Maze Runner Director: Dylan O’Brien ‘One Tough Cookie’

Maze Runner: The Death Cure director Wes Ball issued a statement regarding star Dylan O'Brien's set injury, ensuring the actor will be "just fine."

Ball's letter, which was posted to Twitter, comes just days after O'Brien suffered serious injuries on the Vancouver set of Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

"Well, it's been a whirlwind of emotions these past few days," he wrote. "I've been overwhelmed with feelings of anger and sadness and guilt."

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Marvel Reveals Civil War 2 Tie-In Comics

C2E2 is one of the first big comic conventions of 2016, and Marvel showed up in force to announce several new titles and shed more light on their plans for Civil War II this summer. The publisher announced a total of six new comics at the show this weekend, as well as various Civil War II tie-ins and a couple other unexpected surprises.

Scroll down to see what's coming in the months ahead.

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The Witcher 3 Wins SXSW 2016 Game of the Year

CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was crowned Video Game of the Year at South by South West's Gaming Awards. And it's not the first big win for The Witcher 3—the open world role-playing game was also named IGN's 2015 Game of the Year.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt took home the most awards of the night, also winning for its Excellence in Narrative and Excellence in Technical Achievement.

Bloodborne, IGN's PlayStation 4 Game of the Year, and Rise of the Tomb Raider, our Xbox One Game of the Year, each took home two awards. For Bloodborne, Excellence in Art and Excellence in Design. For Lara Croft, Excellence in Animation and Most Enduring Character. Undertale—IGN's PC Game of the Year—was given the title of Most Fulfilling Crowdfunding Game, as well as the Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award.

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Fear the Walking Dead: 9 Things to Know About Season 2

The cast and creators of Fear the Walking Dead took part in a panel for the show at the annual PaleyFest in Los Angeles this weekend, giving hints at what’s to come when the show returns for Season 2 on April 10th.

Here’s what was revealed about aquatic zombies, Strand, the show’s timeline, why a crossover with The Walking Dead isn’t happening and more.

(L-R) Alycia Debnam Carey, Colman Domingo, Mercedes Mason, Rubén Blades, Kim Dickens, Nick Dillane, Lorenzo James Henrie and Cliff Curtis at PaleyFest. Photo credit: © Rob Latour for the Paley Center. (L-R) Alycia Debnam Carey, Colman Domingo, Mercedes Mason, Rubén Blades, Kim Dickens, Nick Dillane, Lorenzo James Henrie and Cliff Curtis at PaleyFest. Photo credit: © Rob Latour for the Paley Center.

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How Ghostbusters II Broke My Heart

What follows is a story of pint-sized triumph quickly followed by abject failure. The tale of how an insincere disc jockey built a little boy up, only to callously knock him down. And an account of how that little boy's knowledge of Gorillas in the Mist was ultimately his undoing.

I was a big Ghostbusters fan back in the day, even though the film came out when I was six-years-old and that scene in the library gave me nightmares for months.

But in spite of those sleepless nights I bought the toys, the album and the VHS, watched the cartoon religiously, and even tried to build my own proton pack (sorry family vacuum cleaner).

So in 1989, when news of a sequel made its way over the Atlantic via Fangoria, Film Review and a trailer on heavy rotation in cinemas, I couldn’t have been more excited.

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Miitomo Reaches 1 Million Users in Japan

Miitomo, the Nintendo iOS and Android social app, just hit one million users.

The statistic was announced over the official Miitomo Twitter account. It's also just the latest milestone for what's proving to be a very popular bit of software for Nintendo.

Miitomo launched exclusively in Japan last Friday at number two on the iOS App Store. Shortly afterwards it climbed past Puzzle and Dragons Radar to claim the top spot. Now, just three days after release in a single territory, Nintendo has another reason to celebrate.

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Black Sails: Zach McGowan on Vane’s Big Decision

Warning: Full spoilers for the March 19th episode of Black Sails, “XXVII.” follow.

This week’s Black Sails – the penultimate episode of Season 4 -- was a huge one, as two characters we’d known since the beginning both died.

The death of Mr. Scott (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) wasn’t a surprise, as the character had been on his deathbed for several episodes. But fans may be shocked that Charles Vane (Zach McGowan) also didn’t make it out alive, as he was hung after his capture in the last episode – reflecting the way the otherwise much-different, real life Vane died.

I spoke to McGowan about saying goodbye to Vane, why he was excited by his final episodes, the way things ended with Eleanor (Hannah New) and more, including Vane making the big decision to signal Billy Bones (Tom Hopper) to not try and rescue him right before his execution.

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Science Determines Time Vampires Need to Drink

Turns out it takes a lot longer for a vampire to drink your blood than Hollywood's best guesses.

How can we know? A group of University of Leicester did the math. They estimate it would take just under six and a half minutes for supernatural bloodsuckers to live up to their name.

Bear in mind this doesn't account for every drop of blood in the human body.

"Any more than 15% blood loss and the heart rate starts to change," the students' findings explain. So if noted video game star Dracula went for the throat that's how much he'd be able to reasonably get at without "slurping" his drink, so to speak.

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The 100: Alycia Debnam-Carey on Fan Reaction Over Lexa

Warning: Full spoilers for recent events from The 100 follow.

The 100 has seen many characters die since it began, but the reaction to the recent loss of Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has been incredibly notable, to say the least.

A fan favorite since her introduction, the Commander’s death has also become heavily involved in an ongoing discussion about the treatment of LGBTQ characters on TV – particularly lesbians, where examples of a couple getting a happy ending are few and far between. In this case, some fans also felt that the show's creators had used social media to falsely raise expectations that Lexa would survive.

In the wake of Lexa's death, many fans have expressed both their sadness and anger over the way the story was told, creating blogs, campaigns and even a very successful drive to raise money for the Trevor Project inspired by the show's turn of events.

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Barrymore, Olyphant Starring in New Netflix Comedy Series

Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant are teaming up to star in a new Netflix original comedy series called Santa Clarita Diet.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show -- which is set to premiere in 2017 -- centers around a married couple of realtors living in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Olyphant stars as Joe, while Barrymore plays his wife Sheila.

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