A ton of news about Paramount+, a new Superman movie is in development, Neill Blomkamp is writing a District 9 sequel, Twisted Metal is getting a TV series, Amazon is developing a Lady Jaye GI Joe TV series, and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Zack Snyder returns to the genre that put him on the map with Army of the Dead in May on Netflix, where a group of mercenaries attempts to pull a massive heist during a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas.

This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris pay respects to the late Sir Sean Connery and discuss the upcoming Hellraiser TV show and previous movies in the franchise, the Stephen King multiverse, the season 2 premiere of The Mandalorian, The Haunted Mansion movie, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Creepshow and more.

Dune may have finally gotten the adaptation it deserves with Denis Villeneuve’s epic looking version that is arriving in December this year with Timothee Chalamet leading an all-star cast as Paul Atreides, heir to the House Atreides who joins his father to the remote planet of Arrakis to oversee the mining operation of “the spice”, a drug essential for space travel and power in the universe.

Spider-Man: Far From Home remained at the top of the box office for another weekend, putting it just shy of $850 million worldwide for two weeks out while Crawl defeated Stuber in the battle of the R rated new releases.

Killer alligators and crazy Uber rides are the subjects of this weekend’s new movies, Crawl and Stuber.

The son of his traitorous former partner (played by Vincent D’Onofrio in the first Escape Plan) kidnaps Ray Breslin’s girlfriend Abby and takes her, along with other captives, to the horrible Devil’s Station prison in the third Escape Plan, Escape Plan: The Extractors.

Ray Breslin and his team of security experts are called in to rescue a Hong Kong tech mogul’s daughter, who has been kidnapped and taken to a brutal Latvian prison, in the upcoming third movie in the Escape Plan series, Escape Plan: The Extractors.