Month: November 2019

What’s great about streaming services is that most of them don’t have any ads–this is especially true if you pay a little extra for Hulu. However, as part of a licensing deal with Starz, there will be display ads promoting the movie channel on Disney+ on the login screen.

As first reported by The Verge, the ads appeared on the login page for both Disney+ and ESPN+. This is all because of a revised licensing deal with Starz, which currently has the rights to some of Disney’s films, like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In order to have these Disney-owned movies streaming on Disney+, the service will feature Starz display ads–the company that currently has the streaming rights–as part of this deal. However, there will be no ads at all once users sign into the service. This only appears on the login page.

Since the announcement of Disney+, the streaming service was going to be completely supported by its subscribers–which is still true–and the service would also be free of advertising. However, before Disney+ was a reality, the company had licensed out so many films to various services and networks over the years–like when Netflix had every Marvel and Star Wars movie on its service. So an ad on the login page in order to get a Star Wars movie onto Disney+ isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Disney+ arrives on November 12. The service will cost $7 a month or it can be bundled with ESPN+ and the ad-supported version of Hulu for $13. Verizon subscribers can get the service free for a year if they have an unlimited plan. People got their first look at the app back in April, and it sure did look a lot like Netflix. The biggest thing to arrive to the service on day one is the Star Wars TV show, The Mandalorian.

The new trailer for Bad Boys For Life is here. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as rule-breaking cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett for the long-awaited third movie in the action series, which hit theaters on January 17, 2020.

The latest trailer delivers exactly what you’d expect from a new Bad Boys movie. There’s plenty of wise-cracking dialogue and outlandish action, plus a few jokes about Smith and Lawrence being somewhat older than they were when the series kicked off in 1995. The trailer doesn’t reveal much about the plot–beyond Mike and Marcus being teamed up with a team of younger cops for one last mission together–but let’s face it, it’s not the storylines that have made this series so popular. Check the trailer out above.

Bad Boys For Life also sees the return of Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard, and the cast also includes Alexander Ludwig (Vikings), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Paola Nuñez (The Purge TV seres), Charles Melton (Riverdale), and Happy Anderson (The Tick). The movie is directed by Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi, who have also been hired for Beverly Hills Cop reboot.

Bad Boys For Life has taken its time to get here. It was originally set to be released in 2017, but production delays and the departure of director Joe Carnahan means that it didn’t start shooting until last last year. There was also a fourth movie planned, which was scrapped during the various delays.

The first Bad Boys was directed by Michael Bay and released in 1995. It was a huge hit, making $141 million worldwide on a $19 million budget, while 2003’s Bad Boys II made $273 million worldwide.

The Sons of Anarchy spinoff, Mayans MC, has been renewed for a third season. TV network FX gave the renewal order on the same day as the Season 2 finale.

FX renewed Mayans following the firing of co-creator Kurt Sutter earlier this year. Going forward, co-creator Elgin James will take over as showrunner.

Season 3 will premiere in Fall 2020.

“We’re happy to continue telling the story of Mayans M.C. with our partners at Fox 21 and excited that Elgin James has earned the opportunity to become the series’ showrunner,” FX original programming boss Nick Grad said, according to Deadline.

“Kurt Sutter identified and chose Elgin as his partner on the show from the outset, and Elgin has been instrumental to the success of the series, leveraging his experience and creative vision to make Mayans M.C. with this incredible cast, crew, and creative team.”

Mayans was the most-watched new show on cable TV in 2018, and its second season performed nicely as well; it averaged 4.6 million viewers per episode.

A spinoff of Sons of Anarchy, Mayans follows the story of a new character, EZ Reyes (JD Pardo) who joins the Mayans M.C. club near the border of Mexico in California. Clayton Cardenas plays his brother, while Edward James Olmos portrays his father.

Horizon: Zero Dawn was a critical and commercial success, so it’s been somewhat surprising that Sony has yet to announce a sequel. That remains the case, but now yet another piece of evidence has emerged that Horizon: Zero Dawn 2 is in development.

A job listing at Guerrilla Games for a “Technical Vegetation Artist” (via GamesRadar) specifically mentions that the candidate would be working on creating “the stunning environments of Horizon.”

Given that Horizon is more than two years old now, it seems likely that this job ad is for a new Horizon game, potentially a sequel. The job ad states that Guerrilla has a total of four teams dedicated to making the environments of Horizon.

Guerrilla has numerous open positions on its website, but this is seemingly the only one that directly mentions Horizon. Other job ads mention that Guerrilla is working on a new open-world game, and that could be yet another reference to Horizon: Zero Dawn 2.

2017’s Horizon: Zero Dawn was a big change for Guerrilla, as the studio previously made the first-person shooter franchise Killzone. Guerrilla reportedly has multiple internal development teams, and one of these is said to be working on a multiplayer game that some people believe could be a new Killzone.

Guerrilla hired Rainbow Six Siege’s director, Simon Larouche, to work on a new project at the studio. Larouche’s history, people believe this may be a multiplayer game.

Guerrilla, which is based in the Netherlands, recently announced plans to grow in size to 400 or more developers with the aiming of releasing new games every two or three years, according to wccftech.

The studio also created the Decima engine, which Hideo Kojima used for his new game, Death Stranding.

Janina Gavankar, who played Tatai in Horizon: Zero Dawn’s Frozen Wilds expansion, said at an event earlier this year that a sequel to Horizon is on the way. “It’s incredible; wait ’til you see the sequel,” she said. “You’re gonna die–I know some secrets!”

Whatever projects Guerrilla (which is owned by Sony) is indeed working on, it seems likely they’ll be released on the upcoming PlayStation 5. That console launches in Holiday 2020.