Amazon's New World Lost Over 500K Players in a Single Month

Amazon’s breakoutMMORPGNew Worldlost over 500 thousand players in a single month, according to theSteam Chartsof the game. After reaching a total of 913,027 simultaneous players near launch, on October 3, the game has experienced a constant drop in this number, with recent daily totals under 350 thousand players. While these are still impressive numbers, the continuous decline also indicatesNew Worldhas some trouble keeping the community engaged, which might prove to be a problem in the future....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Beth Blake

American Horror Story Season 7 to Feature Trump, Clinton

Ryan Murphyis teasing more details aboutAmerican Horror StorySeason 7, and it’s poised to be the anthology series’ most zeitgeist-y season to date. Murphy previously revealed that the next season of the horror show would revolve around the recent presidential election, and while he initially said thatDonald TrumpandHillary Clintonwould not be characters in the show, it appears he’s changed course. Speaking withE! Online, Murphy revealed that fictionalized versions of Trump and Clinton will appear in the show, but they’re not the focus:...

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 509 words · Kristine Moore

Andrew Rannells Played a Headless Stripper on Sex and the City

Andrew Rannells' career has included starring in the Broadway blockbusterThe Book of Mormon, tons of voice work for animated shows includingBig Mouth, a series regular role in Showtime’sBlack Monday, and countless guest star appearances on TV shows includingHow I Met Your Mother,The Knick, andAnother Period. His very first on-screen appearance, though, isn’t one he talks about that often — in fact, it’s not even onhis official IMDB page. But to be fair, it’s hard to tell it’s him....

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 447 words · Steven Edwards

Best Drama Movies on Netflix Right Now (July 2024)

The beauty ofNetflixis that the streaming service has a wealth of genre options at your disposal. If you want to get your action fix on, you are free to do so. If you’re in the mood for a comedy,thriller, or straight-uphorrormovie, they’ve got those as well. But sometimes it’s hard to beat a genuinely great drama, and boy does Netflix have a wealth of options in this particular genre. To help whittle down your choices, we’ve gone ahead and curated a list of the very best dramas on Netflix right now, which run the gamut from period pieces to relationship dramas tolittle-known gems....

July 9, 2025 · 10 min · 1951 words · Brian Allison

Billy Porter to Direct First Movie: What If, a Coming of Age Tale

Billy Porteris an award-winning actor, a multi-talented star of eclectic works likePose,Like a Boss, and theupcomingLittle Shop of Horrorsfilm adaptation. Now, he can add “feature film director” to his ever-growing, ever-deserving resumé. Per Deadline, Porter will make his feature film directorial debut onWhat If?, a high school coming-of-age story that sounds lovely and inclusive in the best ways. What If?, written byAlvaro García Lecuona, a bisexual and bigender screenwriter who made the GLAAD List with this work, is about a high school senior who has a crush on a trans girl at his school....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Sean Edwards

Cruella Credits Scene Explained: How It Connects to 101 Dalmatians

Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Cruella. If you’re all caught up withCruella, it’s natural to have a few questions, such as: Is Wink happy and healthy, at this very moment? Will the Academy have the courage to awardEmma Thompsonher third Oscar for this film? Did Disney simply write a check for $2 billion made out to “Music” and then assemble the soundtrack with whatever songs showed up in the mail?...

July 9, 2025 · 4 min · 690 words · Margaret Cordova

Daniel Radcliffe Cast as Weird Al Yankovic In Biopic Coming to Roku Channel

Of all the musicians in all history, few are so genuinely deserving of biopic treatment as"Weird Al" Yankovic- the frizzy-haired, Hawaiian shirt-adorned dude who’s made a prolific career for himself pumping out delectable song parodies, from “Eat It,” to “White and Nerdy”. Well, we’re all in luck: Roku announced today an all-new feature film about the Grammy-award winning polka songsmith, aptly titledWeird: The Al Yankovic Story, to be made available exclusively on The Roku Channel....

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 478 words · Paul Wells

Daredevil Season 2 Poster Takes a Page from the Comics

While we still have a bit of a wait until the second season of Marvel’sDaredevilis released on Netflix (“sometime in 2016”, to be more specific), the new episodes are about to be teased in a big way at New York Comic-Con. In anticipation of the film’s NYCC panel, Marvel’s Chief Creative OfficerJoe Quesadahas revealed a concept art poster forDaredevilSeason 2 that will be made available at the convention this weekend. It’s a nice bit of appeasement to fans who are clamoring for more episodes, and it’s a solid look at the Daredevil costume—in drawing form, at least—that we only briefly glimpsed in the actual series....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Jessica Harrison

Deadpool 2: Who Should Play Cable?

Ever sinceDeadpooltook audiences (and their wallets) by storm, new and old fans alike have been looking forward to the inevitable sequel. While the level of interest to seeRyan Reynoldsreturn in the title role is certainly high, there’s been a lot of speculation about as to whether or not the character mentioned in the movie’s post-credits scene would show up or not. That character is theRob Liefeldcreation Cable, a character with an origin story so bizarre that a standalone movie might not be enough to do it justice....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 377 words · Cynthia Martin

Doctor Sleep Bridges the Gap Between The Shining Movie and Book

WhileStephen Kingis one of the most celebrated (and prolific) authors in history, it’s no secret that he has a profound dislike for quite possibly the most famous adaptation of his work:Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shining. The author criticized Kubrick’s adaptation at the time of its release—how the filmmaker downplayed the supernatural elements of the book and how he castShelley Duvallwho was“basically just there to scream and be stupid, and that’s not he woman I wrote about....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 399 words · George Hill

Facebook Watch Animated Show Human Discoveries Teased in New Image

Facebook Watch is continuing its push into original programming, and specifically animation, with the arrival ofHuman Discoveriesthis July 16th. This new series follows up on the 2018 animated effortsLiverspots and AstronotsandHuman Kind Of, and while those shows are still pending a renewal, this new prehistoric story will be premiering this summer. And we’ve got the first image to share with you today! Human Discoveriesis an animated series featuring a group of friends living at the dawn of human civilization....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · Rhonda Hansen

Feels Good Man Review: How Pepe the Frog Became a Hate Symbol

If you tried to explain the concept of Pepe the Frog to someone who didn’t spend much time online, you’d probably sound insane. “So, there was this innocuous cartoon frog who was part of a comic calledBoys Club, and he was co-opted by alienated people vying for attention, which then changed the frog into a symbol of white supremacists who want to be feared but use ironic detachment as a shield....

July 9, 2025 · 5 min · 934 words · Donald Aguilar

From Questlove to Prince: 10 Musicians Who Turned Director

Making a movie is time-consuming, complicated, and really, really hard. Not everyone is up to do it, and few people even get the opportunity. One path to becoming a filmmaker is to garner success in a different field and use that as leverage to make a movie. Some examples have been writers likeStephen Kingand fashion designers likeTom Ford. RELATED:What Can We Learn About David Fincher by Watching His Music Videos?...

July 9, 2025 · 9 min · 1783 words · Pamela Stephens