Game Informer, the longest-running gaming magazine in the U.S., is officially dead and GameStop killed it. It began publishing in 1991 and has been one of the last remaining physical gaming magazines in the world, with cover stories that continued to share deep dives and exclusive interviews on the biggest games…
Earlier today, retailer GameStop announced that it was shutting down the long-running magazine Game Informer which launched back in 1991. As you might expect, many people across the video game industry, as well as fans, content creators, critics, and journalists, were shocked by the news.
Earlier today, retailer GameStop announced that it was shutting down the long-running magazine Game Informer which launched back in 1991. As you might expect, many people across the video game industry, as well as fans, content creators, critics, and journalists, were shocked by the news.
San Diego Comic-Con is always one of the best events when it comes to cosplay, with the vicinity to Hollywood giving us impressively detailed builds, stunning craftsmanship, and, quite frankly, gorgeous people. SDCC 2024 was no exception, with the three-day event that ran the last weekend in July at the San Diego…
San Diego Comic-Con is always one of the best events when it comes to cosplay, with the vicinity to Hollywood giving us impressively detailed builds, stunning craftsmanship, and, quite frankly, gorgeous people. SDCC 2024 was no exception, with the three-day event that ran the last weekend in July at the San Diego…
Fortnite’s Chapter 5 Season 3 Battle Pass has various quests you can finish each week for some sweet XP to unlock new cosmetics. Week 10’s batch of quests introduces five new challenges for players to complete, each worth 15,000 XP. Those who complete all five quests will be rewarded with 75,000 XP, which can be used…
Fortnite’s Chapter 5 Season 3 Battle Pass has various quests you can finish each week for some sweet XP to unlock new cosmetics. Week 10’s batch of quests introduces five new challenges for players to complete, each worth 15,000 XP. Those who complete all five quests will be rewarded with 75,000 XP, which can be used…
Vin Diesel is eager to get back behind the wheel for Fast X: Part 2, and to mark the occasion, he’s sharing a new video on social media that gives Fast fans a peek behind the curtain at the latest film in the franchise. Instead of teasing a new cast member, Diesel’s video previews an intriguing “setting” for the high-octane action film to take place. The location looks like something between Mad Max, Blade Runner, and Pitch Black, with dust billowing around a desolate terrain. The muted orange landscape includes a curious-looking structure with neon pink lighting. It’s a bizarre backdrop for a Fast & Furious film. Color me confused. Are the Fast family finally going to space? Like, more so than they did in F9: The Fast Saga.
Diesel titles the video “Furyan Friday” in his post. In the video, Diesel paces before the building and says, “This is where it happens. This is the environment.” I was waiting for him to finish with “This is cinema,” but alas. The scene is shot using a semicircular LED video wall, much like the one used for The Mandalorian. As Diesel talks to the camera, crew members remark how good the shot looks, adding excitement to the strange environment.
The plot for Fast X: Part 2 remains a mystery, though early concept art depicted a snowy mountainside location. At this stage of the franchise, the Fast family could go anywhere, and it wouldn’t surprise me. Whether they travel to a ski lodge or an alien planet, people who love the Fast franchise will follow Diesel and the crew anywhere. The franchise jumped the shark long ago, and it’s been a roller coaster of “Whatever, let’s f**king go” ever since.
Fast X director Louis Leterrier directs Fast & Furious X: Part 2 from a script by Christina Hodson and Oren Uziel. Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, and Jason Momoa lead the film.
What do you think about the environment from today’s Fast X: Part 2 BTS video? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The writing duo of Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman received screenplay credit alongside director M. Night Shyamalan on the film Knock at the Cabin, which was an adaptation of the Paul Tremblay book The Cabin at the End of the World. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Desmond and Sherman are set to write to write the script for a horror thriller called Wilderness Reform, which is being produced by Pet Sematary: Bloodlines director Lindsey Anderson Beer and is based on a novel written by Harrison Query and Matt Query.
Wilderness Reform is set up at Paramount Pictures. Beer is producing the film through her Lab Brew production company, with the project being part of her first-look deal with Paramount. Scott Glassgold is also producing through his company Ground Control.
The novel by the Querys is said to have “shades of classic Stephen King stories, dealing with themes of loss of innocence.” The story takes place at a wilderness camp for troubled teens and tells of a 13-year-old boy named Ben who is sent there as part of a reform program. Although the counselors are overly happy, a sinister current runs through the place. The boys Ben befriends seem to have unique skills, which is lucky, because the group is going to need all the help it can get in uncovering the mystery behind mysterious events and disappearances, and the evil lurking beneath the camp itself.
The novel (you can get a copy at THIS LINK) has the following description: Thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to a remote reform program for troubled teens by a juvenile court judge. But when he arrives at the camp, located on the edge of the vast wilderness of northwestern Montana, he immediately recognizes that there is something off about the counselors. They’re too friendly and upbeat…yet Ben can tell there’s an undercurrent of menace. As he gets to know the boys in his cabin, he soon discovers that they each have far more going for them than whatever crime landed them there. And each has a different critical skill, one that could help them unearth what is really going on in this place—and how to make it out alive. They are inching ever closer to the truth, and the hidden evil beneath the camp’s surface will make itself known in order to deter them.
Does Wilderness Reform sound interesting to you, and are you looking forward to seeing what the co-writers of Knock at the Cabin do with the concept? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Did Deadpool & Wolverine save the MCU? It would depend upon how the proceed from here, but Deadpool & Wolverine definitely pulled the MCU out of the water for a breath of fresh air. The very meta film had a lot going for it with Hugh Jackman’s return and being the Merc’s induction into the MCU. Many knew it would be a hit, but as exciting as the concept was, the movie had more tricks up its sleeve and audiences are flocking to it.
Deadline has reported that Deadpool & Wolverine has continued to slash its competition as Thursday box office previews of other films aren’t strong enough to compete with the ongoing run of last week’s big superhero movie release. The Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman action-comedy pulled in $18 million on Thursday, which already would have been nice if it was early preview numbers, but this is a non-preview gross for an R-rated film. The more mature rating usually limits the wider reach of an audience, which is why studios have had a history of taking certain properties and watering them down to PG-13. However, Deadpool & Wolverine has a massive crossover appeal where younger audiences may still get to see the film while accompanied by an adult, which renders that philosophy rather moot.
Deadpool & Wolverine ends its first week at $298.5 million. Meanwhile, the new suspense film from M. Night Shyamalan, Trap, was hoping for a $15 million to $20 million opening. Trap would earn only $2.2 million for the Thursday preview. While Shyamalan fans were hoping for a new revitalization with this intriguing concept, the film would get a 44% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Our own Tyler Nichols found the film to be frustrating as his review stated, “I’m just sick of Shyamalan creating these great concepts and being so incapable of sticking the landing. For every great moment in Trap, there’s an illogical one that feels like it was written by a teenager. Unless something changes, I think I may be done with Shyamalan in the theater.”
Sony would also have a new family film with Shazam‘s Zachary Levi titled Harold and the Purple Crayon, but the very small net the studio cast for the film would open to $725k for the early weekend.
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