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HBO Max surprise-released a 30-minute It: Welcome to Derry side story on Halloween night. It reaches back centuries and puts Maturin the Turtle on screen.
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Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 premiered on 30 October 2026 to 86% on Rotten Tomatoes from seven reviews and 75 on Metacritic from five, below Season 1's 95%.
Nocturne opened at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from five reviews, then fell to 83% the same day. What the split says about Apple TV's Lars Kepler thriller.
Lupin Part 4 drew 6.4 million views to top Netflix's non-English chart. Critics praise Omar Sy's return, but its 100% score rests on only five reviews.
Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun drew 25 percent from 73 critics on Rotten Tomatoes and $725,000 in its opening weekend, while audiences gave it 81 percent.
Wicker opened to $5.75 million from 1,471 theatres and a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. Critics agree on Colman and the creature, and split on the length.
Nobody Wants This season 3 holds 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and 75 on Metacritic after a brief 100% start, with critics split on its focus and its Jewish story.
Wildwood opened to 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 87 on Metacritic. The two mixed notices say more about LAIKA's PG-13 stop-motion epic than the perfect score.
Netflix's The New Stanford Prison Experiment scores 40 on Metacritic from seven reviews, with critics split on whether it is science or engineered reality TV.
First reviews for DC Studios' Clayface landed at 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising Tom Rhys Harries and splitting over the film's gore and scale.
The Diplomat Season 4 holds a 100% Tomatometer and a 90 on Metacritic, while IndieWire's C grade argues the bigger season thinned its best relationship.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 reaches Netflix on 20 October with 10 episodes. Polygon calls it better than season 1, IGN scores it 9/10 and Gizmodo is mixed.
Tulsa King season 4 premiered on Paramount+ on 16 October 2026 to warm but mixed reviews, with Terence Winter's return praised and the show's age questioned.
A24's 'You Can See Everything' follows Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before prison; Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary opens to acclaim.
Street Fighter (2026) opened to about 43% from critics and 78% from audiences, a split that turns on its anime flashbacks, fan service and jumbled tone.
Brian Duffield's Whalefall opens October 16 with Austin Abrams swallowed by a sperm whale. Rotten Tomatoes sits near 79 percent, but the trades panned it.
Crystal Lake, A24's Friday the 13th prequel with Linda Cardellini, draws mixed early reviews that praise its craft and performances but fault the pace.
At New York Comic Con, Naruto announced a new Kishimoto-drawn manga, Shadow Rising, alongside a four-episode anime crossover with the 1990s manga NINKŪ.
Marvel's VisionQuest premieres on Disney+ on October 13, 2026, as reviews split on the WandaVision sequel's AI-heavy plot and its Bettany-Spader pairing.
Prime Video debuted the full Blade Runner 2099 trailer at New York Comic Con, with Michelle Yeoh onstage, and dated the premiere for November 25, 2026.
Avatar: Seven Havens premiered on Paramount+ on Oct. 9 with a hunted new Earthbender Avatar, mixed early reviews, and a four-season order from Paramount.
Variety projects the horror film 'Other Mommy' to lead the October 9 weekend with $20 million or more, while Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning' trails.
Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' a drama about Sam Altman and OpenAI, premiered at the New York Film Festival to strong reactions ahead of a December release.
Tom Cruise's Digger opened to an estimated $8 million in North America, his lowest opening weekend in 19 years, with losses projected near $125 million.
Zoe Kazan's seven-part East of Eden, on Netflix from October 1, 2026, puts Cathy Ames and Lee first. Critics praise Pugh and Hoon Lee; the compression shows.
'Verity' is projected to open at No. 1 with $30 million or more for Colleen Hoover, even as critics panned the film and previews trailed 'It Ends with Us'.
Godzilla Minus Zero drew rave first reactions at the New York Film Festival and the franchise's first R rating ahead of its wide November 6 U.S. release.
Brad Pitt's survival thriller Heart of the Beast opened to $20 million and an A- CinemaScore, finishing third behind Avengers: Endgame Encore and Primetime.
After Endgame Encore's $86 million weekend, Sony is reportedly planning a Spider-Man: Brand New Day re-release with new footage, but no release date is set.
Disney's Avengers: Endgame Encore took $26 million domestically and $86 million worldwide, the first re-release to top the domestic box office since 2011.
Silent Hill: Townfall sends the series first-person to a foggy Scottish island in 1996, and critics have welcomed Konami's latest horror revival entry.
A review of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil (2026), which set a franchise box-office record and an R-rated video-game mark, and why the adaptation worked so well.
