Sequels and spinoffs are in the works for Shrek, The Devil Wears Prada, and the new Sony live action series Spider-Noir, and the casting directors are working hard too.

Dreamworks Animation announced that Shrek 5 is coming to theaters July 1st, 2026 with original cast members Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas on board.

Shrek 5 will be directed by Walt Dohrn, who served as Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third‘s writer and artist, and was also head of story on Shrek Forever After, in which he also voiced Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek 5 will be produced by Gina Shay and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri. Brad Ableson will co-direct.

That Murphy is returning is no surprise; he said as much during a promotional interview for his new film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Murphy told Collider, “we started doing Shrek four or five months ago. I recorded the first act, and we’ll be doing it this year, we’ll finish it up.” He also promised that a Donkey solo movie would be the next entry in the franchise.

A sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is also in the works, with Disney taking over from its new subsidiary 20th Century Fox as the studio in charge. While no casting details are set in stone, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are all said to be in talks to reprise their roles from the 2006 original.

Puck was the first news outlet to report that Streep and Blunt are returning, and they further said taht Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the script for the original, is returning to pen the sequel. Original director David Frankel is also in talks to return.

The new film will reportedly follow Miranda Priestly (Streep), the antagonist and titular Devil in the first film, as she navigates her career in the “dying magazine business” and asks Blunt’s character for help.

This would mark a change of heart for Anne Hathaway, who starred as a naive young assistant to fashion magazine editor Priestly in the original. She shot down rumors of a sequel in 2022, saying, “There’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. It’s just like, we can’t do it. It’s not gonna happen. It exists. There are other films. There will be other films. We can just watch [The Devil Wears Prada] again.”

And finally, two more actors are joining Nicolas Cage for Sony’s live-action multi-versal series Spider-Noir. Fargo‘s Lamorne Morris and Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) will join Nicolas Cage when the show debuts on Prime Video.

Morris will play Robbie Robertson (not the musician), a driven and dedicated journalist trying to make it with the odds stacked against him as a black professional in 1930s New York. Robertson takes on the stories that no one else would touch as he seeks both fame and fortune, doing whatever is necessary to advance his career.

Exact details on Gleeson’s role in the project are being kept under wraps, but the entertainment news outlets report that he will play the show’s villain. Gleeson has appeared in the small screen crime drama Mr. Mercedes, the miniseries The Comey Rule, and the TV movie Into the Storm.

Spider-Noir, from executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.

Uziel and Lightfoot developed the series with the Into the Spider-Verse team of Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, all of whom will also executive produce. Harry Bradbeer will executive produce and direct the first two episodes. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios and will air on Amazon’s streaming platform.