With the 2010s coming to a close, we run down the biggest movie news stories of the decade. The film industry landscape drastically changed over the past 10 years. When the calendar flipped to January 2010, the idea of a shared movie universe seemed overly-ambitious at best, everyone thought the Star Wars saga was complete, and Harvey Weinstein was about to produce the next Best Picture winner in The King’s Speech....
The producer of the upcoming Black Adam movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has said he is open to having Henry Cavill reprise his role as Superman for the film. Although excited fans are still years away from the film’s scheduled release date of December 2021, small tidbits of information about the movie are beginning to surface, including the fact Black Adam will introduce The Justice Society into the bigger DC film universe....
A surprisingly complex midseason finale denied closure to Black Lightning season 2’s many varied subplots. One thing that separated Black Lightning from other action-drama series in its second season was its decision to give each member of its ensemble a full storyline of their own. While this led to some heavily-loaded episodes early on, it also expanded the world of the series in surprising ways and allowed the characters to fully respond to the changes that occurred in the wake of the explosive first season finale....
BlackBerry phones might have finally reached the end. Although this is a headline that’s been used multiple times before, this time it might be for real. BlackBerry phones have been around a long time and while they’ve survived a couple of scares, time appears to be running out for the iconic phone brand. Most people of a certain age will be acutely familiar with BlackBerry phones. Just like Nokia had its heyday, BlackBerry phones were all the rage at one point - largely thanks to their physical keyboards and emphasis on security....
Denis Villeneuve has quickly emerged as one of Hollywood’s esteemed filmmakers. He’s on a hot streak with four critically-acclaimed films in as many years, following up 2015’s Oscar-nominated Sicario with the Best Picture-nominated Arrival in 2016. Villeneuve has already proven that he has a knack for layered storytelling and compelling sci-fi set pieces, which makes him an outstanding choice to handle Blade Runner 2049, the biggest challenge of his career to-date and one of the most anticipated movies of 2017....
Netflix releases a trailer for Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé and confirms an April 17 release date. The documentary explores Beyoncé’s groundbreaking 2018 Coachella performance, in which she became the first woman of color to headline the popular music festival in Indio, California. In the late ‘90s, Beyoncé rose to fame as part of the group Destiny’s Child. In 1998, the band released their self-titled debut featuring the hit single “No, No, No....
Big Little Lies is a powerful HBO series that has dazzled fans in just 7 episodes. We couldn’t help but fall in love with Reese Witherspoon’s Madeline and her “bulldog” approach. We instantly adored Shailene Woodley as Jane and rooted for her character’s redemption since the beginning. Our hearts broke for Nicole Kidman’s Celeste who, unfortunately, all too many women could relate to. We even grew to love Laura Dern’s misunderstood role as Renata Klein, eye-patch and all!...
Trading in Blackberry shares was briefly suspended in the lead-up to the company’s announcement that it is exploring ‘strategic alternatives’. The company, which once dominated the enterprise market, was extremely late moving into touchscreen phones and found itself increasingly isolated by both Bring Your Own Device policies and aggressive pitching to the corporate market by both Apple and Samsung. This tweet by Techmeme editor Mahendra Palsule perhaps says it best:...
. This week’s Bloomberg cover story is a look at the darker side of Apple’s patent war with Google’s Android. As you can probably tell from the cover art, this one is not decidedly pro-Apple/Jobs. After the full rundown of the Patent war, it gets to this (which also seems to verify an earlier report): People familiar with the situation, however, note that top-level executives at both Apple and Samsung have communicated lately about potential settlement options....
Bond 25 is reportedly bringing in Phoebe Waller-Bridge to punch up the script. The latest entry in the 007 series is set for an April 2020 release date, with a recent report revealing that some filming on the as-of-yet titled latest Bond film took place in Norway at the start of this month. The road to production has been a long one for Bond 25, with numerous headaches cropping up before Daniel Craig had even agreed to return as James Bond....
Nick and Andrew’s friendship has been a central focus in Big Mouth. The two teenagers’ struggles with puberty and the pressure of growing up - and growing apart - have been important themes that are explored more in the third season. Season three of Big Mouth ended on a sour note for Nick, as Andrew made it clear that he did not want to be friends anymore as he doesn’t consider Nick to be a good person....
Birds of Prey sets up the relationship between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy for future movies in the DC Extended Universe. Harley Quinn is best known as the Joker’s girlfriend, but the romance between the two really shouldn’t be seen as #RelationshipGoals. As Birds of Prey shows in its opening introduction, Joker is pretty horrible to Harley. To fans of Harley Quinn, though, the Joker is part of her origin story - and not her one true love at all....
Blockchain’s decentralization works because many of the functions of a centralized authority — such as maintaining the integrity of the ledger — are replaced with cryptography. Asymmetric or public key cryptography is a key part of what makes blockchain technology possible. Asymmetric cryptography in the blockchain Asymmetric cryptography is useful because it uses two different keys: a private key and a public key. The private key is used for signing messages and decrypting data, while the public key is used for validating signatures and encrypting data....
Bob Odenkirk thinks Aaron Paul should portray Jesse Pinkman on Better Call Saul. The spinoff show is no longer in the shadow of Breaking Bad, but fans still enjoy seeing connections between the two. Vince Gilligan and the creative team definitely have not been shy about including Breaking Bad references in Saul, but the one mandate is that they are natural to the story (as opposed to being empty fan service)....
Better Call Saul is likely to include a cameo from Breaking Bad’s Walter White (Bryan Cranston), but that would be a mistake. There has been a lot of speculation over potential appearances from Walt and Jesse (Aaron Paul) in the Breaking Bad spin-off, and it seems increasingly possible as Better Call Saul approaches its endgame. Over its four-season run so far, Better Call Saul has introduced a number of Breaking Bad characters, both main and recurring....
“The question is if it’s something significantly short of an…invasion or major military forces coming across,” Biden said in response to a question about how the US would respond to a Russian invasion of Ukraine. “For example, it’s one thing to determine that if they continue to use cyber efforts, well, we can respond the same way, with cyber.” The Daily Beast later asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and she confirmed that if Russia continued to launch cyberattacks, they would be answered with a “decisive, reciprocal, and united response....
Sebastian Stan reveals that Bucky’s reveal as the White Wolf in the Black Panther post-credit scene was supposed to be longer with some humorous scenes eventually cut from the movie. The 35-year-old actor is a seven-year veteran of the MCU, having played his role as Bucky Barnes - Captain America Steve Rogers’ oldest buddy, for four times (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther)....
Marvel producer Nate Moore says that they are happy to get T’Challa’s origins story out of the way, giving them more time to dive deep into the interesting bits of his story in Black Panther. The character of T’Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman, made the jump from the pages of the comic books to the big screen in last year’s Captain America: Civil War. On top of being successfully introduced in Cap 3, T’Challa also played a pivotal part in the conflict between Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr....
Black Panther will officially be Marvel Studios’ first film to be released in the 270-degree ScreenX format. Already hailed to be one of Marvel’s best comic adaptation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, audiences all over the world will now be able to experience Black Panther in a panoramic format that far exceeds both standard and IMAX widths. Kickstarting the move to enhance the viewing experience for future releases, Walt Disney Studios collaborated with CJ 4DPLEX in order to convert Black Panther into ScreenX....
Black Pixel has built a new collaborative whiteboard app for iPad called Pixelboard. Black Pixel says it built Pixelboard as a solution to collaborating and whiteboarding with its team remotely. Pixelboard lets up to nine users connect and collaborate on up to three whiteboards at the same time. Pixelboard isn’t exactly a drawing app, but it feels a lot like one. Choose between different pen colors and stroke weights and erase marks as needed....
