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We’ve got a number of announcements coming from HBO Max’s launch of it’s new Branding.  The Streaming Platform is using the absorption of Discovery+ content to rebrand to just…Max. New pricing tiers are also being released with different ad levels.

The announcement I’m personally most excited for is The trailer for The Penguin series.  It will be a spinoff from Matt Reeves’ The Batman.  The series will see Colin Farrell return to the role he played in The Batman with an eight episodes run premiering in 2024, Audiences will watch the Penguin navigate the power vacuum left in the underworld of Gotham City.

The big announcement from Warner Brothers also revealed a new Game of Thrones prequel series is in the works. Based on George R.R. Martin’s series of novellas, the Dunk and Egg books, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and Aegon V Targaryen 90 years prior to the events of A Song of Fire and Ice.

Up next, Horror and  Crime Thriller fans can look forward to two series of favorite franchises coming to Max. Peter Safran and James Wan of the The Conjuring movies are helming a drama series set in the horror universe audiences love. And Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology series True Detective returns with Jodie Foster solving a bone-chilling mystery in True Detevtive: Night Country set in Alaska.

Moving on to other things, In Marvel news, we learned that a 45-minute storyline of Thanos obtaining the Power Stone on Xandar was cut from the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War. Wanting to keep the already long movie at a reasonable runtime, the scene did not receive full special effects treatment, but does exist in some form.

Fans of The Walking Dead are set to get a new show as well with a six-part, short-form story series being produced by AMC+. Following in the footsteps of similar off-shoots before it, The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne will premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

A new animated series from DC is set to premiere in 2024 as the first entry to the DC Universe helmed by Peter Safran and James Gunn. Featuring voice actor extraordinaire Alan Tudyk, David Harbor,Indira Varma and Frank Grillo, the series, called Creature Commandos, will update the original comics characters who were a precursor to the Suicide Squad set during World War II, but still stay true to those storylines and themes.

Morena Baccarin and Stefan Kapicic have joined the cast of Deadpool 3 and will reprise their roles of Vanessa and Colossus

Michelle Yeoh will reprise her role of Emperor Philippa Georgiou in a Star Trek Section 31 film for Paramount+

Mia Goth who starred in the horror films X and Pearl last year has joined the case of Marvel’s Blade in an unknown role 

A Galaxy Quest series is in development for Paramount+. It is not known at this time if it will be a reboot or a continuation of the original 1999 film.