There have been plenty of of images leaked from the Atlanta set of Spider-Man: Homecoming over the past couple of months, and the latest feature some impressive helicopter-related stuntwork. Check them out in the gallery below, via Just Jared:
These pictures follow a video posted on Instagram yesterday by director Jon Watts, that teased the helicopter’s appearance. Watch it here.
Spider-Man: Homecoming will be the first standalone Spidey movie from Marvel Studios, following a co-production deal with Sony Pictures. It also stars Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Donald Glover, Tony Revolori, and Tyne Daly. The film hits theaters on July 7, 2017.
The hilarious Matt Damon-Jimmy Kimmel fake feud has been going on for years and the newest chapter has now been told. Last night during the Emmys, Damon interrupted host Kimmel after the award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series went to Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, not Kimmel’s own Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Damon, who emerged eating an apple (you can probably guess the payoff), roasted Kimmel for being a loser. “You must be really bummed out,” Damon says to Kimmel. “This is so humiliating; you lost and now you gotta stand out here for the rest of the night in front of everybody–when you probably just want to go home and curl up and cry.” Damon then asks the crowd to give Kimmel a big round of a applause for being a loser.
Walking off stage, Damon gets in one more jab, “Oh, hey Jimmy, tell your mom I like them apples,” referencing Damon’s famous line from Good Will Hunting.
The fake feud between Damon and Kimmel started when Kimmel would end his late night show by apologizing to Damon for running out of time to interview him, even though he wasn’t there. Then, when Damon finally appeared on his show and sat down, Kimmel said it again, and Damon went (fake) ballistic.
Game of Thrones was the big winner at last night’s Emmy awards. Not only did it take home three of the big prizes, it now stands as the most decorated series in the history of the TV awards.
HBO’s hit fantasy show has now won a total of 38 Emmys since 2011. That’s one more than the previous record-holder, the sitcom Frasier, collected, and the most since the awards ceremony began in 1949.
Game of Thrones won Best Drama Series, Best Writing for a Drama Series, and Best Directing for a Drama Series, plus another nine in the technical categories that were handed out last week. After the ceremony, showrunner David Benioff said, via Sky News: “We love Frasier and he had a long run and we’re sure someone will come along and take it from us.
“We just hope it doesn’t happen until we’re all dead.”
The other big winners included stars Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), and Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent).
The true crime drama The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won five awards last night, including Best Limited Series, Best Writing for a Limited Series, and Best Actor and Actress for a Limited Series, for Courtney B. Vance and Sarah Paulson respectively.
When HBO’s Game of Thrones wraps up after Season 8, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will say goodbye to the series, though they expect the franchise to live on without them.
Benioff was asked by reporters backstage at the Emmys last night if he and Weiss would consider making a Game of Thrones prequel. Benioff said that he and Weiss don’t plan on working on Game of Thrones after Season 8. As for whether or not there is a prequel series, that’s more of a question for creator George R.R. Martin.
“You might want to ask George about that,” Benioff said, according to EW. “It’s a great world that George created. I think it’s a very rich world, and I’m sure there will be other series set in Westeros, but for us, this is it. That’s really a question for George.”
Martin himself teased that more Game of Thrones stories could happen, including potentially a prequel.
“Well, I do have thousands of pages of fake history–everything that led up to Game of Thrones–so there’s a wealth of material there, and I’m still writing more.”
Don’t get too excited for a Game of Thrones prequel at this stage, however. Martin pointed out that Game of Thrones still has two more seasons, while he is still finishing two more books. A Game of Thrones prequel is only speculation at this point, Martin explained.
“One of the great things about what [Martin] did is he didn’t just build a story; he built a world with so many characters and such a rich, detailed history behind it,” the pair explained. “There are a lot of different ways you could go with it; we just really haven’t had time to really think through the details of it because we’re so focused on getting the show made.”
Game of Thrones had a strong showing at the Emmys last night. The show won a dozen awards, giving the series 38 in its history, making it the most-awarded primetime show in the history of the Emmys.
First up, Mankind Divided is discounted to $40 across PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (physical copies only). This is one of today’s Deal of the Day items, so you’ll need to act quickly to enjoy the savings.
As for Dark Souls III, the Xbox One edition is marked down to $40 on PS4 and only $24.52 on Xbox One. Like the Deus Ex deal, this is good only for physical copies and PC is not included (via Slickdeals.net). Another thing to note is that the price for Dark Souls III on Xbox One may have fluctuated since this story was published.
Use the links below to learn more and place an order from Amazon:
Some may have been surprised when Killzone developer Guerrilla Games announced PS4 action-RPG Horizon: Zero Dawn, a wildly different-looking game in a new genre than the shooter series. Now, the studio’s manager has spoken about saying goodbye to Killzone and hello to Zero Dawn.
“It’s really exciting,” Hermen Hulst told Game Informer. “It is fantastic when you’ve worked on a franchise for more than a decade–actually, in my case, it’s been almost 15 years–to do something that’s so radically different and at the same time kind of stands on the shoulders of what we made before.”
Though the Killzone and Zero Dawn franchises are obviously completely different in terms of look and feel, Guerrilla does see some similarities when it comes to design.
“We really love making fluid, awesome combat–and we’re trying to do that again,” he said about Killzone and Zero Dawn. “We’re really into making fantastic science-fiction worlds–and we’re doing that again. There are a ton of similarities, but I think more importantly this is really fresh.”
Hulst went on to say that Killzone is beautiful in its own “gritty” way. But Zero Dawn is “beautiful in kind of a majestic way,” he said. If you’ve seen any of the game’s trailers, you might agree.
In the Killzone franchise, it’s all about surviving and escaping a harsh world. For Zero Dawn, Guerrilla wanted to make a game that draws you in and asks you to explore every corner.
“A world that you want to be in instead escape away from,” Hulst said.
Game director Mathijs de Jonge added in another Game Informer video interview that Guerrilla prototyped more than two-dozen ideas for what it would make after PS4 launch title Killzone: Shadow Fall. The studio put the ideas into an Excel spreadsheet and asked staffers to rate the options on what excites them the most and what is most risky.
“It was certainly not the least risky, but definitely the one where everybody that saw the original pitch, they said, ‘Well, we gotta make this,’” Hulst added, according to VideoGamer.com. “This is maybe incredibly risky but it’s something that is so radically different and so inspiring that it actually took me very little time to convince the team to jump behind it. We wanted to make [Zero Dawn] straight away.”
A second project that was prototyped was cancelled, de Jonge said, though he never specified what it was. One possibility is that it was a new Killzone title, though this is not confirmed.
Watch the full video interviews here and here to learn a lot more about the origins of Zero Dawn.
Following the new images for CG movie Resident Evil: Vendetta that came online last week, its producers have now published the first trailer for the 2017 film.
The movie is only confirmed for Japan so far, so that’s likely why the trailer features Japanese text. But there’s a good amount of universal items like action and zombies, too. Take a look (via Kotaku):
Vendetta, which was announced in 2015 and is due out in spring 2017, is written by Makoto Fukami (Psycho-Pass) and directed by Takanori Tsujimoto (Hard RevengeMilly, Ultraman X). The Grudge creator Takashi Shimizu serves as executive producer on the project, and long-time Resident Evil developer Hiroyuki Kobayashi is on board as executive supervisor. Kobayashi has also served as producer on the first two animated Resident Evil movies, Degeneration and Damnation, in addition to some of the live-action films.
2017 will see another Resident Evil movie in The Final Chapter, which is the aptly named finale to the live-action Resident Evil series starring Milla Jovovich. It comes to theaters in January, the same month Resident Evil 7 releases for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
We recently talked to Matt Mercer, the voice of Leon in Vendetta, about Resident Evil 7 and how the game is “scaling back” on classic cameos.
There’s a lot of confusion going on in Superman’s corner of the DC Universe. In 2011, the DCU was rebooted after the Flashpoint story arc under the “New 52” banner. The characters were a little younger, and some aspects of their past were changed a little. The New 52 version of Superman died a few months ago, but the pre-Flashpoint version of Superman ended up in the current timeline with his wife, Lois Lane, and their son, Jon, after the Convergence story arc.
When the New 52 Superman died, some energy was expelled and passed through Lois and Lana Lang. This resulted in both gaining superpowers. They decided to honor the memory of the fallen Superman by operating as Superwoman.
While both Lois and Lana are trying to figure out how their different powers work, Lois faced a deadly threat that seemingly resulted in her death. Lana was the only one that witnessed Lois’ demise, and the rest of the world was left wondering where Lane has been.
This is where the pre-Flashpoint version comes in. As a reporter in her own timeline, she knows she’s disappeared from time to time while chasing down a story. She decides to try to figure out what happened. Her plan involves going to the Daily Planet and posing as the missing Lois. Since she’s a little older, will it be possible for her to pull off the act?
DC Comics has given us an exclusive first look at Action Comics #965. Here’s what happens when Lois walks into the Planet.
Luckily for Lois, it looks like everyone believes she’s the Lois they all know. Why else would they think otherwise? There is still a lot about this world Lois doesn’t know about. She’ll have to stay on her toes while she tries to figure out what happened to the other Lois. It’s possible she’s dead, but characters rarely remain so in comics. Then again, could the DCU handle having two Lois Lanes running around?
“Lois Lane: Back at the Planet” starts in Action Comics #965, on sale October 12.
According to the Herald Sun, Miller is gearing up make a film centered on Charlize Theron’s Fury Road character. The story reads: “Pre-production is gearing up on the multi-million-dollar action-packed Warner Bros franchise, with NSW’s Broken Hill Studios Miller’s first choice for shooting, which could start as soon as later this year.
“Mad Max Fury Road was plagued by delays when extended rain turned the desert green and the uber-director had to move location to Namibia. The [new] script is said to focus on the backstory of Furiosa, played by Oscar-winner Charlize Theron.”
Neither Miller or Warner have commented on this story.
Mad Max: Fury Road also starred Tom Hardy and Nicholas Hoult. It made $378.4 million worldwide, and was nominated for ten Oscars, more than any Australian film in history.
Although Miller has spoken about making a fifth Mad Max film, he has repeatedly stressed that he would need a break before making another.
“We shot Fury Road for eight months–that’s a lot,” he told Top Gear last year. “Every day in the heat and the dust, doing these stunts, it’s very wearing. We’ve got two more planned, but at some point in the future.”
These maps were made using Halo 5’s Forge tools and were created in partnership by 343 and fans. The new ones are called Dispelled, Estuary, Traffic Jam, and Unearthed.
You can see the new ones in the gallery immediately below, while the revamped maps can be seen in the gallery further down. The tweaks to the existing dozen Big Team Battle maps included things like “upgraded aesthetics” and “improvements to gameplay,” 343 said in a blog post.
You can find all the new Big Team Battle maps in the Featured section of the Halo 5 content browser. They are also bookmarked on the The343Favorites channel.
