"With her series Stranger Things coming to an end this past winter, Sink has hit the ground running with the next stage of her career, recently starring as Jean Grey opposite Tom Holland in the record-breaking Spider-Man: Brand New Day. She is set to reprise the role in the upcoming Marvel pic X-Men, which begins production at the top of the year."
With Resident Evil crossing the $245M mark and Box Office Mojo updating Disclosure Day’s worldwide total to $243.7M, this means Warner Bros’ highest grossing movie of the year so far (Wuthering Heights), now sits at the 16th position among Hollywood movies at 2026’s box office and the studio no longer has a movie among the top 15 highest grossing theatrical releases of the year.
Current ranking:
1-Spider-Man: Brand New Day - $2.505B (Sony)
2-The Odyssey - $1.767B (Universal)
3-Toy Story 5 - $1.147B (Disney)
4–Michael - $1.028B (Lionsgate)
5-The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - $1.012B (Universal)
6-The Devil Wears Prada 2 - $693.2M (20th Century)
7-Project Hail Mary - $684.5M (Amazon MGM)
8-Minions & Monsters - $525.5M (Universal)
9-Obsession - $519M (Focus)
10-Backrooms - $400.6M (A24)
11-Hoppers - $389.6M (Disney)
12-Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - $345.6M (Disney)
13-Moana - $323.4M (Disney)
14-Resident Evil - $245.3M (Sony)
15-Disclosure Day - $243.7M (Universal)
16-Wuthering Heights - $241.8M (Warner Bros.)
Answering to someone asking if Secret Wars got delayed again, Alex said:
"I know the production start got pushed but nothing on the release date as far as I’m aware. Though I wouldn’t be opposed to a push."
Answering to someone asking to when the production start was pushed to, Alex said:
"During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lucasfilm announced that a Star Wars spin-off film titled Rogue Squadron was in development. Patty Jenkins would direct the film after her critically acclaimed Wonder Woman came out in 2017, but before Wonder Woman 1984. The studio produced a high-budget video announcing the project at Disney’s Investor Day, where Jenkins discussed her Air Force background and her desire to make a movie like Top Gun set in the Star Wars universe. After this big reveal by Lucasfilm, the film faded into oblivion, as many Star Wars projects have since Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.
We at Knight Edge Media learned exclusively that Rogue Squadron went through multiple iterations at Lucasfilm. Surprisingly, Patty Jenkins wasn’t the original director of the movie. The original plan dates back to when J.D. Dillard was attached to write and direct an untitled Star Wars film. While it wasn’t revealed until 2020, he had actually been working on it since 2018 with screenwriter Matt Owens(Luke Cage, One Piece). This was the first version of Rogue Squadron that the studio put into early development. After leaving the project, Dillard later directed the Korean War fighter-pilot movie Devotion, starring Jonathan Majors, in 2022. During the press tour for Devotion, Dillard teased that his Star Wars film was “inspired by the TIE Fighter PC game he played as a kid” (via SlashFilm).
The first version of the film never went anywhere, and Patty Jenkins joined at the end of 2020 to reinvent the project. However, as we would learn, the second version also never went anywhere, and Lucasfilm began shifting its focus to Disney+ shows under former CEO Bob Chapek’s mandate. The Mandalorian had become a global smash hit, and the studio wanted to develop more projects set in the “Mando-Verse”. In 2024, Jenkins briefly mentioned working on the movie version of Rogue Squadron again, but it was before the WGA Writers Strike of 2023.
Finally, in late 2022, a new secret project entered development under the working title Ghost Track 17 (via Star Wars News Net). The project remained untitled but would be produced by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni and set in the Mandalorian universe. This would have been the third version of the project, specifically an adaptation of Rogue Squadron for Disney+. The series would be co-showrun by Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, The Mandalorian) and Rayna McClendon. McClendon consulted on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and was part of the original Star Wars writers’ room with Damon Lindelof (via The Hollywood Reporter). Surprisingly, McClendon actually helped co-write an earlier draft of Star Wars: New Jedi Order with Lindelof before Justin Britt-Gibson officially took over. Nevertheless, Famuyiwa’s series eventually “fell apart” and was shelved (via The Wrap). Since then, Lucasfilm put everything in theatrical on hold in favor of The Mandalorian & Grogu and then Star Wars: Starfighter. However, they may be shifting their focus back to theatrical films as Star Wars: Episode X finally picks up steam, with Jon Watts attached to a new trilogy and a script by Simon Kinberg."
He also said this about the cast announcement (not for Avengers: Doomsday) he teased would be coming soon under the same post from yesterday:
"Today isn’t the day. I said DAYS, and I was told it would be soon."
"However she works, it’s working. When the dust settles on East of Eden and Doomsday and Dune, Pugh will head right into a series of new opportunities. The list includes at least one more Marvel film, Avengers: Secret Wars, out next December;"
"20th Century Studios has 99 problems but a pitch ain’t one.
The Disney studio arm has hired Josh Cooley, the animation filmmaker known for Toy Story 4 andTransformers One, to pen the live-action adaptation of video game 99 Nights in the Forest.
20th Century picked up theatrical film rights to the popular game, developed by Grandma’s Favourite Games and hosted on Roblox in the spring. The project marks the first time the division is tackling a feature adaptation of a video game.
While the rights were picked up clean and without attachments, the project now has horror legend Sam Raimi and frequent producing partner Rob Tapert on board as producers.
The game’s developers — Alec Kieft, Matthew Hufton and Cameron Angland of Grandma’s New Zealand-based Favourite Games — are executive producing, as are Romel Adam (Evil Dead Rise) andJose Cañas (Play Dead)."
Among new promotional arts leaked by the user HEXFacility.com (@hexfacilitycom) there is one that seems to be some kind of in-universe X-ray document about the character of Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch), who has been teased to have a role in VisionQuest.
The document says the name Jim is actually an abbreviation of Joule Individual Machine (J.I.M.).
It also features this in the bottom right: "Prototype by P. Horton, PhD Hammond Engineering". In the comics, Phineas Horton is the name of the scientist who made Jim Hammond.
The document also mentions "Burgos Laboratory, New York", which seems to be a reference to Carl Burgos (the real life creator of the character Jim Hammond).
The document also features a date, "Jan. 19, 1939", which indicates Jim Hammond has been around in the MCU since the late 1930s (like he did in the Marvel comics universe).
"Avengers Endgame: Encore went on sale in India on Thursday night. In its first 24 hours, the film had sold an impressive 15,000 tickets. At the time of writing, the ticket sales have nearly doubled to over 25,000 tickets, which will be worth around Rs. 1.50 crore. Of this, the top ticket booking portal in the country, BookMyShow, is reporting over 15,000 sales so far.
Notably, the film has achieved these sales with a very limited rollout at some premium screens, with several screens and centres yet to go on sale, including a metro centre like Chennai. If everything were on sale in one go, the sales numbers could probably have been doubled or even higher. On top of all that, there are still almost two weeks until release, making it all the more impressive.
A start like this will be considered great for a new release; here, this is a re-release of a seven-year-old film, which isn’t all that old either. This is a testament to the box office clout of Marvel in India. The brand seemingly took a hit in recent years, but with the All Time Blockbuster success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and now rising anticipation of Avengers: Doomsday, the brand feels alive again.
Avengers Endgame: Encore is forecasted to open at Rs. 5-8 crore nett in “Pinkvilla Predicts”. The pre-sales start points to an opening closer to the high end of the range. That would be the biggest opening for a Hollywood re-release in India comfortably. If the film sustains this momentum in sales, it could probably go higher."