Month: February 2021

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest TV castings of the year, The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal is set to headline The Last Of Us, HBO’s high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders Based on the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Game of Thrones‘ Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey...

Country music star Morgan Wallen is speaking out as he continues to face fallout in his career after being caught on video using a racial slur. Last week, a video leaked featuring Wallen using the n-word and since then, he's faced fierce backlash from the country music industry. He was deemed ineligible for this year's Academy of Country Music Awards and his music has been pulled from iHeartRadio stations while he was also suspended by his record label. Wallen, 27, previously apologized for using the slur, but has remained silent since, and was recently even dropped by talent agency WME. On Wednesday evening, the singer took to Instagram to share an apology video. MORGAN WALLEN WILL LIKELY FACE TWO-YEAR CAREER 'SETBACK' AFTER 'LETHALLY STUPID' N-WORD VIDEO, EXPERT SAYS "I'm long ove...

5:12 PM PST 2/10/2021 by Mike Barnes His company, ZeniMax Media, was sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion last year. Robert A. Altman, the CEO and chairman of the video game holding company ZeniMax Media and the husband of Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter, died Feb. 3 at a Baltimore hospital of complications from a medical procedure. He was 73. Altman founded Rockville, Maryland-based ZeniMax Media with Bethesda Softworks' founder Christopher Weaver in 1999, and the company went on to develop such video game properties as Doom, Quake, Rage, Dishonored, Prey, Wolfenstein and The Elder Scrolls. Investors in ZeniMax included former CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and Robert Trump, younge...

A new adaptation of the classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is heading to the big screen, Fox News can confirm. L. Frank Baum's original novel was famously adapted to the screen for 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland. The upcoming movie will be a fresh take on the novel -- which follows Dorothy and Toto after being swept away from their Kansas home in a cyclone. The flick will be produced by New Line, which is owned by Warner Bros. The studio also owns the rights to the 1939 film. The crossover means that unlike other adaptations, the movie will be able to draw on famous elements like Dorothy's ruby slippers. ‘THE WIZARD OF OZ' SECRETS YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen," "The Woodsman") is set to direct. Marc Platt will produce along...

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