Director M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie now has a release date and a bigger cast. Distributor Universal has announced that The Sixth Sense’s director’s new movie–which hasn’t been announced yet–will premiere in theatres on July 23, 2021.
The movie remains untitled and there is no word yet on the story beyond the fact that Shyamalan is writing it. What we do know, however, is that Shyamalan will fund the movie himself as he has since The Visit. Universal is distributing it.
Variety reports that Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Abbey Lee have joined the cast for Shyamalan’s new movie. They join the previously announced cast that includes Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, and Vicky Krieps.
The site reported that there is no firm start-date for filming yet, but it’s understood that it’ll get started later this year if things go to plan.
Reports have suggested that Shyamalan’s new movie is called Labor of Love, but nothing has been confirmed. He most recently served as a producer and episode direct on Apple TV’s Servant.
Shyamalan’s latest movie was 2019’s Glass, which rounded out the Unbreakable trilogy that began in 2000. His best-known movie is The Sixth Sense, which earned multiple Oscar nominations; some of his other directing credits have included Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, and After Earth.
Shyamalan also wrote the the kids movie Stuart Little.
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Radio the Universe has debuted a first trailer ahead of its intended Winter 2020 release, and it looks fantastic. The trailer shows off the game’s style, rendered in the Pixel 2.0 engine, as well as the action-packed shooter gameplay we can expect later this year.
According to the game’s Steam page, it will offer a “slow-paced challenge” and the ability to adopt either a simple of complex playstyle. It will also feature ambient and musical soundtrack compositions, and a minimalist artstyle.
The game will mix exploration and combat, as seen in the video below.
So far the game has only been confirmed for a PC release. You can sign up for further updates on the developer’s website.
It’s also worth reading the description on YouTube of the video above. “This trailer was shown at E3 which I attended in 2020,” it reads. “The building where the expo took place was so beautiful. It had no electricity.” E3 2020, of course, never happened.
The game has been in development since at least 2012, when the developer posted a “boring FPS test” to YouTube, tracking the game’s framerate when the action gets busy.
The writers of the police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine have thrown out four episodes that were written for its upcoming eighth season due to the ongoing political unrest in the world regarding police.
Actor Terry Crews told Access Online, “Our showrunner Dan Goor … they had four episodes all ready to go and they just threw them in the trash. We have to start over. Right now we don’t know which direction it’s going to go in,” he said.
“This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together,” Crews added.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a police-themed comedy starring Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, Joel McKinnon Miller, and Dirk Blocker. Beatriz, who plays a police detective on the show, recently donated some of her residuals from Brooklyn Nine-Nine to charities that provide bail funds. She also urged other actors who play cops on TV to do the same.
I’m an actor who plays a detective on tv. If you currently play a cop? If you make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in residuals from playing a cop? I’ll let you do the math. (Thanks @GriffLightning for leading the way). pic.twitter.com/Xxf3dU0urF
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s eighth season is expected to premiere in 2020, but it might not be able to hit this date due to filming delays related to COVID-19. The season was at one time expected to feature a storyline related to the pandemic, but this could have changed.
With Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV show starting production again in New Zealand, the big-budget fantasy program is looking to add to its cast. A casting call spotted by The Guardian is seeking out “funky-looking” people to come in for an audition. This is just the latest round of casting for extras, as the production was looking for Orcs back in December 2019.
The production staff at BGT–which previously helped find extras for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings series–is looking for people with burns on their faces, long skinny limbs, ears that stick out, acne scars, deep cheekbones, missing limbs, large eyes, or skinny faces. There is no word on what the role might be, however.
The booker told The Guardian that she is not authorized to speak more about the casting, and the post has since been edited to remove mention of Amazon and The Lord of the Rings.
The notice goes on to say that, in addition to fitting the description, you must have “great availability” to appear in the show. You must also live in Auckland, New Zealand or be a New Zealand resident who has working rights in the country.
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show is set during the Second Age, so it won’t cover the same events as Jackson’s movies. Amazon has high hopes for the series, as it’s already greenlit Season 2.
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WARNING: this article will SPOIL PLOT DETAILS for The Last of Us Part II. If you don’t want the plot spoiled, turn away now.
The Last of Us Part II is out now on PS4, and players are finally able to discover what happened to Joel and Ellie following the ending of the first game. Players who have finished the game will know that it’s much longer than the first, running about 25 hours, but it turns out that a lot of content was cut during production.
In an interview with IndieWire, the game’s director Neil Druckmann and narrative lead Halley Gross, who wrote The Last of Us Part II together, cover many details about the game’s plot and characters–including some details about what was cut.
While the main action of the game happens across three consecutive days, experienced from the perspective of both Ellie and Abby, the original plan was for this section to cover five days.
“There was a whole side story where Ellie went to the Seraphite island, and we had so much more to say about the Seraphites and Ellie’s journey there and she’s going through like the different layers of Hell and she still keeps going forward,” Druckmann says.
Joel’s death scene was originally different, too–the original plan was for him to cry out for Sarah, his long-since-deceased daughter, but actor Troy Baker suggested that it would be a more effective scene if he did not say anything.
Gross adds that at one point Joel was going to have a girlfriend, and a different ending, although she does not elaborate. Druckmann also says that they built a playable section where Ellie hunts down the boar you encounter in the museum, but it slowed down the game’s pacing too much.
This new playlist update contains two changes. First, uncommon and rare burst-fire versions of the M4 assault rifle have been removed from loot caches in Warzone. Developer Infinity Ward did not provide any commentary around why the weapons have been removed.
A quick playlist update is now live across all platforms to adjust the following: • Removing uncommon and rare burst fire versions of the M4 assault rifle in #Warzone loot • Allowing parties into the All or Nothing playlist in #ModernWarfare
Second, Modern Warfare’s new All or Nothing playlist now supports parties whereas previously it did not. These playlist changes are available now across PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Like other playlist updates, this one should download in a flash from the game’s title screen.
This is the second playlist update for Modern Warfare and Warzone in the past 24 hours. An earlier update introduced a series of new playlists for Modern Warfare and Warzone, including Boots on the Ground War, Realism Mosh Pit, All or Nothing, and Stir-Crazy, among others.
Today’s playlist update for #ModernWarfare and #Warzone are now live across all platforms! – Boots on the Ground War – Realism Mosh Pit – All or Nothing – Face Off – Stir-Crazy (10v10) – Plunder Quads (Replaces Blood Money) – BR Quads (Replaces Realism BR)
Loren Bouchard, the creator of Fox’s hit animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers, is currently working on The Great North, a new animated show for Fox. Although the show has not aired yet–or even released so much as a preview image–Deadline is reporting that the show has already been renewed for season 2.
The show will be about a single father in Alaska who is trying his best to keep his family together and happy. It will star Nick Offerman as Beef Tobin, the dad in question, and Jenny Slate and Will Forte as his daughter and son. The show will also feature Dulce Sloan, Aparna Nancherla, Paul Rust, Megan Mullally, and Alanis Morissette as herself.
An air date for the show has not been set.
In April, Fox acknowledged that it will need more animated titles to fill the gap if The Simpsons ever ends, and The Great North is one of many new titles they are developing. Fox also recently commissioned a new animated series from Dan Harmon, the creator of Community and co-creator of Rick & Morty.
Loren Bouchard is also the creator of Central Park, an animated show that debuted on Apple TV+ in May. Bob’s Burgers is also getting a movie, which will release in 2021, having been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. New Simpsons and Family Guy movies are also being planned.
Bob’s Burgers has aired for 10 seasons. Season 11 will debut in 2021, and is currently in production.
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It has been four years since the initial release of Dead by Daylight, the popular asymmetrical 4v1 multiplayer game that pits four regular people against a player-controlled monster, and developer Behaviour Interactive is celebrating with a new event.
The event, detailed in the video below and on the game’s website, will include numerous unique cosmetic unlocks and a few neat aesthetic changes to the game. It will run from now until July 7, and the game’s levels will be filled with balloons, confetti, and unique hooks, generators, and lockers.
Also notable is the Anniversary Crown, which will be added as a collectible in each level. The first survivor (or monster) who stumbles upon the crown and interacts with it will glow for the rest of the match, and if they make it through the round alive (or succeed at killing everyone) they will unlock it as a permanent cosmetic for any of the game’s original group of survivors.
There are unique rewards that can be earned just by logging in, too. Here’s a complete list.
Dead By Daylight 4th Anniversary Cosmetic Unlockables
The Deathslinger: Pecan Crown (June 23-25)
Claudette Morel: Fitted Button-Up (June 25-28)
The Deathslinger: Radical Badland Grit (June 28-30)
Alex Garland has garnered himself quite the reputation for sci-fi and horror fans with his dense and philosophical projects like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and this year’s Devs, his first foray into the world of serialized storytelling with FX on Hulu. Themes in Garland’s work tend to deal with things that provoke a certain sense of existential dread, like the nature of mortality and the ethics of artificial intelligence, so it’s really no surprise that the writer/director’s favorite video games tend towards the similarly weighty.
Speaking with GameSpot during the Play for All event, Garland spoke at length about his love for games like The Last Of Us and Dark Souls, the latter of which he managed to sneak in an Easter Egg for during an early episode of Devs. But he also came through with a surprise revelation–he’s a devout Animal Crossing fan and has sunk countless hours into perfecting his island, a hobby he’s picked up alongside his daughter who also plays.
And yes, he’s got a favorite villager. It’s Pompom the duck. We were just as surprised as you.
Garland is so dedicated to his Animal Crossing island that he manually created his daughter’s face for his flag–without using a QR code generator. “I very, very carefully drew it out with those little pixels,” he explained. Garland’s clocked over 300 hours in the game so far, and is confident that his island would stand up to the scrutiny of a tour. “My island would stand up to inspection on one of those Animal Crossing YouTube channels, I’m sure of it.”
Aside from his carefully curated island paradise, Garland had some strong thoughts on the nature of game adaptations in the realm of TV and film, and how the two mediums are not always necessarily compatible in terms of storytelling. He brought up 28 Days Later, which he wrote, and called it a “result” of playing Resident Evil, rather than an adaptation.
“In some ways you could say 28 Days Later is a video game movie–it’s certainly heavily inspired by them. But whenever people get intentional about [adapting video games], something seems to get lost in translation.” He continued, hypothesizing, “It could be that the licensing [for video game movies] is so complicated that it forces them to be a certain type of movie or a certain type of release, or a certain type of cookie-cutter approach–though that might be bulls***, thinking about some of the lower budget video game movies that have been released. I don’t think there’s a good reason that the industry has struggled [with adaptations] the way that it has.”
But he was quick to clarify that he doesn’t think that means the future is without hope. “As I understand it, HBO is working on a The Last Of Us TV show and those are people I would expect to get it right.”
As for Garland’s other favorite franchise, Dark Souls, he’s less confident about the potential for an adaptation, largely because of the mood and ambiance the Souls games tend to have. “The Dark Souls games seem to have this embedded poetry in them. You’ll be wandering around and find some weird bit of dialogue with some sort of broken song sat with a bit of armor outside a doorway and it feels like you’ve drifted into some existential dream. That’s what I really love about Dark Souls. These spaces are so imaginative and they seem to flow into each other and flow out of each other […] I can’t imagine how that would [be adapted]. The quality that makes Dark Souls special is probably unique to video games.”
While he may not see himself adapting a franchise like Dark Souls any time soon, he would gladly take the opposite approach and work in the games industry again in the future. He’s hopeful about making a return–and has been trying to have the conversation.
“There was a period in gaming, or there was a school of thought in games at one point that was very, very anti-narrative,” he explained, referencing his early attempts to break into working in the industry. “I tried a few times, but I think it was the wrong time to be talking about these things. The only time I’ve ever really worked on a game was with Ninja Theory and Enslaved, but I’d love to do it again. I keep waiting for the call.”
Devs can be watched in full with FX on Hulu.
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