Mads Mikkelsen Says Indiana Jones 5 Is ‘Going Heavily Back’ to the Feel of Raiders and Temple of Doom
Mads Mikkelsen has indicated that Indiana Jones 5 is returning to the franchise's early roots, capturing the "original feel" of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom.
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mikkelsen, who is starring in an as-yet-undisclosed role in the fifth Indy adventure, revealed a little more about what we can expect from Indiana Jones 5 as he admitted that the next installment will have a similar "feel" to the first and second films of the franchise led by Harrison Ford's bullwhip-wielding archaeologist.
"[Raiders of the Lost Ark] was one of my favorite films, and it just oozed that golden period of serials from the 1940s — and that's in the fifth film as well," Mikkelsen explained, teasing the next installment. "They're going heavily back to the first and second film and getting that original feel, the original Indy, something dense and epic."
James Mangold has saddled up to take the reigns on Indiana Jones 5, assuming directing duties from Steven Spielberg, who is on board as an executive producer. Mikkelsen praised the duo and noted a similarity in the way the two filmmakers approach the franchise, saying, "It felt like a Spielberg film, though it's obviously James making it with the same vision."
Though details about the story are being kept under wraps, Mikkelsen previously discussed his collaborative approach to realizing his character in the film and compared his function in the film to that of character actor Peter Lorre, whose performances famously added color to numerous Hollywood productions, from Casablanca to The Maltese Falcon.
While we don't know much else about Mikkelsen's role in the film at the present time, we do know that Indiana Jones 5 will likely be Harrison Ford's last outing as the globetrotting adventurer. The movie itself will "conclude this iconic character's journey" and see part of his "history resolved," right after he's dusted off his signature brown jacket and fedora.
Joining Ford for this new adventure, which may partially take place in 1969, will be Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renee Wilson, and Antonio Banderas. Indiana Jones 5 was first announced in 2016 with a premiere date of July 19, 2019, but it has suffered many delays and is now set to arrive in theaters on June 30, 2023.
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TikTok Adds an Invisible Dislike Button for Comments
TikTok had added the ability to dislike comments, but the feedback can only be seen by the social media giant itself.
Cormac Keenan, head of trust and safety at TikTok, announced it would be testing the new feature in a blog post about fostering kindness and safety on the platform.
Adding the invisible dislike button – which can't be seen by the content creator or any other users – will "let individuals identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate" to TikTok itself without spreading visible negativity throughout the platform.
Keenan added: "This community feedback will add to the range of factors we already use to help keep the comment section consistently relevant and a place for genuine engagement.
"To avoid creating ill-feeling between community members or demoralize creators, only the person who registered a dislike on a comment will be able to see that they have done so."
This is just one of the ways TikTok will battle abusive and hateful content on its platform, Keenan said, as "we believe community should be built on a foundation of respect, kindness, and understanding."
It also announced new safety reminders for creators that will encourage them to filter, block, and delete negative comments, and said it will otherwise continue to update its community guidelines accordingly based on user feedback.
As with most social media platforms, TikTok is restless about changes to the platform – and has reportedly begun testing paid subscriptions for certain influencers' feeds.
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Overwatch 2’s New Hero Sojourn Gets an Origin Story
Blizzard has revealed the origin story for Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.
A new trailer (below) shared how the series' first Black female hero came to be involved with Overwatch, with her story being directly linked to Soldier: 76 (aka Jack Morrison).
"My unit of the Canadian Special Forces teamed up with Overwatch during the Omnic crisis," Sojourn says in the trailer. "Jack Morrison and I worked well together and after the war he reached out."
While it doesn't show any actual gameplay, Sojourn can be seen holding a large gun reminiscent of Soldier: 76's weapon, and the trailer description said she's equipped with cybernetic abilities.
Sojourn seemingly served with Overwatch sometime between the original and second game, saying "no matter what their mission was, mine was to bring every last one of them home."
Sojourn concludes by saying: "It was the honour of a lifetime to have served with Overwatch but you can love a thing with your whole heart and still know it's time to say goodbye. Even the best journeys end, but a new one is right around the corner."
While Overwatch 2 brings back the entire cast of characters from the first game, Sojourn is the only confirmed new character so far.
Players with access to the first PC closed beta can test her out on April 26, and though Blizzard has not confirmed a release date for the game's official launch, it has said the PvP and PvE modes will arrive separately.
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Google’s Secret iOS App Makes It Easier to Switch Over to an Android Phone
If you are an iPhone user looking to switch over to an Android smartphone, but are worrying about how you will carry over data between the two, Google has created an iPhone app that will make the switch less of a headache on your end.
As spotted by 9to5Google, the tech giant has quietly released a free app on its competitor's storefront titled "Switch to Android." As the name implies, the app is designed to help you quickly and securely move things such as contacts, calendar events, and photos from your iOS device over to Android. Unfortunately, the app does not allow you to transfer your messages between iOS to Android.
The app is unlisted, meaning typing in the app's name and even looking at Google LLC's App Store profile doesn't show it available for download. Fortunately, 9to5Google shared the direct link for those looking to download it. Google did not immediately respond to IGN's request for comment on the app, or when it will receive a wider release.
Interestingly, the app works wirelessly, meaning you do not have to worry about connecting the two phones with a USB cable. Previously, the data transfer from iPhone to Android was a lot more complicated than upgrading from one iPhone to another and vice versa. It required backing up your data over to a Google Drive and then manually restoring it on the new Android device. It was made somewhat easier with Android 12, but it is only for transferring WhatsApp messages. The new app smoothens the process significantly.
Google has taken a page out of Apple's playbook, as the iPhone maker released a "Move to iOS" app on the Play Store in 2015, which tries to convert Android users into iPhone users while also making it as easy as possible to make the switch.
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Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium Announced by Dark Horse Comics
If you want to take in the full scope of the Halo cross-media universe, you need to be reading dark Horse's Halo comics. Fortunately, that task is about to get much easier thanks to the release of a softcover omnibus collection called Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium.
This hefty graphic novel collects the entirety of Halo: Initiation and Halo: Escalation, totaling 27 issues and 650 pages. Both series greatly expand on the story of Spartan-IV Sarah Palmer, with Initiation serving as a prequel to 2012's Halo 4 and Escalation picking up where the game leaves off.
Check out the cover to Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium below:
Here's the official description for the compendium:
In the dark years following the war with the Covenant, the Spartans of UNSC Infinity represent humanity's best hope against a growing tide of enemies that imperil all they have tirelessly worked to recover. Led by Commander Palmer, these super-soldiers are unparalleled warriors, but it will take more than raw combat skill and dogged bravery to keep humankind safe from the danger that approaches on all sides.
Halo: Initiation originally debuted in 2013, making it the first Halo comic published after Dark Horse acquired the Halo license from Marvel Comics. Escalation followed shortly after, ultimately running for 24 issues. Dark Horse has yet to announce any follow-up books, though they did recently publish The Art of Halo Infinite.
Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium is priced at $39.99 and will be released on June 29, 2022.
Paramount+ recently debuted the long-awaited live-action Halo series. While the series isn't set in the same continuity as the rest of the Halo franchise, we think that's worked to the show's benefit so far.
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Frank Langella Reportedly Fired from Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher
Frank Langella has reportedly been fired from Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher following an investigation into his alleged misconduct on set.
According to Deadline, Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher was about halfway through production when Langella was reportedly terminated from the series following an investigation into sexual harassment claims, in which Langella was allegedly accused of "making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set during work."
The investigation apparently determined that Langella had been "involved in unacceptable conduct" on the set of the eight-episode Netflix series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he was starring as Roderick Usher. His role will now be recast and all of the scenes that were already filmed with Langella will be reshot with a new actor.
Langella previously portrayed disgraced former U.S. President Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. He also starred in 1979's Dracula, 1987's Masters of the Universe as Skeletor, FX's The Americans, and more recently Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. Flanagan announced in December that Langella had been cast as the patriarch of the house in his Netflix series.
Filming on the series will apparently continue with scenes that do not involve the Roderick Usher character until a new actor has been drafted into the role. Mark Hamill, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, and Carl Lumbly are among the cast members that have been announced for the series, which joins several other Flanagan-helmed horror series on Netflix.
Flanagan previously adapted two other novels, turning them into The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor for Netflix. He recently followed those shows up with Midnight Mass, and he also has two other novel adaptations in the work, including 1994's The Midnight Club and 1992's The Season of Passage, which is said to be a horror story set on Mars.
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Top Gun: Maverick Director Says He Shot 800 Hours of Footage
It sounds as though Top Gun: Maverick was quite a grueling shoot, with director Joseph Kosinski filming over 800 hours of footage.
During an interview with Empire Magazine, the director revealed that he shot the equivalent of what Peter Jackson and co. did for all the Lord of the Rings movies put together.
“Out of a 12- or 14-hour day, you might get 30 seconds of good footage,” he explained. “But it was so hard-earned. It just took a very long time to get it all. Months and months of aerial shooting. We shot as much footage as the three Lord of The Rings movies combined. I think it was 800 hours of footage.”
Top Gun: Maverick sees Tom Cruise return to his iconic '80s role. However, this time he’s tasked with training up a new generation of fighter pilots. An experienced pilot himself, Cruise had to take a hands-on approach when it came to training up his new recruits – much like Maverick in the movie.
“I had to teach them how to turn the cameras on and off, and about camera angles and lenses,” said Cruise. “We didn’t have unlimited time in these jets. If they were going up for 20-30 minutes, I had to make sure that we got what we needed.”
The result is some spectacular in-flight shots as we saw in the recent trailer. However, it sounds as though his pilots-in-training had to work a lot harder to get those shots.
“You had to be incredibly efficient,” said Teller. “You had to, a lot of the time, create an imaginary eyeline to where another jet would be, and when you say a line, your face better be telling the story. The sun needs to be at the right angle.”
Unfortunately, it looks as though despite Val Kilmer’s return, he’s going to be grounded this time around. Equally, Cruise was stopped from flying an F-18 jet despite his eagerness to clamber into the cockpit.
Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise as Maverick alongside Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Ed Harris, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, and Greg Tarzan Davis.
Joseph Kosinski directed the film based on a script by Christopher McQuarrie, Ehren Kruger, and Eric Warren Singer.
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eFootball’s 1.0.0 Release Won’t Include Some Major PES Modes, Including Master League
The full version of eFootball has finally been released but it's still missing some of the PES series' major modes.
Master League, Team Play, Co-Op, Match Lobby, and Edit are all missing from the 1.0 update that promised to turn the game from what Konami called "basically a demo" into the fully-fledged version of its new soccer series.
These modes "will unfortunately not be included in v1.0.0", the game's official Twitter account tweeted (below). "We ask for your kind patience until they are ready," it said.
Lastly, we have received a lot of questions regarding 'Master League', 'Edit', 'Team Play', 'Co-op' and 'Match Lobby' (where you can create a room to play with your friends).
— eFootball (@play_eFootball) April 14, 2022
They will unfortunately not be included in v1.0.0. We ask for your kind patience until they are ready.
The missing Master League is the manager mode from PES where players start with a basic team and build it up to brilliance. It's something of a signature mode for the PES series, but it seems Konami is placing less importance on it having shifted to eFootball for th enewest iteration.
The absence of Match Lobby (which let players create an online room for playing with friends) and Co-Op also severely limits the ability to play with others that PES was known for.
The development team said last week it was working to "regain the trust" of players after a pretty disastrous launch last October and the new update has made several improvements to the previous version of eFootball (that IGN said was awful).
Most gameplay mechanics received changes, including to defending, passing, and shooting, while on a team level options were added that let players change formations, alter player roles, deploy tactics, and so on.
Arguably the biggest addition comes in the Dream Team mode, previously called Creative Team, which allows players to combine a mixture of their own players with real-life soccer stars to form their perfect team.
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Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion
Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the CEO of SpaceX and world's richest person has made a "best and final" offer to buy the social media company. That offer states that he will pay $54.20 per share in cash, which is 54% higher than the company's share price the day before Musk began his recent investment in the company. In total, Musk's offer for 100% of the company is valued at around a staggering $43 billion.
I made an offer https://t.co/VvreuPMeLu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2022
Right now, Twitter's market valuation is $37 billion, so Musk's offer is significantly higher.
Elon Musk is currently Twitter's largest shareholder, with a 9.2% stake. But following that recent investment, Musk appears to be having second thoughts about his relationship with the company.
As noted in the Bloomberg report, in a letter sent to Twitter Musk said, "since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve [its free speech] societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
“If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management nor do I believe I can drive the necessary change in the public market, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” said Musk.
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO's offer was announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Comission, and comes following his decision to turn down a seat on Twitter's board of directors.
Following the news of his 9.2% share purchase going public, he began discussions with his followers on Twitter about what could be changed at the company. Despite turning down the board position, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said that the company would always be open to Musk's input, but it appears Musk wants more than that.
Most of these “top” accounts tweet rarely and post very little content.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2022
Is Twitter dying? https://t.co/lj9rRXfDHE
As seen in the tweet above, Musk clearly believes that major change is needed at Twitter, and evidentaly from this offer believes he's the one to make it happen. It's now in the hands of Twitter's board and shareholders to accept or reject Musk's money.
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David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future Looks Exactly as Gross as You’d Hope (and Fear)
David Cronenberg’s new film Crimes of the Future just got its impressive first trailer.
Giving us a glimpse at some of the weird and truly horrific wonders that await, the trailer sheds some light on this mysterious project, as we get a glimpse of the future of human evolution from the twisted mind that brought us Scanners and Videodrome.
“As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations,” reads the official synopsis. Viggo Mortensen stars as Saul Tenser – a whole new kind of performance artist who, along with his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
It all sounds completely out there, and with some Geiger-esque visuals depicting the sheer horror of humanity’s newfound technology, it’s quite the return to form for Cronenberg.
There's even a pretty ominous new poster, too:
“Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.”
Quite how far Saul will go in his pursuit of body modification remains to be seen. Besides this brief synopsis, little else is known about the film, although Mortensen did previously tell GQ that this idea has been on the backburner with Cronenberg for quite some time.
“It's something he wrote a long time ago, and he never got it made,” he said. “Now, he's refined it, and he wants to shoot it. Hopefully, it'll be this summer we'll be filming. I would say, without giving the story away, he's going maybe a little bit back to his origins.”
Crimes of the Future stars Viggo Mortensen as Saul Tenser, alongside Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and Scott Speedman. David Cronenberg directed the film based on his own original script.
The film will debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022 before its official release in June.
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