Star Wars Celebration, which took place in London over the weekend (15-17 July 2016), saw its fair share of interesting anecdotes told by Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and other crew and cast members who are now part of the expanding franchise. One guest who had much to talk about was director Gareth Edwards, who most recently helmed upcoming prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. During the event, he took […]
McDonald’s Holdings Co. will participate in the introduction of the hit game “Pokémon Go” in Japan and will make its restaurants key locations for players, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The deal could be announced as soon as Wednesday, along with the introduction of the game for players in Japan, these people said. It would be the first business tie-up for “Pokémon Go,” an augmented-reality game in which […]
Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Bad Robot have announced a fourth film in the rebooted “Star Trek” series, starring Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth. The studio made the announcement Monday, four days before it launches “Star Trek Beyond,” disclosing that Pine’s Captain Kirk will cross paths with his father, described as “a man he never had a chance to meet, but whose legacy has haunted him since the day he was […]
Greg Berlanti has created an entire universe between four superhero shows (and counting). THR looks back on all the times the shows have hosted crossovers Greg Berlanti is arguably one of the kings of superhero TV. The uber-producer is a TV vet with credits including Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Dirty Sexy Money and Brothers & Sisters among many others, but in just the past four years, he's done something few have […]
Drake’s Views enters double-digit territory at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, as the album jumps 2-1 to collect a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the list. The set earned another 92,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 14 (down 22 percent), according to Nielsen Music. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, […]
Netflix landed 54 total nominations, while best variety talk series nominee 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' was nominated outside the short-form categories for the first time. Crackle's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee scored its first Emmy nomination in the variety talk series category when the Primetime Emmy Awards nominees were revealed Thursday morning, but Netflix dominated among streaming services with the sheer volume of nominations that it received. This is […]
Reitman, the director of ‘Stripes’ and the original ‘Ghostbusters,’ on the sequels that weren’t and why the reboot’s trolls are just being “protective” of the 1984 film. Ivan Reitman spent decades entertaining the ethereal dream of getting his Ghostbusters team back together for a third film that, a few years ago, finally seemed to be on the brink of happening. “For 20 years we did nothing because there was always […]
It's definitely a good time to be Tom Hiddleston. The Internet's Boyfriend was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role in The Night Manager, wrapped production on Kong: Skull Island, and is probably dating Taylor Swift for real. That's all pretty good, and now the actor is currently in Australia filming for Thor: Ragnarok, returning for the fourth time as Loki in Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's been three years […]
Are you curious about Pokemon Go and just too afraid to ask what it is, or how to play at this point? WVEC has put together a list of everything you could ever want to know about Pokemon Go, along with some tricks and tips. What are Pokemon? Pokemon, or Pocket Monsters, were created in Japan in 1995. The concept is that people, commonly referred to as Pokemon Trainers, catch […]
