According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios’ latest blockbuster film will compete against No Time to Die, Free Guy, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in the Best Visual Effects category. Meanwhile, Denis Villeneuve’s live-action adaptation of Dune is second across all films with 10 Oscar nominations. Dune, which is confirmed to get a sequel next year after filming starts in July, has been nominated for the Best Picture award alongside Licorice Pizza, West Side Story, King Richard, CODA, Belfast, and The Power of the Dog....

Amidst an ongoing controversy between Wizards of the Coast and its fans and third party creators due to the changes with the Open Gaming License (OGL), the D&D brand is apparently expanding its mainstream projects. Red Notice filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote the script and will direct the first episode of the Dungeons & Dragons TV series. It will be a co-production between eOne and Paramount Pictures. Deadline reported that eOne will oversee the project which was shopped in Hollywood in November, 2022....

During the actor’s visit, the conversation turned to the WWE, which used to be Johnson’s playground before he became the king of Hollywood. The interviewer, David George-Cosh, asked Johnson if he will take a larger role in the company as either a director or an investor if the ownership changes. In classic Johnson fashion, the actor did not provide any explicit answer either way. On the potential sale of the company, Johnson said, “I’ve known Vince for a very, very long time and he’s a businessman....

Fortunately, this is no longer happening. With EA admitting its failures with Battlefield 2042 and a new Need for Speed slated for a Q3 2022 release, fans can finally look forward to what Criterion and Codemasters have up their sleeves. Now, it appears that an announcement trailer is imminent. While there’s no grapevine talk that EA will this year’s Need for Speed soon, EA’s Guildford studio provided a glimpse of what the publisher has in store....

EA has responded to player feedback about Battlefield 2042’s lack of a story campaign and it looks like fans will be getting what they want. In an open letter to Battlefield fans, EA General Manager Byron Beede addressed the importance of player feedback, saying that it has been “instrumental in evolving Battlefield.” He then assured fans that the Battlefield team is working towards making BF2042 the game they envisioned. Beede also reiterates that EA is committed to the Battlefield franchise and that the company will apply the experience they had with BF2042 to future games....

A Twitter post specifically highlighted the addition of the Metro Mule logo and a decal for the Vice City Mambas football team. Rockstar Games added the Metro Mule logo back in 2018 as part of the GTA Online Arena War update. Meanwhile, the Vice City Mambas football team decal came later as part of the LS Tuners update. The most interesting part is neither of these existed when GTA Vice City came out....

According to recent reports, Emily Blunt is currently in talks to star alongside Murphy in Oppenheimer, a film that will star Murphy as the famed physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Blunt and Murphy most recently worked together in the 2021 horror movie, A Quiet Place Part II. What is Blunt’s role in Oppenheimer? It wasn’t long ago that Christopher Nolan was shopping Oppenheimer to various studios after his displeasure at how his long-time partners over at Warner Bros....

For example, the Dakota Johnson-led Madame Web is welcoming yet another marquee star in Emma Roberts in a still-undefined role. Deadline reports that Roberts is joining Johnson and Sydney Sweeney in a mostly-female cast that includes Celeste O’Connor, and Isabela Merced in the upcoming SSU film directed by S.J. Clarkson with a screenplay by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama. It’s certainly interesting that Sony is taking this route when it comes to the SSU....

After such a polarizing stint in cinemas when it first premiered last November, most fans didn’t expect too much from Eternals when it finally came to Disney+. But, as it turns out, Eternals ended up being bigger on the streaming platform than it was in theaters. The Direct reports that Eternals is the biggest premiere for an MCU movie on Disney+ ever, breaking the record previously set by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings....

Here’s everything important that’s been unveiled at the Apple vs Epic trial. How Did the Apple vs Epic Trial Start? First things first, let’s talk about what led to the Apple vs Epic trial in the first place. For those that don’t know, Epic Games is one of the biggest video game publishers around. It’s the company behind one of the highest-earning video games right now, Fortnite. It’s the same game that also used to be available on the Apple Store....

Case in point, one particularly observant player noticed a sneaky Red Dead Redemption 2 Easter Egg in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. With that said, it was only a matter of time before players started finding more Easter Eggs in any of the three remastered titles. One, in particular, stands out because many believe that it’s confirmation of the setting for the still-unannounced Grand Theft Auto 6. Is a teaser for GTA VI available in the GTA trilogy?...

How Fear Street is doing slasher movies right Fear Street: 1994 is the first in a trilogy of films releasing on Netflix throughout July. All three movies are based on the R.L. Stine book series and revolve around the story of an ancient evil that has been terrorizing the town of Shadyside for multiple centuries. However, for the first film, much of the focus is on a group of friends who find themselves becoming the target of the said malevolent entity that has been killing people in the town for years....

Such is the case with FIFA 23. Players who pre-loaded FIFA 23 found a welcome surprise as they gained access to the full game earlier today. Players even had the chance to stream the game before the FIFA Ultimate Team servers had unusually high traffic and blocked them. According to reports, those who pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of the game got early access to the game for a brief period before servers were shut down....

Earlier this month, a Twitter user came out of nowhere and started spouting what initially appeared like nonsense. Normally, most people would have just dismissed it as another troll account. However, within a span of a few weeks, the anonymous Twitter handle has leaked more credible info than others have in their entire careers. Case in point, The Snitch has successfully leaked everything from Hideo Kojima’s in-development project and The Last of Us remake for the PS5 and the PC....

A few weeks after the game’s launch, Gran Turismo 7 was plagued by a problem foreseen by many - the game was unplayable because of the server maintenance. Polyphony’s insistence on making Gran Turismo 7 an “always online” game was always going to have consequences. These types of games have long been criticized for being at the mercy of unstable internet connections, among other potential issues, so it remains odd that the studio insists on tarnishing an otherwise excellent racing sim with this decision....

The game’s original designer, Cliff Bleszinski, recently stated that he wants Dave Bautista to star in Netflix’s live-action adaptation, to which the former WWE superstar agreed with. But, while Bleszinski is a huge fan of Bautista as Marcus Fenix (as well as Karl Urban and Ryan Reynolds as Marcus and Baird, respectively), he’s not too keen on seeing Chris Pratt play any role in the movie. — Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) November 7, 2022 Bleszinski later lightened up after a fan suggested Pratt play “every Carmine brother”....

Motion blur is, like chromatic aberration and an overuse of lens flaring, one of those visual effects that AAA games just love shoving into your face in order to sell the game as featuring cutting edge, top of the line graphics. In practice, it’s ugly at best and outright nauseating at worst. If, like us, you despise this pointless visual effect that achieved nothing beyond smudging the beautifully crafted scenery of the game, you now have a way to turn it off....

This development was revealed by Deadline. According to the outlet, Reeves, Farrell, Dylan Clark, Craig Zobel, and Lauren LeFranc will serve as executive producers. Apart from producing, LeFranc will also pen the show’s script and serve as showrunner while Zobel will direct the series’ first two episodes. Sofia Falcone is the daughter of notorious gangster Carmine Falcone who met his demise at the hands of the Riddler in The Batman....

Despite Penguin’s stature as one of Batman’s most iconic enemies, Oswald Cobblepot hasn’t always had the best big-screen outings. The most recent actor to portray the eccentric criminal mastermind before Colin Farrell was Danny DeVito in 1992’s Batman Returns. But, with Farrell effectively capturing the essence of the character in The Batman, it’s only natural that HBO Max gives the series the green light after spending a significant amount of time in development....

The Best-selling US games of 2022 American market research company, The NPD Group, which has been tracking the video game industry since 1995, revealed the ten best-selling games of 2022 in the US. Game Freak will be thrilled to see that their two RPG titles for 2022 are featured in the list, with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet coming in sixth place and Pokemon Legends: Arceus coming in eighth place. Winning over 149 GOTY awards this year, Elden Ring deservedly took the second spot on the list, while its biggest competitor, God of War: Ragnarok, came in fourth place....