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How Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Can Become Canon Again

After years of rumors, reports, and leaks, Lucasfilm Games finally has a new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game in the pipeline. Mind you, it isn’t the threequel most players hoped for, but a remake of the original, spearheaded by Aspyr, the veteran studio that’s spent the last few years porting Star Wars classics to modern consoles, including next-gen and mobile versions of Knights of the Old Republic and its beloved sequel. But a remake of one of the best Star Wars games ever made is a different challenge altogether. Much will be said about what should and…
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Empire of the Vampire Makes Vampires Scary Again

This article is sponsored by As a species, humans have more or less always been obsessed with vampires. (The earliest references to blood-drinking creatures date back to ancient Mesopotamia, believe it or not.) But the way we relate to these creatures has shifted throughout the centuries, as legends, folklore, and popular culture have adapted to the needs and fears specific to respective societies.  Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have sparked a particular vein of horror story that continues to this day (looking at you, American Horror Story: Double Feature), but Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in…
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TorCon 2021: Stay Home, Geek Out, Again!

Tor Books & Den of Geek Present: TorCon 2021 In partnership with Tor Books, we are thrilled to announce the return of TorCon, a virtual convention launched in 2020 to bring the entertainment and excitement of live book conventions into the virtual space. From Thursday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, Tor Books, Forge Books, Tordotcom Publishing, Tor Teen, and Nightfire are presenting ten panels featuring over 30 of your favorite authors in conversation with each other—and with you! Join authors including James Rollins, Charlie Jane Anders, Joe Pera, Catriona Ward, Gillian Flynn, TJ Klune, Alix E. Harrow, Seanan McGuire,…
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The Flash Really Needs to Fight Some Bad Guys Again

The following contains THE FLASH spoilers through Season 7, Episode 11. Good news, The Flash fans: Our long national nightmare that was the Forces of Nature storyline is finally over. Granted, “Family Matters, Part 2” has many of the same problems as last week’s installment – the nonsensical sibling connection between the various Forces of Nature, the show’s insistence on calling them godlike beings even while treating them like Barry and Iris’s literal children, the general creepiness of Speed Force Nora’s existence, the cringe-y dialogue and awkwardly forced emotion. Let’s not even try to figure out how Barry and friends…
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands – Together Again Review

This Adventure Time: Distant Lands review contains no spoilers. Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada) and Jake the Dog (John DiMaggio) are back together! That is, if Finn can find his trusty stretchy shape-shifting dog pal in territory both familiar and uncharted. Set after the 2018 Adventure Time finale “Come Along with Me,” this is the first Distant Lands post-series special to shine the spotlight on our beloved adventurous boy-and-dog duo. It’s an answer to what happened after their happily-ever-after survival of the Gum War and defeat of GOLB. As the third and penultimate part of the Distant Lands miniseries on HBO…
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Star Trek: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Planet of the Week Storytelling

It’s 1964, a couple of years since President John F. Kennedy announced that the USA was going to land on the moon. It was also the year that saw ground-breaking science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone come to an end. The series had become a household name by telling self-contained, high concept stories written by leaders in the genre. Not just the endlessly talented Rod Serling, but names like Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and Ray Bradbury. It also starred up-and-coming acting talent such as William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and George Takei. As well as bringing talent to the field,…
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How Star Trek: Discovery’s Anthony Rapp Found Dungeons & Dragons Again

During the pandemic, one thing has become clear: the need for play is great and can’t be denied. The nerds of yesteryear who played Dungeons & Dragons, grokked Spock, and looked for ways to express their geekiness, have found themselves in this time, reaching out and finding their people online to resort to playing a game they all knew well and loved “I guess it all started in junior high for me. In the early 80s, I was part of my ‘nerd crew,’” Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, who plays science officer and chief engineer Paul Stamets in the…
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Ben Affleck Talks Working Again with Matt Damon in The Last Duel

The movie industry has changed a lot since Ben Affleck and Matt Damon first conquered it in 1997. Once two hungry actors who’d done a lot of supporting work up to that point, the pair became overnight stars and Hollywood golden boys thanks in large part to co-writing and co-starring in Good Will Hunting. It netted each an Oscar for screenwriting. The memories of those early breaks reemerged in a recent awards screening Q&A that Damon moderated with Affleck for the latter’s new film The Way Back. Clearly a personal passion project for Affleck, the sports drama about a high…
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Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel Sing ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ Again for Elf Reunion

In the 17 years since Jon Favreau’s Elf swept into theaters and became an instant Christmas movie classic, the conversation around the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has evolved. A lot. Once, and still in some quarters, a holiday season standard, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” doesn’t see a December pass without a new think piece saying the song needs to be retired due to its questionable lyrics. Yet no one thinks that about Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel’s sweet chemistry in Elf. In roles that proved to be star-makers for both actors, Ferrell and Deschanel played Buddy and Jovie, an…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed Again Due to Difficulties of Shipping on Current and Next-Gen Platforms

The long awaited sci-fi open-world adventure game Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed again. The game, which was set to release on Nov. 19, has been pushed back to Dec. 10. In a note to fans on Twitter, CD Projekt co-founders Adam Badowski and Marcin Iwinski cited difficulties with testing and shipping nine different versions of the game across current-gen and next-gen platforms, all while working from home, as the major factor in the decision to push the game back once again. We have important news to share with you pic.twitter.com/qZUaD6IwmM— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) October 27, 2020 “Since Cyberpunk 2077 evolved…
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Rebecca Review: What Is Old Is New Again

It takes a certain amount of cojones to remake a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, especially one that nabbed the Academy Award for Best Picture and remains a stone cold classic some 80 years after it first came out. But that’s what British director Ben Wheatley has done with Rebecca, albeit with a film (his first for Netflix) that’s as much a new adaptation of the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel as it a remake of the master’s Gothic melodrama. Wheatley is no stranger to risky filmmaking–his resolutely indie resume so far includes extremely unsettling horror (The Kill List), genuinely weird…
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Link Tank: How FX’s Archer Finds Itself Again in Season 11

After a three-season long detour, Archer is finally back in the real world and thematically as a show in Season 11. “Archer is back—in both a literal sense, with season 11 currently underway, and in a thematic sense. The main character, whose fanciful coma dreams guided seasons eight through 10, is finally in the real world, still recovering but also being the best, most obnoxious secret agent ever. Like we said: Archer is back.” Read more at Gizmodo. In the month of October, check out these fun facts about some of our favorite classic horror movies. “It’s October and Halloween…
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Robert De Niro Talks Going to Battle Again with Christopher Walken in The War with Grandpa

It’s a different battlefield from what they’ve known before, and a different kind of movie set too. Perched atop a series of trampolines, with bouncy surfaces beneath their feet, and red rose dodgeballs in their hands, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken are standing side by side on screen for the first time since 1978’s The Deer Hunter. In that earlier movie, they played young men who eagerly went off to war, but now they’re in a different kind of conflict here. They’re in the midst of The War with Grandpa’s biggest battle. The scene in question occurs at the…
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Blumhouse Starting Production on Horror Movies Again, But At Slower Pace

Like every other studio and production company in the business of making movies and TV shows, Blumhouse Productions has watched its content pipeline come to a nearly complete stop for much of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic swept around the globe. Active work — including pre-production, live filming and post-production — initially ground to a halt for the better part of the past seven months, with production initially starting up again overseas only toward the end of summer as places like the U.K. and other European locales seemed to get a lid on the virus (that may be in question…
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Marvel’s Shang-Chi Release Date Moved Back Once Again

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has, once again, been shuffled farther down the release schedule of Disney’s Marvel Studios; a fate, typical of the times, now shared by some of its continuity cousins in the company’s latest move. The latest schedule overhaul by Disney will see Shang-Chi shift its release date from its previously set May 7, 2021 date to July 9, 2021. The previous date was set during a similarly telluric COVID-minded upheaval to the schedule this past April, which moved the film from its February 12, 2021 spot. Thusly, to paraphrase the martial-arts-minded Marvel character’s…
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The Batman Production Begins Again

Like a masked vigilante who is vengeance and the night, you can’t keep The Batman down. At least not for long. Five months after production on the Robert Pattinson-led superhero reboot was shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros. is gearing up for filming on The Batman to begin again. The news, which comes just days before DC Entertainment’s much anticipated DC Fandome, reveals Matt Reeves is expected to resume shooting the movie in early September. Indeed, it’s been previously reported that construction on new sets has already begun this month at the film’s base of operations in London’s…
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Friends Reunion Special Delayed Again at HBO Max

Nice try, movie industry, but television can have a long saga of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic too! TVLine reported today that WarnerMedia has delayed filming for the Friends reunion special on HBO Max for a second time. Now only a few hundred more delays to go to match Tenet’s record. The special is now expected to film in the fall at the earliest. The Friends reunion was initially set to help launch WarnerMedia’s shiny new streaming service HBO Max on May 27. But Warner delayed the filming in March amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The special was then set…
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Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 1 Review: On the Road Again

This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 1 Hold onto your flasks, Earpers. For the next six weeks, new episodes of Wynonna Earp will be gracing our hearts and eyeballs. It’s almost too good to believe that, after almost two years, a time in which funding snafus and then COVID-19 temporary halted production, we have more of this wonderfully bonkers, ridiculously fun, and unabashedly sentimental story that centers found family, queer love, and women getting shit done to look forward to, but sometimes the universe gives you something good. Given the long, long hiatus, you would…
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Mulan Delayed Again by Disney

Things will surely be better in August, right? That’s at least what Disney is hoping as the studio quietly announced late Friday evening that the forthcoming live-action remake of Mulan is moving for the second time this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previously slated to open on July 24, the Niki Caro-directed picture now has a shiny new release date on Aug. 21. For those anxious to see the upcoming reimagining of the classic Chinese legend, the good news is that it is not being postponed indefinitely as it was in March. Originally scheduled to premiere at the end…
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