The nominees have been announced for the upcoming 89th Academy Awards with obvious front runner La La Land still the front runner with 14 nominations.

Split dominated the box office with the fourth best opening for both M. Night Shymalan and January in general while Rogue One crossed over the $1 billion mark worldwide.

Xander Cage comes out of hiding to track down a device called Pandora’s Box, which can weaponize any satellite in orbit, which has fallen into the hands of xtreme criminals led by Xiang (Donnie Yen) in XXX: Return of Xander Cage.

There have been many different takes on HG Wells’ classic War of the Worlds but by far the funkiest was Jeff Wayne’s prog rock concept album from 1978, which retold the story through songs and spoken narration from actor Richard Burton.

James Cameron is returning to Terminator, Miles Morales will make his big screen debut in 2018, The Rock will star in a solo Black Adam movie and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about the awesomeness of the final Logan trailer, feel wary about Power Rangers, dive into the last few episodes of Candle Cove, sad Goggins, the possible death of Crackle, various Spider-Men, Patrick Stewart voicing a pile of shit and much more.

A few more movies expand wide this week along with an apparent return to form from M. Night Shymalan and the return of Xander Cage for the third XXX movie.

When a giant monster starts appearing halfway around the world, a woman (Anne Hathaway) slowly realizes the creature is somehow mimicking her movements in the latest from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalando.

Nicholas Hoult is a getaway driver who’s on the run from mob boss Anthony Hopkins after a heist goes wrong in the upcoming action movie Collide.

NBC is heading back into DC Comics universe with the new comedy Powerless, which follows the employees of Wayne Security, who are trying to create gadgets to help regular people survive the various super-powered battles occurring around them.