Fighting bad guys is fun, but characters finally meeting each other is the true draw of the Marvel teamup. With only six weeks left until Marvel unveils its biggest superhero movie to date, Avengers: Infinity War, it has released its latest (and possibly final) big trailer. Unsurprisingly, the new ad emphasizes that a good chunk of Infinity War will take place in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, home to everyone’s new favorite […]
MGM announces the singer will direct Taking Flight, the story of DePrince’s journey from war orphan in Sierra Leone to world-class ballerina Madonna is to return to the movies after a seven-year absence to direct Taking Flight, a feature film based on the life of Michaela DePrince, a war orphan from Sierra Leone who became a leading ballerina. According to Deadline, Hollywood studio MGM has been developing the project since 2015 when […]
The new Lara Croft movie Tomb Raider has a long, tangled pedigree. It's based on the latest video game in an extended franchise, and it follows in the footsteps of a two-film worldwide phenomenon. But though the individual Tomb Raider games and movies have had their ups and downs, the franchise itself has been sturdy enough to keep on going all these years. As such, asking willTomb Raider have a sequel is like asking if […]
Microsoft has officially confirmed its plans for E3 2018. Rather than have its usual presence inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, where E3 takes place, Microsoft is moving the bulk of its efforts across the street to the nearby Microsoft Theater in LA Live. The company says this will make for the company's "biggest E3 showing ever." First up at the Microsoft Theater will be Microsoft's E3 press conference, which […]
Alicia Vikander stars as Lara Croft in this reboot of the Angelina Jolie-fronted action franchise based on the video game. It's a new package for old goods in Tomb Raider, a grimly determined by-the-numbers rehash of the same sort of plots and action moves that animated the first two Lara Croft films back in the early 2000s. Brandishing impressively packed abs and enough upper body strength to pull herself out of countless […]
Spotify announced today the launch of a new tool called Line-In that will allow its community members to offer input about the music data it has on file, like genre, mood, explicitness and more. The goal is to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in correcting and expanding Spotify’s data over time, which could give it a competitive advantage against rival services like Apple or Pandora, for example. Notes Spotify in its FAQ, by […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEaYB4rLFQ Warner Bros. put a spell on Harry Potter fans Tuesday with the release of the first trailer for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” In the trailer, Eddie Redmayne returns as the charmingly clumsy Newt Scamander, while Jude Law makes his Wizarding World debut as a young Albus Dumbledore. It’s teased that Scamander is acting under orders from Dumbledore to head to Paris, but as the future-Hogwarts headmaster notes, Scamander isn’t […]
Apple announced today that it signed an agreement to acquire the digital magazine service Texture, which serves articles from more than 200 magazines digitally on iOS, Windows, Amazon, and Android devices for a flat monthly fee. Apple has acquired the entire company, including staff, and has assured users that the Android version of the app will still be supported. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Texture was founded in 2010 […]
You may want to check your bank account balance and kick your penny-pinching into high gear, because the long-rumored Beyoncé and Jay-Z joint tour is officially happening. The powerhouse couple announced Monday that their On the Run II tour will start June 6 in the United Kingdom and July 25 in North America. (A full list of North American stadium tour dates is below.) Presale starts Wednesday, with tickets going on sale March 19. Beyoncé […]
