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Annecy 2026 Netflix Drops Ray Gunn First Look, Ghostbusters Series

Annecy 2026 Netflix Drops Ray Gunn First Look, Ghostbusters Series

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Netflix used its Annecy International Animation Film Festival platform on Wednesday to unveil a slate of high-profile projects, led by a first look at Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn and new details on its upcoming Ghostbusters series. The streamer also confirmed December release dates for Ray Gunn and its Cannes animation acquisition In Waves, positioning both as potential Oscar contenders. Ray Gunn, Bird’s long-gestating noir sci-fi film, will debut globally on Netflix on December 18. The film, set in an alternate 1939 Metropia, follows private eye Raymond Gunn as he investigates a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits lead the voice cast, with Skydance Animation producing. Netflix revealed new images and Ray Gunn concept art at its presentation. ‘Ray Gunn’ Skydance Animation Netflix also revealed a first look of Ghostbusters: Night Shift, a new animated TV series set in 1994, on the Ghostbusters timeline between Ivan Reitman’s original films from the 1980s and the 2020s sequels, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), …

James Gunn says Jimmy Olsen HBO series is also focused on DC villain

James Gunn says Jimmy Olsen HBO series is also focused on DC villain

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James Gunn has clarified that the previously announced HBO Max Jimmy Olsen show will also focus on the icon DC villain Gorilla Grodd. The Superman spin-off series, which was first announced in November last year, will see Skyler Gisondo reprise his role as the Daily Planet reporter Olsen. And now, Gunn has confirmed that the Flash villain Gorilla Grodd will co-lead the series alongside Olsen, while also revealing that production is set to kick off “soon”. He wrote in a post on Threads: “It’s both a Jimmy Olsen AND a Gorilla Grodd show. And it’s one of my favourite projects. We start filming soon.” In a separate post on Instagram, Gunn revealed that this approach had always been the plan. Responding to a fan asking it it was true that the Olsen show had been turned into a Grodd show, he said: “It didn’t become anything. It is what it’s always been, including pitching it as part of the package before I even started at DC.” Want to see this content? This page contains content …

James Gunn pauses movie plans for key DC film

James Gunn pauses movie plans for key DC film

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James Gunn has revealed that TV series Booster Gold and Paradise Lost are still in the works, while also confirming that development on The Authority movie has been paused. The projects were announced back in January 2023, when Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled their initial plans for the new DCU across TV and film. In a series of posts on Threads on Monday (27 April), Gunn said Booster Gold is “in development”, and that Paradise Lost is “in extreme development”, which presumably means that the latter is further along. Gunn also revealed that The Authority has been shelved for now. “The script wasn’t quite there but more importantly it didn’t work in terms of the larger DCU both in terms of the story and practical concerns. Maybe some day. Not soon,” he explained. James Gunn. Eric Charbonneau/Warner Bros. via Getty Images The Authority was a series of comic books that launched in 1992 and followed a team of superheroes with extreme methods. Meanwhile, Booster Gold is being billed as a superhero comedy following the titular character, …

Andrew Gunn Dead: Disney Producer was 56

Andrew Gunn Dead: Disney Producer was 56

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Andrew Gunn, who produced a string of Disney comedies in the early 2000s, among them the Lindsay Lohan-starring Freaky Friday and superhero movie Sky High, has died. He was 58. Gunn, who had been diagnosed in 2024 with ALS, the neurological degenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, passed away in his home in Toronto, his family announced Monday. As a producer with an exclusive first look-deal with Disney in the era when it was run by chairman Dick Cook and motion pictures president Nina Jacobson, Gunn prolifically produced an enviable list of big budget studio comedies, ranging from remakes, originals and movies based on Disneyland rides, the latter a popular source of inspiration at the time. Freaky Friday got made after Gunn pitched the idea to then studio head Jacobson, who was initially worried about taking on a theatrical remake after a previous remake aired on ABC several years earlier. Once the go-head was given, Annette Bening, Michelle Trachtenberg and Tom Selleck were cast but that configuration fell apart when Trachtenberg wasn’t let …