Earlier this week, we learned that Michael Keaton will reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming DCEU film centered on Ezra Miller's Flash. Keaton starred in the part before, of course, during the late 80s and early 90s, when he played the Caped Crusader in Tim Burton's heavily stylized but nonetheless iconic adaptations of the comics.
The video game industry - like the film and television ones - is changing rapidly. Over the past few years, titans like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have increasingly copied business strategies outlined by streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO. Gone are the days that you bought a game and could play it online for free. Now, you'll need a subscription of some kind to be able to do that. But while many complain about the economic extortion, these payment plans do come with some nice extras.
The producers of the popular American sitcom The Office have edited a season 9 episode which showed one of the characters wearing blackface. According to a report published by The Wrap, distributor NBCUniversal edited the controversial scene out of the episode as it appears on several streaming platforms.
The Pokémon Company recently dropped a trailer for its upcoming game Pokémon Unite on YouTube, and fans aren't happy with it. With over 150,000 dislikes and counting, it's the most negatively-received announcement the Japanese entertainment giant has ever produced by far. But why all this hate?
Tessa Thompson, best known for her portrayal of Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok and in the wider MCU, recently penned a letter urging Hollywood to cease their support of both police-oriented and, in the words of one ScreenRant reporter, "anti-black content."
It's been quite a while since Johnny Depp has starred in an original production. In the past few years, the actor has either reprised old, iconic roles like Captain Jack Sparrow in the Disney flop Dead Men Tell No Tales, or accepted new ones in established franchises like J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in which he plays the evil wizard Grindelwald.
Last week, it was announced that Twilight star Kirsten Stewart had been cast as Princess Diana. Stewart will portray the late matriarch of the British monarchy in an upcoming biopic which is going to be titled Spencer and will be directed by Pablo Larraín. Now that production has settled on a leading lady, the internet is wondering who will play her husband, Prince Charles.
