With Teen Titans GO! soon to get the movie treatment, the film has brought in some big name additions in the form of Will Arnett and Kristen Bell.

There’s no details just yet on who Arnett and Bell will be playing, although neither are strangers to huge animated efforts, with Arnett having voiced Batman in The LEGO Batman Movie and Bell providing the vocals for Frozen’s Bell.

To be titled Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, the animated effort will see returns for Scott Menville as Robin, Creg Cipes as Beast Boy, Khary Payton as Cyborg, Tara Strong as Raven and Hynden Walch as Starfire.

With Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail on directing duties, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies is currently set for a July 27th, 2018 release.

We’d previously heard that the upcoming Halloween reboot would completely ignore anything post-Halloween II, but now – from the mouth of the legendary John Carpenter – it looks as if the return of Michael Myers could actually ignore anything other than the original 1978 movie.

Speaking to Stereo Gum, the Horror Master explained, “I don’t know how to describe it. It’s almost an alternative reality. It picks up after the first one and it pretends that none of the others were made. It’s gonna be fun. There’s a really talented director and it was well written. I’m impressed.”

Of course, the events of Halloween II followed directly on from ‘The Night He Came Home’, aka Carpenter’s first Halloween. Now though, it seems as if this relaunch for the franchise will seemingly ignore Halloween II and simply just follow on from The Shape’s ’78 debut.

With Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode and Judy Greer joining the action as Laurie’s daughter Karen, the early word on the film reads:

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Written by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, and to be directed by Green, the to-be-titled new Halloween effort is currently set for an October 2018 release.

Following what feels like – and actually is – years of struggles, it looks like 20th Century Fox’s Gambit may finally be close to landing a new director.

As per Deadline, Gore Verbinski is the latest name in the frame to helm the Channing Tatum-starrer. The Pirates of the Caribbean director is believed to be in deep negotiations with Fox for the gig, although he’s certainly not the first name to have held talks with the studio.

Previously, Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Rupert Wyatt and Edge of Tomorrow’s Doug Liman both departed the project over various reasons, and since then there has been speculation that The Walking Dead’s Frank Darabont has been in talks, too.

For Gambit as a project, it’s been in development for several years now, although there have been plenty of twists and turns where it looked as if the whole movie may be scrapped altogether. Channing Tatum has long been on board to star as the titular fan favourite mutant, and he is also pegged to produce. In terms of other cast members, the only other announced so far is Lea Seydoux as love interest-cum-villain Bella Boudreaux, although the delays on the project could well throw up questions over Seydoux’s involvement.

The last we’d heard in terms of a solid release date was that Gambit would be released in October 2017 – as in this month! Obviously, Fox casually scrapped that date and so the picture is currently without a release date. Then again, 20th Century Fox have got a whole host of dates booked in for mystery Marvel movies over the next few years; one of which could well be Gambit.

As ever, expect more on all of this as we get it.

For those eagerly anticipating Todd McFarlane’s upcoming Spawn movie, you’ll be pleased to know that the current plan is for the picture to start shooting in February.

McFarlane was speaking at New York Comic Con – as reported by Deadline – and he added that pre-production will commence just after Christmas ahead of a February start for filming. Interestingly, the iconic comic book name added that the movie will be even more R-rated than Deadpool.

Of course, for those of you who keep up with McFarlane on Facebook, you’ll have already seen that he was at NYCC and absolutely loving the experience. In terms of industry names who interact with their audience, Todd is right up there with how he dishes out Facebook videos every few days where he often offers up tips on how to draw some of the greatest heroes and villains in comics.

Furthermore, at NYCC he also discussed the budget placed on the Spawn reboot, explaining, “I’m spending my own money. So who cares if it doesn’t work out. It’s a $10 million budget movie, and they would just get a 22-year-old punk director. I just want to be the old punk directing it.”

Considering that Blumhouse are producing the film, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that the budget is only $10 million. After all, this is the company who specialise in low budget efforts. Of course, by modern-day superhero and comic book stakes, that’s a pittance, for so many of those films now cost hundreds of millions of dollars on a regular basis.

As for Spawn as a character, he first appeared back in 1992 when he headlined McFarlane’s Spawn #1. A dark and brutal character who was so often deemed an antihero, Spawn quickly became a cult favourite and was often cited as one of the poster boys of the darker books of the day. In terms of powers, his Hellspawn abilities allow him to shape-shift, teleport and get all kinds of nasty with a vast array of weapons.

This won’t be the first cinematic outing for Spawn, for Michael Jai White starred as the character in 1997’s dud Spawn. Here’s hoping this next big screen adventure for this hugely popular character is at least far superior to that balls-up.