Hollywood Weekly: Toy Story 5 Holds, Supergirl Stumbles, and Bond Auditions Heat Up
Toy Story 5 stays huge while Supergirl opens soft, Netflix reunites two Stranger Things favorites, and Hollywood wraps a key labor deal. Plus: Bond auditions, Academy invites, Keanu Reeves’ Lego talks, Madonna’s biopic fallout, and the week’s streaming-chart movers.
Toy Story 5 has the week’s cleanest Hollywood storyline: it is still enormous, even while Supergirl is trying to turn a wobbly launch into a salvageable summer run. Away from theaters, Netflix reunited a Stranger Things pair, the directors’ guild closed Hollywood’s spring labor cycle, and the next James Bond search finally moved from fantasy casting to actual audition rounds.
Toy Story 5 keeps flying while Supergirl opens soft
Pixar’s Toy Story 5 is pacing for a second weekend around $70 million-plus, putting it near the $300 million domestic mark after only 10 days. The louder industry chatter, though, is Supergirl: Warner Bros. and DC Studios are looking at roughly $40 million domestic and about $75 million worldwide to start, with a B- CinemaScore and weak recommend scores making this a nervier launch than a summer superhero movie wants. Read more ↗
Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour are back in Netflix business
Netflix ordered a father-daughter espionage thriller that will reunite Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour, with Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne writing and A24 among the producers. The project, loosely inspired by Paul Warner’s A Spy in the Blood, follows Harbour’s disgraced former FBI agent after Brown’s character disappears on a mission. Read more ↗
DGA ratification closes the big guild contract loop
The Directors Guild of America overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year contract with studios and streamers, making it the last of Hollywood’s Big Three guilds to wrap this bargaining cycle before its current deal expired. The agreement includes health plan contributions, wage and residual gains, AI protections, and job protections for professional TV directors. Read more ↗
The Academy adds Jacob Elordi, Teyana Taylor and 527 others
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 529 new members this week, including Jacob Elordi, Teyana Taylor, Bill Skarsgård, Jenna Ortega, Josh O’Connor and new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro. The class includes 95 Oscar nominees, 21 winners, and a notably international makeup: 53 percent of invitees are based outside the U.S. Read more ↗
James Bond auditions are finally heating up
The next 007 search is inching out of rumor season: producers and director Denis Villeneuve have begun alerting actors who made the next audition round, with tests expected in August. Deadline says the exact group is still unconfirmed, but the timetable points toward Amazon MGM aiming to have its Bond by year’s end before production begins sometime in 2027. Read more ↗
Keanu Reeves may build the next Lego movie
Keanu Reeves is in negotiations to star in a new live-action/animation hybrid Lego movie, with Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley attached. Universal has been trying to crack the property since landing the rights in 2020, and Reeves’ commitment would give the studio a major star anchor before those rights risk drifting back to market. Read more ↗
Madonna says her Universal biopic broke over budget
Madonna gave her clearest explanation yet for why her Universal biopic collapsed: she says the studio balked at the budget she felt was necessary to cover her life properly. She also said a later Netflix limited-series route stalled after months of searching for the right showrunner and dealing with rights complications around the script she had developed at Universal. Read more ↗
Aquamarine is getting a Disney+ pilot, with Emma Roberts returning
Disney+ ordered a pilot based on the 2006 teen fantasy rom-com Aquamarine, with Emma Roberts executive producing and set to reprise her role as Claire Brown as a guest star. The new version follows a teen named Coral who discovers her mother was a mermaid and begins uncovering magical secrets in a seaside town. Read more ↗
Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley reunite for a Hulu thriller
Two Vampire Diaries favorites are circling back to the same screen: Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley will star in You Deserve to Know, a Hulu development project based on Aggie Blum Thompson’s 2025 novel. The show follows three suburban couples after one husband is murdered, with Dobrev and Wesley playing neighbors pulled onto opposite sides of the investigation. Read more ↗
Streaming charts: The Boroughs rises, Spider-Noir starts strong
On THR’s charts page, Nielsen’s May 25-31 streaming snapshot put Netflix’s The Boroughs at No. 1 overall with 1.74 billion minutes after rising from second place the previous week. Prime Video’s Spider-Noir opened at No. 2 among original series with 851 million minutes, while Euphoria hit a high mark ahead of its series finale. Read more ↗
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