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Marvel Studios surprised fans with our first official glimpse of the upcoming Thunderbolts* film, by quietly dropping the teaser trailer Monday morning. The footage, set to the tune of Where is My Mind? by The Pixies, features Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, most heavily, and is in keeping with descriptions that came out of both D23 and San Diego Comic Con earlier this year, along with a few surprises.
The search for the DCU’s Hal Jordan has finally come to an end, according to sources from The Hollywood Reporter, with Emmy winner Kyle Chandler set to star in the HBO Lanterns series. Chandler’s name was not among the top contenders being bandied about the last few weeks, which included the likes of Timothy Olyphant and Chris Pine, as well as Josh Brolin, as we previously reported. The Lanterns series, developed by Ozark’s Chris Mundy, Lost’s Damon Lindelof and Eisner Award winner Tom King, has often been likened to HBO’s True Detective in terms of tone and story.
Seems like we’ve been celebrating more box office wins than losses as of late, but Transformers: One was decidedly less than meets the eye, at least with audiences, as the animated prequel debuted to a soft $25 million, a near franchise low. The muted response may come as a bit of a surprise coming of the heels of strong critic reviews and an A Cinemascore, but neither were enough to dethrone reigning box office champ BeetleJuice BeetleJuice, which just held the top spot, making $26 million in its third week.
Last week, Warner Brothers released the first trailer for Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho's highly anticipated sci-fi film starring Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun, Naomie Ackie, and Toni Collette. The film arrives in theaters on January 31, 2025.
AMC has canceled Orphan Black: Echoes, after one season. Set in the near future, the sequel series starring Krysten Ritter shared the same world as the BBC cult hit starring Tatiana Maslany.
Netflix’s One Piece has cast Joe Manganiello as "Mr. 0" and Lera Abova as "Miss All Sunday" for Season 2.
Director-writer Jared Bush is replacing Jennifer Lee as chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Lee will return to a filmmaking role at the company and will focus on writing and directing Frozen 3 and executive producing Frozen 4.
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Squid Game season 2 which begins streaming on December 26th.
Netflix announced The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, an animated film debuting on February 11, 2025, with Doug Cockle reprising his voice role as Geralt of Rivia from the CD Projekt Red video games. An exclusive clip is now available online.
Netflix has dropped the first teaser for Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, an animated series adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game created by Ubisoft. Liev Schreiber will voice Sam Fisher, the protagonist of the series.
Warner Bros has confirmed that Baz Luhrmann’s next feature film at the studio will be Jehanne d’Arc, an epic story about the French teenage military commander Joan of Arc.
Tamara Smart is joining Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Thalia Grace, the demigod daughter of Zeus. She’ll recur in season two, which is in production and slated for a 2025 premiere.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to star in Emerald Fennell‘s feature adaptation of Wuthering Heights. MRC has tapped LuckyChap Entertainment to produce the film that is based on author Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name.
Warner Brothers has released the first trailer and poster for Sinners, the Prohibition era horror film from Ryan Coolger starring Michael B. Jordan that has been under wraps for the past year. The film hits theaters on March 7th, 2025.
Daveed Diggs has been cast as a series regular for the fifth and final season of Amazon’s The Boys.
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Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes.Reports are here to give us hope that a Scarlet Witch solo movie is in the works, though this is not confirmed by Marvel Studios or Kevin Feige. The news from Production Weekly comes on the heels of a Dublin radio interview given by Wanda Maximoff actress Elizabeth Olsen where she indicated her love for the character and her willingness to return to the role if “there’s a way to use her well.”
Television’s royalty was out on Sunday, September 15, when the 76th Emmys took place. Hosted by father/son comedy duo Eugene and Dan Levy, the award show mostly followed expectations with a surprise win from Jean Smart’s show Hacks taking home Best Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Smart herself. Otherwise, Shogun and The Bear cleaned up, with the former setting historic records including Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada becoming the first Japanese actors to EVER win Emmys. The Bear did well for itself as usual, with its 11 awards setting a new record for the most wins for a single season of comedy.
The final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance was released by Sony. The trailer showcases Eddie Brock and his symbiote sidekick facing down Venom’s homeworld, with comics enemy Knull at the forefront as the antagonist. Venom: The Last Dance is the final movie in the trilogy, written by Kelly Marcel who is also taking a turn in the director’s chair for this entry.
Happy Gilmore stars, Christopher McDonald and Julie Bowen, have joined Adam Sandler to reprise their roles for Netflix's Happy Gilmore 2, which is now officially in production.
Paramount has released the first trailer for the Dexter prequel, Dexter: Original Sin, and has set a premiere date of December 13 for the series.
Netflix has released a new trailer for adult animated series Twilight of the Gods from Zack Snyder, which is based on Norse Mythology. The series debuts on the streamer on September 19.
Last week, the first trailer was released for Gary Dauberman's upcoming Stephen King adaptation, Salem's Lot. The film will begin streaming on Max on October 3.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stayed atop the box office this weekend, pulling in about $50 million dollars to bring its worldwide total earnings to $263.4 million dollars in its second weekend. Speak No Evil hit second place in its opening weekend, pulling in $20.8 million dollars globally on a $15 million dollar budget. Lionsgate's The Killer's Game starring Dave Bautista took in a disastrous $2.6 million dollars.
Netflix has announced that Emily in Paris has been renewed for a fifth season.
Deadline has revealed that Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s forthcoming book Ghosts of Hiroshima. Cameron has committed to use that, and the 2015 Pellegrino book Last Train From Hiroshima, as the basis for a film he will shoot in between Avatar productions. It will mark Cameron’s first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Oscar-winning Titanic.
AppleTV+ has canceled Time Bandits, an adaptation of a 1981 feature film by Terry Gilliam, after a single season. The news comes less than four weeks after Time Bandits completed its 10-episode first season on August 21.
The long rumored The Sims film adaptation has finally found a home and director. Amazon MGM Studios has announced that development has begun on a film adaptation of the long-running Electronic Arts gaming series. Kate Herron, known for directing the Disney+ series Loki, will helm the feature from a script that she is co-writing with Briony Redman. Margot Robbie's production company Lucky Chap will produce.
John Cena has signed on to star in Matchbox, a live-action take on the classic Mattel car toyline. Apple will distribute the feature from Skydance and Mattel Films. Sam Hargrave, the director behind the Extraction movies will direct. -
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The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is in talks to helm the fourth Spider-Man movie for Sony and Marvel Studios. While neither Sony or Marvel have provided a comment at this time, this is in line with previous reports and claims that a fourth Spider-Man film with Tom Holland was being fast-tracked to begin shooting next year. Though he only has one MCU feature under his belt, Cretton is already beginning to feel like a bit of an elder statesman within the Marvel Studios stable of filmmakers, having been previously attached to The Kang Dynasty before it became Avengers: Doomsday and creating the Wonderman series that is in production.
Early reviews from Venice Film Festival screenings for Joker: Folie a Deux, the sequel to 2019’s Joker, hit the internet last week, with the response to the musical follow-up decidedly mixed. Critics seem divided on the film's uneven tone, with criticisms citing a plodding narrative and underutilization of Lady Gaga. Positive takes celebrated the performances of Phoenix and Gaga, as well as Philips' direction.
In a July 2024 interview, Kevin Fiege confirmed more Marvel Studios Special Presentations, like Werewolf By Night and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, were on the way, with one actively in production at the time– sounds like old news, but now, Marvel Head of Streaming, Television and Animation Brad Winderbaum, doubled down on the promise while speaking with Comicbook.com. Previously, Feige detailed that the Special Presentation wouldn’t air in 2025, but 2026, though Winderbaum’s answer seems to insinuate it could be sooner.
James Earl Jones, the legendary actor known for his iconic baritone as Darth Vader in Star Wars, died Monday at his Dutchess County, N.Y. home. He was 93.
Warner Brothers has released the trailer for A Minecraft Movie, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa and directed by Jared Hess. The game-based film premieres in theaters on April 4, 2025.
Ahead of the main Emmy Awards scheduled for Sunday, September 15, last weekend saw the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony held at downtown Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, where the FX network enjoyed an incredibly successful evening. With 14 wins, Shogun broke the record for a single season of television, while The Bear took home 7 awards as well. Notable wins include The Dark Knight’s Nestor Carbonell as the best guest actor for his role as the Portuguese merchant Rodrigues, and Jamie Lee Curtis for best guest actress in a comedy series for her appearance in The Bear, her first Emmy win.
Alison Brie has been cast as a key villain role of Evil-Lyn in Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films’ live-action take on Masters of the Universe.
Only Murders in the Building has been renewed for season five. Currently, season four is dropping weekly episodes on Hulu every Tuesday, leading up to the finale on October 29.
Netflix has greenlit the long-rumored Twilight animated series, now in production. Based on Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun, it retells Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective.
In a deleted blog post, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin criticized creative choices in House of the Dragon's second season, hinting at future posts addressing issues. HBO responded, citing the need for "difficult choices" due to the scope of Martin's work.
A Reacher spinoff is in development at Amazon Prime, with showrunner Nick Santora writing. The series is expected to focus on Frances Neagley, played by Maria Sten.
In a PEOPLE interview, Michael Keaton revealed his real name is Michael Douglas, but he had to change it when joining SAG-AFTRA in the 1970s. Now, he plans to use a hybrid name, Michael Keaton Douglas, for future projects.
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Our favorite Middle Earth wizard may be returning to the big screen. Sir Ian McKellan revealed in an interview with The Big Issue that he has been approached about returning as Gandalf in future Lord of the Rings films, with Andy Serkis’ Hunt for Gollum the most immediate movie being made. However, any filming McKellan will do will have to wait until 2025 as the 85-year-old actor is spending the rest of 2024 recovering from a fall he experienced while performing in a stage play.
We finally have a title for the Jurassic project that has been the subject of much discussion on this show and it’s Jurassic World Rebirth - expected to hit theaters July 2, 2025. Universal Pictures announced the title and release date of this next entry to the franchise along with some stills from the film featuring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, who are starring. Jurassic World Rebirth will take place five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, where moviegoers were treated to the original cast from Jurassic Park reuniting. But now…dinosaurs may not be the apex predators, but hold the key to life itself according to plot details.
This comes to us from the rumor mill, but insider Jeff Sneider might have scooped that Josh Brolin will be portraying Hal Jordan in the upcoming Lanterns DCU tv series. The series is said to focus on Green Lantern characters John Stewart, played by Aldis Hodge, and Hal Jordan. The two characters will investigate a murder on Earth with John Stewart playing the newbie to Hal Jordan’s experienced Lantern.
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The untitled Vision series that was formerly known as VisionQuest, got a significant update this week with James Spader announced to be returning as Ultron. Little else is still known about the series, beyond the fact that it is the second of two WandaVision spinoffs on the way and that Star Trek Picard’s Terry Matalas joined the series as showrunner earlier this year.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, the upcoming animated feature film, has been a longstanding and recurring inhabitant of our news docket and conversations, but we were finally treated to our first significant look via the official trailer released by Warner Bros last week. In addition to having the animation showcased, we got our first inklings of the story and characters, with a botched marriage proposal serving as the backdrop for the conflict.
Whether you’re for, against, or undecided when it comes to Robert Downey, Jr’s casting as Doctor Doom for the MCU, there’s no denying that the move has catapulted the cinematic universe back to the pinnacle of the zeitgeist and surrounding conversation. The actor had been quiet save for the four words he uttered at San Diego Comic Con, “New mask, same task;” until last Tuesday’s episode of the Award Chatter podcast from The Hollywood Reporter, where he shared insights into Bob Iger and Kevin Fiege’s direct involvement into the decision, with the latter expressing a desire to, quote, “Get Victor Von Doom right.” Elsewhere, this week’s episode of The Official Marvel Podcast shared a slew of comments from cast members of the MCU’s other upcoming films, including Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Ted Lasso, Apple TV +’s celebrated sports comedy, has made major moves toward finally kicking off a long awaited fourth season we learned via a Deadline exclusive. The shows original three season run, which concluded more than a year ago and garnered 13 Emmy wins, left the door open for the future, but that was left largely in the hands of star Jason Sudeikis, who originated the character on Saturday Night Live shorts. Now, Warner Bros Television, the studio for the series, has picked up options for three original cast members, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, and Jeremy Swift, with more expected to be announced soon.
RUMOR: Scooper Daniel Richtman is claiming that a fourth Spider-Man film will indeed feature a multiversal story and should start filming next year.
A24 has released the first trailer for disaster comedy film Y2K which stars Rachel Zegler. Saturday Night Live standout Kyle Mooney will direct and it hits theaters Dec. 6.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is attached to star in Loose Cannons, an action comedy that is in the process of being set up at Lionsgate. Chad Stahelski, the John Wick filmmaker who has a first-look deal with Lionsgate, is producing.
Anya Taylor-Joy will star in an 8 episode series adaptation of Bella Mackie’s bestselling novel “How to Kill Your Family” for Netflix.
Chick-Fil-A is aggressively entering the entertainment industry, planning to launch original content on its streaming platform. According to Deadline, the fast-food chain is collaborating with major production companies, focusing on family-friendly, unscripted shows, and is also negotiating content licensing and acquisitions.
Ryan Reynolds has shared a deleted scene on social media from Deadpool and Wolverine. The scene confirms that Channing Tatum‘s Gambit not only survived the battle in the Void but also has a way out of the wasteland as an interdimensional portal can be seen opening up in the reflection of Gambit’s eyes. In an interview with Variety, Tatum admitted that he still wants to make a standalone Gambit movie, adding: “I’ve been saying I want it for the last 10 years. It’s in Bob Iger and Kevin Feige’s hands. I pray to God.”
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The Merc with the Mouth and Logan have officially taken the title of highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, with Deadpool & Wolverine barely edging out 2019’s Joker from that honor. As of this recording, the MCU romp has accumulated $1.14 billion. And while that’s a tough ticket to beat, other late summer movies are tracking for big openings as well with Alien: Romulus debuting globally at more than $180 million and Tim Burton’s sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, eyeing a potential $80 million opening - which would make it the biggest September opening of all time.
Lucasfilm announced Tuesday that this year’s new show The Acolyte will not receive a second season. The show was incredibly divisive among fans, though critically was well-received. Showrunner Leslye Headland had pitched ideas for a second season, but those will not come to fruition now.
Sony Pictures released an extended look at their upcoming Spider-Man villain movie, Kraven the Hunter. The movie releases December 13 and has a star-studded cast featuring Russell Crowe and Ariana DeBose with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the Titular role,. The new promo provided a slightly longer look at the Rhino, played by Alessandro Nivola.
It’s the story that dominated the Marvel fandom last week - when Beau DeMayo claimed his credit will be removed from season two because he shared fan art for Gay Pride in June. DeMayo cited this as quote “...the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered through while working on #XMen97 and #Blade.” Marvel quickly released a statement, responding to DeMayo’s claim that it was his behavior, called “egregious” in the statement,which was the cause of his loss of credit as well as his termination. Sources following these statements claimed that an agreement had been reached regarding social media around X-Men’97 and DeMayo breached that contract. Other sources claim DeMayo’s termination was due to sexual misconduct, though no internal reviews have surfaced.
Camila Mendes, who starred in the CW series Riverdale, will play Teela in Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films’ live-action take on Masters of the Universe and will star opposite Nicholas Galitzine, who is playing the role of He-Man.
Marvel Comics announced a Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds one-shot that will bring the character from season two of What If? into comics.
Writer-director David O. Russell has cast Nicolas Cage to star in the lead role for Madden, the Amazon MGM Studios drama about the life of NFL coaching and broadcasting legend John Madden.
"Will & Grace" creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, with executive producer Ryan Murphy, are bringing Hulu a comedy about chosen family. Starring executive producers Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer as well as Nathan Lee Graham, and Linda Lavin, this series follows three gay best friends who, after an unexpected death, decide to embrace their golden years together in sun-soaked Palm Springs where the wealthiest one lives with his mother.
Apple TV+ has renewed Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, for a second season.
Derek Connolly, a franchise writer with a resume that includes the Jurassic World movies, has been tapped to write a live-action adaptation of the Sega video game Eternal Champions for Skydance.
Puck Magazine’s Matt Belloni is reporting that Mattel, who had been shopping a Barbie animated film, has entered talks with Illumination to produce it and Warner Brothers and Greta Gerwig are reportedly “not thrilled” about it.
Amazon’s Prime Video has canceled My Lady Jane, the period drama which combined romance and alternate-world fantasy. The cancellation comes about seven weeks after Prime Video released all eight episodes of the show’s first and now only season.
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Hot off the heels of July’s San Diego Comic Con, Disney continued their full court press last week with the D23 Expo, where a smattering of announcements were made. So, let’s tackle the latest and greatest news from the House of Mouse’s more geek-centric divisions
Regarding Marvel Studios, Disney Plus was front and center, with a fair amount of official, as well as leaked footage, released; delighting fans worldwide:
A fresh trailer for the WandaVision sequel series, Agatha All Along, debuted, accompanied by a live performance of an original song titled "The Ballad of the Witches Road."
The Daredevil: Born Again trailer seemed to generate unanimous positivity, with hype moments such as the return of Jon Bernthal as the Punisher and Wilson Bethel as Bullseye. It also gave D23 audiences their first glimpses of the costumed vigilante White Tiger and a new villain, Muse.
A first look at Ironheart also debuted, confirming the series is still on the way. Beside the return of Riri Williams, other new details include Anthony Ramos as The Hood and an appearance from Shuri.
On the film side, the splash was not as big as SDCC, with much of that material being recycled, but new images and footage for both Captain America: Brave New World and The Fantastic Four: First Steps were showcased, which included a taste of Michael Giacchino’s main musical theme for the quartet.
Over in the galaxy far, far away:
Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni showed off the first footage from The Mandalorian & Grogu, which will be the first new theatrical release for Star Wars since 2019, as well as the first based off of a Disney Plus series.
The official trailer for the Jude Law-led Skeleton Crew debuted, giving fans a tease of the Speilbergian influence. We also learned more about Jude Law’s character, a force user named Jod Na Nawood, via the plot synopsis.
Lucasfilm also showed off some footage of the upcoming season of Andor, which confirmed more Rogue One character returns. Diego Luna also revealed the next season takes place over four years in a series of time jumps.
Bringing it back to Marvel with their animation offerings, the D23 panel provided significant updates on several series:
While Marvel Zombies is still “a while out” we now know it will be four episodes and rated TV-MA.
Eyes of Wakanda will also be four episodes long.
What If…? voice actor Hudson Thames, will reprise his role as Peter Parker for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, with Colman Domingo voicing Norman Osborne and Charlie Cox as Daredevil. The series will premiere November 2, 2024.
Finally, honing in on Disney’s “homegrown” projects, as Bob Iger promised, sequels were all the rage:
Pixar won the day in terms of the amount of project news. A very brief Toy Story 5 teaser trailer indicated the return of Woody and Brad Bird was announced to return to direct Incredibles 3. Zoe Saldana joined the cast of Elio, which is now slated for May 2025. Hoppers was announced as the studios next feature, with Jon Hamm in a villain role. Dream Productions, an Inside Out spin-off series, and Win or Lose, a new series focusing on a little league team, were also announced.
Trailers for Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King and the Snow White live action remake were released, as well as new details for Frozen 3 and Zootopia 2. Frozen 3 will get a pre-Thanksgiving release of November 24, 2027 and they released concept art. Plus Frozen 4 is already in early development and The “live action” version of Stitch from Lilo & Stitch also made his debut.
On Saturday, Deadpool and Wolverine reached the milestone of becoming the second R-Rated movie in history to cross $1 billion dollars at the international box office. It is nipping at the heels of Joker to become the highest grossing R-Rated movie of all time.
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Star Wars television continues to make its way into headlines as Lucasfilm released first look images for Skeleton Crew, which will premiere on December 3. The show is run by Jon Watts and written by Christopher Ford, who both worked on the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, and stars Jude Law who plays a Force-user named Jod Na Nawood. But another Star Wars show, Lando, is not getting the greenlight. Director Justin Simien confirmed the television series starring Donald Glover is dead in the water even though a show bible, scripts, and concept art existed. The series was announced in 2020.
Deadpool & Wolverine continued to make box office history and obliterate more records in its second week, jumping to a better-than-expected $97 million domestically and bringing its worldwide total to $824 million dollars. This is the eighth biggest second weekend of all time and the fifth biggest for an MCU title. Twisters dropped 37 percent its third weekend to $22.7 million for a domestic total of $195.6 million. M. Night Shyamalan‘s Trap opened in third place with an estimated $15.6 million, in line with expectations.
This week the second season of House of the Dragon officially ended and fans have to wait two years until season three. To add fuel to the dragonfire, showrunner Ryan Condal announced that season four will be the last one for HOTD. In an adjacent move, HBO previewed brief, early first footage of A Knight of Seven Kingdoms, which will be another Game of Thrones prequel show featuring the characters Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg.
Paramount+ revealed a trailer for the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff movie Star Trek: Section 31, which stars Michelle Yeoh reprising her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. This film will debut on Paramount+ sometime in early 2025.
This week, Disney laid claim to a number of 2027 dates. The dates include marvel movies for July and November, a pixar movie in June, and a disney animation movie in November.
Netflix announced that Squid Game will debut its long-awaited second season on December 26 and that a third and final season is set to premiere in 2025.
HBO released preview footage of several eagerly anticipated new and returning series — including the second season of The Last of Us, the third season of The White Lotus, and the IT prequel series, IT: Welcome to Derry, among others.
Jenna Ortega is in final talks to join JJ Abrams‘ secret untitled movie at Warner Bros. to star opposite Glen Powell, who is currently finalizing his deal. Very few details are known about the project at this time.
A John Wick sequel series is in development at Lionsgate Television. Robert Levine is attached as writer and showrunner on the project, titled John Wick: Under the High Table. Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski will serve as executive producers.
Apple TV+ set a fall premiere date for Season 2 of Shrinking. The dramedy starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford will be released on Wednesday, October 16th.
Following the acclaim of his most recent film Dream Scenario, director Kristoffer Borgli is reuniting with A24 for The Drama, with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in early negotiations to star.
Christmas is now the release date for the Timothee Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.
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We were all expecting some exciting news and confirmations coming out of Marvel Studios’ San Diego Comic-Con Hall H presentation, but nothing could have prepared us for the biggest and most shocking reveals; so, let’s break down the tastiest Marvel morsels making waves:
Jumping straight into the big Avengers News
The Russos Bros were officially announced as the directors of both upcoming Avengers films.
MCU veteran Stephen McFeely also was revealed to be writing the screenplays for both.
The untitled fifth Avengers film that was once The Kang Dynasty, is now Avengers: Doomsday and is eyeing May 2026 for its release.
The title and release of Avengers: Secret Wars was confirmed for May 2027.
Robert Downey, Jr. will return to the MCU to play Dr. Doom.
Captain America: Brave New World kicked off the proceedings where we learned:
Harrison Ford’s Thunderbolt Ross is, in fact, our Red Hulk
Tiamut is the source of Adamantium in the MCU
Giancarlo Esposito’s mystery character is Sidewinder, a leader of the Serpent Society
After a Thunderbolts* cast appearance, the focus switched to the Fantastic Four film, which was revealed to include the subtitle: First Steps; with the titular cast taking the stage even as filming just began in London.
Regarding would-be Marvel saviors, Deadpool & Wolverine, this year’s sole theatrical outing for Marvel Studios, was an absolute monster at the box office, hauling in more than $211 million domestically in its opening weekend. That was enough to make it the sixth highest opening of all time in the States, as well as the highest opening for an R-rated film ever; And it was no slouch worldwide either, with an impressive $444.3 million 3-day opening globally.
While the Distinguished Competition did not have nearly as visible a presence at Comic-Con this year, the week was still full of noteworthy updates from DC Studios. First, figurehead James Gunn unveiled a new logo for the studio with a simple, clean design that, much like his version of Superman appears to, harkens back to the Golden Age of comics. Additionally, we got our first look at the DCU’s debut project, Creature Commandos, via a trailer that showcased the show’s animation and each team member in action. Lastly, it’s a double dose of Penguin news, as the third trailer for the upcoming Colin Farrell-led HBO original series hit the internet alongside the news that Matt Reeve’s and Bruce Timm’s Batman: Caped Crusader series at Amazon will feature a female Penguin.
We’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the reason Comic-Con exists in the first place… The Comics! Thankfully, our resident aficionado is here to give us a snapshot of the latest and greatest happenings from the panels and pages of our favorite fictional universes. Take it away, Hayley:
SAG-AFTRA is striking against major video game companies after nearly two years of unsuccessful negotiations for its Interactive Media Agreement. The strike began on July 26 at 12:01 a.m.
Last week on July 25, Kevin Feige received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Several actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe were in attendance for the ceremony.
Dune and Mission: Impossible star Rebecca Ferguson has joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming Peaky Blinders movie and will star alongside Cillian Murphy.
The long-rumored Spawn movie may finally emerge from development hell. With a script titled King Spawn now completed, creator Todd McFarlane and Blumhouse's Jason Blum are set to meet with directors.
At San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount unveiled the title sequence for the upcoming animated series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Set in the universe of 2023's Mutant Mayhem, it will bridge that film and its sequel. The series streams on Paramount+ starting August 9.
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It’s the Inevitable Return of the Russo Brothers to Marvel, Shogun Leads the Emmy Nominations, Twisters Spins Up a Big Box Office, and Trailers Galore Across the Multiverse. All of that and more coming up on this edition of Multiverse News!
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Russo Brothers Save the Day?
“Your saviors are here!” Yes it’s true, the Russo Brothers are in talks to return to the MCU and direct both Avengers 5 and Avengers 6. The news is exciting, but not shocking, as the Russos directed many of the most well-received Infinity Saga films including the climactic Avengers: Endgame. We know the sixth Avengers film will be Secret Wars…what kind of heavy lifting to the Brothers Russo have to do to get us there?
Shogun Shows Out
It should come as no surprise to viewers of Shogun that the groundbreaking series depicting feudal Japan set an Emmy’s record with 25 nominations. Likewise, The Bear set a comedy series record with 23 Emmy nominations - though there’s lots of discourse about categorizing the show as a comedy. Only Murders in the Building, True Detective: Night Country, and The Crown, cap off the high number of nominations at 21, 19, and 18, respectively. We’ve had rich entertainment in the television industry with the advent of streaming. Will Shogun run away with the wins?
Trailer Park
It feels like the fall movie and television season is heating up! We’re going to break down each of the following trailers that recently debuted.
JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
DUNE: PROPHECY
FINAL DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE TRAILER
Twisters Chases the Box Office
Moviegoers felt it and chased it this weekend during the opening for Twisters. The standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister swirled in the cash, beating expectations and making $80.5 million domestically and over $123 million globally. This pushes the film to the top opening for a disaster movie ever in the U.S., beating out 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow and boasts the third highest opening weekend for a movie in 2024 behind Inside Out 2 and Dune Part 2. What do we think…do the twos have it?
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Last week, just two weeks ahead of the studio’s return to San Diego Comic Con and the release of their sole theatrical outing for the year, Marvel surprised fans by releasing the teaser trailer for Captain America: Brave New World. Clocking in at just under two minutes, this first look is chock full of characters, set pieces and action, with a tense political atmosphere on display that certainly harkens back to 2014’s much beloved The Winter Soldier.
Marvel Animation has clearly found a voice they have a lot of confidence in, as What If…? series writer Matthew Chauncey has been hired to write the third season of X-Men ’97. He replaces Beau DeMayo who wrote the incredibly well received first season of the animated revival as well as the yet to air second season, before being infamously fired by Disney ahead of the show’s premiere. Chauncey previously stepped up into a leadership position when he replaced What If…?’s A.C. Bradley as the head writer for season 3. Beau DeMayo received a lot of retroactive praise for not shying away from social issues and commentary with his first season of X-Men ’97.
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy’s career seems to continue to be on the upswing, as his Star Wars film locked down a writer, Levy’s frequent collaborator, Jonathan Tropper. Tropper wrote 2022’s The Adam Project and is well established in the TV world, having created both Warrior and Banshee, as well as working as the showrunner for Apple TV’s See. There are a lot of Star Wars films in the works these days, many of which were announced prior to Levy’s and have yet to receive such significant updates.
Despicable Me 4 held the top spot at the box office last weekend, becoming the first animated franchise to cross the $5 billion threshold. Newcomer Longlegs took second place with an impressive $22.6 million debut, setting a record for indie distributor Neon.
Warner Brothers and Paramount have unveiled the first trailer for Watchmen Chapter 1, the first of two upcoming animated films set to release digitally on August 13th. The voice cast features Matthew Rhys as Nite Owl, Katee Sackhoff as the second Silk Spectre, Titus Welliver as Rorshach, and Michael Cerveris as Doctor Manhattan, among other notable actors.
Michael Bay is in talks to direct Barbaric, a fantasy series for Netflix based on the Vault Comics title. It will star Sam Claflin and Patrick Stewart with X-Men First Class screenwriter Sheldon Turner writing and executive producing the series.
Prime Video has ordered The Greatest, a limited series about Muhammad Ali from executive producers Michael B. Jordan and Ben Watkins with Jaalen Best starring as Ali. It is the first authorized scripted series with access to Ali's estate.
Apple TV+ released a teaser for Severance Season 2, which premieres on January 17 and will include 10 episodes that release on Fridays weekly.
A prequel series to Martin, the show that ran on Fox from 1992 to 1997 and starred Martin Lawrence is in development and will be titled Young Martin. Lawrence's production company RunTelDat will produce.
Filming on Euphoria's third season is slated to begin in January 2025 — just about three years after the premiere of season two. HBO says all of the principal cast is set to return, including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and Hunter Schafer.
Shelley Duvall who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman and is best known for her role in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died last Thursday. She was 75.
Shannen Doherty, who starred on Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 53.
On Monday, Netflix released a behind the scenes video of production of the final season of Stranger Things featuring looks at the set, returning cast, and new characters. The series is currently expected to debut sometime in 2025.
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Marvel Studios gave fans a real trick and treat by dropping the first Agatha All Along trailer on Monday. The peek at September’s MCU show highlights Kathryn Hahn’s return to the character Agatha Harkness, first introduced in WandaVision. We see Harkness awakening from Wanda Maximoff’s spell and setting out to regain her power.
While one of Matt Reeves’ Elseworlds projects is moving forward, one is taking a step back. Reeves announced a Gotham police show in 2020, then it changed to focus on Arkham Asylum and has been through several directors and showrunners since. But as of now the show is no longer moving forward
It was Marvel’s Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation Brad Winderbaum’s turn in the hot seat on last week’s episode of the Marvel Official Podcast. Winderbaum gave each of the upcoming television shows Marvel is working on some quick sound bites.
He said “What If Season Three feels like the culmination of a trilogy.”
Winderbaum alluded that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will have a teenage ensemble.
He also said that Eyes of Wakanda ties into the MCU “more than any other animated show.”
He said of Agatha All Along that it’s really scary and it gets quite dramatic, but qualified the statement with “It’s a Marvel brand of scary.”
Of Daredevil: Born Again, he discussed how the dynamic between Matt Murdock and Kingpin won’t just be about murdering each other, but the politics they find themselves in.
Winderbaum Is “most excited” for people to see what they’re doing with Marvel Zombies.
Revenge is a dish best served hot and sweaty in the first trailer for Gladiator II. Boasting a star-studded cast that includes Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nelson, Paul Mescal, and Joseph Quin, the film appears to truly be a sequel to the Russell Crowe movie and pave its own path for a new story.
On July 4th, Anthony Mackie took to social media to share a new photo from his forthcoming film, Captain America: Brave New World. The photo revealed a look at the Captain America suit Mackie will be wearing in the film.
Despicable Me 4 ruled the Fourth of July box office with an estimated five-day domestic opening of $122.6 million dollars including a three-day weekend haul of $75 million after earning a stellar A CinemaScore. Globally, the film grossed $230 million dollars. Inside Out 2 held at number 2 and has now crossed $1.2 billion dollars globally. A Quiet Place: Day One held at No. 3 in its second weekend with a three-day gross of $21 million for an impressive 10-day domestic tally of $94.4 million. A24’s horror slasher MaXXXine opened Friday and placed No. 4 with an estimated $6.7 million.
The teaser for a new Formula 1 racing movie titled “F1,” starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, and Bridgerton star Simone Ashley has dropped. The Apple Original Film is directed by “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
A sequel to 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada is in development with screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna in negotiations to return.
After months of back-and-forth, Shari Redstone has finally agreed to sell control of Paramount Global to a consortium led by Skydance Media for a deal valued at $8 billion dollars.
Apple TV released a trailer for Taika Waititi’s re-imagined version of Time Bandits. The original film came out in 1981.
Joel McHale says the Community movie should begin filming in 2025.
The final season of Umbrella Academy begins on August 8. A trailer was released today.
Director Sam Raimi is set to direct and produce a new horror thriller called Send Help. Damian Shannon and Mark Swift will write the script.
New Girl star Lamorne Morris has been cast in Spider-Noir, the Nicolas Cage-led series that will premiere on Amazon Prime. Morris will play journalist Robbie Robertson. Brendan Gleeson has also reportedly joined the cast as the show’s villain.
The Conjuring franchise has set their fourth and final movie to release on September 5, 2025. in IMAX.
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Marvel Studios Town Hall (H)
Our favorite shared universe multimedia franchise, that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, blessed us with an outpouring of updates this week, so let’s tackle them in a segment we dub Town Hall:
Hall H
Speaking of Halls, Deadline sources say that Marvel Studios plans to return to San Diego Comic Con’s marquee panel, Hall H, for the first time since 2022’s Phase 5 and 6 slate reveals. With no lack of projects, series and films in the works, how big of a splash are we expecting from the studio come late July?
Fantastic FourWhile speaking on the recently launched Marvel Official Podcast, Kevin Feige confirmed that the upcoming Fantastic Four film is a period piece set in New York in the 1960s. He also tipped his hat to fan observations noting the apparent alternate history setting seen in the promotional art, as quote, “smart”. And not to bury the lede, the studio president also confirmed the film’s shooting start date for July 29, the day after Comic Con concludes. How do these deets jive with everything else we know about this hotly anticipated flick?
AgathaEmpire Magazine unveiled an exclusive first image from Agatha All Along, of course featuring Kathryn Hahn, but also giving us our first look at Patti LuPone as Lila, Ali Ahn as Alice, Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer and WandaVision’s Debra Jo Rupp, as Sharon. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer provided the additional detail that the characters share the common bond of being witches without covens, who strain to work together, in spite of their selfish tendencies. Are we bewitched by these magical morsels?
A Leaky Legacy for Supes?
We aren’t ones to celebrate or propagate unofficial leaks here on Multiverse News, but the magnitude and scale of the recent set leaks from James Gunn’s Superman, beg a discussion. We won’t go into details or describe the images in question, so you’re free from spoilers; but it is worth noting that the clarity of the images, characters, costumes, and settings within, feel a bit more authorized or allowed than one might expect, with James Gunn even gesturing and posing for the camera. In typical fashion, the images have elicited a range of reactions from fans, both muted and hyperbolic. How about us? Does a production so leaky, have us quite as squeaky as some fans?
Headmasters of HogwartsAfter the recent announcement that it would be an HBO series, rather than Max, the Harry Potter series has found its creative voice and force, with a pair of Succession alumni, Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod, joining the project. Gardiner will serve as writer and showrunner and Mylod will direct and executive produce the entire first season, which as we understand, will adapt JK Rowlling’s first novel, The Sorcerer’s Stone, for television. Gardiner’s previous credits include AMC’s Killing Eve, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle as well as His Dark Materials for HBO and the BBC, while Mylod recently directed The Menu as well as episodes of The Last of Us. Do any of these developments have us keen to catch the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 and ¾ when the series lands in 2026?
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In a Q&A with The Hollywood Reporter, Fargo and Mad Men star Jon Hamm proclaimed himself a “comic book nerd” and mentioned he is still in talks with both heads of Marvel and DC for roles as well as confirmed that he passed on The Green Lantern saying it was one he “definitely didn’t want to do.” Hamm even indicated he has a role selected at Marvel, if the studio does the storyline…and they say they will.
The second trailer for The Penguin, the Colin Farrell-led spinoff series of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, was released. It highlights more characters who will appear and indicates the Falcones, Gotham’s first family of crime, will be at the center of the story. The show also features Salvatore Maroni, played by Clancy Brown, and is led by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunner Lauren LeFranc.
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has jetted past Dune Part 2 to take the crown for top box office take of the year so far. Arthouse film The Bikeriders was highly marketed, but opened at third place with $10 million, and Russell Crowe’s horror flick The Exorcism didn’t even scrape the bottom of the barrel at a $2.43 million opening.
At this point Blade isn’t in purgatory…it is officially in development hell. Between the writer’s and actor’s strikes, actors, writers, and directors being let go and leaving the project, it seems almost impossible that Mahershala Ali’s Blade will ever see the light of day. But Hollywood Reporter claims both Ali and Marvel boss Kevin Feige seem like they don’t want to drive a stake through the movie, regardless of the lengthy development timeline, obvious loss of money, revolving door of talent, complete changes to the story, and more.
M3GAN, the hit horror movie from James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, is getting a spinoff titled SOULM8TE, a thriller that expands the M3GAN universe and is set for release on January 2, 2026.
Donald Sutherland, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH, Klute, Animal House, Ordinary People, Pride & Prejudice, and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died last Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.
HBO has officially greenlit the first show under DC Studios titled Lanterns. The series has been given an eight episode straight-to-series order by HBO with Chris Mundy serving as showrunner and executive producer.
Jonathan Majors is set to star in the revenge thriller Merciless, which is based on an original screenplay by Frank Hannah. Martin Villeneuve, the younger brother of filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, will direct. The film will mark Majors’ first role since his third degree assault and harassment conviction earlier this year.
Paramount has released the first trailer for Smile 2, the follow up to Parker Finn's 2022 horror hit. The
film debuts in theaters on October 18.
DC Comics pulled all unpublished cover artwork by artist Francesco Mattina after Adi Granov and Scott Williams accused him of using AI in recently released cover artwork. Williams is the inking partner of publisher and CCO, Jim Lee at DC.
A Spaceballs sequel is in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Josh Gad is set to star, and will produce alongside Mel Brooks.
Patrick Dempsey has joined the cast of Dexter: Original Sin as a series regular. He is set to portray Aaron Spencer, the Captain of Miami Metro Homicide who has a decades-long relationship with Christian Slater’s Harry Morgan.
Sources tell Deadline that Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan are in negotiations to star in Season 2 of the Netflix and A24 anthology series Beef. The roles Isaac and Mulligan would be playing were rumored to be for Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, but that ultimately did not come to fruition.
Apple Films has acquired the rights to The Wives, an original film produced by A24 and starring Jennifer Lawrence. The Wives is described as a murder mystery inspired by The Real Housewives franchise.
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Bon Voyage, Yann Demange
Marvel’s Mahershala Ali-led Blade has suffered yet another setback as Director Yann Demange has exited the project, marking him the second director to exit Blade. The split is reportedly amicable and occurred some time ago, with Marvel veteran Eric Pearson currently working on the screenplay. Despite this loss, Mahershala Ali remains attached, and the film is still scheduled for release on November 7, 2025.
Pix-ar It Didn’t Happen
Inside Out 2’s $155 million debut this Father’s Day weekend handedly surpassed projections and injected some much-needed adrenaline into the summer box office. The animated sequel’s impressive opening haul was enough to supplant Dune: Part 2 as 2024’s highest opening, as well as earning a spot as the second highest domestic opening for an animated film, behind 2018’s Incredibles 2, another sequel to a beloved Pixar original.
Don’t Rock The Steamboat
According to a Variety exclusive, Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Buck Productions has signed a multi-year, first look deal with The Walt Disney Company to develop theatrical and streaming films. While specific details are not currently available, it is known that the collaboration is not limited to film content and would also give Seven Bucks the opportunity to work across all of Disney’s divisions.
Don’t July to Us, Deadpool!
Box office tracking reports are projecting a $200 to $239 million opening for Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine later this July. The reports, made public via Deadline, were provided by the box office monitoring service, The Quorum, who went as far as to say those estimates are on the more conservative end. The first Deadpool still holds the record for the highest opening for an R-rated film at $132.4 million in February of 2016.
Lightning Round:
Catherine Laga‘aia, a 17-year-old actor from Sydney, Australia, has been cast as Moana in the live-action remake of the 2016 animated hit. She joins Dwayne Johnson, who reprises his role as demigod Maui.
Parker Finn, director of 2022’s Smile, is teaming with Robert Pattinson to remake the 1981 psychological supernatural horror cult classic, Possession. Studios are currently bidding for the project.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in a deal that puts a major Hollywood studio back in the business of owning a movie theater for the first time in more than 75 years.
Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer has been cast in a lead role in Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099. She will star alongside Michelle Yeoh.
HBO has officially renewed Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon for a third season.
Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios are developing an animated series based on Blue Beetle, which would act as a follow up to the 2023 feature film.
Franchise scribe Derek Connolly has been hired to write Paramount’s G.I. Joe/Transformers crossover that Chris Hemsworth recently became attached to.
Miles Teller is set to star in Paramount's An Officer and a Gentleman, a modern update to the 1982 film that starred Richard Gere.
Warner Brothers has confirmed that Adult Swim animated series My Adventures With Superman, currently in its second season, has been renewed for season 3.
Warner Brothers has ordered the animated series Get Jiro! for Adult Swim based on the best-selling DC/Vertigo graphic novels co-written by the late Anthony Bourdain.
Terry Matalas, has been tapped to write an update of the 1985 cult sci-fi movie Enemy Mine for 20th Century Studios.
A live-action TV series based on the cult classic French cartoon Totally Spies! is in development at Amazon with Will Ferrell as executive producer.
Emily Blunt is in talks to star in Steven Spielberg’s next film.
Jordan Peele’s next filmhas been pushed from its original Dec 25, 2024 release date to October 23, 2026.
Amazon MGM Studios has given a pilot order to The Nightbeast, a horror comedy starring Tatiana Maslany.
Sony Pictures has confirmed a sequel to 2022’s Uncharted is in development
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Kevin Wright, vice president of production and development at Marvel Studios, has left the media giant to pursue producing his own original tv and film ideas. Notably, Wright was an executive producer for the MCU streaming series Loki, which was actually his pitch to Kevin Feige and series star Tom Hiddleston. Wright originally started at Marvel as a development assistant.
Happy Hunger Games! At least certainly for fans of the franchise as author Suzanne Collins announced a new installment in her Hunger Games saga called Sunrise on the Reaping, which will release March 18, 2025. The book is another prequel like The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Alongside this announcement, Lionsgate shared that a film adaptation of the new book is already greenlit and currently set to premiere on November 20, 2026.
At a panel for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Annecy Animation Festival, 20 minutes of the film was shown to the audience. The footage was applauded by the crowd and by Andy Serkis, who was running the panel. Serkis also revealed at the event that Miranda Otto, who played Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy will serve as the story’s narrator and that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh were executive producers on the film, which hits theaters in December.
Maybe franchise fever still exists! One would think so after seeing that Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s latest team up, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, crushed its opening weekend projections, opening at $104.6 million globally. The film punished Furiosa’s opening with a 58% higher box office.
Abbott Elementary actor Tyler James Williams asked Anthony Mackie about the challenges he faced transitioning Sam Wilson from films to television. Paraphrasing, Mackie said “Bringing Falcon to that series, there was so much time to fill. It’s literally so much story and so much exposition and so much character that it’s a daunting task. Luckily it was just a great experience with great leadership.”
Legendary has tapped Grant Sputore to direct the next theatrical outing in the Monsterverse franchise following March’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Sputore most recently helmed the 2019 sci-fi movie I Am Mother.
Kristen Stewart will make her TV series-starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space.
Paul Giamatti has joined the cast of Paramount’s Star Trek Starfleet Academy as a recurring guest star role and as the season’s central villain.
Set in the same era as The Acolyte, the next adult novel of Phase III of The High Republic from Star Wars releases on June 11.
Stars of 1998’s cult classic Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, are in talks to star in a sequel.
Entertainment Weekly claims to confirm that Taylor Swift will not be appearing as Dazzler in July’s Deadpool & Wolverine.
Peacemaker Season 2 cast Picard actress Sol Rodiguez and The Office actor David Denman.
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke announced that the show will end after its fifth season.
The Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led Wonder Man series is rumored to be 10 episodes long.
The Frasier revival on Paramount+ has added two Frasier alumni to the cast. Dan Butler, who played Bulldog, and Edward Hibbert, who played Gil Chesterton on the original show, will return to guest star in season two of the revival series.
Zack Snyder’s director’s cuts of both Rebel Moon films will be released on Netflix on August 2nd. The rated R cuts also received new titles which are Chapter One: Chalice of Blood and Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness.
Saturday Night Live actor Beck Bennett becomes the newest addition to the cast of James Gunn’s Superman. Rumor has it Bennett will play a reporter of note in the movie. Last week Mikaela Hoover and Christopher McDonald were also added to the cast and will also play reporters in The Daily Planet newsroom.
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Deadline broke the news that Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy is being courted as Marvel Studios’ first choice to direct the franchise’s next Avengers movie. Though so much isn’t known about the future of the Avengers due to Marvel’s internal shake-up reordering their release schedule of shows and movies as well as the Jonathan Majors legal issues and consequential firing, Deadline did say Levy was given a script from writer Michael Waldron. It is also rumored that more than 60 Marvel characters could appear.
Captain America: Brave New World began reshoots in Atlanta last week, with new cast member Giancarlo Esposito joining the call sheet for the 22 days of additional photography. Unofficial, leaked set photos confirmed the actor’s involvement after he heavily hinted at an unexpected role within the MCU. While we still have no word on which character Esposito portrays, all signs point to the role being, quote, ‘villainous’ in nature.
This week treated us to a batch of brand-spanking new, high-profile trailers, Let’s break down our thoughts:
Venom 3
Moana 2
Alien: Romulus
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth works have seen their fair share of adaptations, but one character that has long been absent from the proceedings to the chagrin of many readers is The Fellowship of the Ring’s Tom Bombadil. That all changes as Amazon’s Rings of Power Season 2 is set to feature the character, with English actor Rory Kinnear portraying the enigmatic forest dweller. This was revealed in a Vanity Fair exclusive. Tolkien himself was often hazy on the character, who has been described as older than old, and more of an observer than active participant in the many conflicts of Middle Earth.
We couldn’t have expected to carve out a collectable popcorn bucket niche when we started this show, but here we are: Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds unveiled a cheeky ad teasing a somewhat risqué popcorn bucket for Marvel’s upcoming superhero team-up. The bucket, shaped like a Wolverine head with a comically wide-open mouth, aligns with Kevin Feige's promise of a “crude and rude” design.
Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming Jurassic movie.
Chris Hemsworth is in talks to lead a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover sequel to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, with no release date yet.
Jeremy Renner joins the cast of Rian Johnson's Knives Out 3, his first role since his early 2023 snowplow accident, alongside Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Josh O’Connor, and Cailee Spaeny. (Kaylee Spain-ee)
In addition to producing the It prequel series for Max currently titled Welcome to Derry, Bill Skarsgard will also return to reprise his role as Pennywise the Clown from It and It Chapter 2.
In a Variety Actors on Actors interview with Jodie Foster, Robert Downey, Jr. said the following when asked if he would return to Tony Stark: “It’s the character that is most like me and I’ve become surprisingly open minded to the idea.”
Warner Bros. Television is in the early stages of developing a 300 TV series prequel, with Zack Snyder in talks to direct and produce.
Elle Fanning is in talks to star in Badlands, a new Predator universe movie directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who revamped the franchise with Prey.
New Star Wars show The Acolyte is premiering right now, and Marvel Comics announced the wookiee Jedi character, Kelnacca, will be getting a one-shot comic book written by Cavan Scott.
Netflix is currently developing an animated series based on the popular video game Minecraft alongside Mojang Studios, the Swedish developer of the game.
MCU and Lost star Evangeline Lilly announced on her Instagram that she is retiring from acting.
Peaky Blinders fans can get excited as a film starring Cillian Murphy is in the pipeline. Plot details and more casting isn’t known, but Murphy will also co-produce the film, which will land on Netflix.
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We finally received an update on the second of the two WandaVision spinoffs in development, with the news that Marvel has enlisted Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas as showrunner for the untitled Vision series. Details remain sparse, but we know that Paul Bettany will reprise his role as the albino synthezoid and Marvel Studios is eyeing a 2026 Disney+ release.
The 2024 summer movie season continues to struggle as newcomers Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie, essentially tied for the number one spot for the holiday weekend, each debuting at a muted $31 million; the worst Memorial Day weekend at the box office in almost 30 years. Furiosa particularly came in lower than estimates as a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road and receiving the same B+ Cinemascore.
Advance tickets for Deadpool & Wolverine became available last Monday, resulting in an estimated 200,000 tickets sold for roughly $9 million and enough to break the record for first-day, R-rated ticket sales. Subsequently, at still two months out, it leads 2024 in all presales with all signs pointing to it being the year’s first $100 million plus opening weekend.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Wingard, director of the last two MonsterVerse films, will not return for the third installment due to timing issues. The split is amicable, with a future return possible.
Netflix revealed a first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. Hemsworth replaces Henry Cavill for the final two seasons, with season 4’s release date currently to be determined.
Glen Powell revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he recently turned down major roles, including the upcoming Jurassic World film and a reboot of The Bourne Identity.
Damon Lindelof, one of the co-creators of Lost and The Watchmen is officially behind the creative team for the upcoming Green Lantern series for DC Studios. Chris Mundy, the showrunner behind Netflix’s crime series
Ozark, as well as long-time DC comic author Tom King round out the creative team.
Netflix released the first trailer for Beverly Hills: Axel F, featuring Eddie Murphy returning as Axel Foley. The new film, following the original 1984 release and its sequels, will stream starting July 3.
Dexter: Original Sin, a prequel to Showtime’s Dexter announced casting of Patrick Gibson playing young Dexter, Molly Brown; his sister Debra, and Christian Slater portraying their adoptive father. The premiere date is yet to be announced.
Warner Brothers dropped a new trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice that features a more extended look at the cast. The film debuts in theaters on September 6.
Rian Johnson announces his next Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, releasing on Netflix next year with Daniel Craig reprising his role and lots of other big Hollywood names being added to the cast daily, including Fleabag’s Andrew Scott.
Rupert Friend, star of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, will join Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey in Gareth Edwards' new Jurassic film for Universal.
Jeffery Wright joins The Last of Us season 2 as Isaac, reprising his role from the video game.
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Milly Alcock will show us her superhero landing when Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow premieres on June 26, 2026. Other than Sasha Calle’s portrayal in The Flash, this means we’ll see Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El on the big screen for the first time since 1984. The film will be released just a year after we see James Gunn’s vision for the man of steel himself.
In a move that seems telling of the new direction of MCU, the Marvel Television banner has been reintroduced and will be used for live action series such as Daredevil: Born Again, Agatha All Along, and Ironheart. The banner was previously used for MCU-adjacent shows Agents of SHIELD, Cloak & Dagger, and others. Brad Winderbaum, head of TV, streaming, and animation for Marvel Studios, said the idea is to let audiences know they can “jump in anywhere” in the MCU and still understand what’s going on. Winderbaum also alluded to a Marvel Studios rebrand that encompasses Marvel Television, Marvel Animation, and Marvel Spotlight.
HBO’s streaming service Max released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Dune television spinoff show, Dune: Prophecy. The show is described as taking place 10,000 years before the events that lead to Paul Atreides’ rise to emperor and will follow two Harkonnen sisters as they work to establish the Bene Gesserit. Inspired by the book Sisterhood of Dune, the show has mostly been kept under wraps until now.
Movie goers probably should have bought a ticket for themselves and their imaginary friends last weekend as John Krasinski’s new film IF didn’t quite reach expectations with a $35 million opening in the U.S. Although this means it took first place at the box office, the movie cost $110 million to make and a global box office of $55 million is still a stumble. There may be hope yet for the kid-centered flick with a lot of schools across the country ready to enter summer break.
Hot off the heels of an incredibly well received first season of X-Men ’97, Marvel Studios seems to have found the voice of their live-action X-Men in screenwriter Michael Lesslie. Lesslie’s writing credits include Assassin’s Creed, The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, as well as the upcoming Now You See Me 3. While both parties are still in talks, if the addition pans out, it will be the most significant step to actualizing the X-Men in the MCU since Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019.
Poker Face and Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne has joined the cast of Fantastic Four in an undisclosed role.
Lionsgate is developing a John Wick spinoff movie around Donnie Yen’s assassin character, Caine. Yen will reprise his John Wick: Chapter 4 role in the untitled project set to shoot in Hong Kong in 2025. The franchise expanding film, with no director yet announced, will follow the events of John Wick 4 as Caine has been freed from his obligations to the High Table.
1996 golf comedy Happy Gilmore is officially getting a sequel at Netflix with Adam Sandler returning to reprise his role.
Amazon’s Marvel drama Silk: Spider Society — from Sony Pictures Television — is no longer moving forward at the streamer but Sony does plan to shop the series to another studio or streaming service.
Sony Pictures announced last week that I Know What You Did Last Summer, a reboot of the film with the same name as the original 1997 horror slasher, is set for theatrical release domestically on July 18, 2025. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson will direct and Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. are currently in early talks to return.
Last week, Disney announced that Hulu is teaming with the estate of author James Clavell to extend the FX series Shōgun for two additional seasons. A writer's room is currently being assembled. Shōgun is currently the most viewed show in FX's history.
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