Suicide Squad Officially Rated PG-13
Suicide Squad will have a PG-13 rating when it's released on August 5, the Motion Picture Association of America announced today.
The news isn't exactly a surprise—in 2015, producer Charles Roven said Suicide Squad would be rated PG-13 to maintain consistency within the rest of the DC Extended Universe. It may be "right there on the edge of PG-13, but still PG-13," Roven added.
As noted by Batman News, the MPAA's Classification and Ratings Administration has given David Ayer's anti-hero flick the rating for "sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior, and suggestive content and language." Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice received a PG-13 rating too, though its home entertainment release includes an extended addition that has been given an R rating.
IGN’s Mobile App Updated with Autoplay Controls
Heads up for those using IGN's native apps for iOS and Android: We've just pushed out updates, including bug fixes and controls for enabling autoplay videos in your feeds.
Earlier this year, we added a feature to the IGN mobile app that automatically plays videos in your feed as you scroll past them. If you're using other apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, this behavior should be familiar. In the IGN app, videos autoplay muted, and only ever on wifi to avoid eating away your mobile data allowance.
Walking Dead Cliffhanger Resolution is Worth the Wait Says Reedus
While The Walking Dead will be back for Season 7 this fall, fans of Norman Reedus won’t have to wait that long to see the actor back on AMC, as he’s starring in the new series, Ride With Norman Reedus, debuting this Sunday.
I sat down with Reedus to discuss that show – look for that full interview later this week – but I also had the chance to ask him about The Walking Dead’s much-debated cliffhanger, which revealed the show’s new villain, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), had killed someone, but not who.
I asked Reedus if he was looking forward to fans getting the resolution to that cliffhanger and he replied, “Yeah! I mean, the truth of it is that it's very precious to us, what we're doing, and it's our thing we're doing out in the woods. It would almost be doing it a disservice to us to go around blabbing about it, because we put so much work into it, and it's so personal to us that we almost don't want to talk about it too much, because it's private and personal, and you'll see it."
Legends of Tomorrow Introducing Different Version of Vixen
While Vixen will indeed appear in the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, it won't be in the manner fans are expecting.
Megalyn Echikunwoke, who voices Vixen on The CW's animated series (available on CW Seed) and guest starred as the character on a season 4 episode of Arrow, reportedly won't be reprising her role. According to TV Insider, Echikunwoke isn't available for the role thanks to "some possible film projects."
Game of Thrones: Sansa’s Secret Letter Translated by Fan
Spoilers for Game of Thrones continue below.
There are two big questions surrounding Sansa Stark's actions at the end of "The Broken Man." First: what did she write in that letter? Second: who did she send the letter to?
While we still don't know the answer to the latter question, one eagle-eyed Game of Thrones fan seems to have puzzled out the first. Savvy Redditor CreepyPancakes zoomed, screenshotted and analyzed the sequence where Sansa wrote her letter, and seems to have figured out most of what she wrote.
First Photo of Hogwarts from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
The first images of Hogwarts from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage play have been revealed—and the magical boarding school looks a little different than it did in the films.
Posted by the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Twitter account, the images show Rose Granger-Weasley surrounded by Hogwarts students and staff, with house banners hanging high above. The play is being produced without Warner Bros.' involvement, which explains the new house logos and imagery.
The first public preview of #HarryPotterPlay #CursedChild has just started. Welcome to Hogwarts! #KeepTheSecrets pic.twitter.com/cnDYxkUC7m
Fuller House May Have More Viewers Than Walking Dead
Fuller House, the Netflix-exclusive followup to the classic family sitcom Full House, is reportedly one of the most-watched television shows of 2016 and may even have more viewers than AMC's The Walking Dead.
According to data pulled by Symphony Advanced Media (via Indiewire), Fuller House had an average of 14.4 million adult viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 during its first 35 days on Netflix, equating to a 10.4 rating. When comparing that to Indiewire's television rankings for the 2015-2016 season, Fuller House tops the list as the most popular series of the year.
Marvel Reportedly Working on Animated TV Shorts
Marvel Animation is looking to produce two TV shorts series—one for Ant-Man, and another for Guardians of the Galaxy's Rocket and Groot.
French animators Ugo Bienvenu and Kevin Manach are in charge of Ant-Man, with Rocket and Groot being helmed by France's Arnaud Delord. The shows were confirmed by the French national film commission after Marvel Animations applied for tax breaks rewarded for French animation work, Variety reported.
IGN has reached out to Marvel for comment regarding its reported animated projects, and will update this story should the studio respond.
Cohen, Get Hard Director Team for Mandrake the Magician
Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen will star in the big screen adaptation of Mandrake the Magician, with Get Hard helmer Etan Cohen directing.
Based on Lee Falk's syndicated comic strip of the same name, the film will see the illusionist "travel the globe solving mysteries and fighting evildoers" alongside his companion, Lothar, according to The Tracking Board.
Sacha Baron Cohen in Hugo.
Agents of SHIELD’s Top 10 Episodes
With Marvel's Agents of SHIELD recently wrapping up its third season -- which is quickly coming to Netflix -- the time is right for a look back at the show's best episodes so far.
Agents of SHIELD took awhile to find its footing, but when it did, it began bringing in many notable Marvel characters and concepts to the screen - most notably the Inhumans and the entire idea of people born with hidden superpowers being introduced into the MCU. At the same time, the core characters began to be fleshed out and given more depth, leading to much more impactful scenarios than when the series began.