Hey everybody, Joe Smith here for your Week In Geek for the week of November 25th to December 1st. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, but now let's talk about the week in geek that's fit to speak:

In Movies:

The Department of Justice filed a motion in a New York federal court to terminate the Paramount consent decrees, a series of legal rules from the 1940s which forbade the companies making the films from owning the theaters that screen them.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/justice-department-paramount-consent-decrees-2-1202793402/

J.J. Abrams revealed earlier this week that a complete script for the Rise of Skywalker had its way on to eBay.

https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1198962112590053377

https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1199689409446039552

Comcast aired a longform commercial for Xfinity that aired during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, which featured E.T. returning to visit Elliot after 40 years.

https://youtu.be/Pdgk3ERKdug

Universal Pictures is continuing to diversify their modern takes on the Universal Monster films.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/elizabeth-banks-invisible-woman-universal-1203417107/

The Hollywood Reporter stated that Channing Tatum plans to co-produce an adaptation of Sam Kieth’s comic The Maxx with Vertigo Entertainment.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/channing-tatum-roy-lee-adapt-sam-kieth-comic-maxx-1257352

Quick bites:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/will-patton-cassidy-freeman-join-blumhouses-new-purge-thriller-1257483

https://www.thewrap.com/godzilla-vs-kong-pushed-to-november-2020/

https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/bill-ted-face-music-teaser-revealed-9-month-countdown/

In Television:

https://www.parrotanalytics.com/insights/television-series-audience-tv-demand-in-the-u-s-17-23-november-2019/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/the-mandalorian-star-wars-baby-yoda

https://www.instagram.com/p/B40g-nlFFH3/

The BBC has confirmed with with their latest trailer that Doctor Who's 12th season will premiere with a two part episode on New Year's Day 2020 on BBC One and BBC America.

https://youtu.be/3aPfN_0WvK4

AMC has released a trailer for The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

https://youtu.be/pAT2sqh-5pI

Francis Lawrence, best known for directing Constantine and I Am Legend, recently revealed to /Film that he's acquired the television rights to Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor, in which the last living member of a death cult attains international celebrity.

https://www.slashfilm.com/survivor-tv-series/

Some quick bites:

https://twitter.com/MNightShyamalan/status/1198333872292937734

https://deadline.com/2019/11/strange-angel-canceled-cbs-all-access-after-two-seasons-1202795324/

https://twitter.com/jonahray/status/1199464688104292352

In Video Games:

As part of Valve's Steam Autum sale, the Valve Steam Controller was put on sale for $5 plus shipping, and is sold out forever.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/353370/Steam_Controller/

Google stated that the Stadia launch games Tomb Raider and Farming Simulator 19 will be free to Pro subscribers of the streaming platform in December.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/google-offering-refunds-for-players-that-bought-new-stadia-freebies/

In an Oculus blog post last week, Facebook announced they purchased Beat Games, the game studio behind the popular VR game Beat Saber.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/welcoming-beat-games-to-facebook/

A Resident Evil 3: Nemesis remake is in the works from Capcom, and will reportedly release in 2020.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-22-sources-resident-evil-3-remake-in-development

And that, folks, is your Week In Geek. As always, a full listing of this week's articles is available with source links down in the podcast description. And I'll see you geeks next week!

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Hey everybody, Joe Smith here for your Week In Geek for the week of November 18th to the 24th. Let's talk about the week in geek that's fit to speak:

This week, we're starting out with Video Games:

Why? Because Valve has good news, and bad news.

https://youtu.be/O2W0N3uKXmo

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/21/20975423/half-life-alyx-vr-price-release-date-screenshots-trailer-valve-steam

In Movies:

Frozen 2 released this weekend as largest-opening animated film of all time, grossing a global debut of $350 million. The film hit $127 million in domestic box office sales.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/frozen-2-opening-weekend-china-global-international-box-office-results-1202791912

A newly released 30-second TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker has aired, giving us even more new shots of the Star Wars film before its December 19th release.

https://youtu.be/1qphC39PJf4

https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/25/rise-of-skywalker-running-time/

Recent rumors of a possible sequel to the latest Joker film circulated this week.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/joker-sequel-no-discussions-yet-todd-phillips-no-dc-origin-villian-films-planned-1202790774/

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/todd-phillips-disputes-joker-sequel-rumors-no-contract-1202191289/

Deadline is reporting that Noah Hawley is in "final talks" to write and direct a fourth Star Trek film for Paramount.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/star-trek-noah-hawley-directing-writing-sequel-jj-abrams-chris-pine-paramount-1202785280/

Dexter Fletcher has been tapped by Universal Pictures to direct a movie about Dracula's henchman Renfield.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dexter-fletcher-dracula-henchman-renfield-robert-kirkman-1203410649/

MGM has picked a new director for its latest Robocop movie Robocop Returns.

Fede Alvarez has signed “an overall deal” with Legendary Pictures and plans to direct an untitled horror project.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web-fede-alvarez-overall-film-deal-legendary-1202789870/

Some quick bites:

Pom Klementieff has joined the cast of the next two Mission: Impossible movies in a currently undisclosed role.

https://twitter.com/PomKlementieff/status/1196845253040525314

https://twitter.com/antovolk/status/1196752980097339392

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-batman-john-turturro-carmine-falcone-1203413802/

In Television:

Deadline reports that in keeping with the deal Amazon Studios agreed to in order to acquire the rights to produce a Lord of the Rings TV series.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/

NBC is developing a new series with Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, based on Bridget Tyler’s recent sci-fi novel, The Pioneer.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/matt-nix-sci-fi-drama-the-pioneer-nbc-1202787747/

Hulu has confirmed Marvel's Runaways will indeed be ending after its upcoming third season.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/marvels-runaways-to-end-season-3-hulu-canceled-final-season-trailer-1202788430/

HBO released a trailer for Avenue 5, a new comedy series about a space cruise captained by Hugh Laurie where everything goes wrong. Also starring Josh Gad, Suzy Nakamura, and Zach Woods, Avenue 5 debuts on HBO in January.

https://youtu.be/Emu0I2hNfUk

Some quick bites:

The second season of Amazon's The Boys just wrapped filming.

https://twitter.com/therealKripke/status/1195239885822713857

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1196760031577948160

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3594856/netflix-renews-black-summer-second-season/

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-11-21/chris-chibnall-denies-doctor-who-exit/

And that, folks, is your Week In Geek. As always, a full listing of this week's articles is available with source links down in the podcast description.

Hey everybody, Joe Smith here for your Week In Geek for the week of November 11th to the 17th. Let's talk about the week in geek that's fit to speak:

In Movies:

Old wounds were torn open this week for Disney+ 4K streamers of the original Star Wars film.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/greedo-han-solo-star-wars-edit

https://twitter.com/i/status/1194280989327052801

Though there are many rumors for what these films could be, what we do know is the pace of future Marvel films has been set by Disney to be 4 times a year.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disney-sets-2021-release-ridley-scotts-last-duel-pushes-back-kings-man-7-months-1255349

More news for Matt Reeves' The Batman film.

https://collider.com/jayme-lawson-joins-the-batman/

Dwayne Johnson announced via Instagram that his long awaited Black Adam film is finally entering development next year, and is scheduled for release to theaters on December 22, 2021.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B42odCrFF42/

A new trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog was released. Check out the podcast description for a link to the trailer to judge for yourself if the redesign works.

https://youtu.be/szby7ZHLnkA

Warner Bros. has dropped the first trailer for Scoob, an animated origin storry of how Scooby and the gang all first met.https://youtu.be/ZnKvQbpDYXU

Blumhouse Pictures is putting a horror spin on Fantasy Island in its latest trailer. https://youtu.be/a6O30nJ02PU

Some quick bites:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mark-wahlberg-talks-join-tom-holland-uncharted-1254555

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvels-kevin-feige-breaks-silence-martin-scorsese-attack-1253710

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/little-mermaid-prince-eric-jonah-hauer-king-1203372947/

https://twitter.com/WriterRusso/status/1193971136305872897

In Television:

The Disney+ streaming service launched on November 12th with some controversy.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-disney-plus-launch-problems-20191112-n6gmdzfaujcudlmovwsojeuqkq-story.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50461171

Production is starting of the new Halo series in Budapest this month.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/halo-danny-sapani-olive-gray-charlie-murphy-join-showtime-series-based-on-xbox-franchise-1202781461/

One year after regaining the film and TV rights to his own graphic novel saga, Frank Miller has agreed to work with Legendary Television to develop a Sin City TV show, as well as a hard-R animated prequel series.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/sin-city-tv-series-frank-miller-robert-rodriguez-legendary-television-1202787314/

Neil Gaiman revealed in a recent interview that he’s already planning a second season of Sandman with David Goyer and showrunner Allan Heinberg at Netflix, even though the first season's release date has not been announced.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-11-07/neil-gaiman-sandman-tv-show-season-2/

Shout Factory has announced it will continue its annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon this Thanksgiving with “six classic episodes” and brand-new host segments with Crow and Tom Servo.

https://youtu.be/kCf7_ah1jnM

Some quick bites

In Video Games:

The list of games launching with Google's Stadia plartform on November 19th has been released.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-stadia-just-added-10-more-games-to-its-launch-lineup/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18655380/google-stadia-games-list-cloud-streaming-service-e3-2019

https://youtu.be/Qk3Qp_npjxE

And that, folks, is your Week In Geek. As always, a full listing of this week's articles is available with source links down in the podcast description.

Hey everybody, Joe Smith here for your Week In Geek for the week of November 4th to the 10th. Let's talk about the week in geek that's fit to speak:

In Movies:

New casting rumors are being reported for The Batman.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-andy-serkis-talks-play-alfred-1252564

https://deadline.com/2019/11/colin-farrell-the-penguin-batman-movie-cast-1202766532/

Deadline has reported that Fantastic Beasts 3 is now in production, and will begin filming in spring of 2020.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/fantastic-beasts-3-jessica-williams-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-1202777066/

Pixar released a trailer for their next movie, Soul. Directed by Peter Docter and Kemp Powers, Soul stars Jamie Foxx as Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher who yearns to pursue a career as a jazz musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TojlZYqPUo

Oliver Cooper has landed a role in the Jason Reitman-directed Ghostbusters.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/stephen-lang-death-in-texas-kj-smith-fatal-affair-oliver-cooper-ghostbusters-1202778268/

SpectreVision has released the first trailer for The Color Out of Space.

ttps://youtu.be/agnpaFLo0to

SpectreVision's Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah also stated in a recent interview with ComingSoon.Net that they are working to build out a Lovecraft universe trilogy, starting with Color Out of Space.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/1108719-exclusive-lovecraft-trilogy-in-the-works-at-spectrevision

Guy Pearce has joined the cast of Fangoria's latest horror film.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/guy-pearce-starring-horror-the-seventh-day-cinestate-fangoria-voltage-1202779502/

Some quick bites:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3593128/spyglass-resurrection-ghostface-new-scream-exclusive/

https://collider.com/michael-douglas-the-kominsky-method-season-2-ant-man-3-interview/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4TkqA2FwAo/

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/10/31/deadpool-director-doesnt-think-x-men-spinoff-kitty-pryde-movie-ever-happen/

In Television:

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Spaights has been removed as showrunner from the upcoming Dune.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dune-sisterhood-showrunner-exit-hbo-max-series-1252449

Some news from the Marvel Studios front.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rick-morty-scribe-write-marvels-she-hulk-1253300

Two new shows are in development at CBS TV Studios.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/propagate-cbs-tv-studios-deal-showtime-zorro-re-imagining-nbc-home-cbs-1202775312/

https://tvline.com/2019/11/06/kung-fu-female-led-reboot-the-cw/

Some more quick bites: Recent teaser posts to the official Doctor Who Twitter account indicate a new Doctor Who special or series 12 trailer coming on November 23, 2019.

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1193543839295819777

https://deadline.com/2019/10/h-g-wells-inspired-drama-wellsville-nbc-george-northy-sidecar-1202773206/

https://www.tvguide.com/news/see-dickinson-for-all-mankind-renewed-apple-tv-plus/

https://twitter.com/BenTTravers/status/1192566805782384640

In Video Games:

A new Chinese law went into place last Tuesday that regulates video game usage among its youth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/china-video-game-ban-young.html

Jarvis Khattri, a 17 year old YouTube content creator, was banned from Fortnite for life after he uploaded a video of himself using an aimbot to cheat in the game.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/10288613/fortnite-faze-jarvis-ban-zero-tolerance-millionaire/

Several top players of EA's Weekend League FIFA Tournament were caught in a secret Discord colluding to avoid playing each other in order to set up easier games and improve their winnings.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-07-inside-fifas-dodging-discord-scandal

https://www.ea.com/en-au/games/fifa/fifa-20/news/global-series-discipline-update-november-01-2019

And that, folks, is your Week In Geek.