The biggest movie news you might have missed this week (2024)

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From a Top Boy star landing a huge movie role to Deadpool's future in the MCU, here are the biggest movie news stories of the week (August 5-9) that you might have missed.

is still dominating the box office, heading to another record-breaking third weekend. The new MCU movie introduces Ryan Reynolds' foul-mouthed superhero, alongside Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, to a whole new franchise.

If you're staying home, though, Netflix has some great additions too, and of course, you can check out the very best the streamer has to offer with our lists of best thrillers, best comedies, best horror movies, best action movies and best family movies.

While you decide what you're watching this weekend, here is a catch-up on the biggest movies news of the week.

The Thursday Murder Club author Richard Osman offered a very exciting update on the saga this week, as he's working hard on book number five.

Osman took to Instagram to share he's started working on the fifth volume in his murder mystery saga. "Every new book starts somewhere," he teased in the caption alongside a shot of a notepad with the letters TTMC and the number 5 written at the top of the page.

With the movie adaptation of the first book now filming, the saga continues to grow.

Top Boy star Jasmine Jobson has landed a huge new role as the lead star in In the Shadows, a biopic of British Somali boxer Ramla Ali.

Set in the UK, the movie will see Jobson take on the role of the trailblazing professional boxer, taking over from Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who was initially cast as Ali last year (via Variety).

Peaky Blinders actor Finn Cole as Ali's husband Richard and Andor star Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, who plays her boxing coach, complete the main cast of the film.

star Ryan Reynolds is on the top of the world at the moment with his first MCU movie. But what will the future hold for his beloved foul-mouthed character?

The actor has addressed his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe following his box-office success, as Deadpool 3 is now the second highest-grossing movie of the year. He and director Shawn Levy didn't make the movie with a follow-up in mind.

"Right in this moment, I have no idea if I’ll ever wear that Deadpool suit again – I hope I do – but I don't know. Right now's the time to just kind of hang it up for a bit and see what happens next," Reynolds said to Collider.

Blake Lively has spoken to Digital Spy about her producing role on It Ends With Us.

"So really stepping into that – I've done that in this film – the work I did as an actor on this film pales in comparison to the work that I did outside of the acting," she said.

"It was very minimal compared to everything else. I felt so grateful to have that level of authorship and involvement, it makes me that much more proud of the film."

The romantic drama, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, follows Lily Bloom (Lively) in the midst of an abusive relationship with husband Ryle (Justin Baldoni) as she reconnects with her first love, Atlas (Brendon Sklenar).

Jenna Ortega has broken her silence on Melissa Barrera's firing from Scream 7. Last year, the Sam Carpenter actor was dropped from the seventh movie in the franchise, reportedly over comments she made on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

While Ortega didn't name Barrera specifically, the actor spoke in a new interview with Vanity Fair about Hollywood's attitude to the conflict while addressing her co-star's firing.

"The business that we work in is so touchy-feely," she said. "Everybody wants to be politically correct, but I feel like, in doing that, we lose a lot of our humanity and integrity, because it lacks honesty.

"I wish that we had a better sense of conversation. Imagine if everyone could say what they felt and not be judged for it and, if anything, it sparked some sort of debate, not an argument."

Timothée Chalamet's new film A Complete Unknown has finally landed both UK and US release dates.

The movie will land at the tail end of award season with a Christmas Day (December 25) release date in the US and a January 17, 2025 opening in the UK.

Chalamet plays iconic Bob Dylan in the biopic, which covers the earliest years of the singer-songwriter's career as a struggling songwriter in New York City and his transformation into a pioneer of the folk-rock movement following a performance at the Newport Folk Festival.

Five Nights at Freddy's became an unexpected success at the box office, so the sequel is already on its way. Now, thanks to star Matthew Lillard, we know when to expect to see it in cinemas.

While appearing on a Scooby-Doo YouTube channel, the actor, who played Steve Raglan in the horror film, confirmed that production on the sequel is set to begin in October.

Universal president of domestic theatrical distribution Jim Orr previously announced the horror's return during the studio's CinemaCon presentation in April, before confirming a 2025 release.