Flash Movie Writer to Adapt Ready Player One Author’s Novel Armada
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline's second novel might be turning into a movie soon.
Per THR, Flashpoint writer Dan Mazeau will adapt the 2015 book Armada for Random House and Universal. The studios picked up the film rights based on a 20-page proposal from Cline in 2012. A release date has not been set yet.
Ernest Cline's Armada.
Guillermo del Toro, Fox Searchlight Make a Deal for New Genre Movie Label
Guillermo del Toro has signed a deal with Fox Searchlight to help create a new genre movie label.
The soon to be named label will serve as a home for projects in the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres. It will include projects produced and curated by del Toro. The first film from the label, Antlers, follows the story of an elementary school teacher taking in a troubled student with a mysterious family secret that has deadly consequences.
Antlers is based on the short story The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca. The movie will be directed by Scott Cooper, with a script by Nick Antosca & Henry Chaisson. David Goyer, J. Miles Dale, and del Toro will produce, with Kevin Turen executive producing.
Infinity War: James Gunn Wrote Dialogue for Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn contributed to Avengers: Infinity War by writing some dialogue for the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Per SuperBroMovies, Dave Bautista, who plays Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians movies, revealed during an Awesome Con Q&A this past weekend that Gunn wrote a few lines for the eccentric Marvel characters.
However, Bautista didn't share any further details about what Gunn specifically wrote in the Marvel ensemble movie. This shouldn't come as a huge surprise considering Gunn is both the writer and director of the two Guardians of the Galaxy films, and has been instrumental in bringing these characters to life onscreen.
2001: A Space Odyssey Is Coming Back to Theaters in 70mm
50 years ago, Director Stanly Kubrick released his groundbreaking sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, Warner Bros. Pictures will debut an unrestored 70mm print at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on May 12.
Don't worry, if you're not able to make it to the south of France for the debut, Warner Bros will be re-releasing the film in theaters on May 18. There will also be a 4K HDR Blu-ray release sometime in the fall of 2018 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, which The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan acted as an advisor on for the film's restoration process.
Nolan is a big fan of the movie and will personally be introducing the film at the Cannes festival.
If You Miss Breaking Bad, Starz’s Counterpart is the Perfect Replacement
Counterpart just aired the final episode of its first season, making it the perfect time to look back on an excellent freshman run that will, if there's any justice, see J.K Simmons leading the race for awards glory come Emmy time. (Light character spoilers but no plot specifics follow.)
Simmons plays both Howard Silk (inhabiting what we are led to believe is the “real” world, much like ours, in Berlin) and Howard Prime (who lives in what the show refers to as the Prime world, a parallel to Howard Silk’s). They are the same person, with the same exact DNA and family, yet they live two very different lives. The plot exists to bring them together and answer the overarching question of the series: what happens when you meet the person you could have been?
Black Panther Passes Jurassic World at Domestic Box Office
Black Panther has hit another major box office milestone.
Box office estimates note the MCU film has passed 2015's Jurassic World ($652.3 million) at the domestic box office. It's now the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time in the U.S with an estimated $652.5 million domestic total so far after Monday's haul.
Black Panther has also now passed 2013's Frozen ($1.276 billion) at the worldwide box office, grossing $1.279 billion to date, becoming one of the top ten grossing movies globally. Internationally, the Marvel film has made $626.7 million, which makes it the top-grossing superhero movie featuring a solo superhero.
Since it was released in February, Black Panther has been breaking all sorts of records. It has the second-largest second weekend ever at the domestic box office, the highest-grossing Tuesday in MCU history, and recently passed The Avengers' $623.4 million domestic haul.
Ghost Recon Wildlands: Year 2 DLC Plan Revealed
Ubisoft has revealed the plan for Year 2 of Ghost Recon Wildlands' DLC.
Ubisoft announced Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting another year of post-launch content, which will include additions to both the campaign and Ghost War PvP modes.
Year 2 will see four major free Special Operations updates, each of which will feature a different theme, updates for the PvE campaign including special missions and challenges with exclusive rewards, updates to the Ghost War PvP mode, and features which have been requested by the community.
The first big update, called Special Operations 1, will be released on April 10 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and you can check out the Year 2 announcement trailer below:
Original X-Men May (Finally) Be Going Back In Time
Marvel Comics released a teaser for Extermination, a story featuring the X-Men Blue team by writer Ed Brisson and artist Pepe Larraz. The text "Exterminate the past. Eliminate the future." at the bottom certainly sounds foreboding, and given that the image shows the team's original and current looks, we're taking a wild guess that this story will be the last chapter in their time-travel story.
Back in 2012, the comic series All-New X-Men saw Beast bring the five original X-Men - Jean Grey, Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, and Beast - to the present so they could help fix the future. These time doppelgangers have been a part of the Marvel Universe ever since and some of them have gone on adventures with other superhero teams or even starred in their own solo series, like Cyclops and Jean Grey. Not that it's unusual for time-displaced characters like Cable and Rachel Grey to stick around for good, but it was always assumed these young X-Men would eventually go back to their original place in the timeline, and Extermination just might be their ticket home.
American Gods Creator Adapting Gormenghast Fantasy Novels for TV
American Gods creator Neil Gaiman and Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek: Discovery) are adapting the sprawling fantasy novel series Gormenghast for TV.
Deadline reports Gaiman and Goldsman will executive produce the series for FremantleMedia alongside Barry Spikings (The Deer Hunter) and David Stern (Howards End). FremantleMedia is currently looking for showrunners for the project.
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast fantasy novel series.
The Best Chromebook
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The best chromebook, based on our hands-on testing, is the Samsung Chromebook Pro (See it on Amazon). We base this recommendation on this model's many strengths, including its high-res panel, embedded stylus, flexible hybrid design, and great overall performance for the price. At $549 it's priced out of entry-level, but it's worth it.