 "Secret Invasion" During Marvel's epic San Diego Comic-Con presentation, the studio revealed Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The next MCU phase includes a number of Disney+ shows, including "Secret Invasion," "Echo," "Loki" Season 2, "Ironheart," "Agatha: Coven of Chaos," and the revival series "Daredevil: Born Again." More: - The film "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" will kick off Phase 5 when it opens in theaters on February 17, 2023.
- The first Phase 5 Disney+ series will be "Secret Invasion," in which Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill take on a group of shapeshifting Skrulls hiding out on Earth; the series will debut in the spring of 2023.
- A new trailer for "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" -- the next Disney+ Marvel series, debuting on August 17 -- screened during the panel.
- Marvel also revealed some early details about Phase 6, which begins with the "Fantastic Four" movie in November 2024.
- Phase 6 will cap off the studio's so-called "Multiverse Saga" with a pair of new "Avengers" team-up films, titled "The Kang Dynasty" and "Secret Wars."
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 Super Bowl LVI The NFL's official streaming service -- named NFL+ -- launched in the US on Monday. Subscriptions cost $4.99/month or $39.99 for a year. More: - The service includes all local and primetime regular season and post-season NFL games, and allows access via mobile devices; no exclusive regular-season games are currently scheduled for NFL+.
- NFL local broadcast rights remain locked up for the next seven to 11 years, limiting the league's options in terms of exclusive streams.
- Subscribers also get access to all out-of-market pre-season games, a feature formerly available exclusively via an NFL Game Pass subscription.
- The NFL pre-season begins on August 4, with the Jacksonville Jaguars facing the Las Vegas Rams; that game will be nationally televised rather than streaming on NFL+.
- This is the very first dedicated streaming service from the NFL; both Major League Baseball and the NBA already offer subscriptions to their own services.
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DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, JULY 25 GABBY'S DOLLHOUSE: DreamWorks series for preschoolers, starring Laila Lockhart as Gabby, a human girl who can shrink down to spend time in her magical animated dollhouse with her talking cat pals. The fifth season comes to Netflix today. [Netflix]
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 Actors and producers from three of the five current "Star Trek" TV series made appearances on the main Hall H stage during San Diego Comic-Con. The panel included the first character posters and a brief teaser for the upcoming third and final season of "Picard." More: - "Picard" Season 2 features the return of "Next Generation" vets Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, and Michael Dorn to the franchise; series co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Jeri Ryan, and Michelle Hurd also appear in the teaser.
- The prequel series "Strange New Worlds" also announced a crossover event with the animated "Trek" series "Lower Decks" for its upcoming second season; Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid will portray variations of their animated characters in live-action.
- During the panel, "Trek" executive producer Alex Kurtzman confirmed that two more "Trek" series are in active development, and fans can expect to see "more 'Trek' shows with female leads."
- Kurtzman also teased "conversations" about bringing back the classic "Deep Space 9" character of Captain Benjamin Sisko, originally played by Avery Brooks.
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 "The Sandman" Netflix dropped a trailer for the upcoming TV adaptation of "The Sandman" comic books during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. The series follows the storyline of the original 1989 "Sandman" comic, with the King of Dreams (Tom Sturridge) returning after years of imprisonment in the waking world and reclaiming his fallen empire. More: - Jenna Coleman and Gwendoline Christie co-star in the series as Joanna Constantine and Lucifer, respectively.
- "The Sandman" debuts on August 5.
- Elsewhere at the Con, filmmaker Tim Miller revealed that his feature-length animated feature based on "The Goon" comics would be directed by "Love, Death & Robots" vet Patrick Osborne and will ultimately debut on Netflix.
- In other Netflix SDCC news, Keanu Reeves' BOOM! Studios comic book series "BRZRKR" will apparently get a live-action movie adaptation from the streamer along with a two-season anime series; it centers on B, an immortal demigod who has honed his killing skills over 80,000 years and now seeks a method for ending his own life.
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 "For All Mankind" The cast and crew of five Apple TV+ series made appearances during San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend. The streamer announced the renewal of "For All Mankind" for a fourth season; co-creator Ronald D. Moore said the upcoming final Season 3 episodes will feature some "fairly seismic events" that set up future storylines. More: - New trailers were released for the third season of the workplace comedy series "Mythic Quest" as well as the third and final season of the epic sci-fi adventure "See."
- "Mythic Quest" has been renewed for a third and fourth season; new episodes arrive in the fall.
- "See" Season 3 finds Jason Momoa's Baba Voss protecting his tribe from a new and deadly high-tech weapon; the final episodes premiere on August 26.
- Comic-Con attendees were also invited to tour a recreation of the Lumon Industries headquarters from Apple's "Severance," as part of an activation at San Diego's Hard Rock Hotel.
- "Invasion" co-creator and producer Simon Kinberg described the sci-fi series' upcoming second season as "the full-on action of the battle for Earth that I had always wanted for the show"; the new episodes pick up several months after the close of Season 1.
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 Noah Baumbach's dark comedy "White Noise," based on the novel by Don DeLillo, will open this year's Venice Film Festival before debuting on Netflix. "White Noise" will be the first-ever Netflix original film to open the festival. More: - Adam Driver stars as a professor at an American liberal arts college whose family life is interrupted when his town is struck by an "airborne toxic event."
- Baumbach's partner Greta Gerwig co-stars in the film; the cast also includes Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, and André L. Benjamin (aka Andre 3000).
- Baumbach's "Marriage Story" -- also produced for Netflix -- screened at Venice in 2019.
- The festival will host a number of films bound for the streamer this year, also including Andrew Dominik's "Blonde"; Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths"; and Romain Gavras' "Athena."
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 Netflix now directs iPhone and iPad users to an external webpage to sign up for the service, rather than completing the transaction within their apps. Apple updated its App Store policy, allowing selected apps to link out to their own third-party account sign-up pages, in March. More: - Initially, Apple did not permit apps to link out to their own websites for new subscribers, forcing most companies to process subscriptions as in-app purchases and pay Apple a 30% commission.
- Now, users who tap the external sign-up link receive a message warning them they're "about to leave the app" and that transactions on external pages are not affiliated with or supervised by Apple.
- Though Apple has loosened the general rule, several restrictions remain in place; for example, Netflix is not permitted to feature pricing information alongside the external link.
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- According to star and creator Seth MacFarlance, all three seasons of the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville" will begin streaming on Disney+ internationally.
- "Game of Thrones" will begin streaming in 4K HDR on HBO Max starting this August; the high-resolution format will only be available for subscribers to the service's $14.99/month ad-free plan.
- AMC released a trailer for the series adaptation of author Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire," debuting on October 2; Sam Reid stars as the vampire Lestat alongside "Game of Thrones" vet Jacob Anderson as his latest recruit, Louis.
- At SDCC, Syfy released new trailers for the debut horror-comedy series "Reginald the Vampire" -- starring Jacob Batalon as a teenage nerd-turned-bloodsucker -- and Season 2 of the "Child's Play" spin-off "Chucky."
- Iconic British actor David Warner -- whose credits include multiple "Star Trek" appearances, "Time After Time," "The Omen," "Waxwork," "Time Bandits," and "Titanic" -- passed away at age 80.
- FX renewed the biker drama series "Mayans M.C." for a fifth season and signed co-creator Elgin James to a new multiyear overall deal.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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