Month: April 2020

Marvel’s next film, Black Widow, was originally due to be released on May 1, 2020. The film’s release has been delayed, however, due to COVID-19, and a new date has not been set. Now that the film is further away, Disney is taking the opportunity to make some changes to it, and the film’s composer has been changed, according to Film Music Reporter.

Originally, Alexandre Desplat had been announced as the film’s composer. Desplat, whose previous credits include Little Women, Isle of Dogs, and Argo, has been taken off the project. Replacing him is Lorne Balfe, who worked on on Bad Boys For Life, The Florida Project, and The Lego Batman Movie.

It’s unclear why this change has taken place, but it’s not the only major 2020 film to make a composer change at the last moment–No Time To Die, originally due to release in April, also changed its composer late in production, replacing Dan Romer with Hans Zimmer.

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Limited time clothing items return in this week’s Red Dead Redemption 2 Online update, with some big bonuses and discounts on in-game items included.

The following limited time release clothing items will be available in general stores in-game until April 13:

• Gator Hat
• Squat Stovepipe Top Hat
• Winter Shotgun Coat
• Benbow Jacket
• Ortega Vest
• Tied Pants
• Strickland Boots
• Calhoun Boots
• Vaquero Baroque Spurs

Along with the re-release of various clothing items to the Wheeler, Rawson & Co. catalogue, an all-new scoring system for kills has been implemented. The new update will reward players for more difficult or trickier kills with more points. All new volatile weapon loadouts, point values, and more explosions have been added, so head over to Fort Mercer, Heartlands Oil Field, and Tall Trees to rack up some serious points.

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Sonic the Hedgehog ended up being a good-looking movie thanks to a significant character redesign for the blue blur, but it’s hard to forget the haunted eyes and human teeth of the original design. But now a deleted scene from the film has reminded us of just how iterative a process it is creating a CGI film like this–and at a certain point in production, every scene in the film is going to look awful.

To promote the film’s early digital release (it’s available now), Paramount has shown off an early version of a scene where Sonic arrives on earth, alongside his owl companion Longclaw. Sonic, still a baby, is warned to keep a low profile–and he immediately runs off.

The scene itself isn’t anything remarkable, but the extremely early CGI renders of Sonic, Longclaw, and their environment are haunting. While the character models improve dramatically towards the end, this video also gives us some insight into what a bad PS2 tie-in game might have looked like. Check them out below.

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One small feature added to Persona 5 Royal is a series of crossword puzzles. Throughout the course of P5R’s year, you’ll find a book on the table furthest from the entrance door in Leblanc. Interact with the book and you’ll then be prompted to solve a crossword. If you’re successful in figuring it out, you’ll be rewarded with one knowledge point for free, and it’s worth doing because it doesn’t consume any in-game time.

Note that when you initiate a crossword puzzle, you only need to solve for the line that’s highlighted in blue. All other words around it serve as hints by letting you whittle down the number of letters you have left to work with or fill certain letter for the line in blue.

So, here are the solutions for the crossword puzzles we’ve found in P5R (note that there be more we have yet to discover).

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Ratings for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver are surging. The network has confirmed that Oliver’s show reached a season-high for viewership for its March 30 episode.

The new episode drew 973,000 viewers on live TV at 11 PM, and a total of 1.2 million by the end of the evening, according to Deadline. That was the highest viewership for the program since the episode that followed the Game of Thrones series finale in May 2019.

Viewership for the episode is expected to grow further. HBO pointed out that the current season of Last Week Tonight is averaging 4.5 million viewers when all platforms are factored in.

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