Film News 2026-10-14

• New ‘Avatar’ Projects Are Everywhere — but the Best One Succeeds by Leaving ‘The Last Airbender’ Behind
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• Has Hollywood Softened Toward Netflix?
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• ‘Animals’ Makes Drone Photography Look Forgettable, but It Doesn’t Need to Be
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• ‘Girls’ Is Back: Lena Dunham and Full Cast to Reunite for Five-Episode Limited Series Revival for HBO
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• Audiences Want to See Documentaries About Gaza, Israel, and Palestine — Why Are Distributors Still Scared?
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• ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ Trailer: A Stairway to Narnia as Only Greta Gerwig Could Build It
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• The Bay Theater in Palisades Village, Closed Since the LA Wildfires, Will Reopen Thanks to Paramount and Rick Caruso
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• IndieWire Hires J. Kim Murphy as Film and Media Reporter
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• ’14th’ Leads 2026 Critics Choice Documentary Award Nominations
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• ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay Suffuse an Unfussy Jane Austen Adaptation with Earthly Sensuality
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• ‘Crystal Lake’ Review: Over-the-Top Kills Succumb to an Underbaked Story in A24’s ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel
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• Meet Terry Matalas, the New King of Sci-Fi TV
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