Flight of the Concords Returns with New HBO Special
Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are returning with an hour-long comedy special that will premiere on HBO this May.
The special will be taped before a live sold-out audience during their United Kingdom tour. The duo will perform classics and new original songs from their "Flight of the Conchords Sing Flight of the Conchords Tour."
Hamish Hamilton will direct the special, with Clement and McKenzie executive producing alongside Mike Martinovich. The Flight of the Conchords TV series made its debut on HBO, where it had a two-season run from 2007 to 2009.
The show earned ten Emmy nominations, with Flight of the Conhcords' album "The Distant Future" winning Best Comedy Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Deadpool 2 Releasing in Theaters Early
Fox's upcoming slate of X-Men spinoff films have all seen release date shifts, including a major delay for New Mutants and an earlier release date for Deadpool 2.
THR reports Deadpool 2 will now be released in theaters on May 18 rather than June 1, which puts it opposite Sony Pictures' Slenderman and one week ahead of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Meanwhile, New Mutants, which Fox previously had slated for an April 13 release, will now not hit theaters until February 22, 2019. With many estimations expecting the Fox-Disney merger to take about 12 months to be vetted and either approved or denied, it is unclear what would happen to New Mutants should the deal close before its release.
Bryan Fuller Developing Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles Pilot
Former American Gods co-showrunner Bryan Fuller is developing the pilot for the TV adaptation of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount TV president Amy Powell revealed Fuller is currently working with Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice on the pilot. However, it's not yet known if Fuller will stay on as showrunner.
"We bought 11 novels as part of the Vampire Chronicles initiative," Powell said. "Bryan Fuller is working with Anne Rice and
Chris, who are writing the pilot. We are hoping he chooses to stay on and potentially showrun."
Maze Cure: New 8-Bit Web Game Puts You in the Maze
To hype the January 26 release of Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the third and final film in the Maze Runner trilogy, Fox has created an 8-bit game to get fans ready to go back into the maze.
IGN is debuting the game, playable below, that puts the player into the situations that faced Thomas and the rest of the maze runners in order to save Minho. In this 8-bit experience, you need to make it through eight sections and eight mini-games to save your friend. Click on the image to check it out below:
PUBG Has Over 3 Million Players on Xbox One
In less than a month, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds already has over 3 million players on Xbox One.
In fact, on the Xbox Wire, Microsoft mentions that the PUBG milestone was surpassed "through the end of 2017." That means the number doesn't account for the first 11 days of this year for the Xbox Game Preview title.
Previously, Microsoft announced how it only took 48 hours for PUBG to pass 1 million players on Xbox One.
PUBG got a patch with frame rate improvements on Xbox One earlier this week. The patch also fixed some crashing issues and upped weapon damage against vehicles.
Overwatch League Day One Results Are In
The Overwatch League is now in full swing, and the first official matches offered a strong opener to the season.
Yesterday's matches marked the beginning of the first week of the first stage of the League. Here's a full breakdown of the results and the week one matches yet to come:
Wednesday, January 10
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San Francisco Shock vs. Los Angeles Valiant: Los Angeles wins 4 - 0
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Shanghai Dragons vs. Los Angeles Gladiators: Los Angeles wins 4 - 0
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Dallas Fuel vs. Seoul Dynasty: Seoul wins 2 - 1
Director Gore Verbinski Leaves Gambit Movie
The solo Gambit movie is once again without a director, as Gore Verbinski has left the film due to reported scheduling issues.
Deadline reports Verbinski's departure from the X-Men spinoff was "amicable," and Channing Tatum is still on board to play the titular character. There's no word on whether or not this most-recent setback will affect the movie's previously announced release date of February 14, 2019.
IGN has reached out to Fox for comment and will update this story should we receive a response.
DGA Nominees Include Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele
The Directors Guild of America announced its nominees for Best Director, and first-time directors Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and Jordan Peele (Get Out) have landed in the shuffle.
Joining Gerwig and Peele are Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk). Del Toro won the top directing prize at the Golden Globes, though Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won Best Motion Picture Drama. Gerwig's Lady Bird won Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, though Gerwig was not nominated in the Globes' Best Director category.
How Electric Dreams Is the Black Mirror Alternative You Need
On the surface, it would be easy to compare Amazon's new show Electric Dreams, the 10-episode series based on short stories by Philip K. Dick, to Netflix's Black Mirror. Both anthology series are set against the backdrop of a technology-driven future, and tend to have a rather bleak outlook.
But if you dig below the surface a bit, you might find that Electric Dreams is offering one of the only things that's often (but not always) missing from Black Mirror: hope. At least, that's what executive producer Bryan Cranston's goal is.
While Black Mirror may frequently leave viewers wondering if humanity is already doomed, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams could be the optimistic alternative you're looking for. "I don't want to sound Pollyanna-ish, but Electric Dreams actually has a very positive outlook on life, hidden in this dystopian sci-fi future," Cranston says.
Why You Can’t Digitally Buy Some Transformers Games
Activision's suite of Transformers games, including High Moon Studios' Transformers: War for Cybertron and Platinum Games' Transformers Devastation, disappeared from digital marketplaces like PSN, the Xbox Store, and Steam at the end of 2017. And there's a simple explanation for that.
Hasbro confirmed to IGN its contract with Activision to publish Transformers games has expired. However, Hasbro is not at this time discussing what, if any, plans it might have for Transformers games on PC and consoles in the future. Multiple mobile games, including Transformers: Forged to Fight, are still ongoing, however.
IGN has reached out to Activision for more details about the contract expiration and will update this story should they respond.