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HBO is bringing the behind-the-scenes chaos of making a superhero movie with The Franchise. Created by Mendes, Jon Brown, and Armando Iannucci, the series focuses on a crew for an upcoming superhero franchise film, trying to rein in the chaos of egos and their lives outside of the production.

“The Franchise follows the crew of an unloved franchise movie fighting for their place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe,” the official show description reads. “The comedy series shines a light on the secret chaos inside the world of superhero moviemaking, to ask the question–how exactly does the cinematic sausage get made? Because every f***-up has an origin story.” HBO announced the series will premiere on October 6 and released a trailer. You can check it out below.

You have to admit that HBO is pretty bold to allow this sort of thing where it’s not just poking fun of superhero movies but the people behind them, including the higher-ups. If you look closely, you can see the WB shield logo in the backlot and on the trailers.

The cast includes Himesh Patel, Aya Cash as Anita, Jessica Hynes, Billy Magnussen, Lolly Adefope, Darren Goldstein, and Isaac Pow…

New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games’ MMO, is set during the Age of Exploration, on an island where no one can die–but immortality isn’t always a gift. For some, living forever leads to madness, while others lose their souls. Some corpses are long since hollowed out but live on, unable to find peace.

That idea gets pretty dark pretty fast, but in the episode of animated anthology series Secret Level that’s based on New World, the focus is on a slightly different take on the material.

“[New World: Aeternum is] not quite as light as [the episode] presents it,” said New World: Aeternum narrative director Rob Chestney, during a question-and-answer session with press following a recent screening of Secret Level’s first episode. “We talk about it as grimdark. We talk about it as supernatural, rather than fantasy.”

The video game conceit of players dying is baked into the fiction of New World: Aeternum, giving an in-universe reason for players to die and resurrect frequently. In the game’s fiction, Chestney said, that often gets treated seriously. The Secret Level episode, however, puts a darkly humorous spin on all that…