Do or do not — there is no try when you’re an actor leading a game like Star Wars Outlaws.First, it’s Star Wars, a franchise whose most ardent fans fight daily battles over the legacy of the series, often at the expense of the talent involved. The actual work —...
Sonic 3 director says Keanu Reeves fixed a key scene for Shadow the Hedgehog
Bringing Shadow the Hedgehog to life on the big screen has been a two-decade journey for Jeff Fowler, the director of Sega and Paramount’s live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Fowler finally got his wish with his 2024 movie Sonic the Hedgehog 3. But he first got his hands on Shadow...
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s accessibility doesn’t ‘dilute’ the game: ‘It’s the opposite’
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is designed to be hard. It’s also designed, from the ground up, to be accessible. These things aren’t at odds with each other. Ubisoft Montpellier integrated accessibility options into every part of the game from the start; there was no one team designated to...
J.R.R. Tolkien was fine with leaving War of the Rohirrim’s story untold
For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels into three live-action movies. With the anime movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Boyens and her co-writers took on a radically...
Skeleton Crew required ‘an army’ to get this one Star Wars-y touch right
Skeleton Crew is about a lot of things: A band of kids who discover a buried starship and get lost in space when they flukily hit hyperspace. It’s a view of the post-Empire, pre-sequel-trilogy Star Wars universe, far flung from the Skywalker Saga. But in its first episode it is,...
How does Wicked rank against every other modern movie based on a Broadway musical?
In the 2002 movie Chicago, Catherine Zeta-Jones steps into the spotlight to belt out “All That Jazz” with a defiant kind of joy that takes on new meaning once it becomes clear that her character, Velma Kelly, has just murdered her husband. Zeta-Jones’ rendition of the song was irresistible: On...
Comic-Con alternative CCXP has harnessed a growing phenomenon
Each time CCXP starts, nearly everyone in São Paulo feels it. A 40-minute drive to the São Paulo Expo convention center can suddenly take three hours with traffic. Some attendees travel over 1,800 miles to watch as many panels as possible at the entertainment and comics event. In 2023, fans...
Top 10 PlayStations, ranked
The original PlayStation launched in Japan on Dec. 3, 1994, meaning that Sony’s video game brand is celebrating its 30th birthday. Once dismissed as an also-ran beside powerhouse console makers Nintendo and Sega, PlayStation has since become a dominant player in the video game industry. But it hasn’t always been...
Wicked tackled ‘one of the most difficult things you can do in CG’
From plucky talking bears to motion-capture apes, from Avatar’s sentient space whales to Toho’s relentless Godzilla, computer generated creatures take center stage in movies more and more often these days. If there’s a big-budget film coming out, you’ll likely find a mountainous sandworm or a sound-hunting alien in it. The...