Star Wars: Isaac, Ridley Duet ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’
Star Wars: The Force Awakens actors Oscar Isaac and Daisy Ridley showcased their singing skills by performing a duet to the tune of Frank Loesser's 1944 classic "Baby It's Cold Outside."
The performance was posted on the official Star Wars Twitter account at the request of a fan:
.@sherrilynling asks to Oscar and Daisy: can the two of you do a duet sometime? #TwitterAwakens pic.twitter.com/z6WkI3dXIa
Boruto: Naruto the Movie Coming to Select Theaters
Boruto: Naruto the Movie is coming select theaters in the United States later this month for a special two-day event.
Eleven Arts and VIZ Media will be showing the animated feature on Sunday, December 13 at 12:55pm local time and again on Monday, December 14 at 7:00pm local time, Fathom Events announced.
The movie will be shown in approximately 200 theaters across the U.S. and will be presented in the original Japanese with English subtitles. Additionally, it will feature a special introduction from NYCC, with opening remarks from executive producer Masashi Kishimoto and Naruto voice actor Junko Takeuchi.
Carrie Fisher Thinks Slave Leia Merch Controversy Is ‘Stupid’
We heard a rumor back in November that Leia's slave bikini was being retired from merchandise and marketing. Carrie Fisher told the Wall Street Journal that she thinks "it's stupid."
The outrage regarding Leia's slave outfit exploded when a father's post went viral. The father was disgusted that Target would sell slave Leia merchandise, and he didn't want to explain the look to his young daughters.
"How about telling his daughter that the character is wearing that outfit not because she's chosen to wear it. She's been forced to wear it," Fisher told the LA Times. "She's a prisoner of a giant testicle who has a lot of saliva going on and she does not want to wear that thing and it's ultimately that chain, which you're now indicating is some sort of accessory to S&M, that is used to kill the giant saliva testicle…. That's asinine."
Ant-Man and Wasp Director Wants ‘Much Weirder’ Sequel
Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed has shared a few new details on his vision for the film, saying he'd like to make a sequel that's "much weirder" than its predecessor.
"The goal is to keep what we really liked for the characters in the first one, but to make it a much weirder movie," Reed said during a recent Q&A (via Newsarama).
The director went on to discuss the importance of the partnership between Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in the comics, and how he plans to explore the pair's relationship in the film.
The Strangers 2 Announced for December 2016
The Strangers 2 will be released on December 2nd, 2016, Relativity Media has announced.
According to TheWrap, Strangers 2 will be one of five films the company releases next year, with The Disappointments Room coming on March 25, followed thereafter by Before I Wake on April 8, Kidnap on May 13 and Masterminds on September 30.
Deception director Marcel Langenegger was originally in negotiations to helm the sequel to 2008's well-received hit, The Strangers, but whether or not he's still involved in the project following Relativity's restructuring is unknown.
Sony/TriStar to Release Trainspotting 2
Sony’s TriStar Pictures has secured the rights to produce and distribute the long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle's Trainspotting.
The currently untitled film will mark the return of Boyle as director, as well as Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge. Additionally, the core cast of the 1996 original, including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle will be returning to play Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie. There's no word yet on whether Kelly MacDonald will be back as Diane.
(L-R) Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremmer and Ewan McGreggor in 1996's Trainspotting.
J Allard Saw Xbox as the Start of a ‘Second Microsoft’
Microsoft's former chief experience officer and chief technology officer for the entertainment and devices division J Allard believed Xbox would kick off a new era for the global software developer.
"In many ways, I thought about Xbox as the starting point for a second Microsoft," Allard told GamesTM in an interview. He thought the Xbox could help move Microsoft to become a company "totally focused on consumers, entertainment and artists."
Allard pointed to Apple, noting how it's seen enormous success with its "focus on consumers, media, consumption and non-PC form factors." He expressed disappointment that Xbox didn't become something even more than it already is.
"Yes, it was a success in the gaming category," he said, but he had hoped it would have served as a jumping-off point for Microsoft to introduce "a consumer-minded platform, brand and set of products and services" that would have been complimentary to the Windows and office productivity side of Microsoft's business.
Gigantic Delayed as Developer Lays Off 16
Motiga, developer of the upcoming MOBA Gigantic, has laid off 16 of its staff while delaying the game into 2016.
"As a pre-revenue startup, our resources are finite. Stretching Gigantic development milestones over more time requires that we stretch those resources in the same fashion," the developer explained in a studio update.
It followed up by stating that "All impacted employees are receiving severances and job placement assistance," and promising details about the state of the game in the near future.
Gigantic was first announced for PC in the summer of 2014, and for Xbox One earlier this year.
The Walking Dead: The Most Brutal Walker Kills
AMC's The Walking Dead just wrapped up its fall half-season and so while we wait the requisite two-plus months for the show to return, let's take a stroll down mutilation lane and look as some of the series' most hardcore walker kills.
You don't always have to kill walkers. Sometimes it's easier and more pragmatic to just go around them and avoid the danger all together. But as Abraham has shown us, there's some glee and glory to be found in mashing up some mushy zombies. Even though they have no idea what's happening to them. And then don't care. And they can't feel any of it. Really, it's for us. To make us feel better about the world being a harsh, hostile wasteland.
So let's revel in the gore for a second. Share a brief moment together and reflect on some of the most violent and brutal ways one can dispatch a walker.
HD-DVD Was ‘Not Important’ to Xbox 360 Team
Former Microsoft executive J Allard said that when it came to the core functionality of the Xbox 360, HD-DVD distracted his team from its core beliefs as to what the gaming machine should focus on.
"A new format for high-resolution movies was not important to us," Allard told GamesTM in an interview.
Instead, the former chief technology officer for the entertainment and devices division at Microsoft said "leading the charge in online gaming" was where his team concentrated its focus.
"We spent a stupid amount of time on stuff like HD-DVD in response to the competition," Allard said, referring to Sony's decision to ship the PS3 with a Blu-Ray drive. At the time, both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were fledgling formats, both vying for a foothold in an ecosystem where only one could survive.