Monthly Archives: August 2018

MoviePass Announces Its First Original Production Starring Bruce Willis

MoviePass' first original production is a thriller starring Bruce Willis.

Per Deadline, the movie is titled 10 Minutes Gone and hails from MoviePass Films, a production subsidiary which recently launched this year.

Brian A. Miller (Reprisal) will direct from a screenplay penned by Kelvin Mao and Jeff Jingle. Meadow Williams, Swen Temmel, Tyler Jon Olson, and Sergio Rizzuto will star alongside Willis.

The story follows a man who gets hit by a stray bullet after a bank heist goes wrong. As a result, he loses ten minutes of his memory and must remember who sabotaged the heist. Meanwhile, a powerful crime boss (portrayed by Willis) is determined to recover the money.

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Destiny 2 Year 2 Lets You Customize The Way You Play

Bungie revealed new changes to its combat system for Year 2 of Destiny 2 in a live stream Tuesday, hosted by Communications Director at Bungie, David Dague.

Dague was joined by Sandbox Design Lead Josh Hamrick and Senior Sandbox Designers Claude Jerome and Greg Peng.

The main focus for the new changes in Year 2 is to let players customize their own gameplay. To do this, Bungie added in weapon balance and tuning, new mods, and the addition of nine new super abilities along with associated perks for them.

“We looked at year one and saw what people were saying and how the game is being played," Hamrick said. "We wanted to give players more options to specifically tweak and tune their loadout on how they wanted to play.”

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Spider-Man: Far From Home Casts Nick Fury’s Samuel L. Jackson

Nick Fury and Maria Hill will feature in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Warning: Spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War follow...

Vulture reports the Spidey sequel has cast Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill. However, there's no word yet on how large of a role the pair will have in the film, as both characters did perish at the end of Avengers: Infinity War.

Jackson and Smulders join a cast which includes the returning Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, and Tony Revolori. Jake Gyllenhaal will also reportedly portray the villain, Mysterio, while Michael Keaton's Vulture may be returning as well.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp Will Be the Last Marvel Movie Released On Netflix

Ant-Man and the Wasp will be the last Marvel film to come to Netflix.

Per the New York Times, Disney and Netflix's licensing deal will end with the Ant-Man sequel. Starting with Captain Marvel, every movie Disney releases in theaters will only come to its own streaming service instead of Netflix.

However, for now, Marvel shows such as Jessica Jones and Daredevil will still remain on Netflix, a spokeswoman for Disney informed the New York Times.

Disney's streaming service is set to premiere in 2019 with a variety of new series and films, including a pricey live-action Star Wars show from Jon Favreau. However, the platform won't be offering R-rated content of any kind. 

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The Arrowverse Has Found Its Batwoman

The CW has found its Batwoman in Orange is the New Black star Ruby Rose.

Rose will play Kate Kane, described as a young woman with a passion for social justice and highly trained in street fighting. She'll make her first appearance in this December's four-show Arrowverse crossover between Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and will potentially headline her own spinoff series, which is in development for a possible slot on The CW next season.

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AJ Styles Releases First WWE 2K19 Screenshot… of Himself

The first screenshot from WWE 2K19 has dropped, and as the cover star, AJ Styles has the honour of sharing it. Naturally, it's ascreenshot of himself in the upcoming game.

2K announced Styles would be gracing the cover this year back in June. The current WWE champion tweeted the first screenshot from the game today after teasing the reveal yesterday.

"As WWE 2K19 cover Superstar, I have dibs on releasing the first screenshot," he tweeted. The in-ring screenshot shows Styles' in-game counterpart wearing his Championship Title belt.

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The 100 Season 5 Finale Could’ve Been a ‘Satisfying’ Series Ending

This is a spoiler free preview of The 100 Season 5 finale, "Damocles Part 2."

By the time the credits roll on The 100's Season 5 finale, we're pretty sure that fans will be losing their minds. But while previous finales for The CW's post-apocalyptic drama always explode the status quo with a brutal and shocking twist, this one in particular does it in such a way that viewers will be left wondering how – and where – the show can go from here.

That makes for an incredibly compelling season ender, but what if The 100 hadn't been renewed for Season 6? It's not hard to imagine viewers rioting if this had been the last episode they ever got, not because it would've been an unsatisfying series ending, but because of all the intriguing questions it raises about the future. (Sorry, no clues here - but we do have an exclusive sneak peek at part two of the finale below.)

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The World Ends With You for Switch Gets Release Date

The World Ends With You: Final Remix will arrive on Nintendo Switch on October 12, Nintendo announced today. Originally released on DS just over 10 years ago, The World Ends With You's Switch re-release was announced in January.

Final Remix for Switch features new HD visuals and additional content and gameplay options that weren't in the 2008 original. Taking full advantage of the Switch, Final Remix will allow players to use either the touchscreen or Joy-Cons as control options. Additionally, Final Remix includes a new two-player co-op mode.

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