Mark Ruffalo is as impressed with the Eternals trailer as most MCU fans are. The Hulk actor took to Twitter to share his reactions. One thing that stuck with the Avengers star is how there’s never a shortage of bad guys threatening the universe. The trailer makes explicit mention of Thanos’ plot to snap half of life out of existence. It’s pretty funny to hear Ruffalo say something about that as the person who delivered the second snap....
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War got a new update this week that encompassed everything from the highest levels of play to the most casual thanks to League Play changes and a new, lighthearted game mode. The update that’s gone live now follows a couple of others released in quick succession before it since the launch of Season One Reloaded and also marks the beginning of the Call of Duty League 2021 season....
Dune is getting into the collectible NFT game ahead of its October debut in theaters and HBO Max. Legendary Entertainment announced a collaboration with iv gallery, Lineage Studios, and MakersPlace to offer an official Dune NFT collection inspired by Denis Villeneuve’s new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel. The collection includes detailed in-world royal portraits of characters from House Atreides and House Harkonnen and sculptures and artifacts found on the desert planet Arrakis, known to its inhabitants as Dune....
Dungeons & Dragons seems to be poised to make major changes to one of its iconic creatures, likely in response to their problematic depiction in various novels and other canonical lore. Earlier today, Dungeons & Dragons released a new website celebrating the iconic drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden as part of the brand’s summer-long celebration of all things Drizzt. The website contains plenty of detail about Drizzt’s origins, but it also notes one major change to D&D canon that relates to the drow culture that Drizzt ultimately abandoned....
The world of DC Films got a surprising, but long-awaited update earlier this week, with confirmation that a sequel to 2019’s Joker is in the works. The sequel to the hit Oscar-winning film will see the return of star Joaquin Phoenix and director and co-writer Todd Phillips, the latter of whom took to social media on Tuesday to share a look at the film’s script, which is seemingly titled Joker: Folie à Deux....
Fallout 76’s developers just recently teased some of the new events players had to look forward to with a promise that the community would get to try out these events ahead of their live releases as part of the test server previews. Now, the time has come to do so as Bethesda reopens the doors to Fallout 76’s test servers with three events in tow: Test Your Metal, Eviction Notice, and Moonshine Jamboree....
Range Media Partners has partnered with U.K. comics and sci-fi juggernaut Heavy Metal Magazine to bring their properties and titles into the film and television arena. Through this partnership, Heavy Metal will co-produce projects with Range Media, bringing their curated slate off the page, and into the global entertainment sphere. In conjunction with this partnership and multimedia expansion, Heavy Metal has tapped Tommy Coriale as its President and Head of Studio to launch the film and television division....
Netflix has gone all-in in the world of anime, with the streaming service recently adding the likes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Baki Hanma, and Beastars to its roster, and it seems as though one of its biggest acquisitions is set to get a new season. Komi Can’t Communicate has been taking the anime world by storm since debuting earlier this year and as fans in North America wait for the final episodes of season one to arrive, the studio behind the series has already confirmed that more episodes are on the way....
Lightyear’s trailer has already notched some impressive numbers in a short amount of time. Deadline reports that the Chris Evans movie managed to snare 83 million views in the first 24 hours of being online Wednesday. Other Pixar movies haven’t managed that feat, except for Incredibles 2 which managed 114 million. But, Lightyear’s wild performance dwarfs Luca at 28 million, Soul at 32 million, and even its cousin Toy Story 4 at 62 million....
We’re just a matter of days away from the debut of Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight, and the Disney+ series is definitely giving fans a lot of reasons to be hyped. The series is anchored by two notable actors — Oscar Isaac, who is stepping into the role of Marc Spector / Steven Grant, also known as Moon Knight; and Ethan Hawke, who will portray the villain Arthur Harrow. Both actors are surprising additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and according to one of their co-stars, they brought surprising qualities behind the scenes....
My Hero Academia has dropped the first key visual for the upcoming My Villain Academia arc! The fifth season of the anime is now reaching its final slate of episodes, and with it will kick off the much anticipated villain focused arc fans of Kohei Horikoshi’s original manga series have been waiting to see for quite a long time. The major reason fans had initially been confused by the fifth season swapping the events of the Endeavor Agency and My Villain Academia arcs for the anime was how much actually takes place during this arc, so now we’ll finally get to see what the anime has been planning the entire time....
Shane McMahon made a surprise appearance to kick off this week’s Monday Night Raw, confirming the main event for the upcoming Elimination Chamber pay-per-view alongside Adam Pearce. The show will see Drew McIntyre defend the WWE Championship inside the steel structure, and all of his opponents will be former world champions. The other competitors were confirmed to be Randy Orton, Jeff Hardy, AJ Styles, The Miz and Sheamus. With the assist from @shanemcmahon, @ScrapDaddyAP is putting THESE 6️⃣ Superstars inside the Elimination Chamber for the #WWEChampionship:...
On Friday, fans finally got their first look at She-Hulk, a live-action series that is expected to debut on Disney+ in 2022. The series is led by Emmy winning Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany, and is set to feature an eclectic ensemble cast. Among them is The Good Place alum Jameela Jamil, who will be playing the iconic Marvel villain Titania. While we’ll still have to wait a while to see Jamil in character in the series, the actress did take to social media to share her excitement for the latest updates....
SK8 the Infinity has announced a new anime project is now in the works! Debuting earlier this year as part of the Winter 2021 schedule of anime releases, SK8 the Infinity was a brand new original anime project from Studio Bones that quickly caught the attention of fans everywhere. Putting a whole new spin on the sports anime world with a focus on skateboarding (with a lot of anime flair thrown in), even the English dub release of the series went viral during its run....
The sequel to the top-rated board game Sleeping Gods has launched its new crowdfunding campaign. Red Raven Games launched the Gamefound crowdfunding campaign for Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies this week and has already raised over $1.1 million, which matches the total from Sleeping Gods’ first Kickstarter campaign. Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is an open-world cooperative campaign game in which players explore a large world represented by a book of maps. Each player controls one or more members of the crew of a ship – or a cargo ship in Distant Skies case – all of whom have individual stats and unique abilities....
The Legend of Vox Machina is a definitively adult animated series that expertly balances humor and action while remaining true to the beloved Critical Role storylines and characters on which it is based. Over the past seven years, the cast of Critical Role has delighted and entertained millions of fans with their antics around the gaming table. The web series stars a group of voice actors who play Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy-themed tabletop roleplaying game....
WWE Legend Virgil previously revealed to fans that he has been dealing with several health issues, suffering two strokes and learning that he was fighting an early stage of dementia. Today Virgil revealed more sad news, telling fans that he is also fighting stage 2 colon cancer. Virgil wrote “It’s really s***** right now. Too make things worse I know have stage 2 colon cancer. I am a fighter but need your help....
Free League Publishing, the makers of the popular Alien RPG and Tales From the Loop, has announced plans to publish a new tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Blade Runner. The new tabletop roleplaying game will be released in 2022 and will use the same Year Zero game engine that forms the foundation of Free League Publishing’s other RPGs, such as Alien RPG or Tales From the Loop. Players will have the choice to play as either humans or replicants and will play as members of LAPD’s Rep-Detect Unit acting as Blade Runners to find rogue replicants....
Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon has been given a full series order for his new Fox animated series. According to reports, the unnamed series will be set in Ancient Greece and is currently aiming to premiere in 2022. This is the first project announced from the groundbreaking direct animation deal that Harmon signed with Fox last year when we first heard that this ancient Greece series was in development. The deal was for “broadcast network-only” content, so this will presumably not be a streaming series, like Harmon’s Rick and Morty partner Justin Roiland did with Solar Opposites on Hulu....
Up until this weekend, the last time former WWE star Big Cass (William Morrissey) had been in the news was back in September 2019 when he wound up in backstage altercations with AEW’s Joey Janela and now-WWE producer Pat Buck before being escorted out of the building. However, on Saturday night the seven-foot-tall behemoth returned at a Lariato Pro event and assisted his former tag partner Enzo Amore (the two now go by CaZXL and NZO)....
