Daddy’s Home Sequel in the Works
Daddy's Home, last year's comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, is officially getting a sequel.
As Deadline reports, Ferrell and Wahlberg have signed on to reprise their roles as Brad Taggart and Dusty Mayron, respectively. Sean Anders will also return to direct and co-write the script alongside John Morris.
At this time, there's no word on the plot, or which, if any, of the other original cast members -- which included Hannibal Buress, Linda Cardellini and Thomas Haden Church -- will return.
Daddy's Home opened last Christmas and went on to gross $240 million USD worldwide.
The Simpsons Pays Tribute to Disney Animation
The Simpsons has something special in store for Disney animation fans, as the next episode features a couch gag that pays homage to several of that studio's beloved animated classics.
The gag was created by Eric Goldberg, the animator behind a number of Disney films, including Aladdin, Hercules and Fantasia 2000. In it, each member of The Simpsons family takes on the look of a different character/era in Disney history. See Bart as Fantasia's Mickey, Lisa as Cinderella and Homer as Jungle Book's Baloo in the clip below.
The full episode, titled "Fland Canyon," airs this Sunday, April 24 at 8/7c on FOX.
The Simpsons currently stands as the longest-running scripted show in television history. It's currently in its 27th season and was renewed for a 28th last year. For more on the beloved animated comedy, check out IGN's top 25 Simpsons couch gags.
Vikings: What to Expect When Season 4 Returns
Full spoilers for Vikings through its Season 4a finale, "The Last Ship," continue below.
That time jump in Vikings' Season 4 midseason finale is sure going to shake things up when the series returns later in 2016.
Marco Islø as Hvitserk, Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn, Alex Høgh Andersen as Ivar, Travis Fimmel as Ragnar, Jordan Patrick Smith as Ubbe and David Lindstron as Sigurd
Supergiant’s Pyre is Beautiful and Impossibly Weird (In a Good Way!)
I'm not exactly sure what I expected from my first 30 minutes with Pyre, Supergiant's follow-up to their fantastic first two games Bastion and Transistor, but it sure as hell wasn't this. But honestly, I'm every bit as mesmerized by this latest weird, beautiful world that the studio has created as I was three years ago when I first played Transistor.
Pyre is a lot of things. It's a poetic, 4th-wall-breaking adventure that tells its fantasy tale through the mechanics of a visual novel. It's an RPG that has you leveling up your three heroes (a horn-laden woman, a dashing rogue, and a cool dog-man with a nice mustache) and investing in skill trees that felt very reminiscent of Transistor. But perhaps most strangely, its battles legitimately feel like a bizarre mix of Transistor, Dota, and Rocket League. Yep, you read that last one correctly.
Penny Dreadful: New Season 3 Sneak Peek
The grim, grinning ghouls of Showtime's Penny Dreadful return for their third season on Sunday, May 1st, and IGN's got an exclusive clip from the season premiere, "The Day Tennyson Died."
Here you'll see Eva Green's perpetually haunted/possessed Vanessa Ives with Christian Camargo (Dexter, House of Cards), introduced in Season 3 as zoologist Dr. Alexander Sweet. You know, just talking about the ominous nature of the pale "Death Stalker" scorpion. An appropriately creepy Penny Dreadful topic of conversation. Enjoy!
Penny Dreadful returns to Showtime for Season 3 on Sunday, May 1st.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.
Person of Interest: The Episodes to Catch You Up
Over the past five years, Person of Interest has established itself as an action-packed, thought-provoking ride in the same vein as The Dark Knight (no shock, since TDK writer Jonathan Nolan is the show's creator), WarGames, Philip K. Dick and George Orwell novels and more. If you're into shows and movies about the benefits and dangers of A.I., and also love thrilling action, POI is for you! With the fifth and final season debuting on May 3rd, we wanted to give you an updated list of essential episodes, for any curious to check out the show but feeling they don't have time to watch every single episode.
Outlander: The History vs. Fiction of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Bonnie Prince Charlie is an incredibly important figure in Scotland’s history, but in the context of Outlander: Season 2, he’s bad news for main characters Claire and Jamie Fraser.
With the Frasers’ mission to stop the Battle of Culloden from ever happening, their goal is to try to prevent Prince Charles Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, from staking his claim on the British throne. It’s a huge challenge for Jamie to have to move against his own people, but also a huge challenge for actor Sam Heughan. In filming Season 2, he had to act opposite a fictionalized version of an important figure from his country’s history who is being characterized in a very different manner from how Heughan learned about him in school.
Opinion: DC Needs to Take Vertigo Back to Its Roots
The last few years have been rocky ones for DC's once-venerable Vertigo imprint. Vertigo has now lost two of its guiding forces, first with the departure of Executive Editor Karen Berger in 2012 and more recently with the termination of her replacement, Shelly Bond. Vertigo is now facing major restructuring as DC Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee take direct control of the imprint.
Bond's termination comes as the mature readers imprint has struggled to keep pace with independent publishers like Image Comics and rebuild its comic book lineup. It's not easy to replace the likes of Fables, Y: The Last Man and Scalped. And maybe the truth is that there's no point in trying. Rather than focusing on creator-owned comics and trying to beat publishers like Image at their own game, the Vertigo imprint needs to return to its roots as a haven for mature, literary DC stories.
Game of Thrones Will Have 10-15 Episodes Left After Season 6
Game of Thrones executive producers and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have given an updated estimate of how long the show will last after Season 6.
They told The Hollywood Reporter that fans of the show can expect 10-15 more episodes after this year's finale. This number is a bit more flexible than the 13 episodes Benioff had previously said he felt were left after Season 6, though still seems to indicate the show will end by 2018.
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