Day: January 4, 2026
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Matt and Ross Duffer: Cut us some slack!
Josh Horowitz interviewed Matt and Ross Duffer on his YouTube channel.. they discuss the show, the future of it, the spinoffs.. and the need to cut them some slack..
This is the first long form public interview with the show’s filmmakers — but they refuse to give any answers on Eleven ..
You can see the full interview:
Matt Duffer expressed a bit of a frustration in the post release days..
“I am not in a good place. Like, why the hell did we do any of them yesterday is beyond me. I’m like fried. I was getting over the flu. So anyone mad at any answers we gave you yesterday, just cut me some slack.”
Many fans have expressed this meme in frustration to the Stranger Things finale and Duffer explanations..
Some have commented that it’s their interviews which make plot holes even deeper..
The reaction on some X threads has not been kind..
The Duffers did joke that they don’t tell Noah Schapp as they can’t trust him with show secrets.. but spinoffs are coming..
Ross: I don’t know why you tease this.
Matt: I don’t want to be like there’s nothing else when there is something else. It’s not what people are going to think it is. The big thing is the live-action spin-off.
Matt said it is not a spinoff sequel to Stranger Things, but instead a spinoff with its own mythology.
DEVELOPING in the coming months.. and years..
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Sydney Sweeney sleeper at box
The big winner of the box office numbers was 2025’s AVATAR and it is spreading its cash grab into 2026..
James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which flew past the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Saturday, continues to dominate theaters..
DEADLINE’s reporting has more numbers.. Avatar 3‘s global earnings through New Year’s Day (Thursday) were a mighty $935 million, including $266 million domestically and $699 overseas. On Friday, it earned another $14 million in North America from 3,832 theaters to finish the day with a domestic total of $280 million.
Lionsgate and Paul Feig’s well-reviewed sleeper hit The Housemaid could fall just six percent to $14 million for a domestic tally nearing $75 million.. This is a success that Sweeney needed as she has been skewered in media since she did a jeans ad..
Sweeney’s sleeper hit HOUSEMAID continues to get stronger and higher reviews from audiences that official reviewers.. Perhaps that ‘one scene’ has convinced many people to go see the film more than once..
