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Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:

• Release Updates: Disney has announced updated movie releases for some highly anticipated projects. Cruella, starring Emma Stone will come out on May 28th, and Marvel’s Black Widow starring Scarlet Johannsen will come out on July 9th. Both movies will hit theaters and Disney+.
• Gatescord?: The “gaming-focused chat software” known as Discord might have a future as a Microsoft off-shoot. Reportedly, Microsoft is “in talks” to buy Discord, and the price? $10 billion. As of now, it’s just talk. Familiar sources say Discord is more likely to go public instead.
• My Love For You Is Ticking Clock: Keanu Reeves, we previously told you, was looking for a home for his BRZRKR movie. Well, it looks like he found one.  Netflix. Reeves will write the story, alongside Matt Kindt, about a “half-mortal/half-God, cursed and compelled to violence, even at the sacrifice of his sanity.” The first issue of the comic as we told you sold over 600K copies, making it the biggest since 2016 for BOOM! Studios. Reeves is set to produce and star in the Netflix projects, which will consist of a live-action movie and a follow-up anime series.