Every Pixar Movie’s Opening Weekend Box Office
(This is an update to a Pixar box office article originally published in 2017.)
Toy Story 4 opened to an estimated $118 million at the North American box office, easily debuting at No. 1. While that amount is well below industry expectations for the film -- which had been widely pegged as opening with as much as $140 million -- it’s still the biggest opening weekend ever in the Toy Story franchise. It’s also the third biggest opening weekend (domestically) for a Pixar release.
Last year’s Incredibles 2 remains the highest-grossing opening weekend for a Pixar movie, earning $182.7 million when it bowed in June 2018. That’s followed by 2016’s Finding Dory with $135.1 million.
A New Ape Escape Game May be on the Way
While the world waits for King Kong to eventually get around to fighting Godzilla, another brand of apes are quietly waiting for their moment to shine once again. A new Ape Escape game may be in the works, if some suspicious tweets are to be believed.
A relatively new Twitter account by the name of @piposaru20th tweeted out this image, along with the translated caption: “Piposar (20 years since then. I've been running around, but i wonder if there's anyone chasing me anymore.” The image shows a titular ape from the Ape Escape franchise peeking around a tree.
Jeff Goldblum Admits He’s Never Played a Video Game in His Life
Mega-star and internet darling Jeff Goldblum has admitted he's never played a video game in his entire life.
Page Six reports it was during a Cannes Lions talk on Thursday when Goldblum stated to the crowd that he's never actually played a video game despite being in them.
“I know nothing about gaming even though I’ve been the voices for, what was it called? ‘Call of Duty.’ ‘Black Ops,’ I think,” said Goldblum to the crowd.
“We were killing zombies, I think. ‘Jurassic Park,’ I did that thing where I play my character Ian Malcolm … so I’m involved in that, but I’ve never in fact played a video game in my life.”
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Steam Adds LGBTQ+ Tag for Games
As originally reported by Kotaku, Steam has finally implemented an “LGBTQ+” tag for games on its platform after developers and players drew enough attention to the issue.
Steam’s game discoverability and recommendation algorithm is largely determined by their tag system. If you go to the page for, say, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, you’ll see tags like “Adventure,” “Lara Croft,” or “Female Protagonist.” Mouse over one of these and you’ll get taken to a hub page of sorts that shows you other similarly defined games. Historically, it’s been difficult for smaller studios to get their game noticed among the sea of possible choices, especially if their tags didn’t align with certain genres. Steam users have been able to make custom tags for a few years now, but Steam doesn’t use any of those for its algorithms, so they’re effectively useless. On top of all that, Steam removed custom tags from its hub functionality, essentially leaving developers who custom-tagged their own games as “LGBTQ+” in the dark.
30 Years Later, Michael Keaton’s Batman Is Still the Best
It's been 30 years since Tim Burton's Batman hit theaters and showed a world a wholly different vision of the Caped Crusader than the one made famous by Adam West. The 1989 Batman's legacy is hard to overstate. The film's release and the ensuing "Batmania" served as a taste of things to come for our superhero movie-obsessed culture. The tone, aesthetic and music directly paved the way for Batman: The Animated Series. But there's one thing a lot of moviegoers seem to forget. As much as Jack Nicholson's Joker tended to dominate the conversation then and now, Michael Keaton is the true unsung hero of Batman. 30 years later, his is still the best live-action Batman of them all.
It's understandable why Nicholson's Joker has always hogged the spotlight. He was the A-List talent Warner Bros. needed to sell moviegoers dubious about a cinematic reboot handled by the director and star of Beetlejuice. In fact, the studio was so desperate to land Nicholson they wound up agreeing to one of the most ridiculously lucrative contracts of all time. And by his very nature, the flamboyant, scenery-chewing Joker is always going to steal the show from a grumpy, soft-spoken man in a black costume.
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Toy Story 4 Ending Explained
This ending explained contains full spoilers for Toy Story 4.
Toy Story 3 seemed like a perfect ending for Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang. Andy went off to college, but he left his beloved toys in the gentle hands of pre-schooler Bonnie, implying that his toys had many years of playtime left ahead of them.
Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley admitted that when it came to approaching a fourth installment, "We had the same questions everybody else has right now: 'I thought you guys were done.' ... We love the end of Toy Story 3, and feel like that’s the completion of Woody and Andy’s story. But there was more Woody story to tell."
How to Get More Spell Energy in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Update: Watch the video above for the best ways to refill spell energy or continue reading our spell energy tips below.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is all about casting spells and that requires spell energy. Here's how you make sure you can get an energy refill so that you're always ready to wield your wand by managing and getting more spell energy in Niantic's latest game.
How Spell Energy Works
When you walk around the world different icons will spawn on the map. From the Dark Arts and Hogwarts School to Magizoology and the Wonders of the Wizarding World: these lost objects, creatures, and people need you to send them back to their rightful place that means casting a spell to remove the confoundables keeping it there. This means tracing quickly on your screen and using some spell energy.
FF7 Remake: Tifa Isn’t Getting a Smaller Chest, Just a Proper Bra
This week, fans and media outlets reacted to a translated Tetsuya Nomura interview from Famitsu about Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa with very conflicting interpretations. In the interview, Nomura is said to have been told by Square Enix’s ethics department to “restrict” or “constrict” Tifa’s chest. Twinfinite has the full interview, and has since added an editor’s note reading “the context and wording indicted clearly that this refers to the tightness and design of Tifa’s clothing, not to her chest size.” I’ll take an educational approach as to why this is not only appropriate when interpreted correctly, but realistic, further down in this article.