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The Facts of Life may be the next show riding the revival wave back to TV, as Sony is reportedly considering a reboot of the 80s sitcom. The original show, a spinoff of the popular NBC series Diff’rent Strokes, chronicled the ups and downs of a group of teenagers at an all-girl boarding school in New York State. The main cast of Facts of Life included Charlotte Rae as headmother Edna Garrett, Lisa Welchel as spoiled rich girl Blair, Kim Fields as spunky Tootie, Mindy Cohn as naive Natalie, and Nancy McKeon as bad girl Jo....

Following the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the world has gone mad yet again for British author - and first-time screenwriter - J.K. Rowling and her wildly original Wizarding World already familiar to moviegoers by way of the Harry Potter franchise; as directed by frequent collaborater David Yates. The first in a planned five-movie series, the first Fantastic Beasts movie has delighted fans and general viewers around the world, and already surpassed $170 million internationally at the box office....

J.K. Rowling’s seven-book young adult series Harry Potter has become a cultural phenomenon since the first installment hit shelves in 1997 – inspiring a blockbuster eight-film franchise, a sequel in the form of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, as well as the upcoming prequel series beginning with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Penned by Rowling herself and directed by veteran of the Harry Potter film series, David Yates, Fantastic Beasts follows Newt Scamander through New York City in the 1920s while he searches for a few magical creatures that escaped his care....

The Final Fantasyseries is not set in an interconnected universe. Each numbered game exists in a vacuum, completely separate from other titles. Every iteration creates a self-contained adventure, and while there are winks and nods here and there, along with Easter Eggs abound, every FF tells its own tale with its own language. Perhaps this effort towards always creating new worlds is what has enabled the series to stay hip and relevant for decades....

Amid the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone and iPad thanks to Microsoft. The popular battle royale game is now available on Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming platform, which is supported on iPhone and iPad via Safari. As noted by The Verge’s Tom Warren on Twitter, this marks the first time a free-to-play game has been available on Xbox Cloud Gaming. In fact, documents unearthed as part of the Epic vs....

Epic Games is removing the Fortnite Legacy Look Controls setting that was popular with players using controllers in an update coming soon. Fortnite’s legacy controls have long been a subject of controversy, as they allowed players to use a powerful aim assist on gamepads, which many mouse and keyboard players felt was unfair. Part of the problem came from Fortnite’s adoption of a cross-platform model. While the feature was a popular addition, and crossplay in general is usually welcomed for most games, it did introduce imbalances into the game based on what platform players were using....

Did another actress nearly take over Jennifer Aniston’s role as Rachel Green on Friends? Aniston was a core member of the cast over Friends’ decade-long run, but that almost wasn’t the case. The series could have played out much differently in the early stages. Rachel Green appeared in every episode of Friends. In the pilot, she was introduced as a naive runaway bride who ran into her childhood friend Monica (Courteney Cox) and decided to relocate to New York City....

A Friends reunion may actually happen as Jennifer Aniston reveals that the whole cast is game to reprise their respective roles. The cult favorite sitcom from David Crane and Marta Kauffman catapulted Aniston to stardom alongside her co-stars: Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc. Running for 10 seasons with 236 episodes, the series debuted in 1994 and wrapped up in 2004. Centering on a group of 20-year-olds living in New York City, Friends received critical acclaim throughout the entirety of its run....

Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke is eagerly anticipating what her current showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will do with their planned series of Star Wars movies. True, the actress has beaten the two to the punch. She is one of the stars of Solo: A Star Wars Story. As Han’s childhood friend Qi’ra, Clarke’s character is seemingly the female lead of Solo, making it her first big (and hopefully more successful) role since the underwhelming Terminator Genysis....

A Game of Thrones fan rewrites season 8 and details the changes to the series’ ending through a video essay. The clip is mostly focused on the Night King’s relevance in season 8, along with prioritizing narrative logic. Since being published on May 22, the video has received over four million views. When the Game of Thrones series finale aired in May, many fans complained about sloppy writing and rushed pacing....

While Android users usually turn to Wear OS for a smartwatch and iPhone owners default to the Apple Watch, there are some great options out there that focus on fitness above all else. That’s what Garmin has been known for, and this year, the company is introducing the Venu 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport, both with a neat take on how to use a voice assistant on your smartwatch. The Garmin Venu 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport were announced today as the brand’s latest Android and iPhone compatible smartwatches....

Devolver’s new Metroidvania-lite game Gato Roboto is an entertaining monochromatic Metroid homage, but isn’t particularly memorable or deep. It’s tough for games to survive and thrive on charm alone, even bound by the joint superpower of charm, chunky cute pixels, and wide-reaching retro references. Devolver Digital’s new release Gato Roboto is meager, and that’s not just a reference to its short total play-time, because there’s a feisty worthy spot in all of our download libraries for focused, bite-sized games....

Longtime gaming journalist, TV personality, and award show producer Geoff Keighley has been at the helm of his own awards show for five years now, and it almost seems that The Game Awards are his lifelong destiny. Keighley possesses the experience and gaming industry access that only a career spanning the whole of video games awards show history can provide, and he believes The Game Awards are the culmination of his many fortuitous opportunities and that they will continue to consistently improve into the event’s future....

Director Paul Feig supports actress Leslie Jones’ recent comments about the new Ghostbusters reboot. Feig is known for directing comedies like Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy, but also directed the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot that featured an all-female team. Along with Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon starred in the film. The original Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and was directed by Ivan Reitman. That film was followed up with a sequel in 1989, but fans have been waiting years to see Ghostbusters 3 up on the big screen with the original cast....

The first official trailer for writer/director Paul Feig’s reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise is finally here, thus opening the proverbial floodgates of fanboy accolades and reproach, as the new movie is set to star an all-women team of paranormal exterminators. Ahead of the film’s release, fans of the preceding installments from the 1980s are likely eager to see which fundamental elements of the original screenplay and and story remain in Feig’s twenty-first century, gender-bending reboot....

One of the secret kaiju in Godzilla: King of the Monsters may have been accidentally revealed. In 2014, Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla reboot introduced audiences to a brand-new version of the iconic Toho monster, one that was understandably far removed from the 1998 version that ruined the character’s reputation in Hollywood. And while the movie reboot aimed to give viewers a more grounded take on the monster, the film also opened up numerous possibilities for the future....

When Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) became Supergirl, she spent a year working for Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) as her assistant while hiding the secret of her dual identity from Ms. Grant. By the end of Supergirl season 2, Cat revealed she knew Kara’s secret all along, which put her mentoring of both Kara and Supergirl in a new light. With Ms. Grant now serving as the Press Secretary for the President of the United States Olivia Marsden (Lynda Carter) and James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) running CatCo, Kara at least thought her days of hiding her dual identity from her boss were over....

E3 2018 is right around the corner, which means plenty of announcements and/or full reveals are on the way. At this time of the year, the biggest developers and publishers in the video game industry converge on Los Angeles and showcase their upcoming slate of games, from indie titles to triple-A blockbusters, many of which have been in development for years. While every E3 is chock-full of surprises from all the major publishers, there are already quite a few titles for gamers to look forward to....

Edgar Wright’s next movie is a currently-untitled psychological horror-thriller inspired by classics like Don’t Look Now and Repulsion. Wright, of course, made his name as a filmmaker with 2003’s zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, featuring his frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as a pair of under-achievers whose lives are upended when a zombie apocalypse hits London. The trio have since gone on to make two more films in what’s been dubbed the Three Flavours Conetto trilogy (Hot Fuzz and The World’s End) and have already announced their intention to work together again, when the opportunity presents itself....

“The app store is not a service. The app store is a disservice to developers,” says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his latest interview with The Financial Times. In his never-ending battle against the so-called Apple App Store (and Google) monopoly, the owner of Fortnite tackles the Cupertino policy and calls Facebook an ally on the metaverse. Last year, after Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that the App Store and its guidelines do not violate antitrust laws in the Epic vs....