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Avengers: Kang Dynasty Adds Loki Writer, Anya Taylor-Joy Silver Surfer Rumors - Multiverse News 11-29-23 Nov 29, 2023

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Anya Taylor-Joy of The Queen’s Gambit and Last Night in Soho fame, is potentially going to fill a major role for Matt Shakman’s upcoming Fantastic Four movie. Marvel is reportedly looking to do a gender-swap with Taylor-Joy for the Silver Surfer. In comics, the character is usually connected with the planet-eating maniac Galactus, and serves as his herald to the planets he’s about to decimate. Many news outlets are calling the character a villain, do we think any of this is true?

We won’t see Christopher Nolan heading up any James Bond movies in the near future. When the director was reportedly attached to a project in July, many fans were thrilled by the news for the famed filmmaker to take on Britain’s greatest agent with a license to kill. While promoting Oppenheimer, Nolan confirmed that the rumors had no legs, “unfortunately” in his words. Who would be a good choice to pick up the 007 world after Daniel Craig’s epic run?

During his recent appearance on the Smartless podcast, director Taika Waititi mentioned that he was not originally interested in doing any Marvel movie, but ended up doing so for the money and to “feed his kids.” When he was approached by Marvel Studios, Waititi said he felt they were combing “the bottom of the barrel,” but that he was “poor” and needed the money. Waititi made Thor: Ragnarok - arguably a favorite in the MCU - and Thor: Love and Thunder, which was widely panned by audiences and critics alike. How do we feel about his comments about the thunder god’s franchise?

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes took the number one spot at the box office over Thanksgiving weekend, earning $42 million dollars over the five-day run. Napoleon and Disney's 100th film Wish took a close second and third, with Napoleon earning $32.5 million dollars domestically and $78.8 million dollars worldwide and Wish taking home $31.7 million dollars domestically and $49 million dollars worldwide. Overall ticket sales for the Thanksgiving holiday came in at an estimated $173.9 million, which is the best post-pandemic for the holiday, besting 2022’s $134 million, but still far off from pre-pandemic Thanksgiving moviegoing with 2019 having racked up $263.4 million. Seems like audiences were hungry for the box office this Thanksgiving, right?

Star Wars has it’s Feige, TONS of MCU News, Superman: Legacy fills out its cast, the Madame Web trailer has debuted Nov 22, 2023

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Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes.

When it comes to the sheer number of announcements, updates and rumors we received this week, despite some stiff competition, Marvel Studios dominated the entertainment news cycle. So, let’s rundown and breakdown some of the biggest breaking stories impacting the future of our favorite interconnected film multiverse:

Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton will no longer be directing Avengers: Kang Dynasty. The filmmaker is reportedly stepping away to continue work on other Marvel Studios projects including a Shang-Chi sequel and the Wonder Man Disney Plus series, which was confirmed to fall under Marvel’s new Spotlight banner.

While speaking with Business Insider, director Taika Waititi discussed the possibility of another Thor sequel, suggesting that he wouldn’t be involved due to commitments to other future projects.

Fantastic Four has been no stranger to casting rumors of varying credibility, but according to Deadline’s sources, Pedro Pascal has emerged as the frontrunner to play Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards. While the deal is not yet inked, discussions are reportedly going well.

Also, suspected villain Galactus received more attention this week, as insider rumors named Javier Bardem as the choice to voice the planet-eater.

Sony dropped the trailer for Madame Web, giving us our first glimpse at the latest Spider-man spinoff not featuring Spidey. The trailer showcased leads Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, teasing a slasher-esque narrative as they are stalked by a mysterious villain, Ezekiel Sims. Of course, all those details are overshadowed by the absolute heyday the internet is having with a certain line of dialogue about Studying Spiders.

With the SAG-AFTRA strike nearly in our rearview mirrors, James Gunn has wasted no time building out the foundation of his DCU with a few notable additions joining the roster of Superman: Legacy. Nicholas Hoult is stepping into the Oxford shoes of Superman’s greatest enemy, Lex Luthor. While his secretary and mistress Eve Teschmacher will be played by model and actress Sara Sampaio. Supe’s best pal - Jimmy Olsen will be played by The Righteous Gestone’s Skyler Gisondo. And finally Maria Gabriela de Faria joined the cast as the antagonist, The Engineer, with a liquid nanite body from which she creates solid objects. She is also a member of the team, The Authority. So presumably she would carry over into that announced film as well.

During an interview with Vanity Fair, Ahsoka and Clone Wars showrunner Dave Filoni dished up some details about the future of Star Wars, including his own promotion as the chief creative officer of Lucasfilm. He suggested that the new role would see not only his increased involvement on every part of the franchise, but also include him far earlier in the development process than previously. Filoni will reportedly continue to helm his film which will follow from the events of the Ahsoka, Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett, as well as a second season of Ahsoka.We asked, which Marvel delay are you most bummed about?

The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling is being pushed back March 1 to May 3, the date originally held by Deadpool 3

Actress and playwright, Ana Nogueira, has been tapped to write Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow for the DCU. James Gunn broke the news while confirming that he is also currently looking for a director for the film.

Marvel Studios has dropped the first trailer for the second season of the animated series What If…? The trailer was accompanied by the season’s release schedule; set to debut December 22 on Disney+ and dropping a new episode daily for 9 days through December 30th.

Bob Iger revealed that Disney is working on a fourth “Frozen” movie in addition to the previously announced “Frozen 3,’ which hasn’t been released yet.

The actors strike is over, Marvel release dates post-strike, Kevin Feige will not make Star Wars After all Nov 15, 2023

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It’s devastating news for MCU fans everywhere - The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Deadpool 3 will be the ONLY MCU film released in 2024. The shift starts with Deadpool 3’s release date - now July 26 instead of May 3 - and trickles down to the other MCU films. Captain America: New World Order’s new release date is February 25, 2025, Thunderbolts is moved to July 25, 2025, and Blade is now pushed to November 7, 2025. Blade and Thunderbolts did not have scripts going into this year’s Writer’s Strike.

Rather than make his mark in the Galaxy Far, Far, Away, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is going to turn his space laser focus back to projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A simple “no” answered the question as to whether he would be producing a Star Wars film. The news that Feige would helm a Star Wars film broke in 2019, with Loki writer Michael Waldron being signed on in 2021.

A vote last Friday brought a tentative agreement between the majority of SAG-AFTRA’s National Board and the studio CEO’s of the AMPTP, ending the 118-day actors strike. The guild stated that the total package is valued at more than $1 billion in new wages and benefit plan funding. The 80-page summary of the agreement is not yet public, but was made available to guild members on November 13. Ratification voting for the 160,000 plus members of SAG-AFTRA runs from November 14 through the first week of December.

Sony released the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which is set for theatrical release on March 29, 2024. Gil Kenan directs the follow-up to Jason Reitman‘s 2021 movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which helped give the series new life.

Disney released a trailer for upcoming Pixar film Inside Out 2. The trailer for the sequel introduces a new emotion: Anxiety. Inside Out 2 is set to release in theaters on June 14, 2024, almost nine years after the first film.

The first trailer for The Garfield Movie has been released. Chicken Little and Emperor’s New Groove director Mark Dindal is the director and the film has a script written by David Reynolds, known for Finding Nemo. The film, which stars Chris Pratt, Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult, and Samuel L. Jackson in voiceover roles will hit theaters on February 16, 2024.

The trailer dropped for Mean Girls. The musical movie is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, which is based on the 2004 movie, which is based on the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabees.

Reacher Season 2 has an official premiere date at Amazon Prime Video, with the streamer also dropping the first trailer for the new season of the popular series.

Netflix released The first full trailer for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire. The film begins streaming on December 22.

The long-awaited live-action series version of Avatar: The Last Airbender from Netflix revealed its first teaser trailer. The first, eight-episode season will premiere sometime in 2024.

Netflix has dropped its first trailer for Damsel, an epic fantasy film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, and Angela Bassett. The film is set to hit Netflix sometime in 2024.

We also got a first look at upcoming anime spinoff The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The film is expected to arrive on Netflix sometime in late 2024.

Echo's Trailer & Rating, Variety's MCU Tell-All - Multiverse News 11-8-23 Nov 08, 2023

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Last week, Variety published an article that laid out a behind the scenes look at growing issues and long term concerns at Marvel Studios and Disney regarding the present and future of the MCU. If you follow this show, you are likely up on many of these points but here are a few that caught our eye.

This week’s new MCU entry The Marvels had several behind the scenes issues. The budget for the film was $250 million dollars and is tracking for a low opening weekend as we’ve discussed previously. Lengthy reshoots were needed to bring the film together and director Nia DaCosta also relocated and started working on another project during post-production, which is uncommon in Hollywood, especially with a film of this budget size. However, DaCosta recently responded to the article, stating that this was due to delays in The Marvels release date and was not a controversial move with the studio.

Many of the recent VFX issues are attributed to poor script writing and planning. VFX artists report that they are asked to pivot sometimes suddenly to correct or add VFX late in production due to script rewrites. For example, the first episode of She-Hulk, which was originally a later episode in the season, was flipped to the first episode and ended up costing $25 million dollars for that single episode due to the rewrite.

Blade continues to have serious script issues. The script has been rewritten multiple times and lead actor Mahershala Ali nearly left the project on multiple occasions. One rewrite of the script was described as "female-centric, Blade relegated to the fourth lead, and full of life lessons." Marvel is still looking to make the film, but "on a budget of less than $100 million dollars."

Marvel Studios has had talks about bringing back the original six Avengers actors for a new Avengers film to revive excitement in the franchise, despite the deaths of Iron Man and Black Widow. And now there are rumors that Robert Downey, Jr. has agreed to another film.

Marvel is still undecided about how to handle the future of Jonathan Majors in the MCU. Discussions have ranged from recasting him to pivoting away from Kang the Conqueror entirely to another villain such as Doctor Victor Von Doom. With Majors' case now going to trial and with the writer's strike preventing script rewrites for so long, the studio has yet to commit to a path forward. The Creative Artists Agency (CAA) dropped Majors pre-arrest due to "brutal conduct," which seems to indicate that Marvel Studios might want to move on from him, regardless of the legal situation.

There is still optimism around the future of Marvel Studios, but certain changes in the formula are clearly needed.

In more Marvel news, the franchise giant is venturing into more mature territory with Echo, which unveiled a moody and violent trailer last Friday. The new series will be the MCU’s first TV-MA rating and the first to debut simultaneously on Disney+ and sister streaming service Hulu. Both Charlie Cox and Vincent D’ONofrio will appear in the show starring as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Wilson Fiske/Kingpin, respectively. Star Alaqua Cox will reprise her Hawkeye role as Maya Lopez/Echo. Also of note, Echo will premiere under a new banner called Marvel Spotlight; complete with a new intro scored by Oscar winning composer Michael Giacchino and a new logo. This new sub-category of Marvel will focus on standalone properties versus series and movies that connect to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Spotlight gets its name from an anthology comic book series first introduced by Marvel in 1971, which featured new characters that readers didn’t have to fully commit to over several issues. Echo is setting the stage for a lot of potential trends with Marvel Studios…

Daredevil gets a showrunner and directors, Miss Minutes attacks Loki Instagram, Henry Cavill to star in a Highlander reboot, and FNAF has a scary good box office Nov 01, 2023

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In a decisive move, Marvel Studios has already put together a new creative team for Daredevil: Born Again. Dario Scardapane of Netflix’s The Punisher and Amazon’s Jack Ryan is officially the showrunner while Moon Knight and Loki season two co-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead are stepping up to take charge of the remaining episodes of Daredevil. The show will be an amalgamation of previously shot scenes and episodes as well as new content written by Scardapane. Previous directors Chris Ord and Matt Corman will stay on as executive producers. While in the past we were told the show would have 19 episodes, that now seems unclear according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In a guerrilla marketing move, the official Loki Instagram account became a blank slate following this week’s fourth episode of the second season. The menacing Miss Minutes has taken over the account in the meantime with only one post: a short video of her telling us how it is on an inactive TemPad…and that means access is denied! There’s also a mid-season trailer out and spoilers ABOUND.

The internet might truly melt down with the announcement that Henry Cavill is set to play the legendary sword-wielding Scot in the Lionsgate Highlander reboot. John Wick director Chad Stahelski will be the man behind the camera for the film and Mike Finch has penned the current screenplay draft. Though just off his final season of The Witcher, Cavill has been working at a breakneck pace with Argylle and two Guy Ritchie projects currently in post-production.

Universal and Blumhouse's Five Nights at Freddy's opened to a record-smashing $78 million dollars domestically and $131 million dollars worldwide, despite debuting simultaneously on sister streaming service Peacock. This is the biggest horror opening of 2023 to date, besting Scream VI.

The upcoming three Doctor Who specials, which will feature the return of David Tennant as the Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Temple-Noblewill roll out over three weeks beginning Nov. 25 — two days after the actual 60th anniversary of Doctor Who‘s first ever episode. The specials will stream on Disney+ worldwide with the exception of the U.K. and Ireland, where they’ll air on the BBC. Disney+ has also released a new trailer for the specials.

A New York judge has ruled that actor Jonathan Majors must face trial on domestic abuse charges begining on November 29th. It was also revealed that the defense has filed a new motion under seal that seeks to keep details related to an undisclosed “evidentiary matter” shielded from public view.

Apple TV+ is upping its price from the previous monthly fee of $6.99 to a now standard rate of $9.99.

Director David Yates has given an update on the Fantastic Beasts Harry Potter spin off franchise, which halted after three of its five planned films were released. Quote: “With Beasts for a minute, it’s all just parked,” Yates told the Inside Total Film podcast. “We got to the end of the third film and we’re all so proud of that movie, and when it went out into the world, we just needed to sort of stop and pause, and take it easy.”

Last week, Disney announced it is delaying the release of its live-action Snow White movie starring Rachel Zegler by a year to March of 2025 and released a first image of Snow White and the seven dwarves. Pixar’s Elio has also been pushed back by more than a year to June of 2025. Disney and Searchlight have also removed Magazine Dreams starring Jonathan Majors from the December 2023 calendar most likely due to Major’s legal situation.

Netflix has announced a new adult animation limited series Carol & The End of the World which stars Martha Kelly as a woman facing the apocalypse. The series was created by Rick and Morty and Community writer Dan Guterman.

Deadpool 3 likely delays, Kingsmen Director teases possible DC Project, Tay tay slays Oct 25, 2023

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Everyone’s favorite merc with the mouth’s third movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman is potentially being moved from its assigned release date. While Disney normally tries to stick to its release schedule, Deadpool 3 is only half-finished and there isn’t confidence even if the actor’s strike ends soon that production could be brought back together in time to make the deadline. Fans of the MCU may get a reprieve instead of a drought, however, as it is rumored Captain America: Brave New World could take Deadpool’s May 2024 Spot.

In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, director Matthew Vaughn who has helmed franchises such as Kick Ass and The Kingsman, mentioned that he has had some discussions about potentially being involved in a DC project in the future, saying quote "Never say never, at the moment I'm enjoying creating my own things. The franchise is in the best hands, so let's see what happens."

Love her or hate her, the power is undeniable; Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert film took the number one spot at the box office again this weekend, adding $32 million dollars to its total domestically. Killers of the Flower Moon opened at second place with $23 million dollars domestically and $44 million dollars worldwide. As has been the trend this year, the two films could not be further apart from each other thematically.

Last week during the season 7 premiere of Rick and Morty, voice actors Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden were revealed as the new voices of the characters of Rick and Morty respectively. The search for voice actors to replace Justin Roiland spanned six months and included thousands of candidates. Currently, both actors cannot do interviews due to the ongoing actor's strike.

Amazon has ordered a second season of Gen V, the college-set spinoff of The Boys. The renewal comes a couple weeks ahead of the show’s first season finale, which is set to debut on November 3.

SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP came back to the negotiating table today, a good sign for progress on resolving the actor's strike after the sides broke off talks after the last meeting. Over the weekend, the strike officially hit the 100-day mark.

Netflix has unveiled new first-look images from the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender. The gallery of new images includes looks at the upcoming show's main characters.

The highly anticipated Spider-Man 2 game for the PlayStation 5 has become the fastest selling PlayStation game over a single-day period. On its first day of release last weekend, the game sold 2.5 million copies in its first 24 hours.

Netflix revealed a first look at Squid Game: The Challenge, its upcoming reality competition series based on the first season of the blockbuster Korean dystopian drama series Squid Game, which has been billed as the “biggest competition ever.” In The Challenge, 456 players from around the world play a series of games inspired by Squid Game for a prize of $4.56 million dollars.

Prime Video has announced that April 12th, 2024 will be the release date for its upcoming post-apocalyptic drama series “Fallout,” adapted from the popular video game franchise of the same name. The series will take place in Los Angeles and will be canonical to the video games.

Paramount and Skydance have pushed back Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 2 to May 23, 2025, from its previous date of June 28, 2024. The film is also going to get a new name.

Killers of the Flower Moon (Review) Oct 22, 2023

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Hayley and J. Scotty have seen Scorsese's historical, 3-and-a-half hour, epic and are here to share their non-spoiler and spoiler filled thoughts and opinions.

Marvel Starting over with Daredevil and exciting news from New York Comic Con Oct 18, 2023

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Although almost half of the episodes of Daredevil: Born Again had been shot when production was halted due to the writer's strike, Marvel Studios has decided to start over! They quietly let go head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman and also released the attached directors as part of a significant creative reboot of the series according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio is now on the hunt for new writers and directors with a different take. Daredevil is a property that many feel the Netflix show nailed on tone, plot, and writing, and there has been some pushback about the supposed Disneyfication of the darker characters in their appearances thus far on Disney+.

New York Comic Con was hosted last week and brought forth a swath of new trailers spanning several different genres, A fresh sneak peek of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live which will premiere in February, A full trailer for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, premiering on November 17, A new look at Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, releasing 2 episodes globally Nov. 17, And The first trailer for the upcoming anime series Dragon Ball: Daima. which is set to premiere in the fall of 2024.

With the actors still on strike, comic cons have become more attuned to their name this year and there was a bunch of exciting comic book news released at New York Comic Con. We’ll briefly break these down by franchise.

Marvel Comics

A Miss Minutes comic was teased from Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Celbuski.

Artist Peach Momoko is the creative force behind a new Ultimate X-Men series and Marvel is also launching the first Ultimate Black Panther series.

The mainstream Marvel Universe is heading toward a vampire-themed crossover event written by Avengers author Jed McKay.

Scarlet Witch and Quiksilver will be getting a new comic run in 2024 celebrating the duo’s 60th anniversary and will be an evolution of the current ongoing Scarlet Witch series by Steve Orlando and Lorenzo Tammetta..

DC Comics

Return of the Elseworlds announced as an imprint, with no less than six new series.

DC will reprint Batman #428 - the issue that killed Jason Todd’s Robin - the new reprint will be an alternate version.

We’ll be Getting a John Constantine/Hellblazer series from Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell.

Star Wars/Lucasfilm Publishing

Jody House and Timothy Zahn are headlining an adaptation of Zahn’s Thrawn: Alliances novel into comic format starting in January..

Marc Bernardin will helm a new Mace Windu miniseries to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, also to begin in January.

Lucasfilm also showed covers for some Dark Horse Star Wars comics and announced a new line of graphic novels tackling Qui-Gon Jinn, written by George Mann, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, written by Cecil Castelucci.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse begins streaming on Netflix on October 31.

Last week, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declared that negotiations with SAG-AFTRA are suspended, given that the gap between the parties is “too great.”

Netflix has picked up the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy following the show's cancellation by Paramount+ in June. Season 1 which was previously available on Paramount+, will be released on Netflix later in 2023. The second season, currently in production, will debut on Netflix in 2024.

In a new copyright filing by Marvel Studios, it's been revealed Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing "Mystery Man" in the upcoming Ironheart series. Previously reported rumors have pointed toward the Borat star playing the villain Mephisto.

Keith Giffen, a legendary comic creator known for his work on Justice League International and Legion of Super-Heroes, as well as co-creating characters like Rocket Raccoon, Lobo, and Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle, has passed away at the age of 70.

Fantastic Four to Start Shooting, Taylor Swift's EPIC Presales, Scrapped Jabba the Hutt Movie Oct 11, 2023

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Swifties have lived up to their reputation for fierce loyalty, as AMC reported that global advance ticket sales for pop music icon’s upcoming concert film surpassed $100 million Thursday. “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is set to hit the big screen on Oct. 13 in more than 100 countries across the world, with box office projections predicting a very lucky Friday the Thirteenth for the singer.

MCU Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman delivered some updates on the upcoming film in a new interview with Collider, where he shared that they’re aiming to start filming in Spring 2024 as long as SAG-AFTRA can nail down a fair deal with studios soon. He also teased an impending casting announcement at the conclusion of the strike. Shakman previously directed all 9 episodes of WandaVision for Marvel Studios.

Guillermo del Toro confirmed during a Q&A presented by Collider that he was at one time working on a Star Wars movie that would center on the rise of Jabba the Hutt. Del Toro was working on the project with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who first teased the news last month on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. Del Toro says he has no hard feelings about Lucasfilm not moving forward with the project

CD Projekt Red is teaming with Anonymous Content to develop a live-action work set within the universe of Cyberpunk 2077. The project, which will feature an all new story set in the world of the game franchise, is still in the early development stages and currently looking for a screenwriter.

Universal Pictures is gearing up to tell a definitive cinematic biopic about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The studio has optioned the rights to adapt Jonathan Eig’s critically acclaimed biography King: A Life, Chris Rock is in final talks to direct and produce, and Steven Spielberg will be executive producer.

Exorcist: Believer took the number one spot at the box office this weekend with a $27.2 million dollar domestic and $45.1 million worldwide opening.

Studios met with representatives from SAG-AFTRA three days last week in an attempt to work through a deal to end the actor's strike, which has been ongoing for three months. Although the sides met again on Monday and will again on Wednesday, no deal seems imminent although both sides are expressing cautious optimism that the talks are moving the conversation forward.

Netflix has canceled the History channel spin off series Vikings: Valhalla after 3 seasons. The third and final season will air early next year and will conclude the series.

Christoph Waltz has joined the cast of Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation. The film will also star Andrew Garfield, Mia Goth, and Oscar Isaac.

The “Tiana” animated series in the works at Disney+ has enlisted Joyce Sherri as the show’s lead writer and director.The series has previously been described as a followup to the 2009 animated film “The Princess and the Frog,” which introduced the character of Tiana.

Tony Shalhoub is set to return to the role of everyone’s favorite neurotic gumshoe, Monk, for the first time in 12 years in Peacock's "Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie," streaming Dec. 8.

Netflix is splitting The Crown’s sixth and final season into two parts. The first four episodes will premiere on Nov. 16, with the final 6 episodes following four weeks later on Dec. 14.

The season two premiere of Loki racked up 10.9 million views worldwide over its first three days making it the second most watched premiere of a Disney+ series in 2023, behind only the season three opener for The Mandalorian in March.

According to a new U.S. copyright listing from Marvel Studios for Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, Aubrey Plaza will officially play Rio Vidal in the Disney+ series as she makes her MCU debut.

James Gunn Won’t Shut Up, First reactions for Loki Season 2, Writer’s Guild terms that ended the strike, and Apple releases flat top Henry Cavill on the world Oct 04, 2023

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First impressions for season 2 of Loki are hitting the internet with critics hailing it as some of the best MCU content in recent years, capitalizing off the success of season one and taking the characters and story to new heights. Critics have only been able to review the first four episodes of the series, but there is a great deal of optimism that this series delivers. Reviewers can also confirm that all six episodes are over 40 minutes in length.

The details of the WGA contract have been released and we’re not going to be able to break it all down here, but here are some of the highlights. We’re going to take these a section at a time.

- Regarding the number of writers on a television or streaming project; at least three writer-producers must be hired on all series. The number of writers will rise on a sliding scale. A six episode series must have at least three writers. A series with 7-12 episodes must include five writers, and a series with 13 or more episodes calls for six writers. These minimum staffing requirements must be enforced unless a series is billed as a single writer series from the beginning. The contract also includes a minimum time of duration of employment for writer-producers - development rooms must exist for a minimum of 20 weeks.

- On the key issue of residuals, a new formula was agreed upon. Content made for streaming that is viewed by 20% or more of subscribers in the first 90 days of release will trigger bonuses for the writers for both series and films. Foreign residuals were also increased. Residuals for previously made shows that become streaming hits were also addressed and agreed to.

- Policies were established to govern the use of artificial intelligence, including that AI cannot be used to write or rewrite literary material and all use of it by writers or anyone else must be disclosed. Writers also reserve the right to assert that exploitation of writer’s materials to train AI is prohibited.

- The contract preserves the policy of ensuring that the vast majority of screenwriters will get a “second step” meaning they can be paid to do at least one rewrite of a draft screenplay.

- Writers working in groups will receive pension and health contributions up to the relevant cap as though they were a single writer, rather than splitting the applicable cap.

James Gunn took to Threads last week to respond to fan questions about continuity in the new DCU and confirmed that three actors will continue to portray characters that they have played in the past including Xolo Mariduena as Blue Beetle, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and John Cena as Peacemaker. He continued to say Quote “yes, some actors will be playing characters they’ve played in other stories & some plot points might be consistent with plot points from the dozens of films, shows & animated projects that have come from DC in the past. But nothing is canon until Creature Commandos and Superman Legacy.”

Apple has released the first trailer for Argylle, a spy drama from director Matthew Vaughn. The all-star cast includes Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, Ariana DeBose, and Samuel L. Jackson. With a premise that promises to keep you guessing, the film will hit theaters on Feb 2nd, 2024 and will debut on AppleTV+ at a later date.

The trailer for Walt Disney Animation’s upcoming movie, WISH, became the studio’s biggest trailer since the release of promotional spots for Frozen 2 in 2019. The spot earned 66.5 million views across online platforms, according to the company. It surpassed the teaser trailer, which was released in April, by almost 20 million views and has quickly become the most viewed Disney trailer on TikTok to date. WISH will debut in theaters on November 22 and is turning into a spotlight for Disney’s centennial celebration of the company.

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