Ellen DeGeneres on Finding Dory Again
It’s been 13 years since Finding Nemo hit theaters, a film that went on to make $936 million at the worldwide box office. For the better part of a decade it was the most successful animated movie of all time, before losing that honor to another Disney Pixar film, Toy Story 3.
Finding Dory, which is more of a companion piece to the first film than a traditional sequel, has been five years in the making and is set to be an even bigger success. Ellen DeGeneres, probably one of the most well known people on the planet, returns as the voice of Dory, the forgetful blue tang fish.
I caught up with her in Los Angeles to talk about returning to Dory, the love for the Finding films and characters, a possible threequel or cameo in Toy Story 4 and why she thinks a remake of her 1996 rom-com, Mr. Wrong, is long overdue.
Superman Cast for Supergirl: Season 2
After keeping the character off-screen during Season 1, it was recently announced that Superman will be introduced in Season 2 of Supergirl, as the show moves to the CW. Now we know who'll be portraying the Man of Steel in his new TV incarnation, as Tyler Hoechlin has been cast in the role of Superman/Clark Kent.
Hoechlin first gained attention playing Tom Hanks' son in Road to Perdition, and like his fellow CW/DC Comics hero Colton Haynes (Arrow's Roy Harper/Red Arrow), he's a Teen Wolf alum. More recently, Hoechlin appeared in Fifty Shades of Grey and Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some.
Id Hasn’t Ruled Out Consoles for Quake Champions
Despite saying id Software would focus on "one platform," PC, for Quake Champions, studio director Tim Willits said he hasn't "totally
the door on consoles."
"It's a PC game. No excuses. No limitations," Willits told GameSpot. "We drew lines around this game to make the best game we can within the scope." However, id Software does "love
console fans," saying that a console edition of the game could come in the future.
id Software wants to ensure as many PC players as possible get their hands on the game. Quake Champions will run decently with lower-end specs, but it'll "shine on good systems," Willits added.
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Wicked: Movie Version Coming 2019
The long-gestating film version of the popular Broadway musical Wicked will hit theaters December 20, 2019.
Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, who together adapted Gregory Maguire's novel into the Tony Award-winning musical, will collaborate on the film's screenplay. Stephen Daldry will direct, with Marc Platt (Into the Woods) producing.
Poster from the stage version of Wicked
Wicked tells the story of The Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
New Star Trek Character Gets Beyond Poster
A new Star Trek Beyond poster featuring Sofia Boutella's alien warrior Jaylah has been revealed.
Check out Boutella's character, as well as several others, including Zachary Quinto's Spock, Chris Pine's Kirk and Karl Urban's Bones in our poster gallery below.
Star Trek Beyond opens in theaters on July 22, 2016, and is directed by Justin Lin. For more on the film, be sure to check out its second official trailer, as well as these 12 things we learned about Beyond from the director.
Nintendo Boss on NX: ‘For Us, It’s Not About Specs’
Nintendo is more focused on delivering great content rather than making its next console, codenamed NX, a technical powerhouse, according NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime.
When asked how Nintendo NX will stack up against Sony and Microsoft's forthcoming hardware revisions—namely PlayStation 4 NEO and Xbox One Scorpio—Fils-Aime told Bloomberg (via Nibel): "For us, it's not about specs, it's not about teraflops, it's not about the horsepower of a particular system. For us, it's about the content."
Original Skyrim Saves ‘Should Transfer’ to Skyrim SE on PC
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition will come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on October 28—and for PC players, saves from the original game "should transfer."
Pete Hines, vice president of public relations and marketing at Bethesda, confirmed with Bethesda game director Todd Howard saves from the original edition of Skyrim will be supported in the special edition. He also reported the remastered edition will run on a 64-bit engine on PC, and that there will be a "separate creation kit" for uploading mods.
Console save files will not be available, Hines said.
Michael Bay to Direct VR Project
Michael Bay is partnering with Los Angeles–based startup The Rogue Initiative to direct and produce a "gritty, danger-close action" virtual reality project.
Bay will also serve as a strategic adviser along with Interstellar producer Linda Obst. The Rogue Initiative is reportedly looking for additional investment and strategic partnerships, and is planning to distribute its projects through Sony PlayStation, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
"I'm excited about building new visual worlds for this innovative medium with them," Bay said in a statement, and as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
We Happy Few Looks Like BioShock, But Is a Different Beast
The intro to Compulsion Games' We Happy Few comes straight out of George Orwell's nightmares, with people taking pills of Joy to ignore the fact that their dystopian world is so terrible. It's an aesthetic that immediately drew comparisons to BioShock, a franchise with a similar style and tone, but the setting is where the similarities both begin and end.
Compulsion debuted the opening of We Happy Few at E3 2016 and introduced people to Arthur Hastings, an employee at City Hall's Department of Archives, Recycling and Printing in the not-so-happy town of Wellington Wells. He proves to be a Downer, a person who refuses to take the Joy drug that prevents them from seeing how dystopic the world has become, and his escape from Wellington Wells drives a big portion of the game.