Monthly Archives: May 2017
Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns to Deliver Opening Keynote at PAX Aus
Rooster Teeth co-founder and Red vs. Blue creator Burnie Burns will deliver the 'Storytime' opening keynote at PAX Australia 2017, which will be held from October 27 to 29 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
As Chief Creative Officer of Rooster Teeth Productions, Burns’ broad body of work has garnered multiple award nominations from The Webby Awards and International Academy of Web Television.
PAX Aus 2017 won’t be Burns’ first, either; to hear more about how Burns helped build an online video production empire (and a whole bunch of other nonsense) check out this early IGN Happy Hour the Pubcast team recorded with Burns back at PAX Aus 2013.
The 2017 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed
The nominations for the 2017 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were released today, spotlighting the best comics and creators of the past year across a number of categories.
Fantagraphics had the most representation of any publisher in this year's lineup, with a total of 20 nominations. Image followed with 17 nominations, then Dark Horse with 10, Marvel with 9 and DC with 8.
Mario / Rabbids RPG Reportedly Coming to Switch This Year
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, the rumored crossover RPG from Ubisoft and Nintendo, will reportedly release either this August or September for Nintendo Switch.
According to Kotaku, who received art assets for the game, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will feature turn-based combat and local co-op for two players.
The game will reportedly feature a total of eight playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi, as well as four Rabbids dressed up as the aforementioned characters. In the art provided to Kotaku, Mario and his pals are seen armed with guns that fire laser beams.
Marvel Legacy: Every Hero and Villain Who Could Return
While Marvel's Secret Empire crossover is just now getting underway, the company is also shining a spotlight on what's coming next. Secret Empire will pave the way for the publisher's latest big relaunch, one dubbed "Marvel Legacy." As the name suggests, Marvel Legacy will see the Avengers get back to basics and Marvel focus on its most iconic heroes and villains again.
Marvel Legacy teaser art by Joe Quesada. (Marvel Comics)
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New The Dark Tower Posters Revealed
Two new posters have been released for The Dark Tower, with the film's first trailer set to be debuted tomorrow.
Stephen King, the author behind The Dark Tower franchise, released two new character poster. The first is of The Gunslinger/Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), who can be seen wielding his two trademark six shooters, and the second is of villain Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). Check out the posters below.
The Dark Tower poster featuring Idris Elba's The Gunslinger.
What to Expect from Netflix’s Sense8: Season 2
Netflix's Sense8 is a show constantly in motion, in front of and behind the camera. When IGN caught up with the production in Chicago last summer along with a small group of reporters, they were halfway through filming Season 2, which hits Netflix this Friday. They'd been city and country hopping every two weeks (Terrence Mann mentioned the show goes to 15 or 16 different countries for Season 2), but on this sunny and breezy day, the action was happening at the tranquil quad at the The University of Chicago. Some of the Sensates were stopping by to visit a professor who has an integral role to play in Season 2.
Whispers is still a factor, as is his link to Will. The Sensates are coming together as a team. Angelica is maybe not dead. In short, the road of Season 2 twists and turns. We learned a little about what you can expect.
Logan Noir One-Night Only Theatrical Release Details
20th Century Fox has announced where and when audiences will be able to watch the black-and-white version of Logan.
Titled Logan Noir, this monochromatic version of the third Wolverine film will hit Alamo Drafthouse theaters across the U.S. on May 16 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT. Those in Los Angeles will also be able to watch Logan Noir at the Egyptian Theatre on the same day and time.
Logan Noir graphic, courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Marvel’s Adam Warlock Explained
Marvel Studios usually keeps things pretty close to the vest when it comes to new characters making their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, but not when it comes to Adam Warlock. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has already confirmed that he'll be returning to write and direct the third film in the series, and that he's developing cosmic heavy-hitter Warlock for future MCU use. Marvel boss Kevin Feige has also said that Warlock would likely show up in a future Guardians movie.
New Batman Director Shares His Take on the DC Hero
The Batman director Matt Reeves has hinted at what viewers can expect from his take on the Dark Knight.
In an interview with Los Angeles Daily News, Reeves explained that Batman was one of the two franchises he was most connected to as a child because he was fascinated with Batman's mortality and dark past. "What I find so interesting about him as a character is that, as far a superhero goes, he's not superhuman, he is a person," he said.
Reeves also discussed the struggles Batman must face in trying to make the world a better place, adding that "he is a tortured soul who is grappling with his past and trying to find a way to be in a world that has a lot that's wrong with it and trying to find a way to reconcile all of that."