As we near the end of 2024 and Disney prepares for what the company has to offer in 2025. If you thought this year was wild, feast your eyes on this up-to-date full slate for Disney and Disney-adjacent releases next year.

FilmSpeak’s social media coordinator, Ryan Daly is funding his next project, and the production has an amazing cast and crew, including a big name Youtuber.

Steve Buscemi, Isabella Rossellini, Abigail Breslin, and Jon Jacobs win top acting honors as Bella Thorne, ‘The Stranger’s Case’, ‘Go for Grandma’, and ‘Shape of Red’ earn Grand Jury prizes at this year’s Seattle Film Festival.

This past week, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Netflix unveiled their upcoming slate of animated projects. The newly announced projects seem to be in-line with Netflix’s previous animated catalogue, promoting new stories and revitalizing existing franchises for all ages and demographics. Let’s break down some of the key announcements and reveals.

Fans of murder mystery films can rejoice, because they have a new bone to gnaw on thanks to recent news. Film auteur Rian Johnson announced on social media that his next film would be titled ‘Wake Up Dead Man’, the third film in his whodunnit series.

Disney released the exciting first look at ‘TRON: Ares,’ the highly anticipated, new installment in the groundbreaking TRON franchise. The film started production in January in Vancouver, Canada and is slated for release in 2025.

On Valentine’s Day, Marvel Studios dropped a bombshell that sparked noise throughout the comic book community and beyond as they unveiled the cast for the long-awaited Fantastic Four film that is currently slated to release July 2025.

In a year affected by two simultaneous work stoppages, Hollywood can finally rest easy as the nominees for the industry’s biggest night are unveiled. Here are our thoughts on the 96th Academy Awards.

Accompanying the announcement of ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’, is a 90-second teaser trailer, sporting oodles of maniacal action and a sneak peak at a predictably perfect turn from Eddie Murphy. The franchise, despite the time jump, appears not to have missed a beat, finding form in the familiar B-movie fun that popularized the films in the first place.

One might have hoped that this season of ‘House of the Dragon’, despite any flagging or extra filler, might be amounting to something spectacular for its finale. Unfortunately, despite a few moments of payoff, this season’s final episode is an altogether anticlimactic fumble.

If anyone was doubting the slow burn approach which this second season was taking, let The Red Sowing stand as proof that the people behind ‘House of the Dragon’, despite any flaws, know exactly what they’re doing.

As controversial as ever, ‘The Boys’ only seems blunt because we are seemingly entering a post-satire world. It is increasingly difficult to invent a dystopia which is less ridiculous than reality. Moreover, the show was always a scathing criticism of the society in which it was produced; its quality has not diminished as some people are wont to claim.

Many will see this as another filler-heavy episode, albeit with a welcome return of Laenor Velaryon’s dragon Seasmoke. Book fans, however, will be able to anticipate future events which have been gleefully set in motion during this new episode.

Perhaps the only thing that those who’ve been tuning into ‘The Acolyte’ for the last two months can agree upon is… that it’s officially over. Yes, this week’s finale in the eighth episode of this debut and controversial season.

Now that we’re past the halfway point of this season of ‘House of the Dragon’, its slow pace is beginning to show signs of dragging. That said, it’s understandable that the show would take a breather after its first major character death of the season.

Next week will have the final say as the finale of ‘The Acolyte’ looms. Until then, we’ll be counting our blessings in the form of fun fight sequences and neat planet names that pop up in the bottom left corner of the screen. One. More. Week.

All in all, The Red Dragon and the Gold is an episode for ‘House of the Dragon’. For those who are in the know, the action is unfolding like a tragedy, slowly and deliberately. For those who have no idea what to expect from this series, this episode will be an emotional gut-punch, the first of many more to come before this tale is over.

At this point, ‘The Acolyte’ does enough for Star Wars fans to warrant the watch, even if just barely, at times. If you’ve made it this far in, either way, you may as well finish it, and that might be the strongest reason we can give you to continue to watch.