Amazon’s Hunters Release Date and Trailer Revealed
Amazon Prime Video has announced that its Nazi-hunting conspiracy thriller Hunters, starring Al Pacino and executive produced by Jordan Peele, will premiere on February 21, 2020.
Hunters also received a new trailer, which you can see in the video below or on top of the page, and it previews the story of a diverse band of Nazi hunters who live in New York City in 1977. After discovering that high-ranking Nazi officials are living amongst us, they must stop their plan to "create a Fourth Reich in the U.S."
Alongside Pacino, Hunters stars Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin.
Here’s Why Disney Plus Is Losing Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone
Reports are coming out that Disney+, the company’s video streaming service, is starting to lose some films in its library including Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone.
The company confirmed that a small number of titles are leaving Disney+ temporarily due to existing legacy deals. But these titles will return once the deals expire and Disney can once again host those films.
Here’s a list of movies currently unavailable on Disney+ according to ScreenCrush:
Star Wars: How J.J. Abrams Convinced [Spoiler] to Return
Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker!
Amid all the big surprises in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, perhaps none is more welcome or unexpected than the return of Harrison Ford as Han Solo. Even more surprising, it turns out director J.J. Abrams didn't have to work very hard to convince the notoriously Star Wars-wary Ford to reprise that iconic role one last time.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Abrams revealed all it took was a simple phone call. "Well, I called him and I said, ‘We want to have a scene in the film between Kylo Ren and his father, would you do it?’ And he said, ‘Okay.’”
Arrow Spinoff: Canaries Backdoor Pilot Description Revealed
With the CW's Arrow entering its final few episodes, the Queen family still has a lot to offer Star City — and so do the Canaries. The CW has revealed the description for the Arrow penultimate episode, which will serve as a backdoor pilot for the new Canaries spinoff series.
Reported by Deadline, the Canaries backdoor pilot, titled "Green Arrow and the Canaries," will feature Katherine McNamara's Mia Smoke and will be set in Star City in the year 2040. Airing on the CW on January 21, Mia's life will be interrupted by Katie Cassidy's Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy's Dinah Drake, who need Mia's help tracking down a kidnapping victim.
The New Mutants: Director’s Original Cut Is Being Released in Theaters
After several delays, The New Mutants will finally hit theaters in April, and when it does, it will be director Josh Boone's original cut.
A fan on Instagram asked Boone if the theatrical cut of New Mutants will be his "og version," to which the director replied, "I wouldn't be promoting it here if it wasn't."
Image via Josh Boone on Instagram
James Gunn Purportedly Confirms He Passed on Directing Superman Movie
Apparently, James Gunn has confirmed that he passed on directing a new Superman movie for Warner Bros. in favor of taking on The Suicide Squad.
This information should be taken with a grain of salt because it was revealed in a now-deleted Instagram story that was screen-captured and posted on reddit. The post (via Newsarama) allegedly written by Gunn read: "As has been reported many times, DC offered me whatever film I wanted to do, including some sort of Superman movie (not specifically Man of Steel 2 as I've seen reported). I chose The Suicide Squad because it's one of my favorite properties in the world. It's the story I wanted to tell more than any other."
The Rise of Skywalker Has Deleted Scenes Explaining How Palpatine Survived
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker leaves fans with some lingering questions, including a few that can only be answered if you pick up the recently released Visual Dictionary. But when it comes to one of the movie's biggest mysteries - how Emperor Palpatine survived the events of Return of the Jedi - the answer is locked away in deleted footage.
In an interview with HuffPost (via CBR), editor Maryanne Brandon reveals Episode IX was originally supposed to have shed more light on Palpatine's return. But ultimately, the scenes dealing with the hows and whys of Palpatine's return were trimmed in order to prevent fans from being bombarded with exposition.
Mother 4 Fan Project Renamed to Oddity but It Still Looks Like a Worthy Successor
For years a group of developers has been working hard on making an unofficial sequel to Mother 3 called Mother 4. But after a wave of DMCA takedowns from Nintendo, the team went underground but resurfaced recently after rebranding its project as Oddity.
Although Oddity is no longer the unofficial Mother 3 sequel, it’s still influenced by the series. A new trailer shows gameplay that’s quite similar to the original Game Boy Advance Mother 3 gameplay. But technical flourishes and graphical improvements also show that this is a modern video game production. You can watch the trailer here.
Game Release Dates: The Biggest Games of January and Beyond
New year, new games. The first half of 2020 is stacked with major titles like The Last of Us Remastered 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and many more. The games coming in the third and fourth quarters of the year are still a little fuzzy, but we'll update this article as things start getting etched in stone. That will be particularly exciting once we start to learn about the launch titles for PS5 and Xbox One Series X.
Whether your console of choice (for the moment) is PS4, Xbox One, or Nintendo Switch, you have a lot to look forward to in the coming months. We've assembled the list below to help you keep track of what's on the way, with release dates for all the major games across all consoles. And if you're ready to secure a copy of any of the titles you see, click the buy links to preorder where available.
The 10 Best Action Games of All Time
I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing that gets my blood pumping when it comes to video games quite like a good action game. And no, I’m not talking games with action, I’m aiming my crosshair at a very specific type of game here.
Games with a central and essential focus on combat, and while I’m primarily talking about combat of the up close and personal variety, there’s room here for some gunplay as well. So sit back and settle in, because these are the 10 best action games of all time.
10. Ninja Gaiden 2
Back in 2008, it was hard to even imagine an action game that was faster and more frenetic than the original rebooted Ninja Gaiden on Xbox, but then in came Ninja Gaiden 2. Despite holding on to the same core combat system of light and heavy attacks and fighting game-esque combo inputs as its predecessor, Ninja Gaiden 2 actually had a much different feel to it. It was much more linear, the action was almost non-stop, and a new health system would restore your health at the end of every combat encounter up to a certain point, leading to these intense struggles where the end of every battle was an absolute relief. The level design wasn’t quite as strong as the first go around, but the slick animations, smooth action, and rewarding combat of Ninja Gaiden 2 are enough to sneak it onto this list.