Animated Beauty and the Beast Writer Reacts to New Trailer
The Beauty and the Beast hype is very real. On Monday, the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake starring Emma Watson was viewed a record-breaking 91.8 million times -- which just goes to show how much Disney's animated classic has stuck with fans over the years.
I recently got a chance to speak with Alice Through the Looking Glass screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who also wrote the original 1991 Beauty and the Beast movie. While she's not involved with the new remake, she said she was very excited to see the film drawing from her take on the story and characters. "It makes me really, really happy," she said, upon learning how many people watched the teaser in such a short amount of time. "It's fantastic. I'm really excited about what they're doing."
Halo 5 Hog Wild Update Coming Tuesday
343 Industries will release its Halo 5: Gaurdians Hog Wild REQ items on Tuesday, May 31.
Though much of the larger items slated for Hog Wild were pushed to the Warzone Firefight launch in late June, the developer has a whole slew of new REQs to share this week. 343 Industries dropped its Memories of Reach update earlier in May, making this week's update the second of the month.
As expected, Hog Wild's new REQs update Halo 5's classic Warthog. The legendary REQ in the group—the Vespin Rocket Warthog—adds high-acceleration rockets with a faster reload time. The Rally Warthog is especially durable with its increased speed and heavy armor.
Outlander: Meet the Man Who Played the Biggest Jerk in Scotland
Full spoilers for Outlander's Season 2 episode "The Fox's Lair" continue below.
Outlander viewers finally met an important and infamous figure in Jamie Fraser's past: his grandfather Simon Fraser, the current Lord Lovat. There's a lot of dark history between the two that comes into play when Jamie tries to convince his grandfather to join Bonnie Prince Charlie's cause, and the interactions offer new depths to Sam Heughan's character.
Adding to the excitement about the introduction of Simon Fraser is the actor who played him: Clive Russell. Russell has starred in Ripper Street, Sherlock Holmes and The Wolfman, but is perhaps best known by fans as the Blackfish (Catelyn Stark's uncle Brynden Tully) on Game of Thrones. He got to sink his teeth into Lord Lovat, who not only is Jamie's grandfather in the fictional Outlander world but was a real-life Scottish figure, and rather infamous in actual history as well.
Batman: Arkham Knight GOTY Edition Listed by Retailer
A Game of the Year Edition for Batman: Arkham Knight may soon be on the way, as a premature listing by an online retailer has seemingly outed the title.
According to Amazon Germany, Batman: Arkham Knight - Game of the Year Edition will launch this July for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The listing does not indicate a release for PC.
Batman: Arkham Knight - Game of the Year Edition box art via Amazon Germany
Apocalypse’s 5 Biggest WTF Questions Answered
X-Men: Apocalypse has arrived, which means it’s time for yet another discussion on the biggest questions, surprises, Easter eggs, and WTF moments that went down in the latest film to feature Professor Xavier’s band of merry mutants. We’re talking full spoilers here, so click away from this page if you haven’t seen the film yet.
O.K., still with us? Then let’s use our collective mutant power of deduction and speculation to figure out what’s going on in Apocalypse.
As we said, full spoilers for X-Men: Apocalypse follow…
Look, this is perhaps the most glaring disconnect between Days of Future Past and Apocalypse. You will recall that at the end of that previous film, Mystique -- while posing as William Stryker -- fished an unconscious Wolverine out of the Potomac River. X-Men history tells us that Stryker, of course, would eventually become the guy behind Weapon X, the government research program that would in time give Logan his adamantium skeleton and claws. But when Wolvie shows up for his cameo in Apocalypse at Alkali Lake (Weapon X headquarters), he’s already undergone his Weapon X transformation… under the orders of the real Stryker, it seems. And there’s nary a mention of Mystique’s having saved Logan from the river 10 years earlier.
Sony Confirms No Man’s Sky Delay
UPDATE: Creator Sean Murray officially announced the delay via the PlayStation blog, writing:
The game really has come together, and it’s such an incredible relief. As we sit an play it now, and as I watch playtesters every day, I can finally let myself get excited. We’re actually doing this.However, as we approached our final deadlines, we realized that some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards. I have had to make the tough choice to delay the game for a few weeks to allow us to deliver something special.
Road to E3 2016: Dishonored 2
Brace yourselves: E3 2016 is nearly upon us. From June 12-16, the entire gaming industry will converge on Los Angeles to showcase the biggest games that we’ll be playing for 2016 and beyond. We’ve been updating our Games of E3 List whenever news drops, but now we’re going to go even deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we’re going to highlight one of the biggest games that we hope to see more of at E3. Up today: Dishonored 2.
Animated Spider-Man Rumored to Focus on Miles Morales
A new rumor suggests Sony's untitled animated Spider-Man film will center on Miles Morales—the mixed race Spider-Man who takes over for Peter Park in an alternative Marvel universe.
There are currently two working titles for the Spider-Man film, according to Heroic Hollywood. The titles, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man and The Ultimate Spider-Man: Miles Morales, seem to draw on Morales appearance in Marvel's Ultimate imprint, which has "separate continuity" from Marvel's main timeline.
Our X-Men: Apocalypse Spoilercast
Download Keepin' it Reel, Episode 328!
Welcome back to Keepin' It Reel, the IGN show where Jim Vejvoda, Terri Schwartz, and Joshua Yehl bring you the latest genre movie news.
This week, we delve deep into SPOILERS to discuss X-Men: Apocalypse, which opens in North American theaters this weekend after a week in international release. We go over what we thought worked and didn't, what they got right comics-wise, and where we think the franchise may go next.
John Cena Talks RAW Return, Camp WWE and More
Thanks to a shoulder injury in January, John Cena has been missing from WWE programming for most of the year - though he did make a big appearance at WrestleMania a couple of months ago, in a segment with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and the Wyatt family. However, Cena will be back full time beginning on the next RAW and, in typically impressive fashion, he's returning after five months away, even though the initial prognosis was nine months.
Shortly before his appearance at the NBCUniversal Upfront in New York event last week, I spoke to Cena about coming back to WWE, who he’s hoping to have storylines with and more – including his thoughts on the return of the WWE Women's Championship (replacing the Divas Championship), the adult-aimed animated series Camp WWE and more.