Game of Thrones’ seventh season finale will air on HBO this Sunday night which, among other things, means fans of the series will be without Westeros for quite a while. The eighth and final season isn’t expected to begin production until the fall, with a premiere date that may very well slip into 2019. There’s always the hope that George R.R. Martin might finish The Winds of Winter in the meantime, but who knows when that might happen....
And you thought the first trailer was something special. With only two weeks to go until the premiere of Game of Thrones’s sixth season – this is the first season to start adapting material from the as-yet-unpublished final two books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series – HBO is really starting to open the floodgates, releasing official descriptions of the premiere and teasing clips on the late-night talk show circuit....
Gears of War effectively closed out its original storyline with the third installment several years ago, but it seems you can’t keep a good video game franchise down - especially one as influential as Gears has been in terms of popularizing the cover-based third-person shooter, and turning John DiMaggio’s Marcus Fenix into one of the most iconic digital heroes of the modern era. Gears of War 4 promises to bring the classic gameplay back, along with all-new features and a new cast of characters centered on Marcus’ son and his friends....
The Harber London leather messenger bag is the latest in the company’s line of premium bags pitched squarely at the Apple-owning demographic … When I tested the company’s Slim Laptop Backpack, I said it was almost exactly what I’d expect if Apple made a leather backpack for MacBook Pro models. This one has a coarser-grained leather, but is still a very appealing option if you’re willing to pay Apple-like prices for your bags....
Warner Bros. released the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer and we break down all the Harry Potter references and connections. The now expansive Harry Potter multimedia franchise first kicked off with a novel by J.K. Rowling published in 1997. Over the last two decades, the seven-book series inspired an eight-movie film franchise that has since continued with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - itself the first installment of a five-movie series....
With a series as massively successful as Harry Potter, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood found a way to extend its lifespan by branching out from the literary source material. Sure enough, that is happening with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to Harry Potter that takes place in New York in the 1920s rather than London in the modern era. With the movie taking place in a different country and different era, it stands to reason, then, that Harry and his schoolmates won’t be making any cameo appearances....
The Fast and Furious franchise has grown leaps and bounds beyond fans’ initial expectations. While the films initially focused on the underground street-racing circuit, it has evolved into a string of intensive heist films and centers around the outrageous characters and stunts with each passing movie. In looking back at the original Fast and Furious film, the craziest thing that happened was a car crashing into a wall. Now, if the film does not feature a plane crash or over-the-top explosion, it will not live up to the other films....
Fortnite fans will be able to create their own games thanks to the new mode, Fortnite Creative. Epic Games’ Fortnite has always stood out in the overstuffed Battle Royale market thanks to its quirky style and the ability for players to build in-game. But so far those creations have been limited to buildings whose sole purpose is to deflect bullets from enemy players. For players who’ve wanted to stretch the limits of their creativity, they’ll now get their chance thanks to a new change coming with season 7....
Foxconn closed-loop production, in which workers remain inside the campus 24/7 for up to a month at a time, is to continue – despite the fact that most of the city has been released from lockdown. It had been hoped that a return to normal operation would improve conditions for workers, and help the company recruit new staff to replace those who left, but these hopes appear to have been dashed for now …...
A new video shows the actors who play Game of Thrones’ The Hound and Tormund Giantsbane singing on set. When in character, Rory McCann (The Hound) and Kristofer Hivju (Tormund) haven’t had much to be happy about, let alone sing. The characters were just part of the band of fighters who marched beyond the northern Wall with Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) to capture a Wight in order to prove the existence of the White Walkers....
As unionization efforts continue around the globe at Apple Stores, a notable moment has occurred in Scotland. The Glasgow Apple Store has become the first location in the UK to see a majority of employees vote for unionization. Last month we saw Apple hit with a US Labor Board complaint in NYC and the second US retail store voted to unionize, this time in Oklahoma. As reported by The Herald, now the first Apple Store in the UK to officially start the unionization process is the Glasgow location....
Continuity in the Halloween franchise is as complicated as Michael Myers’ relationship with Halloween night itself. With a total of eleven movies in the entire franchise, what began as a simple cat-and-mouse-style slasher movie in the late ’70s ultimately shattered into a confusing mess of retcons, remakes, and spinoffs; and understanding which movies in the franchise you must see versus the movies in the franchise you’re better off avoiding requires a precise analysis of each entry....
Disney purchased Lucasfilm for the grand sum of $4 billion in October 2012, with the intention of making new Star Wars movies (both within the core saga and standalone adventures). The wait for the first of these projects, J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, ended up being a little more than three years, and now fans finally have the opportunity to go to their local theater and see the beloved space opera continue with a new generation of heroes and villains....
Earlier this year, Dropbox announced a new beta version of its macOS app with native support for the Apple Silicon platform. Now the long-awaited update with optimizations for the M1 chip is finally available for all Mac users. As we previously reported, Dropbox took more than a year to confirm that it was working on a version of its app compatible with the M1 chip. Even so, the first beta release fully compatible with Apple Silicon Macs wasn’t released until January 2022 – three months after the report....
Coming to America 2 is a go at Paramount, and Eddie Murphy is indeed on-board to star in the comedy sequel. Released in 1988, the original Coming to America starred Murphy as an African prince who journeys to the United States disguised as a commoner, hoping to find love. Directed by John Landis, the film was a huge hit with $128 million grossed at the domestic box office ($275 million if adjusted for inflation)....
Warm up your vocal chords and brush up on your ABBA lyrics for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and check out our guide to the movie’s soundtrack. The ensemble cast of Mamma Mia! reunites ten years later for a sequel/prequel in which Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) finds out that she is pregnant and starts looking to the future, while also learning about her mother Donna’s (Meryl Streep) past from her former bandmates Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters)....
It is becoming increasingly important for a service to have quality original programming that people can’t find anywhere else in order to entice customers. Original shows are essentially locked in for life and aren’t beholden to fickle licensing agreements, so the more a service can have, the better. 16. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Author Tom Clancy has had just as much success with adaptations of his books as he has with the books themselves, especially in terms of movies and video games....
2017 is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to blockbuster films. No longer relegated to the summer, the entire year is packed full of big budget tentpoles. From Kong: Skull Island and Power Rangers debuting next month, to Justice League and Star Wars Episode VIII coming towards the end of the year, genre fans will have no shortage of exciting films to go see. Another March release that seems destined to make it big is the live-action adaptation of the popular anime Ghost in the Shell....
Gotham star David Mazouz has revealed that he wants to film more scenes with The Penguin and The Riddler in season 5. The show premiered in 2014 on FOX, and focuses on the early years of Detective James Gordon and Bruce Wayne, prior to the rise of Batman as protector of Gotham City. The next season of Gotham will stand as the fifth and final season of the series. The show has previously adapted parts of Batman’s No Man’s Land storyline; however, season 5 has been confirmed to be an adaption of the Zero Year comic book....
Marketing materials for Oscar contender Green Book claim the film is inspired by a true friendship, but just how accurate is the movie? Surprising attendees at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the latest work by director Peter Farrelly (of Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary fame) quickly emerged as a major player on the awards circuit. It took home Toronto’s People’s Choice Awards (making it a virtual lock for a Best Picture nomination) and is seen as a feel-good, entertaining option for older moviegoers this holiday season....
