After the first season of Fallout launched on Prime Video, Amazon boasted it had been watched by 65 million people, making it their biggest hit since The Rings of Power. Unlike The Rings of Power, people actually seem to have liked Fallout's second season, which The Hollywood Reporter reports has now been seen by 83 million people.

At least, in part. Streaming figures are apparently based on how many viewers pressed play, not on how many stuck around for the finale, so it's worth taking them with a grain of salt. Still, 83 million is a lot of people who are at least curious to watch the further adventures of Walton Ghoulgins, whether they checked out five minutes in or not.

The second season's release had a bit of a halo effect on the first season, pushing it up to 100 million views. (Or partial views, again.) "Fallout continues to resonate in a powerful way with our global Prime Video audience," Peter Friedlander, head of global television at Amazon MGM Studios, was quoted as saying by The Hollywood Reporter.

"The show's performance reaffirms this," Friedlander went on, "with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we've ever launched. We're thrilled to see the franchise continue to grow as we head into season three."

Fallout's third season will apparently go into production this summer, and includes a visit to a new location the games have yet to take us.

I haven't seen the Super Mario Galaxy Movie and I won't because I'm an adult. But reviews were published earlier today, and it's difficult not to be curious about how the latest big game-to-film adaptation is faring. The short answer is: not very well.

The most impactful belongs to The Guardian, whose one-star review is scathing. "It’s now commonplace to compare programmatic stuff like this to AI, but this is almost a second evolutionary step downwards," writes Peter Bradshaw. "It looks as if humans, using AI, have tried to copy something that was originally AI generated, creating a bland, simplistic template that can be sold in all global territories where it can be dubbed by local voice talent. It’s certainly a way of gouging cash out of families for the Easter holidays."

The New York Times' critic detects a "flat empty nothingness" in the film, while Variety's Owen Gleiberman argues basically the same, but in different words: "Not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. And that’s because the movie has no center."

The Times' Kevin Maher put his disenchantment very succinctly: "The film is torturous to sit through and, for me, provoked periods of actual physical discomfort."

Super Mario Galaxy Movie was clearly made to generate lots of revenue rather than enrich the interior lives of its impressionable young viewers, many of whom have media diets consisting almost entirely of soul-destroying vertical video slop. Unfortunately, this visit to the cinema won't offer much relief from their relentless exposure to meaninglessness, as the Independent's précis makes abundantly clear: "It’s a series of large, vaguely connected explosions."

Does anyone like the new Mario movie? Even the most positive reviews seem slightly icked about not trouncing it. "If 2023's The Super Mario Movie is the cinematic equivalent of World 1-1 – a safe, frictionless big-screen beginning for Nintendo's iconic mascot, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie does at least expand on a promising start with a starry sequel that sporadically lives up to the Galaxy moniker," Gamesradar's critic writes.

Meanwhile the Boston Globe confers a generous two stars while admitting that you'll probably never want to watch it again. "This is yet another big screen rehash of the Nintendo classics that will make you want to go play the games rather than watch this movie again."

A consistent point among the more positive reviews is that the movie does, at least, keep one occupied for the duration. "The movie’s speedy plot and 98-minute run time help keep boredom at bay," Polygon writes, while IGN's 6/10 review concedes that its viewers may enjoy the easter eggs and "wall-to-wall references".

Look, no amount of positivity is going to make me want to watch this churn. But if you happen to watch it, and want to get its horrible sugary aftertaste out of your mouth, may I recommend to you this nine-hour documentary about the slow decline of a Chinese industrial district.

Only a couple of months ago, we got our first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Amazon's upcoming Tomb Raider TV show. At the same time, shooting for the series began. But now it already seems to have run into a potentially major setback.

As reported by The Sun, production has been paused two and a half months after it started due to Turner suffering a back injury. The publication claims she discovered a pre-existing issue with her back during training for the series last year, which has then been worsened by the demanding filming schedule until she was no longer able to continue.

“Sophie Turner recently experienced a minor injury," confirmed a spokesperson for Prime Video to Variety. "As a precaution, production has briefly paused to allow her time to recover. We look forward to resuming production as soon as possible.”

It's easy to imagine how physically demanding the role of Lara Croft must be—given the source material and the high budget, the show is likely full of action and stunts, just like the various Tomb Raider films we've (sort of) enjoyed over the years. So the star suffering a physical injury of some kind is unfortunate but very understandable (and of course we wish Turner only the best in her recovery).

It may be extremely bad news for Amazon, however. Given the scale of the project, any pause in filming is likely to be an expensive prospect, and two and a half months seems very far into production to entertain the idea of pivoting to a different lead actor.

If Turner requires a long recovery time, the fate of the show could well be in the balance—and even if she does bounce back in time to complete season one on schedule, it raises the question of whether she'll be willing or able to commit to a season two or beyond. As any fan of Netflix's The Witcher can tell you, recasting the lead role between seasons can be a very difficult trick to pull off.

As it stands the series does not have a confirmed release date, and it's unclear whether this situation will cause any delays to its launch.

Here's hoping things are going rather better with the two big new Tomb Raider videogames in the works—though the repeated layoffs at Crystal Dynamics over the last year don't paint the rosiest picture there either. Sometimes it feels like somewhere in all those expeditions to disturb ancient sacred sites, Lara unleashed a deadly curse on her own franchise.

Reviews for A Minecraft Movie were a bit mid, as PC Gamer's resident movie pro Chris Livingston put it, and that 47% critics consensus tells no lies. But the people loved it, and there was never any real question that it would get a sequel once that record-setting opening weekend hit. In fact, it was just a week later that Warner Bros Pictures co-chairman and CEO Mike De Luca confirmed that a deal was being done.

Well, now it's official, and not only that, we've got a date too: A Minecraft Movie 2, or whatever it ends up being called, is set to hit screens on July 23, 2027.

A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess is returning for the sequel, according to a Deadline report, which is nice because he said he wanted to, and will also co-write the script along with Chris Galletta, one of the screenwriters on the first film.

A cast hasn't been announced, but Jason Momoa, who was outfitted in some interesting wardrobe choices in A Minecraft Movie, is listed as one of the executive producers on the sequel, so I would expect he'll return. And given the call-the-cops popularity of chicken jockey, and his evident enthusiasm for the whole thing, I can't imagine the sequel happening without Jack Black coming back too.

A Minecraft Movie may not have been great cinema, but it was a massive box office hit: Chris predicted before the film debuted that it would "make a trillion dollars" and he may have over-estimated a bit in dollar terms but he was spot-on spiritually: The Deadline report says A Minecraft Movie is the top-grossing film of 2025 in the US and the second-highest worldwide, with its total box office now approaching $1 billion. Who knew? (Jack Black knew.)