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One Fortnite player took advantage of a recent event in the game to net the title’s single-round kill record, taking down 48 players in one shot. Sure, that effort took some lowdown and dirty tactics, but the username Elemental_Ray will reverberate throughout the game’s world as its number one mass murderer. Fortnite is a popular free-to-play co-op sandbox survival game, where players live in a world devastated by storms and zombie-like creatures....

Frank Oz is one of the longest-lasting actors of the Star Wars movie franchise, but that doesn’t mean he’s expecting to bring Yoda to life via old school puppetry in a potential spinoff film. Oz first appeared as the riddle-talking Jedi Master back in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, and has since voiced - as well as largely puppeteered - the green Jedi Master ever since, in both live-action films and animated TV series....

HBO programming president Casey Bloys has officially confirmed that Game of Thrones season 8 (the series’ final season) will premiere during the first half of 2019. Bloys further acknowledged that a recent report claiming the Game of Thrones prequel/spinoff show will start production this fall was inaccurate. The battle for the Iron Throne be coming to an end next year, but the Game of Thrones television universe will carry on long after the Night King and his White Walker army are defeated, if HBO has any say in the matter....

George Lucas has opened up (very slightly) about his plans for a Star Wars sequel trilogy, and it contained creatures that fed on The Force. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm, George Lucas stepped away entirely from the franchise. The Star Wars creator will occasionally chime in about bits of Jedi lore, but otherwise he’s completely hands off when it comes to the sequel trilogy and Star Wars’ new spin-offs. Yet there once was a plan for Lucas to create his own sequel trilogy....

The first full-length trailer for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell adaptation just dropped, and it’s full of subtle details, striking imagery, homages to past works in the GitS universe, and a few tricks of its own. After the decision to cast Scarlett Johansson as The Major was met with overwhelming accusations of offensive whitewashing, Paramount made the diplomatic decision to release the film’s first full-length trailer at an exclusive event in Tokyo, showcasing an interest in respecting the country which gave birth to the worldwide phenomenon that is Ghost in the Shell....

Glass forms the third part of M. Night Shyamalan’s trilogy of superhero thrillers which started with Unbreakable, starring Samuel. L. Jackson and Bruce Willis back in 2000. To the surprise of everyone, Shyamalan followed this up in 2017 with Split, starring James McAvoy. Now Shyamalan brings us Glass, which will see David Dunn, Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, and Kevin Wendall Crumb/The Beast sharing a screen. Release Date: January 18, 2019 Cast: Samuel L....

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is continuing its global domination, with the news of the latest box office numbers. While the Marvel Studios brand has helped buoy a number of underperforming films in the past, the uncanny success of 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy was also assisted by charming characters, impressive visuals, and a soundtrack woven masterfully throughout the narrative. Even then, its global haul of over $700 million was an impressive feat and one that guaranteed James Gunn would continue making Marvel movies for years to come....

Popular smart home accessory maker Ecobee has officially taken the wraps off of two new smart thermostats joining its lineup today. The new Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced offer larger 4-inch displays, a completely redesigned interface, HomeKit integration, and more. Head below for the full details on Ecobee’s new smart thermostat lineup, with some hands-on experience and notes as well.. Smart Thermostat Premium First off, the Smart Thermostat Premium is Ecobee’s new high-end smart thermostat option....

Update: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is denying that this interaction ever took place. He wrote on Twitter today that he and Cook have never spoken or written to each other. “There was a point where I requested to meet with Cook to talk about Apple buying Tesla. There were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever. He refused to meet,” Musk says. The history between Tesla and Apple, and between Tim Cook and Elon Musk, varies depending on who you talk to....

European lawmakers are going to meet on June 7 as they look to finalize an agreement to enforce a single universal charging port law, which would see all mobile devices sold in the EU be required to offer USB-C ports for charging. This idea has been circling in the minds of EU regulators for almost a decade, citing environmental e-waste benefits. The plans have previously drawn strong pushback from Apple, who intimated it would stifle innovation....

There was a time when superhero television shows were a pretty rare beast. Aside from the occasional animated series, the most comic book fans could hope for when turning on their TVs was a network’s tragically misguided take on a beloved superhero property. Things have certainly changed for the better. Now that Disney and Marvel have turned superhero adaptations into a multi-billion dollar empire, networks and streaming services have realized that getting in on the superhero entertainment action will require them to produce a series that does justice to some of comics’ greatest justice bringers....

An exclusive Iron Sky: The Coming Race clip shows off an exciting chase scene involving chariots, dinosaurs, lava, and gigantic boulders.When it first debuted in 2012, Iron Sky earned acclaim for its provocative premise. The film channeled the sci-fi B-movie madness of the 1950s with a story about an alternate history involving a secret Nazi base on the moon mobilizing in an effort to take over a highly satirized version of 21st century America....

A new photo released from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald shows a young Newt Scamander as a student at Hogwarts under the tutelage of Professor Albus Dumbledore. The photo comes from a flashback scene that shows Newt as a young wizard at the school before his expulsion. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald picks up after the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. In the new film, Professor Dumbledore calls on Newt to help him defeat the evil Grindelwald, who wants to raise up pureblood witches and wizards to rule over all of humanity....

Following the critical success lauded onto the limited television program’s season 2 run late last year, the original FX series Fargo has been picking up some significant steam and another star-studded cast heading into production on its forthcoming season 3. After receiving a grand total of 18 Emmy Award nominations earlier this year, the highly acclaimed show created by award-winning showrunner, writer, and director Noah Hawley is on a bit of a roll when it comes to pleasing general viewers....

The final trailer for Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is here. Universal’s upcoming Fast & Furious spinoff follows Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw as they’re forced to do battle with a cyber-genetically enhanced terrorist named Brixton (Idris Elba). The film’s marketing has heavily played up the rivalry between the pair - who, lest we forget, tried to beat one another to a pulp in their first encounter - and the now customary physics-defying stunts that audiences associate with the Fast & Furious brand....

The Final Fantasy games have earned a reputation for having hard to follow stories (though not quite as bad as their cousins in the Kingdom Hearts series). There are a few reasons for this. The villains have often had confusing motivations (if they have any motivation at all), the games might not explain their backstory properly (or have hidden them so far in the background that they are easy to miss)....

A new development in the continuing story around former IGN editor and alleged plagiarizer Filip Miucin takes a turn, with Miucin himself finally taking to YouTube to present his side of the story. The response video represents the first comments by the disgraced writer since the start of the fiasco, which resulted in the official removal of his review of the Nintendo Switch game Dead Cells by IGN on August 7....

Charlie Hunnam says he would love to have a cameo on Game of Thrones. Hunnam’s acting career has taken off in recent years, with him appearing in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak, as well as James Gray’s The Lost City of Z and Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. His roots, though, will always be on television; he is known primarily for playing Jackson “Jax” Teller for seven seasons of FX’s Sons of Anarchy....

Writer-director Jordan Peele expressed confusion when his directorial debut, the critically acclaimed social thriller Get Out, was nominated in the “Musical or Comedy” categories at the 75th Golden Globes. It was a terrifying movie about the ugly realities of racism, so Peele wondered exactly what the Hollywood Foreign Press found so funny. However, there is one character in the movie who steals every scene with his hilarious dialogue, and that’s Chris’ best friend, Rod Williams, played by Lil Rel Howery....