W40 Preview: Avengers: Endgame Is No. 1 Again Seven Years Later, and Hillman College Reopens on Netflix
Avengers: Endgame Encore took the September 25-27 weekend with $26 million domestic and $86 million worldwide, the third-best domestic re-release opening ever, thanks to four new Avengers: Doomsday scenes. Brad Pitt's The Heart of the Beast and A24's Primetime both opened near $20 million, and on streaming Netflix's A Different World and SNL season 52 are out now.
Binge Guide: Lioness Just Wrapped a Finale Critics Can't Agree On, and Neagley Dropped All 8 the Day Reacher Ended
Two complete seasons hit your queue in five days and they could not have arrived more differently: Lioness finished season three the slow weekly way on Sunday, while Prime Video dropped all eight episodes of the Reacher spinoff Neagley at once on the same Wednesday Reacher's own finale aired. One of them stuck the landing, and critics are openly fighting about the other.
By the Numbers: Video Game Movies Went From a 30% Punchline to a 96% Record in Under Five Years
Resident Evil (2002) scored 36%. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) scored 30%. Resident Evil (2026) just scored 96% on 205 reviews, the highest any video game adaptation has ever held. But the 2026 slate also produced a 64% and a 59%, and the most faithful film in the franchise scored lower than the one fans said ignored the games. Here is what the whole score series actually shows.
The Best-Reviewed Resident Evil Movie Ever Made Has None of the Characters You Actually Wanted
Zach Cregger threw out Leon, Jill, Chris and Claire, cast a medical courier nobody has heard of, and landed a 96% Tomatometer — the highest score any video game movie has ever held. Then it opened to a franchise-record $60 million with a 91% audience score. The fans who spent nine months calling it a betrayal were never the people buying tickets.
W39 Preview: Resident Evil Breaks a 24-Year Franchise Record, and Three Seasons Head for the Exit
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot opened to a franchise-record $60 million domestic and $108.3 million worldwide, the biggest debut of his career. On streaming, Lioness already wrapped season 3 on Sunday, Made in Korea ends for good Wednesday, and Ted Lasso and Slow Horses both drop new episodes the same day.
By the Numbers: Spider-Man Beat a Star Wars Record by 14 Days — and It's $1.5 Million From the Bigger One
Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossed $900 million domestic in 36 days. Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed 50. That record is already broken — but the all-time domestic crown was still $1,491,337 away as of Sunday night. Here is what the pace, the holds and the multipliers actually say about it.
One Show Wants Five Weeks of Your Life, the Other Wants One Thursday Night
Slow Horses season 6 lands Wednesday and Stranger Things: Tales From '85 season 2 lands Thursday, and they could not be more different about how they want you to watch them. One is six episodes doled out one a week until October 21. The other is eight episodes in a pile on your doorstep. Here's the binge math on both — and yes, I'm writing this before either has aired, so the quality calls come from critics with screeners, not from me.
The Owens Sisters Ended Spider-Man's Streak — Now the Week Belongs to Streaming
Practical Magic 2 opened at No. 1 with $30 million and a 53-point critics-versus-audience gap, Runner over-delivered, and The Uprising landed ninth. Then Wednesday and Thursday hand the week to streaming: Slow Horses season 6 on Apple TV+, and Netflix dropping both Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story and Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 season 2 on the same day.
Your Weekend Binge Guide: Four Shows Drop in Four Days, and Only One Is Actually Bingeable
Collision, The Drop, The Paper season 2 and Crew Girl all land between Monday and Thursday — and every one of them uses a different release model. Thirty-nine episodes at telenovela pace, eight weekly, ten at once, and one clean 5h52m binge. Here is the episode math and where your actual free hours should go.
Onslaught Stumbled and Cars Came Roaring Back — And Friday Is About to Reset the Whole Board
Nothing new opens wide until Friday, which makes the week of September 7 a catch-up week: By Any Means, Onslaught and a 20th-anniversary Cars are all still playing from Friday's drop. Then streaming takes over midweek with the Snowfall spinoff, Netflix's Crew Girl and Prime's The Revolutionaries — before September 11 lands Practical Magic 2, Runner and Paul Greengrass's The Uprising on the same day.