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Wedding Crashers 2 isn’t officially in the works yet, but it sounds like some of the cast might be considering tying the knot with the prospective sequel.

According to Collider, Wedding Crashers 2 hasn’t officially been given the green light by New Line, but Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have reportedly taken a seat at the table to enter into “early discussions” to reprise their roles as divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, the headliners of the original 2005 rom-com, which grossed $285 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.

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While no deals have been finalized yet, sources say there is a script for the sequel that has been universally well-received, and that filmmaker David Dobkin, who helmed the first movie, has already started to scout locations and venues in the event that New Line pops the question and he signs on to direct a Wedding Crashers sequel, 16 years after the first premiered in theaters.

Rumors of a sequel have been circulating for years, with Vaughn revealing in November that talks were becoming more serious. “Owen and I and the director of Crashers have been talking for the first time seriously [about] a sequel to that movie,” Vaughn told Entertainment Tonight.  “So, there has been an idea that is pretty good. So, we are talking about that in the early stages.”

Hopefully, the duo will be able to “save the date” for the potential sequel before their respective calendars get booked up. Vaughn will next be seen on screen in Queenpins, a crime comedy inspired by the true story of the largest coupon counterfeit scam in US history, while Wilson will be taking to the small screen for Marvel’s Loki, which debuts on Disney+ this week.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

F9 has so far made $250 million at the international box office. The latest movie in the long-running Fast and Furious franchise hit theaters in some overseas territories last month.

As reported by Variety, F9 has to date grossed a massive $203 million in China, where it arrived on May 19. Other countries in which the movie has been released include South Korea, where it has made $17.7 million, and Rusia, with a $15.8 million gross.

F9 hits US theaters on June 21. Obviously $203 million is still some way behind the $1.2 billion gross of 2017’s The Fate of the Furious, but theaters are now reopening across the US and the recent box office success of movies such as Godzilla vs Kong showed that the box office is starting to bounce back. In addition, F9 will only be available to watch in theaters.

It will be followed by a number of other high profile movies, many of which were delayed from last year. Marvel’s Black Widow arrives on July 9, with Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Jungle Cruise, The Suicide Squad, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, and Space Jam: A New Legacy all following over the next few weeks.

F9 stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, and Jordana Brewster, and is directed by Justin Lin. In his review for GameSpot, Chris E. Hayner described it as “loud, explosive, and filled with the type of action dying to be seen on the big screen in a room with other fans to go along with you on the ride.”

In terms of this weekend’s US box office, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It topped the chart with a $24 million gross.

Gearbox, the developer of the Borderlands series and publisher of games like Homeworld, is apparently going to show off something new during the Summer Game Fest Kick Off event. It could be a new game called “Wonderlands,” according to references found on a new website.

A website called Be Chaotic Great has gone live that teases an announcement on Thursday, June 10 of a “new adventure from Gearbox and 2K.” That’s all the information there is to go on now, and it’s not immediately clear how the phrase “be chaotic great” factors in. Whatever the case, we won’t have to wait long to find out, thankfully.

Although Gearbox has been sold to Embracer Group, the Texas-based studio continues to work with 2K Games on the Borderlands franchise. Recently, it was reported that a Borderlands spin-off is in the works and might be announced around E3. The game is reportedly focused around Tiny Tina, according to another leak.

Twitter user Wario64 found references to something called “Wonderlands” in what appears to be the source code on the website. Wonderlands is the rumored title of the supposed Borderlands spin-off. GameSpot was also able to find this in the source code.

Summer Game Fest’s Kick Off Live event will have 30+ games featured during the show, including a dozen world premieres and announcements.

For more on Summer Game Fest, have a look at GameSpot’s Summer Game Fest roundup that covers the showtimes, what to expect, and more.

GameSpot will livestream Summer Game Fest, E3 2021, and all the major games events and showcases as part of Play for All 2021 during June, raising money for AbleGamers, which focuses on helping people with disabilities play games and improving accessibility in games.

Veteran Hollywood and TV composer Danny Elfman has an incredible story about composing the music for Tim Burton’s Batman while on an airplane. He said on Marc Maron’s podcast that he flew to London to visit the set to get inspired. On his trip back to America, inspiration struck, but he had a problem: he was on an airplane and wanted to record his ideas before he forgot them.

So he took his personal recorder into the bathroom to hum his musical ideas. But each time he got back to his seat, it wasn’t long until he had another idea and he headed for the bathroom again “because I couldn’t do this with the guy sitting next to me,” he said on the podcast, as covered by The Hollywood Reporter.

Eventually, the flight attendants took notice of this erratic behavior. After recording another segment of the music for Batman in the bathroom, Elfman opened the lavatory door and a flight attendant asked if he was OK. He said he was. But he quickly returned to the bathroom to record more of his thoughts. Later, he was greeted by three flight attendants who Elfman says believed he was in the bathroom doing cocaine.

“They were probably going, ‘What the fu** he is doing so frequently? You can’t do that much blow. You can’t shoot up that often. What is he doing in there?!’ And I piece by piece was working out the Batman score in my head.”

In 2017, Elfman told People that Batman was his most challenging project ever, in part because he’d never made music for a drama before. “Batman was, and still rates as, the most difficult and challenging movie experience I ever had in my life,” he said.

Elfman is a longtime and frequent collaborator with Burton. In addition to writing the music for Batman, Elfman composed the scores for Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also did the music for Good Will Hunting, Men in Black, and the Fifty Shades of Grey movies. Elfman famously created the theme song to The Simpsons as well.

Season 7 of Halo: The Master Chief Collection will make it easier for players to hop into a game of Firefight, according to a developer update from 343 Industries.

Specifically, Firefight is being added to Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s social games match composer with the game’s latest update. When Season 7 launches, players should simply be able to go to the social games menu and choose to search for a game of Firefight. Naturally, crossplay will be enabled for anyone that searches for a Firefight match this way.

Currently, 343 Industries is finishing up testing for integrating Firefight into Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s social games menu. Once the feature is ironed out, the developer hopes that the game mode, which currently has its own separate menu, will be easier to access for players. Additionally, 343 Industries claims that giving Firefight its own tab in the social games menu will “bring the Firefight communities between ODST and Reach closer, so they can all find more matches.”

The addition of Firefight to the social games menu of Halo: The Master Chief Collection is the latest in a long list of features being added to the game with its Season 7 update. Halo 3 will also be getting its first new map in 12 years, titled Edge. That being said, the map isn’t entirely new, having debuted in the Russia-exclusive title Halo: Online.

Season 7 of Halo: The Master Chief Collection will also include a swathe of visual improvements for Halo: CE. The current version of the first Halo title included in the Master Chief Collection is based on Gearbox Software’s 2003 PC port. However, this version includes a ton of visual downgrades, which will soon be fixed, giving the game a dramatically improved look on PC for the first time.

If you’re looking for more Halo news, Xbox’s E3 show is right around the corner. Halo Infinite is sure to play a large role at the showcase, along with other upcoming titles from Xbox’s first-party studios.

A sequel to Disney’s Cruella movie starring Emma Stone is in the works, it seems. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel is in “early development” at Disney, with director Craig Gillespie and writer Tony McNamara set to return, along with Stone in the title role.

A spokesperson for Disney said the company is “very pleased” with how Cruella is doing at the box office and through Disney+ Premier Access. Not only is the movie succeeding commercially, but Disney said it’s happy with Cruella’s 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and its A rating on CinemaScore. Cruella is “among the most popular of our live-action reimaginings,” Disney said.

“We look forward to a long run as audiences continue to enjoy this fantastic film,” the spokesperson said.

Cruella has made more than $87 million at the box office worldwide. Disney has not shared any hard data about how Cruella is performing on Disney+ Premiere Access, however, but it’s apparently strong enough, combined with the box office numbers, to get a sequel off the ground.

A prequel, Cruella told the story of how Estella became Cruella, so it’s natural that a sequel would pick up from there as her villainous exploits take shape. Whether or not she’ll try to capture and kill 101 Dalmatians in the sequel remains to be seen.

Cruella is just the latest of Disney’s live-action reboots of animated classics. The most successful of these have been Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, all of which grossed more than $1 billion at the box office. More are coming, including new live-action versions of The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan & Wendy, and Pinocchio, among others.

Space, the final frontier that many of us will never reach. Unless you happen to be one of the richest men on the planet that is, as Jeff Bezos is getting ready to catch a rocket into the great void of the cosmos after he steps down as CEO of Amazon.

Bezos announced his temporary departure from the planet on July 20 via an Instagram video, in which he revealed that he and his brother Mark Bezos will be part of the crew of the New Shepard rocket built by Bezos’ space company Blue Origin.

“You see the earth from space and it changes you. It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It’s one Earth,” said Bezos in his post. “I want to go on this flight because it’s the thing I’ve wanted to do all my life. It’s an adventure. It’s a big deal for me.”

The Bezos brothers will be joined by the winning bidder of an online auction that will end on July 12, where the price for a ticket is currently sitting at $2.8 million. Lift-off will take the crew of the rocket to the Kármán line, which is 62 miles above sea level and should provide a once-in-a-lifetime view of Earth’s curvature. Something which video game developer Richard Garriott has plenty of experience with after he spent a few days in space back in 2008.

After the trip has completed, the crew capsule will detach from the booster and will land in the West Texas desert via the aid of parachutes. Bezos isn’t the only billionaire to aim for outer space, as Tesla’s Elon Musk and Virgin’s Richard Branson all have their own initiatives in place to offer space tourism to anyone with the deep cash reserves who can afford such an experience.

There’s no word yet on how Tim Curry has reacted to the news of capitalism finally escaping the gravitational pull of Terra Firma.

While E3 2021 doesn’t begin until June 12, Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest gets things started on June 10 with a big Kick Off Live event that promises some big news.

Keighley has now posted a hype reel for the “summer spectacular” event. The video may or may not contain some clues about what to expect on Thursday, so have a look for yourself and let us know if you spot anything.

The June 10 event starts at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET. Hosted by Keighley himself, the event promises a dozen world premieres and reveals. Keighley says more than 30 games will show up. After the showcase will be the Day of the Devs event with iam8bit and Double Fine.

Keighley also shared a personal update on his Twitter page to speak about the emotions he’s feeling this week. It’s the first time in 25 years that he’s not actively involved in E3.

“Change is difficult. It’s never easy to start something new. But I will never waver in my commitment to deliver fan-first events that represent our art form the biggest and most powerful entertainment medium in the world,” he said.

“Ultimately I hope these next weeks bring you joy, excitement and reverence for the power of games to connect us all. I’m hoping everyone walks away happy. Let’s unite to celebrate what games mean to us,” he added.

For more on Summer Game Fest, have a look at GameSpot’s Summer Game Fest roundup that covers the showtimes, what to expect, and more.

GameSpot will livestream Summer Game Fest, E3 2021, and all the major games events and showcases as part of Play for All 2021 during June, raising money for AbleGamers, which focuses on helping people with disabilities play games and improving accessibility in games.

The latest cultural collaboration for massive gaming platform Roblox is In The Heights, the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical-turned-movie. To mark the release of the In The Heights film in theaters and on HBO Max, Roblox is hosting its own massive block party.

The event is already running, and will conclude on June 20. Roblox players are able to explore an in-game version of the movie’s Latinx community of Washington Heights, visiting notable locations from the film as well as interacting with its characters. Vendors are also set up through the event space offering In The Heights-specific items and free emotes.

As well as the general experience, two timed events will be happening in the block party area. On June 10 at 10 AM PDT, players can check in for a Q&A and exclusive clip from In The Heights. On June 11, the day the film is set to release in cinemas and on HBO Max, players can join in at 10 AM again for a flash mob dance event. Both events will also be repeating on the hour throughout the day.

Roblox is no stranger to these kinds of cultural events, with the popular gaming hub playing host to events such as a Lil Nas X concert and single debut, and a coronavirus relief concert featuring the likes of Billie Eilish and Lizzo.

Given the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was based off a series comprising of 20 separate novels, it’s surprising that it took this long for the Oscar-winning film to get a sequel. Deadline reports that 20th Century is developing a Master and Commander prequel, with A Monster Calls writer Patrick Ness handling the script.

The original film starred Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey, a British naval captain who takes on a dangerous mission in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. Paul Bettany played Stephen Maturin, a ship’s surgeon and the other main character in the Master and Commander series.

Sources quoted by Deadline say the new movie is set to be a prequel, based off the first book in the series, which follows a young Aubrey and the beginning of his friendship with Maturin. 2003’s Master and Commander film was only loosely based off the source material, drawing from five different books in the series.

The original film was a success, taking in more than $200 million worldwide and receiving 10 Oscar nominations–taking home the titles of Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing, while the rest were lost to the awards behemoth that was The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King.

So far only the writer Patrick Ness is attached to the project, with no cast or director announced. While it’s possible Bettany and Crowe may return to reprise their roles, a prequel would more likely see 20th Century recast the iconic roles.