Rihanna voices Smurfette in the Smurfs 2025 film, and the singer identifies with many of the blonde-haired blue cartoon ...

We unpack how a 1950s Belgian comic strip has turned into the most flexible and elastic of Hollywood franchises in the 21st century.

But Smurfsunderperformed in its box office debut, falling short of even the low bar for success established by the franchise’s last installment, Smurfs: The Lost Village. The movie opened to poor ...