Battle Royale. 20 years ago, a beloved, disturbing film. Today, a heavily saturated genre of video games. Players Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) opened the floodgates for the popularity boom and Fortnite skyrocketed off of that, raking in an estimated $203 million as of May 2019. Some titles in this vein make a splash — see Apex Legends
Month: January 2020
As they’ve done with episodes of The Righteous Gemstones, Succession, and Ballers previously, HBO has officially released the next episode of the new drama series The Outsider early ahead of the upcoming busy weekend. In case you’ve forgotten, Super Bowl LIV (that’s 54) will take place this Sunday, February 2 in Miami and the premium
Kevin Smith is already having a busy 2020! Not only did he begin the second half of the Reboot Roadshow, which is taking him and Jason Mewes across the country to screen Jay & Silent Bob Reboot, but he also swung by the Sundance Film Festival to interview some of his peers. The festival began
Credit: Lucasfilm Purported test footage from George Lucas’ scrapped Star Wars TV show has surfaced online courtesy of Stargate Studios, who created some of the special effects for the clip. Titled Star Wars: Underworld, the show would have taken place in the Rebellion era visiting such locations as Coruscant, as seen in this clip, which
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ETERNALS concept art Credit: Marvel Studios Credit: John Romita Jr. (Marvel Comics) Marvel has rush-solicited a hardcover edition of Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr.’s Eternals run in advance of the fall movie. The publisher informed retailers that a hardcover edition of the series is scheduled to be released July 29, which will retail for
Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker would not last very long with Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn before he came away fundamentally changed by the experience, according to Robbie. During an interview in support of the forthcoming Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Oscar-nominated actress joked that the grounded, gritty Arthur Fleck, who struggled
The CW has released the official synopsis for “A Head of Her Time,” the February 18 episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in which the soul cast out of Hell to haunt the Legends is Marie Antoinette. Facing down with Antoinette? Zari, who is still a shallow social media influencer but who has somehow managed
The Shirobako movie has released its main trailer, starring Aoi and a host of other familiar characters! [embedded content] The trailer also showcases the movie’s theme song, “Hoshi wo Atsumete” by fhana. Set in the world of anime production, Shirobako is an original anime project first broadcast in 2014. The movie picks up four years
Set in Hakodate, Hokkaido, the series revolves around talented vocalist Nanahoshi Ren and his bandmates, enthusiastic leader Goryou Yuto, Matoba Wataru, and Kikyou Rio, who together form boyband Argonavis. As a popular Bushiroad franchise, BanG Dream! features numerous titles over mediums like rhythm games, manga, anime. Argonavis is its first ever male idol group.
Iconic pirate manga One Piece is getting a Western live action drama adaptation! The 10 episode series will stream exclusively on Netflix as a Netflix Original. The manga’s original author, Oda Eiichirou, is on board as an executive producer. He has also released an official comment, stating his excitement for the project. The live action
Credit: Marvel Comics Artists Geraldo Borges, Szymon Kudranski, Oscar Bazaldua, Robert Gill and Mattia De Iulis have been added to the upcoming Avengers #31 standalone issue, joining the originally-solicited Gerardo Zaffino. The publisher did not give a reason for this change, however it comes just one week after the book was postponed from February 19
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Mortal Kombat film, and while the movie may not have done the franchise justice, one can’t help but admire the ’90s cheese factor. Plus it features the Highlander himself Christopher Lambert as Rayden. The film’s PG-13 rating certainly factored into the noticeably toned down violence, gamers have
Star Trek: Picard‘s second episode expands the scope of this new future setting of the Star Trek franchise, by revealing even more context about major events in the 20-year span between Star Trek: Nemesis and the current events of the Picard. This second episode of Star Trek: Picard (entitled “Maps and Legends”) goes even further
You’ll find few films with as passionate of followings as The Big Lebowski, with fans finally being given the continued adventures of one of its characters in the upcoming The Jesus Rolls, which has just gotten its first teaser and a pair of new posters. The character might have only appeared in the film for
Credit: Marvel Comics Becky Cloonan Credit: Thought Bubble Becky Cloonan is no stranger to the works of Robert E. Howard – she once sailed the seas of Cimmeria as the artist of an adaptation of the classic story “Queen of the Black Coast” – but now she’ll cross swords with a very different Howard character
In 2019, Fate/stay night, the origin of the currently airing anime Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, celebrated 15 years since its release as a video game. Commemorating the occasion, an event titled “TYPE-MOON Exhibit: Tracing 15 Years of Fate/stay night,” which looks back at the history of the Fate series and TYPE-MOON, opened
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Wonder Woman may be an ancient warrior, but can she match swords with Valda, a brutally skilled knight from the past? That’s what’s at stake in this Wonder Woman #752 first look from DC. The clash arrives February 26, courtesy of Steve Orlando and Max Raynor, with a cover from Guillem March. Wonder Woman #752Written
[embedded content] Toy Story 3 has been out of theaters for a long time, but two brothers decided to recreate the film in the best way they knew how. Morgan and Mason McGrew did the entire movie in stop-motion over the course of eight years. It’s wild to think that such a thing could be
Baby Yoda’s run has extended into 2020 as audiences await the second season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Sideshow Collectibles has some good news for big fans as they’ve made a life-size version of the adorable little puppet available for pre-order. Look into those big old eyes and say that you don’t absolutely love it.
Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Terry Dodson is a veteran to the Marvel Universe, and how he’s finally taking on some of his self-professed favorite characters – the Richards family – in X-Men/Fantastic Four alongside writer Chip Zdarsky (whom we spoke with earlier). Teaming with his wife Rachel to make X-Men/Fantastic Four a true
[embedded content] Arrow‘s series finale episode was a combination of final fond, farewells, as well as new teases of exciting things to come. In the midst of all that ‘closed doors, open windows’ progression, Arrow managed to also tease fans with one long-awaited moment in the series: John Diggle’s recruitment into the Green Lantern Corps!
Since his big-screen debut as the Ewok Wicket in 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi at age 12, Warwick Davis has been a pop culture staple, appearing in some of the most popular imaginative fare embraced by multiple generations, including the title role in the fantasy film Willow and the central figure of the
Credit: Dynamite Entertainment Green Hornet will undergo a film reboot courtesy of Amasia Pictures, a production company run by Bradley Gallo and former Marvel Studios Chief Operating Officer Michael Helfant, as announced in Variety. Few details of the planned film have been announced, but the reboot does not appear to have any connection to the 2011 Green
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Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Avengers of the Wastelands #1Written by Ed BrissonArt by Jonas Scharf and Neeraj MenonLettering by Cory PetitPublished by Marvel Comics‘Rama Rating: 4 out of 10 Credit: Marvel Comics Back in the good old days of 2008, “Old Man Logan” burst onto the scene with an intensity and bleakness that
After eight years of fan speculation, hope, and even after a few fairly direct teases, Tuesday’s series finale of Arrow finally gave fans a pretty significant bit of closure when it came to the question of whether John Diggle would eventually become Green Lantern John Stewart. It’s something that makes good on a promise Arrow
The coronavirus outbreak in China is having serious global impact. Not only is there concern for the disease’s spread as confirmed cases begin to show up across the globe including some in the United States, but the outbreak is also impacting the entertainment industry, with some Chinese theater chains closing over disease concerns, a move
Members of the cast, including Eguchi Takuya (who plays Hikigaya Hachiman), Hayami Saori (Yukinoshita Yukino), Toyama Nao (Yuigahama Yui), Sakura Ayane (Isshiki Iroha), and Horii Chado (Tobe Kakeru), will be present at a special event on Anime Japan 2020’s Flower Red stage on March 21 at 1:15 pm. Adapted from the series of light novels
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