Beloved comedian Norm MacDonald passed away this week, Anthony Mackie is starring in Twisted Metal, Hayley Atwell is voicing Lara Croft for the Netflix Tomb Raider anime, a secret Eraser reboot was filmed and is coming out next year, The Lost Boys and Flight of the Navigator reboots are moving forward and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Idris Elba is voicing Knuckles for Sonic 2, Netflix has found its Morticia and Gomez for Tim Burton’s Addams Family spin-off series, Clancy Brown joins John Wick 4, the Criterion Collection will start putting out select 4K discs, Superman: The Animated Series is coming to Blu-Ray, the Ahsoka series is looking for a live-action Sabine Wren and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the Everything Actioncast podcast, Zach and Chris talk about The Suicide Squad, Marvel’s What If?, the upcoming insanity of Prisoners of the Ghostland, The Addams Family, Saw and Spiral, Idris Elba voicing Knuckles for Sonic 2, and more.

James Gunn crosses the aisle to DC and brings the same sense of humor and heart he brought to Guardians of the Galaxy (and lots of ridiculous violence) for the excellent The Suicide Squad, which fixes everything about the mediocre first Suicide Squad movie by creating a better plot and more interesting and fun characters.

The Suicide Squad arrives in theaters and on HBO Max to rapturous reviews along with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Vivo on Netflix and Annette and John and the Hole in limited release.

Jonathan Majors stars as cowboy Nat Love, who assembles his old crew when his archnemesis Rufus Buck, played by Idris Elba, escapes custody in the upcoming Netflix western, The Harder They Fall.

Bloodsport is recruited by Amanda Waller and joins old and new members of Task Force X on a mission to assault a former Nazi prison and laboratory in the South American country of Corto Maltese where an evil group is working on something called “Project Starfish” in James Gunn’s upcoming Suicide Squad.

The Muppets are getting a Halloween special in The Haunted Mansion, Showtime developing an Al Capone/Elliott Ness series, legendary actress Olympia Dukakis passed away, Hannah John-Kamen is the new Red Sonja, The Flash is losing two main cast members and more in this week’s News Shotgun.