Monthly Archives: May 2017
X-Men Spinoff The New Mutants Will Be a Horror Movie
The upcoming X-Men spinoff film The New Mutants won't be your typical comic book movie.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, The New Mutants director Josh Boone revealed the film will go in an unusual horror direction and be unlike anything in the X-Men movie franchise so far. "We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe," Boone said. "There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."
It appears a lot of inspiration for the film will come from artist Bill Sienkiewicz's work on The New Mutants comics that started from issue #18, which Boone described as a "surreal and impressionistic X-Men series" that feels "like Stephen King meets John Hughes."
T.J. Miller on Why Deadpool 2 Will Be Just as Funny as the Original
Comedian and actor T.J. Miller has been getting more in demand thanks to his role on HBO’s hit comedy Silicon Valley and last year’s Deadpool, in which he played bartender and Deadpool’s “buddy,” Weasel. He also voices an Emoji named Gene in the upcoming animated The Emoji Movie, which actually makes more sense once you’ve seen some of it (as we have).
We spoke with Miller about the Sony Pictures Animation movie earlier this week, and while talking about his work in the “animated space,” he also mentioned how he’s rewatching the original Deadpool to prepare to reprise his role as Weasel in the sequel, which he’ll start shooting in August and September.
During our interview, he also told us about one possible storyline for the sequel that will team him with a memorable character from the first movie. “I shoot two chunks, and I haven’t heard much about the plot, but there’s one storyline with Karan Soni, who plays the cab driver and was in Office Christmas Party with me," he said. "There’s a pretty funny plotline between him and Weasel, but I don’t know if it’s going to make it into the movie. Even some of the stuff that they’ve just brought up to me, because I haven’t read the script—I think they’re still working on it—it’s already making me laugh, so I’m excited, but it’s tough, man. That movie is a hard act to follow.”
Microsoft Streaming Service Renamed, New Features Added
Microsoft has rebranded its Beam streaming service as Mixer.
Promising that "the core experience remains unchanged", the update - which aims to boost social streaming and make it easier to match players and viewers without the "traditional 10-20 second latency commonly seen on other platforms" - also includes several community-requested features, including a "special edition Mixer 4K broadcast" for viewers wishing to watch Microsoft's upcoming E3 briefing via their 4K displays.
According to co-founder Matt Salsamendi, the Minecraft team has been "experimenting with the interactivity that Mixer offers", in the hope of allowing viewers to actively participate in streams. The idea is to add official game integration that allows stream viewers to change the in-game weather, or even to spawn zombies at will.
Netflix Cancels The Get Down
Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down has been cancelled by Netflix after one season.
Variety reports the series didn't attract the level of viewership Netflix has come to expect from its original series. In its first 31 days, Part 1 of The Get Down's debut season drew 3.2 million US viewers in the 18-49 demographic. Its troubled production and high production cost - reportedly over $120 million (making it Netflix's second most-expensive series behind The Crown) - also factored into the decision, according to the report.
Luhrmann took to Facebook to express his feelings on the cancellation, saying "...the spirit of The Get Down, and the story it has begun to tell... it has its own life. One that lives on today and will continue to be told somewhere, somehow...." The filmmaker said various suggestions have been made on how to continue the story, including a stage show.
Get Even: Horror-Shooter Delayed After Terror Attack
Bandai Namco has delayed the release of its horror-themed shooter, Get Even.
The delay follows Monday night's terrorist attack in Manchester, UK, pushing back the release by one month to June 23, 2017.
The publisher provided a statement on the company's official Twitter feed:
Given recent events & out of respect we have decided to postpone Get Even to June 23rd. We would like to express our deepest condolences.
— Bandai Namco UK (@BandaiNamcoUK) May 24, 2017
Get Even aims to fuse horror, shooter and adventure games in unpredictable ways - and its approach certainly intrigued us when we went hands-on with it earlier this year.
Gwent Closed Beta Testers Get Free Copy of The Witcher 2
Did you play in the closed beta of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game? As a thank you, CD Projekt Red is giving away copies of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition.
You need to login to the same GOG account you've been using to play Gwent, and then redeem your code using this link. Do it quick though, because your code will expire on May 29 at 2pm CEST.
It's worth grabbing - we awarded The Witcher 2 a 9.0, calling it "a game for adults, and not just because of all the sex and violence. It expects you to be intelligent and interested, to care about the political machinations, racial tensions and complex history of its world."
Comic Book Reviews for May 24, 2017
It was another big week of comics, as Marvel brought original Venom Eddie Brock back into the spotlight and debuted a new Baby Groot comic, DC impressed us with books like Action Comics #980 and Mother Panic #7 and Image dropped new issues of gems like The Old Guard and Seven to Eternity.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 Gets a Release Date
Divinity: Original Sin II will be coming out of early access and receiving a full release on September 14, 2017.
In its 37th update video on developer Larian Studios' YouTube page, we now finally have the full release date of the sequel to 2014's Divinity: Original Sin.
Original Sin II had a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, when it hit all its stretch goals and raised $2 million. The game has been in Early Access on Steam since September 2016, and has been receiving regular updates since then.
40 Facts You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Star Wars
Forty years ago, the movie landscape changed forever with the release of Star Wars: A New Hope -- back then, simply known as "Star Wars." Since then, the movie's effects on popular culture continue to reverberate the world over, and with new Star Wars films scheduled through 2020, there’s no sign this series is going away anytime soon.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the seminal 1977 blockbuster that changed everything, we’ve compiled 40 facts about the film series you might not know. With eight films (not counting the Ewok made-for-tv movies), there are tons of details about the series that remain obscure tidbits of trivia. Then again, Star Wars is so beloved, researched, and obsessed over that maybe you do know all these things. If that’s the case, hopefully you'll enjoy reading them again.