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Marvel Studios' plans for Phase 4 haven't gone particularly smoothly. Delays due to COVID-19 have meant that 2020 is set to be the first year without an MCU movie since 2009, but it seems that the engine may be revving up again, as Benedict Cumberbatch has just confirmed that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will go before the cameras soon.
It's died down a lot in recent years, but there was a time when you couldn't move for speculation about which top actors were secretly gay. This was perfect fodder for supermarket tabloids, who could reliably shift magazines with unfounded gossip about who was in the closet and what they were doing with their private lives. Fortunately, LGBTQ relationships being pretty much normalized has meant celebrities simply don't feel as much pressure to hide their sexuality anymore and most readers aren't scandalized by it anymore.
On Game of Thrones Kit Harington played the taciturn, lonely and somber Jon Snow, whose status as a bastard child within the Stark household informing his aloof personality. In next year's MCU film Eternals he's set to play the Black Knight, who you might be forgiven for assuming would be a fairly similarly closed-off male character. Well, a new interview with Harington hints that this may not be the case.
Batman: A Death in the Family is one of the most consequential Batman comics arcs ever published, showing the second Robin Jason Todd having a famously nasty encounter with the Joker and a crowbar.
Disney has had enormous success with their live-action adaptations of animated classics. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King were all monster hits and more recently, Mulan performed extremely well on the Disney+ Premier Access service. If you're a fan of these, then the future is bright, with The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bambi and Hercules all at various stages of development (among many other sequels and spinoffs).
We've been waiting for the judgment in Johnny Depp's libel case against The Sun newspaper for weeks now, as it'll decide if either Depp or his ex-wife Amber Heard's conflicting stories about each other's behavior are credible. Victory for the former would be a huge vindication after years of his name being dragged through the mud, but if the judge sides with Heard, it could do irreparable financial and career damage to him.
The J.K. Rowling controversy shows no signs of abating anytime soon. We're now three months on from the Harry Potter creator whipping up a firestorm when she revealed her transphobic views and everyone is still mad as hell. Since then, we've seen vast swathes of the fan community disowning both her and the Wizarding World, planned boycotts of her projects and the cast of the movies condemning her position.