Netflix has announced nine new cast members for The Sandman Season 2, including comedian Steve Coogan and three actors with Game of Thrones on their resumes.

Perhaps most notable of those is Jack Gleeson, who will play Puck, "a malevolent hobgoblin who serves as the royal jester to King Auberon of Faerie." Gleeson is best known for playing Joffrey Baratheon on Game of Thrones from 2011-2014, after which he took a hiatus from acting. He's had a number of small roles here and there recently, including in Netflix's Sex Education and the BBC's The Famous Five, in addition to theater work.

Also on the Thrones front, Clive Russell, who played Brynden Tully in the HBO hit and was recently cast in One Piece Season 2, has joined The Sandman as Odin. Laurence O'Fuarain has been cast as Odin's son, Thor, and his credits include a Season 5 episode of Game of Thrones, as well as Fjall the warrior in The Witcher: Blood Origin. Freddie Fox will round out their family as Loki.

Coogan, meanwhile, will play the voice of Barnabas. Also of note is Indya Moore, the model and star of FX's Pose, as Wanda. Rounding out the announcement is Ruairi O’Connor as Orpheus, Ann Skelly as Nuala, and Douglas Booth as Cluracan.

Today's casting announcement is only the latest for the second season of the Neil Gaiman adaptation. Previously, Netflix cast the remaining Endless family members: Esme Creed-Miles as Delirium, Adrian Lester as Destiny, and Barry Sloane as The Prodigal, aka Destruction.

They join returning cast members like Tom Sturridge, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Patton Oswalt, Vivienne Acheampong, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Ferdinand Kingsley, Stephen Fry, Asim Chaudhry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Vanesu Samunyai, and Razane Jammal.

We're still, however, waiting for a Season 2 release date. In the meantime, check out our 9/10 review of Season 1, where we said, "Netflix’s The Sandman brings Dream and his Endless siblings to life in a way Neil Gaiman and longtime fans could only conjure up in their deepest of sleeps."

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Capcom announced a Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess demo during its Next livestream, along with a surprise: it'll be available today.

The demo, Capcom said, will allow you to play part of the main story, and there's no limit on playtime or the number of times you can play. It'll be available on all the platforms Kunitsu-Gami is releasing on: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, PS5, PS4, and Steam.

It's time to walk the path. A demo for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess arrives today on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, PS5, PS4, and Steam. Experience a unique blend of action and strategy in this new IP from Capcom for yourself!#Kunitsu_Gami pic.twitter.com/W5HGHLDZ9K

— Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (@Kunitsu_Gami) July 1, 2024

And that's not all: Capcom also unveiled a collaboration with its beloved 2006 hit Okami. The collab will include Okami-themed costumes for Kunitsu-Gami's main character, Soh, and the Maiden Yoshiro, as well as special weapons and music.

Capcom added that if enough people work together and complete the bonus unlock compaign between between today and 7:59 p.m. PDT on July 17, 2024, the Okami collab items will be available as part of a free update for everyone who buys a copy of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess when it releases on July 19. You can see the details of the bonus unlock campaign below.

We first learned about Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess just about a year ago at the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase, and got a good look at gameplay in March at the Xbox Partner Preview. Interestingly, as we noted at the time, it seems to be a real-time strategy game, blending third-person action with tower defense-style tactics mechanics.

According to Capcom, "The game takes place on a mountain covered by defilement. During the day, purify the villages and prepare yourself for sundown. During the night, protect the Maiden against the hordes of the Seethe. Repeat the day and night cycle until you cleanse the mountain of defilement and return peace to the land."

For more, check out our roundup of the biggest game releases of July, including Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Stranger Things Season 5 is still quite a ways away, but fans at least have a lot of Upside Down madness to look forward to when it does return.

Star Maya Hawke, who's played Robin Buckley on the hit Netflix series since its third season, provided a quick update on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things on a recent appearance on the Podcrushed podcast. She joked that the show has been "a little bit cursed," having been delayed by both the COVID-19 pandemic in the past and the writers' and actors' strikes, but another culprit for the long wait for Season 5 is also its scope.

“We’re making, basically, eight movies," Hawke said on the podcast. "The episodes are very long.”

As if Inside Out 2 wasn't already a massive success for Disney and Pixar, it just broke an impressive record.

It crossed $1 billion at the global box office over the weekend, becoming the fastest animated movie to reach the milestone in just 19 days, according to data from Comscore. It's also the first movie of 2024 to hit $1 billion, as a film hasn't crossed that theshold since Barbie last year.

As of Sunday, Inside Out 2 had grossed $469.3 million domestically and $545.5 million internationally. As Comscore notes, in just its third weekend, it's already the 11th highest-grossing animated film of all time. It'll likely climb that list in the coming weeks, especially as it has yet to open in a few international markets like Japan.

Inside Out 2 has already well outgrossed its predecessor, too, as the first Inside Out made $857 million over its entire worldwide box office run.

It was a strong weekend for the box office overall, as Inside Out 2 isn't the only one running a victory lap. A Quiet Place: Day One had the franchise's biggest global opening with $98.5 million, and with a reported budget of about $67.5 million and strong reviews, that puts it well on track to profitability.