TheJohn Wick franchiseexperienced a bit of a setback recently, with its first theatrical spin-off underperforming at the box office. Directed byLen Wiseman,From the World of John Wick: Ballerinabarely scraped past the $100 million mark at the global box office and has already been given an early release on PVOD. It’s now available to watch at home, where it’s beendominating the charts. But no amount of home video success can hide the fact that it wasn’t the hit that Lionsgate so desperately needed it to be....

Kristen Stewartis partnering with Scott Free once again, this time to make her feature film directing debut, according toDeadline. Having previously made a short film,Come Swim, which she wrote, directed and screened at both Cannes and Sundance, she is now reuniting with theRidley Scott-backed production company to directThe Chronology of Water. Stewart will also adapt the script alongsideAndy Mingo, with the basis being the memoir written byLidia Yuknavitch. ScottandMichael Prussare producing alongside Mingo....

Netflix revealed Season 2 ofLocke and Key, the successful adaptation of the comic book series of the same name from writerJoe Hill andartistGabriel Rodriguez, will premiere this October. The announcement was made by the shows’ cast during Geek Week, Netflix’s five-day virtual fan event. Besides revealing the release date of Lockeand KeySeason 2, the video published on Netflix’s Twitter account also shows the first images of the upcoming season. The series follows the Locke family as they move to a mansion after a terrible tragedy....

The next look at Luke Cage (Mike Colter) we’ll get will be this August inMarvel’s The Defenders, the Netflix series that finally unites the Heroes of Hell’s Kitchen. But Marvel Television and Netflix are already looking ahead to Season 2 of the series that centers on Harlem’s hooded hero and have announced two new additional casting decisions. Mustafa Shakir(The Deuce, The Night Of)andGabrielle Dennis(Insecure, Rosewood) have joined the cast in the sophomore season ofLuke Cage, set to premiere in 2018....

It appears as thoughMartin Scorsese’s relationship with Apple TV+ will extend beyond his next movieKillers of the Flower Moon. Per Deadline, the iconic filmmaker has signed a first-look, multi-year deal for film and television projects through his Sikelia Productions banner with Apple TV+. This includes projects that Scorsese will produce and direct, and signals the shifting landscape between traditional film studios and streaming. Indeed, Sikelia Productions had previously been set up at Paramount Pictures, which released Scorsese’sHugo,Shuttler Island,The Wolf of Wall Street, andSilence....

We learned earlier this summer thatMichael Keatonwould be reprising his role as Batman in DC’s highly anticipated upcomingThe Flashmovie, but now we have confirmation that it’ll be more than a cameo. Warner Bros. has been developing aFlashmovie for years now, and has gone through four different directors, but it finally appears as though this thing is actually, truly going to happen. Fresh off the success of New Line Cinema’sItmovies, directorAndy Muschiettiis onboard to take the helm with a screenplay byChristina Hodson(Birds of Prey) and a release date set for June 2022....

At first blush,Lee Isaac Chung’sMinariseems like it will be an immigrant story about a Korean family moving to Arkansas to start a farm. But rather than lean heavily on how the Yi family relates to their American surroundings, Chung wisely turns the story inward to show how immigrant aspirations are woven together with family struggles. The magic ofMinariis in how Chung shows that Korean and American identities blend together for a first-generation family but conflict doesn’t necessarily arise from culture or national identity....

This sharp-edged love triangle between a closeted police officer, a museum curator, and his adoring wife is based on the 2012 novelMy PolicemanbyBethan Roberts. The book is inspired by the travails of the great Edwardian novelist,E. M Forsterwhose relationship with a married heterosexual policeman played out secretly for 40 years. The book shines a light on the prejudice faced by the gay community in Brighton in the 50s and 60s, and the emergence of the south coast city’s thriving and blooming gay community during the time of institutionalized homophobia....

On July 2, it was announced thatGreta Gerwig, the beloved actress/director behindLady Bird,Little Women, and the upcomingBarbieis set todirect at least twoChronicles of Narniamoviesfor Netflix. Many were excited, or at least intrigued, by the prospect: after all, Gerwig has always been preoccupied with self-discovery and coming-of-age narratives, fantastical or otherwise, and her feminist worldview suggests that there may be justice for Susan Pevensie at last. Others, however, greeted the announcement with the abject despair ofCharlton Hestonfalling to his knees on the beach at the end ofPlanet of the Apes....

Audiences have seen a few versions of Arthurian legend in recent years. On the big screen,Transformers: The Last Knightkitchen sink’d King Arthur and his pals for some reason, andCharlie Hunnamtried to punch his way to victory inGuy Ritchie’sKing Arthur: Legend of the Sword. And on the small screen, and probably the best of the bunch, was the 2008 seriesMerlin. Well it’s about to get some competition thanks to a new deal between Netflix,Frank Miller, andTom Wheeler(Puss in Boots,The LEGO Ninjago Movie)....

As he said himself inThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,Nicolas Cageis back, “not that he went anywhere.” And he’s back in a big way, by heading to the A24 crew and getting to star in their latest flick! A24 is set to backKristoffer Borgli’sDream SequencewithAri AsterandLars Knudsenproducing under their Square Peg banner. Borgli will write and direct the film withJacob JaffkeandTyler Campellonealso producing. Details on the movie are currently under wraps, but it is reported that it will be a comedy, and honestly?...

Outcast, fromThe Walking Deadcomics creatorRobert Kirkman, is the latest in a stable of very unique, intriguing series that Cinemax has been claiming for itself over the last few years. FromBanshee(which wraps up this week) toSteven Soderbergh’s spellbinding seriesThe Knick, Cinemax has slowly been carving out a niche that has made it distinct from its HBO sister station, and getting away (somewhat) from its old “skin-a-max” connotations. As fellow premium channel Showtime has been know to do for its series, Cinemax is now releasing the first episode of Outcast online two weeks before its official debut....

The saga ofRidley Scott’sPrometheussequelcontinues, although this time the film is now firmly, officially on the books. The filmmaker was talking up aPrometheusfollow-up before the semi-Alienprequel even hit theaters, but while the box office for the film was solid, it wasn’t an automatic “go” for a sequel. Throw in a somewhat mixed response from audiences, and it was unclear if thePrometheusfollow-up would ever see the light of day. However, whenNeill Blomkamptalked his way into directing anAliensequelvia social media earlier this year, that apparently lit a fire under Scott’s behind to finally get moving onPrometheus 2....