Monthly Archives: December 2018
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Cast Officially Confirmed
Lucasfilm has officially announced the cast of the live-action Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian.
Pedro Pascal, who was previously confirmed to be the lead in the series, will be in the role of the Mandalorian gunfighter. Joining him will be Gina Carano from Deadpool, Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad, Emily Swallow from Supernatural, Carl Weathers from Predator, Omid Abtahi from American Gods, Werner Herzog from Grizzly Man, and Nick Nolte from Affliction, who was previously announced.
Joel McHale Cast as Golden Age Starman in DC Universe’s Stargirl TV Series
Joel McHale, known for his work on Community, The Soup, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale and more, has been cast in the upcoming Stargirl TV series as Starman.
Reported by Variety, McHale will be playing Sylvester Pemberton in a reoccurring role that is described as a “Golden Age Starman.” Pemberton’s role in the comics is actually that of The Star-Spangled Kid, whose suit a young Courtney Whitmore finds in her stepfather’s belongings and subsequently becomes Stargirl. Her stepfather, Pat Dugan, was once The Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick, S.T.R.I.P.E., who is initially disliked by Courtney. In the show, Stargirl "inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past."
Pixar‘s New Movie, Onward, to Star Chris Pratt and Tom Holland
Pixar Animation Studios announced today that Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Octavia Spencer have joined the cast of its upcoming original film, Onward.
Set in a suburban fantasy world, Onward is scheduled to be released in theaters on March 6, 2020. The film follows a couple of teenage elf brothers on a quest to find out if there is still magic left in the world.
“At Pixar, we try to create stories that come from some kind of personal truth,” said director Dan Scanlon. “This film was inspired by my own relationship with my brother.”
Game of Thrones, Metal Gear Stars Among Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies Mode Cast
With Treyarch's release of Operation Absolute Zero for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, dozens of changes have come to the game, with some new, familiar voices to the Zombies mode as well.
Helena Bonham Carter plays as Madame Mirela, Game of Thrones' Charles Dance plays the Butler, Godfrey, and Metal Gear Solid's Kiefer Sutherland and Brian Blessed voices Gideon Jones and “The Brigadier."
The new Zombies Experience, Dead of the Night, takes place in 1912 with players stepping into new characters during an evening at a luxurious estate, owned by the relic-hunter, Alistair Rhodes.
Marvel Reveals the Character Who Will Destroy Marvel History
After a series of teasers images hinting that one character will destroy Marvel history, Marvel Comics revealed the character in question in none other than Cosmic Ghost Rider. Come March 2019, the man who used to be Frank Castle (it’s a long story, we’ll get to that in a moment) will star in a six-issue mini-series called Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #1 by writers Paul Scheer and Nick Giovannetti with art by Gerardo Sandoval.
Check out the cover by Gerardo Zaffino:
(Image Credit: Marvel Comics)
New to Netflix for January 2019
Netflix is bringing out the big guns for January, and we don't just mean The Punisher: Season 2 (which is most likely its last season). Ant-Man and the Wasp, Incredibles 2, and Solo: A Star Wars Story all land during the month, making for a big Disney blowout as the streaming site premieres its final House of Mouse projects.
The Punisher's second season doesn't have a premiere date yet, meaning we'll either learn it at a later date or...we'll never get one and The Punisher will just appear one day Cloverfield Paradox-style.
While the mystery builds though, we can watch Hell or High Water, the entire Indiana Jones catalogue, The Dark Knight, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Watchmen, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and more!
Christian Bale Says Donald Trump Thought He Was Bruce Wayne When They Met Filming Batman
While on the red carpet for the premiere of Vice – a political biopic about Dick Cheney, played by Christian Bale – questions were brought up about Donald Trump, in which Bale chronicled when he met the current U.S. President.
Bale told Variety that he met Trump back in 2011 while he was filming The Dark Knight Rises in Trump Tower.
"I met him, one time. We were filming on ‘Batman’ in Trump Tower and he said, ‘Come on up to the office.'"
“I think he thought I was Bruce Wayne, because I was dressed as Bruce Wayne. So he talked to me like I was Bruce Wayne and I just went along with it, really. It was quite entertaining. I had no idea at the time that he would think about running for president," Bale said.
Overwatch League Announces 2019 Schedule, Including Away Games and Increased Prize Pool
The Overwatch League has announced its 2019 schedule, which includes away games and a $5 million prize pool.
The Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign and Los Angeles Valiant will all be hosting games in their home cities — a marked change from OWL's first season, when every regular season game was played at Blizzard's Burbank Arena. Tickets for those away games will be available at a later date.
OWL has upped its prize pool from $3.5 million in 2018 to $5 million for the 2019 season. The winner of the overall 2019 season will win $1.1 million, with the runner-up team walking away with $600,000, with decreasing amounts for lower-ranked teams.
Fans React to Street Fighter 5’s in-Game Ads
Street Fighter 5’s optional in-game advertisements are now live, and fans are angry, saddened and in some cases just bewildered by Capcom’s implementation.
Announced by Capcom last week, there are three forms the ads can take: “Ad Style” costumes with content pertaining to Capcom costumes, tournaments or the Capcom Pro Tour slapped on a character’s clothing or model, loading ads that appear in the versus screen prior to battles, and stage ads with the advertisements appearing on the floor or background of a stage. Though similar implementations have been done before, Street Fighter 5’s use of ads is particularly jarring.
Here’s What’s Leaving Netflix in January
Netflix is kicking off the new year with a big purge of notable titles - like the two good Blade movies, all the Godfathers, the Focker trilogy, Anne Rice flicks Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned, three seasons of SVU, Armageddon, The Iron Giant, The Shining and more.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is also taking a powder, along with The Fellowship of the Ring (RIP Boromir *sob*) and It Follows.
Here's the full Last Call list for January (U.S. only):