Mortal Kombat II
Producer Todd Garner has confirmed that the first trailer for the upcoming sequel to 2021’s “Mortal Kombat” film will hit in July – three months before the film opens on October 24th.
The news follows on from writer Jeremy Slater (“Moon Knight,” “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”) telling ComicBook.com the film has been done for a while now and has been test screening through the roof with fans “cheering and jumping out of their seats”. [Source: X]
Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo has announced that its Switch 2 console sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in the four days following its release on June 5th – the highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware within the first four days of release.
The officially touted figure matches an IGN report earlier today out of the UK where third-party sales data confirms it was Nintendo’s biggest UK console launch ever but still came in well under PlayStation and Xbox console sales. Nintendo forecasts 15 million global sales of the Switch 2 by end of March 2026. [Source: Gematsu]
Sinners
On the domestic front, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” has been a massive success – to the point it is heading to break another major record. The film has grossed $275 million domestically, and has now overtaken Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity” as the highest-grossing live-action original film at the domestic box-office in fifteen years – the biggest since Chris Nolan’s “Inception” pulled in $292 million in 2010. [Source: ComicBook.com]
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Regina Hall and rapper Ice Spice have joined the voice cast of “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” at Paramount Pictures. The pair will be joined by Mark Hamill, Sherry Cola, Arturo Castro and George Lopez in the film opening December 19th. ‘SquarePants’ will follow the anthropomorphic sponge to the deepest depths of the ocean, where he faces off against pirate ghost The Flying Dutchman. [Source: Screen Daily]