The Hateful Tarantino Blasts Disney for Star Wars ‘Extortion’
The Hateful Eight director Quentin Tarantino has some choice words for Disney two months after the Los Angeles Cinemarama Dome chose to extend Star Wars: The Force Awakens' run rather than showing The Hateful Eight, which the filmmaker claims broke an existing agreement he had with the theater.
According to NYDailyNews.com, when asked at the Costume Designers Guild Awards whether he and the House of Mouse have made peace, Tarantino replied “No, they f---ed me over,” and that he would "never work (with Disney) in any way, shape or form after what they did to me.”
This Batman v Superman Toy Looks Incredible
Square Enix has released new photos of its Play Arts Kai Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Armored Batman figure. Check them out in the slideshow below.
A prototype of the figure was displayed at New York Toy Fair earlier this month—along with armored figures from other companies, like Kotobukiya and DC Collectibles. Square Enix's figure in particular stands just around 10 inches tall, and comes with a plastic cape, gun, figure stand, and a few interchangeable hands.
Play Arts Kai Armored Batman is expected to release in July. According to Toy Ark, it'll cost about $150 USD.
10 Best Pokemon BREAKpoint Cards
With the Pokémon TCG: XY—BREAKpoint set becoming legal for tournament play this week, we have a list of the set’s 10 best cards that you should get your hands on.
To help us select the cream of the crop, competitive Pokemon player Simon Narode will be lending his expertise. He's placed high in numerous big tournaments, peaking with a 2nd place finish at the 2013 World Championship, not to mention finishing 7th in 2015.
The previous set, BREAKthrough, introduced the new Pokemon BREAK card type, but ironically none of the them were fit for competitive use. This set changes that, giving us a couple that are definitely going to see some play.
It should be noted that while some of the set’s reprints (Max Potion, Professor Sycamore) and modified reprints (Garbodor) are stellar cards, we’re only considering brand new cards for this list.
Khan Director Joins New Star Trek Show
CBS’ new Star Trek show has added an Enterprise veteran to the team. Nicholas Meyer, best known to fans as the director of what is widely regarded as the greatest Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan, has joined the series as a consulting producer and writer.
Meyer will take his place next to executive-producers Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman on the CBS Television Studios show. The new Star Trek series will premiere on CBS in early 2017, with subsequent episodes streaming on the CBS All Access service.
"Nicholas Meyer chased Kirk and Khan 'round the Mutara Nebula and 'round Genesis' flames, he saved the whales with the Enterprise and its crew, and waged war and peace between Klingons and the Federation. We are thrilled to announce that one of Star Trek's greatest storytellers will be boldly returning as Nicholas Meyer beams aboard the new Trek writing staff," said Fuller in a press release.
Weak 3DS Sales Mean Even Lower Nintendo Profit Projections
Nintendo has adjusted its profit expectations and 3DS sales figures for this fiscal year, and not for the better.
The games company lowered its projected profit 50 percent for the 12-month period ending this March from ¥35 billion to ¥17 billion ($151 million USD). The Wall Street Journal reports this is due to weakening 3DS sales, as well as the strength of the Japanese yen.
While Nintendo is itself a Japanese company much of its holdings are in Euros and U.S. dollars. So when the Japanese currency grows, their offshore accounts shrink in comparison.
Previously, Nintendo projected 3DS sales to hit 7.7 million units. That's now down to 6.7 million, dragging predicted software sales with it to 47 million (down from 56 million). This is in spite of recent upticks in both Wii U and 3DS sales over their respective, previous quarters.
The Division Won’t Have Microtransactions
The Division will be free of microtransactions of a "pay-to-win" nature, according to Ubisoft.
The detail comes from the company's community manager, Natchai Stappers. In response to a tweet about the in-game currency "Phoenix Credit" Stappers assured fans not to worry.
@Tovarisc_ There will be no microtransactions, and definitely no P2W
— natchai stappers (@natchai_) February 26, 2016
Though they didn't go into detail about the currency, the community manager promised more information down the line.
The Oscars: We Predict the Winners and Upsets
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With the 88th Academy Awards upon us, we wager which films and artists will win top honors and which might shock conventional Oscar wisdom.
The Departed TV Series Adaptation Reportedly in the Works
The Departed producer Roy Lee has revealed a possibility for a TV series follow-up to the Academy Award-winning film.
Lee told Collider there had been talks of doing a sequel to The Departed, but it involved reviving “characters who died in the original movie.” Instead, Lee said the idea was revamped into a TV show, similar to what Noah Hawley has done with the Fargo TV series.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson as seen in The Departed
Minecraft Movie Targeting Jurassic World Audience
Warner Bros. Pictures' Minecraft movie is in its scripting stage, producer Roy Lee announced at DICE 2016.
Lee—who produced The LEGO Movie—added his team is "also doing visual designs to show the studio what the world will look like." And according to Collider, Minecraft developer Mojang will be "very involved" in the film's development. Warner Bros. and Mojang will work in collaboration, sharing ideas so the film stays connected to updated versions of the game's world.
"Minecraft would be part of a multiverse where humans can enter," Lee said of the film, "that has the feel of what the live action version of a Minecraft experience."
J.J. Abrams Has an Idea For a Third Cloverfield Film
While it seems the upcoming (and mysterious) 10 Cloverfield Lane isn't technically the Cloverfield 2 we've been waiting for, producer J.J. Abrams says he has an idea for a third Cloverfield movie.
In an interview with EW, Abrams says that while the first two movies are not directly connected, they are "blood relatives" and that there is a "larger conceit at play." Whether that means an anthology set-up or a connected, underlying storyline is still anyone's guess. “This movie is very purposefully not called Cloverfield 2, because it’s not Cloverfield 2,” Abrams also told Fandango, adding that “the association is clear and there are multiple connections – and there is a bigger idea at play for us with these movies and this connection. “