With InterPop having just wrapped up their "Zeroth Hour" crossover, the publisher is ready to reveal the next addition to the growing Emergents Universe line. The Rejects is the company's latest ongoing series, and it's one heavily inspired by the golden age of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants titles.

The Rejects is co-written by Alex Segura (Secret Identity) and Chantelle Aimée Osman, a crime novel editor making her comic book writing debut. The series is drawn by Blue Beetle artist Adrián Gutiérrez.

Get a closer look at the new series in the slideshow gallery below:

The foundation for The Rejects was previously laid in books like the Emergents Presents anthology series and #ZoeMG. Led by Kindler, a teenage superhuman with the power of flight, the team is meant to offer a safe haven for any Emergents struggling to fit into normal society. However, as the series opens, Kindler's vision will be challenged when #ZoeMG's evil twin Makeshift takes over the team. Are we seeing the origins of a brand new Professor X/Magneto-style rivalry?

“The Rejects has been a blast to work with and I'm so excited to collaborate with Chantelle, Adrián, and the entire team” said Segura in InterPop's press release. “I've always wanted to write a teen superhero book, especially one focusing on a group of outcasts, in the vein of the early X-Men and New Mutants. While firmly entrenched in the Culverton and Emergents world, The Rejects will also throw some fun curveballs at readers.”

The Rejects #1 will debut in digital form on July 6. The series will temporarily take the place of #ZoeMG, which is going on hiatus following the conclusion of its first season. Thanks to InterPop's unique, digital-focused business model, all six issues of #ZoeMG are now available to read for free on the company's website (along with various other Emergents Universe titles).

In other comic book news, Marvel is teasing the epic conclusion of the Spider-Verse saga, and Batman: Damned artist Lee Bermejo is returning to Gotham City for a noir mystery called Batman: Dear Detective.

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With InterPop Comics having just wrapped up their "Zeroth Hour" crossover, the publisher is ready to reveal the next addition to the growing Emergents Universe line. The Rejects is the company's latest ongoing series, and it's one heavily inspired by the golden age of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants titles.

The Rejects is co-written by Alex Segura (Secret Identity) and Chantelle Aimée Osman, a crime novel editor making her comic book writing debut. The series is drawn by Blue Beetle artist Adrián Gutiérrez.

Get a closer look at the new series in the slideshow gallery below:

The foundation for The Rejects was previously laid in books like the Emergents Presents anthology series and #ZoeMG. Led by Kindler, a teenage superhuman with the power of flight, the team is meant to offer a safe haven for any Emergents struggling to fit into normal society. However, as the series opens, Kindler's vision will be challenged when #ZoeMG's evil twin Makeshift takes over the team. Are we seeing the origins of a brand new Professor X/Magneto-style rivalry?

“The Rejects has been a blast to work with and I'm so excited to collaborate with Chantelle, Adrián, and the entire team” said Segura in InterPop's press release. “I've always wanted to write a teen superhero book, especially one focusing on a group of outcasts, in the vein of the early X-Men and New Mutants. While firmly entrenched in the Culverton and Emergents world, The Rejects will also throw some fun curveballs at readers.”

The Rejects #1 will debut in digital form on July 6. The series will temporarily take the place of #ZoeMG, which is going on hiatus following the conclusion of its first season. Thanks to InterPop's unique, digital-focused business model, all six issues of #ZoeMG are now available to read for free on the company's website (along with various other Emergent Universe titles).

In other comic book news, Marvel is teasing the epic conclusion of the Spider-Verse saga, and Batman: Damned artist Lee Bermejo is returning to Gotham City for a noir mystery called Batman: Dear Detective.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of multiplayer survival game Scavengers have been cancelled as developer Midwinter Entertainment has been sold by parent company Improbable.

As reported by Eurogamer, Midwinter has been sold to Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive for an unknown amount, with the most of the studio now working on a new project.

The PC version of Scavengers is unaffected as only a small portion of the development team is required to maintain it, though the game is still in Early Access on Steam and has only had a few hundred players since November last year according to Steam DB.

Improbable CEO Herman Narula told Eurogamer that the publisher sold Midwinter as it's now switched focus to metaverse development, but Midwinter appears happy with the sale as studio head Mary Olson said her studio and Behaviour share very similar values and development philosophies.

"We are thrilled to join and learn from a team with proven success across a broad spectrum of IP, while in turn leveraging the strong foundation, culture, and team we've built at Midwinter to expand Behaviour's portfolio," she said.

The console versions of Scavengers already seemed fairly forgotten, as the game's official website still has them pegged for a late 2021 release date.

Scavengers was first announced in 2018 from former Halo developers from 343 Industries and released several demos and tests for the game before it finally launched in Early Access last May.

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Lionsgate has announced that it has cast Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow in its prequel to The Hunger Games; The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

The film is early in production, but Tom Blyth, the lead in Epix's Billy the Kid television series and the 2021 film Benediction, has been cast as the young man who will become the brutal and conniving President, who was portrayed by Donald Sutherland in the previous films.

“Tom Blyth is an explosive rising talent whose mesmerizing and charismatic presence makes him an exciting actor and perfect for this leading role,” said Erin Westerman, President of Production, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.

It's been seven years since Katniss Everdeen put an arrow in the tyrannical regime of the Capitol in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part Two. But rather than continue that tale, Lionsgate's upcoming movie is an adaptation of the prequel novel from author Suzanne Collins. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes jumps back a few years to tell the story of Coriolanus Snow and his rise to power.

Snow is only one-half of the main characters in the prequel. The 18-year-old heir of a dying family of elites is tasked with being the mentor of Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12 who has to participate in the 10th Hunger Games. When Lucy sings in defiance during the reaping ceremonies, Snow sees a potential vector to power. The production has yet to find its Lucy.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be directed by Francis Lawrence, who previously directed Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part One, and Mockingjay Part Two. The film will be produced by Nina Jacobson and Bard Simpson, with Tim Palen and author Suzanne Collins as executive producers. The current screenplay was written by Michael Leslie, who previously scripted Macbeth and Assassin's Creed, both of which starred Michael Fassbender.

Jacobson has previously mentioned how the prequel will differ from the original Hunger Games trilogy. "Well it is very early on, they do take place in very different times," Jacobson said. "This is the 10th Hunger Games as opposed to Catching Fire's 75th. I think that the Hunger Games are considerably less glitzy than they ultimately become. And I think that seeing a Capitol character with a point of view that takes you through a good part of the story is something we've never really done."

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released in theaters on November 17, 2023.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Amber Heard says she lost job opportunities after her split with Johnny Depp, and that her role as Mera in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was significantly diminished after Depp's alleged "smear campaign".

As reported by EW, the actress said she almost lost her role in the DCEU's Justice League during her third day of testimony in the ongoing defamation trial between Depp and Heard

"I had to fight really hard to keep my career after I got my [restraining order against Depp]," Heard testified. "I lost opportunities. I got dropped from jobs and campaigns. I fought to keep my job and the biggest movie opportunity I had to date [with] Justice League with the option to [star in] Aquaman. I had to fight really hard to stay in Justice League because that was the time of the divorce."

Heard said her contract with DC and Warner Bros. is a three-film option, which will end up including Justice League, Aquaman, and Aquaman 2. Heard also described how her role was pared down in Aquaman 2.

"I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it, that depicted my character and another character, without giving any spoiler aways, two characters fighting with one another, and they basically took a bunch out of my role," Heard testified. "They just removed a bunch out."

Heard plays the character Mera, a princess from the underwater kingdom of Xebel, and Aquaman's future wife and Queen in the comics. Heard has played Mera in the first Aquaman movie as well as in Justice League, and will reprise her role for the Aquaman sequel,

After a delay pushed the sequel out of its December 2022 release window, Aquaman 2 is now set to hit theaters on March 17, 2023.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Amber Heard says she lost job opportunities after her split with Johnny Depp, and that her role as Mera in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was significantly diminished after Depp's alleged "smear campaign".

As reported by EW, the actress said she almost lost her role in the DCEU's Justice League during her third day of testimony in the ongoing defamation trial between Depp and Heard

"I had to fight really hard to keep my career after I got my [restraining order against Depp]," Heard testified. "I lost opportunities. I got dropped from jobs and campaigns. I fought to keep my job and the biggest movie opportunity I had to date [with] Justice League with the option to [star in] Aquaman. I had to fight really hard to stay in Justice League because that was the time of the divorce."

Heard said her contract with DC and Warner Bros. is a three-film option, which will end up including Justice League, Aquaman, and Aquaman 2. Heard also described how her role was pared down in Aquaman 2.

"I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it, that depicted my character and another character, without giving any spoiler aways, two characters fighting with one another, and they basically took a bunch out of my role," Heard testified. "They just removed a bunch out."

Heard plays the character Mera, a princess from the underwater kingdom of Xebel, and Aquaman's future wife and Queen in the comics. Heard has played Mera in the first Aquaman movie as well as in Justice League, and will reprise her role for the Aquaman sequel,

After a delay pushed the sequel out of its December 2022 release window, Aquaman 2 is now set to hit theaters on March 17, 2023.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

David Cronenberg, the horror director known for chilling films like Scanners and Videodrome, thinks streaming services like Netflix are too conservative for his works.

Speaking to Variety, Cronenberg said that his team did discuss his upcoming film — Crimes of the Future — with Netflix, but the streaming giant was ultimately not interested in the movie. The director said despite his interest to work with a streaming platform, Netflix isn't willing to pursue something that far out there.

"I think that [Netflix is] still very conservative," Cronenberg said. "I mean, I think they’re still like a Hollywood studio. I thought maybe they would be different. The difference is that Netflix can show very interesting streaming series from Korea, from Finland, and they say it’s a Netflix original, but it isn’t really — it’s something they have acquired. But I think when it comes to their actual production that they do themselves, they’re very conservative. I think they think in mainstream terms, that’s my experience with them anyway."

Based on Cronenberg's past works and what we've seen so far of Crimes of the Future, it's safe to say the film is definitely way out there. Crimes of the Future is about a human society where transformation and mutation surgeries are the norm. It tells the story of a performance artist who shows off the metamorphosis of his own organs.

The movie stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.

Cronenberg is definitely aware that his art is not for everyone. The director previously said he's "sure that we will have walkouts within the first five minutes of the movie."

Crimes of the Future is set to hit theaters next month. As for what's next for Cronenberg after Crimes of the Future, we already know a decent amount about The Shrouds, his next movie set to start filming in 2023.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

David Cronenberg, the horror director known for chilling films like Scanners and Videodrome, thinks streaming services like Netflix are too conservative for his works.

Speaking to Variety, Cronenberg said that his team did discuss his upcoming film — Crimes of the Future — with Netflix, but the streaming giant was ultimately not interested in the movie. The director said despite his interest to work with a streaming platform, Netflix isn't willing to pursue something that far out there.

"I think that [Netflix is] still very conservative," Cronenberg said. "I mean, I think they’re still like a Hollywood studio. I thought maybe they would be different. The difference is that Netflix can show very interesting streaming series from Korea, from Finland, and they say it’s a Netflix original, but it isn’t really — it’s something they have acquired. But I think when it comes to their actual production that they do themselves, they’re very conservative. I think they think in mainstream terms, that’s my experience with them anyway."

Based on Cronenberg's past works and what we've seen so far of Crimes of the Future, it's safe to say the film is definitely way out there. Crimes of the Future is about a human society where transformation and mutation surgeries are the norm. It tells the story of a performance artist who shows off the metamorphosis of his own organs.

The movie stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.

Cronenberg is definitely aware that his art is not for everyone. The director previously said he's "sure that we will have walkouts within the first five minutes of the movie."

Crimes of the Future is set to hit theaters next month. As for what's next for Cronenberg after Crimes of the Future, we already know a decent amount about The Shrouds, his next movie set to start filming in 2023.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Even though Johnny Depp has said he will never return to the Pirates of the Carribean franchise, longtime Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer says that's not set in stone.

Speaking to The Times, Bruckheimer was asked if Depp was attached to either of the two upcoming Pirates projects. Bruckheimer said, "Not at this point. The future is yet to be decided."

Depp has been the face of the Pirates franchise since its inception, starring as Captain Jack Sparrow in all five Pirates films to this point.

The two Pirates movies we've heard rumblings on are a new female-led Pirates movie starring Margot Robbie, and a franchise reboot with the creator of Chernobyl first reported on in 2019. According to Bruckheimer, that still seems to be the plan.

"We're talking to Margot Robbie," Bruckheimer said. "We are developing two 'Pirates' scripts — one with her, one without."

Depp himself has said he will not work with Disney on the Pirates series again. During Depp's ongoing defamation trial against Amber Heard, Depp said Disney dropped him from the next Pirates of the Carribean days after Heard published an op-ed about their relationship. When being cross-examined, Depp implied that there is nothing Disney could offer to get him to return.

Cross-examiner Ben Rottenborn said: “The fact is, Mr. Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a Pirates of the Caribbean film? Correct?”

“That is true,” replied Depp.

The last Pirates movie was 2017's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. We called the movie "okay", saying it "manages to be less bloated, dreary, and meandering than the last three entries have been, but it still suffers from many of the same wearisome, dredged-up villains and ho-hum action and comedy that have bedeviled the franchise since its second installment."

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Even though Johnny Depp has said he will never return to the Pirates of the Carribean franchise, longtime Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer says that's not set in stone.

Speaking to The Times, Bruckheimer was asked if Depp was attached to either of the two upcoming Pirates projects. Bruckheimer said, "Not at this point. The future is yet to be decided."

Depp has been the face of the Pirates franchise since its inception, starring as Captain Jack Sparrow in all five Pirates films to this point.

The two Pirates movies we've heard rumblings on are a new female-led Pirates movie starring Margot Robbie, and a franchise reboot with the creator of Chernobyl first reported on in 2019. According to Bruckheimer, that still seems to be the plan.

"We're talking to Margot Robbie," Bruckheimer said. "We are developing two 'Pirates' scripts — one with her, one without."

Depp himself has said he will not work with Disney on the Pirates series again. During Depp's ongoing defamation trial against Amber Heard, Depp said Disney dropped him from the next Pirates of the Carribean days after Heard published an op-ed about their relationship. When being cross-examined, Depp implied that there is nothing Disney could offer to get him to return.

Cross-examiner Ben Rottenborn said: “The fact is, Mr. Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a Pirates of the Caribbean film? Correct?”

“That is true,” replied Depp.

The last Pirates movie was 2017's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. We called the movie "okay", saying it "manages to be less bloated, dreary, and meandering than the last three entries have been, but it still suffers from many of the same wearisome, dredged-up villains and ho-hum action and comedy that have bedeviled the franchise since its second installment."

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.