Stallone joins the world of superheroes by becoming Samaritan on Prime Video in August

The Lord of the Rings returns with a brand new Prime Video original series, following the events of the Second Age of Middle-Earth, thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Memorable actors James Caan, Tony Sirico, and Gregory Itzin all passed away this week, Captain America 4 has a director, Vice is expanding their Dark Side Of… series to comedy, The Duffer Brothers are adapting The Talisman and Death Note for Netflix and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

After his death at the hands of Hughie, Butcher, and Frenchie, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) was forced by Vought to perform the ridiculous power ballad “Never Truly Vanish” at his memorial service, a song that was nominated for an Emmy in real-life and actually sung by Moriarty herself.

Irredeemable and Incorruptible are coming to Netflix for a new superhero movie, Amazon closes their $8.5 billion deal to buy MGM, a new Kung Fu Panda series is coming to Netflix, Harley Quinn is getting a spin-off animated series, Christopher Lloyd is coming to The Mandalorian Season 3, Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon and William Hurt passed away and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

After two Tom Cruise starring Jack Reacher movies, Alan Ritchson takes over as a more book-accurate spin on the wandering badass in next February’s Prime Video series Reacher.

This week on the Everything Actioncast podcast, Zach and Chris discuss all the trailers and first looks from Netflix’s “Tudum” event, including Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher and The Sandman, legal decisions and new lawsuits regarding Friday the 13th and Marvel, Fear Street, the terrible first episode of La Brea on NBC, Puppet Master and more.

Netflix and Prime Video both have teen slashers streaming this coming October with an I Know What You Did Last Summer TV show on Prime Video and There’s Someone Inside Your House coming to Netflix, both produced by James Wan.