Mass Effect: Andromeda will not have a season pass...but that doesn't mean free DLC necessarily. Bioware GM Aaryn Flynn responded to a Twitter user (via VG247) confirming the news...read more on GameTyrant

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Today marks 10 years since the announcement of the first iPhone. We take it for granted now, but it's astonishing how far mobile devices have come in just 10 years. If I think back to my cellphone situation in 2007, I was using a Virgin Mobile phone to send texts for 10 cents a page to my girlfriend who went to another school. Fast forward to now where I can facetime my wife for free over wifi from Atlanta and not miss a beat?! That's pretty damn astounding. 

I posted the original keynote because it reminded me of a time before the iPhone and really brought to light just how much this technology has impacted our lives. It's also hilarious to hear something like touchscreen phones to be referred to as "magic." Check it out below. 

Do you remember your life before smartphones?

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Showtime has announced that David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival will premiere with a two-hour event on Sunday, May 21st at 9pm ET/PT. It was also announced that immediately following the Twin Peaks premiere, Showtime subscribers will have access to the third and fourth episodes exclusively on Showtime's streaming services, Showtime Anytime and Showtime On Demand.

The following week, Showtime will also air the third and fourth episodes of Twin Peaks back-to-back. That will be followed by one-hour episodes every week after until the series concludes after a total of 18 episodes. 

I'm extremely excited about this! Twin Peaks was such a crazy-ass show, and I never thought I'd see it return. I can't help but think that Lynch is going to give fans something even wackier and more insane.

The series takes place 25 years after the strange events in the original series when the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned when their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. Many of the original cast members have returned to reprise their roles. 

The cast of the series includes Mädchen Amick  Ray Wise, Alicia Witt, Warren Frost, Dana Ashbrook, Sherilyn Fenn, David Duchovny, James Belushi, Chrysta Bell, Robert Knepper, Michael Cera, Eddie Vedder, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Sizemore, Balthazar Getty, Naomi Watts, and Laura Dern, among others.

Here’s the official synopsis for the Twin Peaks revival:

Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed. The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues…
 

Things aren't going well for Jimmy in the season three promo of Better Call Saul. It looks like Chuck did something with that tape recording at the end of season two! Isn't that guy just an asshole? If he were my brother, I would stay as far away from him as possible!

Check out the first promo for the series below, and get ready for more Better Call Saul in spring of 2017.

A "leaker" who has released information on Apple products in the past is now reporting that the company is looking to update its phones with a potentially controversial feature. Sony Dickson (via Collider) alleges that an update that will be available in iOS 10.3 will have a "theater mode."

While no concrete details on the rumor have been leaked, an Apple patent from 2012 had a very similar concept. Here's a description...

"This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter “sleep mode” when entering a sensitive area."

Provided this is the technology that's coming to the update, how do we feel about this? Personally, I don't think we need technology to further allow people to be disruptive during a movie. I also don't know how I feel about a mode for my phone that doesn't allow people to reach me for an event as trivial for a movie. What if there's an emergency I need to be contacted for?

I see good and bad in this product, but then, ultimately, can we really force anyone to use it? Do you think if a feature like this gets added people will adopt it and use it at a movie? I know we all have that one story of someone being a dick with their phone, but is it such a problem we need tech that allows us to use phones inside the theater? I'm really curious to hear your opinion.

You can see all your favorite Star Trek ships in one short but very cool VR video! If you don't have a VR headset, you can still navigate the video 360 degrees with your mouse. Check out the video (which is surprisingly an official CBS upload) below! It's not the best quality by any means, but it's at least worth a minute of your time.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was an incredible series that helped define a generation. I loved that show, there was a magic to it that could never be recaptured. During a recent interview with THR, series star Sarah Michelle Gellar reflected on the series, what it taught her, and where she thinks Buffy would be today.

"The most formidable years of my life — transition from teenager to adult — were spent filming Buffy. I learned every day from the experience and from her. She taught me it wasn't about being perfect; it was about trying the hardest to be the best you you can be. I also loved how hard Buffy worked, as she had no typical powers most superheroes have. She had to train and work hard at her craft. Buffy reminded us that being different was not only OK but really cool — and at a time when most kids are trying to desperately fit in." 

With all of the series revivals we are seeing produced today, some fans are hoping to see one for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yeah, it would be really cool to see, but I think Buffy should just be left alone. The series had a great, satisfying ending. When asked about the possibility of a revival, Gellar said:

"I have always believed that what was so unique about the show was the use of horrors of those formative years. With high school and college as a backdrop, we were able to address racism, identity, bullying, guilt, death, first love and heartbreak using the demons as metaphors for the demons we all experience. I am not sure how that translates into adulthood, although I am sure it could. The burden of saving the world a lot always weighed heavily on her, so for her sake.”

She then said she hopes Buffy is today:

“I hope she is somewhere on a beautiful beach located far away from any Hellmouth." 

That would certainly be an unexpected yet fitting place for Buffy. I hope that’s where she is, but I can’t help but think Buffy is still out there protecting the world from vampire and demon scum. 

BABY GROOT FUNKO POPS ARE COMING IN FEBRUARY! The rest of the characters from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 are being released as well, but we all know who the star is going to be this time around! Funko Pop seems to be sure of that fact as well, as they've made four different mini Groots for you to collect ahead of the movie's release in the spring! Check out some pictures of the toys below and more of their gear here.

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are set to reteam for a new action thriller called Black Water. The two action stars previously worked together on the Universal Soldier sci-fi action movies as well as The Expendables 2.

The two have fought against each other in both of those film franchises, but Black Water will show them team up as allies for the first time in a feature film, so that's kind of a big deal!

The film has an interesting story that centers on "a deep cover operative (Van Damme) who awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine." There's no information on the film other than that. We also don't know who Lundgren will play, but if they are teaming up, he could be another prisoner on the submarine.

It'll be awesome to see these two actors finally fighting alongside each other in a movie, and this actually is a great concept that could make a fun film. There's no director attached to it yet, but I can't wait to see it!

Source: THR

A trailer for an upcoming comedy called All Nighter just popped up online, and it looks like it could be a funny flick! The movie stars J.K. Simmons as a workaholic father who travels to Los Angeles to visit his daughter. When he gets there he discovers that she's disappeared. So what does he do? He is forced to awkwardly team up with her goofy banjo-playing ex-boyfriend to help him find her over the course of one transformative night. Her ex is played by Emile Hirsch.

Simmons and Hirsch are both talented actors, and it's fun to see them team up for a comedy like this. All Nighter was directed by Gavin Wiesen, and I hope that it actually turns out to be a decent comedy! The movie is set to be released in select theaters and on VOD on March 17th.

I recently had the chance to take a vacation to New Zealand, and while I was there, I visited Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop and took a tour of the place. It was incredible (as you might imagine), but unfortunately, they wouldn't allow me to take any photos or video inside the space. Adam Savage and his Tested team recently went to Wellington and visited as well, but it looks like they didn't have the same restrictions I did. While they apparently weren't able to give everyone a look at the main floor of the workshop (yet, anyway), they did manage to get a bunch of access to some side areas and talk to its employees about sculpting, prosthetics, model painting, and more. This may be the closest you get without flying across the world and visiting Weta yourself!

A new teaser trailer has been released for Cars 3, and it introduces us to two new race car characters. The first character is Jackson Storm, who is voiced by Armie Hammer, and the second character is Cruz Ramirez, who is voiced by Cristela Alonzo. There's also a reintroduction promo with Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) in the teaser, which is obviously before his big accident featured in the first teaser for the film.

I also included some character photos that were released by EW, and they come along with some additional information on the characters thanks to first time Pixar director Brian Fee, who says:

“McQueen is not the young hotshot anymore, the kid he was back then in Cars 1. He’s in the middle of his life, and as an athlete, that’s getting up there. You have your whole life ahead of you, yet your career is starting to show its age. He’s looking in the mirror and realizing, ‘I’m 40 years old,’ and dealing with the fact that the thing that you love more than anything else, you might not be able to do forever.”

The first new character introduced is Jackson Storm. When it comes to him, Fee exp;lains:

“Jackson was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Everything comes easy to him, and everything about him says he’s faster, so much so that we’ve designed him so that even when he’s standing next to McQueen, McQueen looks old.”

“He thinks the world is his. He’s taking over. He’s owed it. In a very broad term, I think of old football players with those little leather skull caps, and you think of football players now with all their armor, hitting so hard. It’s not the same game. What they did was not anything like what we do now. And that’s Jackson: He thinks the future of racing and the high-tech ways they train and what they can do means they’re taking the sport to a new level, and the older guys had their day, and it’s done, and they have no place in the future of racing.”

The other character is Cruz Ramirez, who is McQueen's optimistic, friendly, and fierce new coach. When talking about her, Fee says:

"Whereas others like Jackson would look at McQueen and dump him, Cruz isn’t like that at all. She’s the most optimistic person in the world and wants to do anything to help. 

The director goes on to say that Cars 3 will be the most human film in the franchise and says it "very emotional."

“Where the franchise goes from here, I have no idea what may be down the road, but I can tell you that for Lightning McQueen, as a character, I think by the end of the movie it’s safe to say that this is only the beginning for him.”

Cars 3 races into theaters on June 16th, and it will be interesting to see how this story plays out. Here's the new teaser:

The Cinefix gang is back with a new video, and this time they're counting down what they believe to be the top five end credits scenes of all time. (Not to be confused with post-credit scenes.) As usual, the team mentions a bunch of different ways for filmmakers to achieve their goals before choosing an option they feel represents that particular method, so there are a lot more movies listed here than just five.

In case anyone was wondering, my personal number one pick if I were making this list would be 22 Jump Street. Cracks me up every time.

As in reality, it's always hard to say goodbye to people and things we love. Sometimes, even more so with films that touch our hearts. Storytellers understand this struggle more than the rest of us and find meaningful ways to help us cope with departure to the worlds we encounter in cinema. These are the best closing title sequences in movie history.

Via: Sploid

Smite has a new God, Pantheon, and grand plans for their 4th season! The announcements kick off with a brand new God added to the game, the Celtic Phantom Queen The Morrigan....read more GameTyrant

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It looks like a few actors from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim will be returning for the sequel. Thanks to a recent photo posted by cinematographer Dan Mindel via Instagram, we learn that Rinko Kikuchi will reprise her role as Mako Mori, and it confirms that Charlie Day and Burn Gorman will be back as well. The big piece of news it reveals is that Karl Urban seems to have joined the cast as well, which is freakin' awesome! All that information is on a little sticker placed on the side of the camera.

The all join the previously cast John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), who was cast as the son of Idris Elba's Stacker Pentecost, as well as Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny. I just love that Urban will most likely be in the film. This is the kind of film franchise that he's perfect for. It'll be interesting to see what role he plays in the film.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is being produced by Del Toro, and it's being directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Marvel’s Daredevil). It will be released on February 23, 2018.

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Disney has released a new trailer for Pixar's Cars 3. The Cars franchise isn't my favorite thing that Pixar has done, but this third chapter in the story actually looks interesting. This latest trailer offers new footage and more insight into the story. It actually looks like a really good and exciting film, and I never thought I'd say that about a Cars movie.

Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician, Cruz Ramirez, with her own plan to win, plus inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn’t through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!

Last week we were introduced to a couple of the new generation of cars that come into Lightning McQueen's life. One of them is a villain-type character named Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), and the other is a character that comes in to help McQueen. That character's name is Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo). When previously talking about the film, director Brian Fee said:

“McQueen is not the young hotshot anymore, the kid he was back then in Cars 1. He’s in the middle of his life, and as an athlete, that’s getting up there. You have your whole life ahead of you, yet your career is starting to show its age. He’s looking in the mirror and realizing, ‘I’m 40 years old,’ and dealing with the fact that the thing that you love more than anything else, you might not be able to do forever.”

Cars 3 opens in theaters on June 16th, 2017.

An animated big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Rust has been in development at Fox since 2011. The project had a great team of talent developing it that included Attack the Block director Joe Cornish and scribe Aline Brosh McKenna (Devil Wears Prada, We Bought a Zoo). On top of that it was being produced by X-Men franchise producer Simon Kinberg.

We haven’t really had any updates since the announcement. I don’t even know if Cornish and his team are even still involved with the project. I don’t even know if the project is even still in active development. But some really cool test footage has surfaced that makes me hope that the project is still alive because it looks like it could be an awesome movie! 

In one clip was see the characters Jet Jones and Roman Taylor being chased by a giant robot on a motorcycle. The second video, which you can check out here, just gives us a look at a character motion test of a robot running through some farmland. The footage wonderfully captures the feel and spirit of the comic.

Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family’s small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. While the rest of his family may not trust the mysterious boy with the jetpack, Roman believes the secrets of Jet’s past may be the key to their survival.

After watching this stuff, I really hope that this project is still moving forward. It looks like it would be a great movie! 

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There's a lot of excitement revolving around Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. We don't have a lot of story details yet, but we do know is that one of the main things it will focus on is Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) meeting his father Ego the Living Planet (Kurt Russell) for the first time.

In a recent interview with USA Today, director James Gunn talked about what it's like for Star-Lord to meet his dad for the first time ever, saying:

“It runs the gamut of emotions for him, wanting to understand why his father wasn’t around to quickly idolizing him and ultimately learning the reality of the relationship and comparing the man who sired him to the man who raised him.”

This is sure to make for an interesting, dramatic, and fun story dynamic. I'm excited to see how that plays out for Peter Quill and his pops. Gunn also talks about the Guardians team that consists of Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (voice of Bradley Cooper) and kid Groot (voice of Vin Diesel), and what it means for them to come together to form a family unit.

“To let somebody love you is a very difficult thing, especially when you’re damaged goods. And all of the Guardians are damaged goods.” 

That's what I love about these characters! They're all misfits who have been thrown in the trash who come together to find a positive purpose to live and fight to help save the universe. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 comes out on May 5th!

The Unipiper, aka Portland's Brian Kidd, is well-known for his schtick in which he dresses up as a pop culture character, precariously balances on an object (whether it's a ball or a unicycle), and glides around playing flaming bagpipes. He's dressed as Darth Vader twice before — once for The Force Awakens and once for Rogue One — but aside from the general joy he brings to society and the internet at large with his antics, he's added another benefit to his performance: shoveling snow. Granted, he doesn't actually shovel all that much, but I doubt I could do any better in those circumstances. (I also like that he's wearing shorts. It adds to the ridiculousness of the whole scene.)

Via: LaughingSquid