Nicolas Cage is playing Joe Exotic, Robocop coming to Mortal Kombat 11, Cate Blanchett in talks to star in the Borderlands movie, National Treasure is getting a Disney+ series, Boba Fett is coming to The Mandalorian and more in this week’s return of the News Shotgun.

James Dean is returning from the grave to co-star in a new movie via CGI, CBS is rebooting The Equalizer with Queen Latifah, two new potential cast members join The Batman, Japanse Spider-Man is joining the Spider-Verse, more “Blank Has Fallen” movies are on the way and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Denzel is back as former CIA operative Robert McCall, using his skills to help people in need but his latest mission is personal when a friend is brutally murdered.

The Rock, Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington are all here this month with big action blockbusters, there’s horror from The Purge and Unfriended, a light MCU adventure from Ant-Man and The Wasp and more.

Denzel’s bad ass former CIA agent turned vigilante for hire Robert McCall is back this summer for The Equalizer 2, this time looking for revenge against the people who murdered his friend and fellow former CIA agent, Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo).

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe dive into the mountain of SDCC news, including the Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad trailers, Jared Leto’s Joker, the jazz fueled insanity of The Spoils Before Dying, the madness behind the scenes of The Island of Dr. Moreau, Terminator time travel questions and much more.

A bunch of release date shuffling and reveals this week along with a massive amount of Adult Swim and Cartoon Network shows coming to Hulu, some classic villains coming to TMNT 2, an animated Spider-Man movie is in the works and much more in the News Shotgun.

The combined excellent openings of both Gone Girl and Annabelle led to the best ever October weekend box office.