Warner Bros. has announced the release dates for two of its upcoming anticipated movies. The untitled Elvis Presley biopic starring Austin Butler and directed by Oscar nominee Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet) is set to hit theatres on October 1, 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Warner Bros. also shared a brief plot description for the film, stating it will “delve into their complex dynamic spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and the loss of innocence in America.”

Butler stars in the movie opposite Tom Hanks who plays Elvis’ longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker.

The other date that Warner Bros. announced was for the Dune reboot. The movie has shifted from November 2020 to December 18, 2020. The sci-fi film is directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049) and stars lots of famous people such as Josh Brolin, Timothee Chalamet, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Rampling, among others.

The December 18, 2020 date is a busy one. The Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland also arrives in theatres that day, as does the Coming to America sequel with Eddie Murphy and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.

Finally, Warner Bros. announced that an untitled “event” film will release on November 20, 2020, but there is no word on what it is.

A movie based on The Division starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain is on the way, but it probably won’t come out anytime soon. Director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw) gave an interview recently where he spoke about how the Netflix movie is coming along.

“I’m excited about the material, and it is potentially next for us,” Leitch told The Hollywood Reporter. “We are currently in the script phase. Then, it’s about getting everybody’s schedules to line up and making sure that we’re ready to go with a script we’re 100 percent behind.”

Leitch said the process of getting everything together to finally break ground on The Division movie is “accelerating quickly.” The director added that he’s confident that the right team has been assembled to give the movie a shot at being great.

“I love that material, and I love the potential of working with those two incredible actors [Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain],” he said. “The creative team on that is Kelly McCormick as producer, myself, Jake and Jessica. We have a really core team that cares about the material and is going to work hard to make it great.”

In a separate interview, Gyllenhaal said he would be interested in training for The Division movie at Leitch’s 87Eleven action design studio. Keanu Reeves worked with 87Eleven to prepare for his starring role in the action movie franchise John Wick.

“Yeah! I’m up for it. I’m up for anything, man,” Gyllenhaal said. “This job is about the experiences you have off-camera as much as the experiences you have on-camera. So, I’m down.”

There is still no word yet on what The Division movie’s story is, when filming will start, or when it will come out. We do know, however, that the movie will take place in a “pandemic-stricken” Manhattan, which was the location of the first game.

Rockstar’s open-world western Red Dead Redemption 2 has now shipped 25 million copies. Parent company Take-Two Interactive announced the new shipment figure during an earnings report.

The new shipment figure of 25 million counts copies shipped through June 30, and it’s up from the 24 million figure announced in May (copies shipped through April 31, 2019) and 23 million announced in February 2019 (copies shipped through December 31, 2018).

Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped 17 million copies right at launch back in October 2018.

All of these figures are for copies shipped to retailers and not necessarily sold through to consumers. However, sold-in stock is generally a good indication of how many copies a title has sold through to people.

Red Dead Redemption 2 also makes money from Red Dead Online’s microtransactions. During an earnings call, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said he is excited by the “continuing momentum” of Red Dead Online, though he did not share any specific numbers for player spending. Whatever the case, Zelnick said he expects Rockstar Online–comprising Red Dead Online and GTA Online–to set a new revenue record during the current fiscal year.

For both Red Dead Online and GTA Online, Zelnick teased that players can expect “much more” content to come in the future. Both games are regularly updated with all manner of new content, including multiplayer modes, items, and more. GTA Online recently introduced the Diamond Casino update, and this helped GTA Online enjoy its biggest day and biggest week ever.

Also in the report, Take-Two announced that Grand Theft Auto V has now shipped more than 110 million copies, adding that it has been in the Top 10 sales charts in the US for five of the past six months in terms of combined physical and digital sales, according to NPD data.

The company also shared new sales updates and insights for its other popular franchises:

• NBA 2K19 has now shipped nearly 12 million units; it’s already the 2K’s highest-selling sports game ever.
• Civilization VI has now shipped more than 5.5 million copies; it is the fastest-selling entry in the Civilization series.
• The Borderlands franchise has shipped 48 million copies; Borderlands 2 alone has shipped 22 million copies.
• The post-launch DLC plan for Borderlands 3 will be announced and detailed at upcoming events such as Gamescom and PAX West.

Gemma Chan, who starred in Crazy Rich Asians and had a role in Captain Marvel, is reportedly in discussions to play a part in another MCU movie. Variety reports that Chan is in talks to appear in Phase 4 superhero movie The Eternals, which was formally announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July.

Chan played Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel. However, sources told Variety that Chan could have a different part in The Eteranals. That would be a big change, as it would be among the first times that an actor will play two different MCU characters.

Separately, Collider reports that Barry Keoghan (Chernobyl, Dunkirk) is also in talks for a role in The Eternals.

Chan and Keoghan would join a cast in The Eternals that already has plenty of big names including Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree, and more. Lauren Ridloff is also joining the cast as Makkari, who will be the MCU’s first deaf superhero.

The Eternals is being directed by Chloe Zhao (The Rider, Songs My Brother Taught Me). It opens in November 2020. For lots more, check out the story below.

The indie developers behind the farming and creature-collecting game Ooblets recently announced an exclusivity deal with Epic to launch the title as a timed exclusive for the Epic Games Store. Developer Glumberland’s two developers–Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasse–received an enormous amount of “hateful, threatening” messages over the deal.

Writing on Patreon (via GI.biz), the developers spoke about the awful messages they have received after announcing their partnership with Epic.

“We really misjudged how angry so many people would be. This whole thing has just devastated us. We’ve been getting thousands if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages across every possible platform nonstop. It’s especially hurtful since we’ve had such a positive, supportive relationship with our audience throughout development.”

The statement goes on: “I have been crying nonstop for the last two days and feeling like the world has collapsed around me. I couldn’t have guessed the scale of what it would feel like to be the target of an internet hate mob. I already had a lot of empathy for other targets of previous hate mobs, which is why we wanted to address that sort of thinking in our announcement, but I had no idea it was this bad.”

In a post on its own website, Epic said the news surrounding Ooblets “highlighted a disturbing trend which is growing and undermining healthy public discourse, and that’s the coordinated and deliberate creation and promotion of false information, including fake screenshots, videos, and technical analysis, accompanied by harassment of partners, promotion of hateful themes, and intimidation of those with opposing views.”

The company said it is pursuing exclusives so aggressively because it believes, in the end, it will lead to a “healthier and more competitive multi-store world for the future.”

The Epic Games Store pays developers an 88% cut of revenue, with Epic taking 12% as the store owner. This is far friendlier than the current average industry split on stores like Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation where the developer/publisher gets 70 percent and the store-owner keeps 30.

Epic said it remains “fully committed” to its plans for the Epic Games Store even amidst “these challenges” as it relates to controversy about exclusives.

“Many thanks to all of you that continue to promote and advocate for healthy, truthful discussion about the games business and stand up to all manners of abuse,” Epic said.

Ooblets was originally going to be published by Double Fine. However, after Microsoft acquired Double Fine, Glumberland announced that it would self-publish, before later confirming a deal with Epic to help fund the game in exchange for releasing it on the Epic Games Store.

In a blog post, Glumberland stated that signing with Epic was a “big decision” the studio didn’t take lightly. “[Epic] offered us a minimum guarantee on sales that would match what we’d be wanting to earn if we were just selling Ooblets across all the stores,” Glumberland wrote. “That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail.”

The financial security, according to Glumberland, gives the studio peace of mind, allowing the small team to “focus on making the game without worrying about keeping the lights on [and] afford more help and resources to start ramping up production and doing some cooler things.”

The studio anticipated blowback about the partnership with Epic, and asked its fans to “look at the things going on and ask if there might be anything just a tad more worthwhile to be upset about” like human rights abuses and climate change.

One of the next major Epic Games Store exclusives is Borderlands 3. The game launches in September and will remain exclusive to the store until April 2020. The PS4 and Xbox One versions will release normally.