Clayface opens in US theatres on 23 October 2026 with no Batman anywhere in it. The Pattinson Batman belongs to a separate universe, and the DCU film that will introduce its own Batman has no release date. The universe is introducing Gotham villains first.
Demon Slayer’s October announcement is a two-week Giyu and Shinobu summon banner in Seven Knights Re:BIRTH, and the collaboration closes on 29 October 2026. Infinity Castle Part 2 still has no confirmed release date. The gap is being filled by licensing rather than by a trailer.
AD Police Files, the 1990 Bubblegum Crisis prequel, arrives on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on 12 January 2027. A divisive OVA rated 6.6 on IMDb is getting a restoration because the collectors who want it never got a good copy. The extras list shows who the set is for.
Barnes & Noble chose its best books of 2026 in 17 categories, from fiction to libros en espanol, and the shape of the list says more about what sells than what lasts. Two books called The Keeper appear on the same list in two categories. There is no poetry section.
Clive Barker says he has ideas for new Hellraiser films and wants to make them, and the reason it took this long is in the sequels themselves. Most were made to hold the rights, at falling budgets. The new game Hellraiser: Revival is the test that comes first.
One Piece now has five carriers of the Sun God power, and only three of them are Sun Gods in the story. Nika, Joy Boy and Luffy hold the title. Jewelry Bonney copies it through the Toshi Toshi no Mi, and Saint Killingham builds one out of fear with his Kirin.
Peacock has greenlit a live action Dungeon Crawler Carl series, filming in 2027, which is the first time a genre that grew up in public has to introduce itself to everyone else. Serialised chapters, a subscription model that pays by the page, and an audio market doing more work than anyone credits.
Everyone knows what the films cut and what a series can restore, and that is the easy half. The hard half is competing with twenty five years of visual memory the previous adaptation installed. Runtime can be fixed. Being the version someone met first cannot.
At New York Comic Con the long delayed new Naruto anime finally arrived, and it turned out to be a four episode crossover with a 1993 manga, made by the original studio with the original cast. That is not a failure of nerve, it is risk management at industrial scale, and the same maths is behind the One Piece remake.