Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:

BIG NEWS

Kingsman 3 arrives in a year: Fans of the first two Kingsman movies got big news this week with the confirmation and official announcement that Kingsman 3 is in the works. Fox will release the sequel, said to be the last pairing of Taron Egerton and Colin Firth’s spy characters, on November 8, 2019. But the studio promises more Kingsman movies and a TV series on the way. Read everything we know about the plans here.

GREAT NEWS

Bruce Dern will co-star in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The bad news is that Burt Reynolds passed away this month before filming his scenes for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The good news is that Bruce Dern has been cast as his replacement. Read everything we know about the movie here.

EXCLUSIVE BUZZ

Screenwriter David Kajganich on remaking Suspiria: While at Fantastic Fest this week, we talked to David Kajganich, the screenwriter behind the upcoming Suspiria remake, as well as the original horror classic’s star, Jessica Harper, about the new version of movie. Read the whole interview here.

COOL CULTURE

Spider-Man crashes Venom: While Spider-Man isn’t in Venom, as far as anyone knows, animators at VS GAG have created a fight scene between the Marvel superhero and his titular nemesis that continues a scene that does appear in the Venom trailers. Watch this awesome fan-made video below and read everything we know about Venom here.

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MUST-WATCH TRAILERS

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald manifested a final trailer: We got one more final trailer for the Fantastic Beasts sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald, which gave us the first look at Newt Scamander’s brother and a surprise reveal of a sort of familiar villainous character. Watch it below and learn everything we know about the movie here.

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix looks very serious: The first full trailer for the next X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, arrived showcasing Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey as she turns to the dark side plus a look at Jessica Chastain’s mysterious new character. This week, Fox also changed the release date of the sequel from February to June 7, 2019. Watch the new trailer below.

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Music Video of the Day:

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper star in the new music video for “Shallow,” one of the songs from the upcoming musical A Star is Born:

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Dream Casting of the Day:

Wouldn’t Jennifer Lopez make a great She-Hulk in a movie or streaming series? BossLogic shows us the evidence in the affirmative:

Damn @JLo SHE-HULK’D UP! pic.twitter.com/suFjZkdsRU

— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) September 27, 2018

Movie Comparison of the Day:

Couch Tomato shows 24 reasons why Solo: A Star Wars Story is basically the same movie as Terminator Genisys:

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Character History of the Day:

Speaking of Solo, Star Wars Explained chronicles the evolution of Han Solo from his original first draft script form to what we see in the movies:

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DreamWorks Animation is encouraging fans to cosplay as characters from their upcoming movie How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World:

Sooo who’s gonna cosplay the new Fishlegs armor at #NYCC? It’s SO EPIC! #HowToTrainYourDragon pic.twitter.com/lXS2Bno7nX

— DreamWorks Animation (@DWAnimation) September 27, 2018

VFX Breakdown of the Day:

Meet the puppeteers behind the operation of the animatronic dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Meat Loaf, who turns 71 today, gets groomed on the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1974:

Filmmaker in Focus:

For Fandor, Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa looks at the work of Pedro Almodovar, the “master of kitsch”:

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Director’s Commentary of the Day:

Listen to filmmaker David Lowery narrate the trailer for his new movie, The Old Man & the Gun:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Given that The Old Man & The Gun might be Robert Redford’s last movie as an actor, here’s the original trailer for his first, 1960’s Tall Story, in which he plays an uncredited basketball player:

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