In the Star Wars spinoff series The Mandalorian, Disney+ had a watercooler hit on their hands. The streaming service's flagship series, created by Jon Favreau, brought a number of instantly iconic moments, characters, and pop culture touchstones into the zeitgeist, from "this is the way" to freaking Baby Yoda, and ended with its fans begging for a Season 2. Luckily, we now have our first look at The Mandalorian Season 2 with this debut trailer, and October can't come soon enough. The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, an often-silent bounty hunter who's found …
With the first three episodes of Amazon’s The Boys Season 2 arriving this Friday, before going weekly for the rest of the season, I recently spoke to Karl Urban (Billy Butcher) and Laz Alonso (Mother's Milk) about making the highly anticipated second season. Before doing the interview, I’d watched the first three episodes of Season 2, but since then I’ve seen the entire second season and can assure you it’s fantastic and loaded with crazy WTF moments and plenty of twists and turns you won’t see coming. I loved Season 2 and cannot wait …
The Netflix original drama series Mindhunter is one of the best shows on television. It’s compelling and challenging in the best way, as it traces the early days of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit through the eyes of a pair of ambitious yet troubled detectives who spend their time interviewing serial killers, looking for insight that could help them catch future killers. It’s also a wildly cinematic show, which should come as no surprise given that it hails from executive producer and director David Fincher. Season 1 of the series was focused on the origins of the …
After large donations to organizations fighting racial injustice were made by people like the cast and showrunner of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, prominent members of the video game industry are following suit as well. According to The Wrap, prominent video game publishers 2K, EA, and Scopely have donated $1 million each to organizatioins fighting racial injustices. 2K, known for such prominent video game franchises as NBA 2K and Civilization, announced they were increasing their funding to their own 2K Foundations program, to help with "expanding its mission to help fight racial injustice and inequalities in Black communities across the globe." [caption …
The Walt Disney Company isn't holding back now that it has ownership of 20th Century Fox, ahem, 20th Century Studios. The House of Mouse continues to shape the studio in both its own image and the image it deems necessary to make its holding ostensibly more valuable as it sells off its recent acquisition's gaming division, FoxNext, the name behind popular mobile game Marvel Strike Force. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has finalized the sale of FoxNext video game development studio to Culver City-based mobile gaming developer Scopely. FoxNext's studio currently includes Aftershock LA Studios …