Well, this certainly wasn't in the script. After pulling the troubled PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight from sale during the threequel's launch window in June, both Warner Bros. Interactive and Rocksteady began rolling out refunds for the game as it set about whipping the port into shape. Fast forward by four months and change and the general verdict is that, for all of the talk of a overhauled re-release, Arkham Knight continues to be a hot mess on PC platforms, which has now forced the studio to offer full refunds once again.
All has been quiet on the World War Z 2 front ever since Stephen Knight produced a first draft of the script back in August, though The Hollywood Reporter has unveiled that Paramount has now fired the wheels into motion once more with Dennis Kelly being drafted in to touch up the sequel's screenplay.
Move over, Danny Ocean, Sandra Bullock is in town. Yes, Hollywood has caught the reboot fever, and the recent wave of modern do-overs shows no sign of letting up, now that Indiewire brings word that the Gravity and Our Brand is Crisis star has reportedly agreed a deal to topline a gender-swapped reboot of Ocean's Eleven.
Electronic Arts has mapped out its sales estimation for DICE's soon-to-be-released licensed title Star Wars Battlefront, gauging that the high-profile shooter is on course to sell upwards of 13 million units within its first four months on the market - before March 31, 2016, essentially.
Scott Waugh's Need For Speed movie may not have lit up the box office in the way DreamWorks, Aaron Paul or even the director himself would have hoped in 2014 - succumbing to the age-old video-game-to-movie curse that has lingered over Hollywood for a generation - but Waugh has dusted himself off and has now emerged to direct a new thriller for Sierra/Affinity, Blackout.
Earlier this year, perhaps the one element that threatened to put a dampener on the arrival of Halo 5: Guardians was the fact that developer 343 Industries had removed split-screen cooperative play, which had long been a feature of Microsoft's prestigious shooter series.
Eager to put the calamity of Dying of the Light behind him, director Paul Schrader is gearing up for next foray into the crime genre with Dog Eat Dog, which has now cast Willem Dafoe to star opposite Nicolas Cage.
From the bitter-cold exterior shots to the gruelling shifts - shifts prolonged by temperamental weather and the director's unyielding commitment to realism - everything coming out of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant really underlines just how difficult creating the film proved to be. Not only is the real-life subject matter harrowing in its own right, the filmmaker's stylistic approach paints a grim and stark version of the North American wilderness, so how did the cast and crew relieve tension when shouldering such a weighty and intense drama piece? Simple: wrestling.
It's only been back on the airwaves for a mere two weeks, but already AMC has secured the immediate future of The Walking Dead after confirming plans to bring back the widely popular zombie series for season 7 in 2016.
With little under a fortnight to go until its release, Universal Pictures has unveiled the all-new teaser for Angelina Jolie's marital drama, By The Sea.
