Monthly Archives: November 2015
Momentum Makes Just £46 at UK Box Office
In the wake of overwhelmingly negative reviews, Momentum flopped hard in the UK, making a mere £46 ($69 USD) during its opening weekend.
The Stephen Campanelli-directed heist film, starring both Morgan Freeman and Quantum of Solace star Olga Kurylenko, had a budget of £20 million and opened across just handful of British theaters. According to The Telegraph, two of the 10 cinemas that screened the movie didn't sell a single ticket.
Momentum is the first film from Campanelli, with Freeman starring in the project as a favor to the new director. Campanelli previously worked with Clint Eastwood as a camera operator on several movies, including Gran Torino and Mystic River.
Developer Reveals New Monument Valley Merchandise
Developer Ustwo and iam8bit are partnering to release new Monument Valley merchandise in time for the holidays.
Starting this week, fans of the hit mobile game can purchase t-shirts, pins, hats, and plushies directly from the iam8bit store.
Each item depicts characters and designs from Monument Valley, including t-shirts created by the game's own Ken Wong and pins and plushies of Princess Ida, Crow, and Totem. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, the store will be running a promotion offering all three character plushies for $70.
Monument Valley is a unique puzzle game on touch devices featuring Escher-like geometric structures. Since its release, developer Ustwo has announced a new VR adventure game called Land's End.
Persona Snow Festival Brings Winter-Themed Merch to Japan
Atlus has announced a winter promotion that will bring new Persona-themed art, merchandise, and more to Japan.
Persona Snow Festival 2016 (translated via Persona Central) will bring special Persona-themed celebrations to Japanese ski parks, and Atlus has released some new art featuring Persona 3 and 4’s protagonists to celebrate.
The Atlus D shop will also sell limited edition skis and snowboards in Japan. A set of skis based on Persona 3’s Thanatos will be sold for 64,800 yen (roughly $527) and a snowboard based on Persona 4’s Izanagi will run 54,000 yen (roughly $439). Both items will be extremely limited and will be engraved with a unique serial number, and there will be limited rentals at Japanese ski parks.
Will Smith on Why I Am Legend Is His Most Successful Role
Will Smith is most proud of his work in I Am Legend, he told the Awards Chatter podcast.
Smith places his movies in two categories—"popcorn" and "gourmet popcorn." I Am Legend, he says, is gourmet popcorn.
I Am Legend is the kind of movie that Smith himself enjoys watching—"a small character-drama." In the film, Smith plays an army virologist who ends up as one of the last humans in New York City. With his dog Sam, Smith's character—Robert Neville—tries to find a cure for the virus that made it all happen, all while fighting off loads of mutant vampire-zombies.
A Black and White Image That Can Make You See Color
They say seeing is believing and a short video, featured in the BBC Four series: Colour: The Spectrum of Science, helps to support that adage.
Check out the video below to see how a black and white image of Dunstanburgh Castle can turn into color:
Pretty cool, right? Here's how it works courtesy of IFLScience. Our cone cells, a type of photoreceptor within our eye's retina, are responsible for color vision. The cone cells are sensitive to blue, red, or green wavelengths of light. If we're exposed to a lot of one of these colors, the cone in our eye sensitive to that color becomes overstimulated and unresponsive.
Rainbow Six Siege Open Beta Begins
Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege open beta is officially live.
The Rainbow Six Siege open beta was delayed due to "issues with matchmaking times and disconnection on all platforms." The game went into a closed beta period while the team fixed the problem. In an update posted to the Ubisoft forums this morning, Ubisoft confirmed that the open beta would start at 12pm EST.
10 Coolest Jessica Jones Easter Eggs and References
Marvel’s Jessica Jones has hit Netflix, giving us a story about a PI with superpowers and lot of emotional baggage. So put on your leather jackets and think up some mean one-liners, because we’re going to do a little private investigating of our own to find the 10 coolest Jessica Jones Easter eggs and references.
Jessica Jones begins the same way in the show as it did in the comic book, with an angry client attacking Jessica.
Bad move on his part, as she sends him crashing headfirst through her door, creating an image identical to that page of the comic.
9 Awesome T-Shirts for Game, Comic, and Movie Fans
T-shirts are wearable expressions of your passions, which is why they make great gifts for just about anyone.
Pretty much every interest, hobby, and pop-culture reference point is on a t-shirt somewhere, and we've put together a list of best t-shirts to give out this holiday season.
Clothe the Metal Gear fan in your life in this Metal Gear Solid Fox Hound tee. The Fox Hound emblem is emblazoned on the front and is just as awesome as the series from which it originated.
Final Fantasy 6 PC Rated by PEGI
Final Fantasy VI may be coming to PC after a new rating has appeared on the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) page.
The listing shows the game is suitable for ages 12 and up and, while it shows November 26, 2015 as a release date, that could merely be the date the game was rated by PEGI.
Recently, Square Enix stated that it wished to continue remaking its existing IPs. Earlier this year, Square Enix announced plans to remake Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation 4 and series director Tetsuya Nomura did express an interest in remaking Final Fantasy V and VI.
New Force Awakens Preview Looks at The Dark Side
With Thanksgiving here, Lucasfilm have released a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens preview.
The minute-long TV spot, called "All the Way", opens with the iconic Imperial March and gives fans several new moments to salivate over, including more of the First Order assembling and Han Solo and Chewbacca side-by-side in battle. There's also what sounds like a conversation between Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the still unseen Supreme Commander Snoke (Andy Serkis), while the second half features more dialogue from someone offscreen, likely Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o).
Click on the image of Captain Phasma below to see the preview!