Underworld 5 Begins Filming in Prague

Shooting has officially begun for Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's upcoming fifth entry in the Underworld film franchise.

Underworld 5 will film for a total of 10 weeks in the Czech Republic capital city of Prague and its surrounding areas. Independence Day and White House Down cinematographer Anna Foerster is directing.

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Theo James is reprising his starring role as David from Underworld: Awakening, and will be joined by Outlander's Tobias Menzies, as well as Sherlock's Lara Pulver and Charles Dance from Game of Thrones. Back in May, we also heard Kate Beckinsale would be back to play Selene.

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Steam Link and Controller Not Yet Working With Macs

Valve's Steam Link and Steam Controller are currently not compatible with Macs.

At the moment, those using Apple's platform are unable to stream games to their Steam Link device. Additionally, Valve has yet to add gamepad emulation support for Mac users who purchased a Steam Controller.

According to an apology email currently going out to users (via Eurogamer), Valve has encountered "some temporary software issues." As such, it will require a few additional weeks for the company to resolve the situation by way of new drivers and firmware updates.

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Venom Thinks Spider-Man 3 Was Successful

Topher Grace, who played Venom in Spider-Man 3, has spoken out in defense of the movie.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Grace responded to a question about director Sam Raimi's Nerdist podcast appearance in which he said that Spider-Man 3 was "awful".

Grace said that director Sam Raimi "was like the president of a small country — by the way, it had the gross national income of a small country, too."

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Halo 5: Guardians Soundtrack Now Available Online

The complete soundtrack for Halo 5: Guardians is now available online.

Developer 343 Industries released the collection of music, composed by Kazuma Jinnouchi, on Soundcloud. Give it a listen to below.

The release of Halo 5 is just over one week away. In anticipation of 343 Industries' Xbox One-exclusive shooter, be sure to check out all of our recent coverage, including a look at the game's first mission on Legendary difficulty.

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Terminator Genisys: A Look at Matt Smith’s Character

We have a first look today at a Terminator Genisys featurette on actor Matt Smith, who played a pivotal role in this past summer's entry in the long-running sci-fi franchise. Terminator Genisys arrives on Digital HD tomorrow, October 20, three weeks ahead of its Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand release on November 10.

The Terminator Genisys Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray Combo Packs with Digital HD include nearly an hour of bonus content, featuring behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast (such as our exclusive Matt Smith featurette seen below) and filmmakers, including the director of the first two films, James Cameron. Plus, they offer an in-depth look at the visual effects and action sequences, the recreation of iconic scenes from the original film, and more. The Blu-ray Combo Packs also feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.

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Yo-Kai Watch 2DS Bundle Announced

A new 2DS console bundle that comes packed with a digital copy of Yo-Kai Watch is coming to North America next month, Nintendo has announced.

Level-5's upcoming role-playing game will come pre-installed on the device. The bundle will retail for $99.99 when it hits store shelves on November 6.

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Yo-Kai Watch has proven to be a cultural phenomenon among younger gamers in Japan, rivaling the success of Pokémon. Nintendo hopes to replicate that success by bringing Level-5's creature-collecting game to the west this fall.

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The Classic Teen Films That Will Influence Next Spider-Man

Jon Who? That’s a fair assessment of the general reaction to the news that Marvel was entrusting its latest Spider-Man reboot to a director with only two low-budget features under his belt.

With Eli Roth-backed horror Clown and Kevin Bacon-starring indie thriller Cop Car as his only track record, 34-year-old Jon Watts has snagged the prestigious gig helming the web-slinger’s full movie entry (upcoming cameo in Captain America: Civil War aside) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Watts joins the recent list of relatively inexperienced young male directors (Colin Trevorrow on Jurassic World, Josh Trank on Fantastic Four and even his predecessor Mark Webb on The Amazing Spider-Man movies) given the keys the some pretty high-spec movie properties. Here’s what he had to say about getting that gig, and his plans for a new Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who this time out is back in High School…

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Agents of SHIELD: Is Hunter in Over His Head?

Agents of SHIELD's Hunter (Nick Blood) and May (Ming-Na Wen) are on a mission to find and kill turncoat SHIELD agent and new Hydra leader Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and on this Tuesday's episode, they're closer than ever. But with Hunter's plan to get himself recruited by Hydra, in order to get close enough to Ward to complete the job, is he putting himself in too much danger, without thinking through the consequences?

Check out this exclusive clip from this week's episode, as May and Hunter have a tense conversation about where his head is at, as he seeks revenge for what Ward did to Bobbi/Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) last season.

Agents of SHIELD: "Devils You Know" airs Tuesday, October 21st at 9:00 pm ET/PT on ABC.

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The 1TB Microsoft Surfacebook Is Pretty Expensive

The 1TB Microsoft Surfacebook will cost $3,200.

The Surfacebook was first revealed at the Microsoft Devices conference last month, and aims to fuse the productivity of a desktop PC with the ease of use of a laptop. Plus you can yank the screen off and use it as a tablet.

The pricing, while expensive, comes in at the lower-end of the high-end spectrum. For comparative purposes; the HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation retails for around $4,300, or if gaming’s more your thing, top of the line Alienware laptops start from $4,500.

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