A memoir by Irish singer-songwriter Bono reveals the story behind the free U2 album debacle, which saw both Apple and the band become the butt of jokes on social media, as well as the subject of considerable anger toward both parties … Free U2 album fiasco If you don’t recall the story, back in 2014 some 500 million iTunes users found the U2 album Songs of Innocence had been added to their iTunes library....
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners behind HBO’s Game of Thrones, have cameos in Westworld season 3. Based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name, Westworld first debuted in 2016 and became a massive hit for the streaming platform. Its third season is set to premiere on HBO this Sunday, March 15, almost two years after season 2 came to an end. The futuristic series, executive produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, centers on a western-themed park where guests can live out their wildest fantasies....
To say that The Song of Ice and Fire book series is an international phenomenon would be an understatement. The five published books – out of the seven planned in the series – have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide (as of April 2015) and HBO’s television adaption Game of Thrones has been met with critical acclaim and commercial success as the season 5 finale ratings hit a record high for the show....
Gaiman adapted the novel based on both the original source material and other discussions between him and Pratchett in the years to follow. He also served a frontrunner and producer for the show. While the show remains mostly faithful to the book, there are some changes. Here are 5 things which got cut and 5 we’re glad they kept in. Kept: The Introduction The opening few minutes of the first episode is lifted almost word for word from the beginning of the book, especially the introduction itself....
A new image from the forthcoming fifth and final season of Gotham is said to tease the death of a long-running character. The conclusion of Gotham season 4 saw Jeremiah Valeska, who still may or may not be the Joker, isolate the city in a manner not dissimilar to Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. With the city in chaos, the various criminals and denizens of Gotham are taking over and only a few brave souls, Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne among them, are left to stand against the tide of evil....
Aside from Meredith and Derek, the greatest couple to come out of Grey’s Anatomy is undoubtedly that of Alex and Izzie. It was a classic opposites attract dynamic that worked to perfection. While no couple in Grey’s Anatomy ever stands the test of time in-universe, for us these couples are immortalized to a certain degree. The show wants us to move on with the characters, but this isn’t possible because we have our own preferences and a majority will go with Alex and Izzie over any other relationship he had with some other woman....
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 doesn’t hit theaters for eight months, but that hasn’t stopped the sequel from building buzz by continually revealing details about the story and characters. One of the consistent themes throughout promotion of the movie is that of family, particularly the quest of Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), to find his long-lost father, known in the movie as Ego. The hiring of Kurt Russell to play Ego, a “living planet” who can take human form, is something of a departure from the original character in the comics....
A new Star Wars canon novel fleshes out the confrontation between Han Solo and Greedo, detailing some interesting personal history between the two. One of the most famous scenes in A New Hope is when the Rodian bounty hunter encounters everyone’s favorite smuggler in the Mos Eisley cantina, under the impression he’s about to take Han in to Jabba the Hutt. Of course, the interaction ends rather poorly for Greedo, who ends up blasted into a crisp at the booth....
Ed Sheeran’s self-effacing performance is one of the true highlights of Yesterday. Director Danny Boyle’s film centers on a struggling musician named Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), who discovers he’s the only person alive who remembers that The Beatles and their music ever existed. Malik goes on to record the Fab Four’s hits and passes himself off as their sole author, which turns him into a global pop star. And yet, Malik’s success wouldn’t have been possible without Ed Sheeran, who ends up playing second fiddle to Malik....
It’s only been a few days since the release of the online-focused Fallout 76, but a few crafty players may have figured out ways to streamline the process of launching nukes. Leveraging cipher-cracking techniques, collaborators on the game’s official subreddit began devising strategies to figure out the required passphrases faster, enabling successful nuke launches without a full set of code fragments. Fallout 76 is the newest entry in Bethesda’s beloved franchise, shifting focus from solo play to instanced online-only exploration....
Fans of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series know all about Lord Voldemort, but he wasn’t the first Dark wizard to try to take over the world. Before there was He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, there was Gellert Grindelwald, the incredibly influential and dangerous man who started a Global Wizarding World and fought Albus Dumbledore in what eye-witnesses considered to be the greatest wizard duel of all time. While Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them focused primarily on the many wonderful creatures and monsters in Rowling’s wizarding world, its sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, centered on the rise of the man who inspired Tom Riddle to follow his villainous path several decades later....
The female superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will return very soon, according to MCU head honcho Kevin Feige. With audiences asking for better representation in movies, Marvel Studios is making the effort to meet that need. They’ve got Captain Marvel coming in 2019 with Brie Larson, and Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp gets co-billing this summer in Ant-Man and The Wasp. Development is also finally underway on a Scarlett Johansson led Black Widow movie....
Just two days after pre-orders began, Apple has now started shipping the first batch of iPhone 13 orders to to early buyers. Unfortunately, however, this doesn’t mean you should expect your iPhone 13 pre-order to arrive any earlier than the September 24 release date. iPhone 13 pre-orders now shipping If you check your order status via the Apple Store Online or Apple Store app, you’ll likely see that your iPhone 13 pre-order is still “preparing to ship....
WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for The Flash Season 4, Episode 2 - Now that The Flash has returned to life, he can forget doing battle with the Rogues: it’s the Injustice Society of DC supervillains he may have to battle next. The team of supervillains may not be as well-known to fans of The Flash in particular as, say, his Rogues. But in the pursuit of a new antagonist and accomplished villain to Barry Allen’s hero, the showrunners at The CW have turned to someone possessing no superhuman muscles or speed at all: his name is The Thinker....
FX releases its fall 2019 schedule, featuring premiere dates for Mayans M.C., Mr. Inbetween, American Horror Story: 1984, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Even though TV is a year-round business now, with streaming services and premium channels and the like churning out new series at what feels like a relentless pace, the familiar anticipation for fall premieres has yet to completely vanish. Capitalizing on that is FX, which is set to come into the fall with some returning favorites, and a second season of one last year’s best new shows....
When Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks revealed the first official image of Scarlett Johansson as “The Major” in the live-action anime adaption Ghost In The Shell, the response probably wasn’t what they were looking for. Instead of Ghost devotees being excited at the prospect of seeing a classic anime feature coming to life, the prevailing story of the day was outrage from the media, fans and even others in the film industry, in response to the casting a of white actress to play a Japanese character - touching off the latest round of debate over race and casting in an evolving media landscape....
Godzilla takes on his most ferocious opponent yet - the three-headed King Ghidorah - in the San Diego Comic-Con 2018 poster for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Copies of the poster were made available to SDCC attendees during the event, but the one-sheet has now been formally unveiled online too. King of the Monsters is the third installment in Warner Bros.’ MonsterVerse cinematic universe, which Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla kicked off in 2014, followed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island last year....
Drew Powell’s Butch Gilzean returns as Solomon Grundy in next week’s episode of Gotham. Butch was rendered comatose, thanks to a bullet from Barbara, at the end of Gotham season 3. Now, the trailer for Gotham season 4 episode 5 has offered a tantalizing glimpse of what Butch will look like upon his revival. Powell has described himself as “Giddy like a schoolgirl”, with regards to this new acting challenge....
Long after players tired of playing Grand Theft Auto 5 via its standard campaign mode and subsequently released online content, modders the world over set about creating some of the most hotly requested player modifications that fans of the franchise have become accustomed to outfitting to any standard issue release from publisher Rockstar Games. Already, certain mods have been created to allow players the option to explore the greater Los Santos area as popular superhero characters like Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk, with each avatar’s requisite superpowers and characteristic looks included....
WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Green Arrow #38 – The end of Green Arrow ’s comic Rebirth finally delivers the Black Canary love story fans have waited for. The two vigilantes are one of the most beloved couples in all of comic books, and after years of incredibly complicated drama, the storytellers who led Oliver and Dinah through DC’s Rebirth finally get things right. With Green Arrow #38, a true gesture of love from Oliver restores their classic romance....
