Author: Hermes Andrea Gayle Sousa

I Play Rocky is set to arrive in November 2026, telling the story of Sylvester Stallone’s struggle to get Rocky made: selling the script, holding on to the lead role, and pushing the film into production. The release date also lines up with Rocky’s 50th anniversary, and it lands right in the middle of a streak of making-of dramas like The Offer, Feud: Bette and Joan, Ed Wood, and The Disaster Artist, where Hollywood goes back to the mess, tension, and momentum behind famous productions instead of remaking the movies themselves.

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It’s easy to see the draw. These stories let people watch the creative process up close, along with the ego clashes, financing problems, and lucky breaks, and in the streaming era they fit neatly alongside bonus features, documentaries, interviews, and social clips while also giving studios something they can really market.

If you like behind-the-scenes movie stories, I Play Rocky should be worth your time. But it can’t lean only on familiar Stallone mythology. The best films in this lane hold homage, history, and drama in balance, and the subgenre centers American and British productions through the eyes of actors and directors, with much less attention given to editors, cinematographers, composers, and screenwriters.

You’ll be able to catch I Play Rocky in November 2026.

Absolute Wonder Woman debuted on October 23, 2024, and it’s the darkest version of Diana Prince DC has done yet.

It’s part of DC’s Absolute Universe line, which launched in October 2024 with the idea of rebuilding its core heroes from the ground up. Here, Wonder Woman comes off tougher and more aggressive. The Manchester Black “gun-toting” tease got a lot of attention, but that’s not really the biggest shift. The bigger change is that Diana was raised in Hell, not on Themyscira. That one decision changes the whole character, pushing her closer to a survival-driven warrior-queen than the diplomatic, compassion-first hero people know from DC’s Earth-0 continuity.

If you want to see how far DC is willing to push one of its biggest icons, this is a version worth picking up. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’s series is already getting strong early buzz. And yes, DC has tested Wonder Woman legacies before: Yara Flor’s introduction in 2021’s Future State, the short-lived seven-issue Wonder Girl run, even the CW adaptation that never made it to air. This time, though, DC is rebuilding Diana herself, and readers are clearly paying attention.

You can get Absolute Wonder Woman now in comic shops and through DC’s digital platforms.

Marvel Studios’ Nova movie is finally moving ahead, bringing one of Marvel’s most requested cosmic heroes into the Marvel Cinematic Universe after years of rumors, stalled versions, and false starts.

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The project also plays like a payoff that’s been sitting there for a long time. Guardians of the Galaxy introduced Xandar and the Nova Corps back in 2014, then Avengers: Infinity War revealed that Thanos destroyed Xandar off-screen. That fits Richard Rider’s comic-book origin as the last surviving Nova Corps member, and it still gives Marvel Studios room to finally show that attack.

Michael Waldron is attached to write and could direct too. With Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness already on Michael Waldron’s résumé, it’s easy to see why Nova now looks like a serious feature-film turn after those earlier Disney+ and special-presentation versions linked to Sabir Pirzada.

If you follow Marvel Studios’ cosmic side, this is one to keep an eye on. After 12 years of setup, Nova could end up anchoring Phase 7 after Avengers: Secret Wars. Marvel Studios still has to pick between Richard Rider and Sam Alexander, and most of the villain talk still points to Annihilus.

There’s no release date yet, but Nova still looks far more likely to arrive as a theatrical Marvel Cinematic Universe movie than a streaming release.

Marvel has several Spider-Man deaths on deck for 2024 and beyond, with Peter Parker heading toward a string of dark endings across the comics and even the game-adjacent lore.

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The biggest one sits in Marvel’s new Ultimate line. This version of Peter is older, married, raising kids, and a lot of readers have taken to him because his life finally feels a little more grown up. In “Ultimate Endgame,” the Maker kills him. On another front, Marvel Rivals lore hints at a different fallen Spider-Man, with Daredevil holding Peter as he dies. And over in the main Earth-616 continuity, Marvel is setting up “Eight Deaths of Spider-Man” for late 2024: Doctor Doom, now Sorcerer Supreme, gives Peter Parker a magical suit and eight extra lives to take on a mystical threat.

If you keep up with Spider-Man on a regular basis, this is something to watch. Still, Marvel has pulled this move before.

Back in 2011, “Death of Spider-Man” in the original Ultimate Universe cleared the path for Miles Morales. Peter Parker has also died, or gotten close enough to count, in stories involving Morlun and Doctor Octopus before making his way back through resurrections, body-swaps, mystical loopholes, and the usual comic-book logic.

So the reaction has split between real shock and a lot of skepticism. Most fans don’t expect Marvel to permanently retire one of its biggest characters.

You can keep track of these storylines in Marvel’s Ultimate books, the main Spider-Man line later in 2024, and Marvel Rivals promotional material.

People are looking at HBO’s Game of Thrones again as a model for event TV. The reasons are pretty clear: the show had a seasonal rhythm people recognized, and it came out of that older HBO tradition of making television feel big.

By reports, Game of Thrones went from around 9.3 million U.S. viewers per episode in season 1 to roughly 46 million viewers across platforms by its final season. HBO also reportedly aired the series in 207 countries and territories, making it the network’s most widely licensed show.

A lot of what kept people coming back was the pattern. The tension kept building, then came a betrayal or death that changed everything, whether it was Ned Stark or Daenerys Targaryen. Episode 9 usually brought the huge jolt, like the Red Wedding or the Battle of the Bastards. Then the finales cleared the board and set up the next round, while still holding onto the story’s fire-and-ice core.

The scale behind it kept growing too. Production reportedly rose from about $50 to $60 million for season 1 to around $15 million per episode in the final season. Game of Thrones also filmed in 10 countries, including Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, and Spain.

If you still keep up with HBO fantasy, it’s worth looking back at the Game of Thrones legacy, even with all the arguments over the rushed ending. That feels especially relevant now, with House of the Dragon premiering in 2022 and already renewed for seasons 3 and 4, while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the animated series The Sea Snake are still in development.

You can stream Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon on Max.