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Andor is still drawing big numbers on Disney+ in 2026. During the first half of the year, the Star Wars series racked up nearly 1 billion minutes viewed, even though its second and final season ended about a year ago.

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That kind of shelf life is rare for a finished streaming original. The 2026 tally adds to the 7.4 billion minutes viewed in 2025 after Andor season 2 premiered on April 22, opened with 721 million minutes in its first week, and then reached a series high of 931 million by finale week in May, when it was the most-streamed show of that week.

Why has it held on so well? Analysts point to Disney+’s three-episodes-a-week rollout across four weeks, an older audience with roughly 60% of viewers over 30, especially Millennials and Gen X, and strong word of mouth around the show’s political storytelling, writing, performances, production values, and even its Peabody Award. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story got a bump from that too.

If you go to Disney+ for Star Wars, Andor now looks like more than a critical favorite. It’s become one of the service’s most durable library titles.

You can stream Andor and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Disney+.

“Insidious: Out of the Further” pulled in $3 million from Thursday previews at the domestic box office, and early tracking has it headed for an opening weekend somewhere between $23 million and $27 million.

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If that holds, it would mark the softest “Insidious” debut since 2013, though not the franchise’s lowest outright, since the 2011 original opened to $13.27 million. It would also come in behind both “The Red Door” at $33 million and “The Last Key” at $29.58 million.

For anyone who pays attention to box office trends, “Insidious: Out of the Further” is one to watch. The muted start suggests demand may be on the weaker side, but with a budget of $18 million, there’s still a clear path to profitability. And this series has a long track record of making money: the five previous films brought in more than $740 million combined, and every one of them cleared $100 million worldwide.

Overseas, current projections put “Insidious: Out of the Further” in the $49 million to $53 million range worldwide, which would move the franchise closer to the $800 million mark. That total is getting a boost from a record horror opening day in the Philippines, along with an expected £1.8 million to £2.3 million from the U.K. and Ireland, even without China or Japan in the mix.

“Insidious: Out of the Further” is now playing in theaters. Critics have it at 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the best score the series has gotten, while audiences handed it a C+ CinemaScore, tying “The Red Door” for the lowest grade in the franchise. That split could point to some franchise fatigue, especially in a strong 2026 for original horror, even if this still looks like steady business.

Today brought the first footage from the new Resident Evil reboot, and one shot in particular hints that Raccoon City may not stick to the usual lore when the film hits theaters on September 18, 2026.

In the clip, there’s what looks like a dog with tentacles pushing out of its mouth. Fans have already linked that image to Las Plagas, not the T-Virus or G-Virus mutations tied to Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. If that’s really what the footage is showing, the movie would be folding two very different parts of the series into a single timeline.

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Barbarian director Zach Cregger is behind the reboot, and he’s already said the September 18, 2026 release is an original story, not a beat-for-beat retelling of the games.

Cregger has also named Resident Evil 4 as a major influence. The film follows Bryan, a medical courier played by Austin Abrams, through the outbreak in a story that reportedly runs parallel to Resident Evil 2 rather than putting Leon or Claire at the center.

If you keep up with Resident Evil movie news, this footage is probably worth watching. Test screening reports have praised the pacing and the horror tone, but the public reaction has been more split over the bigger lore changes, especially after Welcome to Raccoon City and the Netflix series.

The footage is online now, and the film arrives in theaters on September 18, 2026.

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The Stepfather just landed on Tubi, which gives viewers an easy way to catch the 1987 horror thriller Stephen King has named as one of his favorite horror movies.

Joseph Ruben directed it, Donald E. Westlake wrote it, and Terry O’Quinn stars as Jerry Blake, an ideal suburban husband and father whose obsession with building the “perfect” family turns deadly.

Loosely inspired by John List, The Stepfather starts with a slasher premise and then goes somewhere darker, digging into Reagan-era family myths, patriarchy, suburban male violence, and the women and younger characters trying to survive Jerry Blake as he unravels.

If you know The Stepfather by title but never actually got around to watching it, this is a good time to do that.

It made only about $2.5 million domestically, but critics were largely on its side. The Stepfather went on to build a cult following, spawn sequels in 1989 and 1992, get a poorly received 2009 remake, and now it even has a Tubi reimagining planned for 2026 with Taye Diggs attached. Still, the main reason the original holds up is Terry O’Quinn’s calm, methodical performance.

You can stream The Stepfather free on Tubi now.

Stranger Things: The Complete Series is finally out as a full-series box set, which means the entire Netflix run is available on disc in a single package for the first time. Arrow Video has the release in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

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Arrow is also doing special and deluxe editions for collectors. The deluxe set packs in 25 discs covering all four seasons and all 42 episodes, plus a 148-page artbook, a Palace Arcade coin, a Hellfire Club patch, and more than five hours of bonus features.

That collector angle is only part of the appeal.

Early reviewers say the 4K version looks and sounds better than streaming, and it comes with the usual advantages discs still have: higher bitrate, more consistent presentation, more reliable playback, and the simple fact that you still own it when streaming catalogs shift around without warning.

If you’ve been waiting for a permanent copy of Stranger Things while Netflix keeps expanding the franchise with things like the animated spinoff and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, this is an easy one to pick up. It also says something bigger about the format itself: premium physical media still has a place, even for major Netflix originals.

You can pick up Stranger Things: The Complete Series now from Arrow Video in 4K Ultra HD or Blu-ray.

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Disney just showed off new sequel artwork for Lilo & Stitch, the live-action follow-up to the remake that opened on May 23, 2025. The next movie is headed to theaters on May 26, 2028, and the new image puts Angel, also known as Experiment 624, right at the center. That was enough to get people talking online.

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So no, this doesn’t mean there’s a surprise new movie arriving this year. What you’re seeing is the live-action follow-up to Disney’s May 23, 2025 remake, now dated for May 26, 2028, not a separate 2026 or 2027 release.

If you’ve followed this franchise for a while, Angel’s arrival means something. Disney teased her at D23, and fans of the animated series know her best as Stitch’s love interest. Bringing her into the live-action sequel points to a movie that’s reaching further into the larger mythology, especially after the first film made more than $1 billion worldwide, according to box office tallies, and helped lift the 2002 original on Disney+, according to Disney.

Disney says Maia Kealoha is expected to return as Lilo. Chris Sanders is back as Stitch and is also attached to direct. Dean Fleischer Camp’s 2025 remake also featured Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, Zach Galifianakis, and Billy Magnussen. That movie caught heat from some fans over its ending and Pleakley’s design, but Disney is clearly treating Lilo & Stitch as a live-action franchise with something for nostalgic viewers and for people coming to it fresh.

You can stream the 2002 original on Disney+ now, and catch the sequel in theaters on May 26, 2028.

Bourbon & Lies, based on Victoria Wilder’s bestselling Bourbon Boys trilogy and borrowing the title of the first novel, has officially moved into TV development at Amazon MGM Studios and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions.

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Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin, who ran season one of The Flight Attendant, are on board to create the series and executive produce it. Sophia Stallone is producing through Callisto Media. Amazon MGM Studios and Balboa Productions still haven’t shared any casting news or a release window, which tells you this one is very much in the early stages.

The story is set in the fictional town of Fiasco, Kentucky. It centers on a former police officer and a mysterious woman whose romance pulls the reader into secrets, danger, and that Southern gothic blend of crime and small-town suspense. On Goodreads, the first book holds a 4.03 rating from more than 72,000 reviews.

If romantic suspense adaptations with a ready-made fan base are your thing, this one’s worth keeping an eye on. For Amazon MGM Studios, it also lines up with a wider push to turn recognizable books into series, while Balboa Productions keeps building out its TV slate after Tulsa King under its renewed January 2026 first-look deal.

You can pick up Bourbon & Lies now while you wait to see whether the show eventually lands on Prime Video.

Please rework this so it reads less like AI. It’s at 64% right now, and I need it under 55%.

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Can you rewrite this to bring the AI-detection score down? At the moment, it’s coming in at 62%, and the target is anything below 55%.

I need another rewrite here because the detection score is still too high. Right now, it’s showing 72%, and the goal is to get it under 55%.

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Send me the English article you want rewritten, and I’ll rework it in Lewis Leong’s news style while keeping the required structure, tone, and length limits intact.

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Hamster Corporation has brought UFO: A Day in the Life to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 through its Console Archives label, finally giving the 1999 PlayStation oddity an official Western release 27 years after it first came out. If you’ve been curious about this hard-to-find Japanese cult game, this is the first straightforward way to play it on current hardware, and the added save states and rewind take some of the sting out of the original version.

You play a tiny alien whose UFO has crashed, then poke around an apartment building looking for 50 hidden aliens. The way you find them is the fun part: watch the residents, catch the moments when their behavior gets weird, and snap photos when something strange happens. That setup is already unusual, and the Love-de-Lic connection gives it extra weight. Love-de-Lic was the former Square team behind Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. So if you care about neglected PS1 history or game preservation, this lands as more than just another retro re-release.

If offbeat Japanese games are your thing, there’s a lot to like here. But there’s one big limitation: Hamster Corporation translated the menus and the digital manual, while in-game dialogue and story text are still only in Japanese. UFO: A Day in the Life is out now on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2.