Yearly Archives: 2018
Breaking Down the 2018 Summer Box Office Season
The Labor Day holiday weekend represents an extra day off of work or school for most, but in Hollywood, it marks the end of the lucrative summer box office season. The movie industry typically defines the summer movie season as taking place between the first weekend in May (when many colleges across the country let out) and the Labor Day holiday weekend, and this year, Hollywood was looking to rebound from its worst summer since 2006.
If you look at just the raw numbers, without exception, it didn’t… but it’s a lot more complicated than that. So, we’re going to take a deep dive through the numbers and break down what happened this summer at the box office, and why it could lead to some potentially surprising changes.
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Fortnite Finals Summer Skirmish Schedule and Times
The finals of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish take place this weekend at PAX West, and you'll be able to watch all of the action live right here on IGN.
The eight-week competition, which kicked off last month and boasts a prize pool of $8 million USD, will come to an end with four more days of matches that conclude on Monday, September 3. To ensure you don't miss a second of the action, check out our handy rundown of when and where on IGN you'll be able to watch all four days of the Fortnite competition live.
- Friday, August 31 from 7-10pm PT/10pm-1am ET (Saturday, September 1 from 3-6am UK/12-3pm AET)
Fall 2018 TV Preview: 32 Shows We Can’t Wait to See
Are you ready to be overwhelmed and outnumbered on almost every front by television? That's what Fall is all about, and this year the networks, cable channels, and streaming giants are all duking it out for your precious binge time.
Netflix is unleashing more seasons of Iron Fist, Castlevania, American Vandal, and Daredevil, while also unveiling new gems like Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Meanwhile, Hulu's got Sean Penn in The First and Amazon's got Julia Roberts in Homecoming.
Then there's the new Purge series, some brand new Always Sunny, a Murphy Brown revival, a Magnum P.I. reboot, a Sons of Anarchy spinoff, and a rebooted...revival?...in ABC's The Conners. Plus, more Outlander, Man in the High Castle, The Good Place, and House of Cards (the final season) - and the debut of Titans, the flagship show for DC's brand new streaming platform, DC Universe.
Marvel Comics Reveals the Fate of Wolverine
The search for Wolverine drew to a close this week, but for the recently resurrected Logan, his problems have only just begun.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends #1!
Marvel just wrapped up four separate Hunt for Wolverine miniseries, with each book featuring a different team trying to track down the wayward Wolverine and learn what he's been up to since his unexpected return. None of these teams were entirely successful, and this finale issue sees Daredevil and Iron Man travel to the X-Mansion to compare notes with Kitty Pryde.
J.K. Rowling Felt ‘Quite Sentimental’ Going Back to Hogwarts in New Teaser Feature
The sequel to the first Fantastic Beasts film will be set among more of the iconic places from the Harry Potter world than were in the first film – including Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. To celebrate heading Back to Hogwarts, Warner Bros. has released a behind-the-scenes teaser video with commentary from the stars of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
"I loved going back to Hogwarts. Of course, I did," creator and screenwriter J.K. Rowling said. "It looks very familiar to anyone who saw the Potter movies. But, obviously, the teaching staff are different."
"Those names, the stories, the histories, that sit in the back of our mind from the Potter series begin to weave their way into Beasts," Eddie Redmayne said.
How Adventure Time Inspired a New Generation of Creators
Adventure Time is embarking on its final quest on September 3, with the fate of Candy Kingdom hanging in the balance.
To commemorate Jake and Finn's fantastical journey, IGN has an exclusive clip from the upcoming Adventure Time: The Final Seasons DVD, which goes on sale September 4 and includes every episode from Seasons 8, 9 and 10 in addition to a behind-the-scenes featurette, animatics and song demos from the last run of episodes.
Looking back at the legacy of Adventure Time, it's impressive to realize how many of the artists, writers and producers who worked on the series went on to create their own shows because of the lessons they learned in the Land of Ooo. In the exclusive video below, Summer Camp Island creator Julia Pott, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, and OK KO! Let's Be Heroes creator Ian Jones-Quarty and co-EP Toby Jones reminisce about the impact the series had on them along with executive producer Adam Muto and voice artist Ashly Burch.
Check Out Fortnite’s Awesomely Detailed PAX Mini-Golf Course
After building a theme park at Gamescom 2018, Epic Games' Fortnite has opted for a bit of sport for its PAX West 2018 showing - namely, a tough, detailed mini-golf course.
IGN's intrepid golfers hit the Lazy links at PAX for nine holes of Fortnite-inspired mini-golf. Check out dozens of photos of the golf course below to see the tricky shots we had to make to keep somewhat around par.
For more on Fortnite, stay tuned to our in-depth video tour of the golf course, and make sure you check out the details on the latest announced Fortnite event, High Stakes.
The Top 10 Movies at the Summer 2018 Domestic Box Office
With Labor Day upon us and summer coming to a close, let's look back at how Hollywood fared at the North American box office this past season. Disney had four of the Top 10 movies released at the domestic box office this summer, with Avengers: Infinity War leading the pack with $678.7 million.
It's been a matter of debate, however, whether Infinity War even counts as a summer movie since Disney bumped its release from May 4th to April 27th. In the past, a film released on the last weekend in April was a spring release, but Hollywood continues to blur the lines between actual seasons and "movie" seasons. If we were being strict about the actual definition of "summer" then only movies released between June 21 and September 22, 2018, would count as summer movies. But Hollywood doesn't do that. And since IGN included Infinity War in its summer movie preview, we're going to keep it defined as one for the purposes of this box office wrap-up.