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Christopher Lee has been digitally resurrected as Count Dooku for Star Wars: Battlefront II, being added to the roster of villains you can play as in the online shooter.
X-Men director Bryan Singer is named in an expose by The Atlantic to have engaged in sexual encounters with four underage teens in the 1990s. The now adult men allege a variety of pretty disturbing sexual exploits, with one saying Singer had sex with him when he was 15, another that he was groped on the set of Apt Pupil and others that he sexually harassed them and used drugs and alcohol in order to lower their inhibitions.
The original Tremors was one of the finer creature features of the early 1990s. After a brief but successful run in cinemas, it went on to sit proudly on video rental shelves up and down the nation, delighting those who just wanted good, solid monster movie action. Since then, we've had five sequels of varying levels of quality, and now it sounds as if we'll soon get our peepers on Tremors 7.
Despite both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi receiving critical adulation and record-breaking success at the box office, they also each came with their fair share of controversy amongst fans. The Force Awakens was widely criticized for following too closely in the footsteps of A New Hope (particularly with the Starkiller Base climax) and as for The Last Jedi? Well, I thought it was great, but if we get into the controversy surrounding that film we'll be here all day. All of which makes Adam Driver's comments about Star Wars: Episode IX in an interview with Deadline pretty telling.
After some initial skepticism about its outlandish concept of a Ryan Reynold's voiced crime-solving Pikachu, audiences seem to be coming around to Detective Pikachu in a big way. Test screenings have been very positive and Legendary are so confident that they've begun planning for a live-action Pokemon cinematic universe featuring a movie about Mewtwo and an adaptation of the classic original games Pokemon Red and Blue. Now the latest Detective Pikachu TV spot, which aired during the NFC Championships on Sunday night, seems to have gone down very well with audiences.
While Detective Pikachu is planned to launch Legendary Pictures' live-action Pokémon cinematic universe, The Pokémon Company hasn't put all its eggs in one basket. That's because this July will see the premiere of Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution, which is both a sequel to 2018's Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us and some kind of remake of 1998's Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back.
Way back in October 2013 we glimpsed test footage of a facially mo-capped Pikachu in a detective hat speaking Japanese. At the time, most people raised their eyebrows at this weird clip. Now? Detective Pikachu is poised to be the spearhead of a media juggernaut that may well launch its own Pokémon Cinematic Universe. We got our first look at what the movie would be offering back in November via the first trailer and since then, we've been hearing nothing but positive impressions out of test screenings.
It's sounding like Legendary Pictures, Nintendo and GameFreak are very confident about the prospects of Detective Pikachu. An adaptation of the Nintendo 3DS game of the same name, the film's bonkers concept of a Ryan Reynolds-voiced hard-bitten Pikachu solving a series of mysterious crimes had most people scratching their heads after the first trailer. Since then, however, it's picked up some good buzz and had some excellent test screenings, and if it lives up to expectations, it looks like it could spawn a full-on Pokémon cinematic universe.
It's been 26 years since Super Mario Bros: The Movie and we still haven't seen a genuinely great live-action video game adaptation. Some, like the Silent Hill films weren't exactly terrible, but most have been Z-movie garbage that landed with a thud and promptly disappeared forever. But Nintendo and Legendary Entertainment are hoping that Detective Pikachu's going to finally break the trend. Adapted from the Nintendo 3DS game of the same name, the film combines CGI and live-action to present a slightly freakish real world take on what've previously been cartoon characters.
The run-up to the release of the first Avengers: Endgame trailer last month was excruciating. Every industry insider had their own scoop on when the promo would land and most of them were dead wrong (to be fair, my predictions were also a bit off). By the time of the day of release, fans were tired of articles theorizing when it would debut and journalists were tired of writing speculative articles about what might be in it. With all that in mind, here's when I think the next Endgame trailer will land.