In today’s Hollywood, the established franchise is everything. If a studio doesn’t have a veritable arsenal of sequels, prequels, or adaptations of proven material to release each year, they’re in serious trouble. Luckily for Sony, the company currently finds itself overflowing with marketable properties, both this year and next. One such anticipated sequel that had been penciled in for early 2017 was Bad Boys 3, the third installment of the action-comedy franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence....

Marvel Studios should consider slashing its marketing budget seeing as fans on the internet do a perfect job at hyping their movies. The lead-up to MCU films—especially Avengers films—are flooded with memes from fans who guess what will happen in the movie. Once the film itself is released, we get another wave of memes sent our way, most of which contribute to people going back to the cinema to rewatch the film....

With the future of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 a total mystery, Avengers: Endgame couldn’t have come along at a better time. But the next Avengers movie could actually do more than just bring the MCU’s Guardians back to life. It could also help to unite their newest enemies: a group that calls themselves the Dark Guardians. The villainous alliance is brand new in the world of Marvel Comics, introduced as the first enemies facing the new rebooted Guardians of the Galaxy led by Peter Quill and the newly punk rock Groot....

New Avengers: Endgame fan art imagines what happened to Clint Barton aka Hawkeye following Thanos’ snap in Avengers: Infinity War that wiped out half of life in the universe. Debuting in 2011’s Thor, before officially being introduced to the MCU the year after in The Avengers, Jeremy Renner has been playing Earth’s mightiest marksman for seven years across four films, with the fifth one coming via next year’s Phase 3 capper....

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to backup and restore the QCN file on your Xiaomi Poco F3 (codenamed alioth). With this guide, you can always take one step further to fix the lost IMEI, unable to recognize sim card, unknown baseband version, or more. We in the era of smartphone technology always want to install the root, mods, or install custom ROM or modify the stock ROM....

The most successful [IE competitor] by far is Firefox. Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date. But Firefox is not. The fact that there’s a lot of competitors probably is to our advantage. Yeah, we’re right now about 74 percent overall with the browser market, roughly speaking. But we’re having to compete like heck with IE 8, with great new features. The other guys are getting more and more unanticipated competitive attack factors, the thing that Google announced yesterday where they replaced IE but they don’t tell you....

George Clooney claims that out of all of his movies, Batman & Robin made the biggest impact on his career. Prior to his breakout role on E.R. Clooney had been a jobbing actor for much of his career, jumping from TV pilots to roles in various b-movies like Return Of The Killer Tomatoes. The huge success of the show caused movie offers to flood in, leading him to star in movies like From Dusk Till Dawn, One Fine Day and – most infamously – Batman & Robin....

It’s official, the Legion of Super-Heroes will have a new member come January, Batman’s own son and smart-mouthed sidekick Damian Wayne. Joining his fellow young super-friend Jonathan Kent (Superman’s son) the Boy Wonder will be joining the team of heroes from the 31st century in Legion of Super-Heroes #3 in January 2020. More or less retconned from existence in DC’s New 52 universe, the team made a comeback in September courtesy of Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook....

Batwoman episode 4 finally begins to explain the mystery of what happened to Alice 15 years ago - but still leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The last two episodes have shown Batwoman slip into a comfortable pattern; there’s a villain-of-the-week who forces Kate Kane to up her game, and meanwhile the mystery of Beth Kane’s disappearance is explored a little at a time. Batwoman episode 3 featured Hush, and episode 4 introduces Magpie....

Robert Downey Jr. improvised arguably Tony Stark’s most intense scene in Avengers: Endgame. Capping off The Infinity Saga, the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed flick also wrapped up the personal arcs of some of MCU’s principal characters, including its inaugural hero, Iron Man. Being Downey’s final hurrah as the beloved genius, billionaire - a role that’s been synonymous with him since he debuted it in 2008 via Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, Avengers 4 is arguably his best performance in the role....

Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame gets the How It Should’ve Ended treatment. It’s been a month a half since the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed flick hit theatres, and by this time it’s safe to say that everyone who was interested to catch in on the big screen have seen it evidenced by its massive box office haul. So now, fans can openly entertain ideas on how the blockbuster wrapped up. After the successfully bringing back all those who were snuffed out of existence by Thanos’ snap in Avengers: Infinity War thanks to the Time Heist, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes battle the Mad Titan and his army for a final epic action set piece....

Disney is gunning for a possible Best Supporting Actor nomination for this year’s Academy Awards for Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame. The actor’s name wasn’t initially on the list of the House of Mouse’s “For Your Consideration” list despite garnering buzz after the release of the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed flick back in April. This bummed many of his supporters as getting acknowledged by the organization would’ve been a great way to cap off his run as the MCU’s poster boy....

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The Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says the game was included in Stadia’s 2020 lineup by mistake, but developer Larian Studios had already teased players with new information coming soon before calling out Google for their error. Following what appeared to be an explosive announcement related to the upcoming installment to the popular classic isometric RPG series based on Dungeons and Dragons, Larian said that the game should not have been announced for 2020....

After the surprise success of Deadpool last week, we can properly say that 2016 is the year of the superhero movie - with Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, Suicide Squad, and Doctor Strange all coming up later this year. Of course, the biggest one from Camp DC is Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which will see DC’s two biggest superheroes of all-time going mano y mano for two-and-a-half hours (or so)....

The latest episode of Batwoman confirmed that Killer Croc exists in the Arrowverse. Batman may have mysteriously disappeared in the Arrowverse, but viewers are getting a strong sense of what Gotham was like under the shadow of the Batman. This version of Bruce Wayne has been active in Gotham City for at least 15 years - probably substantially more. As a result, Batwoman is deliberately name-dropping a lot of Batman characters....

One of the key features of Apple’s HomePod speaker is the beamforming technology used to adjust the sound output to the shape of the room, and using those same microphones for a neat Siri trick. By cancelling out the music output, Siri commands can be easily heard by the speaker even when it is blasting out music at full volume. A new Apple patent application, published today, suggests that Apple may be seeking to use the same basis of that beamforming tech in its rumored over-ear headphones, to achieve two things …...

Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo say they currently do not have plans to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The brothers have been integral players in the franchise since 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, following that up with Captain America: Civil War and the one-two punch of Infinity War and Endgame. Many Marvel fans consider their installments to be among the best in the series, as they increasingly got more ambitious and grand in scope....

Avengers: Endgame includes a cleverly hidden Easter egg related to the backstory of Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson) and her background as a ballet dancer. Black Widow’s origin story has factored into her arc in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and while it has minimal importance to the plot of Endgame, the movie does feature a reference to Natasha’s early life. Marvel’s former Soviet super spy has played crucial roles in a total of seven movies in the MCU, beginning with Iron Man 2....

According to the Russo brothers, the initial edit of Avengers: Endgame was longer than the final version that will hit theaters later this month. Arguably the most hotly anticipated film of 2019, depending on your feelings toward Star Wars: Episode IX, Endgame is the continuation to last year’s huge Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover event, Infinity War. The conclusion of that movie saw Thanos use his Infinity Gauntlet to destroy half of the universe, killing a selection of much-loved characters in the process....