Month: August 2020

TennoCon 2020 is happening today, August 1, and you won’t want to miss out on the announcements or a chance to get free Warframe prizes via Twitch drops. TennoCon is Digital Extremes’ annual Warframe fan event, packed to the gills with new information on the game, revelations, and prizes. Because of the ongoing pandemic, it’s completely virtual for 2020, meaning you can catch all the action from your home through the streamed presentations.

Heart of Deimos is the next major expansion coming to Warframe, and Digital Extremes has some other surprises in store for fans. It’s a full day of content meant for fans, so you won’t want to miss any of it.

How To Watch TennoCon 2020

All of TennoCon 2020 will be streamed on the official Warframe Twitch channel. We’ve also embedded the stream directly above, so you can see everything and keep your eye on the schedule of events. On the official TennoCon website, you can also purchase digital and physical merchandise, and a portion of the proceeds will go toward the Autism Ontario London and Alzheimer Society London and Middlesex charities.

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Fortnite’s battle royale map got a big overhaul at the start of the season due to “The Device” event causing a massive flood, and it has continued evolving ever since. In its latest update, Epic Games added an area previously hidden underwater, and it appears to essentially be the lost city of Atlantis.

Technically, this area is called Coral Castle, and it is located north of the Sweaty Sands area. Previously covered with water from the flood, it has receded enough to show off a glorious and very small hidden city. The centerpiece here is a breathtaking castle, as you can see in the video below. There are plenty of points for cover in the castle, making it ideal for defending against multiple enemies late in a match.

From the video, it appears the castle was originally called “Carl.” This is almost certainly a reference to the popular Walking Dead meme.

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Netflix podcast host Kris Tapley created a silly stir recently with a minute-long TikTok showcasing an argument for renaming all the Star Wars Skywalker Saga movies.

Titled “Why Every Star Wars Film Has the Wrong Title,” the video quickly, and humorously, takes viewers through all nine episodes, rearranging the titles — from Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker — to explain why they should all be switched up.

Check it out…

Every Star Wars Film has the wrong title. pic.twitter.com/mL0nFVvKAn

— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) July 31, 2020

Here’s Tapley’s suggested naming:

• Episode I: The Rise of Skywalker
• Episode II: Revenge of the Sith
• Episode III: Attack of the Clones
• Episode IV: Return of the Jedi
• Episode V: The Force Awakens
• Episode VI: The Last Jedi
• Episode VII: The Empire Strikes Back
• Episode VIII: A New Hope
• Episode IX: The Phantom Menace

So what did y’all think? Does this new sorting of titles make sense? Do they make more sense than where they are now?

In other movie news, Courteney Cox is returning for Scream 5, Michael Jackson tried to play Professor X in 2000’s X-Men, and Karl Urban (The Boys, LOTR) revealed he had a secret cameo in The Rise of Skywalker.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Hello August. To kick the month off, we’re pointing our eyes towards Best Buy, who’s currently having a giant sale on all Samsung products. Considering how many great items Samsung makes, that means you can land awesome deals on TVs, Home Appliances and much more. Make sure to take a peak at their sale, or browse through our many discounted computers, courtesy of Dell.

Deals for August 1

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At the end of last year, Guardians of the Galaxy star, and ex-WWE superstar, Dave Bautista tweeted out a picture of himself on the Warner Bros. lot with the caption “It won’t come to you so get after it!! #DreamChaser.”

It now seems as though Bautista was there to pitch himself as Bane for Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

Recently, responding to a comment online where the tweeter wrote that he’d read an article speculating that Bautista could be playing Bane, Bautista explained that he had tried his best to win the role.

Take a look!

Unfortunately it’s not. Tried my best https://t.co/Dfn6UGzzlb

— Person,Woman, Dave Bautista,Camera,TV (@DaveBautista) July 31, 2020

On the known villain front, The Batman will feature Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as Riddler, and Colin Farrell as Penguin.

The Batman, which paused production due to COVID-19 last March, was one of several films that got cleared to resume shooting soon.

A few weeks ago, it was announced that Warner Bros. had ordered a TV spinoff to The Batman – a prequel series focused on the members of the Gotham City Police Department that will be exclusive to HBO Max.

The Batman will be a part of DC’s FanDome event on August 22.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

It’s often said that twins share a special bond that original recipe siblings don’t have. Famous for finishing each others sandwiches sentences, twins have also been known to inhabit a movie or two – from a crusading galactic duo connected by the Force to super-powered beings created in a lab by Hydra.

Ahead of Twins Days Weekend, we’ve compiled a list of the best and most notable movie twins around. Sometimes these characters are secret twins who don’t even know of each others’ existence while other times the two are inseparable warriors who always have each others’ backs when battling evil. In rare occasions, the twins are mortal enemies, with one determining the other must die.

From Star Wars to Austin Powers to burgeoning Avengers, here are the best movie twins ever…

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Luke and Leia (Star Wars Skywalker Saga)

Perhaps the most famous cinematic twins of all time are Luke and Leia (Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher), the children of Anakin and Padme who were spirited away from their home, and each other, to protect them from the sinister clutches of The Galactic Empire. One raised a princess, the other a farmer, these two would be drawn together by fate, and the Force, long before even knowing they were related.

Philippe Bourbon and King Louis XIV (The Man in the Iron Mask)

Leonardo DiCaprio played the identical twin roles of King Louis XIV and his brother, Phillippe, who was purposefully raised separately so he’d know nothing of his royal heritage and therefore never start a war for the throne. Once Phillippe was discovered, the corrupt and cruel Louis imprisoned his brother and kept him inside an iron mask to conceal his identity. It fell to the Four Musketeers to help right this wrong.

Wanda and Pietro Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

In the comics, Wanda and Pietro — played by Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the MCU — were the mutant children of Magneto (and Pietro/Peter still is in the X-Men movie franchise) but Marvel Studios had no access to mutants so instead these two, who were introduced fully in Avengers: Age of Ultron, were Sokovian protestors who volunteered to to be a part of Wolfgang von Strucker’s Hydra experiments. They were the only two to survive the Scepter/Mind Stone’s meddling, and came out on the other side with incredible abilities.

Hallie Parker and Annie James (The Parent Trap)

Whether we’re talking about the 1998 Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan, or the 1961 original starring Hayley Mills, this story, based on the 1949 German novel Lottie and Lisa, is one of the most famous twin stories ever as two identical young girls, who’ve been raised apart since birth never knowing they had a sister, meet up and cutely conspire to get their divorced parents back together.

Dr. Evil and Austin Powers (Austin Powers Trilogy)

In a groovy homage to Luke and Leia’s plot twist twineage, or even the Vader “I am your father” reveal, the Austin Powers movie franchise eventually revealed that Dr. Evil was Powers’ long-lost twin brother. With both characters played by Mike Myers, of course, this was an example of twins being on opposite sides of the law and/or global conflict and/or laser sharks.

Fred and George Weasley (Harry Potter Franchise)

Ah, the Weasley Twins. Two identical brothers, played by James and Oliver Phelps in all eight Harry Potter movies. Smart enough to drop out of Hogwarts to pursue their true calling – pranks! Opening the thriving Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes joke shop, the twins were called back to action and, as part of Dumbledore’s Army, battled Voldemort and his Death Eaters as they assaulted their old school. The war would cost Fred his life.

Charlie and Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)

If you thought Nicholas Cage would miss out on the whole “acting opposite yourself” phenomenon, you’re sorely mistaken. In Adaptation, Cage played a meta-version of writer/director Charlie Kaufman, as a sad and self-sabotaging artist, as well as his fictional twin brother, the confident and together Donald.

Kit and Jiff Ramsey (Bowfinger)

Eddie Murphy, who’s no stranger to playing multiple roles in one movie, got to do the twin thing in Bowfinger, where he played a hugely successful, and paranoid, movie star named Kit as well as Kit’s dorky brother Jiff who Steve Martin’s character uses to double for Kit in a film he’s shooting “around” Kit to make it seem like Kit’s starring in his new movie.

Chad and Alex Wagner (Double Impact)

By 1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme had been a kickboxer, an undercover cop, and a cyborg – so why not twin brothers? Separated at birth to protect them from a crime lord, both Chad and Alex grew up to be martial arts experts. Chad as a laid-back instructor in Los Angeles and Alex as a gruff smuggler in Hong Kong.

Connor and Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints)

After killing two Russian mobsters in self-defense, fraternal twins Connor and Murphy (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) become bullet-blasting vigilantes on a mission to rid Boston of its criminal element. The Boondocks Saints became a sleeper hit and cult favorite, warranting a sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, 10 years later.

Milo and Maggie Dean (The Skeleton Twins)

Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig played suicidal siblings in the 2014 indie dramedy The Skeleton Twins. As Milo and Maggie, Hader and Wiig played a depressed and despondent duo who turn to each other during severely low points in their adult life.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (The Social Network)

Though not the star of The Social Network, Armie Hammer’s dual portrayal of real-life entrepreneurs, the Winklevoss Twins, was a standout element from the Oscar-winning David Fincher film. The gig essentially put Hammer on the map, helping him land lead roles in big genre films like The Lone Ranger and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Elias and Lukas (Goodnight Mommy)

This psychological horror flick featured two twin boys, Lukas and Elias, played by twins Lukas and Elias Schwarz, who begin to suspect something is strongly and strangely amiss with their mother when she returns home from having cosmetic surgery with a fully wrapped and bandaged head. Filled with twists, turns, and rug-pulls, Goodnight Mommy is a must-watch for fans of the macabre.

Julius and Vincent Benedict (Twins)

Ivan Reitman’s 1988 box office hit Twins played off the size discrepancy between stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, making their characters twins created by a secret genetics lab experiment. DeVito played the streetwise Vincent while Schwarzenegger took a then-rare shot at comedy by playing the naive and goofy Julius.

Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray (Legend)

While the 1990 film The Krays featured Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp and his brother Martin as British gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray, 2015’s Legend, from director Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, 42), had Tom Hardy playing both identical twin roles.

Beverly and Elliot Mantle (Dead Ringers)

Jeremy Irons played twins in David Cronenberg’s demented 1988 classic, Dead Ringers. As gynecologists Elliot and Beverly, Irons navigated a dysfunctional interdependent relationship filled with debauchery and delusion. The role(s) would garner Irons so much acclaim that he was essentially launched him into stardom. Irons would later thank Cronenberg in his speech when he won the Oscar for 1991’s Reversal of Fortune.

Bob and Walt Tenor (Stuck on You)

Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear portrayed conjoined twins Bob and Walt in The Farrelly Brothers’ Stuck on You, where the two would leave their small town (where Bob was content as a diner owner and cook) for Hollywood in pursuit of Walt’s dreams of becoming a movie star.

Angela and Isabel Dodson (Constantine)

In 2005’s Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves as DC/Vertigo demon-defeater John Constantine, Rachel Weisz played Detective Angela Dodson, a cop investigating the death of her twin sister, Isabel. Funnily enough, Weisz would play a third role in the film, as Mammon, the son of Lucifer who takes over Angela’s form.

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Alfred Borden (The Presitge)

Seriously though…super spoilers for The Prestige. Stop reading if you haven’t seen it.

Christian Bale plays twin brothers who occupy one life, going by the name Alfred Borden. We’re never sure which is Alfred or if the name is made up entirely, but the secret allows Borden to do a pretty meat magic trick.

The Grady Twins (The Shining)

Okay, so the Grady Twins apparently are not twins. Still, their specific place and iconography in horror is undeniable. They’ve been called twins because of their similar look and identical dress, but Overlook manager Stuart Ullman clearly states that one is eight and the other is ten. That being said, their ghostly arrival in Kubrick’s The Shining, and the subsequent invitation to an eternal playdate extended to young Danny, will be forever (and ever) known as “The Grady Twins.”

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Here at IGN we occasionally like to showcase something from geekdom’s rich history — a pop-culture Time Capsule, if you will, that gives us a peek in to the past, perhaps providing a new appreciation for previous projects.

If you’d like, please check out the past few Time Capsules:

• Why Tim Burton wanted an ‘average’ Batman in Michael Keaton
• That time HBO and Tom Hanks made Alexander Hamilton the bad guy
• Watch how the original X-Men fight scenes were created 20 years later
• Could a Batman Forever Director’s Cut restore this giant dream bat deleted scene?
• Remember when Will Forte, as MacGruber, wrestled a match in WWE?

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This past week marked 15 years since young Will Stronghold discovered he not only had superpowers, but he’d inherited abilities from both his father, alpha-supe The Commander, and his mother, soaring siren Jetstream. And if that sentence means nothing to you then you need to watch Sky High abso-freakin-now.

Hey, parents. Watch Sky High with your kids! Hey, non-parents. Watch Sky High by your disposable income-having selves! Lovingly crafted during the initial superhero movie boom, but before the MCU burst onto the scene, 2005’s Sky High was a clever take on the world of capes, imagining a school that superhero parents send their teens to in order to train them for future adventures as a hero or – perish the thought – a sidekick (aka “hero support”).

Available to stream now on Disney+, and with rumblings of a possible sequel or sequel series headed to the platform, Sky High featured a marvelous mix of stars – from Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston (who, sadly, recently passed) to Bruce Campbell, Kids in the Halls’ Kevin McDonald and Dave Foley, and O.G. Wonder Woman Lynda Carter as the principal.

But not only that, as you’ll see in this extensive behind-the-scenes video, Sky High featured several future players as well, like The Flash’s Danielle Panabaker, The Expanse’s Steven Strait, The Knick’s Michael Angarano, Community’s Jim Rash, Succession’s Nicholas Braun, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who became somewhat of an insta-star afterwards)…

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Yes, new-to-school Will (Angarano) is the offspring of the world’s two most-popular superheroes: Kurt Russell’s Commander and Kelly Preston’s Jetstream (who run a real estate business as married alter-egos Steve and Josie). Will feels the pressure of his lineage every day, especially considering that he…hasn’t shown any signs of superpowers yet. Could he be a genetic anomaly, where traits skip a generation, and therefore a huge disappointment to all? And how will he deal with his school nemesis Warren Peace (Strait) or popular cheerleader Gwen Grayson (Winstead), who seems to have eyes for him? To get all these answers and more, you’ll have to travel high up into the sky.

Another fun Sky High tidbit, aside from the “no dating” rule for the teens revealed in the video above, is that the soundtrack is comprised of wall-to-wall ’80s covers. Yes, before the cover industry was taken over by slowed-down, calm, breathy versions of songs, Sky High, possibly to evoke an updated John Hughes feel, featured new versions of old tracks by Tears for Fears, Devo, Modern English, The Smiths, The Go-Gos, Talking Heads, and more. So if you love movies where most of the stars are way too young to know what music is being played, Sky High just checked another box off your very weird list! Perfect for an IGN Time Capsule look-back!

Sky High can be streamed on Disney+.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.