Monthly Archives: July 2019
Kelly McGillis Wasn’t Asked to Return for Top Gun: Maverick
While Top Gun: Maverick will feature several actors reprising their roles from the original 1986 film, don't expect to see Kelly McGillis return as Charlie Blackwood. According to McGillis, she wasn't even asked to return for the sequel.
McGillis revealed as much in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. She also said she hasn't maintained contact with her colleagues from the original movie.
"Movies are odd things. I don't really keep in touch with anybody," she told ET. "I think I've spoken to a couple of people occasionally, but the truth is, movies are very odd work situations because you have a lot of people who come together from all different parts of the world."
Kelly McGillis Wasn’t Asked to Return for Top Gun: Maverick
While Top Gun: Maverick will feature several actors reprising their roles from the original 1986 film, don't expect to see Kelly McGillis return as Charlie Blackwood. According to McGillis, she wasn't even asked to return for the sequel.
McGillis revealed as much in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. She also said she hasn't maintained contact with her colleagues from the original movie.
"Movies are odd things. I don't really keep in touch with anybody," she told ET. "I think I've spoken to a couple of people occasionally, but the truth is, movies are very odd work situations because you have a lot of people who come together from all different parts of the world."
Blair Witch Gameplay Trailer Revealed
The first gameplay trailer for the upcoming Blair Witch game has been revealed. You can watch it in the video above.
After its cinematic reveal trailer during E3, this latest trailer gives us our first real look at how you’ll actually play Blair Witch, which developer Bloober Team describes as a “first-person psychological horror game.”
Included in the trailer is your trusty dog companion, Bullet, who will help you along the way as you issue commands for him like digging or seeking things out. Also featured are some far less adorable monsters in the woods, a particularly terrifying cabin, and lots of home video recordings that evoke the original film.
Blair Witch Gameplay Trailer Revealed
The first gameplay trailer for the upcoming Blair Witch game has been revealed. You can watch it in the video above.
After its cinematic reveal trailer during E3, this latest trailer gives us our first real look at how you’ll actually play Blair Witch, which developer Bloober Team describes as a “first-person psychological horror game.”
Included in the trailer is your trusty dog companion, Bullet, who will help you along the way as you issue commands for him like digging or seeking things out. Also featured are some far less adorable monsters in the woods, a particularly terrifying cabin, and lots of home video recordings that evoke the original film.
First Fortnite World Cup Champion Bugha, a 16-Year-Old, Takes Home $3 Million
The grand champion of the Fortnite World Cup finals has been crowned. Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, a 16-year-old American boy, took home the trophy and a $3 million prize.
Congratulations @bugha! pic.twitter.com/nchRlL3wUC
— Fortnite Competitive (@FNCompetitive) July 28, 2019
Giersdorf is a player for the Sentinels group, and managed to careen past his 99 other opponents by a wide margin, earning a total of 59 points. The runner up, Psalm, scored 33 points by comparison over the finals’ six matches. The World Cup used a point-scoring system that encouraged players to not only place higher up in the ranking, but also eliminate opponents, as to discourage players from simply hiding until the end game.
Control: 8 Minutes of New Story Mission Gameplay
We're nearing the end of our month of exclusive Control coverage, but we're not going out without a bang. Today, we've got 8 minutes of never-before-seen gameplay for you to look at.
Join Jesse Faden as she visits the Black Rock Processing department of the Federal Bureau of Control. That might sound like a trip down Bureaucracy Lane, but it actually involves entering a quarry that shouldn't be there, lit by the light of stars that can't exist, and stuffed full of haunted ex-employees to bounce off of walls. Lovely.
Along the way, you'll see a lot of combat, featuring multiple weapon forms and powers (being able to chuck the bodies of downed enemies at other enemies never gets old). What you won't see are any story spoilers, so don't worry about taking a peek unless you want to stay 100% fresh.
Control: 8 Minutes of New Story Mission Gameplay
We're nearing the end of our month of exclusive Control coverage, but we're not going out without a bang. Today, we've got 8 minutes of never-before-seen gameplay for you to look at.
Join Jesse Faden as she visits the Black Rock Processing department of the Federal Bureau of Control. That might sound like a trip down Bureaucracy Lane, but it actually involves entering a quarry that shouldn't be there, lit by the light of stars that can't exist, and stuffed full of haunted ex-employees to bounce off of walls. Lovely.
Along the way, you'll see a lot of combat, featuring multiple weapon forms and powers (being able to chuck the bodies of downed enemies at other enemies never gets old). What you won't see are any story spoilers, so don't worry about taking a peek unless you want to stay 100% fresh.
Is [SPOILER] Really Dead on Legion?
This interview contains spoilers for Legion Season 3, episode 5, which aired on July 22. Legion Season 3 airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on FX in the US.
Aubrey Plaza is as obsessed with her Legion character as you are. Over the wild series’ fantastical run — “And yes,” she admits, “it's just as confusing to me” — her performance has been a breakout among breakouts, a singular talent in a Noah Hawley show chockablock with them. But Plaza knows, like the rest of us, that she has a leg up on everyone else in the show: she’s freakin’ Lenny, and Lenny is nothing if not pure chaos. She’s technically already dead, and has died a bunch of times, was taken over by a supermutant (Navid Negaban), and has David Haller (Dan Stevens)’s adoptive sister living in her head, seeing with her eyes. With this character more than most, truly, anything is possible. “That is why Lenny is such a fun character, because she's a lovable villain. She's a lovable trickster!”
Is [SPOILER] Really Dead on Legion?
This interview contains spoilers for Legion Season 3, episode 5, which aired on July 22. Legion Season 3 airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on FX in the US.
Aubrey Plaza is as obsessed with her Legion character as you are. Over the wild series’ fantastical run — “And yes,” she admits, “it's just as confusing to me” — her performance has been a breakout among breakouts, a singular talent in a Noah Hawley show chockablock with them. But Plaza knows, like the rest of us, that she has a leg up on everyone else in the show: she’s freakin’ Lenny, and Lenny is nothing if not pure chaos. She’s technically already dead, and has died a bunch of times, was taken over by a supermutant (Navid Negaban), and has David Haller (Dan Stevens)’s adoptive sister living in her head, seeing with her eyes. With this character more than most, truly, anything is possible. “That is why Lenny is such a fun character, because she's a lovable villain. She's a lovable trickster!”
The Lion King: 7 Cool Behind-the-Scenes Facts
If you’ve already seen Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Lion King, then you may be wondering just how they pulled off it off.
IGN visited the film set during production and came away with seven cool factoids about how it was made.
They Filmed The Lion King Inside a VR Video Game
The movie was shot inside a video game world created to look like the iconic settings from The Lion King. Director Jon Favreau and his fellow filmmakers put on VR headsets to scout the in-game locations and line up shots, then programmed the animal characters to “perform” according to the script. Once they got everything just right, they filmed each scene and sent it to a visual effects house to finalize it for the big screen.