The Hardy Boyz Returned to WWE at WrestleMania
There were rumors swirling in the past few days, and they were indeed true, as the Hardy Boyz made a big return to WWE at WrestleMania 33 Sunday night.
The duo, who were a WWE mainstay for years, had not tagged together in WWE for seven years. Both brothers, Matt and Jeff Hardy, then did a stint in TNA that only recently ended. At the start of the ladder match for the RAW the Tag Team titles, WrestleMania hosts The New Day announced the match was now a fatal four way, introducing the fourth team that would face Cesaro and Sheamus, Enzo and Cass, and Anderson and Gallows - The Hardy Boyz.
The Hardy Boyz make their return at WrestleMania 33.
Get Out Broke This Record Long-Held by The Blair Witch Project
Jordan Peele's stellar horror flick Get Out has beaten The Blair Witch's record for the highest-grossing debut for a writer-director based on an original screenplay.
As reported by Forbes, Get Out has now raked in $150 million in domestic (US) sales, which means it has eclipsed the $140 million garnered by The Blair Witch Project in 1999. Get Out has been wildly successful from the get go, debuting with $33.377 million on its opening weekend. It cost less than $5 million to produce.
Get Out was still travelling well in the domestic box office this weekend, whereas the Ghost in the Shell live-action reboot, with its $110 million production budget, had an underwhelming debut.
Voltron Legendary Defender Season 3 Announced
DreamWorks has confirmed Voltron Legendary Defender is returning for a new season later this year.
The announcement was made by executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos during a WonderCon Panel for the show. Aside from a 2017 release, no specific premiere date for Season 3 of the Netflix original series was revealed.
Voltron Legendary Defender poster
For those lucky enough to attend the WonderCon panel, fans were treated to an in-depth discussion about the second season, which ended a few months ago. Panelists included Jeremy Shada (Lance), Josh Keaton (Shiro), Tyler Labine (Hunk), Bex Taylor-Klaus (Pidge), and Kimberly Brooks (Allura), as well as executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos, co-executive producer Lauren Montgomery, and story editor Tim Hedrick.
Ant-Man and the Wasp Director Denies Hawkeye Involvement
Jeremy Renner apparently won't be involved in Ant-Man and the Wasp after all, as director Peyton Reed has come forward shoot down rumors of his involvement.
A few days ago, it was reported that Renner won't reprise his role as William Brandt in Mission: Impossible 6, but will make an appearance as Hawkeye in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Reed has since taken to Twitter to address this report, saying, "the Russians are swarm-tweeting that Hawkeye is in Ant-Man and the Wasp. #FakeNews."
Ghost in the Shell Flops in Debut
Ghost in the Shell had an underwhelming debut at the domestic box office, placing third with an estimated $19 million.
Paramount's live-action adaptation has a long way to go before reaching levels of profitability, and will have to rely on international success if it hopes to recoup its $110 million production budget. As noted by Variety, director Rupert Sanders' sci-fi film has eared $40.1 million from foreign markets thus far.
For more on Ghost in the Shell, find out what the director of the original 1995 anime movie thinks of the Scarlett Johansson-led adaptation, and don't miss this exclusive look at the making of the film.
WrestleMania 33: Live Blog and Results
It's WrestleMania time! Join us here all night for match results, reactions, .gifs, and camaraderie.
Roman Reigns (booooo!) looks to retire The Undertaker, former best friends Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho collide, AJ Styles wants to out-wrestle Shane McMahon, Randy Orton will try to out-creep WWE Champion Bray Wyatt, and Goldberg will clash with Brock Lesna
Attack on Titan S2 Airing on Toonami Soon
The second season of Attack on Titan is heading to Toonami.
Following the new season's premiere last night, which made its debut on multiple streaming services, the first episode will start airing on Toonami on April 29. The news was revealed via a promo that ran during the surprise Rick and Morty Season 3 stream and confirmed on Twitter by Toonami co-creator Jason DeMarco.
No word yet on exactly what time new episodes will be airing and which show Attack on Titan will be replacing on Toonami. You can also watch the new season on Crunchyroll, Funimation, Anime Lab (exclusive to Australia and New Zealand), and Hulu. Check out IGN's complete guide on some of the other ways you can check out Season 2.
Dark Nights: Metal Is DC’s Next Batman Event
After years of teases and hints, DC has finally revealed the event comic that will reunite the creative team behind the New 52 Batman series. Today at FanExpo Dallas, DC announced Dark Nights: Metal, an epic new series that promises to push Batman in unexpected new directions.
Though Dark Nights: Metal is a Batman-centric story, it'll also feature the Justice League and cover the width and breadth of the DC Universe. The series will follow Batman as he explores the secret history of Nth Metal (a rare substance from the planet Thanagar that powers heroes like Hawkman and Hawkgirl) and its impact on the course of human history.
“I’ve been planning Metal for as long as I’ve been writing Batman,” said Snyder in DC's press release. “But this is bigger than Batman. Greg and I started dropping clues during Court of Owls, we continued through our Joker stories and we placed our biggest hints in the run that culminated with Batman #50. And now we’re back to tell a story that breaks everything apart. This will be the definitive project of our careers. Metal takes us in an entirely new direction. Greg and I will dig beneath the surface of all the stories we’ve told to find a place of terror and twisted nightmares.”
NXT TakeOver Orlando: Results and Reaction
The stars of NXT -- including Bobby Roode, Shinsuke Nakamura, Asuka, Ember Moon, and more -- put on a hell of a show in Orlando last night as part of their quarterly TakeOver PPV/Event series and, as usual, all eyes were on the big match results as the winners and losers of the TakeOver before 'Mania is a good indication of who might get called up to the main roster starting Monday (Nakamura, The Revival, etc).
So let's break off a piece of TakeOver: Orlando and see how these matches went and what they might have meant for the company.
Paul Heyman Talks Goldberg and Lesnar’s WrestleMania Rematch and Why a Part-Time Champion Works
When Paul Heyman speaks, people listen. A longtime presence in wrestling and a man who has worn many hats in his highly impressive career, Heyman has transfixed WWE audiences for years as the “Advocate” for Brock Lesnar, cutting one terrific promo after another to help hype up Lesnar’s marquee matches.
At WrestleMania 33, Lesnar is set to face Goldberg in a rematch with the WWE Universal Championship on the line, after a shockingly short Survivor Series face off that found the usually unstoppable Lesnar beaten in under 80-seconds by Goldberg in his first match in over a decade. As WrestleMania weekend began, I spoke to Heyman about this match, Goldberg’s return, and why Heyman thinks it’s not a big deal that neither Lesnar or Goldberg appear on WWE programming on a weekly basis. Plus, Heyman also shared his very complimentary thoughts on another member of the WWE locker room, Charlotte Flair.