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A24’s hit horror film directed by Kane Parsons will be available on the streaming service in the US on September 25th, and debut on HBO linear the next day at 8PM ET.

Ahead of streaming the full tournament, which starts in June 2027, Netflix will air the draw on December 11th, though a specific time hasn’t been announced yet.

Season 8 was confirmed earlier this year, and Variety reports that shooting began this summer. There’s still no release date.

The stations initially launched earlier this year for as a pilot for some music artists, but YouTube said Friday that the feature is expanding to formats including “creator content, media channels, podcasts, and select new music artists.” A “limited” number of creators will be able to try the “experiment” to start.

After months of buzz about a potential Superman spin-off show starring the Man of Steel’s best friend, Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), HBO Max has confirmed that The People v. Gorilla Grodd — a half-hour comedy / “true” crime docudrama about a superintelligent ape (Jimmy Tatro) accused of murder — has been ordered to series.

It would have been the next bellwether in the group of cases tried in a Los Angeles state court. In the first, Meta and YouTube were ordered to pay $6 million total. After settling with TikTok, the teen’s lawyer told The New York Times, she wanted to “resume her life.”

CD Projekt Red revealed a new trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which will feature a new story and cast of characters set in the same futuristic metropolis of Night City. The 10-episode anime will premiere on Netflix on October 20th.

Remote controls for the companies’ still-unannounced streaming devices already passed through the FCC, and offer a few clues about what’s to come.

YouTube is “close an agreement with several partners” though hasn’t signed any deals yet, according to Bloomberg.

MS Now — formerly MSNBC — is rolling out a $7.99 / month ($79.99 / year) subscription on September 9th, which will serve as an “additive experience” to the news network, according to an announcement. It will include access to livestreams and TV programming inside the MS Now app, along with the ability to interact with journalists, community features, and “new verticals that explore how news and politics impact everyday life.”

It’s rolling out a new membership program to a group of randomly selected members, who will gain access to rewards based on how many years they’ve been subscribed to the service. Some perks include a one-year Instacart Plus membership, free Pizza Hut pizza, and a 25 percent discount on the NBCU Shop.

Details are all but nonexistent as planning has only just begun. But the area of the park has fallen into disuse over the years, with several attractions closing down and others just seeming hopelessly outdated. Imagineer Emily O’Brien told the LA Times, “We were inspired by his [Walt Disney’s] vision of Tomorrowland being a vista into wondrous worlds, and we really garnered the sense of optimism that was at the core of everything he was thinking about.”

With the next chapter of the MCU continuing on after the well-received Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Disney brought Kevin Feige, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Hayley Atwell out at D23 on Friday to show off this new trailer for the next Avengers movie, which is scheduled for release on December 18th.

The “Ask YouTube” conversational search experience that YouTube started testing in April is now rolling out to the mobile app. It’s available for signed-in users in the US who are 13 or older, and can be found by tapping the “Ask” option in the YouTube search bar.

ESPN and other outlets report that Josh Kushner, the brother of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and founder of Thrive Capital, and former Disney boss Bob Iger made the deal for $12.5 billion, a record-breaking price.

ESPN lost Formula 1 rights last year, when Apple spent big to get the rights for Apple TV. Now, Disney is replacing F1 with… Formula E, the all-electric (and increasingly Formula 1-ish) racing series, starting this December on Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. Shockingly, this deal might come with less talk about battery management than whatever’s happening with F1.

Discovery Plus will play continuous streams of shows across its new “channels,” including 90-Day Fiancé, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Deadliest Catch, House Hunters, and more. You’ll also be able to access livestreams and programming from NASA Plus.

Public Eye is a hidden object detective game that presents you with AI-generated visuals across a 10-episode story. It comes from Wolf Games, the same AI games studio behind the Law & Order: Clue Hunter title Peacock added to its app earlier this year.

Following Netflix’s growing “podcast” investment and a similar deal with TikTok, six more video podcasts are coming to Disney subscribers in the US, starting with the official Jonas Brothers podcast, Hey Jonas!, on August 14th across both Disney Plus and Hulu, leading up to the release of Camp Rock 3.

Netflix hired a guy to sit inside a Hollywood billboard and promote its new movie, The Last House, which follows “a family mysteriously sealed inside their home.”