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Star Wars: Starfighter Breaks the Franchise Budget Record — What Disney's £185 Million Bet Means for Space Sci-Fi's Theatrical Future
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Disney has spent $226.5 million on Star Wars: Starfighter before a single frame of visual effects has been finalised. The figure, disclosed in UK production filings for the Pinewood Studios shoot, represents a gross spend recorded through 31 January 2026 — and it already eclipses the production costs Star Wars: The Force Awakens had accumulated at the same stage of its cycle.
Spielberg's Best Kept Secret: Why Disclosure Day — Streaming Now — Is Space Sci-Fi's Most Underrated Film of 2026
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What if the most significant space sci-fi film of 2026 arrived in cinemas and you almost missed it — and now, that it is out on streaming, you have a second chance to fix that mistake? That is the precise situation with Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's alien conspiracy thriller, which landed on Peacock in the United States and on digital platforms globally from, 9 October.
Taika Waititi Had a Bad Idea. Abandoning It Made Klara and the Sun Space Sci-Fi's Most Evocative Film of 2026
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The worst version of Klara and the Sun already exists. Taika Waititi made it in his head. It had dumb robot jokes. Klara — the solar-powered "Artificial Friend" at the heart of Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel — was going to be funny, because Waititi is funny, and an AI written from a naïve first-person perspective is, frankly, begging for comedy. Waititi abandoned that instinct.
Forbidden Planet in 4K: Why Arrow Video's 70th Anniversary Restoration Is an Essential Space Sci-Fi Release of 2026
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For seventy years, the most influential space sci-fi film ever made has never been available in its true form for home viewing. That ended on 28 September 2026. Arrow Video's Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD release of Forbidden Planet — Fred M. Wilcox's 1956 masterpiece that gave cinema both its first electronic film score and its most enduring robot — presents the film in its original 2.55:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio for the first time in home media history.
Dune: Part Three Faces Avengers: Doomsday in the Ultimate 'Dunesday' Box Office Showdown — What It Means for Space Sci-Fi's Commercial Future
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What happens when the most intellectually ambitious space sci-fi franchise in modern cinema opens against the most commercially dominant superhero property on the same December day? The industry has already coined a term for it: "Dunesday." On 18 December 2026, Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three — the concluding chapter of a trilogy that has elevated space opera from cult niche to prestige blockbuster — will share its theatrical debut with Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday.
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