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If you’ve had your TV for more than a few years, it may be missing a number of features that are common in current televisions, like 4K and HDR. And with most new games taking advantage of these features thanks to the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, the games you’re playing now could look a lot better with a newer TV. Thankfully, a number of feature-rich televisions are on sale right now, making it a good time to update the most important part of your entertainment center.
Microsoft has released some unique-looking Xbox One designs over the years, but this new one takes the cake errr cookie. Microsoft has partnered with the makers of Oreo to create an Xbox One X that looks like the splashed white-and-black look of a tasty Oreo cookie.
You can win one of these new Xbox One X consoles through Oreo’s “The Stuf Inside” sweepstakes. The contest is open only to people in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. You can scan a participating Oreo package for a chance to win the custom Xbox One X. The full terms and conditions are available here on the Stuf Inside sweepstakes website.
Back in September, Microsoft announced lots of custom Xbox One consoles that it was auctioning off for charity. The designs were designed and signed by people like Post Malone, Ludacris, Jack Black, Usain Bolt, and many other famous people. You can see them all here.
Microsoft is rumoured to announce its next wave of Xbox consoles at E3 2019 in June, where the company also plans to show off Halo Infinite.
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We’ve known for a while now that Game of Thrones Season 8 will have an epic battle scene, and now the producers have shared more details about it. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, episode director Miguel Sapochnik, who previously directed the Battle of the Bastards episode, confirmed this new episode will feature a battle between familiar living characters and the Night King and his army. The showdown has been teased since the show’s beginning, and now it’s finally coming.
In the episode, which chronicles the Battle of Winterfell, familiar characters like Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, and Brienne of Tarth are outnumbered as they fight against the supernatural foes. According to EW, it’s the “longest consecutive battle sequence ever committed to film.” At 40 minutes, the Helm’s Deep battle from The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers was the longest battle sequence that Sapochnik said he could find in cinema history.
Co-executive producer Bryan Cogman spoke about the epic battle scene, calling it unprecedented for TV or film.
“What we have asked the production team and crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie,” he explained. “This final face-off between the Army of the Dead and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle. There are sequences built within sequences built within sequences. [Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss wrote] an amazing puzzle and Miguel came in and took it apart and put it together again. It’s been exhausting but I think it will blow everybody away.”
Filming the episode took 11 weeks of night shoots. According to the report, up to 750 people worked all night for almost three months in sub-freezing temperatures and enduring cold rain, mud, and heavy wind.
Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, told EW that “nothing can prepare you for how physically draining” it was filming the battle scene. “It’s night after night, and again and again, and it just doesn’t stop,” she said. “You can’t get sick, and you have to look out for yourself because there’s so much to do that nobody else can do… there are moments you’re just broken as a human and just want to cry.”
The actor who plays Ser Jorah Mormont, Iain Glen, said filming the battle was the “most unpleasant experience I’ve had on Thrones.”
“A real test, really miserable. You get to sleep at seven in the morning and when you wake in the midday you’re still so spent you can’t really do anything, and then you’re back,” he added. “You have no life outside it. You have an absolute f**ked bunch of actors. But without getting too method [acting] about it, on screen it bleeds through to the reality of the Thrones world.”
The entire interview at EW is incredibly in depth and fascinating–check it out here.
Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres on April 14 on HBO–you can see the latest footage here. While the main show is ending, a prequel series is in development.
Netflix has responded to film legend Steven Spielberg’s comments about the Oscars that drummed up a lot of debate and controversy recently. In a statement that doesn’t mention Spielberg or the Oscars by name, Netflix listed some of the reasons why the streaming network’s role in the distribution of film is important.
“We love cinema,” the statement starts off by saying. It then lists off some of the ways Netflix’s unique distribution model that bypasses theatres helps the film industry overall.
“Access for people who can’t always afford, or live in towns without, theatres. Letting everyone, everywhere enjoy releases at the same time,” it said. “Giving filmmakers more ways to share art.”
“These things are not mutually exclusive.”
Netflix’s statement came after Spielberg reportedly plans to request a change to the Oscars eligibility rules that would block movies that air exclusively on streaming services or only come to theatres for a limited time from winning an Oscar. Under the proposed new rules, such films could qualify for an Emmy but not an Oscar. This has understandably generated a lot of debate and discussion.
Spielberg’s comments follow a big Oscars season for Netflix. The Alfonso Cuaron drama Roma, which is exclusive to Netflix, won three Oscars at the recent 91st Academy Awards.
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-Access for people who can’t always afford, or live in towns without, theaters
-Letting everyone, everywhere enjoy releases at the same time
-Giving filmmakers more ways to share art
These things are not mutually exclusive.— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) March 4, 2019
Spielberg’s production company, Amblin, told IndieWire in a statement, “Steven feels strongly about the difference between the streaming and theatrical situation.”
Spielberg will reportedly lobby the Academy to make changes as part of the upcoming Academy Board of Governors meeting in April. We’ll report back when more details become available.
Last April, Spielberg said Netflix movies should not qualify for the Oscars and that platforms like Netflix represent a “clear and present danger” to traditional film. Spielberg has been nominated for 17 Oscars, and he’s won three.
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Most first-person games that open with an act of terrorism are immediately followed by hours of machine gun-based retribution, but The Occupation takes a refreshingly different approach. Rather than drop you in the combat boots of a one-man army, it instead puts you in the well-worn shoes of an investigative journalist and forces you to examine your surroundings with an analytical eye as opposed to a set of ironsights. Sadly, what could have amounted to a novel and absorbing stealth-investigation experience is regularly ruined by numerous rough edges. Like the subjects of its in-game interrogations, The Occupation’s shaky facade is all too frequently exposed.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
There’s been a lot to like about Arrow Season 7, certainly compared to the vast majority of Season 6. At the same time, we’re pretty deep into the season to have so little idea of what the endgame involves. Who’s the true villain this year? What is Oliver Queen’s defining struggle now that he’s out of prison and fighting on the right side of the law? For whatever problems it has, “Brothers & Sisters” deserves a lot of credit for bringing new momentum to the show and beginning to shed light on those questions. And not a moment too soon.
The title hinted at a major Ollie/Emiko storyline. Unfortunately, that’s not really what we got out of this week’s installment. That’s one area the show hasn’t handled particularly well. Emiko’s debut in December was a great way to cap off the first half of the season, but she hasn’t been quite the prominent player she really needs to be. There was some sibling drama to be had in this episode, but nothing as deep or compelling as the series needs. The reveal that Emiko is hiding a great deal from Ollie doesn’t carry as much weight when we’re not fully invested in their relationship yet.
The new Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law won’t be out on time. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the third chapter was previously expected to hit theatres on Christmas Day 2020, but now it’s coming to cinemas on December 22, 2021.
No reasoning for the delay was provided.
In the film, Downey Jr. returns to play the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes, with Law reprising his role as the sidekick Dr. Watson. Chris Brancato (Narcos, Hannibal) wrote the script, while Guy Ritchie–who directed the first two Sherlock Holmes films–is rumoured to return for the third.
The first one, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, premiered in 2011 and made more than $545 million at the global box office. The second one, simply titled Sherlock Holmes, came out in 2009 and made $524 million worldwide.
Another movie based on the detective and his sidekick, Holmes and Watson, was released in 2018 starring Will Ferrel and John C. Reilly. It was bashed by critics, and it made only $40 million against a reported production budget of $42 million.
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