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With much of the world's population currently advised to remain at home due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Netflix (and other streaming services) are more popular than ever. The company is reporting record audience numbers, which isn't exactly surprising given that they almost literally have a captive audience, and over the last few weeks, Netflix has become so popular that in Europe they've had to decrease their video quality as so many people are streaming that they were in danger of slowing down the whole internet.
Why is it always the depressing, dystopian movies that seem to come true? Residents of Crowley, Louisiana got a surprise yesterday when they heard the iconic sound of The Purge siren being played at full volume. If you're already a bit paranoid and frayed from a couple of weeks living through a pandemic, hearing a siren that indicates that twelve hours of murder and mayhem are about to begin is... Well, let's just say not ideal.
Rob Lowe reveals that he's developing a Tiger King adaptation with American Horror Story and Feud creator Ryan Murphy, and he'll play Joe Exotic in it.
It looks like Universal Pictures are going to just pretend last year's Doom: Annihilation didn't happen. That movie was supposed to course-correct from the 2005 Doom, which was also not much cop. But hey, third time's the charm right? Now it seems that Universal is finally planning to do it right - instead of trying to crowbar the basics of the game's setting into a crappy Aliens ripoff, they're just going to do a big-screen adaptation of the original DOOM.
Nearly four months after its release, the dust has settled on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The consensus is that Disney and Lucasfilm were spooked by the online reaction to The Last Jedi and attempted a major course correction. Whether that was the right thing to do or not depends on your opinion of that film, but the end result was a disjointed movie full of plotholes that disappointed damn near everyone.
Fantastic Beasts and The Flash star Ezra Miller is generally seen as a pretty laid back and fun-loving kind of guy. That public image made the video that appears to show him choking a female fan pretty damn disturbing. The video, posted on Twitter yesterday, was taken in Iceland and purports to show Miller approaching a fan who jokingly puts her fists up to fight him. He responds in disturbing fashion, grabbing her by the neck and pulling her to the floor. The video cuts off abruptly, with someone shouting "Woah, bro! Bro!".
Santa Monica Studios' God of War was in the doldrums in the early 2010s. After six very similar games, players were getting tired of watching an angry bald man yanking out Cyclops' eyes. Then came 2018's soft reboot, God of War. This was a more mature take on the violent mythological drama (though it still had lots of dismemberment), received universal critical adulation and was a sales smash. It's now considered possibly the best game on the PlayStation 4, so it's not a surprise that the series is being lined up for a big screen adaptation.