Clayface DCU Film Announced, Sony Kills the SPUM, Most Anticipated 2026 Movies, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate, we look at the most anticipated movies for 2025, DC Studios confirms a solo Clayface movie, Kraven's bomb kills the Sony’s SPUM universe, and more!

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News

• 2025 Movies (10:50)
  • Fandango’s most anticipated movies for 2025 revealed
    • Captain America: Brave New World 
    • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning 
    • Jurassic World Rebirth 
    • From The World of John Wick: Ballerina
    • The Fantastic Four: First Steps 
• Clayface (16:40)
  • “a DCU story from a script by Mike Flanagan, has been OFFICIALLY greenlit.” - per James Gunn
  • Confirmed to be a DCU film, not an Elseworlds or Batman II antagonist
    • Will appear in upcoming Creature Commandos episode voiced by Alan Tudyk
  • Not sure which version of Clayface, but most likely the monster-esque version seen in Batman The Animated Series and Harley Quinn
  • Releasing in theaters September 11, 2026
• The Batman (23:10)
  • The Batman Part II still has an October 2026 release date
  • James Gunn confirms script is still not finished
    • Robert Pattinson signed on for Christopher Nolan’s movie filming summer 2025
  • Could be delayed further
• Dynamic Duo (26:40)
  • The “animated” movie around the Robins: Dick Grayson and Jason Todd officially greenlit as well
  • June 30, 2028
• Creature Commandos (28:10)
  • First episode available to watch on YouTube for free
  • Episodes 2 and 3 remain on Max streaming service so far
• Superman (29:25)
  • Trailer highly likely to debut next week per insiders
  • May not be Superman focused
• Secret Level (31:30)
  • First half released on Amazon
• Deadpool (34:00)
  • Deadpool & Kidpool meet Lynda Carter in SickKids donation video
  • Poke at her previous time as Wonder Woman at DC
• Avengers: Doomsday (36:15)
  • Chris Evans confirmed to return via The Wrap
  • Will likely be playing Nomad, a non-America allegiance version of Captain America
  • Theories include Captain Hydra and Dr Doom building Evil Avengers as antagonists
• Avengers: Secret Wars (42:10)
  • Doctor Strange and Clea’s actions rumored to be 60% of why Secret Wars is happening
  • Other 40% made up of Spider-man, Loki, Wanda, and Doctor Doom
• Agatha All Along (43:20)
  • Potentially revealed as a multi-season show for "Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy" at Golden Globes
  • WandaVision was placed under “Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television”
• What If (48:35)
  • Season 3 titles revealed
  • Starting next weekend December 22 and releasing daily
• Spider-Man 4 (50:40)
  • Amy Pascal says film will be focused more on Spider-man than Peter Parker based on how No Way Home ends
    • "Well, we have to deal with the fact that he decided he was going to give up being Peter Parker."
    • "And he was going to focus on being Spider-Man because being Peter Parker was too hard," she teased. "That's what the movie is about."
• SPUM (52:45)
  • Sony hanging up non-Spider-Man universe video attempts
    •  "taking this misfire very seriously," and "has a reset in store." per Deadline
  • Was plan before Kraven hit theaters, will focus solely on Spider-Man movies with Marvel
  • Could be looking at Animated only theatrical approach and live-action TV licensing
• Kraven (58:35)
  • Now in theaters, opening less than $11 million
  • Removed magic blood plot from film

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