'Thunderbolts' Director Gets an 'X-Men,' 'Conjuring 4' Gets a Trailer, 'Suits LA' Gets A Pink Slip and More

The next MonsterVerse movie has a title, ‘Sinners’, nears $200 million domestic, and ‘Hunt for Gollum’ is the latest WB tentpole to bet on a ‘Star Wars’ movie not making a mid-December release date.

In tonight’s no-frills newsletter…

• Suits: LA gets canceled after a single season, because, of course, it does.

• The Conjuring: Last Rites gets a teaser trailer, which sadly does not feature Christopher Plummer inviting us to join the Warrens for one last adventure.

• The Search For Gollum becomes the latest example of a December tentpole declaring that a Star Wars movie ain’t going to make a release date.

• The next MonsterVerse movie gets a subtitle… and a phone number if you want to betray your kaiju friends to the dirty, rotten Monarch Organization. AMAB?

• A quick update on Sinners as it nears $200 million in North America

• The director who made a halfway decent MCU “mythology episode” (with, not coincidentally, far less tinkering and micromanaging than The Marvels or Brave New World) may direct Marvel’s X-Men. Or maybe the rumor is just a good way to make Thunderbolts* look like a bigger hit than it actually is.