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George Miller and Nico Lathouris have written two full sequels to Mad Max: Fury Road one of which will be called Mad Max: The Wastelands. There is no start date for the films…Queen Latifah will executive produce the third season of MTV’s Scream…Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of Jurassic World as Ian Malcolm…Shailene Woodley isn’t going to do the Divergent finale planned for TV…Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will get four sequels. Jude Law will play a young Dumbledore in the sequel…Hasbro is planning a G.I. Joe reboot…Aquaman’s James Wan will produce the reboot of the Resident Evil franchise…the sequel to Creed will include Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago and his son. Sylvester Stallone will direct the sequel…MGM will revive the Stargate franchise as a digital series…Jeremy Renner wants to do a sequel to The Bourne Legacy…Shia LaBeouf’s character Mutt Williams is not in the next Indiana Jones film…the scrapped Friday the 13th film was to pick and choose certain elements of Jason. It would have been set in the 1980’s but Paramount didn’t like the idea…both Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy are under consideration to co-star with Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop 4. The sequel would introduce a new cop in Detroit who winds up clashing with Murphy’s Axel Foley…Independence Day: Resurgence’s Jessie T. Usher will star as the son of John Shaft alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree for New Line…Sony Pictures is developing a spin-off in the Men in Black franchise that will not involve Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones…Underworld’s Len Wiseman are moving forward on a TV series based on the franchise. The TV show will be darker than the films.