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Hasbro’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Link figure is now up for preorder on retailer sites. The listing describes a 6-inch figure priced at $27.99, with articulation and a small set of extras: Link, a Zonai power hand, the Master Sword, a Hylian Shield, and a cape. Some store pages also show a May 2027 date, but that looks like merch timing or placeholder info, not any kind of new Nintendo game reveal.

If Tears of the Kingdom clicked for you because of Link’s redesigned arm, the mix of sky and surface exploration, or that old-tech fantasy look the game leaned into, this is the kind of figure that makes sense on a shelf. It’s built for display and posing. What that May 2027 date doesn’t look like is a hint about the next Zelda. That lines up with what series producer Eiji Aonuma has said before: after Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo seems more likely to chase new ideas, or even a different Hyrule, than make another direct sequel.

Right now, the most recent official Zelda release is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Nintendo put it out on Switch on September 26, 2024. Princess Zelda takes the lead, and the game revolves around its echo-creation mechanic. As for the talk about an Ocarina of Time remake tied to Nintendo’s next hardware sometime around 2026, that’s still just rumor.

Tears of the Kingdom is still widely viewed as a strong follow-up to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, mostly because of its building systems, the underground areas, and those sky islands. If you want a small trip back to that version of Hyrule, the figure is up for preorder now through retailers.

Stephen King’s It is back in HBO Max’s top 10 after Tim Curry’s death on August 25, 2026, putting the 1990 ABC miniseries in front of a fresh streaming audience more than 30 years after its original run.

The spike seems directly connected to Curry’s passing, with viewers returning to the performance most people still associate with the adaptation: his turn as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

If it’s been years since you last watched It, there’s a real reason to go back. Curry is still the draw. His Pennywise doesn’t need much in the way of modern effects to get under your skin, sliding from playful to predatory in a way that feels close-up and deeply unnerving. For a lot of viewers, that performance also helped turn fear of clowns, or coulrophobia, into a lasting piece of pop culture.

The two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel is streaming on HBO Max.

Tommy Lee Wallace directed the miniseries, which drew about 30 million viewers on ABC in 1990. Bill Skarsgård’s films in 2017 and 2019 brought Pennywise to a newer generation, but Curry still sets the standard. The renewed attention also arrives as HBO’s prequel It: Welcome to Derry, which premiered in October 2025, has already been picked up for a second season.

IDW Games has locked in Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game for fall 2026, giving the long-running kaiju series an official new tabletop RPG. The Kickstarter page places it in IDW’s Kai-Sei Era, where players step into the shoes of survivors and specialists trying to get through a world shaped by kaiju attacks, mutation, survival, and city-wide destruction, not just giant monster brawls. The campaign is already funded, and fulfillment is still expected in fall 2026.

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The system also does one thing a little differently. Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game swaps dice for a standard 52-card deck, and it uses a Crisis Clock to keep major events moving and raise the tension in a more cinematic way. Early convention demos and playtests point to a game that moves quickly, keeps the rules easy to pick up, and gets some extra tactical mileage out of the card-based setup.

The Kickstarter page also lists 12 classes, with Soldier, Thief, and Scientist among them, along with playable mutants and half-breeds. On the kaiju side, the lineup includes Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Hedorah, Kamacuras, Kumonga, Manda, Rodan, Biollante, Destoroyah, and Megalon. If you’re after a Godzilla game with more of a story focus, this one looks like a good pickup.

You can look for Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game from IDW Games in fall 2026. And if you’d rather go the video game route, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered is also set for 2026.

A24’s action-horror movie Onslaught hits theaters on September 4, 2026. The setup sounds like Die Hard smashed into Halloween, then run through a neon-soaked 1980s sci-fi action-horror lens.

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Adam Wingard directs Adria Arjona as Celeste, a former Army sniper trying to protect her daughter from three genetically engineered super-soldiers. What Onslaught seems to offer is a lean, nasty siege thriller that just keeps moving. Critics have compared its mood to John Carpenter’s sense of dread, its drive to James Cameron at full speed, and its “slick, giddy violence” to the kind of thing that matters more here than intricate plotting. If The Guest, You’re Next, or retro genre mayhem with a practical-effects feel are your thing, this looks like one to see. The film is Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and the reviews there keep circling back to the pacing , the retro look, and the precision of the set pieces, even if the story and larger ideas may strike you as a little thin.

If you’ve been keeping up with Wingard’s work, Onslaught is being framed as a spiritual successor to The Guest, part of that same cinematic universe, and the final chapter in a thematic trilogy that also includes You’re Next. Adria Arjona is joined by Dan Stevens, Michael Biehn, and Rebecca Hall. Onslaught arrives in theaters on September 4, and early box office tracking suggests a modest opening weekend in the $4 million to $5.5 million range.

Brotherwise Games has November 4, 2026 penciled in for November 4, 2026. The book is a 405-page core rulebook for the Cosmere Roleplaying Game, with character creation for both players and Game Masters, full campaign tools, and Scadrial material covering Mistborn Eras 1 and 2. A few retailer listings still have it down for November 16 , so that date hasn’t fully settled everywhere yet.

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Brotherwise says the system should be easy to get into if you’re new to tabletop RPGs, but not stripped down for longtime players. The pitch is narrative decision-making, heroic paths built around the setting, and, from the early numbers, a Mistborn Handbook that may even come in larger than the current Stormlight handbook.

There’s more coming with it. The broader release also includes a World Guide, the 265-page Mistborn: Legacy Adventure, a starter set, custom dice, and item decks.

And if you keep up with Sanderson’s worlds outside the novels, this Mistborn wave looks especially tempting. Lead writer Meric Moir says the new lore is canon per Dragonsteel. Mistborn: Legacy Adventure is being described as a secret story set inside the timeline. Brandon Sanderson has also said he’s finished a first draft of a Mistborn Apple TV movie screenplay, The Fires of December is due in December 2026, and Mistborn: Ghostbloods is still aiming for 2028.

You should be able to pick up the hardcover through Brotherwise Games and tabletop retailers in November 2026.

Warner Bros. Discovery has posted its results for the second quarter of 2026, and the numbers put the spotlight back on AT&T’s 2018 Time Warner acquisition and the messy breakup that came after it.

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AT&T paid $108.7 billion for Time Warner in 2018, after the U.S. Department of Justice failed to block the vertical merger. The DOJ had argued the deal could raise fees for rival distributors, reduce competition, and slow innovation.

AT&T won that court fight, but the plan fell apart under the weight of debt, a telecom-and-Hollywood culture mismatch, streaming upheaval, cord-cutting, and changing viewer habits. In 2021, AT&T spun off WarnerMedia.

WarnerMedia then merged with Discovery in 2022, creating Warner Bros. Discovery. The pressure still shows. As of Q2 2026, the company had about $29.7 billion in net debt, $8.7 billion in quarterly revenue, and $149 million in net income, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. At the same time, linear TV kept sliding and restructuring efforts were still underway.

Under CEO David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery has focused on cutting costs, paying down debt, and reworking its streaming strategy. Max passed 140 million global subscribers in Q1 2026, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. For anyone who follows media mergers, this remains a cautionary story with more to reveal.

You can keep up with the latest through Warner Bros. Discovery’s earnings reports and updates from the Max platform.

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Pacific Rim: A Cinematic Adventure is out now from Evil Genius Games. It’s an officially licensed tabletop RPG set in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim universe, and it lets you build Jaeger pilots, climb into towering machines, and go to war with invading Kaiju. The 128-page sourcebook runs on Evil Genius Games’ Everyday Heroes ruleset, which takes its cues from Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, so anyone who already knows modern tabletop games should have an easy way in. What you get out of it is pure Pacific Rim stuff: mech-versus-monster fights, synchronized launches, and those last-ditch battles in cities that are already half wrecked.

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The book includes Titanic Scale to handle the size gap between Jaegers and Kaiju, Drift rules for the neural link between co-pilots, Jaeger customization, and setting lore that gets into Kaiju cults and other corners of the world. Early reactions from players and critics have landed on the same point: it feels like Pacific Rim, not a licensed game that’s just borrowing the names and logos.

If you’ve been looking for something that captures the films’ mix of scale, style, and total sincerity, this one seems like a pretty easy recommendation. Amazon Prime Video’s prequel series Pacific Rim: The Black, Pacific Rim: Final Breach, and Evil Genius Games adaptations like Kong: Skull Island and Highlander have kept both the franchise and the licensed tabletop wave moving, especially in English-language markets.

You can pick up Pacific Rim: A Cinematic Adventure now from Evil Genius Games.

David Corenswet hasn’t been replaced as Superman in DC Studios’ new universe. He’s still set to lead James Gunn’s Superman when the film opens in theaters on July 11, 2025, and Man of Tomorrow is also expected to keep Corenswet in the role.

What has changed is the scale of the rollout. James Gunn and Peter Safran are using a soft reboot of the old DC Extended Universe (DCEU) to shape a cleaner shared universe across film, TV, and animation, so the spotlight is spreading beyond Superman from the start.

That broader DC Studios plan includes Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, along with Hawkgirl, Supergirl, Mister Terrific, and several Green Lanterns. But a larger cast doesn’t mean Superman has been recast or pushed aside.

If you follow DC closely, here’s the part that matters: David Corenswet is still one of the main pillars of the new DC Universe (DCU), even if Superman isn’t the only one anymore.

You can already see that wider strategy in projects like Creature Commandos, a Blue Beetle animated series, and The People v. Gorilla Grodd, as DC Studios works to give Superman a fresh start after Henry Cavill’s exit.

The Whisper Man arrived on Netflix on August 28, and it moved fast. Early third-party ranking trackers already have the new thriller at either No. 1 or No. 2 worldwide.

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What stands out so far is the gap between the attention it’s getting and the way people are reviewing it. Critics and viewers have been mixed to negative, and the movie has ended up with a low score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film adapts Alex North’s bestselling novel and blends a serial-killer mystery with family drama. It also has a cast people will click on almost immediately: Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Keaton. That lineup has helped turn it into one of the weekend’s biggest streaming talking points.

Netflix hasn’t put out detailed official viewing numbers yet, so there’s no hard audience total to work from. For now, the clearest read on how The Whisper Man is performing comes from those early chart spots, not from any confirmed internal data.

The story centers on a widowed crime writer whose young son is abducted in a case connected to an old serial killer investigation. That sends him back to his estranged father, a retired detective played by Robert De Niro.

If dark, star-driven thrillers are usually your speed, this one is probably worth a look. It also lands right in Netflix’s familiar sweet spot: a polished, accessible $50 million thriller, filmed in Plainfield, New Jersey, built to catch on quickly even if it’s still too early to know whether it’ll stick around for the long haul.

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The Whisper Man is streaming now on Netflix.

HBO Max has started production in Mexico City on Mataviejitas: The Serial Killer, a dramatized series drawn from the case of Juana Barraza. The project adds another major title to the platform’s growing slate of Latin American originals.

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The thriller goes back to Barraza, the former wrestler known as La Mataviejitas and The Lady of Silence. She was convicted of killing at least 16 elderly women in Mexico City between the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually posing as a government official or social worker before strangling and robbing them. HBO Max says the series will cover the investigation, the fear that spread across the city, and the pressure mounting on police, with Mayra Hermosillo and Mónica Jiménez leading the cast.

Exile Content is producing for HBO Max, with Humberto Hinojosa serving as showrunner and co-director alongside J.M. Cravioto. If you follow Mexican true crime, that alone makes this one to watch, mostly because it seems set on telling the story from a distinctly Mexican point of view, shaped by Mexico City’s culture and the way the case still lingers in public memory.

It comes after Netflix’s 2023 documentary The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders, and while the creative team says it’s approaching the case with respect, the usual concerns are still there: sensationalism, reopening wounds for families, and turning a painful piece of history into entertainment. No response from victims’ relatives has been reported so far, and the series will stream on HBO Max when it premieres.

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