Last Friday, Fox released a trailer for The New Mutants[1], a horror expansion to the X-Men franchise starring Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams, The Witch’s Anna Taylor-Joy, and Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton. It’s directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), and will be out April 13, 2018.
On Sunday, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds revealed[2] that Deadpool 2 had wrapped production, ahead of its June 2018 release. A similar announcement came from director Simon Kinberg via Instagram[3], who said the next X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, has also finished filming. That one will hit cinemas November 2, 2018.
Then on Monday, we got the first full trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther[4], the standalone adventure for the character – played by Chadwick Boseman – introduced last year in Captain America: Civil War[5]. He’ll need to cull a civil war of his own back in his native Wakanda after the death of his father. The film will release February 16, 2018.
Later that day, a report from Variety[6] claimed that Reid Scott (Veep) had been added to the cast of Sony’s Spider-Man spin-off Venom. Scott joins Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, and Jenny Slate. Venom is slated to release on October 4, 2018.
We finally got the title for the Han Solo movie on Tuesday, courtesy of new director Ron Howard. It’s called Solo: A Star Wars Story[7], which is as simple and plain a title could be. Solo: A Star Wars Story will be out May 25, 2018.
Netflix[8] has revealed that it plans to up its content spending[9] to $8 billion (about Rs. 52,044 crores) in 2018,...