What Was the Best Superhero Movie Commercial?
There were a flurry of movie spots aired during yesterday's Super Bowl broadcast, four of which were for upcoming comic book movies: Deadpool, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Shadows.
Behold BvS: Dawn of the Superfriends
What if Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had come out way back in the day instead of 2016?
This fan-made trailer below does a shot-by-shot remake of the DC movie's latest trailer ... but substitutes Adam West, George Reeves, and Linda Carter for Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, and Gal Gadot.
And wait until you see who they have playing Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor and Doomsday. Via Flickering Myth:
Here's the original version of the BvS trailer below to compare:
Meet the Robotic Cockroach That Could Save Your Life
Someday a tiny robotic cockroach could help save your life.
The Verge reports that researchers at UC Berkeley created a robot they've named CRAM--Compressible Robot with Articulated Mechanisms. The tiny robot resembles a cockroach to imitate the creature's ability to fit into tight spaces and resistance to destruction. It uses a jointed exoskeleton along with a soft shell that lets it shift its shape.
Scientists Kaushik Jayaram and Robert Full came up with a series of experiments to test on cockroaches, in order to gather data on three key aspects: "crevice traversal," "confined space crawling," and reactions to "dynamic compressive forces." The first two apply to horizontal and vertical movement, respectively, while the last was to test and imitate a cockroach's ability to sustain a force of up to 900 times its body weight.
Assassin’s Creed: How The Matrix Influenced The Film
Michael Fassbender is likening Assassin's Creed to definitive sci-fi film The Matrix. "The idea of DNA memory elevates it from a basic fantasty genre
," the star told Empire Online, "because you have something an audience can actually believe in."
Assassin's Creed will be classic in another major way. "Very little green screen" is used in the film, which Fassbender says is "highly unusual." Fans of the video game will see Assassin's Creed's signature move—the leap of faith—done by stunt-folks without any type of rope.
Rock Band 4 Publisher’s CEO and Chairman Have Resigned
Gaming peripherals manufacturer and Rock Band 4 publisher Mad Catz has announced an executive shakeup a day ahead of its earnings call tomorrow.
Chairman Thomas Brown, President and CEO Darren Richardson, and Senior VP Whitney Peterson have all tendered their resignations from Mad Catz. Mad Catz’ has named director John Nyholt as the new Chairman and CFO Karen McGinnis as the new President and CEO.
“Looking ahead, we are confident that we have a talented leadership team in place that will enable us to steer the Company on a steady course in its operations and financial performance as we look to grow our business and reward our shareholders,” Karen McGinnis said in a statement.
Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Live Images Leak
Images of Samsung's new flagship phones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, have surfaced.
The Galaxy S7 image comes from Vietnamese website reviewdao.vn, which claims to have a "hands on" with the phone. The S7 Edge image, XDA Developers reports, comes via Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Samsung Galaxy via XDA Developers
Out This Week: Firewatch, Unravel
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The Walking Dead’s Return is This Week’s TV Highlight
There isn't all that much going down this week, TV-wise, but what is there is BIG. We're talking HBO's Vinyl, from Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, a Flash that takes us over to Earth-2 where the team battles Killer Frost, and - of course - the return of The Walking Dead. Just in time for Valentine's Day.
Which is, as you might suspect, our big TV pick for the week. The midseason finale left us with not one - but TWO cliffhangers. Rick and company covered in guts and holding hands in the midst of an Alexandria herd, and (in the post-credits tag) Daryl and company getting pulled over by Negan's cronies. Both dire scenarios that require immediately follow up.
So will the flood of walkers spell out doom for Alexandria? Will Rick and his delicate chain of nervous citizens make it to safety, or will they get devoured like a candy necklace? And...well, there's just no way Daryl, Abraham, and Sasha are going to give up their s*** to this Negan character. So in the very least we're in for an action-packed midseason premiere.
Onimusha Discussions Happening at ‘High Levels’ at Capcom
Yoshinoro Ono has revealed that an Onimusha reboot has been discussed at Capcom.
Ono told DailyStar he's "spoken internally with people who made Onimusha" with him originally "and talked about how interesting it would be to revisit that series." However, the producer is adamant fans of the series shouldn't get excited at this point, as the company is "not further down the road than the discussion phase."
With Capcom, Ono has been busy with the impending release of Street Fighter V, and is "not really in a position to start that same level of battle" he said he had to fight to get Street Fighter IV made.
Syfy Renews The Magicians for Season 2
The freshman class of Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy will be returning for a sophomore year now that Syfy has renewed The Magicians for a 13-episode second season.
“Thanks to an extraordinarily gifted creative team of executive producers and our partners at Universal Cable Productions, The Magicians has become a buzzed-about hit, enchanting fans of the novels as well as attracting new and younger audiences to Syfy,” said Dave Howe, the network's president.
The renewal comes just three episodes into the show's first season, which the networks says have averaged 1.7 millions viewers with a good chunk of that in the coveted 18-34 demographic.
Adapted from Lev Grossman's bestselling series, the show follows a young man named Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) who's accepted into a magical school -- one that proves to be a lot more The Rules of Attraction than Harry Potter.