Melissa McCarthy’s New Movie No Longer Getting Theatrical Release
Melissa McCarthy's new movie Superintelligence will no longer be getting a December theatrical release date, as it moves to stream exclusively on HBO Max next year.
HBO made the announcement on Thursday in a press release about two months before the film's planned theatrical release. It will now debut with the launch of HBO Max in spring 2020.
The movie features McCarthy as an average person who has a "superintelligence" take over her life through her electronic devices with greater plans to take over the world. Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree Henry, Jean Smart and James Corden also star in the film.
“We used the A.I. from Superintelligence to look at every single platform in the world, and then used its super knowledge and big artificial brain-like thing to determine that HBO Max was the right home for our film,” said McCarthy and the film's director and producer Ben Falcone in a press release.
Here’s When You Can Read Our The Outer Worlds Review
Curious about whether The Outer Worlds will live up to the high expectations we all have from the developers of all-time RPG classics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and Fallout: New Vegas (among others)? Good news: we're currently playing through, and our review will go up on the site at 6:00am on Tuesday, October 22 – three days before The Outer Worlds' release date of Friday, October 25.
That's all we can say for right now, but fortunately we've already said a whole bunch about The Outer Worlds (not to be confused with Outer Wilds) that you can brush up on while you wait for the review to finish cooking.
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Fortnite is Back…But It Never Really Went Anywhere
Fortnite is back for another round with Chapter 2, which launched (again) worldwide yesterday. After a massive world-ending black hole event — dubbed “The End” — consumed everything (which included the previous island, lobby, and game itself), Fortnite has finally returned after being offline for almost 40 hours. The internet went into a frenzy this past Sunday, with players and parents panicking after not knowing what happened to it. Many were worried about the cosmetic items they had purchased, as well as the status of their in-game currency known as V-Bucks.
The Batman Casts The Riddler
Warner Bros. has officially announced the addition of another villain to Matt Reeves’ The Batman movie: Paul Dano is playing Edward Nashton aka The Riddler.
Dano is best known for his roles in There Will Be Blood, 12 Years a Slave, and the Showtime series Escape at Dannemora for which he earned an Emmy nomination.
Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood.
In Batman lore, the Riddler’s civilian alias is Edward Nashton before he changes it to Edward Nygma.
Stephen King’s Maine Home to Become a Writer’s Retreat and Museum
Stephen King has inspired countless authors, and now some of those writers may get the chance to go on a writer's retreat at the legendary author's home in Maine.
According to Rolling Stone, the city of Bangor, Maine, has approved King's request to turn his house into a nonprofit that will serve as both an archive of his work and a retreat for up to five writers at a time.
Fans of King's work will be able to visit the archive by appointment.
King has become one of Maine's most celebrated figures, with one city councillor telling Rolling Stone that King and his family have donated millions of dollars to a variety of causes in the community.
32 Films Submitted for Best Animated Feature Oscar Race
A record number of films have been submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category for the 92nd Academy Awards.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 32 films would be competing for five spots in the coveted Best Animated Feature category at the 2020 Oscars, though several of the entries have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run in order to advance.
The list reveals that Disney has entered Frozen II and Toy Story 4 into the Oscar race, along with Spies in Disguise (which now falls under the Disney corporate umbrella). However, the studio has opted out of submitting their photorealistic remake of The Lion King.
Studio Ghibli Films Will Exclusively Stream on HBO Max
HBO Max has officially acquired U.S. streaming rights to Studio Ghibli films, meaning that Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, and many more will be available when WarnerMedia's new streaming service launches in the spring of 2020.
Japan's Studio Ghibli has become one of the most influential and acclaimed studios in the world since it was founded in 1985, and "under the brilliance of visionary animation directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio’s films have won countless international awards, including an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature for Spirited Away, as well as four additional Academy Award® nominations for Howl’s Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, and When Marnie Was There."
Watchmen’s Damon Lindelof Is Pretty Sure Alan Moore Cursed Him
HBO's Watchmen series is about to make its debut, and according to showrunner Damon Lindelof, Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore is less than thrilled. In fact, Lindelof thinks Moore may have actually cast a magical curse on him. Yes, really.
In an interview with Vulture, Lindelof reveals, "I’m about to say something very ridiculous, but in all sincerity, I was absolutely convinced that there was a magical curse placed upon me by Alan. I’m actually feeling the psychological effects of a curse, and I’m OK with it. It’s fair that he has placed a curse on me."
See our early impressions of the HBO series in the video below:.
The Mudita Pure is the Radiation Anti-Phone We Could All Use
Earlier last month Michał Kiciński, the co-founder of CD Projekt Red, introduced a phone designed to help you relax and disconnect called Mudita Pure. It takes a very different direction from modern smartphones and it’s arguably more apt to call it the anti-phone as it’s not connected to the Internet and it even has a physical switch that disables your cell connection.
We caught up with Kiciński to find out why his phone breaks away the always-connected mentality of our world today. Kiciński started by talking about how the idea for the phone came to him while he was skiing in the Italian mountains of Livigno.