The latest dispatches Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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Paul W.S. Anderson will direct film adaptations of Kevin J. Anderson's cosmic horror novels Nether Station and Nether Vortex, with Weird Tales producing.
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Mashle: Magic and Muscles gets a live-action film in Japanese cinemas on 19 March 2027, from Warner Bros., Fuji TV, CREDEUS and Toho.
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
News Horror
Seraph of the End ends with chapter 161 in Jump SQ on 4 December, closing a 14-year run. The anime, meanwhile, is still…
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
News Anime/manga
Lionsgate has greenlit its live-action Naruto film with Sony co-financing. Destin Daniel Cretton directs, and Charles Melton is in talks to play Kakashi.
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Bethesda has revealed The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, set in Hammerfell, eight years after the 2018 teaser. No date, no platforms, and "some…
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
News Games
Hari Seldon's psychohistory could forecast the fall of a Galactic Empire to within a decade, but it never saw the battle pass coming.
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
News Horror
Korean horror Dead-End Job hits No. 2 on Netflix's global chart and tops 14 countries. Lee Jae-wook's deadly part-time jobs, the reviews and…
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
News Horror
Clayface passes The Substance to become the highest-grossing body-horror film, with $83m worldwide on a $44m budget. Hideo Kojima approves.
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
News Anime/manga
Yokoso Scooby-Doo!, the first original Scooby-Doo anime, sends Shaggy and Scooby to Japan to chase yokai, with OLM animating for Tubi and Cartoon…
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
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Dave Bautista has gained 20lb to play Kratos in Amazon's God of War series, with Ronald D. Moore reshooting the scenes made before…
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
News Comics
Karate Kid: Legends star Ben Wang is in talks to play Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, in Jake Schreier's X-Men for Marvel Studios, due…
ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
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Norihiro Yagi, the man who gave the 2000s its moodiest silver-eyed swordswomen in Claymore, has a new series out, and it begins with…
ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
Review Comics
‘Suicide Squad: The Nightshade Odyssey’ isn’t just stories from their own title but others like ‘Millennium’ and ‘Secret Origins’, with a lot of…
UncleGeoff / 1 Nov 2026
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Spoilers: in Captain America #16, Doctor Doom takes over Hell and declares Mephisto's deals void, which has Spider-Man fans wondering about One More…
ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
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