Blair Witch, Snowden No Match for Sully
Sully remained on top of the domestic box office this weekend, grossing $22 million in its second frame. The Clint Eastwood-directed film has now grossed $70.5 million stateside.
Blair Witch, meanwhile, debuted in second place with a modest $9.7 million haul. As Variety reports, some rival studios expected the surprise sequel to earn closer to $20 million.
Newcomer Bridget Jones's Baby debuted in third place, grossing $8.2 million. Another sequel to a decade-old franchise, Bridget Jones is finding more success overseas, as the romantic comedy opened at number one in twenty-four territories, according to Variety, bringing its worldwide gross to $38.1 million.
Daredevil’s Creator on Directing The Good Place
Drew Goddard’s ever-growing resume includes his time writing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias and Lost and his feature film work, including Cloverfield and his Academy Award-nominated work on The Martian. He also created Marvel’s Daredevil for Netflix and wrote that show’s first two episodes and is serving as an executive producer on Marvel’s The Defenders series coming to Netflix. In addition, he also made his directorial debut on Cabin the Woods, which he co-wrote with Joss Whedon.
Given that busy schedule, it was a bit of a surprise when Goddard signed on to direct the pilot for The Good Place, the new NBC comedy from Parks and Recreation’s Mike Schur, starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson. Debuting Monday night, The Good Place marks Goddard’s second job as a director and his first for TV - and he also notably is not involved as a writer this time, as Schur wrote the script.
Why the First Yakuza Game Was Such a Gamble
Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi admitted that even though it is one of Sega’s top-selling franchises in Japan, the series has faced a decade of constant uncertainty, beginning with the very first game.
“We had no idea whether the first game would be a hit. And then when we were making the second one, it was right at the end of the PS2 cycle and we weren't sure yet whether PS3 would be a success,” Nagoshi told IGN Japan. “We are always glad that the games sell well each time, and that motivates the team, but throughout these 10 years or so, we have always felt some anxiety over whether there will be a next game. We have faced constant uncertainty.”
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Kojima Calls Out Metal Gear Survive’s Zombies
During a stage presentation at Tokyo Game Show 2016 for Hideo Kojima's new game, Death Stranding, the Metal Gear series creator made several comments regarding Metal Gear Survive, the zombie action game set in the Metal Gear universe made by Konami.
Kojima took the opportunity to distance himself from Konami’s forthcoming game Metal Gear: Survive, a spin-off from Kojima’s acclaimed Metal Gear series. When asked whether the idea for Survive had come from Kojima himself, he replied, “That’s nothing to do with me!
“The Metal Gear games are about political fiction and espionage,” he continued. “Where do zombies fit in with that?”
Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa on stage at TGS 2016.
Death Stranding Will Be Out Before 2019, New Details
Death Stranding is due for release in 2018, Hideo Kojima told a huge crowd of fans during an on-stage Q&A session at Tokyo Game Show 2016 on Sunday.
“It will be out before the Olympics,” said Kojima, referring to the Tokyo 2020 Games. He then went on, “To go a little further, there is a movie called Akira, and it will be out before the year in which Akira is set.”
The anime movie Akira was set in 2019, so a “before” Akira would peg Death Stranding’s release date at sometime during 2018.
Kojima was joined on stage by Yoji Shinkawa, the longtime character and mechanical designer on the Metal Gear series who is now working on Death Stranding at Kojima’s own studio, Kojima Productions. Questions for the sessions were provided by fans via Twitter in the runup to the event.
First Look: J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon
In honor of today being "Batman Day," Justice League director Zack Snyder posted the first photo of Oscar winner J.K. Simmons as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon in the still-filming DC superhero epic.
Snyder tweeted the photo below of Simmons as Gordon taken on the set of Justice League. I was among the journalists invited to the set in April and can confirm this shot of Gordon is from the GCPD rooftop scene we observed being filmed that day.
It was also Simmons' first day working on the movie.
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Yakuza Will Never Come to Mobile
Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, has ruled out a smartphone version of Sega’s high-concept action franchise, saying that his games are designed with the living room in mind.
“The Yakuza games are designed to be played on a TV at home,” he told IGN Japan, likening the experience of playing on a big TV to watching a movie in the theater instead of on DVD.
“Sometimes people ask us to make games for smartphone, and I’m sure we could make a phone version that would be quite fun to play. But for them to be 100% engaging, they need to be played on a TV with a console, because that’s how they were designed to be played.”
New Destiny ARG Infects Players With Buffs
Bungie has launched an alternate reality game ahead of Destiny's Rise of Iron expansion next week.
The ARG is called Owl Sector, and it's infecting players in game with stat-boosting buffs. The infections can be tracked on the Owl Sector section of the Bungie website.
There are five different infections in all: Brilliance 3.2, Glory 2.1, Splendor 2.6, Magnificence 2.0, and Fortitude 3.1. According to the Owl Sector mega-thread on the Destiny sub-reddit, players can become infected by picking up orbs from infected teammates in either public or private PvP matches.