Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage Wins Emmy Award
Game of Thrones is kicking off the Emmys with a bang. The HBO fantasy series won the first award it was up for of the night: Best Supporting Actor, which went to Peter Dinklage.
Dinklage took to the stage to thank his showrunners, his wife, his on-screen brother and, of course, the man who started it all: George R.R. Martin.
"Thank you Dave
and Dan
for changing my life. l cannot walk down the street anymore. You are honestly the most talent amazing people I know besides my wife Erica, who I think I forgot to thank a couple years ago," said Dinklage in his acceptance speech. "Thanks to my brother from another mother Nikolaj
. I love you and I share this with you because you're an amazing handsome brother. And George R.R. Martin for creating this whole thing."
There Was a Proposal at the 2018 Emmys
The award for first (and best) Emmy Awards proposal goes to... Oscars director Glenn Weiss!
There were a couple moments during the 2018 Emmys' acceptance speeches where it felt like winners were close to proposing to their significant others as they expressed their thanks and adoration, but the man behind this year's Academy Awards went the whole nine yards.
You can watch the whole moment play out below:
And the award for first (and best) proposal at the #Emmys goes to! pic.twitter.com/SRXxlBpuoW
Game of Thrones, Westworld and Every Other Winner from the 2018 Emmys
The 2018 Emmy Awards have concluded with Game of Thrones winning Best Drama Series, reclaiming its crown after a year of ineligibility, which allowed The Handmaid's Tale to usurp its top spot last year. There was no love for The Handmaid's Tale during the Primetime Emmys ceremony in 2018 (although it did scoop two awards at the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony the week before, with Samira Wiley winning Outstanding Guest Actress and Wendy Hallam Martin scoring Single-Camera Picture Editing).
The Crown's Claire Foy won Best Actress in a Drama in her final year on the Netflix show, while The Americans' Matthew Rhys won Best Actor for the FX series' final season. On the comedy side, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept its categories, winning Best Comedy and awarding star Rachel Brosnahan for Best Actress, Alex Borstein for Supporting Actress (in addition to her Creative Arts win for her voiceover work on Family Guy), and co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino for Directing and Writing.
How the Japanese Games Industry Got Its Groove Back
It's a simple scene. Four handsome men in expensive-looking black outfits find that their even more expensive-looking car is in need of repair. They need to get out and push, and as they do so a cover of Stand by Me performed by Florence + the Machine plays in the background. It's a beautifully serene moment that captures the essence of Final Fantasy 15’s messaging perfectly. Here are four friends, out in the wider world for the first time, about to explore many new locations and test the very fabric of their friendship.
More to the point, this was a series trying to re-establish itself, and it kicked off its first current-generation mainline instalment with its characters trying to start a broken car. The metaphor is hardly subtle, but it is apt. This is poetic enough in and of itself, but the timing of the release has gone on to make it something more.
George R. R. Martin Says Game of Thrones Could’ve Lasted 13 Seasons
George R. R. Martin says his Game of Thrones novels could have provided enough material to keep the popular HBO series going for another five seasons.
In a red carpet interview at the Emmy Awards, Variety asked Martin why Game of Thrones is ending. "I don't know, ask David and Dan when they come through," Martin said, "we could have gone to 11, 12, 13 seasons. But I guess they wanted a life."
George R. R. Martin doesn't know why #GameOfThrones is ending: "We could have gone to 11, 12, 13 seasons" #Emmys https://t.co/QILf2nBd4b pic.twitter.com/4wRJFl9vhD
GTA Online: The Return of Running Back Mode
This week, GTA Online sees the return of yet another Year 2 Adversary Mode. Running Back is a fight for supremacy between two teams of vehicle drivers - one team has to get their Runner (driving a smartcar-esque Panto) to the end of the playing field and into the goal zone, while the other team does their best to keep them out of the endzone.
The new maps in the Remixed version moves from the original tunnels and bridges that hemmed in the teams, and now features custom-designed neon stunt arenas for players to dart back and forth on. They also replace the old off-road buggies that were used for defense and offense with squads of supercars that can use their superior speed to overtake the Runner, or defend them with greater ease.
Marvel Teases ‘Age of Star Wars’ Comics From All Three Trilogies
A 30-issue series of Star Wars comics featuring stories from all three film trilogies, collectively called Age of Star Wars, is beginning in December, and more info is set to be revealed in October during New York Comic Con 2018.
In a press release, it was announced that the Disney-Lucasfilm Publishing NYCC panel being held at 12pm PT/3pm ET on Friday, October 5 will bring more info on the series - the event will be held in Room 1A10 in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Until then, a new piece of teaser artwork by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Elia Bonetti featuring characters from the entire Star Wars film saga will have to tide us over.
Source: Disney/Lucasfilm/Marvel. Credit: Giuseppe Camuncoli and Elia Bonetti.
Breaking Down The Predator’s Box Office Debut Compared to Whole Franchise
20th Century Fox’s The Predator had no trouble taking the top spot at the box office with an estimated $24 million, easily taking down last weekend’s winner The Nun, which dropped a whopping 66.2% to second place with $18.2 million. It also handily beat fellow newcomers A Simple Favor (3rd place, $16 million), White Boy Rick (4th place, $8.8 million) and Unbroken: Path to Redemption (9th place, $2.3 million), but it still represented a step back, so to speak, in the franchise as a whole. So we’re breaking down The Predator’s debut, when compared to the five other films in the Predator franchise, both in unadjusted grosses and grosses while adjusting for inflation.
Given the fact that this franchise has been around for over 30 years, it’s important that we adjust for inflation because it provides added context. When you look at just the raw numbers, The Predator is in the middle of the pack with the third highest debut of the six films. The Predator is just behind 2004’s Alien vs. Predator ($38.3 million) and 2010’s Predators ($24.8 million), but it’s possible that when the actual numbers come in, it could be adjusted up and overtake Predators in the second spot. It comes ahead of the original 1987 classic Predator ($12 million), 2007’s Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ($10.1 million) and 1990’s Predator 2 ($8.8 million)
Ranking Halloween Horror Nights’ 10 Mazes by Scariness
Universal Studios Orlando’s annual fright-fest known as Halloween Horror Nights kicked off this year with 10 mazes full of grisly sights and costumed “scareactors.” Half of the mazes are based on popular horror IP such as Stranger Things and Poltergeist, while the rest are original creations born from the twisted minds of the HHN maze designers. IGN attended opening night and came away both with long-lasting psychological scars from being traumatized by scare after scare for hours on end, and with a ranking of just how scary each maze was.
You can check out our ranking by flipping through the slideshow below, or keep reading to read it as an article.
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Netflix Reveals Spooky New Photos for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
So far, we've seen glimpses of the titular teenage witch, but now Netflix has released the photos and character breakdowns for the other cast members starring in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft.
Fans who grew up with the '90s Melissa Joan Hart sitcom won't find much familiar here beyond character names - and for good reason; Netflix compares the show's tone to Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, although there's doubtless a dash of Riverdale in the show's creative DNA, since both shows are overseen by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who also serves as chief creative officer of Archie Comics.