HBO's Harry Potter series will abandon the iconic Hogwarts theme
HBO Harry Potter series is preparing for major changes, and one of them might hit fans harder than the rest. It concerns dropping the iconic musical theme familiar to millions of viewers from the original...
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Werwulf trailer
Focus Features has dropped the second trailer for Werwulf – a grim horror flick from director Robert Eggers, known for The Lighthouse and Nosferatu. The film takes viewers to a remote English village in the...
Wet socks and scattered bullets – why the hero of the new Resident Evil adaptation is more honest than Leon
Anyone who has ever played through Resident Evil secretly believes they'd handle a zombie outbreak just as well as Leon Kennedy. Cool-headed reloads, headshots, a snappy one-liner at the end. In reality, most of us...
Former Naughty Dog artist confirmed that Sam was the villain in Amy Hennig's version of Uncharted 4 – the game's first demo ran on PC at 1 FPS
It has been more than 10 years since the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, but fans of the series are still trying to piece together what the game might have looked like under...
Creative Assembly didn't have enough UE5 for Alien: Isolation 2, so the studio used its own technology
Developers of Alien: Isolation 2 believe that Unreal Engine 5 alone isn't enough to build a truly convincing horror game. That's why Creative Assembly decided to build its own lighting and audio technology on top...
You can buy yourself an arcade machine with 1200 games for PS1 for your birthday, but without L2 and R2 buttons
Nostalgia sells better than anything new, and the pricier it gets, the less buyers seem to care about details. Sometimes those details get ignored entirely. Take, for example, dropping $1,200 on a PlayStation arcade machine...
Her Story creator Sam Barlow explains why focus groups can harm games amid Wolverine criticism
Immortality and Her Story creator Sam Barlow spoke out about problems with focus testing in movies and games – and how it can end up shaping creative decisions for the worse. The trigger was recent...
First photos from The Hunt for Gollum shows the Shire and possibly Frodo
Warner Bros. released the first set photos from The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. The reveal lines up with Hobbit Day, celebrated every year on September 22 in honor of Bilbo and...
David and Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners in Fallout, Mass Effect, Persona, Red Dead Redemption and other universes
The suffix "-punk" stopped being a genre marker a long time ago and turned into a universal aesthetic generator: take any technology, add social inequality, and you're done. Dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, shibuyapunk – the list...
The head of a Japanese anime studio said that the era of overwork and $350 salaries is becoming a thing of the past
Motoki Tanaka, known by the alias Tensho, founder and CEO of Bibury Animation Studios, took to X to address people hoping to break into the anime industry. According to him, working conditions and pay have...
Typewriter, green grass, and a shotgun on the wall – why the new Resident Evil movie is still Resident Evil
A game adaptation can follow the source material to the letter and still feel completely dead, or it can skip every recognizable logo and still feel like the truest thing to the series. The debate...
A popcorn bucket shaped like Guile's hairstyle from Street Fighter can be worn on your head
The collectible popcorn bucket industry at movie theaters never stops finding new ways to surprise us. We've seen ones that look like sex toys, ones that were two feet tall, and ones you could swing...
Avengers: Doomsday allegedly leaked online in 4K three months before premiere
Social media is buzzing with claims that Avengers: Doomsday leaked online in its entirety three months before hitting theaters. X users claim the film is available in 2160p resolution, with one distributor supposedly holding a...
Zack Snyder officially confirms Director's Cut of his cult 2011 film
Zack Snyder says the director's cut of his 2011 movie Sucker Punch is "definitely on the docket." Extra footage has already been shot, but the release is waiting on licensing to be finalized, along with...
Kit Harington explained why he agreed to play Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter series
Kit Harington, known for playing Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, opened up about his decision to join the HBO series based on the Harry Potter books. The actor appeared on Today, where he explained...
55 missed calls from Panam and the main problem with the Phantom Liberty ending in Cyberpunk 2077
The most gut-punching scene in Cyberpunk 2077 looks completely mundane – just a phone log with a counter showing 55 missed calls from one nomad. V's favorite nomad, no less. We're talking about the "Tower"...
Poster for Sarik Andreasyan's "War and Peace" adaptation is riddled with AI blunders
Director and producer Sarik Andreasyan posted the first poster for his adaptation of the classic novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It follows the traditional style where characters and scenes from the film get...
First reviews of the new Resident Evil adaptation - critics promise a feeling like a very good game
Zach Cregger new Resident Evil movie screened for its first audience, and the reactions came in noticeably stronger than anyone expected from yet another attempt to bring Capcom franchise to the big screen. The film...
Season breaks for TV Shows come at a high cost – new report shows a 59% drop in audience
Analytics firm Luminate has published a report confirming something viewers and streaming services have long suspected: the longer a show waits between seasons, the fewer people show up to watch it. The study looked at...
Why the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Blu-ray turned green, and no one fixed it
Color grading is the most invisible and total magic in cinema – one shifted slider changes not just a shot, but the mood of an entire story. And if the mistake doesn't get caught before...
