Happy Halloween! Looks like the upcoming Resident Evil Reboot is looking straight from the source!

 

It's All Hallows Eve, and a lot of us are celebrating Trick or Treat and all things horror and spooky indoors this year thanks to the ongoing global pandemic restricting activities and gatherings. That however hasn't stopped work and production for some upcoming film projects (albeit with safety measures enforced of course), and one of these is the upcoming Resident Evil Reboot film, with Johannes Roberts set to direct and the likes of Robbie Amell and Hannah John-Kamen to star as Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, respectively!

Thanks to Biohazard Declassified in Facebook, we get a look at some set photos that have made their way to the interwebz that suggest that the filmmakers who are starting over with the RE film franchise are going to be faithful this time around with the source material - including building the Raccoon Police Department gate just like it was featured in the games! Plus, Kendo Gun Shop is also looking like it's straight from Resident Evil 2!

The Resident Evil Reboot is currently filming and will be released (hopefully) sometime in 2021.

ICYMI: Empire Magazine spotlights the cast of "The Suicide Squad" in latest issue

 

For those wondering how the cast and members of Task Force X under director James Gunn look together, Empire Magazine has revealed the two covers to their issue spotlighting "The Suicide Squad" - which will be hitting theaters next year! The film is intended to be a soft reboot and standalone sequel to the 2016 "Suicide Squad" film, and will feature the return of Rick Flagg, Harley Quinn, and Captain Boomerang as they team up with newbies like Bloodsport, Savant, The Thinker, and King Shark!

Check out more details via James Gunn's own Facebook page!

The Suicide Squad is scheduled for an August 2021 release.

Medicom Toys reveals MAFEX Azrael Batman and Ben Reilly Spider-Man , Arrives this 2021

 

For comic book fans who grew up reading DC and Marvel stories from the 90's, a dose of nostalgia and awesome collector booty is going to hit the market next year as Medicom Toys has revealed their next batch of MAFEX action figures based on comic book characters - and it's Azrael's Batman and Ben Reilly as Spider-Man! Thanks to the interwebz, we get our first look at their figures and their alternate unmasked heads and accessories!

Based on the well-known "Batman: Knightfall" storyline of the 90's where Bruce Wayne was forced to relinquish the mantle of the bat after being broken by Bane, Azrael was chosen as the new Batman to defend Gotham while Wayne left the city for another mission - not realizing how mentally unstable and brutal his successor was. To that end, Jean-Paul Valley constructed a new Batsuit that was big departure from his predecessor - to take on Bane and show Gotham City that a new and more savage Dark Knight was watching its citizens.

Spiralling out of the controversial "Clone Sage" of the 90's, Ben Reilly - a clone of Peter Parker and thought to be the original by both men at the time, was chosen by Peter to take over as Spider-Man while the latter left New York City to build a new life with Mary Jane and their unborn child. Retiring the mantle of the Scarlet Spider, Ben fashioned himself a new costume and took over webslinging duties as the new and improved Amazing Spider-Man!

Both MAFEX action figures are scheduled to be released on September 2021!

Surprise! Jared Leto returns as The Joker for "Zack Snyder's Justice League"

 

Looks like Jared Leto's stint as The Clown Prince of Crime himself The Joker hasn't ended at all and he gets the proverbial "Last Laugh", as The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that the actor and musician has joined "Zack Snyder's Justice League" - filming scenes that will apparently tie-in with "Suicide Squad" and the DC Extended Universe as a whole. Leto's Joker never appeared in the 2017 team-up film, and only had what amounted to an "extended cameo" in 2016's Suicide Squad - where he played more of a secondary role to Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and her back story (and he didn't reprise the role for this year's Birds of Prey either). Looks like that's going to be corrected with this new version of Justice League - which is Snyder's intended vision of the film and will include the big bad himself -Darkseid.

Not a bad way to get retribution, and continue the 80 years celebration of The Joker this year!

Zack Snyder's Justice League will be split into four parts and premiere sometime next year on HBO Max.

No Time To Die: 007 takes the cover of the latest Total Film issue

 

While James Bond’s next adventure has been moved to next year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 007 is still busy in the promoting side as Total Film reveals their feature and cover to their next issue spotlighting “No Time To Die”. As the 25th Bond film and Daniel Craig’s swan song in playing the character, it’s a sequel that Bond fans are definitely looking forward to and hoping that it finishes strong from the arc started in Casino Royale and running all the way to the last film, Spectre.

Check out more details on Total Film’s upcoming 007 spotlight issue here.

No Time To Die will be released in theaters on a April 2021.

DC Comics reveals "Future State" Comic Event for 2021

 

Following the conclusion of Dark Nights Death Metal this January and initiating a pause in the mainline titles for a couple of months, DC Comics has announced "Future State" - a comic event that sees the DC Universe propelled to a unspecified point in the future where things are shuffled, a dystopian future has affected the lives of heroes, and new characters have taken up the mantles of some of the world's greatest heroes.

To name some of the few changes - Bruce Wayne will no longer be Batman and is presumed dead, with a new man behind the cape and cowl taking on the Magistrate in a Gotham City outlawing vigilantes. Jonathan Kent has taken up the role of Superman while his father is exiled in space. There are also a new Wonder Woman running around, and other legacy characters rise to take up the mantles of heroes who have come and gone.

You can read up more details about this Future State via Polygon. The initiative begins this January 2021, and will run until March that year.

Milla Jovovich hunts giant creatures in first Monster Hunter Movie trailer!

 

Milla Jovovich and her director husband Paul W.S. Anderson are ready to take on another iconic Capcom video game franchise, as the first trailer for the "Monster Hunter" movie has been released (along with a theatrical poster)!

MONSTER HUNTER - Official Trailer

After facing zombies and biological monsters in the Resident Evil films, Jovovich stars as Captain Artemis as she and her team of elite military operatives are transported to a world filled with giant creatures! With the help of a mysterious hunter played by Tony Jaa, they embark on a quest to get home while taking on these monsters!

Monster Hunter will be released by Columbia Pictures Philippines in the Philippines, and will be coming soon to theaters!

ICYMI: Check out the first animated trailer for "Invincible"

 

In case you missed out on one of the big teaser reveals to come out of New York Comic Con weekend this year, Amazon Prime has released the first trailer for their upcoming animated series adaptation of Robert Kirkman's "Invincible"! Starring Steven Yeun as the voice of Mark Grayson/ Invincible - the series deals with Mark discovering he has powers similar to his father - who happens to be the world's greatest superhero named Omni-Man (voiced by J.K Simmons). Now under the tutelage of his dad, he learns how to use these abilities to become a hero of his own - calling himself "Invincible"!

Invincible – Teaser Trailer | Prime Video

Invincible flies to Amazon Prime sometime in 2021.

HBO Max's Green Lantern TV Series gets greenlit, Will bring Alan Scott, Sinestro, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, and Simon Baz into the show

 

Fans of DC's Green Lantern and its mythos are going to be pleased with the big news that arrived this weekend, as Variety reports that HBO's streaming service HBO Max has given literally give the green light to "Green Lantern" - with a 10-episode series order made for the emerald powered show.

After being announced in development last year, the series is actually going to explore and highlight the different members of the saga and the GL Corps - including the first Green Lantern Alan Scott, the hot-headed Guy Gardner, new Green Lanterns Jessica Cuz and Simon Baz, the drill sergeant Kilowog, and the former "Greatest Green Lantern" himself turned eventual Yellow Lantern, Sinestro. Nothing was mentioned yet on mainline fan favorites like Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, and John Stewart, but we can be hopeful they'll all be there and it'll be a balanced focus for all these characters.

While no release date has been given for "Green Lantern", the series will be co-written and executive produced by Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim, with Berlanti Productions to produce alongside Warner Bros. Television.

Benedict Cumberbatch returns as Doctor Strange in Tom Holland's third Spider-Man film, MCU Phase 4 explores the Multiverse

 

Looks like the Impossibilities are indeed endless in the growing Marvel Cinematic Universe, as The Hollywood Reporter just released the scoop that Benedict Cumberbatch will return to play Doctor Strange in Tom Holland's next Spider-Man movie! The untitled sequel, which is reported to begin filming this month, will be a continuation of "Spider-Man: Far From Home" and see Holland back as Peter Parker/ Spider-Man - whose identity was publicly revealed by Mysterio at the mid-credits scene of that film.

Doctor Strange's inclusion in the new MCU Spider-Man film follows a trend that began with "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in 2017 - when Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark/ Iron Man served as a mentor figure to the young and inexperienced wall crawler superhero. That continued with 2019's Far From Home, with Nick Fury (or his Skrull proxy Talos) guiding Peter in his adventures in Europe and against the elementals of Mysterio. Now it's Stephen Strange's turn... And one has to wonder how the Multiverse fits in? With "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" also set for Phase 4, the interconnected nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands even further, and now Jamie Foxx's recent casting as Electro - a role he played in 2014's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", will now make sense in the grander scheme of things that opens up alternate realities and parallel worlds. We'll just have to wait and see how that plays, and whether Strange will do a "One More Day" to help Peter with his "secret identity not secret anymore" problem.

The Third Spider-Man film by Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios is slated for a December 2021 release date, but that could change given the pandemic situation still affecting the world.

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Announced, Kombat Pack 2 reveals Rain, Mileena, and RAMBO as new DLC fighters

 

In what definitely is the kind of reveal that will make fans of the 80's and 90's and Mortal Kombat fans quite happy, NetherRealm Studios and MK co-creator Ed Boon revealed the latest trailer showing off the fighters for the "Kombat Pack 2" DLC for Mortal Kombat 11... As well as officially announcing "Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate" - an enhanced port of MK 11 that will be heading to the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S this November!

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate | Kombat Pack 2 Official Reveal Trailer
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate will be released on November 17. Those who own the game already will have it as a FREE upgrade, sans the new DLC fighters who are separately purchased for Kombat Pack 2!

Resident Evil Movie Reboot Announces Cast, Will Adapt the 1998 Video Games Storyline

 

Survival Horror fans and Resident Evil/ Biohazard mainstays like myself are seeing a flicker of hope with the latest news that just hit for the Resident Evil Movie Reboot project, as Deadline has a new report up announcing the cast and story details for the new do over film. 

Once again handled by Constantin Film and now helmed by "47 Meters Down" director Johannes Roberts, the movie WILL ADAPT the 1998 Video Games storyline, with the report saying Constantin and Roberts "have conceived an official origin story adaptation with faithful ties to Capcom’s classic survival horror games". That means they are going to adapt the infamous "Mansion Incident" - which tell the events of the first Resident Evil/ Biohazard game and its Remake, as well as the "Raccoon City Outbreak" which was depicted in Resident Evil 2 and its remakes! This will definitely get fans excited and happy that this is FINALLY HAPPENING.

As shown in Deadline, cast in the roles are the following Kaya Scodelario (Maze Runner) as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin. It's definitely a powerful looking cast, and if they play the script and execution right - we may have a pretty good adaptation coming up. Franchise producer Robert Kulzer, who produced the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil films, had some pretty big exciting things to say that finally makes an RE fan's dreams come true.

“After a dozen games, six live-action movies and hundreds of pages of fan fiction, we felt compelled to return to the year 1998, to explore the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser Mansion and Raccoon City."

No release date has been given yet for the Resident Evil Reboot, but we can probably expect more news soon as the franchise celebrates its 25th Anniversary next year!

Catwoman gets a redesign from Clay Mann for Batman/Catwoman series

 

Literally we can say "PURRFEECCCT", and this reveal comes just two months before the new series debuts.

Via his official Twitter, comic book artist Clay Mann has revealed the brand new look and costume Catwoman will get in the upcoming "Batman/ Catwoman" miniseries that will be drawn by him and written by Tom King. Designed by Mann himself, Selina Kyle's new suit looks to take inspiration from fan-favorite looks of the Feline Fatale - including her iconic modern look with the goggles and the grey colored catsuit from "Batman The Animated Series". There are also influences coming from her lover Batman himself - with Mann designing a single blade on each of her gloves and a utility belt for her gadgets ala The Dark Knight himself. We'll find out more when the DC Black Label series begins this fall.

The first issue of Batman/ Catwoman will be released on December.

Henry Cavill shows off Geralt of Rivia's new look for The Witcher Season 2

 

Taking to social media to promote the next season of one of the most acclaimed TV shows in Netflix, Henry Cavill has posted his new armor and look as Geralt of Rivia for The Witcher Season 2 - and he absolutely SLAYS it.

The post in Facebook and Instragram is the two pics, and the text below:

"'It may turn out,’ said the white-haired man a moment later, ‘that their comrades or cronies may ask what befell these evil men. Tell them the Wolf bit them. The White Wolf. And add that they should keep glancing over their shoulders. One day they’ll look back and see the Wolf.’" - From the writings of Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher Netflix #Witcher2

The Witcher will return with a new eight episode second season this 2021.