Monthly Archives: October 2018
Hulu’s Into the Dark: Exclusive Trailer Debut for ‘The Body’
Just in time for the Halloween season, Hulu is partnering with Blumhouse Television to bring an all-new horror anthology series to life. Over the next year, Into the Dark will debut "12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday," featuring Blumhouse’s "signature genre/thriller spin on the story," according to Hulu.
The series' first outing, titled "The Body," is set to premiere on Friday, October 5. Per Hulu, The Body centers on "a sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society who finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume."
Why Do We Love the Character Venom?
With director Ruben Fleischer and star Tom Hardy’s much-anticipated Venom movie about to hit theaters, some of us are on pins and needles in anticipation. This character is important to fans. But why exactly do we love him so much?
Venom, to offer a brief primer for the uninitiated, is a Spider-Man villain invented in 1988 that serves, essentially, as Spider-Man's evil twin. Venom is the alter-ego of Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter and rival of Peter Parker who had fused with an alien symbiote (visualized as a blob of living, shape-shifting intelligent tar that once served as Spider-Man's costume) that wrapped around his body and implanted a dark voice in his head telling him to commit acts of violence and, occasionally, cannibalism. Venom, looking like a nightmare version of Spider-Man – complete with a gaping be-fanged mouth and giant lolling tongue – started his career terrorizing the populace, but eventually became a dark antihero – a lethal protector – starring in his own comics and, as of this month, his own movie.
Titans to Premiere on Netflix Internationally
Though DC Universe will debut its first original series, Titans, in the United States, Netflix has acquired the international streaming rights for fans overseas who don't have access to DC's digital subscription service.
As reported by Variety, Netflix will be home to Titans everywhere but the United States and China, the later of which doesn’t have official access to Netflix at all. Though Titans is scheduled to hit the DC Universe streaming service on October 12, the international premiere date for Titans on Netflix has yet to be announced.
Though DC Universe launched in the US on September 15, and has been announced for a Canadian release in the future, it appears Canada will be one of the many countries that will enjoy Titans on Netflix, at least for now.
Goodbye Dragon Bones: Daredevil Season 3 Will Be More ‘Grounded and Real’
Netflix and Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 debuts on October 19, but when Matt Murdock returns, it will be in a more grounded and realistic version of the Marvel Universe.
After fighting zombie ninjas, looking for dragon bones, and dealing with an evil, formerly dead girlfriend, series star Charlie Cox promises that Daredevil is going back to basics in the new season. I visited the set of the show while it was shooting in Brooklyn last spring, so read on for all the details Cox and showrunner Erik Oleson revealed about Season 3, including whether or not the episodes are really based on the classic story “Born Again,” the return of Vincent D'Onofrio’s Kingpin, pulling back from the more comic-booky elements of Season 2 and The Defenders, and more.
Black Mirror: Season 5 Release Month and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Episode Announced
The fifth season of the Emmy-winning anthology series Black Mirror will reportedly premiere in December of 2018 and will bring with it an episode that will allow viewers to choose how events in the story play out.
As reported by Bloomberg, Netflix is "developing a slate of specials that will let viewers choose the next storyline in a TV episode or movie," and the first new project appears to be an episode of Black Mirror, a show that delves deep into the wonder and danger of technology.
Netflix has already released a choose-your-own-adventure style children's program called Puss in Book that allows viewers to, for example, "choose whether the pugilistic feline fights a god or a tree."
It’s Hard to Be a Neighborhood Hero in YouTube’s New Action Comedy Wayne
From the minds behind the blockbuster Deadpool film franchise comes an unlikely heroic story about a young boy named Wayne (Mark McKenna), who is trying to survive the tough streets of Brockton, Massachusetts. According to YouTube, "In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, fifteen-year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del (Ciara Bravo) to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It's Wayne and Del against the world."
While Wayne may not wear a cowl or call himself the Dark Knight, he does hand out justice swiftly to the wrongdoers at his school and around the neighborhood. For a better look at Wayne in action, check out our exclusive clip below:
Valve Has Recently Removed Over 170 ‘Trolling’ Games From Steam
Valve has removed an estimated 179 games from Steam for "straight up trolling" over the past few weeks, reports PC Gamer.
Among the games removed are a number with vulgar or sophomoric names, mostly referring to certain body parts and/or sexual content. Also included in the bans were 32 Achievement Hunter games, seven games with the word "hentai" in their name, and the following highlights:
- Logan vs. KSI
- Mariko: Hot Nightlife
- Home Alone Girlfriend
- Dad's Co-Worker
- X-Ray Hospital
Fortnite’s Floating Island Is Moving, and Its Cube Is Set to Grow
Fortnite's never-ending map changes that serve as its story are, unsurprisingly, continuing through Season 6. It looks like the focus this season will be on the floating island above Loot Lake, which EGM reports is on the move.
Season 5 ended when the giant purple cube having finished its own journey around the map by melting into Loot Lake.
Season 6 then began when the cube lifted the Loot Lake's island into the sky. It now seems the cube is moving the island to each of the runes it created during Season 5 in reverse order.
In fact, Fortnite Master tweeted Sunday that the island had reached the first rune and raised the platform it resides on. This seemed to cause bouncy volcanic craters to appear in the corrupted area.
Deadpool 2: The PG-13 Version Will Borrow from The Princess Bride
This December’s family friendly version of Deadpool 2 will borrow its narrative style and Fred Savage, from The Princess Bride.
A few days ago, Deadline reported that Fox is releasing a PG-13 family friendly version of Deadpool 2 on Dec. 21, 2018.
Both Deadpool films leaned hard into their R ratings, so many were left wondering how this new film would manage to keep that same Deadpool spirit, whilst toning down the violence and vulgarity to PG-13. According to a tweet by Ryan Reynolds, the answer is Fred Savage.
Ireland Backs Down from Labeling Loot Boxes as Gambling
Ever since 2017's Star Wars: Battlefront II loot box fiasco, an increasing number of governments have at least considered classifying video game loot boxes as a form of gambling. Despite recent indications to the contrary, however, Ireland is now shying away from labeling them as such.
Irish Legal News reports that Ireland Department of Justice Minister of State David Stanton told the Irish Senate last week that the department, “does not have a role to regulate game developers on how their games work nor, in the offering of in-game purchases.”
Ireland was one of 15 governments earlier this month that signed a declaration from the Gaming Regulators European Forum that described loot boxes as, “blurring of lines between gaming and gambling.”