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Warner Bros. has shut down a campaign campaign seeking to digitally erase the rat from the ending of Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning gangster drama The Departed. Organiser Adam Sacks announced on Twitter that Warner Bros., the studio behind The Departed, was alerted to the fan campaign and took action against it. The now-deleted Kickstarter campaign, which was seeking $4,000 to hire an editor to digitally erase the rat from the ending, was taken down to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Sacks said.

He said he could fight the measure, but doesn’t have enough funds of his own to go up against a media giant like Warner Bros. “Although we live in an era when money and copyright laws allow corporations to stop a Kickstarter, nothing can stop ideas,” Sacks said. He said there was a groundswell of support for his rat-less vision of The Departed, and he pointed out that that he wasn’t even the first person to seek to remove the rat from The Departed’s final scene.

“If there is a silver lining here (besides me not having to actually follow though on this), it’s that maybe all this online controversy about the rat will convince Warner Brothers to release a 4K Blu-Ray of The Departed,” he said. “And maybe, just maybe, they will include an alternate rat-less ending. I’m fairly confident it would make them at least an additional 4,000 dollars.”

In his video announcing the campaign, Sacks acknowledged that Warner Bros. might shut him down. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to do this,” he said at the time, adding that he was aware of the likelihood that Warner Bros. would send him a cease and desist order.

2006’s The Departed, which stars Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, won four Oscars including overall Best Picture. The final scene shows a rat crawling across a balcony that serves as a blatant metaphor for the “rats” within the police and mob that are the focus of the movie. The use of the rat was seen as a cheesy device in an otherwise enjoyable movie.

Scorsese’s The Departed is based on the 2002 movie Infernal Affairs. A TV show based on The Departed is coming to Amazon, but it contains many differences from the movie.

Scorsese’s next mobster movie, The Irishman starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, is in the works for Netflix. The first teaser trailer premiered during the Oscars–watch it here.

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A big update for Red Dead Online, Red Dead Redemption 2’s online multiplayer mode, is officially live. There are many new changes and additions that are included in the patch including a Evans Repeater weapon, daily challenges, new modes, and adjustments to gameplay. Log in to Red Dead Online before March 5 to get free pack of goods that will help you explore the Wild West.

The Resident Evil 2 remake continues to perform well commercially. The game has now shipped 4 million copies globally, Capcom announced in a news release today. This is up from the 3 million copies that the game shipped during its first week.

The increased sales of Resident Evil 2 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC pushed total Resident Evil franchise sales to more than 90 million units since the series debuted in 1996 as of February 26, 2019. This is up from 88 million units back in January.

The 1998 original Resident Evil 2 reached sales of 4.96 million copies to stand as the fourth best-selling Resident Evil game, so the remake is coming up on that milestone.

Resident Evil 2’s free DLC, Ghost Survivors, was released on February 15. GameSpot’s Resident Evil 2 review called it “a terrifying experience like no other.”

“Resident Evil 2 is not only a stellar remake of the original, but it’s also simply a strong horror game that delivers anxiety-inducing and grotesque situations, topping some of the series’ finest entries,” wrote critic Alessandro Fillari. “But above all, the remake is an impressive game for the fact that it goes all-in on the pure survival horror experience, confidently embracing its horrifying tone and rarely letting up until the story’s conclusion.”

Topher Grace is not only the actor who starred on That ’70s Show and more recently in the Oscar-winning movie BlacKkKlansman. He also does editing work, and his most recent project was a big one. Collaborating with editor Jeff Yorkes, Grace created a five-minute “mega-trailer” for Star Wars that combines footage from all 10 live-action Star Wars movies, including Rogue One and Solo.

“10 movies. 2 nerds. 1 weekend (when our wives were out of town). Enjoy…” Grace wrote on Twitter. Yorkes added, “Why don’t studios make ‘mega-trailers,’ tying all the movies of one franchise together, reminding you why you fell in love in the first place? Wouldn’t that kick ass?! Well, that’s what my pal Topher Grace and I thought…”

Titled Star Wars: Always, the trailer is slick with its use of memorable scenes and music that, even when stitched together in this non-traditional format, combine together nicely. It follows Luke’s journey as its through-line, mostly. Check it out below.

The next Star Wars movie is Episode IX, which hits theatres in December. The film recently finished filming. “It feels impossible, but today wrapped photography on Episode IX,” director JJ Abrams said earlier in February. “There is no adequate way to thank this truly magical crew and cast. I’m forever indebted to you all.”

Beyond Episode IX, which is the third and final instalment in the new trilogy that began with The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm is producing a new trilogy from Rian Johnson. Outside of that, there will be a new Star Wars TV show called The Mandalorian.