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Today’s edition · Monday, November 2, 2026
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Oct 22 – Nov 2, 2026
Michael Mann treated for a minor gunshot wound at an LA range
Director Michael Mann, 83, was accidentally shot in the leg on Saturday afternoon when his weapon discharged as he tried to holster it at a gun range in Los Angeles. His representative said the injury was superficial and that he was treated at a hospital and released. The incident is not expected to affect Heat 2, which is in pre-production with Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Adam Driver and due to start filming soon.
You Can See Everything edges Clayface in a quiet Halloween weekend
You Can See Everything is on track to top the box office for the Halloween weekend with an estimated $11 million, just ahead of Clayface at about $10.5 million after a 55% drop. Wildwood is third with around $7.5 million. With Halloween on a Saturday pulling younger audiences away from theaters, the weekend is running well below last year's $57.4 million Halloween total.
Spain reportedly drops release of Klara and the Sun
Sony has reportedly scrapped the Spanish release of Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun, and other European markets may follow. The film opened to just $701,059 in the US and $1.44 million worldwide, with a 26% Rotten Tomatoes score and a Metacritic score of 30.
Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard, dies at 86
Sir Patrick Stewart died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at 86, after living with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, his spokesperson said. He was best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, and spent 14 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before that. Marvel Studios says his final film role will be in Avengers: Doomsday.
Full trailer for Tony Gilroy's Behemoth! with Pedro Pascal
Searchlight has released the full trailer for Behemoth!, the new film written and directed by Andor creator Tony Gilroy. Pedro Pascal plays a former child prodigy and traveling cellist who returns to Los Angeles to record film scores, with each cue he plays triggering flashbacks to why he left. Hank Azaria, Will Arnett and Olivia Wilde co-star, and it opens in theaters December 4.
Final Dune: Part Three trailer arrives ahead of December release
Warner Bros. and Legendary have released the final trailer and poster for Dune: Part Three, Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune Messiah and his last film in the series. Set 17 years after Part Two, it finds Timothée Chalamet's Paul ruling as emperor while enemies plot against him, with Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Momoa and Robert Pattinson in the cast. It opens December 18 in theaters and IMAX.
Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Chekov, dies at 90
Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov on the original Star Trek and in seven Star Trek films, died on Sunday night, his representative confirmed. He later played the telepath Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. Co-star George Takei paid tribute, saying "Walter was more than Chekov."
Jailer 2 becomes the highest-grossing Tamil film ever
Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 has passed ₹710 crore (about $74 million) worldwide in 11 days, overtaking 2.0 as the biggest Tamil-language film of all time and becoming the first to cross ₹700 crore. In North America, DC Studios' Clayface held on to win the weekend with $24 million and opened to $43 million worldwide.
Clayface opens at No. 1 with about $24 million
DC Studios' horror film Clayface is set to win the weekend with an estimated $24 million to $25 million on a reported $44 million budget, and audiences gave it an A- CinemaScore, a rare grade for horror. A24's You Can See Everything is close behind at around $20 million in its second weekend after expanding to more than 2,500 screens.
Tom Skerritt, star of Alien and Top Gun, dies at 93
Tom Skerritt died on Wednesday of natural causes at 93, his family announced. Over a six-decade career he appeared in M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It and Contact, and he won an Emmy in 1993 for the TV drama Picket Fences.
Dune: Part Three breaks the BFI IMAX presale record
London's BFI IMAX, the UK's largest screen, sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three in its first 24 hours, taking more than £880,000. That beats the £750,000 first-day record set by Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and more than doubles Dune: Part Two. The film opens December 18, with IMAX 70mm previews from December 15.
Sentimental Value wins the Nordic Council Film Prize
Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value has won the 2026 Nordic Council Film Prize, shared by Trier, co-writer Eskil Vogt and producers Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar. The jury called the Norwegian drama "an instant classic of Nordic cinema," capping a year in which Norway took every one of the Nordic Council's prizes. The award will be presented in Helsinki on October 27.