The Croods: A New Age opened at the US box office over the Thanksgiving weekend, and it was–by the standards of 2020 movie releases–a solid success. The film pulled in $14.2 million across the 5-day frame beginning Wednesday, Deadline reports, with $9.7 million of that figure happening across the three-day weekend. The film was shown…
Chris Columbus, the director of the first two Harry Potter films, has recalled some of the stress he felt during the production of the first film in particular.Speaking to Collider, Columbus said he felt “the pressure of the world” when filming the first movie, The Sorcerer’s Stone/The Philosopher’s Stone. “I knew if I screwed this…
The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all time, but many of its best games are now much harder to access, partly because of a lack of backwards-compatibility with modern systems, and partly because the system is notoriously difficult to emulate. But as it turns out, Microsoft’s new, cheaper system does a pretty good…
Peter Dinklage has played both an evil scientist and a Norse blacksmith in Marvel movies, but he’s never been the hero in a superhero movie. Now, the actor best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones has found his superhero picture: The Toxic Avenger.Dinklage will star in Legendary’s Toxic Avenger film, according to…
Tetris Effect: Connected extends the magic of the original to multiplayer in familiar and innovative ways.By Mike Epstein on November 30, 2020 at 4:58PM PST In 2018, Tetris Effect’s mesmerizing sounds and sights heightened the classic game’s aesthetically pleasing properties and its ability to consume our attention to almost therapeutic levels, reinvigorating our appreciation for…
The final season of Vikings included many surprises, including the return of a beloved character. Series creator Michael Hirst explains why.By Chris E. Hayner on December 30, 2020 at 9:00AM PST The end of has come and with it, a number of surprises that wrapped up the long-running series. The final 10 episodes of the…
CBS has pushed the post-New Year restart dates on several of its series a week as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County have surged, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.The production on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, SEAL Team, Why Women Kill, and Disney+’s Diary of a Future President had been planned to return…
The Xbox Series X and Series S systems have been extremely difficult to find since they launched in November, and stock hasn’t improved much at the major retailers. However, head of Xbox Phil Spencer said he’s taken some steps to ensure the console will be more plentiful soon. It’s unclear how soon “soon” is, but…
The day has finally come: it is January 1, 2021, and that means The Office has been removed from Netflix in the United States. We knew this was happening for a long time, but now it’s official. Searching for The Office on Netflix in the US yields no results. You need not despair, however, as…
It looks like the final chapter of Call of Duty Modern Warfare’s Warzone storyline, The War Room, has been released, and with it, a new cutscene detailing the final outcome of the game’s nuclear plotline. It’s finally time to see how this saga ends; will the operators succeed, or will the situation quite literally go…
