Djimon Hounsou is building up some serious nerd cred. After voicing King Ricou in Aquaman, Hounsou will also appear in the upcoming Shazam as the Wizard who gives Billy Batson his powers. However, Hounsou’s first big screen comic book role was as Korath in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a role he is returning to in Captain Marvel. Korath won’t be the same guy we met in Guardians of the Galaxy, however....
Diablo 4 is an action RPG title developed by Blizzard and slotted to release soon. The announcement for the game was made back at BlizzCon 2019. But they have taken quite a while to release the game. So far, there was nothing about the title, but now we are finally seeing some dev updates from the developers. So for all the people who have been waiting for this upcoming title, this is a piece of good news....
The telco said Australia’s Telstra and New Zealand’s Spark helped with satellite hardware and terminals that use Intelsat, and that it was able to reconnect some businesses including ANZ Bank, National Reserve Bank of Tonga, Tonga Power, Lulutai Airlines, Air New Zealand, and Western Union. “Intelsat is providing space-based broadband connectivity on Horizons 3e and Intelsat 18, while partners, Telstra and Spark, are providing the ground infrastructure, including VSAT [very small aperture terminal] hubs at their teleports, uplink, internet access, and remote kits,” Intelsat said last week....
Disney is developing a live-action Rapunzel movie. The studio famously adapted the fairy tale into an animated feature a decade ago with Tangled, featuring the voices of Mandy Moore as the lost princess Rapunzel and Zachary Levi as the charismatic thief Eugene Fitzherbert (or, as he prefers to go by, Flynn Rider). The movie was a big success for Disney Animation, grossing $592 million worldwide and more than doubling the box office for its previous fairy tale film, 2009’s 2D-animated The Princess and the Frog....
Disney reportedly has plans to continue making Planet of the Apes movies. Over the past few years, The Walt Disney Company has become a powerhouse in the film industry after buying smaller companies such as Lucasfilm and Marvel. As if Star Wars and superhero movies weren’t profitable enough for the company, Disney’s deal to buy 20th Century Fox was also finalized this year. After Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the House of Mouse gained the rights to a lot of popular franchises like Avatar, Die Hard, and Alien....
Streaming service Disney+ has arrived just in time for the holidays, which means that you can now watch some of your favorite Christmas classics – while also discovering new ones. While most of these films came straight from Disney, there are also movies made by Fox in the Disney+ catalog, giving viewers even more options. From animated features to live-action classics, this list contains old and new films that make for great recommendations for a holiday binge viewing....
Chip ‘N’ Dale: Park Life Opening Title Sequence The company dropped the opening title sequence today online. It looks like it’ll be a fun show for the whole family. You can check out the video below. Here is what Disney Plus is describing the new animated series: Subscribe to Disney Plus To catch this new animated series and everything available on Disney Plus you’ll need to subscribe. And it’s never too late to get a subscription to the streaming service....
Warner Bros. debuted all-new Detective Pikachu footage during their panel at CinemaCon 2019. Pokémon fever has started to make a comeback in recent years, thanks largely to the release of the augmented reality game Pokémon GO in 2016. In an effort to tap into that increased demand for all things Poke-related, WB is releasing a live-action/CGI movie inspired by the Detective Pikachu spinoff video game this May, with Ryan Reynolds lending his voice to the eponymous crime-solving (and caffeine-loving) Pokémon....
Khaos Tian handled his discovery responsibly, by reporting it to Apple on the day he discovered it, October 28. But he says the issue remained live throughout November, and the next iOS release actually made things worse … The vulnerability comprised two issues, he explains. First, while it should be impossible for anyone to discover the unique identifiers for a HomeKit device, two separate bugs meant that it was possible for someone to figure it out – without any authorization to access the home....
Disney+ has accidentally created what amounts to a mini game on its home page, which humorously looks a lot like a slot machine. The “mini game” actually comes from one fundamental problem with the new streaming service: a lack of content. The Disney+ homepage includes several categories where subscribers can pick through their movies and shows. Each category consists of rows that can be scrolled through horizontally, with each row being positioned above the other - much like its competitors - and many of these movies fit into multiple categories....
Since 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, the team at Disney has been hard at work adapting most of the company’s animated classics into live-action films. Due to the wide commercial success of most of these remakes, Disney has quite a few upcoming live-action adaptations already slated for 2020 and beyond, including Mulan, Cruella, The Little Mermaid, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. With so many projects still under development, it is time to look back at the live-action remakes that Disney has brought us over the course of the 2010s decade....
Doctor Sleep is projected to lose $20 million, following its lower than anticipated opening at the box office. The movie sequel to The Shining has released at a time when films and TV shows based on Stephen King’s work are back in fashion again (though some would argue they never fully went out of style to begin with). Coupled with nearly forty years of anticipation among fans of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining adaptation, the expectation was Doctor Sleep would easily open atop the U....
The latest episode of Doctor Who, “Can You Hear Me?,” reintroduced a classic enemy called the Eternals - but also retconned their history and powers. Doctor Who season 12 has been a strange beast, with most episodes so overstuffed with ideas that could do with being turned into two-parters; “Can You Hear Me?” is just the latest example. The plot saw the Doctor and her fam stumble upon a powerful being named Zellin, a parasitic entity who was secretly manipulating them into freeing his fellow Eternal, Rakaya....
More important to Wall Street, the company missed with its outlook for billings, a figure that combines likely revenue in the current quarter with the potential value of new business added to the company’s balance sheet but not yet recorded as revenue. The shock to Wall Street was amplified by a previous Q2 report that the company said at the time showed sales growth continued to hold up. The company mis-judged how fast the business would cool as some of the buying propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic abated, CEO Dan Springer told ZDNet in an interview via Zoom on Friday afternoon....
Diane Keaton posted a fan edit of John Wick 3 that features her character from Something’s Gotta Give yelling at Keanu Reeves’ master assassin. The two actors shared the screen in 2003’s Something’s Gotta Give, a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson. Recently, they shared the stage at the 2020 Academy Awards, where they presented the award for best original screenplay. Keaton posted the clip to her Instagram, alongside the message, “KEANU- YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL AND LISTEN TO ME MORE OFTEN!...
Today at CinemaCon, Disney laid out the future of its recently acquired 20th Century Fox movie franchises, and gave assurances that there is a future for the Planet of the Apes and Alien movies - among others. Disney recently acquired Fox (minus a few TV networks) for $71 billion, and the merger has left many who follow the film industry anxious, not only about Disney’s growing dominance and the inevitable layoffs that will follow the deal, but also about the future of Fox’s franchises....
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has clarified that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will not be a horror movie. Marvel announced their Phase 4 slate at San Diego Comic-Con, and the Doctor Strange sequel immediately captured fans’ imaginations. This time round, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme will be joined by Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch - possibly as an ally, possibly as an enemy. During the Marvel Studios panel in Hall H at SDCC, director Scott Derrickson stated that he would be making the first scary MCU film....
Dialog Semiconductor yesterday announced its Q1 earnings, and CEO Jalal Bagherli played down the possible loss of future business with Apple. The company designs power management chips used in iPhones, and the Cupertino company is estimated to account for around 70% of its income. Announcing revenues up 23% year-on-year to £332M but profit down 25% to $17.4M, Bagherli tried to strike a positive note as the company waits for news from Apple …...
Since my mom is making me wait for a 32GB iPhone,(I’m 14) I was not stuck in those jaw-dropping lines. (By the way, when is the 32GB coming out? Most seem to say before Christmas. I’ll have to stay on top of that). If I was to wait in those lines and experience what thousands went through that day, I would have shot myself. (But only in my foot so I could still get my phone!...
While Disney’s princes don’t quite get the same limelight as their respective princesses, there’s no doubt that they’re just as important. Some are the focal point of their movies, while others are in supporting roles, but all of them have an impact on their respective films. The princes are often portrayed as the ultimate heroes who save the day or do countless good deeds for their princesses, but that isn’t actually always the case....
