Movies & Shows

News: Jesse Eisenberg won’t return as Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, and Sorkin has used the film’s press tour to explain why, with Jeremy Strong stepping into the role for the October 9 release.

News: Sony Pictures has reportedly emerged as the frontrunner to adapt Electronic Arts’ Battlefield into a movie, with Christopher McQuarrie attached to write and direct and Michael B. Jordan producing and eyed to star, following a five-studio bidding war earlier this year.

News: Disney is licensing Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ first two seasons, all five Ice Age movies, and more to Netflix starting October 4, a nonexclusive, time limited deal that keeps everything on Disney+ as well.

News: Eddie Murphy is set to make his first ever scripted series lead in The Chairman, a new Peacock drama from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, produced by 101 Studios and Universal Television.

News: HBO and Sky’s new legal drama WAR has premiered with Dominic West and Sienna Miller going through a scandalous divorce, and the anthology’s second season already has Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, and David Harewood attached.

News: Prime Video has renewed Neagley for Season 2, with Amazon citing around 40 million viewers for the Reacher spinoff’s debut season in its first two weeks.

News: NEON has released the first US trailer for Clarissa, Arie and Chuko Esiri’s acclaimed Lagos-set reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, and Ayo Edebiri, ahead of its December theatrical release.

News: Paramount has officially cast Bradley Cooper as Duke in Danny McBride’s upcoming G.I. Joe reboot, taking the franchise in a grounded new direction with a script co-written by McBride, Jeff Fradley, and John Carcieri.