With Black Panther crossing the $500 million mark this weekend at the domestic box office, it joins a select group of films to push past that milestone.
All top 10 highest grossing films domestically have made over $500 million, with Black Panther being the latest to cross this mark. Find out where it falls — and what the rest of the top 10 is — in the gallery below.
The top 10 films and their unadjusted domestic grosses:
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special will celebrate 25 years of Saban’s Power Rangers.
A Boom! Studios press release reveals the oversized anniversary special comic will feature standalone stories of fan favourite Ranger teams including the original team, which debuted back in 1993.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special Main Cover by Steve Morris
Rainbow Six Siege is making changes to the systems in place to ban those using racist and homophobic language, as well as other hate speech, in game.
A Reddit post details the punishments, ranging from 2 days to permanent bans, which will be applied case-by-case depending on the severity of the infraction.
The post states the language taken action against is explained in the games Code of Conduct to be “Any language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment is forbidden.”
Some epic highlights from the world of esports this week! Overseas, IEM Katowice thrilled fans of Counter-Strike as Order did their best and Athletico repped Oceania at our first international PUBG tournament. Back home Mindfreak reasserted their dominance after a strong Six Invitational, the OPL saw ORDER and the Dire Wolves battle in spectacular fashion and the A-League E-League continued to provide FIFA fans with surprisingly close match-ups.
Be sure to head over and check out the rest of the esports hub! This week we’re hanging out for the Halo World Championships Qualifiers! Remember you can email tips to me [email protected] or you can just click to send me an email. If you want, you can tweet suggestions at me as well, my twitter is down the bottom of this article.
As Guillermo del Toro and the cast and crew of The Shape of Water took the stage after their Best Picture win at the 90th Academy Awards, I couldn’t help but feel like we were witnessing a turning point for the Oscars. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that we’ll look back on last night’s show as a mold for how the Oscars progress going forward in terms of genre films being represented in the major award categories.
The 90th Academy Awards seemed to speak to folks like me (and I presume a lot of you) who have felt like horror, fantasy, and science fiction films generally get overlooked during Hollywood’s big night. Honestly, in 2018, it’s harder to find someone who isn’t caught up on Game of Thrones or the Marvel Cinematic Universe films than it is to find someone who is. So it makes perfect sense that these giant pillars of popular culture are rewarded when they’re excellent.
Although most of the Marvel talk lately has been about the recently released Black Panther and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, there’s another cool Marvel property that’s coming out soon. The second season of Jessica Jones will be available to stream on Netflix later this week, so we thought we’d look back and see how the ex-superhero private investigator came to be.
Way before Jessica Jones first appeared in a Netflix series, she was written into existence in the comic Alias, which was first released in 2001. Created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, the comic was originally designed to follow Jessica Drew–Spider-Woman–but Bendis decided instead to focus on Jones, who had once been a superhero but turned away from that life to focus on being a detective.
Her superhero persona was Jewel, a super-strength character who hasn’t been talked about much outside of the pages of Alias and the Netflix series. However, from Alias we know that Jewel was held captive and tortured by Zebediah Killgrave, who eventually forced Jewel to try to kill Daredevil.
In the video embedded above, the GameSpot team goes through all of this and more, explaining how Jessica Jones came to be the character who gave up the superhero life and who now has her own Netflix show. You only have a couple more days to wait for the new season, too: Jessica Jones Season 2 arrives on March 8. In the meantime, you can check out a trailer for the second season here.
It’s a new week, and that means more deals on Xbox Live. Microsoft’s Major Nelson has announced all of this week’s Deals With Gold offers for Xbox One and Xbox 360, which include a special “Spotlight” sale on a bunch of Square Enix games.
Among the discounted Square Enix games on Xbox One are Rise of the Tomb Raider ($20), Just Cause 3 ($7.50), and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ($7.50). Other discounted Square Enix games include Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris ($3), Life Is Strange Season 1 Episodes 1-5 ($5), and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition ($7.50).
It’s not just Square Enix games that are on sale this week on Xbox Live. Some other discounted games include Dark Souls III ($18), Dying Light ($14), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 ($20), Rugby 18 ($24), and Forza Motorsport 6 ($20).
There are plenty of Xbox 360 deals this week, too, with games like Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel ($5), Crysis 1-3 ($5 each), Just Cause 2 ($2), and FIFA Street ($5) marked down nicely.
Go to Major Nelson’s blog to see a full rundown of this week’s Xbox One and Xbox 360 deals, some of which require an Xbox Live Gold membership to save the most. The offers are good through March 12. The pricing and timing of these deals may vary depending on where you live.
In other news, Xbox Live Gold members can now pick up the first of March 2018’s free Games With Gold titles. These include the motorcycle platformer Trials of the Blood Dragon on Xbox One and Brave: The Video Game for Xbox 360.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
In the past two seasons, the success of any given Legends of Tomorrow episode often seems directly proportional to how much screen time Damian Darhk has. With “No Country for Old Dads,” the writers clearly decided that two Darhks are better than one. And they were proven right, as this episode proved to be one of the most entertaining installments of Legends in some time.
Above all, “No Country for Old Dads” succeeded because it leaned into the complicated nature of the Darhk family and the moral gray area they currently occupy. Nora may be a real thorn in the side of the Legends this season, but we’ve also seen her as a scared, helpless girl being overwhelmed by Mallus’ demonic influence. There’s clearly still good in her, and Ray was able to push her closer to that inevitable moment where she chooses between light and dark. She may well be the most complex villain this show has seen so far. At this point, I’m reluctant to even use the word “villain.”
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Star Wars Rebels ended its four-year run in pretty much the only way it could – with a ragtag band of freedom fighters making their last, desperate stand against the Galactic Empire. The double-length finale episode made use of a number of familiar Star Wars tropes, but did so in ways that stayed true to the series rather than simply recycling what’s worked in the past. The finale may not have answered every burning question fans have about these characters or tied up every loose end, but “Family Reunion and Farewell” gave Rebels the sendoff The Clone Wars was never able to enjoy.
On paper, the finale did play out quite a bit like the climax of Return of the Jedi. You had the lone Jedi hero making his defiant stand against Emperor Palpatine while his Rebel friends fight a losing battle against overwhelming forces as they try to destroy an Imperial facility. But again, none of these similarities were so blatant that they became distracting. Rebels simply followed the “rhyming” nature of the Star Wars saga as it brought Ezra’s character arc to its fitting conclusion.
Now that Star Wars Rebels has come to an end, the creative team behind the animated series is revealing its greatest secret. Throughout the four seasons of Rebels, fans have theorized about the voice behind Chopper, the C1-10P droid that was with the rebels throughout their fight against the Empire.
As seen in the credits after the series finale, Chopper is voiced by none other than co-creator and executive producer Dave Filoni–oftentimes the public face of the series at conventions and fan events. Speaking to a group of fans after a special screening of the series finale, Filoni explained why he decided to come clean about his other job as a voice actor. “Show’s over, so it was kind of then or never,” he jokes.
How did Filoni end up voicing one of the show’s starring roles, though? As it turns out, a temporary fix became permanent. “I wound up playing Chopper, I’ll tell this short story because we had to deliver the first short to Disney to watch and we didn’t have a final Chopper voice. And I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to just do this.’ We did it right in the editorial in Lucasfilm,” he says. “I knew what a likable jerk is like and what I wanted him to be like. Then when we screened it, [Disney boss] Bob Iger said, ‘I really like that little droid.’ And I was like, ‘Well, now I’m stuck.'”
Of course, voicing a fan-favorite character like Chopper isn’t a bad thing. As Filoni explained to his cast at the screening, “It’s good because it gets you used to what you guys go through as actors. It helps me understand what you need to know.”
Thus ends one of the biggest secrets in the Star Wars franchise. Interestingly, though, there was one person outside of the show’s inner-circle that knew it was Filoni all along–a young fan. “A little tiny child asked me who played Chopper and I absolutely told her the truth,” he says. “She never said anything… Kids are smart that way, they make promises and they keep it. That’s why they get Star Wars.”