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The biblical drama Mary Magdalene will finally have a wide release this April. The Weinstein Company was initially supposed to distribute the film, however the Harvey Weinstein scandal complicated the release schedule. Now IFC Films has acquired Mary Magdalene. Directed by Garth Davis, Mary Magdalene stars Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus Christ and Rooney Mara as the title character. In the canonical gospels, Mary Magdalene is referenced more than Jesus’ apostles, and the film chronicles her unique relationship with the founder of Christianity, as she allegedly witnessed his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection....

Sony has officially delayed its live-action Masters of the Universe movie reboot to 2020. The studio’s been trying to get a new big screen version of He-Man’s adventures off the ground and running since they landed the film rights in 2009, but with little to show for their efforts so far. However, that may finally be changing, now that directors Aaron and Adam Nee (Band of Robbers) are gearing up to start shooting Masters of the Universe this summer, with To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before heartthrob Noah Centineo starring as Prince Adam himself....

The upcoming Matrix 4 movie adds actor Brian J. Smith to the cast, who previously collaborated with Lana Wachowski on Netflix’s popular Sense8 series. Lana Wachowski, who co-wrote and co-directed the original Matrix trilogy with her sister Lilly, returns to helm the fourth installment alone. She co-wrote the script with Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell. The release date for the new film is May 21, 2021. The Matrix is generally believed to be one of the best science-fiction films ever made, though the sequels are less well-liked....

Apple Music introduced a helpful new feature in iOS 14 that keeps the music going even when an album or playlist ends. Now macOS Big Sur is slated to receive the same treatment in the next software update to the Music app. Autoplay kicks in at the end of a queue and plays similar artists and tracks to what just completed playback. The feature even includes music that isn’t in your Apple Music library to encourage discovering more from the catalog....

Magic: The Gathering’s War of the Spark trailer reveal at PAX East 2019 may have hinted at the fate of one of the most iconic planeswalkers in all of the game’s lore, Liliana Vess. War of the Spark is due out on May 3, 2019, and will mark the beginning of narrative closure for one of the longest-running storylines in the popular TCG’s history. The War of the Spark expansion will feature a number of historic firsts for Magic: The Gathering....

One of the new privacy features included in iCloud+ is what Apple calls Mail Privacy Protection. While that’s designed to protect Apple Mail users from overly intrusive marketeers, some are worried that it could badly hurt small publishers of email newsletters. That’s because it will deny them access to a key metric used to sell the advertising that makes many such newsletters viable … A quick primer on email newsletters A growing trend in the past few years has been individual writers leaving large publishers and instead offering content directly to readers in email newsletter form....

A consumer-insights survey shows that more than 80 percent of consumers shop across at least three different channels. Consumers interacting with brands through multiple platforms and multiple devices create countless touchpoints that can overwhelm marketers. These add to their endless list of tasks, including sending emails, launching ad-retargeting campaigns, managing social media accounts, and so on. This is where marketing platforms play a key role. Aside from unburdening marketers of routine tasks, marketing platforms streamline workflows and improve efficiency....

In the latest entry of our ongoing series, Screen Rant’s Ryan George reveals what (probably) happened in the pitch meeting for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty prequel/sidequel movie, Maleficent. Before Disney realized that it could simply churn out live-action remakes of its classic animated movies and still make an obscene amount of money, the studio was going to the effort of reinventing the old stories by putting a new spin on them. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland traded in the surrealness and nonsense of the original book for some overstuffed mythology and a silly Johnny Depp dance and made a billion dollars at the box office, so for Maleficent Disney decided to play around with the idea that Sleeping Beauty’s villain was actually just horribly misunderstood....

Mama June from Mama June: From Not to Hot has pawned her diamond ring to be able to fund her bizarre road trip. The fame monster has completely taken over Mama June, causing her to make some questionable decisions. Since her family’s show stopped airing, Mama June has been struggling with her finances. She and her latest boyfriend had been kicked out of a Georgia motel as she had an unpaid bill for $2,000....

It hasn’t been a month since Marvel laid out their post-Infinity Saga plans at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, and yet, studio president Kevin Feige is up for another appearance again in this year’s D23 Expo at the end of August. Here’s every reveal we expect from Marvel’s panel at the Disney convention. With Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers: Endgame culminating the 22-film arc that the MCU was treading since 2008’s Iron Man, and Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far From Home serving as an epilogue, the franchise is currently in a transformation phase....

Marvel’s universe is jam-packed with gods and demons, but Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk #1 has revealed what may be the most powerful evil force of them all. The One-Above-All, Marvel’s almighty celestial being (who may or may not be Jack Kirby himself), finally has its opposite in the aptly-named One-Below-All. This figure apparently has ties to the symbiote god Knull, the promised big bad of Absolute Carnage, and may possibly be connected to every evil in the entire Marvel universe....

The lead writer for Mass Effect and other popular Bioware titles, Drew Karpyshyn, has left the company to join Wizards of the Coast’s Archetype Entertainment. The longtime Dungeons and Dragons developer has only recently revealed new details about its new video game creation studio, which is based out of Austin, Texas, saying that the company is currently in the process of building a multi-platform roleplaying game set in an all-new science fiction universe....

Even if you set Windows Update to “Check for Updates but Let Me Choose Whether to Download and Install Them” it won’t pop up a notification. Windows (8) Update Notifier Download Windows (8) Update Notifier, unzip it and run WindowsUpdateNotifier.exe. The utility icon lives in the Notification Area on the Taskbar. It will check for updates and display a notification of what’s available. By default it searches for new updates every hour....

The Manifest season 1 finale ended with a bang when one of the show’s main characters was shot - but who was it? Manifest season 2, which will air in spring 2020, will reveal what really happened in that pivotal moment. Until then, the identity of the character who was shot will remain a mystery. NBC’s Manifest focuses on the lives of several airline passengers whose flight mysteriously landed five years after takeoff....

Warning: SPOILERS for Captain Marvel #14 Writer Kelly Thompson and artist Lee Garbett’s Captain Marvel #14 may have just revealed not only more about Carol’s devious plans but more importantly, who is actually the Avenger’s strongest team member. Thus far Captain Marvel has taken out her teammates with somewhat unsurprising success, but she was definitely not prepared for this particular fight. For whatever other reasons, presumably Vox Supreme (a combination of a mutated Kree and the Kree Super-Intelligence) chose Captain Marvel to take out her teammates because he believed that she would succeed where many others have failed....

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) wasn’t always supposed to get his eye back during Avengers: Infinity War. Over the last two years, the god of thunder has gone through quite the transformation. Taika Waititi saved the Thor franchise by giving the character a much-needed overhaul in Thor: Ragnarok, both in terms of his personality and appearance. His golden locks were shaved, Mjolnir destroyed, and — at the very end — his returned sister Hela cut out his eye....

Losing its Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director is only the latest in a growing list of problems for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel’s Phase 4 was already off to a bad start (before even getting fully underway) when James Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in summer 2018, and complications for Marvel’s future have continued to crop up ever since, despite a fully booked slated of movies and TV shows releasing over the next few years....

Warning: Minor SPOILERS for Savage Avengers #8 The face of Doctor Doom known around the world is merely his mask, concealing the scarred wounds beneath it – which is exactly how he wants it. But in his latest appearance, the Marvel Comics villain is finally persuaded to remove his mask at only a handful of words from the least likely equal: Conan the Barbarian. Yes, that one. The Savage Avengers succeeded in their first mission to defeat the evil sorcerer Kulan Gath, slaying his giant evil god and sending Kulan back to his own world....

Warning: SPOILERS for Meet The Skrulls #1 Marvel Comics may be preparing for another Secret Invasion, with Skrull infiltrators once again sneaking their way into positions of power in Marvel’s Universe. The shapeshifting aliens are finally making their way into the MCU in Captain Marvel. Naturally, that means now is the perfect time for Marvel Comics to launch a new, Skrull-centered ongoing series. Written by Robbie Thompson with art by Niko Henrichon, Meet the Skrulls is the story of what seems to be an ordinary, all-American family… but one that harbors a dark secret....

The superhero and comic book genres have exploded for more than ten years now both on the big and small screen. With DC and Marvel spreading their properties across multiple platforms, the golden age of superhero media is going to be alive for many years to come. Focusing on Marvel TV, several characters have come and gone in various shows in the last couple of years. Many have made it to air, both on broadcast as well as cable/streaming services....