Marvel VP Takes Off, Hunger Games Will Continue, The Rohirrim Ride to War, and Bad Boys Jumpstarts the Summer Box Office

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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.