Pokemon Adventures Art Book Celebrates Manga Anniversary

The Pokemon Adventures manga series is getting an art book to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

According to The Pokemon Company, Pokemon Adventures 20th Anniversary Illustration Book: The Art of Pokemon Adventures from VIZ is available now, and features 168 pages of art from series illustrator Satoshi Yamamoto.

The book comes with four pull-out posters and a new manga side story. The book features art showcasing Trainers and Pokemon who have appeared in the manga, including character portraits, group shots, and action scenes, as well as storyboards and black-and-white sketches.

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Black Panther Gets a Striking IMAX Poster

A striking IMAX poster for Black Panther has been released.

Chadwick Boseman, who plays T’Challa/Black Panther in the upcoming MCU film, shared the poster on Twitter earlier today. It offers a more artistic view of the movie’s main characters, including Boseman as Black Panther, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, and Letitia Wright as Shuri. A rising sun is also depicted passing over Wakanda.

Check out the poster in the gallery below, which is followed by a collection of all of Black Panther’s other posters.

Black Panther opens in theaters on February 16. For more on the movie, which is now the fastest pre-selling superhero film ever, read our Black Panther review and find out why we think it “delivers the goods as an adventure film, a political statement, and a cultural celebration.”

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Once Upon a Time Ending After Season 7

Once Upon a Time will end after Season 7.

Variety reports the long-running ABC show won’t return for an eighth season, with the network deciding to pull the plug on the series. Once Upon a Time lost most of its core cast after Season 6, with Season 7 acting as a creative reboot. However, after shifting to a Friday time slot, the show has suffered a ratings decline.

ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement provided to Variety:

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Quentin Tarantino Responds to Uma Thurman Kill Bill Crash Allegations

Quentin Tarantino has responded to Uma Thurman’s recent Kill Bill crash allegations.

Tarantino sat down with Deadline to discuss his part in Thurman’s recently detailed allegations. In a New York Times piece, Thurman discussed a crash during the filming of Kill Bill which left her neck and knees permanently injured. She also discussed how footage of the event was kept from her, and how she alleges the incident was covered up by Harvey Weinstein and other film executives. Thurman originally objected to doing the stunt, because she was led to believe the vehicle might be unsafe.

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Dragon Tattoo Sequel Casts Logan Star

Sony’s Dragon Tattoo sequel The Girl in the Spider’s Web has reportedly cast Logan star Stephen Merchant.

Variety reports Merchant, who played the mutant Caliban in Logan, has joined the sequel in a mystery role. Norwegian actress Synnøve Macody Lund has also been cast, with details about role being kept under wraps as well.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web is set to open in theaters on November 9. The sequel is being directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe), from a script Alvarez co-wrote with Steven Knight and Jay Basu, based on David Lagercrantz’s book of the same name. It’s the fourth novel in the Dragon Tattoo series. Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Scott Rudin, and Yellow Bird are producing.

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Game of Thrones Showrunners to Write, Produce Star Wars Movies

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films, Lucasfilm announced today.

These new films will be part of a series separate from the ongoing episodic Skywalker saga, as well as the recently announced trilogy of films being developed by Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson.

“David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, said in a statement. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”

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Risk of Rain Dev’s Deadbolt Release Date Announced

Risk of Rain Developers, Hopoo Games, has announced a release date for the upcoming stealth-action hybrid, Deadbolt, for PS4 and PS Vita.

Deadbolt will release on both PS4 and PS Vita—complete with cross-buy support—on February 20, 2018. Having partnered up once again with Code Mystics, Hopoo Games aims to deliver a violent experience that takes place somewhere between life and death.

Each mission is designed to support diverse playstyles. Players will be able to complete each objective in many different ways, ranging all the way from the ability to use stealthy tactics, or go all-out guns-blazing with flashbang grenades and a shotgun.

After completing each mission, players will earn souls that can be utilized to unlock new weapons which are tailored to your specific play style – including crossbows, scythes, and a semi-auto shotgun.

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Wolverine’s Murder Mystery Scripted Podcast Gets a Trailer

Marvel has released an intense trailer for its first-ever scripted podcast, Wolverine: The Long Night.

You can listen to the trailer here. As detailed by First Comics News, Wolverine: The Long Night is a 10-episode series which will start airing weekly beginning on March 12 exclusively on Stitcher Premium. It will then get a wide release across all platforms in fall 2018. The scripted podcast is a hybrid of mystery and the larger-scale fantasy of the Marvel Universe.

The story follows two agents, Sally Pierce (Celia Keenan-Bolger) and Tad Marshall (Ato Essandoh), investigating a series of grisly murders in the fictional town of Burns, Alaska. Sally and Tad soon discover a serial killer is on the loose, and they team up with deputy Bobby Reid (Andrew Keenan-Bolger) to investigate their main suspect, Logan (Richard Armitage).

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Cooler Master MasterSet MS120 Keyboard/Mouse Review

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For gaming keyboards, mechanical switches rule the roost these days. But those switches are expensive, so manufacturers have found ways to incorporate some of the feel of mechanical keyboards into more budget conscious “rubber dome” switches. Cooler Master’s MasterSet MS120 (See it on Amazon) is one such keyboard with “mem-chanical” switches, and as an added bonus it even includes an optical mouse.

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