#Franchise Expansion

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• 🇺🇸 ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Promo Teases New Look At Old Faves Played By Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Maya Hawke & More — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The 50th Hunger Games are approaching, and the odds are ever in the favor of longtime fans waiting to see some familiar faces. In Lionsgate’s new promo for the franchise, which features a recap of the...

  Related: #Film Marketing, #Dystopian Fiction
• 🇺🇸 ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Reveals First Footage — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin and Ralph Fiennes are among the stars of Francis Lawrence's prequel feature that Lionsgate releases later this year.

  Related: #Film Industry, #Entertainment Marketing
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Testaments’ Has a Major ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Connection — But You Won’t See Any Red (At Least Not in Season One) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  "I had déjà vu all over again with Chase [Infiniti] sitting at the window in 'The Testaments,'" executive producer Warren Littlefield tells The Hollywood Reporter about the expectations around their G...

  Related: #Television Adaptation, #Creative Direction
• 🇺🇸 ‘Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’ Unveils New Trailer Before U.S. Debut (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Bandai Namco Filmworks has unveiled a new trailer for “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,” the second chapter in the Hathaway film trilogy, ahead of its U.S. theatrical opening o...

  Related: #Anime Release, #Film Distribution
• 🇺🇸 Eric Kripke On Why ‘The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Death Was “A Really Hard Call,” Finding Kimiko’s “No Bullsh*t” Voice & ‘The Boys: Mexico’ Status — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Boys, Season 5 episode ‘Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite’ With The Boys plummeting faster than a speeding bullet to its finale, Eric Kripke has quickly m...

  Related: #Narrative Choices, #Character Development
• 🇺🇸 ‘One Piece’: Season 3 Gets Title, Release Year & Plot Details; Lego Animated Special Set; New Anime Series First Look Released By Netflix — 07/04/2026 [USA]

  In the finale of Season 2, One Piece: Into the Grand Line, Luffy and his Straw Hat crew set sail for Alabasta to help their new friend, Princess Vivi, and her people confront the villainous Baroque Wo...

  Related: #Media Announcements
• 🇺🇸 Steven Knight May Have a New ‘Peaky Blinders’ Generation on the Way — But He Has Tommy Shelby to See off First — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The show's creator and director Tom Harper discuss closing out one of TV's most beloved franchises with feature 'The Immortal Man' — and why Snoop Dogg, A$AP Rocky and a Birmingham scaffolder with a c...

  Related: #Story Continuation
• 🇺🇸 ‘Stranger Things’ Animated Spinoff Gets One-Day Theatrical Preview — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  ‘Tales From ‘85’ will show in select AMC cinemas five days before its Netflix premiere.

  Related: #Streaming Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Bradley Cooper Eyed to Direct ‘Ocean’s 11’ Prequel and Star With Margot Robbie — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Bradley Cooper, who has been in talks to star opposite Margot Robbie in the new “Oceans 11” prequel, is now also at the top of the list to write and direct the Warner Bros. movie. The move comes after...

  Related: #Film Industry
• 🇺🇸 ‘Family Guy’ Stewie Spinoff a Go at Fox for 2027-28 — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The network has placed a two-season order for the animated show focused on the youngest member of the Griffin family.

  Related: #Television, #Animation
• 🇺🇸 Kate Winslet Joining ‘Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum’ — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  The Oscar winner will play an undisclosed role in Andy Serkis' feature.

  Related: #Film Casting
• 🇺🇸 Kate Winslet in Talks to Star in ‘Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum’ With Andy Serkis — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Kate Winslet is venturing from Pandora to Middle-earth. The beloved actress, who was recently in James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” is in talks to star in “Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum....

  Related: #Film Casting
• 🇺🇸 ‘Tink’ Series, Based on ‘Peter Pan’ Fairy Tinker Bell, in the Works at Disney+ — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Bridget Carpenter and Liz Heldens are developing the project.

  Related: #Entertainment, #Streaming
• 🇺🇸 Sylvester Stallone to Exec Produce ‘John Rambo’ Prequel Movie — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The Lionsgate feature about origin story behind the character Stallone originally played has started production in Thailand.

  Related: #Film Production
• 🇺🇸 ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Prequel Loses Director Lee Isaac Chung Amid Creative Differences — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Margot Robbie is attached to star and produce the Warner Bros. feature through LuckyChap.

  Related: #Hollywood Development, #Creative Differences
• 🇺🇸 ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Sets Peacock Streaming Release Date — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Prepare to be reunited with your favorite homicidal animatronics: “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” will be available to stream on Peacock starting on April 3. A sequel to the wildly successful “Five Nights...

  Related: #Horror Entertainment, #Streaming Rights
• 🇺🇸 As ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Nears the End of Its Season, Can the Reboot Sustain Itself? — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  Executive Producer Alex Baskin chatted with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the season 12 reunion, dishing on why he believes the revival is a success and his hopes for the show's future.

  Related: #Reality TV Reboot, #Generational Shift, #Media Evolution
• 🇺🇸 TV Ratings: ‘Marshals’ Rides to Big Premiere on CBS — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  The ‘Yellowstone’ spinoff scores the largest scripted premiere audience without a football lead-in in more than seven years.

  Related: #Television Ratings, #Broadcast Strategy
• 🇺🇸 ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Officially in the Works at Warner Bros. From ‘Andor’ Writer — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  The Warner Bros. project is the story of Aegon's Conquest, which is also in early development as a series at HBO.

  Related: #Entertainment Industry, #Fantasy/Sci-Fi, #Media Business
• 🇺🇸 ‘Marshals’ Premiere Shocker: [SPOILER]’s Sudden Death Kicks Off ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff With a Twist — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from Season 1, Episode 1 of “Marshals,” “Piya Wiconi,” which premiered Sunday, March 1 on CBS. “Marshals,” the first new show in the “Yellowstone”-iverse sin...

  Related: #Television Spinoffs, #Genre Transformation
• 🇺🇸 ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Marshals’ Turns Taylor Sheridan Franchise Into a Workmanlike CBS Procedural: TV Review — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  “Marshals” is a new kind of “Yellowstone” spinoff. Rather than a prequel series tracing the Dutton family back through generations of Western migration and conflicts over land, it’s a contemporary sho...

  Related: #Genre Transformation, #Character Evolution
• 🇺🇸 ‘9-1-1’ Crossover Promo: Buck & Eddie Head To Nashville For Firefighter Games In 2-Hour Crossover Event — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  As the 9-1-1 universe settles into its new Nashville spin-off, some familiar Angelenos will visit Music City in next week’s episode. On Thursday, ABC shared a promo for the two-hour 9-1-1 crossover ev...

  Related: #Television Crossovers, #Character Development