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The Barbenheimer phenomenon catapulted both Barbie and Oppenheimer to the fourth largest weekend domestic box office showing of all time. Barbie pulled in $162 million dollars domestically and $344 million worldwide, making Greta Gerwig the first female director in history to achieve those numbers. Oppenheimer debuted to an $80 million dollar domestic showing and $174 million dollars worldwide, exploding the expectations. The two films are expected to continue to dominate the box office in the coming weeks as the end of the summer movie slate nears.

San Diego Comic-Con was held July 20-23 and still offered exciting news despite the writer’s/actor’s strike in Hollywood. So we’re gonna do a first on Multiverse News, A topic Specific Lighting Round.

Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe’s new Adult Swim series, Lazarus, promises some heavy action and themes.

Ubisoft showed footage for a new open-world video game, Star Wars Outlaws.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will feature a musical episode, called Subspace Rhapsody, in August.

In a trailer for yThe Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, we see lead actor Norman Reedus fighting zombies in France. Dead City has also been renewed for a second season.

The highly-anticipated three-part series The Continental, a John Wick prequel series, will premiere on September 22.

Alongside an official trailer, Amazon announced the second season of Invincible will debut November 3 with the first four episodes released weekly and the second group of four episodes to follow sometime in early 2024. A special feature for the character Atom Eve, is currently available to stream.

A longer trailer was released for Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the One Piece anime.

The Borderlands movie will be released in August 2024 and is getting an interactive series called EchoVision Live.

In the second trailer released for November’s The Marvels, we see more of Zawe Ashton’s villain and get a sense of how the team comprised of Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan will use their entangled powers to provide stabilization to the universe suffering from the aftereffects of unintended consequences.

Fans may be disappointed to hear that Warner Brothers is already assessing the need to delay Dune Part 2, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and The Color Purple amid contentious negotiations between the writer’s and actor’s guilds with the studios. The studio’s site the desire to have cast members involved in the publicity and premieres for the feature films, something that is not currently achievable with the ongoing strikes.

Internet rumors are circulating among industry insiders that a Barbie spin-off film focusing on Ken starring Ryan Gosling is in early development.

Cameron Monaghan, star of videogames Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor has closed a deal to join the cast of Tron: Ares.

The Boys upcoming spin-off show Gen V has set its premiere date. The series will debut with its first three episodes on September 29. Weekly episodes will follow with the finale set to wrap up the season on November 3rd. The new teaser trailer shows the hilarious and occasionally gory lives of students at the superheroes-only school, Godolkin University.

AMC Theatres has scrapped its plan to charge moviegoers more money for a better view of the screen.The company announced it is no longer moving forward with “Sightline at AMC,” a ticket pricing initiative based on seat location within the auditorium. The proposed system, which was announced in February, involved customers paying a few extra dollars for prime middle seats with an unobstructed view and saving a few bucks to sit in the front row.