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Fox Television Stations is rolling out Fox Soul, a live, ad-supported streaming channel aimed at African-American viewers.

In an announcement, the Fox Corp. division said the new outlet’s programs will “aim to celebrate black culture and highlight the real topics that affect the everyday lives of the African-American community through frank and insightful dialogue with local and national influencers.”

James DuBose, head of programming for Fox Soul, said, “We are proud to debut this African American focused channel, created by and for the members of the black community. We intend to inform, inspire, and empower our viewers by meeting their needs for authentic conversations on topics relevant to our lives.”

Tammi Mac, host of The Tammi Mac Late Show, added, “Fox Soul slaps down misnomers about our people and celebrates our culture and our excellence. I could not have asked for a better platform to speak greatness about and into my community.

Take a look at "Westworld", Season 3, premiering March 15, 2020 on HBO, set in a technologically advanced amusement park populated by android 'hosts':

".... 'Westworld', one of six theme parks owned and operated by 'Delos Inc.', allows guests to experience the 'Old West' in an environment populated by 'hosts', androids programmed to fulfill the guests' every desire.

"The hosts, who are nearly indistinguishable from humans, follow a predefined set of intertwining narratives but have the ability to deviate from these narratives based on interactions they have with guests.

"The hosts repeat their multi-day narratives anew each cycle. At the beginning of each new cycle, each host has its memories of the previous period erased. This continues hundreds or thousands of times until the host is decommissioned or repurposed for use in other narratives. For guests' safety, hosts' programming prevents them from physically harming human guests; this allows guests nearly unlimited freedom to...

Bethesda and Doom Fans Rejoice! Doom and Doom II have been given a recent update that not only adds 60Fps support for the first-time ever but also gives the game full Add-On support for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS! This means games can now download new levels for the game including […]

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While Game Freak’s recent announcement for Sword and Shield demands the lion’s share of attention from Pokémon fans, Pokémon Go has quietly been celebrating a massive achievement.

The mobile game became an overnight cultural phenomenon when it was released back in 2016, drawing in millions of current and lapsed fans alike to experience an all-new kind of Pokémon adventure. Boasting augmented reality features with an emphasis on physical activeness, developer Niantic found itself overwhelmed with soaring player numbers. Unable to roll out new, frequently demanded features due to combating rampant cheating and stability issues, initial success tapered off, leaving behind a core – much smaller – loyal player base.

Three years later, having had more than enough time to get its bearings in the mobile market, Niantic has since released a number of major gameplay updates. The last 12 months alone marked the introduction of Team Rocket, Gen V Pokémon and a plethora of limited-time events,...

As part of his overall deal with FX Productions, Ex Machina and Annihilation filmmaker Alex Garland is looking to continue his work with the network on another TV series following his upcoming spring series Devs.

“The next thing I’m going to try to do is another television show with FX. I’m in the process of writing it. I’ve written the first episode and am halfway through the second episode. They (FX) haven’t seen anything. When I deliver it, and if they want to make it, then that’s where we’ll be,” Garland told Deadline today at TCA.

While Devs feels like it’s in the extended universe of Garland’s man-vs.-technology near-future universe of Ex Machina, the next TV series he’s writing won’t be set in the sci-fi realm.

“It’s about civil obedience and it’s in the here and now,...

Rob Leane Jan 9, 2020

It won't be long before a lot of your critters can be housed in Pokémon Home.

Pokémon Home now has a release date window, with Nintendo confirming that the service is planned to launch in February. The service is a cloud-based storage system to house your cute critters, and you'll be able to access it on Nintendo Switch, Android devices, and iOS devices.

As far as we know, Pokémon Home will allow players to bring together the creatures they've caught on Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, Pokémon Sword and Shield, and Pokémon Go. It will also connect up with Pokémon Bank, a similar service that previously enabled connections between the 3Ds games of the franchise.

As well as transferring creatures into Pokémon Home from all of those sources, you'll also be able to move your pocket monsters out of Pokémon Home and into Pokémon Sword and Shield,...

Quibi’s April 6 launch is inching closer, and the mobile short-form streaming service made an aggressive sales pitch Wednesday morning at CES in Las Vegas.

The upcoming platform, created by longtime Hollywood and Silicon Valley power players Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, has raised plenty of eyebrows since its unveiling in 2018, and not just because the streaming service will only work on mobile devices. Episodes of each Quibi series will run under 10 minutes, and the platform, short for “quick bites,” has tapped a dizzying array of high-profile actors, content creators, and major companies to create or invest in the service. Katzenberg and Whitman told CES attendees during a keynote that the service will release roughly 175 series within its first year, which they say would equate to around three hours of new content every day. The service has already attracted $1.4 billion in investments, including from Disney and other studios

While Katzenberg...

Ad-supported streaming company Tubi has reached a distribution deal with Vidaa International, a subsidiary of Hisense, the No. 3 maker of televisions in the world.

When the deal starts this spring, Tubi’s library of 20,000-plus movie and TV titles will be seen on Hisense’s new Vidaa platform in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the UK. Hisense TV sets featuring Vidaa will have Tubi preloaded on their home screens.

The companies made the announcement at the start of CES in Las Vegas, where streaming video will again be a major theme this year.

“We’re excited to expand Tubi’s device footprint to include Hisense televisions with the new Vidaa platform, continuing our mission to make entertainment more accessible to everyone,” Tubi chief product officer Michael Ahiakpor said. “Hisense has been a global leader in consumer electronics and is a perfect partner as we ramp up our international expansion...

The latest TV spot for Star Trek: Picard has offered some brief flashes of new footage for the much-anticipated return of Starfleet’s greatest captain, and has also given us a tacit suggestion of the appearance of Data.

The Irving Berlin song “Blue Skies” was a deliberate choice for the trailer, as it harks back to the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. It’s beautifully sung by Data during the wedding between Riker and Troi at the film’s beginning before the crew discovers the remnants of B-4, an earlier model of android. At the pic’s climax (spoilers for a movie released in 2002), Data sacrifices himself to destroy the Reman warship intending to spread thalaron radiation to destroy all life throughout the Federation, and in the final scene, B-4 begins absent-mindedly singing the song, suggesting that Data downloaded aspects of his memories and personality into his “brother” before his destruction.

Star Trek: Picard is now just 20 days away from arriving on CBS All Access at last. We’ve been waiting to see Patrick Stewart’s much-anticipated return as Jean-Luc ever since the legendary actor revealed the news in late 2018. The wait is almost over, though, and just to keep the hype going, this new TV spot has been circulating on CBS, with fans re-uploading it online for your enjoyment.

Though it runs for only 15 seconds, this Picard promo packs a lot in by featuring a series of brief shots pulled from various scenes and episodes, all while cutting back to Stewart’s moody face coming into focus. Of particular note are the fresh looks this spot gives us at both Brent Spiner’s Data and cybernetic villains the Borg.

First of all, if you pause the shot of Data sitting across a table from Picard, you’ll see that the...

Marvel Studios' developing sequel feature "Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse of Madness", will introduce Marvel Comics' WW II, anti-hero "Namor: The Sub-Mariner":

Plans fell through for a live action "Namor" TV series in the 1950's, starring Richard Egan, plus there was interest in a 1970's TV pilot...

...that was scrubbed because of a similarity to the NBC series "Man from Atlantis" (1977), starring Patrick Duffy, licensed for publishing by Marvel Comics.

To date, Universal still controls screen rights to the "Hulk" and will only allow Marvel Studios to feature the character as part of an ensemble, rather than as the main character in a stand-alone film.

"I can't speak for the studios," said Marvel's Joe Quesada about Disney recovering screen rights to Namor from Universal.

"But as far as I know, yeah we do (have screen rights). It’s not at Fox, it’s not at Sony...Yeah."

"Yes," confirmed...

Take a look at "Westworld", Season 3, airing on HBO in 2020, set in a technologically advanced amusement park populated by android 'hosts':

".... 'Westworld', one of six theme parks owned and operated by 'Delos Inc.', allows guests to experience the 'Old West' in an environment populated by 'hosts', androids programmed to fulfill the guests' every desire.

"The hosts, who are nearly indistinguishable from humans, follow a predefined set of intertwining narratives but have the ability to deviate from these narratives based on interactions they have with guests.

"The hosts repeat their multi-day narratives anew each cycle. At the beginning of each new cycle, each host has its memories of the previous period erased. This continues hundreds or thousands of times until the host is decommissioned or repurposed for use in other narratives. For guests' safety, hosts' programming prevents them from physically harming human guests; this allows guests nearly unlimited freedom to...

John Saavedra Matthew Byrd Bernard Boo Dec 31, 2019

We've picked the very best games released this decade. Guess which titles ended up at the top?

What a difference 10 years make. We kicked off the 2010s with the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii, and we're ending the decade at the twilight of another generation of platforms. The PC remains a constant in our lives, but we'll soon be saying goodbye to the era of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In the years between, we've also seen the rise of live services, cloud gaming, on-demand streaming, home-handheld console hybrids, and excellent experiences on our mobile devices. In 2010, we were impatiently waiting for Dlc expansions, and now we bow to the almighty battle pass.

What future will the 2020s bring? For one thing, we know that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are coming next year, while cloud gaming services like Google Stadia will continue...

Convenience is key. The on-demand economy is in full boom. And though there is generally nothing wrong with that, it does mean that quality can take a hit sometimes. For audiophiles, this most often takes place with digital music files.

True audio enthusiasts know there are few greater feelings than listening to a clean vinyl, on a perfectly tuned system, to recreate a concert experience, or fantastically transport the listener to a recording studio as a giddy bystander. But when it comes time for the daily commute, those listening experiences are dulled.

In addition to its currently-in-testing ‘Featured In This Video’ tool, which automatically promotes video collaborators above a clip’s description box, YouTube is also testing out a revamped design of its in-development 'Explore' tab on its iOS and Android apps.

The Explore tab -- which replaces the ‘Trending’ tab at the bottom of the home screen for users involved in the test -- aims to help users more easily discover new videos and channels across numerous topics like fashion, music, and gaming, the company said on its Support forum..

“Trending isn’t going away, and will have its own section in Explore,” the company wrote. “We also want to better support growing/emerging YouTube channels, so we're testing a design where Creator and Artist On The Rise will be more prominent.”.

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YouTube is reportedly testing a new feature on its Android app that will automatically enable creators to shout out collaborators directly underneath their videos -- rather than relegating links to already-teeming description boxes.

The tool, dubbed ‘Featured In This Video’ and spotted by 9To5Google, will automatically promote collaborators in a video without any input from the video’s primary creator. YouTube will automatically add channel and subscription links for collaborators that appear on videos that viewers already watched. YouTube will use a “range of signals” to auto-add these links to the new ‘Featured In This Video’ section, which will appear directly below videos and above description boxes.

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Fox Corporation is bringing its trio of streaming services — Fox Now, Fox Sports and Fox News Channel’s Fox Nation subscription package — to Samsung Electronics’ smart TVs.

The company’s Fox Now and Fox Sports apps are live as of Friday on 2017-2019 Samsung Smart TV models, and Fox Nation will launch next week on the internet-connected TVs.

To access content on Fox Now and Fox Sports apps, viewers must have a pay-tv subscription with a participating provider and sign in using those credentials.

Fox Now is the streaming home for full episodes of the broadcast TV network’s shows, including “The Masked Singer,” “Prodigal Son,” “9-1-1” and “The Resident” as well as live sports including NFL games on Fox and “WWE Friday Night Smackdown.” The Fox Sports app provides exclusive live games and sports content, including Ncaa football, NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” FS1 studio shows and Big Ten Network coverage.

The local WWII Documentary Path Of The Past will screen at Big Daddy’s Bar & Grill in St. Louis (1000 Sidney St.) on Thursday January 16th at 7pm. There will be a Q&a with filmmaker Lou Baczewski after the film. Admission is $10. A portion of proceeds from Path of the Past benefit families dealing with deployment via the non-profit H.E.R.O.E.S. Care.

Path of the Past tells the story of Sgt. Louis “Louch” Baczewski, who was part of a tank crew in the 3rd Armored Division (Ad) that fought in all five major European campaigns, including the infamous Battle of the Bulge. The film focuses less on the American victory and more on the costs and European destruction of the war and is based on Lou Baczewski’s book Louch. “If you want to know what war is really like, Louch is a must read,” states retired 3 Star Lt.

YouTube’s Dobre Brothers -- a fraternal faction of four vlogging megastars named Cyrus, Darius, Lucas, and Marcus, who count a combined 30 million subscribers and 10 million Instagram followers -- are delving into the mobile gaming business.

They’re partnering on the venture, dubbed Dobre Dunk, with Bbtv Interactive -- the division of BroadbandTV that creates mobile games in coordination with top YouTube stars. Available on both iOS and Android, the game will enable players to dunk their favorite brother into a basketball hoop -- by flipping and flopping their characters en route -- as many times as possible. The game, which is free to play but features in-app purchases, was inspired by the guys’ content, which most frequently comprises stunts, sibling-fueled pranks, and original music.

Bbtv Interactive, launched in Jan. 2018, has worked with other top creators to build original games and mobile apps across multiple platforms, including Bhad Bhabie's Ride Or Die!

It’s no secret that the Internet is obsessed with Baby Yoda. Ever since he first appeared in The Mandalorian, folks just can’t get enough of the adorable character. Star Wars fans are determined to insert the alien everywhere they can, too, including in Minecraft, Avengers: Endgame and even Starbucks. In fact, some love the tiny guy so much that they’ve permanently inked him on their bodies.

It’s safe to say that the world is infatuated with Baby Yoda, then, and it’s therefore only fitting that an emoji should be created for the creature, right? It appears so, as around a week ago, a fan named Travis Bramble launched an online petition to implore those in power to come up with a virtual symbol for everyone’s favorite fuzzy green hero. The entreaty has already amassed over 19,000 signatures and is now less than 6,000 names away from reaching its goal.

Indiecan Entertainment will release the long-­‐lost Sci-­‐fi/horror film Android Re-­‐Enactment in December Toronto, On – Nov. 25, 2019 – First screened for an audience all the way back in 2011, director Darryl Shaw’s scrappy Diy sci-­‐fi/horror/comedy Android Re-­‐Enactment will finally see a worldwide VOD release on December 9th. Indiecan Entertainment has partnered with Shaw to …

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TikTok's parent company, the Chinese internet giant Bytedance, is readying what it hopes will be a sophomore smash -- a music subscription service called Resso that would compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music on the global stage.

Bytedance is currently testing Resso in emerging markets, including India and Indonesia, Bloomberg reports -- both of which already boast sizable TikTok user bases. Since its beta launch six months ago, Resso has been installed by 27,000 users on both iOS and Android. And unlike ad-supported TikTok, Resso is subscription-based, and thus could potentially open up another valuable revenue stream for Bytedance.

In addition to enabling users to download and stream music ad-free, Bloomberg notes that Resso’s key distinction from Spotify is its real-time display of lyrics, the ability for users to post comments under individual songs, and to create music-accompanied GIFs and videos -- a hallmark feature of TikTok.

China is the world’s leading video games producer And accounted for a quarter of all revenue produced from the segment in 2017 surpassing the combined income of the USA and Germany. Another interesting statistics is the demography of gamers with the Asia Pacific region having more than a billion players, accounting for half of the gaming population worldwide. Gender wise division favors males with 54% being men and 46% women gamers. People in the age group of 21 – 35 account for 35% of all gamers globally.

Gadgets’ share of revenue

The revenue generated from all devices in the gaming arena for the year 2018 was $137.9 billion. Mobiles accounted for $70.3 billion, smartphones for $56.4 billion, Pcs for $32.9 billion, browsers for $4.3 billion, downloaded or boxed for $28.6 billion and console for $ 34.6 billion. Serious observers of the gaming segment are predicting a rise of over 20% in the year 2019. The rising use of smartphones along with cheap internet in the Asia Pacific...

Imgur, the popular image-hosting hub, is making a play for the burgeoning esports market.

The platform, which counts 300 million users who spend an average of 30 minutes per day, has launched a new app called Melee, which is squarely focused on video gaming imagery, enabling users to create and host memes. Imgur made the move given that it’s already popular in the space -- with 46% of all users following video and board game tags, Techcrunch reports. Furthermore, 92% of Imgur users self-identify as gamers. Melee marks Imgur’s first-ever app launch beyond its flagship site.

Melee lets users subscribe to different games, and then provides a feed of pertinent images, memes, and in-game clips. This could also be a boon for aspiring gamers, who could theoretically post clips of feats or highlights from their streams to be discovered Imgur users. The app launched on iOS, with an Android iteration slated for...

The House Judiciary Committee will begin its portion of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump today at 7 a.m. Pt, and here is a rundwon of how to watch the proceedings.

“Our first task is to explore the framework put in place to respond to serious allegations of impeachable misconduct like those against President Trump,” said Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the committe’s chariman.

Deadline will livestream all of the hearings at Deadline.com. Here is how the broadcast networks, their cable news outlets and radio divisions are covering the hearings, along with the likes of PBS and C-span.

ABC

ABC News’ special report on the hearings will begin at 7 a.m. Pt on ABC, with Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos and World News Tonight’s David Muir among the on-air talent.

ABC News also will have coverage on ABCNews.com and offer uninterrupted streaming of the...

Mark Harrison Dec 3, 2019

Blade Runner, Akira, and The Running Man are all set in 2019 – now that it’s December, we reflect upon movie futures-now-past…

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

The future isn’t what it used to be. More than most decades, the 2010s have proven to be quite unlike the films that posited what they would be like. 2010 was supposed to be The Year We Make Contact. 2012 didn’t pan out like a Roland Emmerich movie after all. And as for 2015, countless words have already been written comparing reality to the vision of Back to the Future Part II. They had flying cars; we had that dress that was either white and gold or black and blue.

We’re over all that now, but as we approach the 2020s, how does 2019 measure up? For one reason or another, a lot of major genre movies of the...

Are you dead? Let’s find out: Watch this video, which went viral on TikTok this week, and see if you don’t chuckle.

For those skeptical types who refrained from clicking the link above: It’s a human, clad in a dinosaur costume, petrifying members of the public. What can I say? It’s an oldie, but a goodie.

What’s it doing here, in a business-focused column about TikTok’s threat to Spotify’s dominance in music? Well, for one thing, I thought it might put you in a cheery mood.

Scarlet Witch and her android lover’s happiness seemed to be dashed forever when Vision died in Avengers: Infinity War and wasn’t resurrected in Avengers: Endgame. However, things will somehow be very different in upcoming Disney Plus series WandaVision. Due to some kind of reality-bending, Wanda Maximoff and Vision will be living an idyllic life in a faux-1950s. And they might even have a couple of kids, too.

Given Wiccan and Speed’s place as the couple’s twins in the comics, fans have been expecting the pair to be brought into the McU in the show. We Got This Covered previously told you that this would happen and now, McU Cosmic has revealed some casting info that seems to confirm our scoop, with the outlet reporting that the young heroes are indeed entering the franchise in WandaVision.

According to McU Cosmic’s Jeremy Conrad, the series has...

Local WWII Documentary Path Of The Past announces a public screening on December 17th . The Award-winning film will also be available on VOD

As we steadily lose members of the Greatest Generation, Path of the Past celebrates them and the sacrifices they made during World War II while also presenting a cautionary tale about the horrors of war.

Path of the Past tells the story of Sgt. Louis “Louch” Baczewski, who was part of a tank crew in the 3rd Armored Division (Ad) that fought in all five major European campaigns, including the infamous Battle of the Bulge. The film focuses less on the American victory and more on the costs and European destruction of the war and is based on Lou Baczewski’s book Louch. “If you want to know what war is really like, Louch is a must read,” states retired 3 Star Lt. General Thomas Griffin: Former Commander of the 3rd Ad.

Google and The Boxoffice Company, a collection of entertainment and tech businesses owned by French digital media giant Webedia, have teamed up to enhance the process of buying movie tickets online.

The new setup aims to make the task of selecting showtimes and seats and then paying for and managing tickets more efficient. It combines the voice-enabled Google Assistant and emerging Duplex AI phone tool with the online ticketing operations of 70 exhibitors and ticketing services in the U.S. and UK. Launch partners include AMC, Movietickets.com and Odeon, with discussions ongoing with other entities.

Google product manager Dan Ritter explained the service in a blog post. “Ask the Assistant something like, ‘Hey Google, showtimes for [movie] in Phoenix this weekend.’ Or, you can do a search for movie times from the Google app on Android,” he wrote. The system then guides you through the purchase, with another key variable being...

True Royalty TV, the streaming service dedicated to royalty around the world, has launched on Sling TV and debuted its first news and commentary show, The Royal Beat.

Sling TV customers can add True Royalty to their lineup for $6 a month and will get access to a library of shows about the British and international royal families, including originals like Meghan For President?.

Alongside the Sling TV announcement, True Royalty TV unveiled its first news show, The Royal Beat, hosted by royal expert and Harper’s Bazaar editor-at-large, Omid Scobie.

The format is available every two weeks, and rounds up the latest news on the Queen, Meghan Markle and other prominent members of the British royal family. It is produced by Spun Gold, the British indie that co-owns True Royalty.

“Launching on Sling TV brings us closer to our goal of being everywhere royal fans are and want to watch,...

Piper choosing to stay with Jo and her family might have seemed comforting at the moment, but the overall picture is that Piper is getting too dangerous for her own good. 

On Emergence Season 1 Episode 7, Emily got painted with a villainous brush-stroke as Jo figured out that they've naively been feeding information to the enemy the whole time. 

Emily's intentions for Piper came into focus as she attempted to convince the human-like android that she's her mother and the only one who truly knows her. 

When her attempts failed, Emily threatened Alan Wilkins until he reprogrammed Piper to do what she wanted. 

He helped Emily replace Jo in every one of Piper's memories with herself. 

Emily is a very broken soul, but her motivations for gaining Piper's love were a little underwhelming.

Emily: She's not doing what she's supposed to do.

Alan: Which is what?

Emily: Love me.

Alan: You're nuts.

As indicated in the opening scene of Krampus or the consumer chaos of Jingle All the Way, holiday shopping can be its own horror story, and in the "shop till you drop" spirit of the Day After Thanksgiving shopping sprees, Shout! Factory TV will live-stream Jim Wynorski's Chopping Mall for 24 straight hours this Black Friday.

The 24-hour Chopping Mall livestream will begin at 12:00am Pt on Friday, November 29th on Shout! Factory TV (the day after their annual MST3K Turkey Day Marathon). Below, we have the official press release with full details, as well as a killer promo video for the Chopping Mall marathon.

In case you missed it, Horror BFFs Heather Wixson and Patrick Bromley celebrated Chopping Mall on a Corpse Club member-exclusive audio commentary.

Press Release: Los Angeles – November 19, 2019 – This Black Friday, shop ‘til you drop…Dead! For 24 hours only at Park Plaza Mall, the savings are hot,...

As the 3-hour climax of Marvel’s Infinity Saga and the all-time highest grossing film to boot, Avengers: Endgame has inspired more fan theories in the past seven months than we could possibly keep track of. Nonetheless, a new piece of speculation that’s been making the rounds on Twitter lately stands out from the rest not just for the amount of online attention it’s managed to attract, but also for how endearingly insane it is.

Twitter user @Sisabet was the first to tweet the theory, sharing a screenshot of a message sent to her by her sister. Apparently, she thought that Tony Stark’s supposed daughter Morgan was actually a robot created by the tech-savvy superhero. As evidence, they point to how Pepper Potts has very little interaction with the character, as though Morgan isn’t her actual child.

What’s more, the theory goes that when Iron...

Vision was killed off by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, with the Mad Titan tearing the Mind Stone from his noggin moments before he wiped out half the universe. As his demise came by murderous rather than mystical means, Vis was not resurrected along with the rest at the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, leaving the synthetic hero’s future in the franchise unclear. However, Vision is likely to have at least a couple more McU appearances left in him.

As we know, Paul Bettany will return in the upcoming WandaVision Disney Plus TV series, which is believed to feature Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch bringing back her lover via her reality-warping powers. This may suggest a temporary comeback is all that’s on the cards, but We Got This Covered has heard from our sources – the same ones who said Wiccan will debut in the show, and that a She-Hulk series was in the works,...

Updated with closing stock price, analyst comments: Disney stock soared more than 6% to an all-time high after the company revealed Wednesday that its new streaming service, Disney+, has already drawn 10 million sign-ups.

That number, which the company ascribed in a press release to “extraordinary consumer demand,” may help explain why the service experienced widespread outages after launching early Tuesday. The glitches, which the company attributed to unexpectedly high interest that overloaded its technological infrastructure, diminished over the course of the opening day.

While 10 million sign-ups does not equal 10 million subscribers given that Disney has offered promotions including a free 7-day trial, Cowen & Co. analyst Doug Creutz called it a “very strong start” in a note to clients. Disney stock rose to just shy of $150 a share before closing Wednesday at $148.72 on five times its normal trading volume. Netflix, meanwhile, dropped 3% to $283.11. Stock movement overall was generally modest, with the Dow...

Instagram, which successfully pilfered the Snapchat Stories format, is hoping for a similar coup with the highly-edited music video, meme, and challenge video medium proliferating on the platform du jour, TikTok.

Instagram is launching a new featured dubbed Reels that enables users to create 15-second video clips set to music, Techcrunch reports. The test, on iOS and Android, is rolling out exclusively in Brazil, where the new product is dubbed Cenas.

Users can share Reels to their Stories, though the clips also have the potential go viral within a new section of Instagram’s Explore tab dubbed Top Reels. Reels can be set to a catalog of music on Instagram -- thanks to Facebook’s licensing deals with major record labels and indie publishers -- or borrowed from other users’ videos. New editing features at launch include timed captions and a ghost overlay for lining up transitions.

Techcrunch notes that Stories might...

Disney's big day has arrived! Disney+ is officially functional, meaning not only do you now get to watch almost any Disney or Marvel or Star Wars or Pixar title you can think of, but you also get to watch some brand new shows and movies that are making their debut along with the service.  The streaming service will cost either $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year (saving you two months), giving you access to all available titles on your web browser, your iPhone or Android, or Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Roku, or Samsung and LG Smart TVs.  Episodes of the new TV shows will be released weekly, and content can be downloaded to be watched offline on up to 10 different devices....

InterviewThe film has Suraj Venjaramoodu playing an 80-year-old while Soubin plays his son who works abroad.CrisDirector Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval doesn't use his native dialect when he speaks on the phone. He's from Payannur village of Kannur district, where he set his first ever film -- Android Kunjappan Ver 5.25 which released last Friday in Kerala. The film has a Thiruvananthapuram-based Suraj Venjaramoodu and a Kochi-based Soubin Shahir speaking the Kannur dialect. The film has been getting good reviews and Ratheesh is one happy director. “I tone down my Kannur slang when I speak to others so they understand. For the movie, I thought Suraj’s character might need a Thiruvananthapuram background to explain his accent but he spoke the Kannur dialect so well that it was not needed,” says Ratheesh. It is Soubin whom Ratheesh first cast in the movie – the son who has to leave his elderly father when...

MollywoodThe film, directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, will release on December 6.Digital NativeAward winning Malayalam film Chola will release in theatres on December 6, actor Joju George announced on his Facebook page. Joju and Nimisha Sajayan had both won state awards for their performance in Chola, directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan. Joju also informed on his post that Tamil filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj is joining the team as a co producer. Joju is the other producer. Subbaraj has recently wrapped up his film with Dhanush in the lead. The film will also mark the Tamil acting debut of Joju. The duo is associating again for Chola. “Thank you Sanaletta for this wonderful movie,” Joju wrote. The film had premiered at the Venice Film Festival under the Orizzonti (Horizons) section with its English title, Shadow of Water. Chola is written by Kv Manikandan and Sanal Kumar Sasidharan. Along with Joju and Nimisha, an...

HBO has teased the upcoming third season of Westworld with a faux commercial hinting that the line separating humans and androids becomes blurrier when the sci-fi series returns.

Whereas all of the action from Seasons 1 and 2 occurred under the umbrella of the Delos corporation’s theme park, the latest trailer introduces viewers to a new company called Incite, a venture that appears as though it is run by androids.

“The world is complex, complicated, messy. But life doesn’t have to be. The future is powered by you, and we know you,...

John Saavedra Nov 9, 2019

The Shadow cloud gaming PC service is getting some major upgrades in 2020.

French startup Blade has announced major upgrades to its Shadow cloud PC service that will add ray-tracing  and 4K gaming configurations in 2020. Users will be able to choose from three subscription tiers, the latter two of which will offer Nvidia Rtx GPUs, a big jump from the Nvidia Quadro P5000 Gpu currently included in the service's $35 subscription.

Below, you can see the new subscription tiers coming to the service and what's included in each:

Boost: Nvidia Gtx 1080 Gpu, 3.4GHz with 4 cores Cpu, 12Gb of Ram, 256Gb of storage

Ultra: Nvidia Rtx 2080 Gpu, 4GHz with 4 cores Cpu, 16Gb of Ram, 512Gb of storage

Infinite: Nvidia Titan Rtx Gpu, 4 GHz with 6 cores Cpu, 32Gb of Ram, 1Tb of storage

The new subscriptions will first roll out internationally in Feb. 2020. Shadow is offering three complementary pre-order offers. You...

MollywoodThe movie, the third in the ‘Aadu’ series directed by Midhun Manuel Thomas, is expected to release next year.Digital NativeDuring the 100th day celebrations of the Jayasurya starrer Aadu 2, the filmmakers had revealed that plans are on to release its third part next year. And now we have the news that Sunny Wayne and Vinayakan have been signed up to team with Jayasurya in Aadu 3. Incidentally, all three stars were part of Aadu and Aadu 2. In Aadu 3, Jayasurya will be playing the role Shaji Pappan while Sunny Wayne and Vinayakan will be reprising their characters Sathan Xavier and Dude respectively. Reports are that some new characters may be introduced in Aadu 3. Plans are on to release the film for Onam next year and the makers are planning the project on a large canvas, we hear. Further, the buzz is that Aadu 3 may get a 3D version too. Written and directed by Midhun Manuel Thomas,...

With Disney Plus now set for launch in Europe next spring, analysts say that the service’s powerhouse lineup – spanning “Star Wars,” Marvel, Pixar, Disney and National Geographic content – should position it strongly in the region’s increasingly crowded and competitive on-demand landscape.

British-based consultancy Digital TV Research forecasts that, by 2025, Western Europe will account for a quarter of Disney Plus customers worldwide, with about as many subscribers as pay-tv broadcaster Sky currently has. By that point, the Disney Plus library is expected to boast 620 movies and 10,000 show episodes.

The service is set to bow in North America and the Netherlands on Nov. 12 and in New Zealand one week later. On Thursday, in an analyst call following the company’s latest quarterly results, Disney chief Bob Iger announced March 31, 2020, as the rollout date for Disney Plus “in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain and a number of other countries in the region.

Marvel Studios' "WandaVision", the live-action Disney+ TV series 'sitcom', set in the 1950's, from an idea by Marvel Studios' president Kevin Feige, stars Elizabeth Olsen as 'Wanda Maximoff', the Marvel Comics' reality-altering 'Scarlet Witch' and Paul Bettany as the android 'Vision', targeting a Spring 2021 streaming release:

Monica Rambeau ("Captain Marvel), will appear as an adult in at least one of six episodes, connecting to the upcoming Marvel Studios' feature "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness".

"I would love to appear in a 'House of M' story," said Olsen. 

"...which is a comic book series of 'The Vision' and 'Scarlet Witch'...

"...having a make-believe family, with a son called 'Wiccan'.

"Then they have to tell Wanda she was make-believing the entire time...

"...and she has a very traumatic experience...

"House of M", the eight-issue comic book limited series was written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Olivier Coipel,...

MollywoodNivin Pauly’s ‘Moothon’, Biju Menon’s ‘Nalpathiyonnu’ and the Soubin-Suraj starrer ‘Android Kunjappan Version 5.25’ are gearing up for release.Digital NativeDigital NativeIt should be an exciting weekend for Malayalam movie buffs as three very different films – the Nivin Pauly starrer Moothon, Biju Menon’s Nalpathiyonnu and the Soubin Shahir-Suraj Venjaramoodu starrer Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 – are gearing up for release. Written and directed by Geetu Mohandas, Moothon has Nivin Pauly playing the central character with Sobhita Dhulipala and Shashank Arora included in the star cast. It was shot simultaneously in Malayalam and Hindi. Noted director and screenplay writer Anurag Kashyap has penned a part of the screenplay for the Hindi version. Director Anand L Rai, known for making films like Tanu Weds Manu, Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Raanjhanaa, has produced Moothon under his banner Colour Yellow Productions. Rajeev Ravi has cranked the camera for this bilingual. Moothon...

Spencer Mullen Nov 7, 2019

Terminator: Dark Fate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Billy on the Street, and more in today's daily Link Tank!

Here are eight super cool films that are perfect for fans of The Terminator.

The Terminator came out to delighted audiences in 1984. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s swaggering cyborg assassin coined the iconic line, “I’ll be back”—and he was. Again and again. The sixth film in the franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, hits theaters Friday November 1st, welcoming fans back into the action-packed, high-stakes world of time traveling robot assassins set out to tip the fate of the future into their own hands.

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Here's why Doctor Sleep needed to redeem Stanley Kubrick's The Shining for Stephen King.

"Stephen King has a notoriously fraught relationship with Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel The Shining. King famously called the film “a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it.

Hybristophilia Now Available on VOD Hybristophilia, a new horror movie from Director Romane Simon and Lucky Strike Films, is now available on VOD platforms. It can be watched on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, and Chromecast. Hybristophilia tells the story of an ambitious news team that arrives at a secluded farmhouse for an exclusive interview …

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Disney has been touting its Disney+ streaming service as a potent collection of well-known brands, including Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar. It appears Starz is joining that list, at least in a very brief fashion and among only a subset of new subscribers to the platform, which launches next Tuesday.

As part of a broader effort to reclaim rights to a range of content, Disney and Starz reached an agreement that returned the Star Wars streaming rights to Disney in time for the launch of Disney+. In exchange, Disney has conceded to allow promotions for the Starz streaming service to appear at the end of the registration process for certain new subscribers.

Disney declined to comment on the arrangement when contacted by Deadline and Starz did not immediately respond to an inquiry. Tech site The Verge was the first to report on the arrangement.

Disney has clawed back rights to a...

Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon has said it is vital that the UK broadcaster gets proper credit for its shows from U.S. streamers to help preserve its place in the minds of British viewers.

Channel 4 is in engaged in an ever-complicated dance with the streamers: they are hoovering up its audience, but the British broadcaster also leans on online players to top-up funding for some of its biggest new shows.

This results in Netflix having improved rights to and more ownership over brands like The End of the F***ing World, meaning audiences potentially associate the show with Netflix rather than Channel 4.

Mahon’s argument is simple: give Channel 4 the credit it deserves for originating these shows. Channel 4 branding does appear on The End of the F***ing World and Derry Girls on Netflix in the UK, but the fact Mahon raised attribution at a conference in London shows...