The chase for the powerful Infinity Stones is on! Beginning next month, INFINITE DESTINIES will trace the current whereabouts of these legendary artifacts, some of which have fallen into the hands of Marvel’s newest breakout characters. This highly anticipated Marvel Comics event will play out over the course of eight thrilling annuals, and their startling repercussions will be explored in INFINITY SCORE, the upcoming arc in Jed MacKay’s hit run on BLACK CAT!

Marvel’s biggest heroes know all too well the destruction that the Infinity Stones can herald and are determined to stop this unbelievable cosmic power from falling into the wrong hands once again. Each part of this saga will see an iconic character clash or team up with a rising star as the very future of the Marvel Universe hang in the balance! Which of these powerful new characters is an Infinity Stone Bearer…and which isn’t? Find out by snatching up these annuals this summer! Each annual will also include one chapter of INFINITE FURY detailing Nick Fury’s chase for these stone-bearers and finding so much more than he bargained for.

August will see the final three chapters of this game-changing story:

In MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1, written by Saladin Ahmed and Jed MacKay with art by Luca Maresca and Juan Ferreyra, Miles will team up with the Magnificent Ms. Marvel series’ breakout hero: AMULET! Together, they’ll investigate a series of monster attacks in Brooklyn and discover a series of cursed magical objects. But who activated them, and why? And can Spider-Man and Amulet find out before the monsters take them down too? Also featuring INFINITE FURY Part 7 by Jed MacKay & Juan Ferreyra!

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ANNUAL #1 by Al Ewing and Jed MacKay with art by Flaviano and Juan Ferreyra will finally see Hercules go head to head with his newest rival! Hercules has always been known as the Prince of Power…that is until a younger prince showed up to out-muscle him! With the aid of an all-powerful Infinity Stone, even a complete idiot can develop the quads, delts and abs of a Prince of Power...but why was it THIS idiot? Focus on your core, True Believers – the answers will shock you to it! Also featuring INFINITE FURY Part 7 by Jed MacKay & Juan Ferreyra!

"I've been holding onto the secrets of the Power Stone for a long, long time - some of these ideas have been bubbling away since the end of Infinity Wars,” Ewing teased. “But while anyone picking up GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY knows by now who the stone's new owner is, how they came to be has remained untold... until now. At last, the world can learn the true, tragic tale of the Prince of Power..."

And finally, AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 will present the startling conclusion to this unpredictable saga. Written by Jed MacKay with art by Travel Foreman, the last secret of the Infinity Stones and Infinity Stone-Bearers is revealed here. Plus, meet a brand-new character who beats Captain America and Iron Man within an inch of their lives. Also featuring INFINITE FURY Part 8 by Jed MacKay & Juan Ferreyra!

"We're all over the Marvel Universe with this one, and it's really exciting to see how the emergence of the Infinity Stones in their new forms will touch the different parts of the world,” MacKay said. “Who among the guest stars in these Annuals will be revealed to be a host of the Infinity Stones? For my own part, it's been a real joy to bring Black Cat and her world into the event, but also to work with favorites like Iron Man, the Avengers, Nick Fury and the whole gang. I'm really excited for people to see what INFINITE DESTINIES has to offer as an in-annual event!"

From The Infinity Gauntlet to The Infinity War, the emergence of the Infinity Stones has resulted in some of Marvel’s most memorable epics. Now, the next chapter in their storied history is just on the horizon! Check out the covers below and be there for the very beginning of INFINITE DESTINIES when it kicks off on June 2nd in IRON MAN ANNUAL #1!

What is it like writing for Marvel Studios? Collider asked that very question of Michael Waldron, head writer of Loki and writer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Specifically they wanted to know what it was like creating new material in a collective universe like the MCU: "Well, I think one of the joys of being a writer in the Marvel world is getting to make terrible messes and leave them for your [successors]. Although, occasionally, you find yourself being your own [successor]."

His Doctor Strange sequel will be directly influenced by the Loki series. "For instance, you write the Loki show and then you end up writing Doctor Strange 2, having to clean up your own mess and that can be a lot of fun. It's certainly important to define the rules, the background, the history of this organization, as much as we can to tell the story. But ultimately, all that's canon is what winds up on camera. So everything between those lines is open for interpretation, changing and everything."

Waldron also mentions that, like in the comics, everything is open to reimagining in the future: "It's like somebody wants to do a story with the TVA moving forward, certainly, we can have a conversation and I can tell them, 'Hey, here's what I thought maybe it would be,' but that's their thing, at that point and they should take it in their own direction."

Did you wonder why Mobius (Owen Wilson) was drinking Josta Soda, a beverage that has been discontinued since 1999? Well, Loki director Kate Herron answered that question to the AV Club: “In the writer's room they were adding in stuff that basically doesn't exist anymore. So that was a fun joke that we tried to continue. I'm not sure who picked Josta... I think it might have been Eric Martin." Martin is an executive producer on the series.

It turns out it kind of shows the power of the TVA: "Because they exist outside of space and time and they have access to all this stuff. So, yeah, it's just little details like that, like you said, you watch it, and you're like 'Wait a minute, I know that drink!'" Consider it product placement for people who see time as a flat circe.

DC Comics has announced the creative team and details for the upcoming Deathstroke Inc. series. The series was originally announced back at the ComicsPRO event in February of this year along with ten other titles, but no details for the book was given at the time. The creative team of Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter will be reteaming after their recent run on The Flash. Williamson has been all over the DC universe having written Batman, Robin, Batman/Superman and the recent Infinite Frontier. Porter has a celebrated stint on Justice League, JLA, Superman and Batman Beyond Unlimited.

The synopsis for the series reads: After suffering too many losses, Slade Wilson decides it's time for a change. When he's enlisted to work with an ages-old secret organization called T.R.U.S.T. who want to take down the heavy-hitter villains, he's all in.

The first issue is set to release on September 28th, 2021.

X-Men star Anna Paquin was interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter and asked about who she was closest too while filming: "Hugh [Jackman] was definitely my best friend on the first one. Then they started bringing in cast members that were closer to my age...there was like a kind of younger little gaggle of late teens, 20-somethings, but Hugh was the person I was always closest to because I had all my scenes with him and he's just wonderful."

She also mentioned just how much Jackman was put through during the first film and how he was always great to her. "He is still a lovely, gracious human being, but he got put through the wringer on that first one and never ever complained. [It would] be minus-40 [degrees], he's being dropped off some building onto his back over and over and over again and [he] still has all the time in the world to just be a nice normal person."

She gave a specific example of how close they were, talking about how the scene at the truck stop where he had his claws out and smoking a cigar, which he couldn’t do without hurting himself with the claws, so she would pick the cigar out from between his teeth. “What are friends for?”

The upcoming Amazon series Reacher, based on the character of Jack Reacher from author Lee Childs, is growing it’s cast quickly. Joining Titan’s star Alan Ritchson who will be playing the title character are some familiar faces. Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Beauty & the Beast), Marc Bendavid (Dark Matter, Good Witch) Willie C. Carpenter (Devious Maids, Brawl in Cell Block 99), Currie Graham (Murder in the First), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) and Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space) have all been added to season one of the series that will be an adaptation of the first Jack Reacher novel, the Killing Floor, which is set in a small town in Georgia. The series is being exec produced and showrun by Nick Santora.

The Ubisoft video game franchise, Far Cry, is the subject of not one, but two new projects in the works over at Netflix. According to Deadline, Already announced was Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix from Adi Shankar. This is of course tied to Far Cry 3. The company has now announced a second anime series based on the franchise but no further details were released. The first installment of the first person shooter dropped in 2004 and Far Cry 6, which will feature Giancarlo Esposito, will be released this October.

It has been a while since we had any news of season four of Westworld, but Deadline is reporting that Aurora Perrineau from Prodigal Son will be joining the cast in an unnamed recurring role. Reports say she will appear in at least five episodes of the new season. She has also been seen in the Netflix series When They See Us and the Hulu series Into the Dark. A premiere date for season four has not been announced.

Negotiations between CBSViacom and MGM Television have completely stalled, putting the chances of Clarice, the Silence of the Lambs sequel’s future in serious doubt. And Deadline is reporting that there is no viale way for the show to return to CBS as the network has already committed to a full slate for the fall, leaving Paramount+ as it’s only real option. Word had surfaced about a month ago that Clarice and SEAL Team Six would both move from CBS to Paramount+, and while the deal for SEAL as well as Evil have been made, the negotiations for Clarice are stalled and likely will mean that a show that once had a second season pickup will now be laying off 300 people.

Freya Allan, a breakout in the Netflix series The Witcher, is set to star in Baghead for Studiocanal and The Picture Company, Deadline reports. Production will begin in the fall in Berlin. Allan stars in the upcoming Studiocanal/The Picture Company action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake for Netflix.

The film will be directed by Alberto Corredor, who directed the short film that was acquired to be turned into a feature length horror film. Christina Pamies and Bryce McGuire wrote the script. Studiocanal will commence worldwide sales at the Cannes Market.

Baghead revolves around a mysterious figure called Baghead, a diminutive wrinkled up person who is able to manifest the dead and bring them back to our world for short intervals. People seek out the mysterious medium to reconnect with lost loved ones. Once in contact with Baghead, however, the title character’s true powers and intentions are revealed and there is a high price to pay for its contact with the deceased.

The feature transfer will build on that storyline and take a Saw-like approach, adding in supernatural elements. Allan will play the film’s lead, who must contend with the evil entity which has deep connections to her family’s past.

Sony is reporting the Thursday night previews to Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway which began at 4 p.m. yesterday at 2,572 theaters, and the long-awaited Will Gluck directed sequel grossed $900K. The first Peter Rabbit in February 2018 didn’t hold any previews.

Sony earlier in the week was expecting $8M-$10M, but the sequel could very well do in the teens at 3,300. As far as Thursday night comps to Peter Rabbit 2, it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison due to pre-pandemic numbers, however, both Sony’s Emoji Movie and Fox/DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls posted $900K Thursday nights, and respectively went on to $24.5M and $46.5M opening weekends. Peter Rabbit 2 has a 70% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The first installment of Peter Rabbit opened to $25M domestic and went on to make $115.2M domestic, $351.2M WW. While Sony has sold off some of its movies to Netflix (licensed out global rights, if you will), the Culver City lot kept Peter Rabbit 2, as they knew they could make some dough off of this one. Already, the sequel has banked over $46M offshore, after a staggered launch out of Australia at end of March (before Victoria closed down), and heads into China this weekend. (via Deadline)