The upcoming Flash film will be different from what people are expecting, according to the movie’s director.
That HashTag Show spoke with director Andy Muschetti (the It movies) Tuesday who confirmed rumors that he’s directing The Flash and also said his movie will be a “different version of Flashpoint than you’re expecting,”.
The Flash has long been reported to be a screen adaptation of the popular DC Comics storyline that involves multiple timelines affected by the actions of scarlet speedster Barry Allen.
Mike Tyson in Punch Out is one of video games’ most infamously difficult final bosses. But over at Awesome Games Done Quick, two incredibly talented speedrunners just fought their way to and beat him sharing the same controller. Oh, and they were completely blindfolded. According to speedrun.com, blindfolded speedruns of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out are nothing new. These two players actually hold the 2nd and 3rd spots on the leaderboard. Sinister1 has a blindfolded time of 21 minutes and 38 seconds, and Zallard1 has a 21 minute 56 second time.
So, how do you beat a notoriously hard game, while sharing a controller AND blindfolded? As you might guess, it’s not easy. In an interview beforehand, the runners weren’t sure they’d be able to beat the game in these conditions, or even get to Mike Tyson during the run. What followed was a 23-minute display of what can only be described as pure skill.
On this week’s episode of IGN’s PlayStation show Podcast Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano, Lucy O’Brien, and Max Scoville to discuss everything we know, and don’t, about the PS5 so far. The cast breaks down news, rumors, and offers up some predictions about what we hope to see from the PS5 this year.
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Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Charlize Theron are set to return for the ninth movie in the long-running Fast & Furious series in May, but when the first movie in the series was released way back in 2001, no one could have predicted what it would lead to. The movie borrowed the title from a long-forgotten ’50s B-movie and was an entertaining street racing drama featuring TV star Paul Walker and largely unknown actor Vin Diesel. It was a commercial success, which ensured a sequel two years later, which was also a box office hit. But as we’ve seen many times before, few movie series can keep up that momentum forever. From Men in Black to Pirates of the Carribean, there is always a point where audiences start to lose interest and move onto the next hot film franchise.
But amazingly, 19 years later, the Fast & Furious franchise is more popular than ever. The most recent film in the main series–2017’s The Fate of the Furious–grossed more than $1.23 billion at the worldwide box office, and while last year’s spin-off Hobbs & Shaw wasn’t as successful, it still made an impressive $758 million. The series itself has changed considerably as the years have gone by; the films have got more and more ridiculous, and the modest stunts of the first film transformed into some truly wild and outlandish action, with the street racing plots shifting towards heists, chases, and general automotive insanity. All helped of course by a charismatic cast of modern action stars, including Diesel, Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham.
But it hasn’t all been fun behind the camera. The tragic death of Paul Walker during the production of Fast 7 in 2013 left some to wonder if the series would survive, and there have been public feuds between Johnson and Diesel, Johnson and Tyrese, and Rodriguez and writer Chris Morgan. None of these have hurt the series financially, however–they may even have helped–and audiences seemingly can’t get enough of Dominic Toretto and his “family.”
The ninth movie in the series arrives in theaters this year. Most details are currently under wraps, but the film finished production in November, and with the first trailer imminent, expect lots more information about the film to emerge in the coming weeks. But for now, here’s everything we know so far about Fast & Furious 9…
Disney has added the Aladdin live-action remake to its Disney+ lineup. The 2019 version of Aladdin joins the 1992 original on the streaming service.
The Aladdin remake released last year to mixed reception. In our live-action Aladdin review, we called the movie “okay,” saying, “Disney’s remake of their animated classic doesn’t exactly take viewers to a whole new world.”
Despite the mixed critical reception, Aladdin grossed over $1 billion at the box office in 2019, good enough to make it the seventh highest-grossing film worldwide last year. For the rest of the top ten, read the full list of the highest-grossing films in 2019.
Back in October, Dungeons and Dragons announced the 45th anniversary dice set, featuring a d20 with a lab-grown sapphire in it. The limited-edition set costs $300, and only 1,974 sets were released.
It’s a celebration of 45 years of D&D, which is currently having another Renaissance as it’s more popular than ever with millions of people all over the world rolling dice across kitchen tables in order to inspect that pesky treasure chest that may or may not be trapped–it is. So why create a set like this?
“When the D&D team realized the sapphire is the traditional anniversary stone for both five years and forty-five years, and that adding a laboratory-created sapphire to a twenty-sided die wouldn’t jeopardize the integrity of a roll, we couldn’t pass up the chance to make something really cool to celebrate the milestones,” said Nathan Stewart, VP of the D&D franchise at Wizards of the Coast. “The team put together a fun product for our fans that includes art and newly updated stats for sapphire dragons, making these classic dragons ready for play in your next D&D session.”
Here is what the set contains:
Two d20s–one of which has a sapphire in it
One d12
Two d10s
One d8
Four d6s
One d4.
Custom dice box and dice tray
Foldout card with game statistics for adult, sapphire dragons
An exclusive sticker set
Collector’s card
We got our hands on the new set, which is still available for purchase, and here is what is in the box and our thoughts on it.
With the release of Netflix’s The Witcher series and the recent (massive) uptick in Steam users playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to replay GameSpot’s 2015 Game of the Year on PC. And why stop there when there are mods that can transform Geralt’s beautifully scarred face into the chiseled cheeks of Henry Cavill?
You can watch our exploits as Henry Cavill-looking Geralt in the video below. There are several mods out there that can achieve this cosmetic look if you want to do this yourself, but if you specifically want to use the one we tried, it’s Shadowphonic’s Game Lore Henry Cavill Retexture. For even greater detail, PC Gamer has a full-fledged guide for using multiple mods on top of the one made by Shadowphonic to also give Geralt the same hairstyle, sword, and armor seen in the Netflix series.
In our own playthrough as Cavill-Geralt, we travel through the beautiful landscape of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. After making sure our face looks just right in a cutscene, we go converse with NPCs to see how well the mod holds up when Geralt has to speak. After that, we fight a griffin–ensuring that, yes, Cavill-Geralt’s face continues to remain chiseled in the midst of a violent hunt.
If you haven’t yet played it, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a really good game–one of the few titles that GameSpot has awarded a 10/10 review score to. In GameSpot’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review, Kevin VanOrd wrote, “Make no mistake: this is one of the best role-playing games ever crafted, a titan among giants and the standard-setter for all such games going forward. Where the Witcher 2 sputtered to a halt, The Witcher 3 is always in a crescendo, crafting battle scenarios that constantly one-up the last, until you reach the explosive finale and recover in the glow of the game’s quiet denouement. But while the grand clashes are captivating, it is the moments between conflicts, when you drink with the local clans and bask in a trobairitz’s song, that are truly inspiring.”
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The Skywalker saga may have reached its conclusion with Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, but that doesn’t mean the Star Wars universe is anywhere close to finished with our favorite Skywalker and Skywalker-adjacent characters. Not only are we anxiously anticipating the arrival of new Disney+ streaming series like Obi-Wan and Cassian Andor but Marvel has a slate of new Star Wars comics just over the horizon.
Darth Vader himself is getting a brand-new solo series created by Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco, kicking off with Darth Vader #1, and StarWars.com offered an extensive preview of the first issue.
The story will take place after the events of The Empire Strikes Back but include extensive flashbacks to Vader’s personal history, so expect plenty of cameos from your favorite (or least favorite?) prequel characters.
Curious as to how the events of the current Star Wars universe work out between all the shows and movies? Check out our handy guide to the Star Wars timeline. And don’t forget to brush up on your Rise Of Skywalker trivia with our breakdown of every Easter Egg and reference from the movie.
Darth Vader #1 hits shelves on February 5, everywhere comics are sold.
Showrunner Lauren Hissrich said in a Reddit AMA that Season 2 is expected to premiere in 2021. “We don’t yet have a target launch date for S2, past 2021. We don’t want to rush the product. That doesn’t benefit anyone,” she said.
Naturally, people flooded the AMA with questions about what to expect in Season 2. Hissrich didn’t give away any specifics, but she did promise that the story will be “much more linear.”
One of the critiques of Season 1 was that the story’s different timelines could be hard to follow. In Season 2, the three main characters will have their individual stories intersect more, and this should help with the flow, Hissrich said. “The story will be much more linear, now that the three characters’ stories have started to intersect,” she explained.
The Witcher Season 1 included eight episodes, which some remarked was fewer than they expected. Hissrich explained that the number of episodes in a TV show season depends on a number of factors, including the story they want to tell and the budget, as well as an estimation of what the audience might want to see. The Witcher being a new show, Hissrich said more episodes would have led to a smaller budget per episode. “So we knew we didn’t want to do that. Eight felt like the magic number,” she said.
With Season 2, Hissrich and her team are approaching the number of episodes similarly. “What are the stories [author Andrzej Sapkowski] was telling, and why? What building blocks do we need to set up future stories? Is there anything we missed from S1 that we want to include? And what will work on television?”
One thing you won’t see in is Triss having an extended spell of uncontrollable and slimy poop.
“No one wants to see Triss have diarrhea for three episodes,” she said. So what are we trying to glean from that in the books, and how do we present that onscreen?
Also in the AMA, Hissrich responded to a question regarding how The Witcher show handles diversity. She said in the books, it is assumed that everyone in the universe has the same color skin. In the TV show, Hissrich and her team decided to pursue a different way of thinking.
“Because it’s 2020, and because the real world is a very big and diverse place, we made a different assumption on the show: that people don’t pay attention to skin color,” she said. “Not because they’re all the same color, but because the bigger differences are about species, not skin. If you went to your local supermarket and there were people with horns and tails, do you really think you’d be paying attention to how much melanin is in their skin?”
For Season 2, Hissrich said her team will continue to do cast the best actors for any new roles, regardless of their skin color.
“We do color-blind casting, and we work hard to make sure that no one feels like they can’t put themselves up for a role just because they’re not the ‘expected’ look of the character. We will continue to do this in S2, and hope to expand our reach even more,” she said.
The release of The Witcher TV show appears to have helped The Witcher 3, as the CD Projekt Red game recently passed 100,000 concurrent players on Steam which is an all-time high for the 2015 game.
