Taikia Waititi Will Direct The Next ‘Judge Dredd'

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18-07-2025

Barbie gets her first non-DTV animated movie for theaters, a breakout Strange New Worlds character enjoys more screen time, and Steve from Stranger Things picks up a humongous chainsaw. Thirsty for more? Spoilers, ahoy!
THR reports Taika Waititi is attached to direct a new live-action Judge Dredd movie based on a script by Drew Pearce (Mission: Impossible – Rouge Nation, The Fall Guy). Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley and Ben Smith of Rebellion Developments, Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt, Natalie Viscuso and Pearce, himself, are attached to produce the project, which is currently looking for a studio.
Deadline reports Gale Ann Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Yuletide, a yet-to-be-published comic book series at Oni Press from writer George Northy and artist Rachele Aragno. Described as 'a fast-paced family adventure in the tradition of The Goonies, Goosebumps, and Hocus Pocus with a horrifying holiday twist,' the story concerns 'ancient Norse creatures let loose upon an idyllic Northeastern town at the height of the gift-giving season — and the only three teenagers capable of holding them at bay with an ancient secret tied to the origins of the holiday itself.'
Deadline also reports an animated Barbie movie is now in development at Illumination, Universal, and Mattel Studios.
Unsurprisingly, Deadline confirms Willem Dafoe has also joined the cast of Robert Egger's Werwulf.
Speaking with Bloody-Disgusting, The Purge creator James DeMonaco teased 'people's favorite character' may return in part 6.
I just finished a script. My producer, Sébastien Lemercier, has read multiple drafts, given me notes. We just handed it to Jason [Blum]. I'm really happy with it. I hope they like it. I think it's cool and fun. We're hoping next year would be great to shoot, maybe the end of this year if timing works out. But now it's with the powers that be, so we'll see what happens.
People's favorite character might be coming back, I can say without naming who that is; a couple of people who could be. But someone's coming back who I love and I think the audience loves.
Then we create some real great female heroes in this one. There's some really amazing women. We've had some great women in the past, but real warrior women come forth here in a way that we haven't really explored on Purge night.
It's been really fun to write. And I'm writing with my wife, so I'm getting a nice female perspective, and that's been really fun.
A man becomes lost in a seemingly endless subway passage in the trailer for Exit 8.
Elsewhere, a science-fiction writer begins to lose his grasp on reality after his first taste of success in the trailer for Terrestrial, starring Jermaine Fowler.
According to Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio is developing a live-action Captain Planet TV series at Netflix with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Former Mrs. Davis showrunner Tara Hernandez is attached to write the pilot.
In conversation with /Film, Melissa Navia revealed the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was specifically written to include more screen time for Erica Ortegas.
Yeah. I mean, I know for my part I didn't [push for more screen time] in particular, because I knew since season 1 our showrunners and our writers have been saying, 'We want to write more Ortegas into the show.' But when you have 10 episodes and you have this amazing ensemble cast, and you have legacy characters and new characters, the fact that we get as much out of all of them as we have gotten is a testament to the writers and what they're able to pack into these mini-movies that you guys get.
But for Ortegas, after season 1, seeing the big fan response, that was so beautiful and heartwarming and everything you could ask for as an actor. And again, our showrunners are like, 'We know what the fans want, we're going to give it to them.' And then season 2, I was very excited with all the screen time she got, but the fans were not excited [laughs]. They were excited, but they were like, 'Not enough!' And I'm like, 'Ah!'
So, season 3, it's a progression. And I'd love to see — I love our writers, I think they're all rock stars. I'd like to see where they see Ortegas going, and then I'll have my input as well. But a lot of this is them kind of doing what they do best, and I do what I do on my side of things.
Spoiler TV has new images from the fifth season of Stranger Things. Click through to see the rest.
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will's disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they've faced before. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
Finally, the Smith family encourages Morty to let his son die in a hospital while they visit a restaurant with precognitive waiters in a clip from this Sunday's episode of Rick and Morty.
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