We highlighted a mod that let you kiss everyone in Skyrim a while back , but it was kinda embarrassing. Your character latched onto people like some kind of alien everything-sucker and made this cartoon smooching noise. This one, however, is a bit more like the real deal. Kinda?
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Want to see a new image from behind the scenes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Has Andy Serkis‘ Avengers: Age of Ultron identity been revealed? Which movies did the producers of The Flash compare their time travel episode too? Did Jeff Bridges want to come back after Iron Man? What did the showrunner of Daredevil have to say about the new trailer? Why did Ryan Reynolds hint that Green Lantern didn’t work? Who does Superman hang out with in a new edition of his comic book? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.
A photo posted by Clay Enos (@clayenos) on Feb 3, 2015 at 10:46am PST
Cool behind the scenes photo of Zack Snyder on the set of Batman v Superman. Why are they in the sewer?
Latino Review has some good dissection of some recent Marvel rumors that appeared on Reddit.
Once Disney released the non-watermarked versions of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron photos, it was confirmed Andy Serkis is playing is playing Ulysses Klaw.
Gamma Squad thinks it’s time for a new Batman TV show.
James Gunn wrote about the game the Guardians of the Galaxy bet on in the film and its design on his Facebook. Concept art by Anthony Francisco.
The producers of The Flash compare an upcoming time travel episode with Groundhog Day, The Terminator and Back to the Future.
Michael Keaton recently spoke about the outrage of his casting as Batman in the late Eighties.
Jeff Bridges told IO9 he wanted his character to survive the first Iron Man to appear in more movies.
Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Superhero Bits, we have to split this post over THREE pages. Click the link above to continue to the second page of Superhero Bits.
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This weekend is a big one for Breaking Bad fans as the spin-off, Better Call Saul, airs its first episode. The show stars Bob Odenkirk as the man who eventually becomes sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman, as seen on Breaking Bad. How and why did Saul become who he is? That’s the question Vince Gilligan and his team will try to answer with Better Call Saul, which airs on February 8.
If you can’t wait until then, or just want a hint of the show’s tone, AMC has released a prequel comic book for the series. This is cool for multiple reasons. One, the story takes place during an episode of Breaking Bad. And two, you don’t even have to download it, you can read the entire thing online, right now. See the Better Call Saul comic book below.
Written by Jenn Carol and Gordon Smith and drawn by Steve Ellis, the full comic is available on the AMC Website.
Click the cover below to check it out.
Better Call Saul premiere on AMC February 8. Here’s the official description:
The series is set six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut, a beloved character introduced in ‘Breaking Bad.’ The series will track Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “Criminal lawyer.” The series’ tone is dramatic, woven with dark humor.
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There’s a new plan for a Robotech live-action movie.
Robotech hit TV screens in the US in the mid-80s. It became a big hit, and the introduction to anime for many young viewers at the time. What much of the audience didn’t realize was that the various seasons of Robotech were, in fact, re-edited and localized presentations of several different TV series from Japan. The US-based Robotech storylines, which were influenced by but quite different from the original Japanese stories, became popular enough that there is a long line of related projects — enough that some have since been relegated to non-continuity status.
For years, various producers and writers have worked to make a live-action movie in the US. Now a Warners-based crew is trying again.
Deadline reports that producers at Hollywood Gang, with Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton producing, have set Michael Gordon (300 and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra) to script a live-action Robotech film. Reportedly, the producers want Andy Muschietti (Mama, and the possible Shadow of the Colossus director) to direct the film.
Beyond that we don’t know much. Development has stalled on Robotech more than once. There are any number of storylines to use as a basis for a film, but the most likely would be the Macross Saga, which acted as the first Robotech TV season, and follows the discovery of a crashed alien ship, which leads to an interstellar war with another alien group which seeks to reclaim the ship.
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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.
Header Photo: Spirits of the Forest t-shirt
Visual Effects: The Gender Bias Behind The Screen
A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New
Very cool snow statue @ Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido. @starwars @jp501st pic.twitter.com/7djbhCmbkv
— Chris Argyropoulos (@ThatChrisA) February 4, 2015
Amazing Star Wars Snow Sculpture
What Sundance Means To The Oscars, And Which Films From This Year’s Fest Could Be Awards Season Players
Can the Diversity at Sundance Move Beyond the Fest Circuit?
Here’s Bill Murray Goofing Off On The Set Of ‘Lost In Translation’ With A Japanese Make Out Book
The 15 Best Movies We Saw at Sundance 2015
Planets attacking and attacked: 10 movies that travel through the solar system
The most iconic movies filmed in each state
Jeff Bridges Admits He Was As Disappointed With That ‘Giver‘ Adaptation As You Were
Miyazaki Inspired Walk-On-All-Fours Stilt Costumes
Michael Moore Talks ‘American Sniper,’ PTSD: ‘People Should See It’
This Couple Just Had The Classiest Star Wars Wedding Ever
Fox Returns Emmy Awards To Sunday In Fall, Sets September 20 Date
KIDS REENACT 2015 OSCAR NOMINEES
German Government Using a Battlestar Galactica LARP to Train Future Diplomats
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When the time came to make my most-anticipated list for 2015, there was no question that Hal Hartley’s new film Ned Rifle would take a spot. Just as Richard Linklater created a surprising and unlikely trilogy of films, here Hartley completes a three-film cycle that follows the story of a garbageman whose profane poetry wins the Nobel prize and changes the world, thanks in part to the influence of a hedonistic novelist. The two previous films, Henry Fool and Fay Grim, create a sort of alternate world defined by absurdist, deadpan humor, odd espionage and literary superstardom.
In the Ned Rifle trailer you’ll see many of those elements at play, along with attempted patricide, hero worship, young love, religion, and James Urbaniak running down everything that makes an audience happy. It’s great!
Just a note that this trailer, being pretty long, seems to show a lot. That probably won’t matter in the long run — and I haven’t yet seen the film to verify whether or not this shows too much. So keep that in mind.
Ned Rifle will play SXSW, and the fest presents this trailer.
At once a saga concerning the Grim family of Woodside Queens and how their lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the self-proclaimed genius, Henry Fool, the trilogy is also an illustration of America’s grappling with ideas, art, politics, and religion over the course of twenty years. In this swiftly paced and expansive conclusion, Henry and Fay’s son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother’s life (Parker Posey). But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome, sexy, and hilarious Susan (Aubrey Plaza).
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During Tuesday’s earnings call from Take-Two Interactive, the publisher’s chief executive Strauss Zelnick fielded questions about Grand Theft Auto V’s 45 million sales, as well as the controversy surrounding the extensive DLC pipeline for upcoming monster-hunting game, Evolve.
Regarding GTA V sales, Zelnick was asked how many of the 10 million copies shipped on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are repeat buyers versus new players. Zelnick said it’s a tough number to pin down exactly, but explained that it’s probably a fair mix of the two.
He also said during the call that, even after 45 million units sold worldwide, GTA V still has an opportunity to grow further
“There are 45 million units sold, but there are billions of people on the face of the earth,” he said. “So we have plenty of room.”
GTA V sales are likely to balloon further in March when the PC edition is released. In addition, the GTA series has historically enjoyed a long sales tail, with back-catalog titles selling strong long after their original release.
Also during the call, Zelnick responded to a question about Evolve’s DLC program, which has drawn much conversation and debate recently. Zelnick, like developer Turtle Rock before him, defended the game in general, adding that “all signs” are pointing to a successful release for the title next week.
“You’re right, there was some controversy stirred up by an online post,” Zelnick said to an analyst. “And I guess controversy generally speaking is a good thing. People can argue about the business model [but] I think we’re delivering a fantastic title that’s well worth what consumers will pay for it. All signs are extraordinarily positive. I never like to claim success before it’s occurred–this looks to be a good news event, I’m going to leave it at that, and hopefully during our next call we’ll have great news to report.”
Zelnick went on to point out that Evolve won Game of Show awards at both E3 and Gamescom in 2014.
“The buzz [for Evolve] is massive, so we’ll wait until consumers tell us what they think,” Zelnick said.
The Evolve release date is February 10 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
For more on Take-Two’s latest earnings report, see the stories below.
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Sony sold 6.4 million PlayStation 4s, and 1.1 million PlayStation 3s, between October and December to help push its quarterly game profits to $228 million.
The robust home console sales helped Sony’s struggling electronics empire to record about $21 billion in revenue during the quarter, with profit coming in at about $1.5 billion. (Due to the Sony Pictures hack in December, its accounting teams were unable to complete the full report in time, which means these numbers are technically still forecasts).
Despite the game segment’s strong performance overall, sales of PlayStation TV and the PS Vita continued to miss targets, with combined sales reaching 1.4 million. As such, Sony has announced a writedown on the value of those assets, to the tune of $93 million.
“This write-down was recorded because the latest forecast of PS TV unit sales does not reach our original forecast as a result of lower than expected unit sales in the current quarter,” Sony said.
Overall, the game segment revenue came in at about $4.4 billion, which means the PlayStation business now accounts for about a fifth of Sony’s entire business.
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A tranche of data and images leaked by a Destiny player has laid bare the next expansion for the game, called House of Wolves.
Through unknown methods, one anonymous Japanese player has managed to find a way to access vast portions of the new update via the existing game files, and has posted all the findings on a Reddit thread. Key details uncovered include thorough descriptions of missions, as well as images of new weapons, amour and the expansion’s scheduled release date.
Meanwhile, a Bungie community manager has addressed the leak, inferring that it is genuine while also urging caution that key details may change before the expansion’s release.
The House of Wolves release date, according to the leak, will fall on Tuesday, May 19. However, this date may change.
A picture (copied below) of the House of Wolves mission description reads: “The Queen’s Fallen have purchased their freedom with Awoken blood. Hunt down the traitors and your debt to the Queen will be paid.”
As per the pictured blurb, the expansion is said to offer:
This storyline appears to take place on the Moon level, with another image showing the map and mission icons (below).
A range of image galleries, copied below, showcase the leaked data.
Meanwhile, Bungie’s community manager David Dague (known online as DeeJ), as responded to the leak on the official Destiny forums.
“Look at all that pretty armor! What could it all mean?” he wrote.
“I know that rampant speculation will burn for a while on this topic. As you enjoy a conversation about the pearls of information that can be lifted from this, please bear a few things in mind…”
“1. Aside from giving it a name, Bungie has yet to reveal the House of Wolves. That means that anything you know about it can change. We have a team working on the experience in their own fancy room, and they have some exciting surprises up their sleeves.”
“2. We reserve the right to overwrite anything you’re looking at right now. These placeholder items enable us to save room on your drive for actual future updates. You’ll all download them before it’s time to play.”
“3. Any stats or assumptions about power or impact or handsomeness are months old, and do not reflect the things that we’re doing to adapt to what you’ve taught us about Destiny. There is a process here, and you’re a part of it.”
He concluded that, while he understands the excitement and speculation surrounding the leaks, he hopes fans do not see the information as final plans.
“All we ask is that you leave your mind open to the evolutions that are inevitable. What you see here are very old ghosts from our pre-launch database. These are not necessarily the wolves you’re looking for.”
(Click on the thumbnails to view in full screen)
New Warlock Amour
New Hunter Amour
New Titan Amour
Strike Mission Descriptions
New weapons
Nightfall Strike (Level 32)
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The successor to the OpenGL graphics application programming interface (API) will be revealed at a panel at the Game Developers Conference taking place on March 5 in San Francisco, PC Gamer has reported.
The panel is titled, “glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics (Presented by Valve)” and will include developers and engineers from Valve, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, and Unity Technologies. It will unveil an “upcoming cross-platform graphics API designed for modern programming techniques and processors” which is Khronos Group’s successor to OpenGL.
Not sure what all the graphics settings in PC games are for? We put together a guide to help you out.
The panel will present a technical breakdown of the new API as well as show off live demos with real-world applications running on glNext drivers and hardware. GameSpot will be present at this year’s GDC, so be sure to stay tuned to the site for breaking news as it rolls out.
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