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Netflix has been dropping news for months about the long-awaited third season of its LGBTQ+ teen hit 'Heartstopper', one of its most popular titles in recent years. Recently, the streaming platform announced that the series would return in October, anticipating a more than appropriate fall premiere. And now, at last, we know what exact day we will be able to see the new episodes. This year, October 3 will not only be 'Mean Girls' day, but also 'Heartstopper' day, because that's the date Netflix has chosen for the return of the teen series based on the comic book by Alice Oseman.

After several months of suspense and little news, Amazon and MGM Studios confirmed that a new Tomb Raider series is in the works. This news comes a year after the first announcement that the actress and screenwriter, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, was working on a project to bring Lara Croft back to the screen.

'Motherhood is a bitch,' says the poster for Nightbitch, a comedy-horror film directed by Marielle Heller that could lead Amy Adams back to the Oscar. Nightbitch is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder. In it we follow a woman who is forced to put her career on hold to raise a child at home. This routine slowly leads her to embrace the wild power ingrained in motherhood: she seems to be turning into a canine.

Australian director George Miller revealed that lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy had around 30 lines of dialogue in his new epic story Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a prequel to 2015's acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Miller explained that he prefers “pure cinema” without the need for subtitles, inspired by the silent works of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. ''The problem with dialogue is that it tends to slow things down, and film is a medium that is often best enjoyed at high speed,'' he stated. Though he acknowledged that Taylor-Joy's sparse lines are sure to be a talking point when Furiosa premieres at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

Legendary Pictures has officially confirmed that the sequel to 'Godzilla X Kong' is in the works, and they have hired Dave Callaham, known for his work with Marvel, to write the script. Callaham, whose experience includes co-writing 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' and 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse', thus returns to his roots in the Monsterverse.

Romance novel adaptations seem to be the new specialty of the streaming service Prime Video, as they currently enjoy the success of The Idea of You and announced a long-awaited sequel. Red, White & Royal Blue, based on the 2019 book of the same name by Casey McQuiston, will have a second movie and is now official. The first film, starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, centered on the son of the first female president of the United States who on a trip to the United Kingdom has an altercation with a British prince. Alex and Henry begin to pretend to be friends to avoid a diplomatic crisis, but the truce sparks a romance between them.

After several months of rumors and speculation, it is now official that Ralph Ineson will play Galactus, the main villain in The Fantastic Four. Previously, several names had been considered, including those of Javier Bardem and Antonio Banderas, but finally the role was left in the hands of the British actor.

Warner Bros. has released the latest trailer for Furiosa, the next installment in the Mad Max series, which acts as a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. With its global release scheduled for May 23 this year, the new trailer gives viewers another exciting glimpse into this highly anticipated project. The film follows the journey of a young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), a role that in the original installment Charlize Theron (Atomic) played. We meet Furiosa as she is dragged from the Green Place of Mothers and thrown into the clutches of a peculiar gang led by the villain Dementus, with whom she must fight to stay alive.

Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced that it will return to Middle-earth with new Lord of the Rings films, with script development currently in the early stages. During the company's first quarter earnings conference call, CEO David Zaslav revealed that the company anticipates releasing these films by 2026, with intentions to explore as-yet-untold stories within this universe.

In 2014, the first installment of The Maze Runner, the teen sci-fi film adapting the novel by author James Dashner, hit theaters around the world and eventually ended up becoming a film trilogy. Now, just six years after the release of the last film, it is official that they are working on a reboot of the franchise. In a surprise move, reports surfaced that 20th Century Studios (Avatar, Deadpool) is in talks with screenwriter Jack Paglen to write the new script. Paglen previously worked on Alien: Covenant and the feature film Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean).