Bruce Wayne has donned many Batsuits over the years, but could he be about to get his most drastic new look yet in the pages of Batman #100? As you can see below, a Jorge Jimenez variant cover for the landmark issue has been released showcasing a new costume for the Caped Crusader. 

The issue looks set to be the culmination of the current “Joker War” event playing out in Batman, so it would certainly make sense for the hero to need a formidable new Batsuit/armour to put an end to the Clown Prince of Crime’s latest reign of terror.

“In Batman #100, ‘The Joker War’ comes to a city-shattering conclusion as Batman battles The Joker in a brutal, no-holds-barred final duel,” reads the solicitation text for the issue. “This is a fight 80 years in the making, and its outcome won’t just change Batman’s life – it will change Gotham City for years to come!”

“Plus, catch the first glimpse of the new villain known as Ghost-Maker,” it continues. “And after the senses-shattering conclusion of ‘The Joker War’ come a pair of short stories that will chart what’s to come in Gotham City and Batman.”

It’s clearly going to be a big issue, and there’s no denying that this Batsuit brings back memories of Batman & Robin…minus the nipples, of course. This issue is set to go on sale on October 6th, and we might learn more about Batman’s new look later today when solicitations for the month are released.
 

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“Manners. Maketh. Man.”

On the heels of the first full trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man (originally known as Kingsman: The Great Game), we have a pair of new international posters which assemble the main heroes and villains of the upcoming prequel.

The movie boasts and all-star cast led by Ralph Fiennes as T. E. Lawrence, who takes in a young prospect named Conrad (Harris Dickinson) in order to train him as an elite Kingsman Agent. Set during and after World War I, the movie will also explore the origins of the mysterious British intelligence agency.

We still don’t have a whole lot to go on as far as the plot is concerned (we do know that the story revolves around “a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gathering to plot a war to wipe out millions, and one man’s race against time to stop them”), but if it’s anything like its predecessors (well, the first one), it should be a fun watch at the very least.

Check out the posters below along with the recent trailer and let us know what you think.

Also starring Liam Neeson, Daniel Brühl, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, and Stanley Tucci, The King’s Man is set to hit theaters on September 18, 2020.

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In “Rumor Mill,” we share the hard to buy rumours that don’t come from reliable sources like the trades, but are still more believable (just) than what you might find on Reddit. 

According to Cinelinx’s Jordan Maison, he’s heard rumblings that at least “a couple” of Disney+ TV shows spinning out of the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story could be in the very early stages of development for the streaming service. Maison has shared a lot of reliable information in the past, so this is definitely a rumour worth taking note of.

As he mentions, it’s possible these never got past the “idea stage,” and he’s unable to share any further details on which characters these might have/will focus on. 

We can, of course, take some guesses. Qi’ra seems like an obvious choice seeing as her storyline ended on something of a cliffhanger, and that would go some way in filling in the final gaps in Maul’s history. Chewbacca could also be fun, though Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian receiving the spotlight in his own solo series honestly seems the most likely show for Disney+.

Unfortunately, with no Disney+ this year, it’s unlikely we’ll learn of Lucasfilm’s future Star Wars plans for a while, but this is definitely something that’s going to get #MakeSolo2Happen fans talking. 
 

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Some new Jurassic World: Dominion set photos have been shared by The Sun as shooting resumes in Pinewood Studios in Berkshire, England. While they were taken from above, we see a snowy setting and a downed plane, and it’s fair to say this is a very different location for the franchise.

Of course, with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom closing the door on a return to Isla Nublar and dinosaurs now roaming the entire Earth, it was clear we would be paying a visit to some unexpected locales.

Quite a few productions in England have resumed, but Dominion is perhaps the biggest, and a source tells the site: “This is the last thing anyone expected so soon. Everyone was excited about getting things back up and running on set but this could totally derail that. There are millions and millions of pounds at stake here.”

Shooting on director Colin Trevorrow’s threequel was called off in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains to be seen whether it will meet its planned June 2021 release date as of right now.

Check out the photos by following the link in the Tweet below:
 

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By now, you’ve no doubt heard that there’s a chance movie theaters won’t be able to re-open in late July/early August as planned, but some new forecasts point to them possibly staying closed until…next year?! 

Cowen’s Doug Creutz has shared a new outlook for the future of theaters, explaining that while, “we had previously assumed that the spread of COVID-19 would be relatively halted, with social distancing requirements significantly lessened by late 2020. We have now extended that timeline out to at least mid-2021; the situation remains very fluid, and we do not rule out the possibility that the impact could last even longer.”

Simply put, he believes many theaters won’t be able to re-open until the middle of next year, and goes so far as to say that he doesn’t anticipate any new films released in “fiscal year 2020” (for Disney, that ends in September). “We now expect domestic theaters to be largely closed until mid-2021, in part because we don’t think studios will be interested in releasing their largest movies into a capacity-constrained footprint,” Creutz adds. 

The news for theme park fans is no better as he expects that Disney World’s “heavy capacity constraints will prevail until at least mid-2021,” and notes that “there is a meaningful probability that the park could be forced to close again.”

As for Disneyland, that “remains closed, and we expect that to persist due to California’s more cautious approach in dealing with the virus.” Needless to say, the outlook is bleak, and things really aren’t looking good right now.

Things change all the time, of course, but with COVID-19 cases on the rise in the United States, these forecasts sounds alarmingly accurate. 

What do you guys think? 

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