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American Gods is reportedly looking for a new actress to take on the role of New Media in Season 2.
TVLine reports the show is searching for a “20-something, Asian woman” to play the character, which symbolizes the role of social media in modern American life. Gillian Anderson played New Media in the first season, but announced earlier this year she won’t be back for the second season.
Anderson’s announcement came shortly after original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green left the series due to creative differences with producer FremantleMedia. This reprotedly involved a disagreement with the budget for Season 2.
Twitch and Blizzard gave teamed up for an Overwatch League All-Access Pass that gives viewers exclusive Twitch content, in-game rewards, and “insider content” granting access to the Overwatch League Command Center, that includes alternate camera angles, and behind-the-scenes VODs.
The pass was announced this week and is priced at $29.99 for the inaugral season, with all of the benefits lasting up until the start of 2019’s Overwatch League. Pass holders will be granted 23 Twitch global emotes— including character ability and gold team emotes — a global chat badge, a subscription icon, and a global in-chat badge. Other Twitch benefits include access to the subscriber-only Twitch chat room and the removal of ads.
A Jay and Silent Bob VR series is in the works from Kevin Smith.
The Tracking Board reports the series is part of STXsurreal’s new VR sate and will premiere on the Surreal channel, which will launch as an app on VR headsets in mid-2018. The series will be written, directed, and produced by Kevin Smith.
Viewers will assume the role of Silent Bob and will go on several adventures with Jay (Jason Mewes), as the duo revisit fan-favorite characters. Last year, Smith also announced that a new Jay and Silent Bob film, tentatively titled Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, is in the works. The story follows the two titular main characters trying to stop Hollywood from rebooting the “Bluntman and Chronic” movie.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds next event mode kicks off this week on Miramar, and is live for just 72 hours.
Tequila Sunrise is a shotgun and melee weapons only mode, with squads of four battling it out on the Miramar map. Shotguns and melee weapons will spawn at three times the usual rate during the event, as will shotgun ammo. Additional tweaks for this event include a smaller initial safe zone, no care packages, and the time of day will be locked at sunrise.
The event will run for 72 hours only and goes live today at 7PM PDT/ 10PM EST April 5, and on April 6 at 4AM CEST / 5AM BST. It wraps up on April 8 at 7PM PDT / 10PM EST and on April 9 at 4AM CEST / 5AM BST.
It’s unlikely that many Marvel fans will feel shortchanged by the number of superheroes in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, but there have been a couple of notable absences from the trailers and posters so far. Ant-Man and Hawkeye are nowhere to be seen, and as was reported last month, the actor’s names don’t even feature on the latest poster. While we still don’t know whether Ant-Man will appear, co-director Anthony Russo has spoken about Hawkeye’s role in the movie.
Unsurprisingly, Russo didn’t provide any specific details, but he did confirm that there was a reason we hadn’t seen anything of actor Jeremy Renner yet. “All will be explained when people see the movie,” he told Total Film (via Gamesradar). “It’s all tied into the story.”
This follows the quotes from Anthony Russo’s co-directing brother Joe last month, in which he explained that the events of Captain America: Civil War–the last movie to feature Hawkeye–were important as to where we find the characters at the start of Infinity War.
“Hawkeye, coming out of Civil War, is in the same position that Cap and Falcon are at the end of that movie,” he said. “[They] were on Cap’s side coming out of the Civil War. Some made certain decisions and others made other decisions that led to different paths in them dealing with oversight in this movie in a different way. So Hawkeye’s on his own journey in this movie.”
Anthony Russo also revealed that we won’t learn much about the back story of Infinity War‘s big villain Thanos. “We were considering showing [Thanos’] backstory,” he said. “But ultimately felt it wasn’t necessary for the movie.” Nevertheless, the director did explain that the movie will be “told from Thanos’ point of view,” which is something the directors spoke about last year.
Earlier this week, the Russos released an appeal for fans not to spoil any of the movie’s big surprises through a note they posted on Twitter. They said of the April 27 film not to “spoil it for others, the same way you wouldn’t want it spoiled for you.” Following this, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland released his own excellent response.
Following the announcement in November that a Lord of the Rings TV show was in development, some huge numbers have been thrown around. Amazon reportedly paid a massive $250 million just for the TV rights to JRR Tolkien’s classic books, and last month it was reported that the company could spend up to $500 million for the first two seasons. A new story in The Hollywood Reporter has now put the total price as high as $1 billion.
According to THR, the huge price tag is due to the fact that Amazon is required to make five seasons of the show. It is very unusual for a series of this scale and cost to have an upfront commitment of this size, but these were the terms of the deal with the Tolkien Estate and publishers HarperColllins. In addition, Amazon must have the first season in production within two years.
New Line Cinema, who produced Peter Jackson’s hugely successful Lord of the Rings movies, do do not own any of the TV rights to Tolkien’s work, so the show could technically stand apart from the films. However, New Line were included in the talks, and THR reveals that Jackson has already started “a dialogue” with Amazon, and that the studio “may use material from the films.” Another intriguing aspect of the deal is that it also includes the rights to make “a potential spinoff,” indicating that, if successful, we’ll be watching a lot of Tolkien on our screens for many years to come.
Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings trilogy collectively made more than $2.9 billion, with the final instalment, 2003’s The Return of the King, making more than $1 billion alone. It won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Jackson followed this with three Hobbit films, which also made $2.9 billion worldwide.
In video game news, Middle-earth: Shadow of War launched in October for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Developer Monolith recently announced it will remove the game’s microtransactions.
In a Q&A posted today, League of Legends developer Riot Games admitted that it unintentionally made its newest champion, Kai’Sa, look “unnecessarily sexualized.”
Riot had previously committed to not adding any more “hyper sexualized” champions to League of Legends, so some players cried foul when they saw the deep V-neckline on Kai’Sa. Lead Producer of Champions Ryan Mireles responded to exactly that complaint in an official dev Q&A, saying that they “could’ve done better.”
From the Spider-Verse and beyond.
Insomniac’s Spider-Man for PS4 will be hitting on September 7, and when it does, it will include numerous different suits that players can switch into. Naturally, our minds immediately started buzzing with all of the possibilities from the comics, so we’ve come up with a list of our dream picks for the coolest Spidey costumes we want to wear as we web-sling across New York City.
But before we get started, let’s lay out some criteria. As we saw in the first trailer at E3 2017, Miles Morales will be a character in the game, so we’re not including his red-and-black Spider-Man costume given that there’s a chance he’ll appear wearing it alongside Peter in the game. We’re also leaving out the likes of Venom and Carnage because they are distinct, separate characters from Peter who are also likely candidates to appear in the game, if the story decides to go the symbiote route.
Also, the folks over at Game Informer debuted the Spider-Man Noir suit, and the release date announcement trailer revealed the Spider-Punk suit (which is available as a pre-order bonus along with two mystery skins) and gave a blink-and-you-miss-it look at the original color scheme suit without the white spider, so those are already accounted for.
Everything else is fair game!
Check out our picks by clicking through the slideshow gallery below.
What other costumes do you want to see in the new Spider-Man game? Let us know in the comments.
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