Louie Anderson and Meat Loaf passed away this week, the Heat sequel novel is coming in August, Godzilla is coming to Apple TV+, Daniel Radcliffe is playing Weird Al, the Mission: Impossible sequels are delayed again, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show gets an official title and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Technically a sequel to Matt Reeves’ found-footage monster movie Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane carved out its own niche as an excellent, tense thriller with a stellar cast and you can watch the entire movie in the last Everything Action Theater for 2021.

The latest from James Wan hits HBO Max and theaters with Malignant while Netflix has assassin action movie Kate, Prime Video has the thriller The Voyeurs and The Card Counter and Queenpins have limited theatrical releases this weekend.

After she’s poisoned, deadly assassin Kate, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, has 24 hours to live and she sets out to take out the person responsible, and anyone else in her way.

Birds of Prey kicks off February and seems to continue DC’s current streak of well-reviewed movies like Aquaman, Shazam! and Joker.

Much like Suicide Squad before it, this weekend’s Birds of Prey is using it’s soundtrack as a major promotional tool, with Atlantic Records releasing a new single/music video every Friday last month and the full soundtrack out this Friday with the movie.

Shortly after he retires as an assassin for the DIA, Henry Brogan gets word of a top-secret project by military contractor GEMINI that causes him to become the target of a younger clone version of himself named Junior with orders to kill.

After breaking up with The Joker, Harley Quinn finds herself targetted by crime boss Roman Sionis aka Black Mask but she also finds a group of like-minded women who want to take him down for various reasons as well in the upcoming DCEU movie, Birds of Prey.