Warner Bros. has released a brand new TV spot for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, which features a hidden Easter Egg that unlocks an awesome featurette with even more never-before-seen footage!
As Tom Brady and the 5x World Champion New England Patriots attempt to secure another trip to the Super Bowl, Warner Bros. has released a spectacular new TV spot for Steven Spielberg’s highly-anticipated Ready Player One, which features one very special Easter Egg that actually unlocks even more new footage.
The film stars Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke as Parzival and Art3mis, respectively, with a supporting cast that features Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, T.J. Miller, Hannah John-Kamen, and Lena Waithe, amongst others.
Watch the new TV spot below:
Plus, in case you couldn’t spot the hidden QR code, here’s the exclusive featurette that features never-before-seen footage and narration from the legendary Steven Spielberg:
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
Ready Player One features: Director: Steven Spielberg Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts/Parzival Olivia Cooke as Art3mis Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento Simon Pegg as Ogden “Og” Morrow Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday/Anorak T.J. Miller as i-R0k Hannah John-Kamen in an undisclosed role Lena Waithe as Aech Win Morisaki as Toshiro Yoshiaki/Daito Philip Zhao as Akihide Karatsu/Shoto Ralph Ineson as Rick Letitia Wright as Reb Mckenna Grace in an undisclosed role
As the AFC Championship Game between the 5x World Champion New England Patriots and the Jacksonville Jaguars continues, Warner Bros. has released an awesome new TV spot for their upcoming video game movie adaptation/reboot of Tomb Raider. The film stars Alicia Vikander as the daredevil extraordinaire Lara Croft, who finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime, searching for the truth behind her father’s disappearance.
On another note, it looks like Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life are both getting the 4K Ultra HD treatment ahead of the new film’s release. Both titles are due out on February 27th and are currently available to pre-order on Amazon (1, 2).
Watch the new “Adventure” TV spot below:
Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone.
Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who—against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit—must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.
Tomb Raider features: Director: Roar Uthaug Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft Walton Goggins as Mathias Vogel Daniel Wu as Lu Ren Dominic West as Lord Richard Croft Hannah John-Kamen as Sophie Antonio Aakeel as Nitin Kristin Scott Thomas as Ana Miller
This April, get ready for Rampage, the video game movie adaptation that will finally see The Rock (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) meet his match as he takes on three genetically engineered monster animals that will wreak all kinds of havoc on modern-day Chicago.
The upcoming Brad Peyton-directed feature also stars Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Malin Åkerman (Watchmen), Joe Manganiello (Justice League), Jake Lacy (The Office), Marley Shelton (Scream 4), and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural), amongst others.
Watch the new 60-second extended TV spot below:
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Rampage features: Director: Brad Peyton Dwayne Johnson as Davis Okoye Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell Malin Åkerman as Claire Wyden Joe Manganiello as Burke Jake Lacy in an undisclosed role Marley Shelton in an undisclosed role Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Agent Russell P. J. Byrne in an undisclosed role Jack Quaid in an undisclosed role Matt Gerald in an undisclosed role Breanne Hill as Amy Urijah Faber in an undisclosed role
After the 5x World Champion New England Patriots punched their ticket back to the Super Bowl, Just Jared has released brand new set photos from “an upcoming Marvel project,” which, considering Captain Marvel doesn’t begin filming until late March, is undoubtedly referring to the top-secret set for the highly anticipated Avengers 4, although they could also be from Avengers: Infinity War reshoots, which were scheduled to begin following the end of principal photography on the 2019 sequel.
The latest batch of snapshots features Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) and Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) looking quite bewildered as they gaze upon something potentially massive entering Earth’s atmosphere. There’s also some intriguing shots of Jackson without Fury’s trademark eyepatch, but those were probably just taken in-between shots rather than something we’ll see realized in the movie.
Check out all of the photos at the link below:
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War features: Directors: Anthony & Joe Russo Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black Panther Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man Paul Bettany as The Vision Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne/Wasp Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord Zoe Saldana as Gamora Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer Vin Diesel as Groot Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice) Sean Gunn as Rocket Raccoon (mo-cap) Pom Klementieff as Mantis Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill Benedict Wong as Wong Karen Gillan as Nebula Michael Rooker as Yondu Danai Gurira as Okoye Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan/The Collector Peter Dinklage in an undisclosed role Terry Notary in an undisclosed role Tom Vaughn Lawlor as Ebony Maw Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man Josh Brolin as Thanos
This latest TV spot for Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim Uprising features quite a bit of new footage from the upcoming sequel.
In addition to several exciting shots of Jaegers taking on the monstrous Kaiju, we get a much better glimpse of a couple of mechs coming to blows. Plus, there’s a first look at the returning Charlie Day as that shrill scientist many people were praying would get eaten by the end of the first film.
Check it out, and let us know if you’re looking forward ro this one in the commnets section below.
John Boyega stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous “Kaiju.” Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.
Pacific Rim Uprising also stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Jing Tian, Cailee Spaeny, and Adria Arjona, and is set to hit theaters on March 23.
With Quake Champions, Saber Interactive has set itself the task to make a modern Quake: frenetic and crazy as it ever was, but with larger-than-life champions, each with their own hooks and special abilities. It’s a fusion of the grim and gothic original, the heady, explosiveness of Quake III Arena, and a champion formula that calls to mind titles like Overwatch. It’s something old and something new.
It’s not unfamiliar territory for Saber, which has dabbled in a lot of different genres in the 16 years since it was founded by Matthew Karch, Andrey Iones, and Anton Krupkin. It’s the shooters that the studio is perhaps best known for, however. The tech side of things is what makes Saber gravitate towards them, thinks Karch. “Shooters have always been at the forefront of showing what real-time rendering is capable of,” he says. That focus has been there since the start. So when they established Saber, they had that strong technical foundation and an equally strong desire to show it off.
Bethesda and Saber had been in contact for years about potential projects, and the stars eventually aligned for Quake Champions. Bethesda and id weren’t doing anything new with the series, though Quake Live was going strong, proving there was definitely still a market for that kind of fast-paced arena shooter. Saber pitched its vision to Bethesda and id, and Karch remembers that it was close to what they wanted to do internally. Quake Champions was born.
Saber’s technical foundation is also why Quake Champions doesn’t use id Tech, instead running on a hybrid engine designed by Saber. “We did a deep dive with id’s Tim Willits,” Karch explains, “and we decided our rendering would be the better choice, but there were things that id was doing that we really wanted to incorporate. It’s probably less incorporating and more replicating. We looked at the way they handled certain types of things from cameras to controls to player physics and used what they did as a foundation.”
Everyone’s a hero
Key to the game are the titular champions. “It’s worked for Overwatch,” Karch says, “which is a slower paced game, but it allows every player to choose their hero to get their personality in the arena.” Saber has Quake’s lore to draw from, but beyond that, it’s also got id’s large back catalogue, and even Bethesda’s, from which it can craft new champions and their accompanying mechanics.
It’s a bit experimental. More ideas have been left on the cutting room floor than kept. These champions have to fit Quake’s very specific dynamic. “It’s a constantly evolving process,” Karch says. “This is a game as a service, and it’s only as good as the service you can provide. We think there’s a market for what we’re doing, but we see there’s room for improvement and changes. As we get player feedback, we’re trying our best to react as quickly as possible. The design is an evolving one, but the initial results are encouraging.”
Most of the Quake Champions team is on the Saber side, with only about five people—some producers and a designer—from id. So the studio has a lot of creative freedom, though Karch is quick to point out that, ultimately, the buck stops with Tim Willits, as the creative director of id. Saber is used to these kinds of collaborations. It did most of the work on Halo: Anniversary and Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and it was working on Halo Online before it was shelved indefinitely.
Quake Champions launched on Steam via early access in August. It’s the first time Saber has worked on this kind of early access game. “It’s been more good than bad, but it’s a little nerve-racking to put your baby out into the wild,” Karch admits. “You want to get everything out as quickly as possible, but the frustrating thing is that you don’t want to release everything piecemeal—you want to release big changes into the pipeline and out to the players.”
Right now, Saber’s main objective is to continue to improve the game’s accessibility. While Quake is an immensely popular series, the style and pace of today’s most successful shooters—from Call of Duty to Overwatch—is entirely different. Teaching people how to play, then, has become imperative, as has making Quake Champions appeal to a broader audience.
“We want to improve the onboarding experience,” says Karch, “and get people more familiar with the controls and the way the game works, as opposed to just dropping them right into a battle.”
Back in time
As Saber continues to work on Quake, it’s also working on other projects, most notably a follow up to its 2007 time-manipulation shooter: TimeShift. Saber hasn’t officially announced it yet, but it’s in development. It’s something of a passion project for the studio. TimeShift is a bit of a cult classic, and among the developers, it’s got a lot of fans.
“Every year we do a company party, and our biggest studio is in St. Petersburg, and every year, I kid you not, there’s a bowl, and it’s filled with rubles,” Karch laughs. “They call it the Timeshift 2 fund. Everyone comes in and puts rubles in this Timeshift 2 fund because everyone wants to work on it.”
He eventually acquiesced, and the team is now in the design prototyping phase. Of course, it can’t be called TimeShift 2, since Activision still owns the rights, so instead it’s a spiritual successor. It will be a new story with a new name, but the most important elements, like the time manipulation, will be returning. For Karch, who was the original game designer, it’s very exciting. “TimeShift was my baby in every way.”
As for the new name, nothing is set in stone, but Karch has already registered ‘Timebender’. He can’t help but chuckle when he says it.
As Tom Brady and the 5x World Champion New England Patriots attempt to secure another trip to the Super Bowl, Warner Bros. has released a spectacular new TV spot for Steven Spielberg’s highly-anticipated Ready Player One, which features one very special Easter Egg that actually unlocks even more new footage.
