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Johnny Depp’s Notorious B.I.G. movie, City of Lies, has been pulled–at least temporarily. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film was pulled from Global Road Entertainment’s schedule just a month before it was due to open on September 7. A new date has not been announced.

No reason was provided for the move. But the announcement comes after the publication of a Rolling Stone interview with Depp in which the actor said a lot of things including that he would have dropped LSD on Osama Bin Laden’s compound.

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City of Lies also stars Forest Whitaker. It tells the story of the unsolved murder of B.I.G., with Depp playing Los Angeles police detective Russell Poole and Whitaker as a journalist.

“In search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies,” reads a line from the movie’s description. “Relentless in their hunt, these two determined men threaten to uncover the conspiracy and crack the foundation of the L.A.P.D. and an entire city. Based on the nonfiction book LAbyrinth, written by Randall Sullivan.”

City of Lies is off the release schedule, for now at least, but a much bigger movie starring Depp, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is due out in November. Last year, J.K. Rowling defended casting Depp in the role of Grindelwald amid the domestic violence allegations from Depp’s ex-wife, actress Amber Heard.

Nvidia Patents Hint at New GPU Technologies

Nvidia has filed multiple new trademarks which likely hint at new technologies coming to its line of graphics processing units (GPUs).

Reddit user Eric98k posted the discovery of the new patents to the Nvidia subreddit sourcing the company’s portfolio on Justia, a website specializing in legal information retrieval.

Among the listed trademarks include Quadro RTX, GeForce RTX, and Nvidia GPU Cloud which all point to new advancements for graphics cards.

The Quadro RTX is described as an application programming interface focussing on image processing, likely using Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing technology.

Birds of Prey: Batman Baddie Black Mask Reportedly the Villain in Harley Quinn Spinoff

Black Mask will reportedly be the primary antagonist in Warner Bros.’ Harley Quinn spinoff movie Birds of Prey.

The Wrap reports that the twisted kingpin will make his big screen debut in the Cathy Yan-directed film, which will feature Margot Robbie’s version of Quinn alongside other key women in the DC universe like Black Canary, Huntress, Cassandra Cain and Renee Montoya.

Johnny Depp Notorious B.I.G. Movie City of Lies Pulled a Month Before Release

City of Lies, the crime thriller starring Johnny Depp as LAPD Detective Russell Poole investigating the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, has been pulled from distributor Global Road’s schedule a month prior to releasing in theaters.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the film was set to release in North America on September 7, but no new date has been set for the film. No word on if this means the film is simply getting a new release window, if it will be moved to streaming services, or if it won’t receive a release entirely. There is similarly no word on why the film is being pulled in the first place.

Hellboy Game Leans into the Weirdest Adventures Big Red Has Been On

When Hellboy: The Board Game was announced earlier this year, I was immediately intrigued by how developer Mantic Games might translate the spirit of Big Red and his “Right Hand of Doom” onto the tabletop. After playing a round on the show floor of Gen Con 2018, it’s shaping up to be a lot of fun, and staying very true to its comic inspiration.

I got to play as Hellboy while IGN’s own Tom Marks controlled Abe as we took on the adaptation’s introductory mission. A ‘Case’ card with a story setup was read, explaining we were responding to a pretty routine disturbance — which rarely ever end up being routine. As play began, our characters stepped into a small, stone-walled hallway, immediately coming face to face (or mini to mini) with some terrible frog monsters.

The 1981 Dark Tower Game Is Getting a Sequel

Publisher Restoration Games has announced that it will be creating a sequel to the classic 1981 board game Dark Tower.

Titled Return to Dark Tower, the sequel is expected to launch a Kickstarter sometime next year, and then release the year after that. The designers behind Return to Dark Tower are Isaac Childres and Rob Daviau, two of the top board game designers around right now.

Daviau created the extremely popular Legacy versions of Risk and Pandemic, while Childres is the creator of Gloomhaven — the currently top rated game on BoardGameGeek that has sold roughly 120,000 copies.

PAX West 2018 Releases Panel Line-Up

The line-up for PAX West 2018’s panels and exhibitors was announced Monday, with tickets already being sold out for the Saturday and Sunday event days. PAX West will take place Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 at the Washington State Convention Center.

This year’s panels include developers from Shadow of the Tomb Raider who will discuss the creation of the hidden city of Paititi, and Life is Strange 2 creators hosting a discussion and Q&A.

IGN will have its own panel, IGN Presents: Let’s Rank the Top 10 Xbox One Games, on Friday, 8/31 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Wyvern Theatre. There, Tina Amini, Jonathon Dornbush, Tom Marks, Ryan McCaffrey, Miranda Sanchez, and brandin Tyrrel.

Patrick Stewart Returning as Captain Picard Is the Best Thing to Happen to Star Trek in Decades

When the news came this weekend that Patrick Stewart will indeed be reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series for CBS All Access, the internet went crazy with PatStew love. The reaction to the announcement was overwhelmingly positive, and it showed just how important Star Trek: The Next Generation is not just to Trekkies but also to more mainstream audiences. And indeed, the reveal that Jean-Luc is returning is certainly one of the best things to happen to Star Trek in — dare I say it? — decades. Though, all the same, it’s also one of the riskiest moves the franchise has taken in some time.

Everything You Need to Play Spider-Man on PS4 Next Month

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We are less than a month away from Spider-Man for PS4 and I have to admit, I’m a little excited. Actually, I take that back, I’m extremely excited. I played a demo during E3 and the attention to detail is absolutely amazing. I took to the streets to walk around, and a squirrel came down from a tree and ran around, doing its squirrel thing, just like a real-life squirrel.

That part really stuck with me, because while web-slinging, swinging, and scaling the New York City skyline is a pure delight, it fascinates me to no end someone at Insomniac took the time to create, animate, and program realistic squirrel behavior. It’s the little touches that add up to something greater than the sum of its parts, and I think Spider-Man is going to be excellent when it finally comes out on September 7. Squirrels.