Unfortunate Casting... AND GREAT Casting... | Week In Nerdom
004:23 - Music
10:28 - Gaming and Tech
12:18 - Comic Books and Books
15:31 - TV and Streaming
21:48 - Movies
26:13 - Rumor Mill
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Music
Follow-ups/Corrections
Soulfly - Rizzo officially fired.
Limp Bizkit - Cancels remaining tour dates.
New Videos
Coheed and Cambria - Shoulders https://youtu.be/-Tb_v8MFbF8
Tours
SOAD/Faith No More - Mini-tour along the west coast with Russian Circles. Oct 15, T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas, Oct 16, Save Mart Center Fresno CA, Oct 18 Oakland Arena Oakland CA. Then joined by Korn and Helmet for Oct 22 & 23 at Banc of California.
GnR
Sweet Child ‘o Mine joins the billionaires club on Spotify!
Top of the Charts
Billie Eilish and Prince top of the popular music charts. “Happier Than Ever” from Eilish and “Welcome 2 America” from Prince. This is the first FULL posthumus release from prince.
Jazzfest
New Orleans tradition is postponed/cancelled for the second year in a row. Now headed to 2022, April 29 - May 8.
Gaming/Tech
Follow-ups/Corrections
Apex Legends - Seer has been released… and is WAY OP! Will be getting nerfed in a patch soon according to Respawn.
Rocket League - Season 4 is launching this week. And along with some expected new updates, like a new arena, new vehicle for Rocket Pass holders, and such, there is an update coming with streamers in mind. Psyonix is going to add an option to turn off copyrighted music.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/rocket-league-season-4-details-deadeye-canyon-arena-outlaw-rocket-pass/
Comic Books/Books
Follow-ups/Corrections
Batman ‘89 - Finally getting his Robin!
Wizard World
They TOO have now sold to Fan Expo. This will bring Fan Expo’s outing count to 17. The Chicago event will still bear the name “WizardWorld” for 2021.
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/wizard-world-conventions-ending-fan-expo-purchase/
The Orville: Artifacts
This October the new book from EP/writer David A Goodman. More stop-gap stuff while we wait for the third season.
TV/Streaming
Follow-ups/Corrections
Wednesday - Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Morticia and Luis Guzman to play Gomez alongside Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday… oh boy… https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/wednesday-addams-netflix-series-catherine-zeta-jones-morticia-1235037693/
Trailers
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf - https://youtu.be/J365hQpaWRw Premieres Aug 23
Midnight Mass - https://youtu.be/89UV8vmWXlY The new Mike Flanagan project
Stranger Things - Season 4 https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things not REALLY a trailer… but kinda.
Lucifer - Season 6 https://youtu.be/gBlSxk4ZVhI Sept 10
Doom Patrol - Season 3 https://youtu.be/AzOth7VrzLo Sept 23.
The Boys - Season 3 https://youtu.be/MszCIXCOEkE kinda…
Funimation/Crunchyroll
Funimation has purchased Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.2 billion. The plan is apparently to make a single streaming service.
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/crunchyroll-acquisition-sony-funimation-att-closes-1235037676/
Markie Post
Passed away at 70 after a 4 year battle with cancer.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/markie-post-dead-70-night-court-actor-1235037007/
Trevor Moore
Died in an accident at 41.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/trevor-moore-dead-dies-comedian-whitest-kids-u-know-1235036956/
Movies
Follow-ups/Corrections
Jackass 4 - Bam is suing Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, and others. https://www.indiewire.com/2021/08/bam-margera-sues-paramount-johnny-knoxville-jackass-4-firing-1234656760/
Sonic 2 - Idris Elba cast as the voice of Knuckles. April 8, 2022 https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-idris-elba-cast-knuckles-sega-paramount/
Venom: Let There Be Carnage - International release date pushed from Sept 23 to Oct 14. https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/venom-2-release-date-delayed-international-new-zealand/
Movie Theaters
AMC and WB have made nice. Announcing that there would be a new 45-day release window for all new theatrical releases.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/amc-theatres-theatrical-window-bitcoin-1235037677/
Rumor Mill
Commissioner Gordon
Now THR is getting in on the rumor.
MCU Movie Releases
Spider-Man, Shang-Chi, and Venom all seem to be showing signs of delay.
Harley Quinn
Kaley Cuoco recasting in live action Harley Quinn movie…
The Batman
The prequel live action series is reportedly being produced under the working title of Arkham.
The Marvels
Rumor swirling that Shamire Anderson has joined the cast as Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel.
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