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A MAJOR AAA BLADE RUNNER VIDEO GAME COULD BE IN THE WORKS! Alcon Entertainment co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson have confirmed that discussions are underway for a potential AAA video game based on the iconic sci-fi franchise. Kosove also highlighted the importance of letting players interact with the world of Blade Runner. No developer, publisher, or release window has been announced yet. #BladeRunner #Gaming #Cyberpunk (🔗ign.com/articles/blade-runne…)

JON HAMM & ANDREW KOJI SET TO STAR IN TAKASHI MIIKE'S NEW THRILLER, BULLFROG! Set in a near-future Tokyo under lockdown, the film follows a Japanese detective (Koji) and a former FBI profiler (Hamm) as they hunt down a mysterious serial killer in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. Written by Eric Jordan Baker, the psychological thriller will be directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins). mk2 Films has boarded international sales, while CAA Media Finance handles North American sales and financing. Filming is planned for SUMMER 2027. #Bullfrog (🔗variety.com/2026/film/global…)

DEMON SLAYER could remain a major franchise for the next 50 to 100 YEARS! Aniplex chairman Atsuhiro Iwakami says the company wants Demon Slayer to become a long-lasting franchise, potentially following in the footsteps of Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel. Although Tanjiro’s main story has ended in the manga, the franchise could continue through spin-offs and side stories focusing on other characters, including the Hashira. Meanwhile, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle 2 is already in active production, with no release date announced yet. #DemonSlayer #Anime (🔗gamesradar.com/entertainment…)

THE WITCHER 4 JUST BEAT INTERGALACTIC — AND CD PROJEKT RED KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS. The fans have spoken. The Witcher 4 is officially the Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joystick Awards 2026. And this wasn't a close call in a small field. The Witcher 4 beat NINETEEN other games — including Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, God of War Laufey, and even Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Naughty Dog's next big thing. It joins past winners like GTA 6. That's the company it keeps now. Game director Sebastian Kalemba said it best on Twitter: "This means the world to us. Huge love to our incredible team and everyone who's been supporting us on this journey." And narrative director Phillip Weber made the promise every Witcher fan needed to hear: "We're working hard to make The Witcher 4 worthy of being your most wanted game and an unforgettable experience that's true to the core of the Witcher." True to the core of the Witcher. That's the line. That's the promise. Yes, the wait is still long — CD Projekt Red is targeting 2028, and Ciri's new saga is worth every second of patience. But the road there isn't empty: The Witcher 3, fresh off its remaster, gets the new Songs of the Past expansion next year. The most wanted game on the planet. A team that feels the weight of it. And a promise to stay true to what made the Witcher the Witcher. #TheWitcher4 #CDProjektRed #Ciri #TheWitcher (🔗gamesradar.com/games/the-wit…)

IT'S OFFICIAL. GOD OF WAR: SONS OF SPARTA IS COMING TO PS4. AND IT'S BRINGING TWO NEW MODES WITH IT. Santa Monica Studio just announced it: Sons of Sparta launches on PS4 on November 16 at midnight local time. The rumour was real. The datamine was real. The PlayStation Store listing was real. And now Sony said it themselves. But that's not all. To celebrate the PS4 launch, Mega Cat Studios is adding TWO new modes — on both PS4 and PS5: ⚡ HERMES MODE — Unlocked after completing the game. Race against the clock with a dedicated speedrunning toolkit: split-based timer, persistent scoreboard, and more. For the players who finished Sparta and said "faster." 💀 EREBUS MODE — Available from your very first boot. The ultimate challenge: you AND your enemies die in a single hit. One mistake, one death. Choose your mode when you start a new game and pick a save slot — and once chosen, it can't be changed for that save file. The 2D Metroidvania about young Kratos and Deimos — the surprise shadow drop from February — is now coming to the console with over 100 million players. November 16. Midnight. The Spartans are coming to PS4. #GodOfWar #SonsOfSparta #PS4 #PS5

GODZILLA IS CERTIFIED FRESH. 🍅 Godzilla Minus Zero: 90% critics, 96% audience on Rotten Tomatoes. Certified Fresh. A CinemaScore. And now it's No. 1 on IMDb — ahead of The Odyssey. The King doesn't just break box office records. He breaks the charts too. 👑 #GodzillaMinusZero #Godzilla

THE VERDICT IS IN — and it's a lump of coal. Ti West's Ebenezer has landed at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes — officially Tomatometer. Critics are split down the middle, but the one thing almost everyone agrees on? Johnny Depp is MAGNETIC as Scrooge. JoBlo calls it his best performance since Public Enemies, and even the harshest reviews admit Depp is the reason to watch. The problem isn't Depp — it's the movie around him. The Playlist calls it "punishingly dull," IndieWire gave it a C-, and TheWrap says the schtick is stale. Too faithful to Dickens, too little that's new. But the gothic horror heart is still there: Ti West's Victorian London is drenched in dread, the ghosts are genuinely eerie, and Tramell Tillman steals every scene as the Ghost of Christmas Present. So is it worth seeing? If you're here for Depp's comeback and a spooky Christmas ghost story — yes. If you want a fresh take on A Christmas Carol — bah, humbug. Ebenezer haunts theaters tomorrow, Friday Nov 13. #Ebenezer #Horror #RottenTomatoes

ID SOFTWARE IS BACK. AND HUGO MARTIN IS LEADING THE CHARGE AGAIN. The studio behind DOOM just confirmed it: their next game is officially in development. No title. No trailer. No details yet. Just one sentence that every DOOM fan has been waiting to hear. "We're incredibly excited about our next project, a new game from our teams in Texas and Frankfurt, with game direction once again by Hugo Martin." Hugo Martin. The man who directed DOOM (2016) and led the modern DOOM era since 2018. He's back at the helm. And id says: "It'll be some time before we're ready to share more, but we can't wait for you to see what we're working on." This one hits different — because id Software has been through hell this year. Microsoft's summer layoffs hit the studio hard. At least 136 people let go. Staff called it a "bloodbath." Morale, they said, had "never been lower." And now? The studio is standing back up. A new game. The same director. The same fire. Plus one more thing for right now: Slaughter Mode arrives in DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations on Monday, November 16. What do you think the next game is? A new DOOM? Something entirely new? Whatever it is — hell is open for business again. 🔥 #idSoftware #DOOM #Xbox (🔗insider-gaming.com/id-softwa…)

CD PROJEKT RED IS USING AI TO RESTORE GERALT'S ORIGINAL POLISH VOICE IN THE WITCHER 3: SONGS OF THE PAST — WITH THE ACTOR'S FULL CONSENT. Jacek Rozenek, Geralt's longtime Polish voice actor, suffered a stroke in 2019 that left him unable to speak for months. Although he eventually returned to voice acting, his voice had changed, becoming noticeably lower and rougher. For the upcoming expansion, CDPR wanted Rozenek back. However, since Songs of the Past takes place during the events of The Witcher 3, the developers feared that switching between his newly recorded dialogue and the original recordings from 2015 would create a noticeable difference. The solution? Partnering with AI voice company Respeecher. Rozenek still personally records every new line. Respeecher then uses an AI model trained on his original Witcher 3 recordings to make his new performance sound closer to his younger voice. And importantly, the actor has given his full approval. Rozenek says he wants Geralt's voice to sound as close as possible to how he sounded 12 years ago, adding that he has great trust in the game's creators. CDPR's localization producer Mikołaj Szwed also described this as a special case of AI being used ethically, with consent, and to do something good. Meanwhile, Doug Cockle is returning as Geralt's English voice actor, with no AI modifications required. Songs of the Past is targeting a 2027 release. #TheWitcher3 #CDProjektRed #AI (🔗gamefile.news/p/witcher-3-ja…)

CONSTANTINE 2 JUST GOT ITS FIRST REAL HOPE IN 20 YEARS. And it came from the most unexpected place: James Gunn leaving DC. Director Francis Lawrence just told Collider that after the Gunn/Safran exit, he has "renewed hope" for Constantine 2. "We've been trying to make Constantine 2 for 20-something years, and we have an idea, and we have a script, and we've been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it." Let that sink in. Twenty years. A script ready. Keanu Reeves ready. Akiva Goldsman ready. J.J. Abrams on board. And DC kept standing in the way. Now, Lawrence says, the door might finally be open — if Paramount, Warner, and whoever runs DC now all get on board. And here's the best part: Lawrence doesn't care if DC wants a different Constantine for its shared universe. "If they just let us do the sequel to our version, they can coexist." Two Constantines. One universe. Zero problem. But that's not all. Lawrence also settled what kind of sequel this will be — and it's exactly what fans have been begging for. The 2005 original was made to be PG-13. The studio slapped an R on it anyway. Lawrence still hasn't forgiven that: "It's an R-rated PG-13 movie, which pisses me off." So the sequel? "When we do this next time, we're making the hard-R version of Constantine." Hard-R. Demons, hell, exorcisms — no holding back this time. And the budget? Forget $100 million. Lawrence and Reeves are ready to take pay cuts to make it happen. "We have to be scrappy about it." This isn't a greenlight yet. It's hope — the most hope this sequel has had in two decades. But after 20 years of waiting, hope is a hell of a start. #Constantine2 #Constantine #DC (🔗collider.com/constantine-2-u…)

NAUGHTY DOG FINALLY TALKED ABOUT INTERGALACTIC — AND 2027 IS WHEN IT ALL DROPS. Neil Druckmann just broke the silence on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Naughty Dog's first new universe in over a decade. And his message is simple: next year, we see it all. "We're gonna show a lot of it next year. We're gonna show gameplay, more of the story," Druckmann told Patton Oswalt. "I think they'll be really surprised what they think the game is and what it actually is." The game is in its final stage of production right now. Being polished. And the cast? Bigger than anyone expected. Tati Gabrielle stars as Jordan A. Mun, the protagonist. Tony Dalton is in. Kumail Nanjiani is in. Druckmann calls it "a really big cast" — and says some of them will be revealed next year, while the rest are being kept secret so players discover them for themselves. Here's what Intergalactic really is, in Druckmann's own words — a combination of everything Naughty Dog has ever made: The sci-fi fantasy of Jak and Daxter. The pulp action-adventure of Uncharted. The serious drama of The Last of Us. Plus anime DNA: Akira and Evangelion, shaping the story and its philosophy. Remember: this is the studio that hasn't made a sci-fi game since Jak and Daxter. Druckmann said it himself — after twenty years of grounded stories on Earth, they were hungry to go back to the stars. Cinematic scenes wrapped shooting on August 31. No release date yet. But 2027 is the year we finally see what Jordan A. Mun's journey really looks like. And if Druckmann is right — it's not what you think it is. #Intergalactic #NaughtyDog #PS5 #SciFi (🔗insider-gaming.com/jak-and-d…) (🔗insider-gaming.com/intergala…)

JOHNNY DEPP'S SCROOGE IS DIVIDING CRITICS — AND STEALING THE SHOW ANYWAY. The first reactions to Ti West's EBENEZER are in. And the verdict is split — on everything except one thing. Depp. "Magnetic throughout." "A layered performance." "My favorite Depp performance in a few years." One critic even put his Scrooge up there with Alastair Sim and Michael Caine. Another called it a "wickedly fun holiday treat and strong comeback vehicle for its star." Tramell Tillman is being called an absolute scene-stealer as the Ghost of Christmas Present. But not everyone is converted. Some critics call the film "utterly superfluous" — beautiful, gothic, faithful to Dickens, but nothing that sets it apart from the many Christmas Carols before it. That's the divide: a film some call redundant, carried by a performance almost everyone agrees on. Ti West — the man behind X, Pearl and MaXXXine — leaning into the ghost story at the heart of Dickens, with Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Rupert Grint and Daisy Ridley alongside Depp. Full reviews land TODAY, November 12. The film opens in theaters TOMORROW, November 13. Is this the Scrooge that finally brings Depp back — or just another Christmas Carol? #Ebenezer (screenrant.com/ebenzer-first…) (fanbolt.com/188601/ebenezer-…) (collider.com/johnny-depp-ret…)

RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM JUST WON GAME OF THE YEAR. Not a nomination. Not a category win. THE Game of the Year. At the Golden Joystick Awards 2026 in London, Requiem took home Ultimate Game of the Year — the first major GOTY award of the season. And it didn't stop there. Four awards in one night: 🏆 Ultimate Game of the Year 🏆 Console Game of the Year 🏆 Best Game Trailer — "Evil Has Always Had A Name" 🏆 Best Lead Performer — Angela Sant'Albano as Grace Ashcroft How close was it? Requiem won with 17% of the public vote. Phantom Blade Zero was right behind at 16%. Crimson Desert at 15%. One percentage point. That's how tight this race was. Capcom also took Studio of the Year. Remember the year Requiem has had: launched February 27, 5 million copies in five days — the fastest start in Resident Evil history — 8.5 million and counting, Metacritic 89-93. Now it's officially the game of the year. And awards season has only just begun — with the Horror Game Awards winners announced November 20. Grace Ashcroft didn't just survive Raccoon City. She conquered 2026. #ResidentEvilRequiem #ResidentEvil #GoldenJoystickAwards #Capcom (🔗gamesbeat.com/golden-joystic…)

IT'S STILL COMING. AND IT'S BIGGER THAN EVER. Maika Monroe just gave us the update we've been waiting for on THEY FOLLOW — the sequel to It Follows. "It's definitely on a bigger scale," she told People, "but I think it's still very grounded in the original." That's exactly what you want to hear. It Follows was a festival darling that barely made a dent in theatres — then became a modern horror classic on streaming. Now, over a decade later, the sequel is finally happening, and Monroe is back as Jay. And she's not coming alone. Mike Gioulakis, the cinematographer behind those iconic wide shots that made the original so terrifying, is back too. Monroe says that look — the shots, the framing, the dread — is "very much there." David Robert Mitchell just came off his biggest production yet with The End of Oak Street. But Monroe says They Follow keeps the grounded, intimate feeling that made the original hit so hard. "I think they're going to be happy," she said. "I'm feeling confident. So, I can't wait." The cast is stacked with new faces: Naomi Ackie, Justine Lupe, Michael Gandolfini, Jackie Earle Haley, and more. Ackie teased it back in October: "It's It Follows — but more." No release date yet. But the entity is still out there. And this time, it's bigger. Are you ready to run again? #TheyFollow #ItFollows #HorrorMovies (🔗bloody-disgusting.com/movie/…)

ART THE CLOWN'S ORIGIN IS COMING — BUT DON'T EXPECT TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. David Howard Thornton just teased Terrifier 4 at Chattanooga Comic Con, and the message is clear: Art is getting a backstory — but NOT a sympathetic one. "We don't want him to have a sympathetic background," Thornton said. "In my head, he basically is evil incarnate. He came out of the womb just evil." Thornton revealed the origin was the very first thing he asked director Damien Leone about when he sat down in the makeup chair. Leone's answer at the time? "I don't know." Years later, the plan is taking shape — and Leone has promised Terrifier 4 will be "the most epic, horrifying, thrilling, emotional and satisfying conclusion to the saga." What we know so far: 🎃 The film takes place around New Year's Eve — a whole new holiday for Art to ruin 🎃 Thornton returns as Art, alongside Lauren LaVera (Sienna) and Samantha Scaffidi (Victoria) 🎃 It's expected to be the final film in the series 🎃 No official release date yet Art was born evil. And Terrifier 4 is finally going to show us why. #Terrifier4 #Terrifier (🔗comicbook.com/movies/news/te…)

HE IS BACK. THE MUMMY HIMSELF JUST CONFIRMED IT. Arnold Vosloo has officially confirmed he is returning as Imhotep in The Mummy: Book of the Dead. "I just signed my deal," Vosloo revealed on the Danger Close podcast. "We are doing another Mummy. Brendan and them are shooting now in London. And the character Imhotep is back, that I play. I'll be going there in November." And then the line that sent every 90s kid into orbit: "Somebody wakes me up... they read from the Book of the Dead... and there we are." The full family reunion is now complete: ⚱️ Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell ⚱️ Rachel Weisz as Evelyn — back for the first time since 2001 ⚱️ John Hannah as Jonathan ⚱️ Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay ⚱️ Kevin J. O'Connor as Beni ⚱️ And now Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep Directed by Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream) from a script by David Coggeshall. A direct sequel to The Mummy Returns — ignoring Tomb of the Dragon Emperor entirely. The Mummy: Book of the Dead opens in theaters October 15, 2027. Death is only the beginning. #TheMummy (🔗fangoria.com/the-mummy-4-arn…)

ROBERT EGGERS JUST MADE HIS DARKEST FILM EVER — AND THE RATING PROVES IT. Werwulf is officially rated R. And not just R. The MPA's full description reads: "strong bloody/disturbing violent content, gore, sexual assault, graphic nudity and strong sexual content." Eggers himself called it "the darkest thing I have ever written" when Focus Features brought the footage to CinemaCon. Let that sink in. This is the man who made The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu. Set in 13th-century England, Werwulf reunites Eggers with his Nosferatu stars — Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe. He wrote the screenplay with Sjón, his co-writer on The Northman. The trailer lets you hear Taylor-Johnson howl — but keeps the transformation itself a secret. We still haven't seen the beast. And the release date? Christmas Day. December 25, 2026. Focus Features is dropping the darkest werewolf movie of the year on Christmas. Tickets for select 35mm screenings are already on sale. A medieval werewolf nightmare, from the most uncompromising horror director working today, on Christmas Day. Are you spending Christmas with the Werwulf? #Werwulf #HorrorMovies (🔗dreadcentral.com/box-office/…)

JAPANESE HORROR MANGA NOAH OF THE BLOOD SEA IS GETTING A FEATURE FILM ADAPTATION! A luxury cruise vacation turns into a nightmare in NOAH OF THE BLOOD SEA, the five-volume horror manga by Yu Satomi. The story follows a family embarking on what should be a dream vacation aboard a luxury cruise ship. But when passengers begin mysteriously disappearing, the journey quickly descends into a terrifying fight for survival. Los Angeles-based Tyrus Pictures has acquired the film adaptation rights from Japanese publisher Takeshobo. Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche will produce the project, which is targeting a 2027 PRODUCTION START. Mokhneche praised the manga's cinematic potential, highlighting its combination of an unsettling atmosphere, a luxury cruise setting, and distinctive supernatural mythology. No director or screenwriter has been announced yet. Better think twice before booking that cruise vacation! #NoahOfTheBloodSea #HorrorMovies #JapaneseHorror (🔗bloody-disgusting.com/movie/…)

THE BATTLE FOR FREDDY KRUEGER IS OVER — LEE CRONIN'S NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PROJECT IS DEAD! Warner Bros.' competing A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movie is officially no longer moving forward, according to an exclusive report from @DreadCentral The project reportedly had Evil Dead Rise and The Mummy director Lee Cronin in talks to write and direct. Warner Bros. was reportedly racing to get its own version into production before Paramount could move forward with its competing project. However, following Paramount's October 6 acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the rival development effort has come to an end. PARAMOUNT PRIMAL IS NOW THE ONLY COMPANY DEVELOPING A NEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET MOVIE. The Paramount project is being developed with the involvement of Wes Craven's estate and will draw from his original 1984 screenplay. Importantly, this doesn't necessarily mean a scene-for-scene remake of the original film. No director or screenwriter has been officially announced for Paramount's project yet. Freddy Krueger is still coming back — but Lee Cronin won't be the one bringing him to the screen in this abandoned Warner Bros. project. #ANightmareOnElmStreet (🔗dreadcentral.com/exclusive/5…)

SKYDANCE CEO DAVID ELLISON SAYS AI COULD BECOME THE BIGGEST CREATIVE UNLOCK IN MODERN HISTORY! Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison believes artificial intelligence could have an even greater impact on filmmaking than the introduction of CGI in the 1990s. Speaking during the company's latest earnings call, Ellison compared the potential breakthrough to the technology that helped create iconic films like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. He believes AI tools could significantly reduce production costs, make ambitious projects more affordable, and allow studios to take greater creative risks on original stories. Ellison pointed to James Cameron's The Terminator, which was made on a $4 million budget in 1984. Recreating the film shot-for-shot today, he estimated, could cost between $60M and $70M. However, Ellison stressed that AI should support artists, not replace them. "In a world of AI slop, we think there will always be a premium for truly hand-crafted storytelling." He added: "Artificial intelligence is a tool for artists and will never be a replacement for them." Skydance is also developing its own AI tools to accelerate production and improve efficiency across the company. His comments come as James Gunn and Peter Safran prepare to step away from their leadership roles at DC Studios, with Jeremy Latcham set to take over on December 1. #AI (🔗gamesradar.com/entertainment…)