Spielberg’s The BFG Bombs at Weekend Box Office
Director Steven Spielberg's new Disney film The BFG had an underwhelming debut this weekend, placing fourth at the box office with $19.6 million.
The adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's book boasted a production budget of $140 million, making its performance this weekend nothing short of a major flop for the studio.
Meanwhile, Pixar's Finding Dory held strong in first place for yet another week, earning $41.9 million. Just behind in second place was The Legend of Tarzan, which debuted to $38.1 million.
While it exceeded expectations, Variety notes The Legend of Tarzan cost $180 million to produce, so Warner Bros. will have to depend on foreign performance before determining whether or not it was a successful endeavor.
Spielberg’s The BFG Bombs at Weekend Box Office
Director Steven Spielberg's new Disney film The BFG had an underwhelming debut this weekend, placing fourth at the box office with $19.6 million.
The adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's book boasted a production budget of $140 million, making its performance this weekend nothing short of a major flop for the studio.
Meanwhile, Pixar's Finding Dory held strong in first place for yet another week, earning $41.9 million. Just behind in second place was The Legend of Tarzan, which debuted to $38.1 million.
While it exceeded expectations, Variety notes The Legend of Tarzan cost $180 million to produce, so Warner Bros. will have to depend on foreign performance before determining whether or not it was a successful endeavor.
LEGO Star Wars: Freemakers – In Defense of Battle Droids
Recently, I got to attend a press event for Disney XD's LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and chat with Matthew Wood, who's not only the voice of R0-GR (aka "Roger") on that show but the supervising sound editor on Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Episode VIII. He was also the voice of General Grievous in Episode III and on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, plus a smattering of other characters (including the battle droids) across the Star Wars saga.
During our chat, we talked about Wood's sympathy for battle droids, editing sound on the new Star Wars movies, and the awesomeness that is LEGO...
LEGO Star Wars: Freemakers – In Defense of Battle Droids
Recently, I got to attend a press event for Disney XD's LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and chat with Matthew Wood, who's not only the voice of R0-GR (aka "Roger") on that show but the supervising sound editor on Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Episode VIII. He was also the voice of General Grievous in Episode III and on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, plus a smattering of other characters (including the battle droids) across the Star Wars saga.
During our chat, we talked about Wood's sympathy for battle droids, editing sound on the new Star Wars movies, and the awesomeness that is LEGO...
Attack on Titan: Season 2 Anime Coming 2017
The second season of Attack on Titan has been announced for a spring 2017 release.
News of the show's long-awaited return was revealed alongside a promotional image at the Tokyo International Forum during an Attack Festival live-reading event (via Crunchyroll). See the new Season 2 visual below.
Attack on Titan: Season 2 visual
Attack on Titan: Season 2 Anime Coming 2017
The second season of Attack on Titan has been announced for a spring 2017 release.
News of the show's long-awaited return was revealed alongside a promotional image at the Tokyo International Forum during an Attack Festival live-reading event (via Crunchyroll). See the new Season 2 visual below.
Attack on Titan: Season 2 visual
10 Outrageous JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Cosplay
Anime Expo is going on right now, and that means there's a ton of awesome cosplay on display. We grabbed a few JoJo's Bizarre Adventure cosplayers and got their photos during the event.
Anime Expo runs through July 4th, and if you're an anime fan, there's plenty of news to be found. Distributor Crunchyroll is releasing a ton of anime titles on Blu-ray and DVD, and Sentai Filmworks is dubbing Food Wars and many other series for Western release.
Monster Musume, Food Wars, Himotou! Umaru-chan Getting Dubs
During its Anime Expo panel, Sentai Filmworks announced it's releasing English dubs for seven shows.
Ushio and Tora, GATE, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Himōto! Umaru-chan, Amagi Brilliant Park, Monster Musume, and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? will all be dubbed in English. Sentai Filmworks has not announced a release date for the dubs.
Anime Expo 2016 is taking place this weekend—from July 1 to July 4. Earlier this week, it was announced that anime streaming service Crunchyroll will release a bunch of English-dubbed series, including Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress and and Berserk.
Pixar Has No Sequels Planned After 2019
It doesn't look like a sequel to Inside Out or WALL-E will be happening anytime soon, as Pixar confirmed it has no current plans for any sequels after the release of The Incredibles 2 in 2019.
In an interview with EW, Pixar president Jim Morris said the studio wants to focus on creating more original content instead of continuing to build on existing franchises, telling the outlet that "everything after Toy Story and The Incredibles is an original right now."
Pixar's next sequel, Cars 3, releases in June of next year, which will be followed by Toy Story 4 in 2018 and The Incredibles 2 the year after. The studio's original plan was to "make an original every year and a sequel every other year," but the scheduling didn't work out as planned. That said, Morris noted that Pixar will still have a total of "seven sequels in a spate of 21 originals" following Disney's acquisition of the studio ten years ago.
Arrow: Cody Rhodes to Guest in Season 5
With Cody Rhodes now gone from WWE, we're never going to get the Stardust/Stephen Amell rematch we were all hoping for. But Rhodes leaving the company means that he's free to join Amell over in his world - on The CW's Arrow.
At the Heroes & Villains FanFest in New Jersey earlier today, Amell and Rhodes jointly announced that the former WWE Superstar will be guest starring in the third episode of Arrow's fifth season.
Guest starring on #Arrow this fall... Mr. @CodyRhodes --
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) July 2, 2016