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21 Aug

Will Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War Have Zombies?

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Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is officially this year’s installment in the popular first-person shooter franchise. Revealed in a teaser in late August after days of teasing the game’s announcement, the sequel focus on the tensions between the United States and Russia during the height of the Cold War. Yet, although the teaser did a good job of setting up the general themes and conflict of the new game, it still left plenty of questions to answer. How will the new game work in tandem with Modern Warfare‘s current Warzone battle royale mode? Or will Cold War get…

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21 Aug

Black Myth: Wukong Trailer Has Captured the Internet’s Imagination

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A previously unknown game called Black Myth: Wukong has just become one of the most talked-about games in the world thanks to a stunning 13-minute gameplay trailer that showcases the project’s promise. Let’s start with a little backstory. Black Myth is being developed by a Chinese game studio called Game Science. Founded by a group of former Tencent employees, the team was inspired to pursue a project of this size when they saw how successful Triple-A games on Steam were among gamers in China. In fact, some are describing this game as one of China’s first significant Triple-A efforts. The…

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20 Aug

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War – Who Is Yuri Bezmenov?

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The official debut trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War has finally arrived. While we’ve known for quite some time that the next Call of Duty game would focus on the Cold War, we weren’t quite prepared for the nature of the trailer itself. It’s an odd preview filled with cryptic messages and a distinct lack of action sequences. Most notably, though, it focuses on an old interview featuring a mysterious man with some cryptic warnings about the slow takeover of a nation and its people. Well, that man is named Yuri Bezmenov, and he’s one of the…

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20 Aug

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War – Who is Perseus?

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The Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War trailer not only demonstrated the fascinating ideas of KGB defector and noted journalist Yuri Bezmenov, but also briefly referenced the name “Perseus” as one of the presumed key players in the game’s story. Of course, that trailer no doubt has many of you asking a very simple question: “Who is Perseus?” The question may be simple, but the answer is anything but. The name Perseus is one of the most mysterious remnants of the Cold War era (and beyond) as well as a favorite among among conspiracy theorists who consider Perseus to…

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20 Aug

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War Announced, Gameplay Reveal to Happen in Warzone

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This year’s Call of Duty game has finally been announced. As previously rumored, the game is called Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. The title, which is being developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, was confirmed in a teaser trailer ahead of a bigger world reveal set for Aug. 26. The reveal will happen within Verdansk, the massive map where the Call of Duty Warzone battle royale game is set, according to GameSpot. Check out the teaser below: The trailer mostly revolves around KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet journalist who famously warned the world of a Soviet…

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19 Aug

Black Widow Spinoffs Coming From Marvel

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Black Widow‘s release delay (due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down movie theaters for less time than they really should have been) had a cascade effect, not just on the rest of the MCU slate, but on the comics planned to capitalize on the film’s expected popularity in theaters. So when Black Widow made it back onto the slate for November, it was only a matter of time before the comics also showed back up. Widowmakers: Red Guardian and Yelena Belova and Taskmaster are also coming in November. Widowmakers comes from Devin Grayson (one of Yelena’s creators) and artist Michele…

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11 Aug

Will Marvel Introduce a New Black Widow?

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One of the last new books announced pre-pandemic was Black Widow from Kelly Thompson (Captain Marvel), Elena Casagrande (Catwoman) and Jordie Bellaire (lots of things that won Eisners). Now that comics publishing is chugging along again, Marvel is celebrating this book’s return to the schedule with a new trailer, and holy cats look at that hallway fight. The book is teased as Natasha Romanoff’s end as Black Widow. In an interview about the book with Marvel from The Before Time, Thompson said “…’heartbreaking thrill ride’ is pretty fair but also hard to expand on without giving things away. I will…

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07 Aug

Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer Promises Revolution

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During the late 1960s, Fred Hampton was one of the biggest voices in the American Black Panther Party where he preached revolutionary socialism and founded the Rainbow Coalition. He was also shot repeatedly in the head at point blank range by members of the Chicago Police Department in 1969. In 2021, director Shaka King looks to tell Hampton’s story, and that of the man who betrayed him, in visceral detail. That at least appears to be the compelling setup of Judas and the Black Messiah, a new film which just dropped the riveting trailer below. As a film produced by…

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07 Aug

Black Water: Abyss

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Deep in the forests of Australia, a group of friends explore a remote cave system when a tropical storm hits. As rising flood waters trap them deep below the surface, something even deadlier emerges from the darkness – killer crocodiles.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 07, 2020

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01 Aug

Black is King Review

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Black is King is the visual album for the soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift, based on the 2019 live action Lion King, adapted from the 1994 animated film of the same name. It takes the story of the Lion King and reconceptualizes it around a Black boy, Simba in human form. Like the album, the film includes audio clips from the 2019 live-action film in interstitials between songs and sometimes disparate visuals. The clips also serve to connect the interspersed Simba narrative within the larger performance piece. More than just a story about one young man reclaiming his identity…

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31 Jul

Black Is King

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Black Is King, based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift, reimagines the lessons from the 2019 film for today’s young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 31, 2020

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26 Jul

Justice League Snyder Cut Scene Reveals Black Suit Superman

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The rise in anticipation for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, generally known as “The Snyder Cut” continues. One of the many questions surrounding the theatrically released version of film in the was why Superman’s journey from “rose from the dead on the wrong side of the crypt” to “actually this is pretty much the Superman we’ve wanted on screen for the last 30 years” seemed a little abbreviated. After all, in the comics, when Superman died at the spikey hands of Doomsday, he didn’t return to primary colored and caped glory right away. Instead, he spent a little time in a black and…

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17 Jul

Black Adam Movie Casts Noah Centineo as JSA’s Atom Smasher

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The rumors are true, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam movie will also introduce characters from the Justice Society of America to the DCEU. Word on the JSA’s inclusion has been making the rounds for some time, but one of the key members of the team (and one with ties to Black Adam) has now been cast. Via THR Noah Centineo has been cast as Albert Rothstein, the hero formerly known as Nuklon, who then took on the role of Atom Smasher when he joined the JSA. Albert Rothstein is the grandson of the supervillain known as Cyclotron and the godson of…

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06 Jul

Black Widow to Hand the Baton to Florence Pugh’s Character

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Black Widow may be biding time until a pandemic-pushed November release date, but director Cate Shortland is already teasing how the debut solo outing of Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel Cinematic Universe veteran is also set as a springboard for Florence Pugh’s debuting character, Yelena Belova. Of course, the timing of Black Widow remains curious, seeing as it follows 2019’s Avengers: Endgame [SPOILER ahead, if, for some earthly reason, you haven’t seen it by now], in which Johansson’s Natasha Romanova/Black Widow traveled with Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) to the planet Vormir, where she sacrificed herself to attain the Soul Stone. However, while…

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05 Jun

Selma and Criterion Collection Lower Pay Walls in Support of Black Voices

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More than 50 years since black protestors first attempted to walk with protestors across a bridge in Selma—a bridge where they were met with violence and bloodshed at the hands of local authorities—it appears much and little has changed in American life. Millions make that connection each day as we head into the second weekend of protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Maybe that’s why some are eager to revisit the history of this American experience. Hence Paramount Pictures announced Friday it is making Ava DuVernay’s Selma available for free across all major content…

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04 Jun

John Boyega’s Black Lives Matter Speech Is Required Viewing

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Actor and activist John Boyega, best known for his role as Finn in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, joined the Black Lives Matter protest in London’s Hyde Park on June 3, delivering a powerful speech that we should all listen to and think about at this moment. Surrounded by a crowd of hundreds, Boyega spoke about the pain he felt over the rampant police violence and racial injustice that has resulted in the death of not only George Floyd but many other Black people before and since. “I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every…

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03 Jun

LeBron James to Produce Black Wall Street Documentary

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One of the darkest, and until recently, least publicized chapters of in American history will soon get the mainstream documentary it deserves. NBA star LeBron James’ production company SpringHill Entertainment is developing a documentary about the destruction of Tulsa Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street. The documentary will be helmed by Salima Koroma, who announced the project on Twitter. “The Tulsa Race Massacre is not just a black story but American history. The fabric of this country is soaked in racism and today 99 years later, we’re still fighting for change,” Koroma wrote. “That’s why I’m partnering with SpringHill Entertainment to tell…

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28 Apr

Scarlett Johansson Recalls Losing Black Widow Role to Emily Blunt

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In the alternate worlds of Fringe or Devs, you’d not have passed a bus stop or billboard last year that didn’t advertise a little upcoming movie called Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of over a decade’s worth of cinematic Marvel storytelling that brought together the original MCU Avengers for one final battle against Thanos. Of course, we would lose two of our major players during the events that unfolded, including Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, and Emily Blunt’s Black Widow, who sacrificed herself for the Soul Stone on Vormir. Yes, originally Blunt was director Jon Favreau’s first choice for the…

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04 Apr

Black Widow Moves to November, Pushes Eternals to February

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In not entirely surprising news, Disney is starting to claim some of the shifting release calendar real estate in 2020 and 2021. Chief among its biggest moves is the revelation that the Mouse House has pushed Black Widow from its previous May 6 launch date to Nov. 6. The announcement, which accompanies news of Mulan moving to July and Jungle Cruise being delayed a full year until summer 2021, has resulted in Marvel’s entire movie release calendar getting shifted and shaken. Indeed, the Nov. 6 release date that Black Widow moves to was previously staked out by fellow Marvel Studios…

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18 Mar

Could Black Widow Premiere on Disney Plus?

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On Tuesday morning (March 17), Disney finally announced that its next Marvel Studios tentpole, Black Widow, was being moved off its May 1 arrival to an indefinite release date later in the year. The news was hardly shocking at this point: with the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all major theater chains in North America — as well as many worldwide — have shut their doors for anywhere from six to 12 weeks, which effectively sealed the Widow’s fate regardless of the Mouse’s decision. Since it’s difficult to predict how long this crisis will continue before the virus…

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