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Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.James Gunn and Peter Safran are out at DC Studios after four years, with former Marvel executive Jeremy Latcham taking over as president and chief creative officer effective December 1. Latcham spent more than a decade at Marvel Studios under Kevin Feige, rising to senior vice president of production and development and producing The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man: Homecoming, and he will now oversee DC’s film, television and animation slate. The timing caught the industry off guard, since Gunn and Safran had been named to David Ellison’s leadership team only months ago when Paramount closed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The Hollywood Reporter says the pair presented their long term plan to Ellison in recent weeks and learned of the decision on Friday, November 6, when Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz came to their office on the Warner Bros. lot, two days before it was announced. Both say they are returning to full time filmmaking.The Hollywood Reporter reported Friday that Robert Pattinson has screen tested for James Bond, with the test taking place in London over the weekend of October 24 while he was shooting The Batman Part II. The same report named Nicholas Hoult as a contender, and Deadline and Variety have since reported that Hoult tested as well, putting the two of them alongside Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O’Connor. Hoult was a finalist for Batman before Matt Reeves cast Pattinson, and he currently plays Lex Luthor in the DCU. Amazon MGM has declined to comment, and Deadline reports a decision could land by the end of November. Godzilla Minus Zero opened at number one with $62 million worldwide, setting a record for the largest opening ever for a live action foreign language film in North America and topping the $17.8 million Hero managed back in 2002. Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel is also the first Japanese production ever filmed for IMAX, and IMAX screens accounted for $21.3 million of the global total, roughly a third of its entire take.Warner Bros.’ animated The Cat in the Hat landed in second with a $30.5 million worldwide debut against a reported $92 million budget, though audiences did give it an A CinemaScore. Overall ticket sales nearly doubled from the previous weekend, a sharp rebound after a quiet Halloween frame.Disney is developing a Frozen animated series for National Geographic and Walt Disney Animation Studios, with Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff all returning to voice their roles from the films.

Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.\The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping actor Ben Wang has entered talks to play Iceman in Marvel Studios‘ new X-Men movie, sources tell Deadline. Wang has appeared in several other Disney projects as well as the recent Stephen King adaptation of The Long Walk. Actor Shawn Ashmore played Bobby Drake, “Iceman,” in the 2000s Fox X-Men movies. James Gunn hosted a one-off podcast episode titled “The Suicide Squad: Is It Canon?,” in which he addressed DCEU and DCU canon questions. Notably he discussed Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, a character she played in 2021's The Suicide Squad. Gunn said specifically, “I don’t know where Margot’s head is with all of this. Harley is a character I’m almost certainly going to use in the DCU, and if Margot wants to play her, then I’ll bend over backwards to explain that in the world. But if she doesn’t, then I might go with somebody else, where I don’t have to be attached to what happens to Harley in this movie.” As they say in Star Wars, “This is getting out of control…now there are two of them!” It seems fitting after the announcement where AMC Theaters revealed two collectible popcorn buckets for Dune Part Three. One features two sandworms and another features a sandworm and a thumper. Sir Patrick Stewart, the star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Picard, the X-Men film franchise and many other movies, TV shows and stage plays, died October 28 at his home in Los Angeles following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was 86. Netflix is developing a live-action series based on the battle royale video game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (“PUBG“) with Donald Glover attached to direct, write, and star in the project. Neve Campbell confirmed in an interview with the Associated Press that she will return to the Scream franchise for the upcoming eighth film. DC Studios has tapped the writer and director of the upcoming Evil Dead Wrath Francis Galluppi to write a John Constantine movie for the studio, sources tell Deadline. The last time the character appeared in a film was in Francis Lawrence’s 2005 film Constantine that starred Keanu Reeves. HBO Max dropped a surprise prequel episode of It: Welcome To Derry on Halloween this weekend titled 'A Story of Derry.' The 30-minute episode takes place hundreds of years before the events of the show. Stranger Things star Maya Hawke has boarded director Matt Johnson’s Magic: The Gathering, the live action feature from Legendary Entertainment and based on Hasbro’s iconic trading card game. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Scarlett Johansson was asked about her upcoming projects, The Exorcist: Martyrs and The Batman Part II, and which role pushed her furthest out of her comfort zone. “Probably the role in The Batman,” she responded. “It gave me a lot of existential angst for some reason. It was very hard to figure out. I don’t know why, whether it was just the role or was just where I’m in my life, or what’s going on, but it was just hard to crack it. And that’s all I can say about it. It was a tough role in a lot of ways." 

Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Disney dropped a new Avengers: Doomsday promo during Game 1 of the World Series, showing the Fantastic Four throwing out a first pitch in their universe before Doctor Doom turns up in the skies over the stadium. On the casting side, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sandra Hüller has joined the film in a role being kept secret and described as a cameo. The Anatomy of a Fall Oscar nominee appeared in this year’s Project Hail Mary, and the rumor mill has floated her as Doom’s mother, a witch, or one of the hooded Latverian Witches. Industry trades have DC Studios’ Clayface opening to $43 million worldwide against a reported $44 million budget, short of the $45 to $55 million the studio had projected, with the running total now at $47.4 million. Audiences handed it an A- CinemaScore, a rare mark for a horror release and the same grade as Superman, alongside a 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have been more split, with 77% positive on Rotten Tomatoes but a 59 on Metacritic, which classifies that as mixed or average. Considering the modest budget, and a reception that has critics and audiences in different places. Amazon MGM held final screen tests for the next James Bond this past weekend, with sources telling The Hollywood Reporter that between three and five actors tested. Callum Turner, who recently starred in the rom-com One Night Only, and Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden are said to be in the mix, and Deadline reports Josh O’Connor among those testing as well. Jack O’Connell from Sinners was initially rumored but apparently is not involved, and despite some reports, Jacob Elordi is not testing either.Prime Video has renewed Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation Carrie for a second season. Flanagan had originally said he envisioned the adaptation as a three season arc.Aaron Guzikowski, who wrote Denis Villeneuve’s English language debut Prisoners, has been tapped to write a new Alien feature for 20th Century Studios and Ridley Scott.HBO’s Harry Potter series has cast Harry’s parents, with Jasper Talbot as James Potter and Hannah Chinn as Lily. Harry Gilby also joins the cast as Charlie Weasley.The final trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 3 has arrived, showing off new footage and the scale of the film. It reaches theaters on December 18.Deadline reports that writers Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem have been brought on to write Marvel’s spy series Zodiac, which will follow a pair of spies chasing targets with special abilities. Leshem created the original Israeli Euphoria, and the pair created the Hulu drama No Man’s Land for the U.S. market.We lost actor Walter Koenig on Oct 25 as did voice actor Eric Bauza who voiced many modern day Looney Tunes, who was just 45.Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie is in talks to star opposite Ryan Gosling in Marvel’s Ghost Rider, in a villain role.Paramount has announced that the upcoming third installment in Parker Finn’s horror franchise Smile has tapped David Bruckner to helm the next film which is penned by Nick Antosca.

Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Due to Matt Reeves departure from the set of The Batman II for personal reasons, Steven Soderbergh is being brought in to help complete principal photography, working with Reeves from a distance for the final months of production as the film heads toward its February 18, 2028 release date. Soderbergh, the director behind Ocean’s 11, Magic Mike, and Traffic, approached Reeves with the offer to help. In a post on social media, Reeves made it clear that he is still involved with the project and not stepping away from his Batman sequel.In an interview with IGN, DC Studios heads Peter Safran and James Gunn broke the news that the upcoming animated Mister Miracle series, based on Tom King’s award-winning comic of the same name, will star Josh Hutcherson and Mackenzie Davis. Hutcherson will play Mister Miracle, aka Scott Free, while Mackenzie Davis will star as his fellow New God, Big Barda. In other news, The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc is currently in talks to develop a Poison Ivy series. In the world of literary fiction, two beloved franchises got major updates last week. Pierce Brown’s popular Red Rising series will be developed by Paramount Pictures. Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is set to helm this dystopian sci-fi creation for the screen. Romantasy favorite Fourth Wing, being developed by Amazon, cast its two main characters - with Esther McGregor set to play Violet Sorrengail, and Emilio Sakraya landing the role of wingleader Xaden Riorson. Zendaya has joined the cast of a new untitled sci-fi film to be written and directed byAlex Garland for A24. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the feature is set to shoot in 2027. The fifth season of True Detective has cast its leads. Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas will star in the HBO anthology’s next season, which is set to begin filming in 2027. Both stars have been rumored to be attached to the show for some time: Cage was first reported to be in talks for a lead role in the summer of 2025, and speculation about Banderas joining True Detective first surfaced late last year. This weekend at the box office, Paramount's live action Street Fighter opened to a less than forecasted 51.1 million dollars worldwide. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything opened to $15M on a limited screen release, easily the second best opening ever for a documentary at the box office after 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Prime Video has released the first trailer for season 3 of The Rings of Power which will premiere on November 11th.Disney+ and Hulu have greenlit a reboot of Ryan Murphy’s 2009 musical dramedy series Glee. Variety also reports that original series star Lea Michelle will return to reprise her role from the original series which ran for six seasons and originally concluded in 2015. 

Check Out Our Merch Store!https://multiverse-news-shop.fourthwall.com/en-usdWelcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Marvel Television and Marvel Animation laid out the next three years of Disney+ programming at New York Comic Con, with Brad Winderbaum running the panel. Daredevil: Born Again brought most of the Defenders onstage for season three footage, and VisionQuest closed things out with a surprise screening of its first episode ahead of its two episode premiere last night. Here’s all of the announcements from the panel:Zodiac is the newly announced live action spy thriller, revealed with its official title and logo. It hits Disney+ in 2028 and begins filming in London this spring. The Hollywood Reporter notes the logo appears to hint at a SHIELD connection, and that it is one of the five shows the trade previously reported were in development.Marvel Zombies returns as a trio of two-part specials, one per year. The Winter Soldier arrives during the Halloween season of 2027, The Fist of Khonshu follows in 2028, and The Last Guardian caps it in 2029.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season two has a date, January 13, 2027, and the first poster confirms Venom is along for the ride.X-Men ’97 brought season three footage, showing where this universe stands after Apocalypse’s defeat.Deadline has published a rundown of where Skydance stands after the Warner Bros merger, sorting the slate into the pictures that are ready, the ones in the works, and the ones on fire. On the DC Studios side, that puts a number of films in early production, including Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Deathstroke and Bane film now titled Savage Hunters, a live action Teen Titans, Swamp Thing, and Wonder Woman. It is the clearest look yet at how much DC is trying to move at once under new ownership.Paramount Pictures is developing a live action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, based on CD Projekt Red’s action adventure RPG. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to produce.Universal has released the first trailer for Exorcist: Martyrs, Mike Flanagan’s reboot of the franchise. Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jacobi Jupe star, and it reaches theaters March 12, 2027.The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has arrived, and The Hollywood Reporter reports the response has been split, ranging from the best the franchise has looked in years to complaints that it lost its soul to CGI. Netflix releases the film in theaters and IMAX on February 12, 2027.At the box office, The Social Reckoning opened well below projections at just under $9 million worldwide, while horror film Other Mommy held the number one spot with a $45 million worldwide opening.Netflix is developing a feature adaptation of Hatchet, Gary Paulsen’s 1987 young adult survival novel. Derek Cianfrance, the filmmaker behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, will write and direct.