Venom: The Last Dance confirms an alien species. Netflix unleashes its new Buffy-inspired animated series from Ali Wong. Plus, killer flies attack Scotland in a new horror movie. Beyond this point, the veil between the spoilers and not-a-spoilers is at its thinnest!
Karate Kid: Legends
The new Karate Kid movie starring Ralph Maccio and Jackie Chan is now officially titled Karate Kid: Legends.
The new #KarateKidMovie is kicking things off at #NYCC. Join us at the Empire Stage at the Javits center on Friday, October 18th 7:00PM-8:00PM. pic.twitter.com/WxxqoiwKW8
— Karate Kid Movie (@KarateKidMovie) October 10, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance
Elsewhere, an officially licensed Venom: The Last Dance t-shirt confirms the creatures hunting Eddie and Venom in trailers are called “Xenophages.”
New Venom: The Last Dance merch officially confirms that the creatures hunting Venom are indeed called Xenophages! pic.twitter.com/VMCjS9v4xl
— TheVenomSite (@thevenomsite) October 9, 2024
Midgies
A swarm of genetically experimented upon midge flies attack Scotland in the teaser trailer for the horror-comedy, Midgies.
Tomb Raider
Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke provided Variety with an update on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider TV series, adding “we think it’s going to be a huge franchise for us.”
Tomb Raider is really exciting and Phoebe is well into it and working in close partnership with [“Tomb Raider” general manager] Dallas Dickinson and the game producers, and it’s going to be very exciting. But I don’t have any [new updates]… When we look at a long term commitment to a creator like Phoebe — we’re so happy now that we retained her because she’s obsessed with and grew up playing Lara Croft/Tomb Raider. So the fact that she’s the creator and bringing this character to life, we think it’s going to be a huge franchise for us. She went off to do a movie, there are things that happened — if people want to go take an accounting of what deals they were able to get value out of or not, there’s still probably a lot to do there. But I think we’re looking at converting a lot of those deals to a very performance-based model, based on what they accomplish. And that’s been received very well because you’ve got to change with the times.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians
Likewise, Rick Riordan provided Comic Book with an update on the second season of Percy Jackson & The Olympians.
We’re not at the halfway point in shooting, but I’d say we’re probably coming up on like the one-third mark. Maybe, you know, that’s just my opinion. That’s not official from Disney or anything. I can say that we’re on schedule and things are moving right along, and people are just working like you wouldn’t believe.
Grotesquerie
FX has released a trailer for the next two episodes of Grotesquerie.
Jentry Chau vs The Underworld
Finally, Netflix has released a trailer for Jentry Chau vs The Underworld, which looks a lot like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.
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