‘The Legend of Zelda’ live-action film gets official title, new release date
The logo for ‘The Legend of Zelda.’ (Nintendo, Sony Pictures)
Nintendo has revealed the official title for its upcoming Legend of Zelda film.
The live-action video game film adaptation is officially titled The Legend of Zelda, the company announced Tuesday. Nintendo has also shared that the release date for the movie has shifted slightly. The film is now set to release in theaters on April 30, 2027.
Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth star as Princess Zelda and the swordsman Link. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto revealed their casting on his social media back in July 2025.
Wes Ball, who helmed The Maze Runner and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, directs the upcoming film.
This movie is based on The Legend of Zelda action-adventure video games. The series’ first game launched for the Family Computer system in Japan in 1986.
Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle the film’s worldwide theatrical distribution. The movie is being co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Nintendo noting in a press release that it is providing more than 50% of the financing.
Your heart may grow three sizes, because a sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas is in the works.
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are developing a live-action sequel to the 2000 holiday blockbuster film, ABC Audio has confirmed.
Jim Carrey is in talks to reprise his role as The Grinch in the new movie. Ron Howard, who directed the original film, is set to return at the helm.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas and this new, currently untitled film are, of course, based on the beloved book by Dr. Seuss. Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel are writing the new film’s screenplay. The trio also wrote the 2003 live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat, which starred Mike Myers.
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas opened in theaters on Nov. 18, 2000, and earned over $345 million at the worldwide box office. It was the highest-grossing domestic release that year and won the Academy Award for best makeup.
Snowfall‘s Wanda and Leon take on the music business in the show’s spinoff, The Drop: A Snowfall Saga.
A trailer shows Wanda expressing her belief in the power of music to reshape American culture, much like it helped transform her life as she recovered from a crack addiction in the original series.
“You gotta understand what I been through. When I was getting clean, music brought me back to life,” says Wanda, played by Gail Bean.
Though she enters the business believing it’s “the new gold rush” with “no cops, no murder,” the trailer reveals that danger follows as she immerses herself in the music industry and navigates its ties to the streets.
Leon, played by Isaiah John, has vowed to leave that world behind as he hopes to “chase down his own atonement through his free legal clinic,” according to the show’s website.
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, which also stars Asante Blackk, Peyton Alex Smith, Simmie “Buddy” Sims III and Brandon Mychal Smith, premieres Sept. 8 on FX and Hulu.
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Constance Wu and Henry Golding in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ (Courtesy of Warner Bros, Inc.)
Bok bok! Crazy Rich Asians is so back.
Eight years after the blockbuster film was released, HBO announced Thursday that it has greenlit a one-hour original drama series based on the bestselling books by Kevin Kwan.
HBO also announced that the original cast members Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Ronny Chieng will reunite for the series, with Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh recurring.
“It’s a CRAZY RICH family reunion!” showrunner and executive producer Adele Lim said in a statement shared by HBO.
Lim, who was a co-writer of the 2018 film, added, “This series is the sequel we’ve been waiting for, but instead of just one movie, we get eight episodes to delve into the characters and worlds of Kevin Kwan’s brilliant books.”
She teased, “Our writers room is humming and we can’t wait to share what we’ve come up with.”
The film follows a Chinese-American economics professor, Rachel Chu, who travels to Singapore with her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, for his best friend’s wedding. While there, she discovers that Nick belongs to one of Singapore’s most elite and wealthy real estate families.
As she’s thrown into their world of opulence, she faces scrutiny from other jealous socialites, including Nick’s mother, Eleanor.
The film made $239 million worldwide at the box office, according to The Numbers, and since then has become a fan-favorite film for many. It also marked a milestone for representation in Hollywood.
Additionally, many online over the years have shared how the film is their favorite airplane movie.
Also returning to the project is director Jon M. Chu, who will co-executive produce the series with Lim, Kwan, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.
“Eight years ago, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ changed my life, and I got to make it with the most creative and hilarious group of people I’ve ever known,” Chu said in a statement shared by HBO. “It’s been incredible watching audiences make this movie part of their lives, from mahjong nights to becoming the ultimate airplane movie, and I can’t wait to share what comes next.”
He added, “Finally, I get to answer the question I’ve been asked almost every day for eight years: ‘When are we getting the sequel?’ well… bok bok b—-, we’re back.”
A video shared by HBO announcing the news said that production for the new series will begin in 2027.
