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A new movie about The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien is coming to theatres next month. Among other things, the film confirms the correct pronunciation of the man’s last name.

It is “Tol-Keen,” not “Tol – Kine” or any other variation.

A clip from the new movie, Tolkien, was released on Twitter and it clears up any potential confusion about how to pronounce the legendary author’s surname. Watch as actor Harry Gilby, who plays young Tolkien, stands up in class to correct his teacher.

Tolkien hits theatres on May 10. It’s directed by Dome Karukoski (Heart of Finland), based on script from David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford.

Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men series) plays the adult Tolkien, while Lily Collins (To The Bone, Stuck In Love) plays Tolkien’s wife, Edith Bratt.

In addition to Tolkien, Amazon is working on a new Lord of the Rings TV show that the network is reportedly spending $500 million to produce.

Outside of movies and TV, a new Lord of the Rings video game focusing on Gollum is in development for PC from developer Daedalic Entertainment and due out in 2021.

Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds is getting involved with a new TV show, and it might not be what you expect. Reynolds is producing the new ABC game show “Don’t.”

As reported by Variety, the original game show is a “comedic physical game show” where families of four take part in mental and physical challenges where they “don’t” do something. Examples include “don’t forget,” “don’t slip,” or anything else, it seems.

Here’s more from Variety’s description of the show:

“Each episode will focus on one family as they go through the ‘Don’t’ tests. If they succeed, they’ll win a cash prize. But if the family fails a challenge, one of them will be eliminated. When just one contestant is left, the last remaining family member must compete on their own. Whatever money they’ve earned, the family keeps.”

Reynolds has a history with ABC, as he starred on the late ’90s sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (which was originally titled Two Guys, A Girl & a Pizza Place). More recently, the Deadpool franchise joins ABC owner Disney after that company bought the Deadpool series from Fox. He also has some experience with game shows, as he showed up on a South Korean game show as part of viral marketing for Deadpool 2.

“All my life, the word ‘don’t’ has tortured me,” Reynolds said. “From ‘don’t curse’ to ‘don’t play ball in the house’ to ‘don’t eat the crab salad you left in the sun for three days.’ I cannot wait for my personal trauma to become the next great ABC family show,” Reynolds said.

Go to Variety to get the full story.

The next big Ryan Reynolds movie is Detective Pikachu; Reynolds voices Pikachu.

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HBO’s beloved and long-running fantasy show Game of Thrones kicks off the beginning of the end when Season 8 premieres this coming Sunday. Ahead of that, HBO has released a nice video in which the stars of the series discuss memorable events from the past decade, and it’s a treat to watch. Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys shares a story of how she fell off her horse on the first day of filming, while Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion, recalls how he originally had no interest in taking the job in the first place.

The actors also talk about the most shocking and surprising scenes over the years, their favourite actors to work with and locations to shoot in, and what they’ll miss and remember about the show when it’s over.

It’s very special and nice to hear, especially from the younger actors who grew up on set like Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, and Sophie Turner, how working on the show and learning from more veteran actors helped them grow in confidence that has crossed over into their professional and personal lives. Check out the video below.

Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres April 14 on HBO. For more, you can find out why actor John Bradley thinks Game of Thrones has changed TV forever. Author George R.R. Martin also recently talked about how he thought the show shouldn’t end at Season 8.

The first clip from Avengers: Endgame has been released. The much-anticipated follow-up to Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War arrives later this month, and focuses on what remains of the world’s mightiest heroes as they try to stop Thanos and get their friends back. It features a small Thor-Captain Marvel interaction we’ve seen before but otherwise sets up both the Avengers’ mission in Endgame and addresses a question everyone has been wondering: Where has Captain Marvel been?

The clip sees Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, War Machine, Bruce Banner, and Captain Marvel forming a plan to take on Thanos. When Banner suggests that the results might be the same as last time they fought the mad tyrant, Captain Marvel tells them that there’s one essential difference: “Before, you didn’t have me.” Cap also gets to drop a mild curse word, so be warned if you only like Steve being polite and respectful! Check it out below.

This clip was part of the 10 minutes of footage that was recently screened to GameSpot. Check out our look at what else we learnt from this Endgame footage. In addition, a new trailer was released last week, and you can also read our report from the recent Endgame press conference, at which directors Joe and Anthony Russo spoke about how they approached Endgame after the shocking events of Infinity War.

Avengers: Endgame releases on April 26, 2019. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Brie Larsson, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Danai Gurira, Paul Rudd, and Josh Brolin.

Endgame will be followed by Spider-Man: Far From Home in July, with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury both returning, along with a variety of characters from Homecoming.

Bethesda has announced The Elder Scrolls: Blades is now open to all and free to download. You still need a Bethesda net account in order to play, though.

Now that Blades is available for all, Bethesda already has it’s eyes set on tweaking the game. “Next up: We’re looking at all your feedback and rebalancing the most difficult enemy in the game… the silver chest,” the studio tweeted.

Blades is the first mobile installment in The Elder Scrolls series, although Bethesda still describes the title as a “pure Elder Scrolls game” with “console-quality graphics.” Unlike The Elder Scrolls games on PC and consoles, Blades doesn’t have an open world. Instead, the game is composed of a series of interconnected environments–some of which are still “very large,” according to Bethesda.

“We could do it,” Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard said, when asked about implementing an open-world in Blades. “We’ll see how people interact with it. Because it’s mobile, we know people may play… We need you to get something meaningful done in 10 or 15 minutes. Do you know what I mean? Even though you could sit down and play it for as many hours as you want.”

Blades had been delayed from it’s original launch date of Fall 2018 for Android and iOS devices. Although there are plans to port the game to both PC and consoles, Bethesda hasn’t announced any planned release window for those versions.

The next mainline The Elder Scrolls game was first teased during E3 2018. Currently only titled The Elder Scrolls VI, Bethesda has announced that the game will not be shown off at E3 2019. Neither will Starfield, which is currently scheduled to release prior to the upcoming The Elder Scrolls game.

Dave Bautista was already known as one of WWE’s biggest stars when he took on the role of Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, and since then his second career as a movie star has continued to flourish. This summer he gets one of his biggest roles so far, in the action comedy Stuber. The first trailer has now been released.

Stuber stars Bautista as a tough, grizzled cop who is forced to call an Uber in the middle of a case. Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani plays the driver unlucky enough to accept the booking, and inevitably finds himself thrown into a wild, action-packed, and extremely dangerous operation as Bautista sets out to take down some bad guys. The Guardians movies have shown Bautista’s comic skills, and this new movie looks like it will deliver both hilarious buddy comedy and over-the-top action scenes. Check out the very funny trailer below.

Stuber also stars Iko Uwais (Mile 22, The Raid Redemption), Natalie Morales (Battle of the Sexes), Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Betty Gilpin (GLOW). It’s directed by Michael Dowse, who previously helmed the ice hockey comedy Goon, as well as episode of Preacher and Future Man. It releases in July 12.

Bautista is one of the many big names set to star in the much-anticipated new adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune, which releases in November 2020. In addition, he is expected to appear later this month in Avengers: Endgame and will star in the upcoming Netflix zombie movie Army of the Dead, from Batman vs Superman director Zack Snyder. Bautista also made a return to the ring this weekend, for a showdown with Triple H at Wrestlemania 35.