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  • Jack O’Connell Joins Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ [Updated]

    Jack O’Connell Joins Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ [Updated]

    Man Who Killed Don Quixote casting

    Update: O’Connell has now officially been cast in Gilliam’s film. Our original article follows, and is updated with a new synopsis below.

    Jack O’Connell may well be the next big guy to watch. After his stint on Skins, he showed up in 300: Rise of an Empire and ’71, and received rave notes for his work in Starred Up. Holding the lead role in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken means that half the families in the US are going to know his face after that film opens at Christmas. And now he might be the man for Terry Gilliam — The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He would play, according to the most recent draft of the script, a guy who is connected to a Don Quixote movie which has had a fairly undesirable effect on some audiences.

    The latest Man Who Killed Don Quixote casting report comes from Baz Bamigboye, who passes on word from John Hurt that Gilliam is eyeing O’Connell, and that the actor is “in discussions about appearing with Hurt in the Quixote film, which could shoot in autumn next year.” Hurt is quoted saying “Jack’s Derbyshire born and bred, so it will be fun to work with him.”

    The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has so far turned out to be an appropriately (but not pleasantly) quixotic project for Gilliam. It originally went before cameras in 2000, and was shut down by disasters chronicled in the Lost in La Mancha documentary. Gilliam and screenwriter Terry George have attempted to revive it a couple times in the decade and a half since, with significant script rewrites and new casts changing the film each time.

    Gilliam explained the story’s current state a couple months back:

    I keep incorporating my own life into it and shifting it. The basic underlying premise of that the version Johnny was involved in was that he actually was going to be transported back to the 17th century, and now it all takes place now, it’s contemporary. It’s more about how movies can damage people… Our main character actually made a Don Quixote movie a lot earlier in his history, and the effect it had on many people wasn’t very nice. Some people go mad, some people turn to drink, some people become whores.

    Update: O’Connell has been announced as the star of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Variety offers up this new plot description:

    A modern and satirical twist on the tale, “Don Quixote” stars O’Connell as Toby, a jaded commercials director who travels to Spain for a shoot and comes across a gypsy who gives a copy of his student film — a lyrical re-working of the Don Quixote story set in a quaint old Spanish village. Moved by the discovery, Toby sets off on a bizarre road trip to find the little village where the student student film was shot and gets caught up in a series of catastrophies.

    The post Jack O’Connell Joins Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ [Updated] appeared first on /Film.

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  • Marvel Phase 3 International Release Dates Revealed

    Marvel Phase 3 International Release Dates Revealed

    Marvel Phase 3 Kevin Feige

    Living in the United States, it’s easy to look at our release calendar and see it as the be-all, end-all. But these days, international audiences make up far more of the audience for a film than the US release does. International box office dollars are increasingly important to studios, including Marvel Studios. For example, Guardians of the Galaxy was a big hit in the United States, but it grossed more overseas. Same for The Avengers and Iron Man 3.

    So, while last week U.S. audiences got release dates for all of Marvel’s Phase Three, those essential international audiences were left in the dark. Now, the Marvel Phase 3 International release dates have been revealed. As usual of late, most of them take place before we get the films in the US.

    Thanks to Superhero Hype for the info.

    • Captain America: Civil War – April 29, 2016 in some territories (May 6, 2016 domestically)
    • Doctor Strange – October 26, 2016 (November 4, 2016)
    • Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – April 28, 2017 (May 5, 2017)
    • Thor: Ragnarok – July 28, 2017 international and domestic
    • Black Panther – October 27, 2017 (November 2, 2017)
    • Avengers: Infinity War Part I – April 27, 2018 (May 4, 2018)
    • Captain Marvel – July 6, 2018 both
    • Inhumans – October 26, 2018 (November 2, 2018)
    • Avengers: Infinity War Part II – April 26, 2019 (May 3, 2019)

    This doesn’t account for all of the international release dates; just a portion. Most of the dates that’ll come later won’t be revealed until much closer to the actual release point.

    Here’s the Phase 3 press release from Marvel.

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe will grow even bigger than ever before with Phase 3!

    At a special event held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige took to the stage to announce the full slate for Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring a mix of fan-favorite characters along with a number of heroes set to make their big screen debut in the coming years.

    And while the confirmation of upcoming sequels to the successful Captain America, Thor, Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises would have been enough to send fans into a frenzy of excitement, Feige also surprised guests with first details on upcoming films starring Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange and the Inhumans!

    Read all the info here.

    The post Marvel Phase 3 International Release Dates Revealed appeared first on /Film.

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  • Advanced Warfare Dev Wants Another World War II Call of Duty

    Advanced Warfare Dev Wants Another World War II Call of Duty

    2008’s Call of Duty: World at War

    If you’d like to see a future Call of Duty game return to World War II, you’re not alone. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey would also like to play a game set during that time period, he says in a new interview.

    “I think a next generation game with the latest production values and robustness in a World War II setting like Band of Brothers would be amazing,” he said in an interview with Metro.

    Though he’s on-board with the concept, Condrey said returning to that era could be tricky, given the new movement abilities introduced to the series with Advanced Warfare’s exosuit.

    “Now, how would it play and how would the multiplayer work after the new movement set in Advanced Warfare? That’s a tougher question than I’ve had to tackle yet,” he explained.

    The Call of Duty series is now on a three-year, three-studio development cycle, meaning there are (at least) two other Call of Duty games in development right now at Infinity Ward and Treyarch. The most recent Call of Duty game set entirely in World War II was 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War.

    Also in the interview, Condrey said part of what makes the Call of Duty franchise so popular and powerful is that its stories are often “ripped from the headlines.” But one headline that Condrey said he wouldn’t want to make a game out of is the current conversation around extremist group ISIS.

    “I think the tragedies going on around the world in the areas of genocide and ISIS would be hard to make a game out of,” he said. “But again, that’s just my personal opinion. I wouldn’t be confident making a game out of it.”

    Advanced Warfare is available today for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC. For more, check out GameSpot’s review and what other critics are saying.

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  • Excavated Atari Games Going For Up To $500 On Ebay

    Excavated Atari Games Going For Up To $500 On Ebay

    Some of the thousands of copies of various Atari games dug out of a New Mexico landfill earlier this year are now being auctioned off on eBay, with asking prices as high as $500.

    The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico–the location of the famous “Atari Dump”–is now selling copies of E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Asteroids, Defender, Warlords, and Missile Command on eBay through the Tularosa Basin Historical Society.

    The marquee offering is E.T, the failed video game tie-in for Steven Spielberg’s 1982 theatrical hit. eBay listings for E.T. are already seeing asking prices as high as $500 or more. Should you win an auction for E.T., or any of the other excavated games, you’ll receive a certificate of authenticity and a property tag. You’ll also get a pamphlet with photos from 1983 and the dig earlier this year.

    Following the initial auction wave, an additional 70 copies of E.T. will be sold through future eBay auctions. “Then that is it. This will never occur again,” the city writes.

    Head over to this eBay page to see everything up for auction from the Atari dig.

    In addition to the auction, Alamogordo is giving away copies of the excavated games to museums around the world. A deeper dive into the Atari landfill dig will be chronicled in upcoming documentary Atari: Game Over, which was produced by Xbox and will debut on November 20.

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  • Research Shows No Link Between Video Game Violence And Real-World Violence

    Research Shows No Link Between Video Game Violence And Real-World Violence

    Grand Theft Auto V

    In September, researchers at Villanova University and Rutgers University published the results of an in-depth study that suggested violent video games do not lead to increases in real-world violent behavior. Now, a pair of follow-up studies from Stetson University researcher Christopher Ferguson have reached the same general conclusion, finding that there is no evidence for a link between video game or movie violence and real-world violent behavior.

    In fact, as reported by Medical Daily, Ferguson’s studies found that the rise in popularity of violent video games was actually related to a decrease in youth violence.

    For his first study, Ferguson measured homicide rates from 1920 to 2005 against the frequency and graphic nature of violence in popular movies. A “slight” link between violent movies and murder rates was found during the mid-20th century, but the connection lessened in the 1990s, a period when movie violence was linked with fewer homicides overall.

    The second study focused on video game violence. Ferguson looked at Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) data for games released between 1996 and 2011 as well as federal youth crime data for the same period. What he found was that violent video game consumption was “strongly” correlated with declines in the instances of youth violence.

    This downward correlation is likely related to “chance,” and should not be taken as an indication that playing violent video games can lead to a safer world, Ferguson said.

    “Society has a limited amount of resources and attention to devote to the problem of reducing crime,” Ferguson said in a statement. “There is a risk that identifying the wrong problem, such as media violence, may distract society from more pressing concerns such as poverty, education, and vocational disparities and mental health. This research may help society focus on issues that really matter and avoid devoting unnecessary resources to the pursuit of moral agendas with little practical value.”

    Ferguson’s study was published in the Journal of Communication.

    For further reading on the subject of violence in games and its effect on society, you can read GameSpot’s interview with Villanova professor Patrick Markey.

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  • The Division Dev Talks Graphics Parity Between Xbox One, PS4, and PC

    The Division Dev Talks Graphics Parity Between Xbox One, PS4, and PC

    The Division developer Massive Entertainment has responded to the suggestion that the studio may need to “downgrade” the game’s graphics from PC for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions. In an interview with Open World Games [YouTube], Massive’s Martin Hulberg said the term “downgrade” doesn’t accurately encapsulate how the studio is approaching development on The Division.

    “Downgrading is a weird term to use,” he said. “Obviously, we want to make a game that looks the best it can on its respective format, so Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. So I think the term downgrade is a bit confusing and weird because we’re trying to get the most out of every machine we use. So Xbox gets its attention, PlayStation gets its attention, and PC of course will be able to cram it up a bit more depending on the hardware you have.”

    Asked if Massive was planning to have all versions of The Division feature the same specifications (i.e. 1080p or 60fps), Hultberg said every iteration of the game will be treated individually.

    “We address every console, every platform as its own version,” he said. “So we try to stay away from the thing where you go for the least common denominator and everybody suffers for it. We want to make a good experience on all respective formats.”

    Also in the interview, Hultberg teased that Ubisoft may allow gamers to play The Division ahead of its release next year through an alpha or beta.

    “We have a long experience in doing online games dating back to Ground Control and World In Conflict,” he said. “And I think the chance to involve people to do tests is very important. I suspect we will release more details on the possibilities for public tests later on.”

    The Division officially launches sometime in 2015. If you have not been blown away by the game yet, there is a possible explanation for that. “[The Division is] a very ambitious game. We are saving many of the most interesting parts for later,” Ubisoft Massive managing director David Polfeldt told GameSpot in June. “We have a lot of interesting things in the game that were not shown [at E3]. So there’s a lot to come.”

    In addition, Ubisoft recently said that The Division is aiming to offer “endless gameplay.”

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  • Xbox One Stereo Headset Drops To $50

    Xbox One Stereo Headset Drops To $50

    Microsoft’s official Xbox One stereo headset can now be had for $50 on Amazon, a markdown of $10 from what the headset is selling for in Microsoft’s own store right now.

    If you’re in the market for something flashier, the special-edition Armed Forces version of the Xbox One stereo headset sells for $60 on Amazon and $70 through Microsoft’s site.

    The Xbox One stereo headset originally sold for $80 (and $90 for the Armed Forces version), though Microsoft has since cut the price.

    The headset features an over-the-ear design, including breathable fabric ear cups. It also sports a boom microphone that can fold up when you’re not using it. The Xbox One stereo headset is also fairly light, weighing just 9 ounces.

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  • Buy Shaving Cream, Get Assassin's Creed Unity DLC

    Buy Shaving Cream, Get Assassin's Creed Unity DLC

    Ubisoft and Edge Shave Gel have revealed a partnership where if you buy shaving cream you’ll receive in-game content for next week’s Assassin’s Creed Unity.

    Specially marked cans of Edge Shave Gel will come with codes to download an in-game sword, armor, and a hood. You can see depictions of this content in the image above, shared on Facebook.

    So much for No-Shave November…

    Assassin’s Creed Unity launches November 11 or Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Another game, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, will also be released that day, but only for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

    For more on Assassin’s Creed Unity, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.

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  • This Week's Xbox One/Xbox 360 Deals With Gold

    This Week's Xbox One/Xbox 360 Deals With Gold

    Microsoft has now published this week’s Xbox Live deals for Xbox One and Xbox 360, offering deep discounts on games such as Thief, Murdered: Soul Suspect, and various Sonic titles.

    The markdowns listed below are valid through November 10. Also, you will need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to get the games at their discounted prices.

    Xbox One:

    Xbox 360:

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  • Xbox One Titanfall Drops To $20

    If you’re looking for a copy of Titanfall for Xbox One, you’re in luck. Amazon is now offering a physical copy of the game for $20, while you can still buy the digital version for $25 on Xbox Live.

    PC gamers are in for some savings, too, as the digital version of Titanfall is going for $10 right now through Amazon. Xbox 360 owners aren’t as fortunate, as the game continues to sell for $30.

    In other Titanfall-related deals news, the game’s Xbox One DLC pass–which normally sells for $25–is on sale now at the steep discount of $6.25. It includes access to the game’s three previously released expansion packs–Expedition, Frontier’s Edge, and IMC Rising.

    In addition, developer Respawn Entertainment recently released a massive game update for Titanfall that brought an entirely new game mode and lots more to the shooter. You can learn more about the update in the video above in written form via our previous coverage.

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