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Tonight NATO makes first contact.
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The Batman is not guilty.
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Bob Iger gets his seat, and remember Louis Gossett Jr, chance Perdomo and Joe Flaherty.
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All that and more on this edition Of Multiverse Tonight.
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Comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and more.
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If you're looking for a roundup of geeky news Sci-fi, fantasy and more If you're looking for a roundup of geeky news, you're in the right place.
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This is Multiverse Tonight, and here's your host, thomas Townley.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Multiverse Tonight episode 212, recorded on Solar Eclipse Day here in North America.
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We just got finished watching the partial solar eclipse from where I am.
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I'm in Kingman, kansas, so we got about 86% of the sun blocked off and you know it's still really cool you know it's not, not total, you're not going to get the sun totally blocked out for four minutes and change, but we did get you know, we did get you know very cool, very dark or kind of dark kind of sunset you know that's that's the way to the feel of it.
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It's like kind kind of like sunset.
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Now the sun is back out in full force, so that's very cool.
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Depending on how I age, that might be the last solar eclipse I see, because the next major solar eclipse that will be near here will be 2045.
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So it is what it is.
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I'll be an old man by the time it comes around, so who?
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knows if.
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I'll even care.
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Anyway, other than that, not a lot has changed.
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Lives are busy, things are busy.
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We're doing a lot of changed.
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Lives are busy, things are busy.
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We're doing a lot of spring cleaning around here, getting stuff ready for a possible move in the future.
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We aren't quite settled on that, but that's in the future.
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Don't worry about the future Live in the present.
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The present is what's important.
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The future isn't here yet.
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The past is gone.
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Live in the present.
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Anyway, we'll start off tonight with some Star Trek news, and we start Star Trek news with Star Trek Section 31 wrapping its filming and some details about the new Paramount Plus movie have been released.
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Section 31, of course, is led by Michelle Yeoh's character, philippa Georgiou.
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Now Variety has confirmed that actress Casey Rolle will be brought on to play a young Rachel Garrett.
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Now you'll remember Garrett's character from being introduced in the Next Generation classic Yesterday's Enterprise as the captain of the doomed Enterprise-C.
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Now we'll learn much more of her backstory.
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She joins Omari Hardwick, casey Rowe, sam Richardson, sven Rygrok, robert Kaczynski, amirale Gonzalez and James Hariko Lau in the little made-for-TV movie.
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So you know it's still interesting.
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We'll see how the modern Section 31 that we see on Deep Space Nine really came to be.
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Now some sad news Star Trek Infinite will not be, as is ending development.
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The game was only just officially released this past October 12th In 2023,.
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It was developed by Nibble Giant Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive, and was seen as the Star Trek version of Stellaris.
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Sadly, as of March 27th 2024, star Trek Infinite has ended development, as no more updates are planned.
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In Star Trek Infinite, the player had to make choices.
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For instance, you could choose between handing over reports about the Kimmer attack and implicating the House of Moog or keeping it for your own intelligence.
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Your choices would then have different outcomes.
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Certain events could be triggered depending on how the player played the game.
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It seemed like a Trekkie dream, but unfortunately it was not very well received.
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The game is still on Steam, but has very negative recent reviews, and the all-time reviews for the game are mixed, so perhaps this was for the best.
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You know, there's so few good Star Trek games.
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Star Trek Online is probably the best you're going to get, so go play Star Trek Online to get.
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So go play Star Trek Online.
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Anyway, let's get on with some more news.
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Earlier this month, sweden officially joined NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, becoming the 32nd member of the defense group.
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Now there was an official ceremony welcoming Sweden at NATO headquarters in Brussels, with the raising of their flag to join the other nations in the Defense Alliance.
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The Swedish delegation was led by Crown Princess Victoria and Prime Minister Ulf Kristiansen and was welcomed by NATO Sergeant General Jans Stoltenberg.
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A military band was on hand for the ceremony and there was a surprising bit of music played.
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Now TrekMoviecom explains what happened.
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The flag ceremony was held on March 11th in Belgium.
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As the assorted officials gathered and the flag bearers prepared to raise the Swedish flag, the band started off the event playing the main theme from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1996 film Star Trek First Contact.
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Goldsmith's score for the 1996 film Star Trek First Contact.
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You'll remember from the last season of Star Trek Picard.
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Now, this bit of Trek showing up at such an auspicious occasion eventually got noticed by some fans, and certainly Neo's mission as an alliance of partners working together to guarantee the freedom and security of its members does fit the ideals of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet.
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So Trek Movie reached out to NATO to find out more about why this showed up in Sweden's big moment, and NATO replied quote Ahead of ceremonial military events, the band will often play a range of popular music, with the band given discretion with respect to which music to play.
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Jerry Goldsmith was a masterful film composer, as exemplified by his work on Star Trek's First Contact.
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At the ceremony itself, the National Anthem of Sweden and the NATO Anthem were also played Unquote.
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The same official noted that next week NATO was celebrating its 75th anniversary.
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There will be a ceremony complete with military bands and they are expected to again play a range of popular songs as guests arrive.
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It's not known if a Star Trek song will be part of the repertoire.
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Now let's go on to the Star Wars news.
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Roger roger and Star Wars news.
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Roger roger.
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And Star Wars news begins with Deadline reporting that Beau Willimon has been tapped to co-write Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi, the current working title, alongside the film's director, james Mangold.
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The movie, first announced at last year's Star Wars celebration in London, will take place 25,000 years before any Star Wars celebration in London will take place 25,000 years before any Star Wars origin story we've seen before.
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Honing in on the origins of the Force.
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A release date for the film has not yet been set, and next on the official docket for distribution as far as the film goes is the Mandalorian and Grogu, which earlier today was dated for May 22, 2026.
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And now let's go on to the DC Comics News and we begin the evening comics with the Batman from 2022.
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Legal issues have been resolved.
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Not the characters, but the movies.
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A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that Warner Brothers Entertainment wasn't legally liable for plagiarism over the script of the Batman, an accusation brought up by writer Christopher Wozniak, a DC comic book writer and freelance artist during the 1990s.
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The 45-page decision from US District Judge Paul Enklemeyer found that WB and the Batman writer, director Matt Reeves, had not copied Wozniak's story the Ultimate Riddle, now titled the Blind Man's Hat, which he submitted to DC numerous times after writing in 1990.
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Wozniak also claimed he had sent the story to a film producer, michael Uslan, in 2008 as the basis for the Batman script.
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Now, when the lawsuit was announced, wozniak's attorney, r Terry Parker, claimed quote there are so many original expressions from my client's story found in the Defendant's movie that we believe this is a clear case of copyright infringement.
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These similarities are just too uncanny to be accidental.
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Unquote However, in something of a twist, judge Engelmeyer not only didn't agree that DC Warner Bros had plagiarized Wozniak's work.
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He pointed out that Wozniak's story itself was a violation of DC's copyright laws.
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As the judge wrote, quote Now it was also stated that the framework of the Batman and its story Detective Hunting A Serial Killer Big Twist, where the Killer is One Step Ahead, and its story detective hunting a serial killer big twists, where the killer is one step ahead, were too commonplace to be a source of a lawsuit.
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And finally, the judge also didn't believe Wozniak had any substantial proof that Warner Bros had come into contact with his story and then retooled it into the Batman.
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Wozniak's lawyer, terry Parker, said in an email quote Osnak's lawyer, terry Parker, said in an email we respectfully disagree with the court's decision and are considering our next steps.
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The Batman is currently streaming on Max, while the Batman Part II is currently in development and has an October 6, 2026 release date.
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Filmmaker Craig Gillespie is in talks to direct Supergirl for Warner Bros DC Studios.
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Gillespie is in talks to direct Supergirl for Warner Bros DC Studios.
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The plan is for DC to shoot the movie later this year, after they've completed James Gunn's Superman, which is currently shooting in Georgia and is scheduled for a July 11, 2025 theatrical release.
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As we previously reported, house of the Dragons' Millie Alcock won the role of Supergirl and she'll appear in another DC project before making her own big-screen debut in her own movie.
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The Supergirl movie is based on Tom King's 2022 comic book series Supergirl Wonder Woman of Tomorrow, which Billiquis Eveleigh live-illustrated, with Anna DeGara adapting the comic book for the big screen.
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Dc Comics announced a new four-issue miniseries from the DC vault Death in the Family, robin Lives, written by JM DeMettis with art by Rick Leonardi.
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The first issue will be published on Wednesday, july 10th, and will include a main cover by Leonardi plus an open to buy variant cover by Mike Mignola.
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In 1988, dc raised the revolutionary idea to let fans decide the fate of then-Robin Jason Todd by calling an 800 number and casting a vote.
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Yep, back in the day we didn't have email.
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Originally, fans decided that Jason would pay the ultimate price at the hands of the Joker, but a new facsimile of the original Batman, number 428, was released in December of 2023,.
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New facsimile of the original Batman number 428 was released in December of 2023, featuring the alternate ending in which Jason lived.
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Now, for the first time, readers will witness his plans for revenge against the clown prince of crime, the Maddest said in the statement quote continuing this classic, controversial story and following in the footsteps of Jim Starlin and Jim Apparo, two creators I greatly admire, has been both a challenge and a joy.
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This is a great opportunity to tell a story that's big on action and also takes a very deep dive into the heads of our main characters as we ponder what would have happened if Jason Todd had survived the Joker's brutal attack and having a master like Rick Leonardi bring it to life visually.
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I couldn't ask for anything more, lunardi added.
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I'm hoping this series will give readers a look down the path not chosen, a glimpse of the alternative to the original follow-up from Batman number 428.
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After people read it, maybe this choice made back in the day will seem vindicated, or maybe we'll see that it was a poor choice after all.
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Now let's go on to the Marvel News, and we begin Marvel News with some more casting information.
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Lou Taylor Pucci, star of Apple TV's Rose Byrne series Physical, has landed the role on Marvel Studios' Daredevil Born Again series.
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The part is currently under wraps.
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Now.
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This new installment a continuation of the Marvel Netflix series, but on Disney+ will see Charlie Cox reprising the title role as the blind attorney Matt Murdock, turned vigilante crime-fighting vigilante.
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Vince D'Onofrio is also back as mob boss Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin, and Kingpin has also starred in Marvel Studios, echo and Hawkeye.
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Pucci's credits include the movies the Informers, 2013's Evil Dead and Fanboys.
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On TV, his credits include American Horror Story, shameless, you're the Worst and Netflix's you.
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Marvel's Fantastic Four reboot has just added another major character.
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Julia Garner has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four as the Shalabal incarnation of the Silver Surfer.
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Garner has won three Emmy Awards for her work as Ruth Langmore on Ozark, as well as a Golden Globe for her portrayal as Anna Delvey on Inventing.
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Anna Garner will join a Fantastic Four cast that includes Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, slash Mr Fantastic Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm slash the Invisible Woman, eben Moss-Bakarach as Ben Grimm slash the Thing and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm slash Human Torch.
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Now for some business news.
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In a big win for the Walt Disney Company and CEO Bob Iger, disney has announced that all of its director nominees have been re-elected by shareholders, rebuffing activist investor Nelson Peltz, who had been running a high-profile campaign to put himself and former Disney chief financial officer Jim Rasselow on the company's board.
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Disney announced the preliminary results at the end of its annual shareholder meeting, knowing that the final results will be filed with the SEC at a later date.
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Peltz's Tr Tran partners had been seeking to oust Disney directors Maria Elena Lagomasino and Michael Frohman, replacing them with Pelts and Jay Rasselow.
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A source says that Iger secured 94% of the vote for his board seat.
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Lago Massino beat Pelts by a margin of about 2-1, with the activists securing about 30% of the vote for the seat.
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Rasselow lost his vote by a margin of 5-1.
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In comments after the voting was closed, iger said in a statement Now that this distracting proxy process is behind us, we're here to focus 100% of our attention on our most important priorities growth and value creation for our shareholders and creative excellence for our consumers.
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Sorry, pelts, you win some, you lose some.
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Unfortunately, you lost.
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Anyway, let's go on to the Geek News.
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Geek News begins with a bit of sad news.
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Nbc has decided not to proceed with the third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee.
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The news comes more than a month after the two-hour season two finale aired February 20th.
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Now the development is not entirely surprising, as the series from Universal Television had been on the bubble Now.
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That's in contrast to last season when Quantum Leap received a very early renewal in December of 2022.
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Now there will probably be some speculation that it might have been the strikes that caused a down dip.
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But you know, we'll never know until the tale of the tape is returned.
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On to other news.
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Big news ahead of CinemaCon for Disney and they're not just showing off on their presentation on the last day of the show on April 11th.
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However, in big 2026 news, jon Favreau's big screen version of the Mandalorian, the Mandalorian Grogu, is arriving on May 22nd 2026.
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Star Wars films on a theatrical calendar far, far away used to release around Memorial Day weekend, so the last one to do so is Solo, a Star Wars story, but no wide releases on Mando's date as of yet.
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Also on the calendar now is Toy Story 5, which is the title of the untitled Pixar movie that was scheduled for June 19th 2026.
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Warner Bros has that day on hold, also for an untitled release, and the live-action version of Moana, impacted by the Thanksgiving release this year of Moana 2, will hula dance its way from June 27, 2025 to July 10, 2026, with no competing releases on that date.
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Also scheduled is Tron Ares, produced by former Disney live-action movie president Sean Bailey, which will be following the space that Disney has RSVP'd for an untitled movie on October 10th 2025.
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Paramount has an Aang Avatar man-made movie for that date.
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So put those dates on your calendar If you're interested in those movies.
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Of course, subject to change.
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As previously announced, the Marielle Heller horror comedy from Annapurna Pictures and starring Amy Adams, night Bitch, is opening limited on December 6th from Searchlight.
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I just liked adding that in just to the name Night Bitch what a name, anyway.
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Into other news, bender is almost back.
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Baby Futurama's 12th season will arrive on Hulu on Monday, july 29th.
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Now, much like the previous season, the upcoming season will consist of just 10 episodes and will be released on a weekly basis.
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Now, most of the original cast will again be back, including Billy West, john DiMaggio, Katie Segal, tress McNeil, maurice LaMarche, lauren Tom, phil Lamar and David Herman.
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Glasgow WonderCon has unveiled its list of nominees for this year's Hugo Awards.
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Glasgow Scotland will host the annual ceremony celebrating the year's best genre media, like sci-fi and fantasy books, tv games and criticism.
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Nominee highlights include Anna Leckie's Translation State and the Adventures of Amina El-Serafi essay, chuck Brody for Best Novel, wang Jukeng's Seeds of Mercury and T Fisher's Thornhenge feature in Best Novella.
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Video game nominees include 2023's Big Dogs, like Star Wars, jedi, survivor and Baldur's Gate 3, and TV's headline by the likes of Loki and the Last of Us, respective standout episodes, glorious Purpose and Long, Long Time.
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The 8-second Hugo Awards will take place on Sunday, august 11th, and you can go online to find the full list, but I'd like to spotlight a few of the awards that are really, you know, related to the stuff we cover who's the Giggle, written by Russell T Davies.
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Loki, glory's Purpose by Eric Martin, michael Waldron and Kathleen Blair.
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The Last of Us Long, long Time, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, and Star Trek, strange New Worlds those Old Scientists, written by Catherine Lin and Bill Wolkoff.
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And Strange New Worlds Subspace Rhapsody, written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, and Strange New Worlds, Subspace Rhapsody, written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, as well as Doctor who, wild Blue Yonder written by Russell T Davies.
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That's a fair, fairly good group of nominees there.
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In the movie category Best Dramatic Presentation, long Form Barbie is up against Dungeons, dragons, honor Among Thieves, nimona Poor Things, spider-man Across the Spider-Verse and the Wandering Earth 2.
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And the Wandering Earth 2.
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Also Best Graphic Story Comic.
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There are a lot of nominees that.
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I have you know, saga, volume 11, be Wolf, scheibach, glow Book, the Witches of World War II and Wonder Woman, historia, the Amazons and Best Game or Interactive Work up for that is Alan Wake 2, baldur's Gate 3, dredge, the Legend of Zelda, tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars, jedi Survivor.
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Universal and DreamWorks Animation has set the Bad Guys 2 for an August 11, 2025 release in theaters.
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This will be a sequel to the 2022 film and will star again Sam Rockwell as Mr Wolf, mark Maron as Mr Steak, craig Robinson as Mr Shark, anthony Ramos as Mr Piranha and Awkwafina as Ms Tarantula aka Webs.
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Other stars include Zazie Beetz as Diana Foxington, richard Iota as Professor Marmalade, alex Borstein as Police Chief, missy Liggins and Aluli Singh as Tiffany Fluffet, according to the logline substance in their newly minted lives as good guys when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do one last job by an all-female squad of criminals.
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Now this film comes from Pierre Perfel, who is directing, with Damien Ross once again producing.
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Jp Sands steps up to co-direct after serving as head of character animation, and Daniel Pemberton is scoring the feature.
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The original the Bad Guys earned $250.4 million at the box office, with Ghostbusters Frozen Empire currently in theaters.
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The director behind it has offered an update on the now-in-the-works animated series for Netflix.
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It was announced two years ago that Netflix was developing a new animated Ghostbusters series with Jason Reitman and Gil Keenan serving as executive producers for Ghost Corps, incorporated in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation.
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Details about the new project have been very slim since that initial announcement, as there are still many questions about the potential cast staff and story at the time of publication, but a new update has come from Keenan himself.
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Keenan began quote I just watched an entire art presentation for the show.
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I've seen the sets and the environments and I just saw my first glimpse at the world of supernatural creatures as realized by our brilliant creative team.
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All I can say is the work is being done.
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As we speak, it's in what we call full development.
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Scripts are being written, art is being created and it's a great time to be a Ghostbuster.
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So thankfully unquote so thankfully while there hasn't been many major announcements about the series, it's still in the works.
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So you know, hold your hat up, proud Ghostbuster fans.
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Of course I got the Ghostbusters right over my shoulders there.
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Ezra Miller's role in Prime Video's Invincible has been recast in the wake of the actor's controversial actions leading up to the release of the Flash the bomb.
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In season one of the animated series, miller had voiced District Attorney Sinclair, a genius who attended Upstate University and believes that human weaknesses can be solved by engineering.
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After being defeated by the Invincible Team, he returned in this week's episode of season two.
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I'm Not Going Anywhere Now.
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This time around, however, it appears that the mad scientist is no longer voiced by Miller, but instead by Eric Bouza, the actor who has 350 voice credits, including X-Men 97, carpopolis, teenage Mutant, ninja Turtles and Rick and Morty.
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The final episode of Invincible, Season 2 is being split into two parts, will premiere April 4th on Prime Video.
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After winning Academy Awards and grossing tons of money at the box office, christopher Nolan has become a major player in the film world, and now he's about to be honored in a whole new way, as it was announced that Nolan will be receiving a knighthood from King Charles III.
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Nolan already received the honor of Commander of the British Empire in 2019.
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Now Nolan's wife, producer Emma Thomas, will also be honored with a damehood, while Netflix's co-CEO, ted Sarandos, will be receiving a CBE.
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This tree of awards is to celebrate each creator's respective contributions to the entertainment industry and will someday form a new contributions to the entertainment industry and will someday form a new Knights of the Round Table.
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Just kidding, anyway.
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As usual, we close on those who have preceded us in the death.
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First up, lou Scossa Jr, the tough guy with a sensitive side who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a steely sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for his performance as a compassionate slave in the landmark miniseries Roots, died Friday at the age of 87.
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The statement obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, his family said, quote it is with our heartfelt regret to confirm that our beloved father passed away this morning.
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We'd like to thank everyone for their condolences at this time.
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Please respect the family's privacy during this difficult time.
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Unquote.
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His first cousin, neil L Gossett, told the Associated Press that Gossett died in Santa Monica.
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While no cause of death has been given, the actor had announced in 2010 that he had received prostate cancer.
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With his sleek, bald pate and athletic physique, gossett was intimidating in a wide range of no-nonsense roles, most notably in Taylor Hackford's Officer and the Gentleman in 1982, as gunnery sergeant Emile Folt Foley, who rides Richard Gere's character mercilessly but for his own good at an officer candidate school and gets into a memorable martial arts fight.
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It was also the second black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier, in 1964.
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For the role, the six-foot-four Gossett trained for 30 days at a Marine Corps recruitment division at an adjutant of Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego.
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The Brooklyn native capitalized on this hard-ass image in such films as the Punisher opposite Dolph Lundgren and Iron Eagle as three sequels.
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In the Iron Eagle series he starred as Colonel Charles Chappie Sinclair, a leader of a dangerous rescue mission in threatening international locales.
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But he started in 1959, gossip-played George Mershon in the original Broadway production of Lauren Hansberry's domestic tragedy A Raisin in the Sun, then segued to Daniel Petrie's 1961 Columbia film Adaptation, alongside his staged co-stars Poitier and Ruby Dee, launching his career in Hollywood.
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It was an elegant portrayal of Fiddler, an older slave who teaches a young Kunta Kinte, played by LeVar Burton, to speak English in the eight-part ABC miniseries Roots that earned his first significant dose of national recognition.
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85% of the US population tuned in to see some portion of Roots and the finale drew in more than 100 million viewers in 1977.
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Roles including a hospital chief of staff in the 1979 ABC series the Lazarus Syndrome and the title character Gideon Oliver, an anthropology professor, on 1989's set of ABC mystery movies.
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He also appeared as the guardian of a 16-year-old boy on NBC's the Powers of Matthew Starr, as Garrick, the first leader of the Free Jaffa Nation, on the sci-fi series Starkey SG-1, as Halle Berry's estranged father in the CBS extant and as former vigilante Will Reeves on HBO's Watchmen.
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That last one resulted in his eighth career Emmy nomination.
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Gossett was born on May 27, 1936, in the melting pot of Brooklyn.
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The son of a porter and aid at Abraham Lincoln High School, he was a class president and starred on the basketball baseball teams.
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Later he would be invited to the New York Knicks rookie camp when a leg injury forced him to sit out one high school basketball season.
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Gossett developed an interest in acting and his English teacher recommended that he talk to the producers of the 1953 Broadway show Take a Giant Step.
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He won the lead role at the age of 17 over more than 400 other contenders and received the Donaldson Award for Newcomer of the Year.
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Gossett accepted a dramatic scholarship to New York University, became pals with James Dean at the Actors Studio in New York and made his on-screen debut in 1957 in the NBC anthology series the Big Story.
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Gossett went on to play an angry man living in a run-down apartment building in Hal Ashby's the Aniline Lord in 1970.
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The conman opposite James Garner in the slavery-era skin game, a drug-dealing coat-throat in the Deep, a headmaster in Toy Soldiers and a down-and-out boxer in Diggstown.
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The actor's film resume also includes Enemy Mine in 1985 and the Color Purple in 2023.
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Goss also did excellent work in the Century Collection Presents Ben Vereen, his Roots Backstairs at the White House, palmerstown, usa.
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A Gathering of Old Men and Touched by an Angel.
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He received an Emmy nomination for each of these five projects.
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As a producer, he shared a daytime Emmy for the 1998 children's special In His Far Shoes, for which he also starred, and he also appears in the upcoming or voices in the upcoming movie, if His survivors include his children, sharon and Sadie.
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Again, lou Gossett Jr was 87 years old.
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Next, chance Perdomo, the chilling adventures of Sabrina and Gen V star.
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The actor dies as a result of a motorcycle accident.
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According to his representatives in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, nobody else was involved in the accident.
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A statement from his rep said His passion for the arts and insatiable appetite for life was felt by all who knew him and his warmth will carry on in those he loved dearest.
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We ask to please respect the family's wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their beloved son and brother.
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Most recently, perdomo starred in Prime Video's the Boys spin-off Gen V, which saw him take on the role of Andre Anderson, a popular student at Godalkin University who is capable of magnetically manipulating things.
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The producers of the series shared a statement quote.
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We can't quite wrap our heads around this.
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For those of us who knew him and worked with him, chance was always charming and smiling, enthusiastic force of nature, incredibly talented performer and, more than anything else, just a very kind, lovely person.
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Even writing about him in the past tense doesn't make sense.
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We're so sorry for Chance's family and we are grieving for the loss of our friend and colleague.
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Hug your loved ones tonight.
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In their own statement, amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, which produces Gen V, wrote the entire Gen V family is devastated by the sudden passing of Chance Perdomo.
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Amazon, mgm Studios and Sony Pictures Television extend our heartfelt thoughts and support to Chance's family and all who loved him at this difficult time.
