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Aaron Couch

Film Editor

Aaron Couch oversees THR’s film team, managing the flow of news and industry reporting. He also edits THR’s Heat Vision blog, which is dedicated to genre movie coverage and is home to the weekly Heat Vision Newsletter. Couch began contributing to THR as a freelancer in 2012 and joined the staff in 2013 as an online editor.

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‘Smile 2,’ ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Set 2024 Release Dates

Paramount is hoping to bring smiles to audiences’ faces for Halloween season 2024. The studio has set a release date for its untitled sequel to the surprise horror hit Smile of Oct. 18, 2024. The studio also set a date for the musical adaptation of Mean Girls, which will bow on Jan. 12, 2024. It […]

Ex Posse Studios Inks Development Deal with Sony Music Entertainment in Japan

Ex Posse Studios, which is behind indie comics such as Night of the Cadillacs and the spinoff Lip Stick Cliqa, is getting a financial boost as develops its properties for the screen. Ex Posse has inked a deal with Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) for Sony to fund and develop films and TV shows. Financial details […]

Colman Domingo to Voice Batman Opposite Hasan Minhaj’s Riddler in Spotify Series

Colman Domingo is entering the Batcave. The actor, who is in the Oscars race thanks to his work in civil rights drama Rustin, will voice Batman in the Spotify limited series The Riddler: Secrets In The Dark. Comedian Hasan Minhaj stars in Secrets in the Dark, which comes after Minhaj voiced the Batman villain in […]

Rachel Zegler Enters the Arena in Trailer for ‘Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

The games are beginning again in the new trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The film takes place 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games and stars Tom Blyth as a young Cornelius Snow, who decades later will become the ruthless ruler of Panem, the land where children […]

Marc Webb to Direct Skydance’s Bermuda Triangle Movie

Marc Webb charting a course for the Bermuda Triangle. The filmmaker is attached to direct Bermuda for Skydance, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Skydance has been developing Bermuda for some time, with Spider-Man director Sam Raimi at one point attached, and filmmaker stepping in Scott Derrickson boarding in 2020 after exiting his Doctor Strange sequel. […]

‘Elemental’ Notches Top Disney+ Movie Debut of 2023, Says Streamer

The slow-burn life of Elemental continues. The film landed the top streaming debut for a movie on Disney+ so far this year, the streaming service announced Monday. That follows Elemental‘s box office journey, which began inauspiciously with a record-worst opening for a Pixar movie, only for the film to have strong legs and ultimately earn […]

‘Sound of Freedom’ Team Silent on New Allegations Against Real-Life Subject Tim Ballard

The team behind Sound of Freedom has remained silent so far on new allegations involving Tim Ballard, who is portrayed in the movie as a hero by Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel. Ballard, founder of the anti-child-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad, rose to new levels of prominence this summer when the film turned into […]

Steve Martin Responds to ‘Little Shop’ Co-Star Miriam Margolyes’ Claim of “Horrid” Behavior on Set: “I Have to Object”

Steve Martin is responding to accusations his Little Shop of Horrors co-star Miriam Margolyes made about the actor in her new memoir, Oh Miriam! Stories From an Extraordinary Life. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Martin said he remembered their time on set differently, noting he took “extreme caution” when it came to filming […]

Amazon MGM Studios Taps Peter Oillataguerre as Head of Feature Film Production

Amazon MGM Studios is bolstering its ranks. Peter Oillataguerre is taking on the newly created role of head of feature film production for Amazon MGM Studios. The executive, who comes from Spyglass, will report to Dan Scharf, head of global business operations,?and is expected to work closely with head of film, streaming and theatrical Courtenay […]

‘Dora the Explorer’ Short Film to Play Ahead of ‘Paw Patrol’

Dora and Boots are headed to theaters in a new short film debuting with Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie. Dora and the Fantastical Creatures marks the first time an animated iteration of Dora has hit theaters, following the live-action 2019 feature Dora and the Lost City of Gold, which starred Isabela Merced as Dora. The […]

Donald Glover’s ‘Lando’ Project Revealed to Be a Movie

Donald Glover is shifting gears with his planned Disney+ Lando series. The project is now being developed as a film for Lucasfilm, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Glover’s brother, Stephen Glover, was working on the project with Donald before the writers strike began in May, and during an appearance on the Pablo Torre Finds Out […]

‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ Trailer Finally Arrives

The long-awaited trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is here. James Wan directs the film, with Jason Momoa returning as the titular hero. It is a sequel to 2018’s Aquaman, which stands as the highest-grossing DC movie of all time, with $1.148 billion at the box office. Until this week, observers had wondered when […]