Either this is an image of Martin Freeman having accidentally stumbled into the executive's lounge over at Warner Bros. after they decided to split the The Hobbit into three movies, or it's an early glimpse of Bilbo Baggins in the second entry of Peter Jackson's latest trilogy: The Desolation of Smaug. By the looks of things, it's the latter, but only because Martin Freeman is dressed like a character from Middle-Earth.
Since Gabe Newell is a pretty big deal amidst this whole "let's play video games because everyone agrees they're great now" thing going on these days, his thoughts about the future of the medium are particularly noteworthy. And now Newell - who's a bigshot over at Valve - has mentioned that you'll be able to buy a living room-friendly PC package next year.
In what appears to be the dumbest thing you and I have ever heard, the Nintendo Wii U eShop in Europe currently only allows its customers to buy 18+ restricted content between the hours of 11pm and 3am, presumably because anybody underaged wishing to buy games with blood and violence and swearing absolutely wouldn't be prepared to stay up past 11pm to do so.
Now that having your character killed off doesn't necessarily mean the end of you pretending to be him in future film installments, the creative types working over on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have apparently called back Martin Sheen with such things in mind. The actor - who played forever-doomed-to-be-murdered-in-the-first-entry-to-a-Spider-Man-franchise character Uncle Ben in the Andrew Garfield-centered flick earlier this year - is returning for another whirl.
For those movie-goers who loved the brutal violence, 80s aesthetics, and bordering pretentiousness of Ryan Gosling/Nicolas Winding Refn's first team-up, Drive, you're next fix will most likely come in the form of Only God Forgives, the latest picture from this pair who are now considered the epitome of cool. A revenge movie about an exiled American running a boxing club in Thailand, the movie looks to be embracing the "brutal violence" part of the Gosling/Refn relationship, given what we've seen of our protagonist's face thus far in various promotional shots.
Yesterday a bunch of people were given the opportunity to watch a 9-minute prologue for the upcoming Star Trek sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, as directed by lens flare master J.J. Abrams. Despite the fact that Abrams asked everybody who attended not to give away too many details, somebody with great memory capacity has posted a fairly detailed synopsis online for everyone to enjoy. Check it out below:
Well, it's all coming out now on the Star Wars front. Recently we heard the bizarre report that body horror aficionado David Cronenberg was once considered to take the reins for The Return of the Jedi, and now The Deer Hunter's Michael Cimino has come right out and said that he made a pitch to direct The Empire Strikes Back back in 1978/79, a pitch that went obviously unheard.
Despite working on it work over a year, Jonathan Demme has decided that, no, he doesn't want to make Stephen King's JFK/time-travel novel 11/22/63 into a movie after all, citing creative differences as the reason for his departure from a project he once loved so dearly. “I loved certain parts of the book for the film more than Stephen did," the Silence of the Lambs director said. "We're friends, and I had a lot of fun working on the script, but we were too apart on what we felt should be in and what should be out of the script.”
Anthropomorphism is, by definition, the attribution of human characteristics to other animals (a definition which can also extend to other non-living things, such as plants, objects, spirits and even organizations). Though nearly all creative mediums have delved into the personification of animals - be it in literary stories such as Watership Down or in filmmaking with Pixar's A Bug's Life - video games have always taken a certain pleasure in granting players the chance to play as walking, talking animal characters.
If you're unaware as to the fact that there's a Jumanji remake in the works, a property that Columbia plan to “try and reimagine and update for the present," despite the fact that it was only made in 1995, this movie has found its writer in Stranger Than Fiction's Zack Helm, who apparently knows a lot about cultural shifts between '95 and 2012, and can help this generation's children to understand why people are just sitting there instead of reading stuff on tablets..
