Around 85% of the US state’s 40 million people are under a stay-at-home order through Christmas.
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Lord Of The Rings: Viggo Mortensen Reveals A Deleted Scene Where He Was Dressed Like An Elf
Actor Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film series, has revealed that Peter Jackson filmed another scene with Aragorn and Arwen (Liv Tyler) that aimed to show more of their young love, but it was ultimately cut.
Asked by NME if there was any part of Aragorn’s story that he would have liked to explore more, Mortensen referenced a flashback scene with Aragorn and Arwen. Aragorn was dressed like an elf in this scene, he he was clean-shaven and “prettied up” for the flashback sequence.
“There was a scene that we shot as a sort of memory flashback. It was from the courtship days when he first met Arwen–and we shot it just before we were taking a break so I was clean-shaven and prettied up,” he said. “They’d tried to make me look as young as possible. I had different hair and I was dressed like an elf.”
Activision Slams Netflix With Lawsuit Over Poaching Executive
Gaming giant Activision is taking Netflix to court over what the Call of Duty company says is a pattern of unethical and illegal behaviour on the streaming company’s part for poaching executives. This is all related to Spencer Neumann, the former Activision CFO who left the gaming company in 2018 to join Netflix as its top finance executive.
In its lawsuit, which was obtained by Deadline, Activision said, “Netflix unapologetically recruits talent without regard to its ethical and legal obligations. To shape its workforce to its desires, Netflix not only ruthlessly fires its own employees that it deems ‘adequate,’ but is engaged in a years-long campaign of unlawfully poaching executives from Netflix’s competitors regardless of their contractual obligations.”
Activision claims Netflix is disregarding California law, including the Labor Code, with its actions. According to Activision, Netflix “knowingly induced Neumann to breach his employment contract with Activision.”
The 30th Halo Novel Will Release In March 2021
Since 2001’s Halo: The Fall of Reach, novels set within the Halo universe have released at a rate of over one a year. On March 2, 2021, Halo: Point of Light will release, and this novel will bring the Halo series up to 30 novels.
Halo: Point of Light ends a trilogy that began with Halo: Smoke and Shadow in 2016, then continued with 2019’s Halo: Renegades. All three books were written by Kelly Gay, who also featured in the Halo: Fractures short story compilation (which is separate from the 30 novels). The novel has been announced on Halo Waypoint.
The book, which will pick up in August 2558, is about Rion and the crew aboard Ace of Spades, as they outrun the fallout from previous books. The Office of Naval Intelligence is after them, and the synopsis provided says that they’ll be “unlocking untold secrets and even deadlier threats that have been hidden away for centuries from an unsuspecting universe.
Man Dresses Up Like Will Ferrell’s Elf To Meet Biological Father, Who Hadn’t Seen The Movie
A Maine man recreated the scene from Jon Favreau’s modern classic Christmas movie Elf, dressing up like an elf and greeting his biological father with a song when meeting for the first time.
Doug Henning, who is in his 40s, met his biological father, Raul, for the first time recently at Boston’s Logan Airport dressed up like Will Ferrell’s Buddy the elf, but unfortunately for him, his dad hadn’t seen the movie and didn’t get the joke. Still, it sounds like a pleasant encounter in the Boston.com report.
From the report:
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Call of Duty Franchise Has Earned $3 Billion Over the Last 12 Months
Following the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Activision has revealed that the Call of Duty franchise’s net bookings have surpassed $3 billion in the last 12 months alone.
Net bookings, according to Activision, are “an operating metric that is defined as the net amount of products and services sold digitally or sold-in physically in the period, and includes license fees, merchandise, and publisher incentives, among others, and is equal to net revenues excluding the impact from deferrals.”
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In 2020, Call of Duty’s net bookings saw an increase of 80% year-over-year, with units sold through also increasing by 40%. Furthermore, Activision revealed that over 200 million people have played a game in the Call of Duty franchise in 2020.
On console and PC, Call of Duty has seen its biggest player count in recorded history for the franchise, and November 2020 was the biggest November ever in terms for monthly players and hours played.
Call of Duty: Warzone, which is free-to-play, was a big factor in these numbers and has seen a player count of over 85 million since its launch on March 10, 2020.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has a ton of support on the way, and Season One is set to be released on December 16. This update will include the integration of Black Ops Cold War content into Warzone, and includes new maps, modes, challenges, and more.
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SNL’s Eminem Parody About Wanting A PS5 For Christmas Is Very Relatable
With Christmas coming and global stock shortages continuing, those of us without a PS5 have to face facts–there probably won’t be a new console beneath the Christmas tree this year. In the latest episode of SNL–hosted by Jason Bateman–the long-running sketch show included a filmed segment about wanting a PS5 for Christmas–and it’s also a parody of Eminem’s 2000 hit Stan.
This version is called Stu, and features Pete Davidson doing his best Slim Shady impression (which is, honestly, pretty good). He’s reaching out to Santa (Bateman) because there’s just one thing he wants for Christmas this year–a PlayStation 5.
While SNL can be very difficult to access outside of the US, the Twitter video of Stu is currently not geoblocked–you can watch it below. We won’t spoil how they handle the Dido section from the original song, suffice to say that it’s pretty funny.