NYCC recap, 'Good Boy's Oscar plea, and the best book adaptations from BFI LFF

Welcome to Mashable's weekly entertainment news series

Let's talk about New York Comic Con. Cosplayers, fans, and celebs converged on New York City for this massive event

and Mashable's got the highlights that you won't want to miss. The teaser for A Night of the Seven Kingdoms has delivered the best look yet

at the spinoff series set between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones

Based on George R.R. Martin's novella, The Hedge Knight, the show follows the adventures of Dunk and Egg

a newly minted knight and his sassy squire. I could squire for you, sir

Rob me, and I'll hunt you down with dogs. You don't have dogs

I'll get some. Where? Who? See them quest for coin, honor, and maybe each other

A Night of the Seven Kingdoms will premiere on January 18th on HBO Max. Learn more about the show and what Martin had to say about it

from Mashable's Comic-Con panel wrap-up. Speaking of big franchises taking exciting new turns

the MCU revealed a surprising trailer for Wonder Man, a miniseries coming to Disney Plus

Dude, it's a stunner. Forget what you think you know about the Jack Kirby character

because this Wonder Man is tackling superhero fatigue by taking a cue from the studio

That means showbiz satire, baby! The two actors are vying for the role of the Lifetime as the lead in the Wonder Man movie

One is fighting for his big break the other broke bad in Iron Man 3 Yep that Trevor Slattery the eccentric thespian who successfully fooled the world into thinking he was the supervillain known as the Mandarin

The miniseries looks like the most bonkers thing the MCU has given us yet

New world will have the balls to make another. And look at that, we're not fatigued

Wonder Man debuts on Disney Plus January 27th. And last but not least, AMC got interviewed with the vampire fans and extended look at

the vampire-less stat. Embrace yourselves. The Brat Prince is back with sex, blood, and rock and roll, and of course, bickering with his eternal lover, Louie

It's going to be messy as hell, and we can't wait, coming in 2026

Next up, the star of Good Boy, a very sweet dog named Indy, is making his play for Oscar Gold

Dear esteemed members of the Academy, I write this letter to request your consideration for inclusion in this year's Academy Awards Best Acting Performance Race

despite my critically acclaimed role in the recent film good boy i have been deemed ineligible for the best actor category this news feels as if someone has yanked my leash short as apparently i am not a good enough boy for you

i understand you have rules to protect my human costars but no such rules exist to recognize the rich and complex contributions of our canine thespians How many great performances must go overlooked before the Academy throws us a bone

And last up, let's go to our UK desk to learn what the highlights are out of the BFI London Film Festival

Hello. Hello, Christy. We are here at the BFI London Film Festival

We're on the rooftop of the Picturehouse Cinema in London, and we are doing something horrible

reading when we should be in the cinema. But it's okay, because we've been to the cinema already

These books have inspired a lot of the movies that you're going to be seeing in cinemas

in a couple of months' time, or they might already be out. But you might want to brush up on a couple of the narratives

Or maybe you don't care. Maybe you can read a book after you've seen anything. Anyway, let's run through them

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. This will destroy you. So will the movie

Paul Meskel and Jesse Buckley are amazing. And Chloe Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's amazing book

This is really sad. I've heard reports of people like weeping in the aisles

Okay, Frankenstein. Guillermo del Toro, the master of all things, has adapted Mary Shelley's incredible 19th century iconic gothy horror

We love her. She's our 19th century spooky girl. She started writing it when she was 18, published it when she was 20 years old

She had a life. Look it up. Read this book. It is incredible. It about humanity not monstrosity Anyway read it Chronology of Water by Lydia Yuknovich Kristen Stewart has created an impeccable movie It really hard to watch film with Imogen Poots based on this

author's memoir. It's very heavy. A lot of trigger warnings, content warnings in there. But if you

want to know about the Ken Kesey collaborative novel, rate it! Pillian! Make sure you see Pillian

It is Alan Sedna Skarsgård and Harry Melling at their absolute best. It is romantic. It is about

subdom dynamics. Adam Mars Jones' Box Hill is the book that it was based on and there are some

changes so make sure you read the book, watch the movie, do both. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

has been made into a movie with Benedict Cumberbatch and it is an impeccable story if you are grieving

or if you've experienced sudden loss and it's surrealism that comes with that. In this it's

personified in a giant crow voiced by David Thewlis in the movie and amazingly beautifully written in

Max Porter's novella. And finally, a shout out to Nia DaCosta's Hedda. My god, this is one of the

best films of the year. Tessa Thompson is impeccable as Hedda Gabler. Henri Gibson's play

from the 19th century. Just read it. Watch the film. It's swoon-worthy. Read Mashable's reviews

on all of these movies. And stay tuned to more from the film festival. And read books

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