'Beverly Hills Cop 4' Offers Netflix Ratings Questions as 'Shrek 5' Aims for the Summer 2026 Box Office Crown
'Beverly Hills Cop 4' Offers Netflix Ratings Questions as 'Shrek 5' Aims for the Summer 2026 Box Office Crown
As showstopping 'Gladiator II' trailer debuts, will Denzel Washington again anchor a box office hit that turns his white male co-star (Paul Mescal) in an alleged A-lister?
In tonight’s written at way-too-late-o-clock (eastern standard time) newsletter…
Universal announces DreamWorks Animation’s long-anticipated (?) Shrek 5 for July 1, 2026, making it the presumptive summer frontrunner (even against Avengers 5) and — alongside Super Mario Bros. 2, Toy Story 5 and (likely) Frozen III, potentially turning 2026 into an all-out animated IP royale rumble for the ages.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F was surprisingly good for a 30-year-later sequel and for a Netfflix would-be mockbuster. Yet even its best-of-2024 (Wed-Sun) debut viewership underscores a possible problem for big-deal Netflix originals.
Denzel Washington does the heavy lifting in the showstopping Gladiator II trailer, so will it continue a weird pattern by which a Washington-powered hit convinces Hollywood that his white male co-star (this time Paul Mescal) is an A-lister?