Aquaman, DC’s latest movie to hit the cinema, is shaping up to be the biggest success for the company since the 2012 Batman hit The Dark Knight Rises.
The Hollywood Reporter states the film finished the Christmas period at the Box Office earning a whopping global total of $751.8 million. It beat out other seasonal movies Mary Poppins Returns and Bumblebee by significant margins. This puts the movie on trajectory to easily make over $900 million by the time it leaves theaters.
Activision Blizzard has placed the company’s chief financial officer, Spencer Neumann, on a paid leave of absence after informing him that it intends to terminate him from his position.
CNBC reports the share price for Activision Blizzard dropped by 1 percent after the news became public of the company’s plans. This did not help the company’s 26 percent total share loss over the past year.
The details of the plans to let Neumann go can be found in a regulatory filing made by Activision Blizzard. It states that the termination is unrelated to the Company’s financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures. It also states that the paid leave of absence is in place to allow Neumann to demonstrate there is no cause to terminate his employment.
The Netflix series The Punisher has dropped a new teaser trailer for its second season along with, seemingly inadvertently, a release date. It appears that the return of the vigilante Frank Castle is right around the corner.
The brief teaser shows a hand taking a drink of liquor and then burning a full pardon for one Frank Castle, aka The Punisher–followed by the tagine “back to work.” The video only vaguely teases that the second season is coming soon, but we may know the release date regardless.
ComicBook reports that the Netflix Twitter account for the Middle East and North Africa tweeted a list of release dates for new content, which listed The Punisher on January 18. That tweet has since been deleted, so it’s likely that the account let the cat out of the bag before Netflix intended to announce it.
Back to work. pic.twitter.com/egCCC2qX3y
— The Punisher (@ThePunisher) January 1, 2019
The Punisher spun off from Netflix’s Daredevil, after that series’ second season featured Castle as a prominent character being defended by the law firm of Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil). Being a part of Netflix’s Marvel universe probably places it on the chopping block, since Netflix has been progressively canceling its Marvel shows. The company canceled Iron Fist, then Luke Cage, and most recently, Daredevil.
That only leaves The Punisher and Jessica Jones remaining. Generally Netflix has given these cancellation announcements shortly after releasing the last production season, so we could hear about The Punisher being cancelled by the end of the month. Jessica Jones has a third season currently in production.
There is some hope for more of all of these shows, though, as a Disney executive recently left the door open to bringing them to its new streaming service, Disney+. The impending launch of that service has been interpreted as a reason behind Netflix scuttling its Marvel shows.
Nintendo Switch owners have much to look forward to in the new year. From a new Animal Crossing and Luigi’s Mansion 3 to the next proper entry in the core Pokemon RPG series, there’s no shortage of exciting first-party exclusives confirmed for release on the platform in 2019. Plus, with titles like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Mortal Kombat 11 set to arrive this year, there are plenty of promising third-party titles on the not-too-distant horizon as well.
Read on for a look at some of the biggest titles confirmed for release on Switch in 2019. Please note this list has been kept to games that have been announced to arrive this year. As such, titles with release windows—like Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, and Shin Megami Tensei V—have not been included. We also opted to keep ports of significantly older games off the list, so you won’t find the slew of classic Final Fantasy games headed to Switch here either.
SplashData has revealed the top 25 worst passwords of 2018 and “123456” and “Password” have continued to hold the #1 & #2 spots for the fifth year in a row.
SplashData has been aggregating these lists since 2012 and have been using more than 5 million passwords that have been leaked through various data breaches and such.
United States President Donald Trump made the list this year, debuting at #23 with the password “donald.”
“Sorry, Mr. President, but this is not fake news – using your name or any common name as a password is a dangerous decision,” said Morgan Slain, CEO of SplashData, Inc. “Hackers have great success using celebrity names, terms from pop culture and sports, and simple keyboard patterns to break into accounts online because they know so many people are using those easy-to- remember combinations.”
2019 follows an extraordinary year in games that featured standouts Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Celeste, and more. While the full picture has yet to come into focus, publishers are looking to carry 2018’s momentum into the new year with a surprising amount of high-profile releases in the first quarter and the promise of more to come throughout 2019.
To give you a better idea of what you can expect, we compiled every game with a confirmed 2019 release date in the gallery below. Click through to see what you have to look forward to in the new year.
(Note: This list doesn’t include games with broad release windows, such as “2019” or “Fall 2019.” Therefore, games like Gears 5, Pokémon for Nintendo Switch, and Respawn’s Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order aren’t listed.)
Hold onto your seats, because when it comes to movies, 2019 is going to be huge. Blockbuster sequels, reboots, adaptations of comics and video games, horror events and iconic filmmakers are coming to the multiplex, and for a while at least, they’re going to be all anyone who loves movies can talk about.
We’ve compiled our list of the films you need to keep on your calendar, because you’re not going to want to miss them. But before we talk about Avengers: Endgame, Joker, It: Chapter Two, the Terminator reboot, Star Wars: Episode IX and many, many more, we’d like to remind you that as much as we all look forward to these enormous and publicity-driven motion pictures, there’s always something new that comes along and surprises us.