Month: August 2019

The Fast & Furious series might be one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, but it’s also an unusually antagonistic one behind-the-scenes. Two years ago, the very public feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson overshadowed the release of The Fate of the Furious, and now star Michelle Rodriguez has blasted comments made by long-time scriptwriter Chris Morgan.

Rodriguez’s tweet was in response to comments that Morgan has made about the character of Hobbs, played by Jason Statham in the Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw, and Han, who was played by Sung Kang and killed off in 2006’s Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. In short, Hobbs was introduced in Fast & Furious 6 in a more villainous role, where it was revealed he was responsible for Han’s fiery death. Since then, Hobbs has become a hero in the series, and this murderous act barely mentioned. The result has been a fan campaign termed “Justice for Han,” leading Morgan to reveal that the series will return to this storyline, with Hobbs confronting his past mistakes.

However, Rodriguez seems to think otherwise. The star, who has played Leticia Ortiz in five movies to date, retweeted the Entertainment Weekly article that quoted Morgan and declared that Morgan has “absolutely nothing to do with where this narrative is.” Check it out below:

What’s strange is that Morgan wrote both the movie in which Han is killed, and the one in which Hobbs is revealed as his killer, as well as Hobbs & Shaw. However, his work on the spin-off meant that he’s not written next year’s Fast & Furious 9, which is currently shooting. Either way, Morgan clearly still thinks he’s still involved.

Another Fast & Furious-related beef that raised its head this week was the one between Johnson and Tyrese Gibson. In 2017 Gibson, who plays Roman Pearce in the series, was very vocal about his displeasure that Fast 9 had been pushed forward a year to make room for Hobbs & Shaw, something he clearly blamed Johnson for. This week, Gibson posted a screengrab on Instagram about Hobbs & Shaw’s opening weekend box office, which was lower in the US than the last few movies in the series. He accompanied it with the caption: “Breaking up the family clearly doesn’t have the value that one would assume it does.”

Gibson was quick to delete the post. It’s also worth noting that while the domestic weekend take was lower than other movies in the series, Hobbs & Shaw still had an impressive worldwide opening and has made $179 million since it opened last week. For more, check out GameSpot’s ranking of the most ridiculous stunts in the Fast & Furious series.

Epic Games has released a Fortnite content update that puts a new spin on a classic area in the popular battle royale title. As detailed in the Fortnite version 10.00 content update patch notes, Neo Tilted has been transformed by one of the Rift Zones that appeared at the start of Season 10. The area is now called Tilted Town, and looks like a Wild West settlement.

“Neo Tilted is not so neo anymore,” Epic says. “A Rift Zone has turned this location into what it was many years in the past: a Wild West settlement. What’s even wilder than this western twist is that building and harvesting are prohibited.”

On top of that, the automatic sniper rifle is now available and, according to Epic, it’ll be handy if you want to keep your enemies pinned down from a distance. The rifle is available in Rare, Epic, and Legendary variant, and can be found as Floor, Chest, Vending Machine, Supply Drop, and Loot Carrier pickups. Take a look at the full battle royale content update details below.

Limited Time Mode Rotation:

Arsenal

Coming Soon

Team Type: Solos | Respawning: On

Work your way through all of the weapons, starting with the higher rarities and ending with the lower rarities. The first player to get an elimination with the final weapon wins! Infinite ammo is on, and players will drop materials when they are eliminated.

Weapons + Items

• Automatic Sniper Rifle
  • Available in Rare, Epic, and Legendary variants.
  • Uses Medium Ammo.
  • Projectiles travel faster than other Sniper Rifles.
  • Damage: 31/33/35
    • Headshot: 62/66/70
  • 4 Rounds per second.
  • 16 Rounds per magazine.
  • Uses a reduced zoom scope.
  • Can be found from Floor, Chest, Vending Machines, Supply Drops, and Loot Carriers.
• Unvaulted weapons that only spawn in Tilted Town:
  • Double Barrel Shotgun
    • Epic and Legendary variants.
  • Six Shooter
    • Uncommon, Rare, and Epic variants.
  • Hunting Rifle
    • Uncommon and Rare variants.
  • Infantry Rifle
    • Common variant.

Fortnite Season 10 changes the way Daily and Weekly Challenges work in quite a significant way, but there’s still plenty of opportunities to get those precious Battle Stars. If you’re wondering what to spend it on, check out our gallery of all the new skins, emotes, bling, harvesters and more in Fortnite Season 10.

Warner Bros. has announced the release dates for two of its upcoming anticipated movies. The untitled Elvis Presley biopic starring Austin Butler and directed by Oscar nominee Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet) is set to hit theatres on October 1, 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Warner Bros. also shared a brief plot description for the film, stating it will “delve into their complex dynamic spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and the loss of innocence in America.”

Butler stars in the movie opposite Tom Hanks who plays Elvis’ longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker.

The other date that Warner Bros. announced was for the Dune reboot. The movie has shifted from November 2020 to December 18, 2020. The sci-fi film is directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049) and stars lots of famous people such as Josh Brolin, Timothee Chalamet, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Rampling, among others.

The December 18, 2020 date is a busy one. The Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland also arrives in theatres that day, as does the Coming to America sequel with Eddie Murphy and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.

Finally, Warner Bros. announced that an untitled “event” film will release on November 20, 2020, but there is no word on what it is.

A movie based on The Division starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain is on the way, but it probably won’t come out anytime soon. Director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw) gave an interview recently where he spoke about how the Netflix movie is coming along.

“I’m excited about the material, and it is potentially next for us,” Leitch told The Hollywood Reporter. “We are currently in the script phase. Then, it’s about getting everybody’s schedules to line up and making sure that we’re ready to go with a script we’re 100 percent behind.”

Leitch said the process of getting everything together to finally break ground on The Division movie is “accelerating quickly.” The director added that he’s confident that the right team has been assembled to give the movie a shot at being great.

“I love that material, and I love the potential of working with those two incredible actors [Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain],” he said. “The creative team on that is Kelly McCormick as producer, myself, Jake and Jessica. We have a really core team that cares about the material and is going to work hard to make it great.”

In a separate interview, Gyllenhaal said he would be interested in training for The Division movie at Leitch’s 87Eleven action design studio. Keanu Reeves worked with 87Eleven to prepare for his starring role in the action movie franchise John Wick.

“Yeah! I’m up for it. I’m up for anything, man,” Gyllenhaal said. “This job is about the experiences you have off-camera as much as the experiences you have on-camera. So, I’m down.”

There is still no word yet on what The Division movie’s story is, when filming will start, or when it will come out. We do know, however, that the movie will take place in a “pandemic-stricken” Manhattan, which was the location of the first game.