Wonder Woman, the first good entry in the DC film universe[1], racked up a $100.5 million opening weekend in the US, which had shot up to $263.6 million[2] worldwide by mid-week worldwide. The film became the highest domestic opening for a female director, but it took in less than its critically-panned counterparts: Suicide Squad[3] ($133.7 million), and Batman v Superman[4] ($166 million). Patty Jenkins, the director, already has sequel ideas, but Warner Bros has yet to sign her up.
On Monday, Variety[5] reported that Vince Gilligan – creator of Breaking Bad – has teamed up with the PlayStation team to create a virtual reality experience based on his show, which ended its run in fantastic fashion. There are no details on what it’ll contain, but it won’t be live-action mostly, and it won’t release this year.
After releasing a teaser for his Steam short-film experiments last week[6], Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios dropped a second teaser trailer[7] on Monday, which features Sigourney Weaver alongside creepy aliens and a lot of gore. Though nothing came of Blomkamp’s attachment to the Alien franchise, it does seem to have resulted in at least this.
While The Mummy[8] launches Universal’s Dark Universe on Friday, director Alex Kurtzman revealed[9] the existence of two more films as part of the extended franchise on Tuesday: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Phantom of the Opera. That’s in addition to Bride of Frankenstein (with Javier Bardem), Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man (with Johnny Depp), and The Wolf Man.
Cowboy Bebop, the 1998 Japanese anime that lasted for 26 episodes, is getting...