eyed alien partner. It opens in select cinemas, including some 70mm screens, on 4 December and lands on Netflix on 18 December. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pitt-connector-apple-marderhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pitt-connector-apple-marderThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000CastingFresh off F1, Brad Pitt is going back to Apple: he'll star in and produce Connector, about a sky-walking ironworker in 1970s New York who becomes a working-class legend and takes on forces bigger than himself. Darius Marder, whose Sound of Metal won two Oscars, directs from a script he wrote with his sister Nina Marder, and Deadline says Pitt is keen to make it his next shoot in 2027. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/myers-donkey-maybe-austin-powers-4https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/myers-donkey-maybe-austin-powers-4Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000ComebackAt the Focker-in-Law premiere, Mike Myers told The Hollywood Reporter he doesn't think he's in Eddie Murphy's Donkey prequel (due 30 June 2028) but 'might be', calling the film 'long overdue'. Better still, he confirmed he's writing a fourth Austin Powers film, the first since Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002, saying 'I'm having a great time' but he's been told not to tease anything. Shrek 5 arrives first, next summer. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-reviews-split-depphttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-reviews-split-deppThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000ComebackNow the full reviews have landed, Ti West's Ebenezer is sitting at 54% on Rotten Tomatoes from 82 reviews and 47 on Metacritic, a long way off the warm first reactions. The Pros mostly like the gothic look and the supporting cast, including Rupert Grint, Ian McKellen and Daisy Ridley, but Depp's mannered Scrooge is the sticking point, called everything from his best showcase in years to cartoonish. It opens in cinemas today, so the Punters get their say this weekend. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/stacy-keach-dies-85https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/stacy-keach-dies-85Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000TributeStacy Keach has died at 85 at his family home in Magdalenka, Poland. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said he passed away peacefully after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure. A celebrated stage actor, he played the boxer Tully in John Huston's Fat City and became a household name as TV's private eye Mike Hammer. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pugh-no-rude-setshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/pugh-no-rude-setsWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000GossipFlorence Pugh has told Elle she is no longer standing for bad behaviour or attitude on film sets, and won't let anyone be rude to the crew. The Midsommar and Oppenheimer star says she gets more confident at leading a set with every film, and her rules are simple: show up on time, don't be rude, don't be a misogynist. She also said nobody censors her, after her Instagram post about the Cornell lawsuit was blocked by Meta. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/youve-got-mail-reboot-orleyhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/youve-got-mail-reboot-orleyWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000AdaptationWarner Bros. is remaking Nora Ephron's 1998 rom-com You've Got Mail, with I Want You Back director Jason Orley writing and directing from an earlier script by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing, and the plot is being kept under wraps. No cast yet, so nobody is filling Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's shoes just now. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/seyfried-billy-evans-gloves-offhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/seyfried-billy-evans-gloves-offWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudAmanda Seyfried says she signed up to Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything without telling her agents, and had no approval over anything that was filmed. Talking to Rolling Stone, she said Holmes's partner Billy Evans had no reason to get so aggressive at the film's infamous dinner scene, adding 'I do not like him' and that 'the gloves are off'. The doc is closing in on $80 million in the US and reaches UK cinemas on 20 November. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/naza-1-5m-admissionshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/naza-1-5m-admissionsWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Box officeNAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's documentary about Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza, has sold more than 1.5 million cinema tickets across 47 territories, with a reported box office of more than $14 million. Italy leads with over 717,000 admissions, making it the country's third most-watched documentary ever, and the UK and Ireland have passed 100,000. The Guardian, one of its producers, plans a free online release in early December. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/how-to-rob-a-bank-first-reactionshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/how-to-rob-a-bank-first-reactionsWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000BuzzThe first social reactions to David Leitch's How to Rob a Bank are in, and most are having fun: Nicholas Hoult leads a crew of viral, Robin Hood-style bank robbers, with Zoë Kravitz, John C. Reilly, Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson along for the ride. Fans are calling it 'Point Break on steroids', while a few found the message muddled, and TheWrap's review calls it 'how not to make an anti-establishment film'. It's in cinemas on 13 November. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/irma-p-hall-dies-91https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/irma-p-hall-dies-91Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000TributeIrma P Hall, the Dallas teacher who became a film star in later life, has died at 91. Her family said she died on Tuesday in Dallas; no cause was given. She won an NAACP Image Award as Big Mama Joseph in Soul Food and starred opposite Tom Hanks in the Coen brothers' The Ladykillers. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/constantine-2-hope-after-gunn-exithttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/constantine-2-hope-after-gunn-exitWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000ComebackFrancis Lawrence says Constantine 2 has a fresh shot now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving DC Studios. He told Collider there is a script ready, that the people at DC had been 'an impediment', and that he, Keanu Reeves, Akiva Goldsman and J.J. Abrams all still want to make it. Nothing is greenlit yet: whoever runs DC next, plus Warner and Paramount, still has to say yes. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/tarantino-fired-laurent-basterdshttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/tarantino-fired-laurent-basterdsWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudIn Jay Glennie's new book The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino says Mélanie Laurent's table read was so bad he fired her, and that he also dropped Isabelle Huppert for not showing up. Laurent rang him days later, said she'd been unwell and offered to fly herself back to Germany to read again; after three days of rehearsal with him she won back the role of Shosanna. 'Let me just go on the record for everybody to know: I love Mélanie,' he says. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/johansson-dont-make-this-studio-offershttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/johansson-dont-make-this-studio-offersWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000FeudOn the Paper Tiger press tour, Scarlett Johansson told the Los Angeles Times that some big-studio scripts leave her wondering who they're even for, and that she has told execs 'I don't think you should make this' because 'it seems irresponsible'. She didn't name a single film, which is either very diplomatic or very ominous. https://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-tracking-20m-depp-testhttps://fuzzymushroom.com/news/ebenezer-tracking-20m-depp-testWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Box officeEbenezer opens in the US this weekend with box office tracking pointing to an opening weekend of around $20M from 3,500+ cinemas, with a similar figure expected overseas. TheWrap reports a net budget of $38M but around $50M spent on marketing, so a modest start could still work for Paramount. It's Depp's first major studio lead since 2018, so this is his real test.