Summer Movie Season Starts Now — With 'The Mandalorian & Grogu'

Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian and Grogu blasts into theaters May 22, officially kicking off the summer movie season. Pedro Pascal returns as Din Djarin alongside Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White, with tracking pointing to an estimated $86–104M four-day Memorial Day debut. 👉 Read more on Deadline

The Box Office Is Up Double Digits — and Still Climbing

Through 20 weekends, the 2026 North American box office has reached an estimated $3.18 billion — up roughly 16% from $2.74 billion at the same point last year. With the Michael Jackson biopic Michael retaking the No. 1 spot on the May 17 weekend, the theatrical resurgence shows no sign of cooling as summer begins. 👉  Read more on Media Play News

Netflix Is Putting Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' in Actual Theaters

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It's Going Down on the Croisette. Here's what's happening at Cannes 2026:

The 79th Cannes Film Festival delivered the goods: Cristian Mungiu's Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, drew the longest standing ovation of the festival at 12 minutes; James Gray's Paper Tiger brought out Adam Driver and Miles Teller; A24 won a heated bidding war for Jordan Firstman's Club Kid at an estimated $17 million; and Andrey Zvyagintsev returned from nearly a decade away with the acclaimed Minotaur.  👉 See the most talked-about films on Rotten Tomatoes

Summer blockbuster season is here. And this year, it's stacked! Here's a curated list of must-watch movies for the next two months! 

Synopsis // Niki is a former musical prodigy whose career was cut short by hyperacusis — a condition that makes everyday sound feel painfully amplified. Now he tunes pianos across New York City, apprenticing under veteran technician Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman). But Niki's extraordinary ear catches the attention of the wrong people, who realize the same gift that perfects a Steinway can also crack a safe. As he's pulled deeper into a criminal underworld, a budding romance with composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu) hangs in the balance.

Daniel Roher's Tuner earned a near-perfect 94% on Rotten Tomatoes out of Telluride and Toronto, with Variety calling it "the discovery of Telluride."

In theaters May 22 from Black Bear.

Directed by // 🎥 Daniel Roher

Watch the official trailer for Tuner below.

Boots Riley makes films the way few others dare to — loud, lurid, funny, furious, and unmistakably his own. A rapper, activist, and longtime frontman of the hip-hop group The Coup, the Oakland artist arrived in cinema fully formed with Sorry to Bother You (2018), a surrealist satire of capitalism, code-switching, and gig-economy desperation that became a Sundance sensation and one of the decade's sharpest debut features.

Riley followed it with the Amazon series I'm a Virgo (2023), an audacious coming-of-age story about a 13-foot-tall young man in Oakland — a show that smuggled radical politics inside a giant, joyful visual swing. His work blends magical realism with working-class reality, treating the absurd as the most honest lens on how power actually operates.

His latest, I Love Boosters, lands in theaters this month — a Bay Area fashion-heist comedy following a crew of women shoplifters who lift from luxury stores and resell to the people priced out of them. It premiered at SXSW to a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, with critics calling it as funny as it is thought-provoking — and, in Riley's words, a film built to both "compel" and "repel" you.

Other Notable Films // Sorry to Bother You (2018), I'm a Virgo (2023, series), I Love Boosters (2026).

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