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Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has been cast in FX’s new drama series Gone Hollywood. Coster-Waldau’s acting resume stretches back to the 1990s when he got his start in movies in his native Denmark. Coster-Waldau then made the jump to Hollywood, with early roles in Black Hawk Down, Wimbledon and Kingdom of Heaven. But Coster-Waldau of course received the biggest break of his career when he landed the role of Jaime Lannister on HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones....

There are a lot of significant siblings in the Game of Thrones universe, like the Starks, the Lannisters, and the Tyrells. Their relationships might be varying levels of dysfunctional – looking at you, Jaime and Cersei – but no matter what, they have each other’s backs amidst the chaos of battles and ever-changing alliances. Two notable exceptions to that rule? Sandor and Gregor Clegane, otherwise known as the Hound and the Mountain....

It feels like Game of Thrones only just returned, but thanks to a shorter season 7 we already have to say goodbye. Still, it certainly wasn’t boring. The finale episode saw some explosive revelations, several twists and turns, and a final action sequence to send the season off in style. For those who had trouble keeping track, these were the biggest and most important moments of the finale episode. Cersei Lannister agreed to help Jon and Daenerys fight the White Walkers, but later revealed she was lying....

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is bringing back a character from Kong: Skull Island. Is it Tom Hiddleston’s James Conrad, now played by Charles Dance? Although Godzilla 2 is being heavily marketed as an epic monster crossover of its own - it will mark the western debut of Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah - it’s also part of a bigger, multi-film project. The MonsterVerse shared universe is two movies strong, starting in 2014 with Godzilla and continuing with Kong: Skull Island, with the end goal being 2020’s Godzilla vs....

As season 4 of Gotham progress, Bruce Wayne will lose himself more and more in his various personas. The theme for this season of Gotham so far has clearly been transformation. In fact, that may be what the show is about in general. As a prolonged origin story for a slew of heroes and villains, we’ve seen characters like Bruce, Gordon, Penguin, and Selina all shift and change over the years....

Ever since Grand Theft Auto III hit the PS2 back in the early 2000s, the venerable Rockstar Games franchise has cultivated and subsequently maintained a spot among the elites of the competitive video game landscape. Each new game in the series has effectively served to expand on the previous one, further opening up GTA’s famous open-world scope as the available console technology continued to improve in its own right. Perhaps the biggest leap for GTA as an overall brand came with the 2013 arrival of Grand Theft Auto Online, a multi-player online extension of Grand Theft Auto V....

GTA Online introduces a brand new motorsport racing mode with its most recent update. Here’s how to properly use the new Kinetic Energy Recovery System or KERS to win races. Get behind the wheel in this brand new update for Grand Theft Auto Online that brings major-league racing to the city of Los Santos, across Southern San Andreas to Vinewood Hills. This mode also introduces 7 brand new tracks and 2 high-speed vehicles with the Ocelot R88 and the Progen PR4....

Casting a Star Wars film has always been a tricky business. For both the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, George Lucas chose to cast relatively unknown yet (generally) talented actors, such as Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer, Hayden Christensen, and Jake Lloyd. The tradition was carried on in the most recent films, including Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, as relative newcomers John Boyega and Daisy Ridley led the charge for a new generation....

Shaft (2019) brings together three different generations of John Shafts, but does it feature an after-credits scene? Released in 1971, the original Shaft introduced Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, a slick private investigator who’s hired to rescue a Harlem mobster’s daughter from the Italian mafia. In the decades since it released, the film has come to be regarded as a classic of the Blaxploitation genre and spawned a pair of (mostly forgotten) followups in the ’70s, followed by a legacy sequel titled Shaft in 2000....

Dragon Ball has been a staple of Japanese manga and anime since it first hit the stores back in 1984 as a serial in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Since that time, the series has developed into more than 500 chapters collected across 42 volumes and has since been developed into nearly 20 animated films and more television episodes than we care to count. The series is widely known for its principal character Goku as well as the numerous other people sprinkled about the 12 Universes of the Omniverse....

Though it was released with much hype and fanfare, the video game Star Wars: Battlefront was met with mixed reactions when it finally hit shelves last year. The novelty of taking part in battles set in a galaxy far, far away wore off relatively quickly, and players wanted a little more substance to make the purchase worthwhile. One of the biggest points of contention was the lack of a single player campaign mode, which even bothered Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega....

After years of making it known that he would love to tackle a West Side Story remake, director Steven Spielberg is finally making it happen. West Side Story was a musical adaptation on one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Romeo & Juliet. The musical made its Broadway debut in 1957 with a score from famed composer Leonard Bernstein, but it wasn’t until a few years later that the story truly started to shine....

DC’s crossover event with Young Animal came to a close three weeks ago in Doom Patrol/JLA Special #1, as the battle with RetCon was finally won. This event brought together the heroes of the Justice League and Doom Patrol, as the evil RetCon tried to sell Earth Prime by sanitizing it, re-writing our favorite heroes in order to turn them into the cleanest, safest, dullest versions of themselves… suitable for all audiences!...

Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo say that fans will easily recognize Peter Dinklage in the film, but won’t reveal anything more than that. Working on their third Marvel Studios project, the brothers once again team-up with Captain America writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for the MCU’s most ambitious film yet. Bringing together almost every key player in the successful franchise, the movie pits Earth’s Mightiest Heroes against their biggest and baddest adversary yet, Mad Titan Thanos....

Part of the secret to how The Fast & The Furious went from being just another fairly-popular B-movie series in the 2000s to a global franchise on the cutting edge of international popular culture is that it actually started to become “about” something; namely a cast of diverse characters carving out a new post-millennial concept of ideals like family, legacy and identity. Its main characters, to the degree that they receive detailed backstories at all, tend to be loners with complicated family histories; and they come together to forge new versions of the same - while also driving cars very, very fast....

Despite widespread support for a federal privacy law across US citizens, businesses, civil rights groups, and even politicians, efforts to create one appear to have stalled. Congress now appears to be placing its hopes in FTC regulation instead … Background Europe created the world’s toughest privacy law back in 2018, in the form of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Even Apple had to make improvements in order to comply....

A female-led reboot of Lord of the Flies is in development. It’s not the first time the classic novel has been translated to screen, but it is an interesting spin. The original characters in William Golding’s book were all young boys, but this time around, they’ll be girls. The book, published in 1954, has become a cornerstone of high school lit classes. It’s set in the midst of a wartime evacuation, and follows a group of young, elementary-aged students stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash....

As video game retail continues to gravitate more and more to online/subscription models through Steam and other platforms, Gamestop has hung on as the big dog of brick-and-mortar retailers through its focus on exclusives, pre-orders, and used products. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see the company taking pre-orders for games mere moments after the announcement of their (eventual) existence. They have also branched out their used resale inventory to include lucrative markets like classic retro games and NFC-enabled toys like Amiibo and Skylanders....

A new environmental responsibility proposal from the German government to the European Union says Apple should require security updates and spare parts for iPhone for at least seven years. According to Heise Online, Germany’s Ministry of Economics also wants spare parts provided “at a reasonable price.” With these demands, the German government goes beyond the previously known proposals of the EU Commission, which wants smartphone makers, like Apple and Google, to keep updating and having spare parts for five years, while tablets spare parts should be available for six years....

Apple just announced the iPhone 13, and that means the time to trade in your old device is right now! Over the coming weeks, resale values for older iPhones are going to drop significantly, but you can with Decluttr, you can lock in your cash value to make sure get every penny you deserve. It’s the smart way to upgrade to your next phone — fast, easy and free! And you can use code 9TO5MAC to get extra cash for a limited time....