Recipes are always lying about how long they take. Forty-five minutes to prep a lasagna. Twenty minutes to caramelize some onions. Fifteen minutes to bake cookies. Except in the case of cookie baking speedrunners, that’s actually not as outrageous as it sounds. In fact, it’s way longer than it took Twitch streamer…
One of the joys of the original Final Fantasy VII is unlocking everyone’s limit breaks and finding all of their weapons. But one character needs to gather all of her best stuff before she departs the party for good, that being our beloved flower girl, Aerith (or Aeris, as we’re talking about the original game here).
One of the joys of the original Final Fantasy VII is unlocking everyone’s limit breaks and finding all of their weapons. But one character needs to gather all of her best stuff before she departs the party for good, that being our beloved flower girl, Aerith (or Aeris, as we’re talking about the original game here).
Animal Well is a game that communicates almost exclusively in riddles, even when it comes to its core gameplay mechanics. Take fast travel, for example. At the start of your journey, you might wonder if fast travel is even possible. You don’t even get a map until you’ve explored the opening sections of the game, so…
Animal Well is a game that communicates almost exclusively in riddles, even when it comes to its core gameplay mechanics. Take fast travel, for example. At the start of your journey, you might wonder if fast travel is even possible. You don’t even get a map until you’ve explored the opening sections of the game, so…
28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland are finally reuniting to make a sequel to their zombie (or, if you prefer, infected people) movie classic. As we reporter earlier this year, this sequel is set up at Sony, is going to be called 28 Years Later – and it may even launch a whole trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. Last year, 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy said he’d gladly be in a sequel if it was made by Boyle and Garland, and when this project was announced, it was confirmed that Murphy is on board as an executive producer… but as months have gone by and Boyle has assembled the cast, it’s remained unclear whether or not Murphy will actually appear in the movie. Now Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman has told Deadline that Murphy is back for 28 Years Later, but he’s coming back in “a surprising way.”
Deadline asked Rothman what Sony projects he’s excited for, and he included 28 Years Later on the list: “I think I’ve made eight movies with Danny Boyle and I hold him in the Pantheon and we have his new 28 Days trilogy. It’s 28 Years Later, but not in any way a literal sequel.“
When asked if Murphy, who just won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Oppenheimer, is back for this sequel / these sequels, Rothman said, “Yes, but in a surprising way and in a way that grows, let me put it that way. This is Danny at his best, combined with a very commercial genre, like we had with Edgar Wright and Baby Driver. Sometimes when you put a real signature director into a commercial arena, it elevates it.“
If or when Murphy appears in 28 Years Later, his co-stars will include Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave).
In the original film, Murphy played bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to find himself in an apocalyptic England that’s overrun by people who have been infected by a rage virus. Boyle and Garland went through several endings for 28 Days Later before landing on the one movie-goers saw in theatres – and that ending was the only one where Jim survived. So he’s still out there, ready to live through another rage virus nightmare 28 years later. As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, “The 2002 film grossed $82.7 million globally and spawned a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, though Boyle and Garland were only nominally involved as executive producers.”
Garland is already writing the screenplay for the sequel that will come after 28 Years Later. Of the two 28 Years Later projects currently in the works, Boyle is only planning to direct the first one. For the second film, he’ll be passing the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta. Thanks to their deal with Sony, each of these new films will be receiving a theatrical release and will have budgets in the $60 million range.
Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, original producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the head of Fox Searchlight Pictures when that company backed 28 Days Later. As mentioned, Murphy is executive producing. The film is scheduled to reach theatres on June 20th, 2025.
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A New Mexico judge is mulling over whether or not to grant Alec Baldwin’s request to have a grand jury indictment against him dropped. The indictment charges the 30 Rock and Beetlejuice actor with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Joel Souza-directed Western Rust.
Baldwin shot Hutchins on October 21, 2021, on Rust‘s Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe after a gun he was holding during a rehearsal discharged a live round. Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger. A jury will investigate his claim in a court of law and decide his fate. Rust director Joel Souza was also injured in the incident.
Baldwin vehemently opposes the charge against him, and his attorneys have pressed the court for a dismissal. If found guilty, the manslaughter charge could land Baldwin in jail for a maximum jail sentence of 1.5 years. Baldwin’s plea to dismiss the charge stems from an argument that the grand jury received inaccurate and biased testimony about the gun he fired on the Rust set.
“The fix was in,” said defense attorney Alex Spiro. “There were no witnesses there to testify. There was no evidence binder of the defense exhibits.”
“They never intended for the grand jury to ask for witnesses,” he continued. “They never wanted the grand jury to ask for exhibits.”
Meanwhile, special prosecutors say Baldwin’s attempt to escape punishment for his part in the tragic shooting is “shameless.” They also claim his testimony is littered with contradictions to what he initially told law enforcement agents.
Baldwin had a brief reprieve from the Halyna Hutchins case when the judge and jury focused on Rust‘s weapons supervisor, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
Prosecutors last year dismissed an earlier involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin after evidence suggested a modification to the weapon was the cause of its malfunction. However, after careful inspection, the court reinstated the charge. Prosecutors now need to determine if Baldwin acted with “due caution” or if his actions resulted from “an act committed with total disregard or indifference for the safety of others.”
Rust, which resumed production after the fatal shooting, also stars Travis Fimmel and Frances Fisher. The story focuses on a boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents’ deaths in the 1880s.
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The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both rappers in the game to pit them…
The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both rappers in the game to pit them…
Animal Well doesn’t feature combat in the traditional sense, but it’s not afraid to pit players against intimidating boss monsters. In the northeastern quadrant of the map, you’ll encounter a large chameleon that, among other things, can defeat you in one hit using its tongue. With some trial and error, you can figure…