Gwent PS4 Beta Coming This Weekend
CD Projekt Red has announced a weekend-long technical beta for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game on PlayStation 4.
The beta will run from tomorrow, March 31 until April 3rd and be available to anyone in the Europe, North America and South America regions. You can download the Gwent beta from the PlayStation store - no PS Plus membership is required to download or play.
Over the weekend, players will be able to test out aspects of the full game, such as deck creation, tutorials, and online competition in casual matches. Once the beta is over, however, all progress will be wiped and not carried over to the full game upon release.
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Spider-Man May Leave MCU After Homecoming Sequel
Spider-Man: Homecoming producer Amy Pascal has explained that Peter Parker may not be hanging around in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for all that long.
It was something of a landmark deal when Sony and Marvel partnered to allow Spider-Man (the rights for which lie with Sony) to appear in MCU films. That deal seems to have an end date, however. Speaking at the CinemaCon theater-owners event this week in Las Vegas, the former Sony chief explained:
“One of the things that I think is so amazing about this experience is that you don’t have studios deciding to work together to make a film very often. In fact it may never happen again, after we do the sequel
Jordan Peele Reportedly In Talks to Direct Live-Action Akira
Key & Peele co-creator and Get Out writer-director, Jordan Peele is rumoured to be in discussions to direct the live-action remake of manga and anime classic, Akira.
The Tracking Board reports that Warner Bros. - led by Get Out's critical and commercial success - has held "encouraging" talks with Peele about taking up the reins of the long-gestating project.
Showrunner for Daredevil Season 2, Marco J. Ramirez has reportedly written the most recent version of the script (although what that script involves is anyone's guess, not least because the original film could become a trilogy in live-action form). However, it's expected that Peele would at least edit that script for any version he directed.
Aquaman Designs Suggest Lord of the Rings Underwater
Aquaman star Jason Momoa appeared at CinemaCon Wednesday to promote his DC superhero's solo film, which hits theaters December 2018.
Momoa, who said he was just hours away from flying to Australia to begin working on Aquaman, introduced a brief video and recorded message from the film's director, James Wan.
The video included no actual movie footage as filming has not yet begun. Instead, attendees screened conceptual imagery to get a sense of the scope and design of Wan's film. And it looked truly epic, the director's grandest undertaking yet. Furious 7 may have shown what Wan could do in terms of action sequences, but this Aquaman video hinted at what Wan might achieve when working at a scale not dissimilar to Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga.
Annabelle 2 Has a New Title
Warner Bros. has announced the official title for Annabelle 2.
The upcoming horror sequel is titled Annabelle: Creation. Lights Out filmmaker David F. Sandberg is directing the film, which centers around a dollmaker and his wife whose only child tragically dies. Several years after their daughter's death, the couple welcome a few orphans and a nun into their home, who soon become the latest target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
The film stars Lulu Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephanie Sigman, and Miranda Otto, and it opens in theaters on August 11.
For more on Annabelle, check out our review of the hit 2014 horror film.
Legion Showrunner on Plans for Season 2, Professor X
That's a wrap on Legion: Season 1, and the finale left plenty of cliffhangers to tease where Season 2 will head. To offer more insights about what we should take away from "Chapter 8," Noah Hawley got on the phone to break down the big moments and preview what's to come.
Full spoilers for Legion: Season 1 continue below.
Dan Stevens plays David Haller in Legion
Legion is renewed for Season 2, and Hawley told press on a conference call the intent is for the new season once again to premiere in February this coming year. The big change is that Legion will likely have 10 episodes in 2018 versus its eight-episode first season, and the production will move to Los Angeles instead of Calgary.
BioWare Responds to Mass Effect: Andromeda Feedback
BioWare has released a statement regarding its future plans for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
The studio says that it has listened to feedback on Andromeda since it was released into the wild a week ago, and will be revealing its immediate plans on April 4th to improve the game.
"It's been a week since we officially launched Mass Effect: Andromeda worldwide," tweeted the studio, "and we couldn't be more excited that our fans are finally experiencing everything we've worked so hard to create. We've received quite a bit of feedback, some of it positive and some of it critical. That feedback is an important part of our ongoing support of the game, and we can't wait to share more of our immediate plans with you on Tuesday, April 4th."
This Was the Original Ending of Frozen
Disney's animated smash hit Frozen originally had a completely different ending.
Warning: Spoilers for Frozen ahead...
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Frozen's producer Peter Del Vecho revealed that Elsa was the villain when the movie was first being developed. Elsa acted like a "self-proclaimed Snow Queen" and was purely evil, with the story taking heavy inspirations from Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale. Further, Anna and Elsa weren't sisters.
"We started out with an evil female villain and an innocent female heroine, and the ending involved a big epic battle with snow monsters that Elsa had created as her army,” Vecho said.
10 Things We Learned About Transformers 5
Paramount Pictures screened roughly twenty of footage from Transformers: The Last Knight at CinemaCon on Tuesday evening.
Director Michael Bay, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and cast members Mark Wahlberg, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, and Jerrod Carmichael were all there to promote the film -- Bay's last at the helm -- to hundreds of members of The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) as well as the press.
While the agreement I signed before the presentation prevents me from a blow-by-blow description of the footage, I can detail these 10 highlights (pointed out in the slideshow below). Beware of some SPOILERISH details: