15 Things We Learned on the Set of Black Panther
Last year I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to visit the set of Marvel’s Black Panther. The Ryan Coogler-directed film promises to showcase T’Challa and his homeland of Wakanda in all of it’s Afro-Futuristic glory.
On a cool Friday morning in February, a group of 19 journalists gathered on folding chairs under a pop-up tent (that was surrounded by tarp behind us and on each side) to look at a TV. What we saw on the screen was the filming of a scene featuring CIA Agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) interrogating arms dealer and mercenary, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) in a safehouse, while T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and later Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) watched the conversation from behind a two-way mirror.
Uncharted Director Joins The Avengers Project Game
Former Uncharted director Shaun Escayg and Dead Space producer Stephen Barry have joined The Avengers Project game, developer Crystal Dynamics announced.
Escayg joins the team as creative director, while Barry will serve as director of production. Escayg is the creative director and writer of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and worked on The Last of Us as the director of photography and animation supervisor. He was also an animator at Industrial Light & Magic. "I'm thrilled to join Crystal as Creative Director and be aligned with a team as passionate about telling great character based stories as I am," Escayg said.
Barry held several positions at Electronic Arts, with his latest role at the company being the director of product development at Visceral Games. "Crystal's been around almost as long as I've been in the business. The immediate chemistry and camaraderie has been exactly what I'd hoped for," Barry said.
Black Dynamite to Return This Year
Black Dynamite is coming back in 2018.
Martial artist and actor Michael Jai White teased on Twitter the return of the nunchuck-wielding blaxploitation parody protagonist for what appears to be a new live-action project. You can check out the teaser trailer below.
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Why John Wick Shouldn’t Be in the John Wick TV Show
The John Wick films are interesting not just because of Wick himself and Keanu Reeves' intensely-watchable portrayal of the character, but because of the mysterious world established around him - one filled with assassins and centered on a hotel called The Continental. And now, a television show named after the hotel is in the works with Reeves himself executive-producing the whole affair. We love John Wick, so we're nervous. Let’s talk about what Starz has to do to get this show right…
Here’s how to make the John Wick TV show work!
Let’s make a comparison to the legendary sitcom Parks & Recreation. In one particularly amazing recurring bit, the show's resident nerd Ben Wyatt creates his own game, the Cones of Dunshire. It's an absurd concept with complicated rules, including a player who serves as the Ledgerman, a person who wears a sea captain's hat and keeps score.
PUBG’s New Anti-Cheat Measures Are Rolling Out On PC
PUBG has a problem with cheaters. We all know it. We even encountered one on our livestream. But anti-cheat measures are being implemented to stamp out this behaviour and ban players who are spoiling the fun for the rest of us.
The current test build of the game will be moving to the live servers on PC, according to a Tweet from the official PUBG account - and a lengthier update over on Steam details that new security measures are a part of this patch.
Dragon Ball FighterZ Network Issues Fixed For One Last Beta
Mere days before launch, Bandai Namco has announced one last 24-hour Dragon Ball FighterZ beta for Xbox One players to dive into.
The Dragon Ball FighterZ beta on the Xbox One has had more than its fair share of problems. But hey, that's what they're are for. The initial beta, which ran from January 13 to 16, experienced a multitude of "network issues" which Bandai Namco acknowledged, and they followed it up with a 24-hour open beta on January 17 which promised "improvements to the experience".
Dead By Daylight Saw Tie-In DLC Gets Gruesome New Trailer
Behaviour Interactive is adding another chapter to its asymmetrical 4-v-1 multiplayer survival horror title, Dead by Daylight. Hot on the heels of Nightmare on Elmstreet's Freddy Krueger, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface, comes a Saw-themed map, survivor, and killer.
The new chapter introduces The Pig, detective David Tapp, and the Gideon Meat Plant. In case you hadn't pieced together their roles, The Pig is the new killer, and poor old David is the new survivor.
Sonic the Hedgehog’s New Ally Is Tangle the Lemur
Sonic the Hedgehog’s upcoming comic book series will be introducing a new character named Tangle, a ring-tailed lemur.
Check her out:
After over 300 issues at Archie Comics, IDW Publishing acquired the rights to make Sonic comics from Sega in 2017 and are rebooting the series with a fresh #1. Starting over from scratch gives IDW and series writer Ian Flynn the chance to shake things up and add new things to Sonic’s world, and Tangle is one of them.
“Before she even had a name, we knew we wanted her to be like a lot of other great Sonic characters and have a special ability tied to one of her features. Think Tails or Knuckles,” IDW associate editor David Mariotte told IGN in an email interview. “So, we were brainstorming animals who could do cool stuff and a ring-tailed lemur who could use her tail alternately like a whip or like a fist was too cool to pass up! Throw in her scrappiness, she likes to ‘tangle’ with bad guys, and you have an awesome character!”
Pacific Rim Uprising: Exclusive New Photo – IGN First
All month long, IGN First is spotlighting the Films to Watch in 2018. Today, we take a look at Universal Pictures' Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel to the 2013 tale of Jaegers and Kaiju. The film stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman and Rinko Kikuchi, and was directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Spartacus, Daredevil).
Yesterday IGN debuted the exclusive new Pacific Rim Uprising poster (scroll down to see that), featuring more Jaegers than you could shake a plasma sword at. And now today we have a trailer dropping this morning and a brand new, exclusive photo of the film's star, John Boyega, surrounded by what looks like vestiges of his father's past... and Boyega's character's future. Check it out right here:
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