Paramount Pictures’ premiere of the trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” was a bonafide smash. In its first 24 hours, the clip was viewed by 128 million around the world across social platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and X in its first 24 hours. That beats “Top Gun: Maverick”

Luke Evans (“The Hobbit” trilogy) and Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) have joined the cast of the upcoming TV series adaptation of the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series “Criminal” at Amazon Prime Video. Edgar Award-winning crime fiction author Jordan Harper will co-showrun the series alongside the comic’s writer Ed Brubaker

Starz has unveiled the main cast for “Spartacus: House of Ashur,” the new series set within the “Spartacus” franchise which helped establish the premium cabler’s forays into originals in the early 2010s. Nick Tarabay reprises the role of the titular Ashur in the series and will be joined by Graham

Danny Ramirez looks set to co-star with Joaquin Phoenix in “Carol” and “May December” filmmaker Todd Haynes’ next movie which begins production soon. Additional casting is now underway. Ramirez broke out in “Top Gun: Maverick” and as Lt. Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia and in Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”

Reviews are coming in for “Twisters,” filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s sort-of sequel to the iconic 1996 blockbuster “Twister,” and the word is good. With 31 reviews counted, the film sits at an 81% (7.3/10) rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the general consensus being it works, and it meets expectations, but