Monthly Archives: July 2017

Dany Takes Flight in Game of Thrones “The Spoils of War”

This article discusses events previewed in a promo for Game of Thrones Season 7 episode 4, "The Spoils of War." If you don't wish to know what is coming ahead based on what is released by HBO, read on at your own risk.

Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) paid Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg) a visit in Highgarden in "The Queen's Justice" and if the promo for Season 7's fourth episode "The Spoils of War" is any indication, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) isn't too happy about what transpired.

The promo for the fourth episode, which aired at the end of "The Queen's Justice," features a very frustrated Dany who fears she's losing the war thanks to the recent loss of some of her allies.

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Game of Thrones Showrunners on Long-Awaited Meeting

Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 continue below. Check out our review of "The Queen's Justice."

The third episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season featured the long-awaited meeting of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), which proved to be quite confrontational. While Dany wanted Jon to bend the knee, Jon was trying to convince her there is a much bigger threat to worry about than Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).

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How Much Will it Take to Remove Cavill’s Mustache?

Digitally removing the mustache Henry Cavill can't shave off despite needing to appear as a clean-shaven Superman in Justice League is going to take a lot of work.

Business Insider spoke to two VFX artists about the process of removing Cavill's mustache, which the actor is contractually obliged to keep while shooting Mission Impossible 6. The amount of work it will take to remove it depends on how much Cavill will be moving around in any given scene, according to Dave Fleet, the Head of 3D, and Anne Trotman, Lead 2D Artist at The Mill.

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23 Years of Diablo: An IGN Retrospective

Editor's Note: In light of the recent announcement of Diablo IV, we've updated our Diablo retrospective. Get stuck into the past, present, and future of Diablo while you wait.

“Growing up I remember playing Diablo and it being this incredible, amazing experience. One that I played with my brothers. We had so much fun together. And when Diablo II came out, it was mind-blowing. Playing through it felt like a discovery, and I lost an entire summer where I was constantly playing.” That’s Rob Foote, Lead Game Producer on the Diablo III team. He’s been at Blizzard for the past 17 years, and the main reason he applied to for a job there, was Diablo.

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Box Office: Dunkirk Wards Off Emoji Movie, Atomic Blonde

Dunkirk held strong in first place at the domestic box office, earning an estimated $28.1 million in its second weekend.

The World War II epic from director Christopher Nolan had a strong debut last week, exceeding expectations with an opening weekend that eclipsed the director's prior film, Interstellar. The film currently has a domestic total of $102.8 million. See how Dunkirk's debut stacks up to the rest of Nolan's films.

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Hayley Atwell on What Drew Her to Howards End

MCU star Hayley Atwell recently appeared at the Television Critics Association press tour (where she also spoke briefly to us about wanting her own Peggy Carter Marvel movie) to appear on a panel for her new Starz miniseries, Howards End.

Atwell spoke about what was different about this four-part adaptation of E.M. Forster's famous novel given that it's been adapted for the screen before, most famously in a 1992 movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

Mostly, Atwell was attracted to the fact that Manchester by the Sea's Kenneth Lonergan was the one molding the work this time around. "I think Kenny Lonergan’s adaptation is very fresh," she said. "It has a lot of energy to it, and there are many scenes of overlapping with the dialogue. So, although we stuck to the script, the script had this fantastic kind of lightness to it and this wit, which meant that despite the constrictions of the costumes and the period, we did feel that we wanted to make it as accessible as possible to modern audiences by not making it feel mannered or held."

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Are the Valérian Comics Really a Big Influence on Star Wars?

If you’re a Luc Besson fan, you’ve likely seen at least one of the flashy trailers for his latest movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Like many big-budget movies these days, Valerian is based on a comic. If the Valérian and Laureline comics don’t ring a bell, that’s okay: you’re not alone in not knowing about the French source material.

The thing is that while the trailers for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets may look like a colourful Star Wars prequel rip-off, the reality is that the Valérian and Laureline comics were birthed a decade before the original Star Wars movie hit the big screen in 1977.

There’s been a lot of discussion about just how much of an influence Valérian was on Star Wars. It’s a controversial topic because though Star Wars creator George Lucas acknowledged many influences for his juggernaut sci-fi creation – including Flash Gordon, Toshirô Mifune, Akira Kurosawa, mythological heroes, old series and even comics – Valérian has never been mentioned. No one else who’s worked on the Star Wars movies seems to have listed the preceding adventures of Valérian as an influence, either.

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AMC Greenlights Blumhouse Horror Anthology TV Series

Today at the Television Critics Association press tour, AMC announced several scripted and non-fiction projects that are currently being developed as part of its "scripts-to-series" initiative.

Shock Theatre, a new sci-fi horror anthology series from The Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero is on the horizon, as well as a non-fiction horror anthology series from Blumhouse Television called Wicked West.

Other greenlit projects include an untitled project from Rainn Wilson (The Office), a series based on Victor LaValle's fantasy novella The Ballad of Black Tom, and more. See a list of all seven projects and their accompanying descriptions below:

  • Untitled Rainn Wilson Project - A one-hour scripted series that follows an alien entity which takes over the body of a poly-addicted, middle-aged man living in the San Fernando Valley.
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