This weekend marks the release of the science fiction thriller Mercy, directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. The film is set in 2029 Los Angeles, as a detective stands trial for the alleged murder of his wife, and he has just 90 minutes to prove his
AI is seemingly everywhere these days. In Hollywood, questions about its role in the filmmaking process are accompanied by legal concerns that have embroiled the embattled entertainment world for some time now. It's also frequently a subject of the stories onscreen themselves, as in
Two of the hottest topics you could mention in a room today are the rise of A.I .computing and the jurisprudence of the American police system. In Mercy, director Timur Bekmambetov uses both subjects to make another case for his recent storytelling obsession known as Screen Life. That decision
Happy New Year, dear readers and friends! 2026 has finally landed, and we’re already primed to see the debut of some impressive looking titles in the world of cinema. A new year means 12 new months of delight, which means it’s time for the THS Cinema Forecast for January 2026! The first frame
The concept shown in Mercy’s first trailer has movie fans drawing parallels between director Timur Bekmambetov’s latest experiment in ScreenLife and Minority Report. That’s a comparison that needs to be put on the table as it’s too loud to ignore, but we're not here to talk about that.
Amazon MGM Studios is proud to announce their upcoming new sci-fi thriller film Mercy. This upcoming film starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson will make its theatrical debut on January 23, 2026. As for what it's about, well, you can read their official synopsis below: In the near future,
MGM Amazon Studios has entered the CinemaCon chat. The studio, known mostly for its streaming content, came out swinging at this year's event held in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. In their opening statement, the studio says that they are planning on releasing 14 titles for theatrical release
In Star Trek: Picard - Mercy, the cold open is of a boy, running in the woods terrified. He trips and is confronted by two Vulcans. We then flash to Picard and Guinan in a room with the agent who arrested them at the end of the last episode. He asks them directly if they are
At the end of last week's episode of The Pitt, we finally learned what happened to cause Westbridge to shut down. As PTMC preemptively secures itself from a possible cyberattack, the younger doctors and nurses get a trial by fire on how their superiors did their jobs "in the 1900s." With
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
Cultural phenomena like Elvis Presley simply don't come along very often. As a follow-up to his 2022 Elvis Biopic, energetic director Baz Luhrmann unearthed and restored never-before-seen footage of Presley, including 45 minutes of audio where he discussed his life and work, and made all of
