Gameloft, the company behind Disney games Dreamlight Valley and Speedstorm, has announced that it is working on a Dungeons & Dragons life-sim RPG that will be set in the Forgotten Realms, the same universe in which Baldur’s Gate III (and many other D&D adventures) take place.
Every year the video game industry gets together during the Game Awards to celebrate the latest and greatest in interactive entertainment. But what about recognizing old games as the best of the best, the ones that boldly innovated new possibilities and paved the way for the best games of today? That’s where the World…
Every year the video game industry gets together during the Game Awards to celebrate the latest and greatest in interactive entertainment. But what about recognizing old games as the best of the best, the ones that boldly innovated new possibilities and paved the way for the best games of today? That’s where the World…
If you haven’t heard, the United States House of Representatives is trying to ban the short-form video app TikTok by forcing it find a new owner that isn’t the China-based company ByteDance, lest it be removed from American app stores because it’s an alleged security risk. It’s unlikely that ByteDance will drop its…
If you haven’t heard, the United States House of Representatives is trying to ban the short-form video app TikTok by forcing it find a new owner that isn’t the China-based company ByteDance, lest it be removed from American app stores because it’s an alleged security risk. It’s unlikely that ByteDance will drop its…
Where would the action film genre be without the tireless efforts of stunt doubles taking the hard hits for Hollywood’s marque stars? It takes a special kind of person to lay their life on the line for entertainment, even if the adrenaline rush is intoxicating. Ryan Gosling knows how essential stunt doubles are to his career, and he’s making sure everyone else knows it too, with the release of his new film The Fall Guy. The David Leitch-directed thrill ride premiered at SXSW on Tuesday. While there, Ryan Gosling sang the praises of stunt people throughout his career, saying they’ve always been an integral part of his filmmaking experience and he wouldn’t be where he is without them.
“I was on a kid’s action TV show called Young Hercules, and I’ve basically had a stunt double my whole life,” Gosling said about the role stunt performers have played in his career. “There’s this sort of accepted dynamic where they come on set, they do all the cool stuff, they risk everything, and then they disappear into the shadows and we all pretend as if they were never there. Everyone else on set gets credit, but there’s kind of unspoken understanding that they won’t.” Gosling then quipped, “That ends today!”
Continuing to talk about the incredible contributions of stunt doubles for his new film, Ryan Gosling often wondered if the team should take their skills elsewhere, perhaps for more nefarious activities like committing crimes! “It took like eight stunt performers to make one Fall Guy, and there were times when I was like, ‘Should we be making a movie or robbing a bank? Because this is kind of the greatest bank-robbing team’… it was like the Avengers or something, and a lot of them probably were the Avengers, if you look at their CVs. I’ve benefitted from their work and their help since I started, so to be a part of telling their story and in some small way trying to reflect how vital they are and how important what they do is.”
Glen A. Larson created the Fall Guy series. Lee Majors starred as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlit as a bounty hunter. Using his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects, he traveled around the country, capturing fugitives and criminals. The movie will ditch bounty hunting and focus on stunts. Ryan Gosling will star as a “battered and past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself back on a movie with the star he worked with long ago and who replaced him. The problem, however, is that the star is now missing.”
Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, Stephanie Hsu, Teresa Palmer, and Hannah Waddingham complete the main cast of The Fall Guy.
One stunt performer who stands out among the crowd is Logan Holladay, who received a Guinness World Record title for doing the most cannon rolls in a car. Holladay tumbled eight and a half times in the vehicle while acting as Gosling’s stunt driver. “He’s buckling me into a car for a stunt he’s about to do,” Gosling recalls. “And then he goes on to do eight and a half cannon rolls, which is a world record, and then he pulls me out of the car and pats me on the back for the stunt that he just did. In any other movie, you wouldn’t know that, but in this movie you do.”
Are you excited about seeing The Fall Guy in theaters beginning May 3? Check out some of the film’s early rave reviews coming out of SXSW here, and enjoy the ride when the movie crashes into cinemas.
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Where would the action film genre be without the tireless efforts of stunt doubles taking the hard hits for Hollywood’s marque stars? It takes a special kind of person to lay their life on the line for entertainment, even if the adrenaline rush is intoxicating. Ryan Gosling knows how essential stunt doubles are to his career, and he’s making sure everyone else knows it too, with the release of his new film The Fall Guy. The David Leitch-directed thrill ride premiered at SXSW on Tuesday. While there, Ryan Gosling sang the praises of stunt people throughout his career, saying they’ve always been an integral part of his filmmaking experience and he wouldn’t be where he is without them.
“I was on a kid’s action TV show called Young Hercules, and I’ve basically had a stunt double my whole life,” Gosling said about the role stunt performers have played in his career. “There’s this sort of accepted dynamic where they come on set, they do all the cool stuff, they risk everything, and then they disappear into the shadows and we all pretend as if they were never there. Everyone else on set gets credit, but there’s kind of unspoken understanding that they won’t.” Gosling then quipped, “That ends today!”
Continuing to talk about the incredible contributions of stunt doubles for his new film, Ryan Gosling often wondered if the team should take their skills elsewhere, perhaps for more nefarious activities like committing crimes! “It took like eight stunt performers to make one Fall Guy, and there were times when I was like, ‘Should we be making a movie or robbing a bank? Because this is kind of the greatest bank-robbing team’… it was like the Avengers or something, and a lot of them probably were the Avengers, if you look at their CVs. I’ve benefitted from their work and their help since I started, so to be a part of telling their story and in some small way trying to reflect how vital they are and how important what they do is.”
Glen A. Larson created the Fall Guy series. Lee Majors starred as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlit as a bounty hunter. Using his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects, he traveled around the country, capturing fugitives and criminals. The movie will ditch bounty hunting and focus on stunts. Ryan Gosling will star as a “battered and past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself back on a movie with the star he worked with long ago and who replaced him. The problem, however, is that the star is now missing.”
Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, Stephanie Hsu, Teresa Palmer, and Hannah Waddingham complete the main cast of The Fall Guy.
One stunt performer who stands out among the crowd is Logan Holladay, who received a Guinness World Record title for doing the most cannon rolls in a car. Holladay tumbled eight and a half times in the vehicle while acting as Gosling’s stunt driver. “He’s buckling me into a car for a stunt he’s about to do,” Gosling recalls. “And then he goes on to do eight and a half cannon rolls, which is a world record, and then he pulls me out of the car and pats me on the back for the stunt that he just did. In any other movie, you wouldn’t know that, but in this movie you do.”
Are you excited about seeing The Fall Guy in theaters beginning May 3? Check out some of the film’s early rave reviews coming out of SXSW here, and enjoy the ride when the movie crashes into cinemas.
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We didn’t catch word of this when it happened, but it has been revealed that short filmmaker Adam Cosco recently filed a copyright and breach of contract lawsuit against Malignant director James Wan and his wife Ingrid Bisu (who Wan crafted the Malignant story with, along with Akela Cooper), claiming the film plagiarized a screenplay he had written called Little Brother. Thankfully, the details are the lawsuit are just now coming to light because the case has been settled.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cosco claimed that Ryan Turek of Blumhouse had access to his Little Brother script and passed it over to Wan, who then used it as the basis for Malignant. Wan denied ever receiving or reading the script, but the lawsuit pointed out that there were several similarities between the two works. The complaint pointed out that “both screenplays feature a twist that the protagonist has her twin brother absorbed inside her in the form of a malignant tumor, an inciting incident where the main female character is a victim of violence at the hands of a man that allows the twin to take over her body, and scenes of hypnotherapy in which the protagonist recalls repressed memories from childhood, among other things.” Cosco was seeking at least $150,000, plus punitive damages.
A judge sided with Wan’s company Atomic Monster’s argument that the lawsuit was aiming to suppress their free speech. The company “argued, citing a California statute allowing for the early dismissal of suits intended to chill First Amendment rights, that the making of Malignant was in connection with public issues relating to feminism and female autonomy. The company also stressed that the movie was inspired by prior horror works involving evil twins.” (Like Basket Case.) The judge also noted that Cosco failed to prove the defendants ever had access to the Little Brother script.
Cosco has now moved to have the case dismissed entirely, saying he has reached “a deal to resolve the lawsuit. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”
Wan may not have read Little Brother, but he was open about the fact that Malignant was his take on “that particular ’80s trope of storytelling where a victim starts seeing through the vision of a killer. There was a period where there were a lot of movies like that, and I’m a big fan of that particular sub-genre. Movies like The Eyes of Laura Mars. I wanted to do my own version, crossed with my love of [Brian] De Palma and [Dario] Argento and [Mario] Bava.” I thought Malignant was a lot of fun, so I’m glad to hear the legal issues have been cleared up.
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Touring the riot scene, gravely assessing the devastation, patiently awaiting to play Oswald Cobblepot again. That’s the word from Danny DeVito, who says that if he can get Tim Burton on board, he would absolutely play The Penguin once more.
Speaking with Screen Rant, Danny DeVito expressed interest in returning as The Penguin, saying, “If Tim Burton was directing it, I’d be there in a second. Oswald Cobblepot is my favorite. I had a good time. It’s operatic. I like every once in a while going big, and so I’d do that in a second. We had a ball doing that.” And we’d have a ball watching it, as DeVito chews up every scene he’s in – and nose stuck in his business.
DeVito expressing his interesting in reviving The Penguin comes fresh off of the awesome moment at Sunday’s Academy Awards in which he and fellow former Batman nemesis Mr. Freeze (that is, Arnold Schwarzenegger) challenged Batman (that is, Michael Keaton), which the Caped Crusader did not back down from. And now that we know that Arnold would love to work with his old pal Danny again, the pitch seems so obvious: Mr. Freeze and The Penguin – with the penguin funeral at the end of Batman Returns only a ruse – team up to get revenge on Batman and all of Gotham. To the Warner Bros. execs reading this, I do take Venmo.
Of course, none of this will ever happen: DeVito is nearing 80, Tim Burton has too much baggage with the Batman franchise and the studios are working to make sure The Penguin is linked to Colin Farrell. But almost nothing can top Danny DeVito as The Penguin, one of the richest performances in any comic book movie, so complete and ugly that it transcends all that came before and much of what came after. No wonder he – and many of us – consider it a favorite!
DeVito and Burton have collaborated numerous times, beginning with Batman Returns more than 30 years ago. Their most recent pairing was 2019’s Dumbo.
Would you want to see Danny DeVito reprise The Penguin? Where does his performance rank in your favorite comic book villains? Let us know below!
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Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the developer behind the cozy farming simulator Stardew Valley, is taking a different approach to the game’s upcoming 1.6 update releasing on March 19. Most developers would probably cut together a trailer or make sure their update was included in some high-profile sizzle reel from a huge…