Legendary Comics recently teamed up with DC Comics for a seven issue limited series where popular DC super heroes entered the MonsterVerse – the franchise of connected films and TV shows Legendary Entertainment has been building with Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and the animated Skull Island series. The series was called Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong – and that comic book series is now inspiring a toyline, as February 2025 will see the release of a Batman vs. Kong action figure set! Images of the set can be seen at the bottom of this article and more can be found on Entertainment Earth, where they’re also accepting pre-orders.

Coming from McFarlane Toys, the action figure set has the following description: The Caped Crusader faces off against King Kong! This DC Justice League and MonsterVerse crossover features a 7-inch Batman figure with a 11 1/2-inch tall King Kong Megafig figure. As an added bonus, a 3-inch Batman figure is included! It also comes with an alternate Kong head, figure display base, and collectible art card with character art on the front, and character biography on the back.

The cataclysmic crossover event of the year is here as the DC Universe clashes with Legendary’s Monsterverse in Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong. Clark Kent is enjoying a night off with a very important dinner planned with his girlfriend, Lois Lane, when the entire city shudders under the weight of the monstrous Godzilla, who emerges from the bay! What started as a routine clash between the Justice League and the Legion of Doom takes a dangerous turn when the wall between worlds is breached… with Godzilla, Kong, and the Monsterverse emerging on DC’s Earth!

Will you be buying the Batman vs. Kong action figure set? Take a look at the images and let us know by leaving a comment below. And if you happened to read the Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong comic book series, let us know what you thought of it!

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HBO has given the green light for Dune: Prophecy season 2. The renewal comes just a few days ahead of the first season finale, which will debut on December 22nd.

The series, which HBO produces along with Legendary Television, takes place 10,000 years before Paul Atreides’s ascension. It follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten humankind’s future and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit.

Sarah Aubrey, Head of Max Original Programming, said, “DUNE: PROPHECY has captivated audiences around the globe thanks to the visionary leadership of showrunner and executive producer Alison Schapker, who will continue to guide this grand tale of truth and power. We are incredibly grateful to our partners at Legendary and to our extraordinary cast and crew for their service to the Imperium. We’re excited to collaborate with this team again to see what they have in store.”

Jason Clodfelter, Legendary’s President of Television, added, “This new season will allow us to continue building out the groundbreaking, epic DUNE franchise that has captivated audiences worldwide across its installments. We look forward to continuing our incredible partnership with HBO and are thrilled for Alison Schapker, her team, and the cast and crew who have worked so passionately to bring this world-class source material from Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to life.“

The series stars Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen, leader of the sisterhood, Olivia Williams as Tula Harkonnen, Valya’s sister, Jodhi May as Empress Natalya, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina as Princess Ynez, Shalom Brune-Franklin as Mikaela, Faoileann Cunningham as Sister Jen, Aoife Hinds as Sister Emeline, Chloe Lea as Lila, Travis Fimmel as Desmond Hart, Mark Strong as Emperor Javicco Corrino, Jade Anouka as Sister Theodosia, and Chris Manson as Keiran Atreides.

I don’t know if our own Alex Maidy was a fan of Dune: Prophecy, as he seemed a little underwhelmed in his review. “Dune: Prophecy is a well-made series with high production values and a solid cast of veterans and newcomers, but it cannot help but feel like a replica of Game of Thrones set in outer space,” Maidy wrote. “With a limited run of episodes for the first season, I expected more from this series, which spends each episode too heavily reliant on characters talking to each other rather than providing a compelling argument for telling this story rather than other periods from the ten thousand years before Paul Atreides arrived on Arrakis.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.

What do you hope to see in Dune: Prophecy season 2?

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The Steam Winter Sale is now live, bringing with it some big deals on new and old games including Animal Well, Call of Duty, Star Wars Outlaws, Dead Space, Mass Effect, and many, many more.

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The Steam Winter Sale is now live, bringing with it some big deals on new and old games including Animal Well, Call of Duty, Star Wars Outlaws, Dead Space, Mass Effect, and many, many more.

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Lower the lights, close the curtains, and leave one headphone halfway off your ear to detect outside noise because Rory Culkin (Lords of Chaos, Scream 4, The Good Son) and Paris Jackson (Gringo, Habit, American Horror Stories) will lead the 1990s-set softcore porn comedy Skinemax. The project comes from Adam Sigal (Sargasso, Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose), who directs Skinemax from a script he wrote. Production for Skinemax recently wrapped in Budapest, with the film sounding like it could deliver some blush-worthy laughs.

Skinemax focuses on the softcore porn industry in 1990. You know, the decade when adult film icons like Silvia Saint, Asia Carerra, Peter North, and Jack Napier were the kings and queens of fictitious bedroom gymnastics, and adolescents prayed for scrambled channels to display even a single private part long enough to feel as if they’d won the porn lottery. Yeah, that magical time. The film follows Morgan Sands (Culkin), a failing indie film director, and his unlikely friendship with Jessie Hudson (Jackson), a popular adult film star.

In addition to Rory Culkin, brother to Macaulay and Kieran Culkin, and Paris Jackson, the second child and only daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, Skinemax stars Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, Willard), Oliver Trevena (Plane), Will Peltz (Unfriended, The Collection), Mark Boone Jr. (Memento, The Game), GaTa (Anyone But You), Jared P-Smith (FBI), Vladislav Lapidus (Dead Man’s Wire, I’m Beginning to See the Light), Zac Coats (Crave), Sierra Nowak (Lucifer), and Maren Altman (If It Bleeds).

If you’re unfamiliar with Adam Sigal’s work, he wrote and directed the 2023 comedic mystery Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. The film revolves around a paranormal psychologist named Dr. Nandor Fodor, who investigates a family’s claim of a talking animal. He uncovers a mysterious web of hidden motives, and soon, everyone becomes a suspect in his relentless pursuit of the truth. The delightfully off-kilter film also features Minnie Driver, Christopher Lloyd, Tim Downie, Gary Beadle, Paul Kaye, Jessica Balmer, and Ruth Connell.

Do you think Rory Culkin and Paris Jackson have what it takes to lead a softcore porn comedy? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

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Back in March, we heard that production had wrapped on the Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, which is coming our way from the team of producer / genre regular James Wan and director Osgood Perkins, whose credits include The Blackcoat’s Daughter (a.k.a. February), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Gretel & Hansel, and the recent Nicolas Cage horror film Longlegs (you can read our review HERE). Longlegs was released by Neon – and they’ll also be giving The Monkey a theatrical release on February 21, 2025. Today, Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a batch of images from the film (plus a behind-the-scenes image), and those can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Perkins wrote the screenplay for The Monkey, working from a King short story. The film will tell the following story: When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.

Theo James (The White Lotus) plays the twins in later years, while Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth) plays them in their younger days. Also in the cast are Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Attorney at Law), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends), and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek). The Entertainment Weekly article reveals that Maslany plays Hal and Bill’s mother; Wood plays Ted Hammerman, who’s married to Hal’s ex-wife and is threatening to adopt Hal’s son; Levy plays Hal and Bill’s aunt, who raises the boys as children and also appears in the later timeline. There’s also an image of Nicco Del Rio (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as a priest.

James Wan and Michael Clear are producing The Monkey for Atomic Monster, while Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan produce for C2 Motion Picture Group. Executive producers include Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger of Automatik, Peter Luo and Nancy Xu of Stars Collective, John Friedberg of Black Bear, and Chris Ferguson. Atomic Monster and Stars Collective developed the project, and C2 Motion Picture Group provided the financing.

Wan previously provided the following statement: “Stephen King is the godfather of the horror genre. He had a huge influence on me as a child and throughout my career and it’s always been a dream to help bring one of his stories to life. The Monkey is a personal favorite, with its simple, iconic, and incredibly marketable conceit. And I can’t imagine anyone better than a visionary and lifelong genre fan like Osgood to bring this to life.“

In addition to directing the films mentioned at the top of this article, Perkins directed an episode of the recent revival of The Twilight Zone. He has also worked on the screenplays for the thriller Removal, the crime thriller Cold Comes the Night, and the horror film The Girl in the Photographs.

Are you looking forward to The Monkey? Check out the images, take a look at the Entertainment Weekly article, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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A24 delivered the “disaster comedy of the millennium” when their film Y2K (you can read our review at THIS LINK) reached theatres on December 6th – but not a lot of movie-goers turned out to see it. The movie has only made $4 million at the domestic box office. Maybe it will be better luck when viewers have the option to watch the movie in the comfort of their own homes… and that option is arriving very soon. Next week, in fact. Y2K is set to receive a digital release on December 24th and is available for pre-order on Apple TV and Amazon.

The feature directorial debut of Saturday Night Live veteran Kyle Mooney, who also crafted the screenplay with Evan Winter, Y2K has the following official logline: On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.

The film stars Jaeden Martell (Stephen King’s It), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Daniel Zolghadri (Tales from the Loop), Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, Eduardo Franco (The Package), Mason Gooding (Scream VI), Australian rapper The Kid Laroi, newcomer Lauren Balone, Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie), Maureen Sebastian (Revolution), Miles Robbins (Blockers), Ellie Ricker (A Christmas in Royal Fashion), Jacob Moskovitz (Magnum P.I.), Daniel Dale (Elsbeth), Luca R. Stagnitta (Life & Beth), Anzi DeBenedetto (FBI), newcomer Zachary Clark, Frank Langley (Voodoo Possession), Kevin Mangold (Red Clover), Sebastian Chacon (Daisy Jones & The Six), and Mooney himself.

Jonah Hill produced Y2K with Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin, Christopher Storer, Cooper Wehde, and Evan Winter. Steven Fine is co-producer, with James Price serving as executive producer.

I remember the Y2K concerns (and the reign of Limp Bizkit) very well and recall what it was like on the last night of 1999, waiting to see if anything was going to happen to the technology when the calendar switched over to 2000. It’s fun to see a comedic look back on that night 25 years later, although the things that happen in the Y2K trailers are not quite the sort of things people were actually worried about at the time.

Have you seen Y2K? Will you be checking it out when it’s given a digital release next week? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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After beginning production nearly a full year ago back in early January, our final trip to Hawkins, Indiana is finally almost ready to begin. According to reports, filming on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things has concluded, just in time for us to kick off another year of speculation as we agonize about…

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After beginning production nearly a full year ago back in early January, our final trip to Hawkins, Indiana is finally almost ready to begin. According to reports, filming on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things has concluded, just in time for us to kick off another year of speculation as we agonize about…

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28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have finally reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, if you prefer, infected people) movie classic. This sequel is set up at Sony, it’s called 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch a whole trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. In fact, when producer Andrew Macdonald confirmed that filming on 28 Years Later had wrapped back in August, he followed that up by saying that they were about to start working on the second chapter in this trilogy. Boyle only planned to direct the first one; for the second film, he passed the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta. The sequel, 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, wrapped production in October… and now we know when it’s going to be released. 28 Years Later is set to reach theatres on  June 20th, 2025, and 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple will follow six months later, on January 16, 2026.

This release date puts the film in direct competition with Weapons, a mysterious horror project from New Line Cinema and Barbarian writer/director Zach Cregger. Weapons could move into 2025, since New Line has already held positive test screenings for it, but Deadline hears that they’re content with the January 16, 2026 release date, which is the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There’s also an unspecified Disney movie scheduled to be released that weekend.

Garland wrote the screenplays for 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, and is expected to write the last entry in the trilogy as well. While we don’t have any information on what happens in The Bone Temple, cast member Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) revealed some details on 28 Years Later: “Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain. But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.“

In addition to Fiennes, the cast of 28 Years Later includes Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). It has also been said that 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy returns “in a surprising way.”

In the original film, Murphy played bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to find himself in an apocalyptic England that’s overrun by people who have been infected by a rage virus. Boyle and Garland went through several endings for 28 Days Later before landing on the one movie-goers saw in theatres – and that ending was the only one where Jim survived. So he’s still out there, ready to live through another rage virus nightmare 28 years later. As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, “The 2002 film grossed $82.7 million globally and spawned a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, though Boyle and Garland were only nominally involved as executive producers.”

Thanks to their deal with Sony, each of these new films will be receiving a theatrical release and will have budgets in the $60 million range. 28 Years Later has a budget of $75 million. Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, original producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the head of Fox Searchlight Pictures when that company backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is executive producing.

What do you think of 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple getting a January 2026 release? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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