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Marvel has released the new trailer for Captain Marvel, and it does quite a few things, setting up Carol Danvers’ backstory and establishing the basic premise of the movie. It also straightens out something that some viewers were no doubt confused about during the first trailer earlier this year.

That debut trailer for Captain Marvel featured a striking moment for those who don’t know much of the Kree/Skrull backstory that serves as a major foundation for the upcoming movie: Captain Marvel punches an old lady in the face. That might have seemed inexplicable to some, though we felt safe in our assumption that the old woman was simply a Skrull in disguise.

The new trailer goes heavy on the exposition. Aside from some dialogue where Samuel L. Jackson explicitly lays out the absolute basics of the relationship between the Skrull and Kree, the trailer also wastes no time in sorting out that punching incident. Rather than cut away after the punch, we see the old woman is–surprise!–not an old woman at all. She’s unfazed by the punch, and the two begin to fight.

This scene will presumably be more of a comedic beat in the final film than anything particularly meaningful. Elsewhere in the trailer, we do see some more significant aspects of the movie, including the fact that Marvel seems to be introducing a new origin story for Danvers. Based on what we see, she’s unaware of the fact that she’s actually human, and piecing that together will apparently be part of her arc during the movie.

Captain Marvel–which is set in the ’90s–will also presumably set up why the character has gone unseen in all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to date. We know based on the post-credits Infinity War stinger that Nick Fury signals Captain Marvel after Thanos snaps his fingers, but we’re not sure where she’s been for the past few decades.

Captain Marvel’s release date is set for March 8, with Avengers 4 set to follow on May 3.

As expected, a new trailer for Marvel’s next big super hero movie, Captain Marvel, premiered tonight during Monday Night Football on ESPN. This trailer provides the best look yet at the Brie Larson-starring movie and offers up new insight into the plot and what appears to be a new origin story for the character.

The trailer also shows off a better look at the Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Jude Law as a Kree commander, and the two-eyed, digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. We also see Annette Bening’s character for the first time–she’s a Kree. This trailer is heavy on exposition, as it also goes into the Skrull/Kree relationship, and finally explains that old lady-punching incident from the previous trailer. You can check out the full trailer in the embed above.

Captain Marvel is set to premiere in March 2019. The first Captain Marvel trailer came online in September, and just like we did that for one, we’ll have a in-depth breakdown of this newest trailer covering all the big takeaways.

In addition to Larson, Law, Mendelsohn, and Jackson, the movie features Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, and Gemma Chan as Minn-Rrva. You can see a full breakdown of who’s in the movie here.

Larson, who won the Best Actress Oscar for his role in Room, will play Captain Marvel again in 2019’s untitled Avengers 4.

Image credit: Marvel on Twitter

It’s going to be a big week for Epic’s battle royale game Fortnite. In addition to the launch of Season 7, Epic has an announcement teed up for The Game Awards.

Show organiser Geoff Keighley said there will be some kind of Fortnite announcement and a “world premiere” at The Game Awards on Thursday night. Epic’s own Donald Mustard will be on hand at the event to drop the news, apparently.

Epic PR lead Nick Chester confirmed in his own tweet that the announcement lined up for The Game Awards is not related to Season 7. “I can’t stress enough how much we have going on this week,” Chester said.

Keighley’s cryptic teaser mentioned that Fortnite fans will want to “keep your game close,” which sounds like a suggestion that something will happen in the game.

Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who are big fans of Fortnite, will be presenting an award at The Game Awards this week. However, it remains to be seen if the directors will have any news to share during the show.

The pair played Fortnite during downtime during of the editing process of Infinity War, they told EW this year. Joe Russo personally called Mustard to get a conversation going about about the Thanos limited-time mode that eventually came to Fortnite. More recently, Anthony Russo wore a Fortnite t-shirt during an Infinity War Q&A just last week, so their appreciation for Fortnite seemingly continues.

As for Fortnite Season 7, Epic recently released a new teaser that teases, “A bitter ice spreads,” which follows previous rumours and reports about the seventh season having a wintry, cold theme. Season 7 begins on December 6, which is the same day as The Game Awards.

The Game Awards 2018 take place on December 6, starting at 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT. That works out to 1:30 AM GMT and 12:30 PM AET on December 7. There are more than 10 new game announcements on tap, one of which is the next RPG from the makers of Fallout: New Vegas. You’ll be able to watch the show on GameSpot, while we’ll have a rundown of all the big news as well.

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In your daily scroll through the Netflix carousel, you’ve probably noticed a new Netflix-exclusive Christmas movie starring veteran actor Kurt Russell called The Christmas Chronicles. As it turns out, while the movie flew somewhat under the radar, the film has been extraordinary successful.

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said this week that the film generated 20 million views in its first week. According to Sarandos, that would work out to a $200 million opening if The Christmas Chronicles was released traditionally in theaters.

“If every one of those [20 million streams] was a movie ticket purchase, that’s a $US 200 million opening week,” he said, as reported by Business Insider. “Even movies that go on to $US1 billion don’t typically do that in the first week.”

According to Sarandos, The Christmas Chronicles is Russell’s biggest opening ever for one of his movies. “Even in his successful career, he’s never had that many people see one of his movies in the first week ever,” he said. “That’s a testimony to what we can bring to the market for storytellers today that we couldn’t have ten years ago.”

Importantly, it’s unclear how many of the 20 million first-week streams for The Christmas Chronicles are repeats. But whatever the case, it is clear the movie has been popular, and while Sarandos is spinning the numbers in a way that makes Netflix look better, he’s of course absolutely right that Netflix is shaking up the film world.

Russell, who has been acting for decades, recently appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which made $146.5 million over its first three days and $183 million in its first week, according to the report.

The Christmas Chronicles stars Russell as Santa, along with Judah Lewis and Darby Camp as the brother and sister who caused Santa’s sleigh to crash. Together, they must all save Christmas.

The movie, which was released at the end of November, was directed by Clay Kaytis (The Angry Birds Movie) and produced by Harry Potter and Home Alone director Chris Columbus.