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With just one more episode left in Season 3 of Westworld, the pieces are being moved across the board and the stage is being set for Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to take on Serac (Vincent Cassel) and his emissary, Maeve (Thandie Newton). However, as is always the case with this show, things are much more complicated.

Westworld Season 3, Episode 7, “Passed Pawn,” is primarily an episode focused on Caleb (Aaron Paul). The down-on-his-luck former soldier turned tag-along participant in Dolores’s fight for liberation (and his own). However, in this episode, we learn that there was more to Caleb’s history than we knew and, in fact, his hands may be covered in blood. His role in upcoming events, meanwhile, could be far beyond he even realizes, as Dolores’s schemes begin to come in focus.

This episode also includes some big world-building revelations, confirming more about the fate of the so-called outliers, and introducing us to Solomon, a failed architect of a new world. Naturally, there’s a whole lot to unpack, analyze, and theorize about, which is exactly what Lucy and Tamoor do.

Having followed the series from the very start, and broken down every episode, they have their guesses for where things could be headed and which characters will play key roles. Watch and find out what they thought of the episode, as well as hear their predictions. Westworld airs Sundays on HBO.

Timestamps:

0:28 – What is “Passed Pawn?”

1:56 – Divergence! Jakarta!

6:49 – Dolores and Caleb’s Journey

24:08 – Maeve Joins The Fight

30:18 – Bernard, Stubbs and William

When movie theatres do eventually re-open, it’s expected that cinemas may bring back blockbusters to encourage people to return. Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame are two of the biggest movies of the past five years, and their directors would welcome the idea of these films returning to cinemas.

Joe Russo told CinemaBlend that it was a career highlight for himself and his brother the way that people flocked to cinemas to see the final two Avengers films and enjoy them communally with friends and family. They would be “ecstatic” for Infinity War and Endgame to return to cinemas to try to spark the movie business once more to help the theatre business get back on track after the COVID-19 crisis.

“For us, that’s really the strength of the theatrical experience is that it combines audiences, and it combines you globally. To have been a part of movies that did that, on that scale with that level of emotional connection from the audience, was really very touching, and will be the highlight of our careers,” Joe Russo said. “So, using those films to get people back into the theaters? We would be ecstatic. I mean, any opportunity for people to go back and share in those stories together is one that we would support.”

In China, hundreds of theatres re-opened, and cinema-owners announced they would screen Infinity War and Endgame, as well as other blockbusters like Inception, Avatar, and Interstellar, to help draw crowds.

Endgame recently celebrated its first anniversary of its theatrical release in April 2019. The movie enjoyed massive success in theatres, where it made $2.79 billion to become the highest-grossing movie at the global box office of all time. The movie also has become the most profitable film in history, bringing in $890 million in net income.

Supernatural is a new fitness app for the Oculus Quest, combining the fundamentals of VR movement games like Beat Saber with personal trainers and progress tracking. Supernatural is out now in the US and Canada, and promises to shake up isolation exercise–if you already own a Quest, that is.

In an interview with GameSpot sister site CNET, the app’s creators said Supernatural was built around the concept of making exercise so fun that it doesn’t actually feel like exercise. “When you’re surfing or snowboarding, you’re never squatting in a wave like, ‘Oh man, I wish this squat was over,'” Aaron Koblin, co-founder of Supernatural developer Within, said in the interview. “Dancing is primal, moving your body is fun, and–key for an antisocial person like me–it’s doing it at home in the dark with nobody watching. That’s what allows me to be liberated.”

Supernatural operates similarly to Beat Saber, a dancey VR game many VR players have already been using to keep active in isolation, getting players to hit flying targets and move their body through shapes in lunge-like motions. Unlike Beat Saber, the point of Supernatural isn’t technical mastery, but physical fitness.

Supernatural just wants to keep you moving, and one of its big points of difference from other VR movement games is the addition of in-game personal trainers, who offer tips and encouragement as you play.

The game’s soundtrack includes a number of big, feel-good hits like Good as Hell by Lizzo, New Rules by Dua Lipa, and Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore, with licensing deals in place to add even more popular music. Its other big selling point is location: placing the player in beautiful natural surroundings, with wild mountain ranges and desert vistas designed to take you away from the mediocrity of your lounge room.

The app is available now for Oculus Quest on a subscription basis, with your first month free and subsequent months costing $19–not exactly cheap, but with new workouts being added daily, Supernatural is clearly looking to be as much of a fitness platform as it is a game.

The bigger problem at the moment is getting hold of an Oculus Quest if you don’t own one already. The Quest is sold out on Oculus’s website, while third-party sellers like Amazon and Walmart have marked up the usual $399 price.

Most major movie and TV show productions shut down due to COVID-19, but not all of them. The Mickey Rourke-starring World War II fantasy horror movie, Warhunt, was filming when the lockdowns began, and it was in a unique position to be able to complete production.

According to Variety, production was allowed to continue on Warhunt, which was filming in Riga, Latvia, with crew members wearing facemasks and gloves. Additionally, production staff had their temperatures taken twice daily, while they also practiced social-distancing and used disinfectant on their equipment, in adherence with local guidelines.

Each actor had their own makeup kit, so that the makeup artists only used brushes and other equipment on one actor. Additionally, the makeup stylists wore facemasks.

Director Mauro Borrelli said it was a “surreal” experience filming Warhunt with the COVID-19 guidelines in place. He noted that the cast and crew responded positively, and they ended up filming in a “more focused and efficient” manner as a result.

Rourke told Variety, “I came to Riga to work and this thing (COVID-19) was so out of control, but everyone was so great.”

Due to the pandemic, the filmmakers moved up Rourke’s filming dates, and the actor was able to fly into town early to film his scenes ahead of the previous schedule.

Warhunt follows a group of American soldiers in World War II who become trapped in Germany’s Black Forest where they encounter witches.

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Driving fast cars is meant to be one of the many things secret agent James Bond is skilled at, but it turns out 007 actor Pierce Brosnan made a rookie error with the beautiful Aston Martin DB5 he got to drive in 1995’s Goldeneye.

As reported by Digital Spy, from a tidbit picked up in the Esquire watch-along of the film with Brosnan, the actor revealed that he forgot to take off the handbrake while driving the Aston Martin in one scene–and not just once.

“I drive up, and I get out, and they say, ‘Cut. Do you want to drive the car back?’ and I say, ‘Yeah, I’ll drive it back’. So, I get out, do my little Bond quip, get back, reverse the car, go back to [my] starting position. We did this about five, six times, and on the sixth go round I could smell burning.”

Yes, far from handling his car with the suave grave we expect from Bond, Brosnan had left the handbrake on for multiple takes in the very expensive car–in front of a large audience that included the car’s owner, no less.

Brosnan isn’t entirely sure what happened next between the car, its mistreatment and its no-doubt upset owner, because he “scarpered off into the night”, in his own words. “I’m sure [the car’s owner] was taken care of by the company,” he said. “I hope he was anyway.”

The next Bond movie, and Daniel Craig’s last in the iconic role, has been delayed to November due to concerns around COVID-19. Check out everything we know about No Time To Die here.

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Avengers: Endgame is the most commercially successful movie of all time, with $2.79 billion at the global box office. The movie was extremely expensive to produce, as well, but the epic comic book film made enough money to become the most profitable film in history.

Deadline’s sources report that Endgame made $890 million in profit, which sets a new record for any film ever released. The P&L sheet states that Endgame cost $356 million to produce, with a further $175 million going toward paying cast and staff before residuals. Marvel reportedly paid $155 million to market the movie around the world.

In total, Endgame cost $899 million to produce, covering the production budget, actor and staff salaries, marketing, and other costs, according to the report. You can see a full breakdown of the expense sheet here at Deadline.

Endgame, which was released in theatres one year ago this month, raked in $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office over its first weekend, which covered the film’s entire production, marketing, and theatrical costs.

One actor who really benefitted from the movie was Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr., who is said to have taken home $55 million due to the nature of his contract being tied to box office grosses. He was paid $20 million up front to appear in the film, the report said. “Many” of the cast members also received bonuses tied to Endgame’s box office performance.

The world is a very different place one year on from Endgame’s release. Currently, most movie theatres around the globe are closed due to the COVID-19 crisis.