major

02 Jun

Star Wars: Major Solo Character Returns to Save Han from Boba Fett After Empire Strikes Back

New DVD releaseafter, character, empire, major, returns, strikes

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for War of the Bounty Hunters. Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters kicked off last month with the untold story of Boba Fett’s journey back to Jabba’s Palace after the events of The Empire Strikes Back. Han Solo is still frozen in carbonite on the Slave I, but when the carbonite matrix becomes unstable (which could turn our beloved smuggler into “goo”), Fett is forced to make an emergency stop to Nar Shaddaa, the infamous “Smuggler’s Moon” located smack in the middle of Hutt space. As you can imagine, things only get more…

Read More

29 May

John Krasinski Calls Jaws a Major Influence on A Quiet Place Part II

New DVD releasecalls, influence, krasinski, major, place, quiet

Once upon a time, John Krasinski was not a huge fan of horror. He made that clear when the first A Quiet Place came out, saying that only while writing and directing the soon-to-be horror touchstone that he developed a passion for the genre. Now he obsesses over watching everything in it, with certain classics drawing him back time and again. And for A Quiet Place Part II, he had a killer shark of an inspiration. “This movie I really want to feel like a throwback,” Krasinski says about A Quiet Place Part II. “So it was definitely all the…

Read More

13 Apr

PS5 Update Finally Adds Major Missing Storage Feature

New DVD releasefeature, finally, major, missing, storage, update

The first significant PS5 update includes a feature designed to address one of the next-gen console’s most baffling and impactful storage shortcomings. Tomorrow’s PS5 update will finally allow PS5 owners to transfer next-gen games from the console’s internal SSD to external drives. According to the PlayStation website, these are the requirements for a compatible external PS5 drive: SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps or later. 250 GB minimum, 8 TB maximum capacity.Not all devices are guaranteed to work with the PS5 console. You can’t connect the drive through a USB hub. Two or more USB extended storage drives can’t be connected at the same…

Read More

01 Apr

$400 Million Knives Out 2 Deal Gives Netflix Major Movie Franchise

Netflix, New DVD releasefranchise, gives, knives, major, million, movie, netflix

For the most devoted defenders of the theatrical experience, it will probably make no damn sense. It compels them though. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out 2 and Knives Out 3 are headed to a Netflix account near you thanks to a landmark deal that makes streaming history, and gives Netflix its first major film franchise. News of the development was broken late Wednesday by Deadline, who reported the streaming service is closing a deal with Johnson and his producing partner Ram Bergman to release two Knives Out sequels. Each will see Daniel Craig return as Benoit Blanc, the Last of the…

Read More

30 Mar

How the Game of Thrones Play Fills a Major Gap from the Series

New DVD releasefills, major, series, thrones

Game of Thrones may have concluded its story in a divisively pyrrhic fashion, but the franchise wasn’t exactly left in ashes, thanks to a backlog brimming with several spinoff shows supported by creator George R.R. Martin’s purportedly eight-figure, five-year deal recently signed with HBO. However, it appears that the mythology, adapted from Martin’s novels, is set to invade another arena, a Broadway stage, with a Game of Thrones play now in development. Interestingly, rather than rehashing the show, the play will instead showcase a heretofore unseen storyline crucial to the hit TV series. The Great Tourney at Harrenhal will serve…

Read More

05 Feb

The Promised Neverland Season 2: The Major Changes Made From the Manga

New DVD releasechanges, major, manga, neverland, promised, season

This Promised Neverland article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 5, as well as the manga source material. While Netflix-watchers eagerly anticipate The Promised Neverland Season 2, fans who watch the anime on Hulu or elsewhere are five episodes into the second season, and—for the most part—are increasingly nervous about the series’ narrative choices. After the latest episode (Season 2, Episode 5), The Promised Neverland anime seems to be making major changes from the manga… and, by “changes,” I mean skipping entire arcs of the story, seemingly without any plans to replace them with narrative that bridges the beginning of this…

Read More

04 Jan

The Watch: Why Did the Discworld Adaptation Do THAT to a Major Character?

New DVD releaseadaptation, character, discworld, major, watch

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING KLAXON! Do not read until watching The Watch episode 2. Also contains major spoilers for the Discworld novels Men At Arms and Night Watch. Now that the spoiler warning is out of the way: why did The Watch kill off one of its main characters, Sergeant Detritus, at the start of episode two? Sergeant Detritus the troll is one of the main characters in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. He started out as a bouncer and security guard and had a brief career in the Disc’s even briefer dalliance with moving pictures, but…

Read More

01 Oct

The 100 Series Finale Brought Back a Major Character

New DVD releasebrought, character, finale, major, series

The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the The 100 series finale. There are several surprising moments during The 100 Season 7 finale, from Emori’s death to Octavia’s last-minute pep talk that stops humanity from killing itself, to the judgment that Clarke Griffin is be doomed to spend the rest of her days alone because she killed the monster who rendered her daughter unable to move or speak. (Eye-roll forever.) However, the final hour’s most shocking revelation has to be the long-awaited return of fan favorite Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa. Well, sort of. Before you get your hopes up, fandom, the…

Read More

30 Sep

Valorant Patch Notes For 1.09 Update Reveal Major Viper Changes

New DVD releasemajor, notes, patch, reveal, update, valorant, viper

The full patch notes for Valorant‘s 1.09 update have been revealed, and they include notable nerfs and buffs for some of the game’s top Agents and weapons. Let’s start with the game’s Agents. Viper is arguably the biggest beneficiary of this update as she receives what essentially feels like a soft rework. She’ll now start each round with 100 fuel capacity (up from 50) and the debuff applied by her Snake Bite ability now remains for two seconds after the player leaves the field of acid. Additionally, her movement speed will be doubled when she casts her Viper’s Pit ability…

Read More

01 Sep

Scream 5 Casts The Boys’ Jack Quaid for Major Role

New DVD releasecasts, major, quaid, scream

Jack Quaid is set to join the Scream film franchise revival, bringing newfound gravitas from a co-starring role on hit Amazon series The Boys, for which his mawkish everyman role proved integral in selling its irreverent ultraviolence. Paramount and Spyglass Media’s revival, otherwise known as Scream 5, has cast Quaid for an unspecified role, as reported by Variety. However, Deadline goes a bit further, describing Quaid’s part as a starring role in the ensemble horror entry. Besides a breakout role as tech store nerd-turned-vengeful-vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s imminently returning comic book adaptation series, The Boys, Quaid appeared in two…

Read More

06 Aug

The First X-Men Movie Almost Featured Beast in Major Role

New DVD releasealmost, beast, featured, first, major, movie

When the first X-Men movie opened in July 2000, the film featured a mix of founding X-Men team members like Cyclops (James Marsden) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) plus later recruits like Storm (Halle Berry), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and Rogue (Anna Paquin). But fans of the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby comics knew that several members of the original team lineup, namely Beast and Angel, were nowhere to be found in the movie, while Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) was portrayed as a student at the Xavier School and did not join the team officially until the third film, X-Men: The Last Stand…

Read More

16 Jun

Jurassic World: Dominion is First Major Hollywood Movie to Resume Production

New DVD releasedominion, first, hollywood, jurassic, major, movie, world

Something has survived, and it looks like it is the Jurassic World: Dominion film production. The anticipated third film in Colin Trevorrow’s new Jurassic Park trilogy was among the many countless film and television productions to be placed on indefinite pause this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet it is now also the first major blockbuster or studio movie to be heading back to work sometime in early-mid July in the United Kingdom’s Pinewood Studios. The news was broken via Deadline, which reports cameras are currently expected to roll during the week of July 6 on the film that…

Read More

16 Apr

Star Wars: Rogue One Alternate Titles and Major Character Changes Revealed

New DVD releasealternate, changes, character, major, revealed, rogue, titles

In this week’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story watch-along at IGN, screenwriters Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta had some trivia for fans who decided to revisit the downbeat standalone film along with them, including some alternate titles that didn’t make the cut, and more info on how some of the characters changed in both the initial writing stage and during production on Gareth Edwards’ Lucasfilm project, which was later heavily reshaped by co-writer Tony Gilroy. “There was one point at which we were kicking around titles for this, right?” Weitz said (via Comicbook). “Rogue One was a good choice…

Read More