Fantastic Four Director Implies Studio Meddled With His Movie
Josh Trank, director of Fox's near-universally-panned Fantastic Four movie, has tweeted out that we'll never see the "fantastic"version of his movie that he had a year ago.
"A year ago I had a fantastic version of this", Trank tweeted And it would've received great reviews. You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though."
Though the tweet was quickly deleted (and screengrabbed by about a million Twitter users), the implication was clear: studio meddling.
Our review of Fantastic Four dropped earlier today. We called it "aesthetically drab and dramatically inert".
20-Player Dota 2 Mode Revealed
Valve has announced a 20 player, 10 vs. 10 custom game coming to Dota 2 next week. In addition, all custom games will have the option to play with up to 24 players.
The 20-player mode was revealed at The International, where 10 professional players played alongside 10 players selected from the audience.
It was nonsense in all the right ways, with hundreds of kills and chaotic kill combos.
The mode was played in the Dota 2 Reborn/Source 2.0 client, where custom games have become quite popular.
Scream Queens More “Cartoonish” Than American Horror Story
Creator Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story) took the stage during the TCA Press Tour to talk about his new FOX series, Scream Queens, starring Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Keke Palmer, and Abigail Breslin. Accompanied by the cast and co-creators Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk, Ryan explained how Scream Queens is tonally distinct and very different from FX's American Horror Story.
"I think that Scream Queens has a much more satirical, cartoonish quality to the attacks than American Horror Story does," Murphy said, "which is much more sexualized and darker at times. And yes, we have had healthy discussions with broadcast standards. Shockingly, more about the language and the girls having an empowering sense of their own sense of sexuality. I mean, that is the one thing I always find very upsetting, is that violence is cool, for the most part. That's very easy to get through in my job. It's language, it's slang, it's trying to really reflect how people talk. It's trying to write characters who are open about their sexuality, who talk about their sexuality that gets the most attention and the most push‑back."
SHIELD: Chloe Bennet on Fully Becoming Daisy Johnson in Season 3
It’s always tricky talking to cast members from Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, because they have to keep so many secrets. Still, going into Season 3, we know a lot of changes are in store for Skye (Chloe Bennet), on the heels of the huge events that occurred for her in Season 2.
First and foremost, she’s not called Skye anymore – she’s going by her real name, Daisy Johnson (AKA Marvel comics’ Quake). Plus there’s the fact that she knows she's an Inhuman and will be forming a new team of super-powered folks, which will introduce the Secret Warriors into the series.
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour this week, Bennet spoke about Skye, ahem, Daisy’s transformation and what to expect from the shifting character dynamics this year.
Overclocked: Gamescom Has Been Good to PC Gamers
Episode 3 of IGN's PC gaming show Overclocked comes at a busy time: with most of the crew out in the field to cover Valve's The International Dota 2 tournament and in Germany to cover the torrent of Gamescom news, Dan Stapleton and Ryan McCaffrey suit up to cover the biggest PC-related announcements. We look at the cross-platform RTS Halo Wars 2 (from Creative Assembly!?), our first look at Mafia 3, XCOM 2's strategy layer, Call of Duty's surprising PC features, Fallout 4's unlimited leveling, and many more. Then we shift gears to recognize 2015 as a great one for roleplaying games on PC, and recount our experiences of living and gaming with Windows 10.
True Detective: Who Are Season 2’s Villains?
Spoilers for Season 2 of True Detective - through Episode 7 - follow...
As we head into True Detective's 90-minute Season 2 finale, we thought it might be the perfect time to sort out/shake out all the villains who are at the heart of this year's giant land grab conspiracy. The many glowering faces we met during the first three episodes that made the start of the season feel so overloaded and murky. Think L.A. Confidential, but on horse steroids.
Granted, Season 1 sort of operated in a similar manner, and it even became obvious to many viewers that *spoiler* the lawn-mowing man who Rust spoke to briefly (right before getting called away to take out red herring Reggie Ledoux) was the Yellow King killer. It's just that so much time passed between then and when Rust and Marty picked up the case again that a lot of the story's conspiracy threads had gotten clipped (I still think Maggie's dad was in on it all, dammit!). So Rust and Marty were only left with one bad guy to track down and deal with.
DBZ: Resurrection ‘F’ Has Strong US Box Office Debut
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection "F" has opened to an impressive debut, making more than $3 million in only a few weeknights.
Deadline reports that on Tuesday it brought in $1.97 million, despite only playing one showtime per night in less than 900 theaters. Wednesday brought in another $1.6 million. Theaters are reported to have sold out in major markets, and at a budget of only $5 million it's speculated that it could bring in almost $20 million domestically, in a single week.
Minority Report: How the TV Series Will Update the Future
To date, we still don't know much about FOX's Minority Report series. Thanks to a restructuring of the series -- leading man Stark Sands was originally tapped to play both twins Dash and Arthur; now Nick Zano will play the latter, while Sands still plays Dash -- a full pilot hasn't been made available for press as many of the scenes are still being reshot. But that didn't stop the cast and producers from taking the stage during the 2015 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles on Thursday to chat about what to expect from the TV continuation of the Steven Spielberg film.
And no, Tom Cruise was not in attendance. (Nor are there any plans for him to eventually show up.)
What Chris Farley’s Shrek Would’ve Been Like
Some of you may have known that Chris Farley was initially cast to voice the role of Shrek in the original movie, a role later filled by Mike Myers after Farley's death in 1997. Farley had recorded dialogue for the film before he died, and now thanks to the new documentary I Am Chris Farley some of those recordings have resurfaced.
As Nerdist points out, the 1997 story reel below actually went online a couple of years ago, but the new documentary has brought the footage back to light and to a wider audience.
Here's a hint of what might have been:
Green Arrow Fights Hawkeye in New Fan Video Series
The makers of Nightwing: The Series are producing a new series of superhero live-action videos.
Minute Match-Ups pits two comic book characters in a duel to the death, and the outcome of each episode is determined by ranking attributes like strength and speed, as well as taking a fan vote into consideration.
The videos are produced and directed by Ismahawk’s Danny Shepherd and Jeremy Le. Shepherd wrote, produced, and starred as Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing, in the Nightwing series.
The latest episode features DC’s Green Arrow versus Marvel’s Hawkeye. The two sling plenty of arrows and verbal jabs at each other. Green Arrow even makes use of his boxing glove arrow.