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RoboCop Series Ordered, Evil Dead Franchise Fatigue, La La Land Fixes Gosling's Hand — Pop Culture Digest — July 22, 2026
Amazon greenlights RoboCop series from Blumhouse Atomic Monster. Rolling Stone begs Hollywood to stop making Evil Dead movies — just as Universal announces a Halloween Horror Nights haunted house. Plus: La La Land finally fixes Ryan Gosling's hand, Jessica Chastain faces her doppelgänger in Other Mommy, and Gen Z discovers Homer.
1. Amazon Greenlights 'RoboCop' Series from Blumhouse Atomic Monster
Dead or alive, you're getting a new series. Amazon has officially ordered a RoboCop television series from Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster, with the logline promising to "tackle corporate greed."
Paul Verhoeven's 1987 masterpiece was never really about the cyborg. It was a savage satire of privatization, Reagan-era excess, and the nightmare of a corporation running a police force.
2. "Please, Please, Please Stop Making Evil Dead Movies" — Rolling Stone Begs, Universal Doubles Down
Here's a sentence that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a major publication is openly pleading with Hollywood to stop making Evil Dead movies.
Rolling Stone's review of Evil Dead Burn — the latest entry in the once-beloved franchise — is less a pan and more an exhausted sigh. "We are fans of the Evil Dead movies. So we do not say this next part lightly. Please, please, please stop making Evil Dead movies. Pretty please. With a Deadite-possessed cherry on top."
The irony? Universal announced Evil Dead Burn will be the centerpiece of Halloween Horror Nights 2026.
Source: Rolling Stone | Source: The Hollywood Reporter
3. La La Hand No More: Lionsgate Finally Fixes Ryan Gosling's Poster After 10 Years
A decade after La La Land twirled into theatres, Lionsgate has released a new poster that corrects the one thing that has haunted Gosling ever since.
"It just killed the energy that way," Gosling told The Wall Street Journal. "I call it La La Hand."
Source: Variety | Source: The Hollywood Reporter
4. Jessica Chastain vs. Herself: 'Other Mommy' Trailer Delivers Body-Horror Doppelgänger Nightmare
Jessica Chastain is returning to horror, and this time she's pulling double duty — literally. The first trailer for Other Mommy, from Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, dropped this week.
Chastain plays Ursula, a mother whose evil clone — the eponymous "Other Mommy" — begins terrorizing her young daughter. The trailer's most chilling moment comes when Other Mommy leans in and whispers to the child: "Can I go inside your heart?"
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
5. Gen Z Can't Get Enough of Homer — Nolan's 'Odyssey' Triggers Audiobook Renaissance
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has triggered a Gen Z obsession with Homer that nobody saw coming. Spotify reports a 64% spike in audiobook streams of The Odyssey in the weeks following the film's release.
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