DC and Warner Brothers announced today that it will be going into beta with its new streaming service this Fall and wow it sounds exciting! The platform will not only give users streaming access to films and television shows (as well as new content), but also digital access to a curated backlog of DC Universe comic books. Check out the trailer! The platform is supposed to be an immersive experience for fans, as well...
The Predator, one of our favorite 1980’s aliens is making a comeback to the big screen this September. A new trailer dropped yesterday, and boy does it look like a fun ride of a flick. Helmed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys), this relaunch of the franchise will explore new lore and introduce us to new creatures in the Predator universe. While we’ve seen some pretty poor attempts of exploiting our teen...
What a crap time to be a Star Wars fan. The Last Jedi has divided a once peaceful and happy group of people known as Star Wars fans. Solo: A Star Wars Story didn’t live up to its hype and was a box office disappointment. And… wait… thats it. Wow, in the grand scheme of things that’s not a lot of bad stuff – and to be honest – The Last Jedi still brought in...
It’s an exciting time to be a Stephen King fan. First we get the epic reboot of IT last year. There are myriad adaptations coming to the small screen of his short and long stories, and now today, Deadline reports that Ewan McGregor is in talks to play a grown up Danny Torrance in The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep directed by Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Oculus, Absentia). Doctor Sleep, takes place approximately thirty years after...
Deadline reports that Clive Barker’s epic Nightbreed is coming to the small screen as a series on SyFy. Nightbreed was original brought to the big screen in 1990 under the directorial helm of Barker and starred Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Doug Bradley and Nicholas Vince. The film is a commentary on race relations in America through the lens of humans and monsters. It’s a wonderful fantasy/thriller that shows a new perspective from the...
Meet Bushmaster! A powerful adversary that can go blow for blow with Harlem’s hero, Luke Cage. Since we don’t know too much about him yet in the MCU, here’s what we know from the comics Quick info on Bushmaster in Marvel comics: Real Name: John McIver. Alisas: John Bushmaster, Bushmaster. Powers: Super strength, Power Absorption – He can absorb the powers of those around him. From: Unknown Caribbean Island. First Appearance: Iron Fist #15 Bushmaster...
Ugh. It happened. We knew it would happen. We didn’t want it to happen but it did. Collider reported earlier that Disney has pulled the plug on any new Star Wars anthology stories for the foreseeable future. This is due primarily to the lackluster box office success of the much anticipated Solo: A Star Wars Story. When compared to it’s sister spin-off Rouge One, Solo opened to $84.4M and by week for grossed $192.8M while...
Fox accepts Disney’s newest bid, $71.3 Billion. Last week Marvel fans where dealt some bad news when it was announced that Comcast outbid Disney’s previous offer to buy 21 Century Fox’s media empire. Today Disney got super aggressive and Fox accepted their bid of $45 per share, upping the total buy out value to over $85 billion with Disney assuming $13.5 billion of Fox’s debt. If this passes the regulatory hurtles it has in...
Woah! King of the Nerds, master of the mystery box, and keeper (and to some destroyer) of our nostalgia, JJ Abrams is broadening his horizons and entering the world of gaming! You read that right, JJ Abrams and his company Bad Robot – the company that brought us Cloverfield, LOST, Fringe, Super 8, several Mission: Impossible movies, and many others – have partnered with Chinese tech company Tencent and Warner Brothers to develop large scale...
Last week my gamer neighbor excitedly ran over to my driveway as I was pulling in after a long day to tell me all about this new demo in the Playstation store! After several years of living next to each other he knows what games I dig and what ones I don’t, and I’m so happy he brought this one to my attention. Detroit: Become Human, was released on May 25th and is the latest...
