Nerd Informants

While there was no mention of X-Men in Comic-Con’s Hall H this past weekend, Marvel Studios seems to be getting closer to forming its team of Mutants. Sources tell Deadline that Samara Weaving is the choice to play Emma Frost in the upcoming X-Men movie.

After meeting with a number of candidates, director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige landed on Weaving earlier this week to tackle the role.

Marvel had no comment on the casting.

[Deadline]

Mahershala Ali says he will no longer star as Blade.

He trained for a year to prepare for ‘Blade’ so he used the sword training for his next action film ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’.

[GQ]

“Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret” director Alice McShane says the actor hasn’t been held accountable for the sexual misconduct allegations against him because outrage “has slightly cooled” and “the rise of the manosphere”:

“There’s something about our culture at the moment — I think there’s something that I feel might be happening 10 years on from . It just feels like the outrage about stories like this has slightly cooled, and I think that also with the rise of the manosphere, and also people in very significant positions of power having had allegations leveled at them as well about their treatment of women, I think that in a way, these sorts of stories have been normalized in people’s minds, and I just don’t think that they get the traction perhaps that they would have done 10 years ago. So I think that’s part of it. I also think with Leto, he’s cultivated this persona of this kind of weird, enigmatic, mysterious guy, and I think, in a way, that sort of shielded him from accountability.

He’s also an incredibly good-looking man, and I think that there is an element of “pretty” privilege here, and that that actually came through in a lot of the interviews with the women.”

[Variety/BBC]

‘WONDER MAN’ has been cancelled.

The show is no longer returning for a Season 2.

[Variety]

IMAX 70mm showings for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ are being extended through to September 16 due to massive demand.

Disney and ABC are asking the FCC to throw out petitions seeking to block the renewal of eight ABC-owned TV station licenses, arguing the agency is targeting the stations with the “death penalty of license non-renewal” because President Trump dislikes its programming.

“For years, President Trump has expressly demanded that the Commission revoke ABC’s broadcast licenses for speech he dislikes,” Disney and ABC said in an FCC filing submitted July 29 and posted publicly Thursday. “Since his appointment, Chairman [Brendan] Carr has subsequently opened all manner of investigations and issued a slew of burdensome investigatory requests.”

[Variety]

“The Walking Dead” franchise will stream on both Netflix and AMC+ beginning in 2027 as part of a new five-year, $500 million licensing deal.

Netflix has held the exclusive U.S. streaming rights for “The Walking Dead” since 2011. The new deal will allow AMC+ to stream the main series for the first time ever, and extend the show’s availability on Netflix in the U.K., Italy, Australia and New Zealand, among other territories.

The deal covers the original “The Walking Dead,” as well as all six of its spinoffs, including “Fear the Walking Dead,” “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” and “Tales of The Walking Dead.” In total, that’s 371 episodes.

[Variety]

Good times! 😬😆

Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women, who claim the offenses occurred when they were teenagers. Leto had denied the allegations.

In a new BBC documentary “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret” — airing Wednesday — a total of 10 women come forward with allegations against the actor and musician, nine of whom the BBC says are sharing their stories for the first time.

[Variety/BBC]

First poster for Robert Eggers' ‘WERWULF’.

In theaters on December 25.