Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 19th to 25th, 2026 - UPDATE #2

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro:  The winner of the 7/17 to 7/19/2026 weekend box office is Universal's "The Odyssey" with an estimated take of 124.5 million dollars.

DISNEY - From Disney:  Actor Colman Domingo is looking to co-write an original live-action feature film about "Princess Tiana" inspired by Disney‘s Oscar-nominated animated 2009 feature, "The Princess and the Frog." He would write the screenplay with 2020 Tony-nominated, "Slave Play" director, Robert O’Hara.  The project is currently in early development.  "The Princess and the Frog" was the last hand-drawn animated feature from Disney.  It focused on a waitress, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose), who dreams of opening her own restaurant, but is transformed into a frog.

OBIT:

From MovieWeb:  American screenwriter, William Wisher, Jr., has died at the age of 71, Tuesday, July 14, 2026.  Wisher is best known for his work on "The Terminator" films with his friend, James Cameron.  Wisher wrote "additional dialogue" for "The Terminator" (1984) and he co-wrote the screenplay for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" with Cameron.  Among his other screenwork are the films "Judge Dredd" (1995), "The 13th Warrior" (1999), "Exorcist: The Beginning," (2004), and "Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist" (2005).  Wisher was also a "script doctor" doing work on films for which he did not received a writing credit.  That includes "Pumpkinhead" (1998), "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" (1989), and "Eraser" (1996), to name a few.  With Randall Frakes, Wisher wrote one of the two novelizations of "The Terminator."  The Wisher-Frakes book was published by Bantam/Spectra, in 1985.

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