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Pippi Longstocking is coming into your worrllldddd, a freckle faced redhead girl. That sentence resonates with quite a few generations who grew up with this mischievous character. Her books have sold well over 90 million copies over the years and she’s had a few live-action turns as well. Now, StudioCanal is bringing Pippi Longstocking to a new generation in a new film. And, she’s not the only throwback character getting new shine. There’s also a Mr. Men film that will bring that character to today’s audience.Beta Film/Cartoon Network

This news comes straight from the studio’s panel at CinemaCon 2026 on April 13. Right now, we can assume both projects are in the early stages of development.

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There wasn’t more information offered to us during the panel but we will be keeping our eyes peeled for sure.

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Shaun the Sheep is one of the most hilarious and frankly adorable stop-motion animated characters to ever exist. We love his facial expressions, fear of many things, and general vibe for real. Now, it’s time for him and his flock to get their time to shine in a new film. We learned during Studio Canal’s panel at CinemaCon 2026 that the new film, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, is on target for its upcoming September 18, 2026 release date and early footage shows a scary monster. Aardman/Studio Canal

While the clip is not online yet, we can tell you exactly what happened. In it, the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm contend with a big old beast coming over the horizon. They go inside of a house in a panic and barricade themselves in, only for the beast to somehow get in. There are a few funny moments, like a cuckoo clock scaring everyone and the beast standing outside of the shower where there are hiding in a very Psycho-like manner. He reaches in, but thankfully everyone stays safe… for now.

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It’s lovely to see classic characters continue to get new stories for generations to enjoy.

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Paddington has become one of the most beloved franchises in family-friendly media, with three successful films under its belt. Now, there’s yet another installment coming to delight everyone. During CinemaCon 2026, a trade show event filled with film news, Studio Canal CEO Anna Marsh announced that Paddington 4 is currently in development. StudioCanal

Right now, there’s not an official title for the film nor a release date. But it is lovely to have this news considering that the last film, Paddington in Peru, just came out in 2024. We are super excited about this news and all the other things that we will find out while covering CinemaCon 2026 live in Las Vegas.

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Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.

The app had already been scheduled for retirement.

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

The Boys final season will also serve as a de facto Supernatural reunion. Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins are getting in on the fun with Jensen Ackles and showrunner Eric Kripke. But while we’ve known that, we only just learned for sure who Padelicki is playing. We’re finally going to meet the former member of the Seven who used to sneak college girls into Vought Tower with Lamplighter, the speedster A-Train replaced, Mister Marathon. @conmose

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Padalecki confirmed the casting rumor about himself during an appearance at the FACTS Convention in Belgium. (Which we first heard about at ComicBook.com.) He is playing Mister Marathon, a character referenced multiple times on the TV adaptation. He was the Seven’s speedster before A-Train took his spit. A-Train was also in the group four years longer than his predecessor. We’ll finally see the Flash-like Mister Marathon when Padelecki and Collins make their series debut in season five’s coming episodes.

The super fast Supe was a minor character in Garth Ennis’ comic series, where he died quickly during a failed rescue of a highjacked plane. Who will be looking for Mister Marathon after all these years? A show trailer revealed Homelander and Soldier Boy will come calling. We’re sure that will go just fine for Mister Marathon!

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While we now know for sure who Padalecki is playing, we still don’t know Collins’ character just yet. But we know what to expect from both her and Mister Marathon. Kripke previously described both of the show’s new characters as “just such douchebags.” No wonder Homelander and Soldier Boy will want to meet with them.

Will Mister Marathon want to work with his old Seven leader again? Based on how things have gone for everyone else int he group, he should probably run away from the whole situation.

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Adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s famous semi-autobiographical Little House books comes a fresh look at the pioneer family we know and love. Netflix is coming out with an all-new Little House on the Prairie series. The series, executive-produced by showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine, offers a unique perspective on the struggles and triumphs of the American frontier. Meet the Ingalls family in Netflix’s first teaser trailer for Little House on the Prairie for season one below!Little House on the Prairie’s Trailer Reminds Us Season One Comes to Netflix this July

“Once upon a time, Pa, and Ma, and Mary, and Laura left the Big Woods of Wisconsin and moved to the prairie…”

The Little House on the Prairie trailer begins with the familiar introduction, opening with a shot of Laura frolicking alongside the family’s beloved dog, Jack. Leaving behind everything that they know, the Ingalls uproot their lives to start anew in the American West. Netflix shares glimpses of the family in their wagon, scenic shots of the prairie, and the pioneer town they move to. It’s an intimate, emotional first look at the Ingall’s journey.

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Little House on the Prairie was first adapted into a live-action series in 1974. The show ran for a whopping nine seasons. Sonnenshine offers a fresh perspective to the beloved story. The show is part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West. The reimagining has already been renewed for season two.

Who Will Play the Ingalls?

Crosby Fitzgerald and Luke Bracey will play Ma and Pa. Alice Halsey and Skywalker Hughes are sisters, Laura and Mary. From what we can tell so far, the show is bound to be as heartwarming as ever.

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“This show is a love story about a family,” Sonnenshine tells Tudum. “That’s really at the core of what Little House on the Prairie is about: a family that is there for each other, that tells stories to each other, tells stories about themselves.”

The first season is based on the third book in the Little House series. CBS Studios will produce with Anonymous Content. A show that exudes heart, we’re excited to see what’s in store next for the Ingalls family. Little House on the Prairie premieres on Netflix on July 9.

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Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and starring Ryan Gosling, is everything we go to the movies for. It’s smart, funny, heartwarming, and manages to still give us a jaw-dropping sci-fi spectacle. Not to mention, the adorable alien known as Rocky is already an instant icon. Perhaps most importantly, it proves that a non-franchise IP can still draw crowds into movie theaters. But if you missed seeing the film in a glorious IMAX presentation, we have some good news for you. Project Hail Mary will officially return to IMAX 70mm for a one-week-only engagement, starting on Friday, April 17.

This calls for a fist bump 👊! #ProjectHailMary returns to IMAX 70mm and digital locations this Friday. Tickets on sale now. https://t.co/CwNQIDZOl8 pic.twitter.com/Ppdj51evuN

— IMAX (@IMAX) April 13, 2026

Project Hail Mary had to give up its IMAX screens for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie recently. So Mario and Luigi undercut a lot of fans who wanted to see the movie again in the best theatrical format possible. Maybe those two thought Rocky was one of Bowser’s minions? But at least for one week, fans can re-experience Project Hail Mary with nearly two hours of expanded aspect ratio. Lord and Miller’s sci-fi film is already the most successful film that Amazon/MGM Studios has released. And it shows few signs of slowing down.

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In the film, based on the novel by Andy Weir, Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a schoolteacher who wakes up from an induced coma on an interstellar spaceship. And he wakes up with no memory of how he got there. Before long, Grace realizes he’s the sole survivor of a three-person crew sent on a “Hail Mary” mission to save Earth’s sun from extinction.

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Luckily, he makes a friend from a distant alien civilization during the mission. And just like that, Project Hail Mary becomes one of the best human/alien buddy movies ever made. Grace and Rocky now give Han and Chewie a run for their money. You can buy tickets for Project Hail Mary in IMAX now.

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All good things must come to an end. That includes the stupidly hilarious animated hit Smooling Fronds. Excuse me, Smiling Friends. Originally greenlit for five seasons, it came as a shock for fans to hear that the series would end after season three. Creators Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack made the abrupt announcement earlier this year. Now, the dreadful day is upon us. Here’s how you can watch the final two episodes of Smiling Friends. Adult Swim

Alas, we will never get another sarcastic comment from Charlie. A positive outburst from Pim. A daring solo adventure from Allan or Glep. There’s always reruns, I guess. Sigh. It’s just not the same. The final two episodes of Smiling Friends aired live on Adult Swim on Sunday, April 12. If you missed them, both episodes are now available to stream with an HBO Max subscription.

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The final two episodes make up episodes nine and ten of season three. Here’s the official synopsis of each one:

• S3, E9 – “Friend-Bot”
  • The Smiling Friends befriend a helpful robot and what happens next will shock you.
• S3, E10 – “Charlie’s Uncle Dies and Doesn’t Come Back”
  • Pim and Charlie meet Charlie’s Uncle, who’s full of mysteries and tricks alike; and then Allan goes gaga.

Why is Smiling Friends Ending? Adult Swim

Hadel and Cusack have spoken out about the abrupt cancellation. The duo clarified that the decision to end the series was entirely their own, though Adult Swim supported it. The show is weird and stupid, and we just can’t get enough. Seriously, we’re really going to miss the Smiling Friends and their outrageous antics. To quote Mr. Boss, Smiling Friends is over. Nevertheless, it will always live on in our hearts (unlike Charlie’s uncle, it seems). Maybe not with new episodes, but absolutely in the form of iconic quotes and compilation videos on TikTok.

To get us through this dark time, there’s always another dumb adult cartoon to turn to. Season nine of Rick and Morty premieres May 24 at 11 p.m. on Adult Swim.

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I checked the calendar three times to make sure I have this right: It is, in fact, the year 2026. I wasn’t sure after hearing Frankie Muniz regurgitate a terrible TV take that was boring ten years ago. Muniz told his Malcom in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair co-star Byran Cranston he always wanted “to kill” Breaking Bad‘s Skyler White. His hatred for the character is an old, absurd opinion Walter White himself immediately shut down.

Bryan Cranston pushes back after Frankie Muniz said he wanted Skyler White to diepic.twitter.com/atLvRZjRz2

— Saul Goodman ⚖ (@itsSaulGoodman) April 13, 2026

During a joint appeared on First We Feast’s Hot One Versus, Muniz told Cranston he loved Breaking Bad, but he wanted to “kill” Skyler White. Muniz said it would have made Walter White’s life “so much easier.” Again, this just happened in the year 2026 and not on a Breaking Bad message in 2010.

Fortunately, Bryan Cranston immediately explained why that old uninformed take—frequently echoed by some of Breaking Bad‘s worst fans who didn’t realize Walter White was a monster and Skyler did nothing wrong—was nonsense.

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“Now see, she got a lot of blowback from that,” said Cranston. “Well, first of all, Anna Gunn is a superb actor, but she got, like, ‘Ahh! Why don’t you get off his back?’ Wait a minute. Let me understand this. Her husband leaves without any explanation. She’s pregnant. He’s making crystal methamphetamine, and people have died. And she’s the bitch? Like, we couldn’t understand.”

Neither can I, Bryan. Neither can I. Walter White was a disgusting pig whose ego and failures led him to become a mass murdering sociopath. Skyler White’s only crime on was not turning him in and saving a whole lot of lives. Even then, it’s one thing to have found her annoying. It’s another to say you wanted “to kill her.”

In 2026, neither Bryan Cranston nor I should have to explain why.

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IBM entered into a $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the U.S. DOJ over allegations that it engaged in “illegal DEI practices.”

The company has also previously introduced agents that are able to complete tasks, Cowork and Copilot Tasks.

Stanford’s latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy.

Cybercriminals allegedly used the W3LL phishing kit to target more than 17,000 victims worldwide, stealing their passwords and multi-factor authentication codes.

The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, emails, physical addresses, phone numbers may have been accessed in a security incident.

The neighborhood ice cream man is probably one of the least threatening people in existence… at least, on a surface level. He’s the friendly guy with the truck that’s playing a catchy tune. He pulls up and gives kids a sweet and cold treat to enjoy on a hot summer day. The ice cream guy wears a smile and perhaps a nice uniform to make himself seem like a friend. But, when you think about it, the ice cream man could be a total creep or even a deadly killer if he wanted to be. Eli Roth imagines this horrifying scenario in the trailer for Ice Cream Man, which turns an innocent childhood figure into a nightmare. 

ICE CREAM MAN | Official Trailer 🍦🩸

I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream Man.

In theatres August 7. pic.twitter.com/Bv6LhZBnj0

— Cinemark Theatres (@Cinemark) April 13, 2026

Roth, who is known for hits like Thanksgiving and Cabin Fever, directs, produces, and stars in Ice Cream Man, which he also co-wrote with Noah Belson. That’s a lot of work, my guy. The film takes place during a seemingly idyllic summer when a town goes into madness when an ice cream man serves up sweets with really bad results. It is the type of horror flick that has my name all over it, to be honest.

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Ice Cream Man will deliver sweet scares when it hits theaters on August 7.

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We support women’s rights to right. We support women’s rights to wrongs. We also support cursed castles and dark romances. And we TOTALLY support messy, queer love-quadrangles. Be honest, is there any other kind of queer love story? And it sounds like we’ll receive ALL of this and more in The Thorns We Wear Inside Amy Avery. This beautifully written, lush novel tells the tale of a witch, a monster, and two parasitic demons trying to keep them apart. (Come on now, demons!) And at Nerdist, it’s our pleasure to exclusively reveal the cover for The Thorns We Wear Inside, which is every bit as gorgeous as we’re imagining the contents of this book to be. Here’s your first look at the cover of this dark romantic sapphic fairytale.DAW Books/Micaela Alcaino

Damn, that is one exceptional cover. Artist Micaela Alcaino has absolutely outdone herself. We are loving the statue vibes, the stark red, maybe of blood, maybe of passion, maybe of both, and the gilded gold. Of course, the most intense detail is how our leading ladies are ALMOST but not quite touching as thorns grow around them. Just let them hold hands!!! We’re yelling in our hearts already. So there’s no doubt we’re going to be absolutely verklempt while reading this book. The Thorns We Wear Inside really sets that dark-fairy-tale tone and brings the feeling of blossoming romance we crave.

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The Thorns We Wear Inside‘s cover is enough to woo me over to this novel. But if you’d like to know a bit more, here’s the official synopsis:

For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who’ll stop at nothing to keep them apart.

Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a seductive, malevolent shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle at the heart of a forest.

The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir. Mir has a demon of her own, a creature that forces her to seek and crave blood. When the two women begin to use the castle’s trove of magic to unravel their curses, their demons unite. The parasites refuse to let their hosts escape, and perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye’s poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years.

As monster hunters close in on the forest, Raye and Mir will have to break both the castle’s curse and the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them.

The Thorns We Wear Inside sounds like a perfect fantastical queer adventure; a mysterious castle, curses, demons, and the first touch another person has felt in years. We’re sighing a wistful sight.

If you’d love to get The Thorns We Wear Inside and its perfect cover on your shelves, you can pre-order the book right now through Amazon. The Thorns We Wear Inside will release on November 10, 2026.

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is many things. It’s the Haymitch Abernathy backstory we’ve all been waiting for. (Which, of course, you can read right now in book form, if you’d like.) It’s another movie in a franchise that feels more resonant than ever. AND it’s a movie that is somehow full of incredibly big names and famous faces. In The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, we get to see Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, Maya Hawke, Mckenna Grace, and Ralph Fiennes take center stage. They’re not playing our main characters, but man, do they pull focus. You can watch the trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping below.

For those who have forgotten, here’s the synopsis of the new Hunger Games movie, “THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.” This Hunger Games, of course, is the one that brought Haymitch Abernathy into the arena, paving the way for him to become the haggard victor who would help Katniss and Peeta navigate through their own games. Rumor has it that Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will reprise their roles as Katniss and Peeta in the movie, but we haven’t seen any glimpses of them yet.

Additionally, if of interest, here is the synopsis of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping‘s novel synopsis:

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

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A young Haymitch Abernathy will be played by Joseph Zada in the movie. And it’s a testament to Zada that despite all the aforementioned big names, he still manages to catch our attention in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer. We’re already pulling for him, all the while bracing for the tragedy that we know cannot be avoided.

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As for this new Hunger Games movie’s other stars… The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer lets us see Kieran Culkin as Hunger Games host Caesar Flickerman, Elle Fanning as a younger Effie Trinket, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, a role previously played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle, “the cruel escort to the District 12 Tributes,” Maya Hawke as Wiress, a victor turned mentor, and Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner. And, of course, there’s Ralph Fiennes, stepping into the villainous role that was originated by the late Donald Sutherland. You can read more about all these roles here.

Well, here we go again. May the odds be ever in our favor. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping releases on November 20, 2026. Its source novel is available to buy today.

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