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Dark Phoenix
One of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, evolves into the iconic Dark Phoenix. During a life threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we’ve come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet, one of their own.

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Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Gotham City is hit with a spate of mysterious thefts of all the unstable and experimental tech that the city has to offer. After Batgirl (Rachel Bloom) sees some strange green muscled monsters seemingly fighting alongside a band of black-clad ninjas, Batman (played by Troy Baker, who's pulling double duty here as the first person to ever voice Bruce Wayne and his arch-nemesis, the Joker) sets out to uncover the mysterious new threat which has entered his beloved hometown.
 

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Nickelodeon has ordered a prequel series to its longrunning cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants that will follow a young Spongebob during sleepaway camp. The series, titled Kamp Koral will see a 10-year-old SpongeBob during his summer the eponymous camp. In the series, SpongeBob and his pals spend the summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral.

Elizabeth Banks has joined the cast of FX’s upcoming nine episode limited series Mrs. America, co-starring opposite Cate Blanchett. Per the network, Banks will play Jill Ruckelshaus, “a pro-choice, socially progressive Republican, Ruckelshaus was appointed by President Ford to advance women’s rights, and fought to keep the Republican Party from being taken over by Phyllis Schlafly and the Religious Right.”

Robert Pattinson is set to protect and serve Gotham City for three upcoming Batman movies. The actor, 33, was confirmed as the next caped crusader last week with director Matt Reeves tweeting a GIF of the actor with three bat emojis. Reeves is set to direct a trilogy of films for Warner Bros. with Pattinson in the leading role, according to Deadline. The first in the trilogy, The Batman, is expected to be released in 2021.

Another classic sitcom is eying a return with its original star. UCP is developing Punky Brewster, a sequel to the 1984 NBC sitcom, with Soleil Moon Frye set to reprise her role as the titular character that became a pop culture icon of the 1980s. The multi camera original series, created by David W. Duclon, centered on Punky (Frye), a bright young girl raised by a foster dad (George Gaynes). In the reboot, Punky (Frye) is now a single mother of three trying to get her life back on track when she meets a young girl who reminds her a lot of her younger self.

Netflix has ordered the animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, inspired by the multi billion dollar Jurassic Park film franchise. The series is set within the timeline of the 2015 film Jurassic World and hails from DreamWorks Animation. It follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once in a lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they’ll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they’re going to survive.

Death clearly becomes Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini: Netflix has renewed the duo’s dark comedy Dead to Me for a second season.

Diane Kruger will co-star in Simon Kinberg’s spy thriller 355. She is joining an all-star ensemble that includes Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Fan Bingbing, and Penelope Cruz.

The iTunes brand is no more. Nearly two decades after introducing the world to the digital store library hybrid, Apple announced at its annual global developers conference on Monday that it will shutter the iTunes software this fall, replacing it with three standalone programs for music, television and podcasts.

Serena Williams continues to make history. The tennis champion has become the first-ever athlete to make Forbes' list of America's Richest Self-Made Women, which ranks the most successful female entrepreneurs in the country.