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M. Night Shyamalan's newest movie, the psychological thriller Split, was the No. 1 movie again at the US box office this weekend, holding on to the top spot for a second week running. It's now made $78 million domestically and $24 million internationally, pushing its worldwide total above $100 million.Split opened with $40 million in the US, representing one of the strongest starts for the writer-director. It was only behind the opening weekend tallies for The Last Airbender ($40.3 million), The Village ($50.7), and Signs ($60.1 million).The Sixth Sense is M. Night Shyamalan's best performing movie ever in the US, bringing in $293.5 million when all was said and done back in 1999. Just two weeks after release, Split currently stands as M. Night Shyamalan's sixth best-performing movie, behind Unbreakable ($95 million), The Village ($114.2 million), The Last Airbender ($131.8 million), Signs ($227.9 million), and The Sixth Sense ($293.5 million).All of these figures are for the US only … [Read more...] about Split Passes $100 Million, Has Best Opening For M. Night Shyamalan This Decade

Amazon's upcoming adaptation of the bestselling dystopian novel The Power has added more names to its already star-studded cast. Comedian Rob Delaney (Catastrophe, Deadpool 2) and Alice Eve (Bombshell, Iron Fist) are now on board as recurring guest stars, joining big names like Leslie Mann (Blockers), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), John Leguizamo (John Wick), Eddie Marsan (Vice), and Daniela Vega (A Fantastic Woman).The 10-part series is based on the novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman about an alternative version of the present where teenage girls around the world suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will. Other recurring guest stars in the series include Edwina Findley (The Wire), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen's Gambit), and Simbi Ajikawo (Top Boy), while Zrinka Cvitešić (London Spy), Archie Rush (Black Mirror), newcomer Gerrison Machado, and Pietra Castro (Supergirl) are series regulars.Alderman is on … [Read more...] about New Amazon series The Power adds to star-studded cast

There are "more than 100 games" coming to Stadia in 2021. Just days after announcing it was pulling the plug on first-party game development, a post on the community blog confirmed games like FIFA 21 and Judgment were on the way to the streaming service. After listing a handful of releases coming to the service in the next couple of months, the Stadia Team said in a blog post: "These games represent just a sampling of the more than 100 games that will be added to the Stadia store for our players in 2021 to share, experience, and play with friends" (thanks, Engadget ). Just 14 months after Stadia's high-profile launch, Google revised its streaming service strategy and confirmed it would close down all internal game development and begin providing its tech to third-party publishers. "Given our focus on building on the proven technology of Stadia as well as deepening our business partnerships, we've decided that we will not be investing further in bringing exclusive … [Read more...] about “More than 100 games” are coming to Stadia in 2021

If you haven’t played Dark Souls (and I mean really played, to the degree that you understand the utter folly of my even using the word ‘played’ in this paragraph, when I should actually be terming the experience ‘utterly, obsessively lived in’), then the chances are you have an entirely false impression of the greatest game of all time. You’re probably ‘aware’ of a monstrous brute. A blunt, unswerving, cruel, unfair bully of a game, all brawn, misanthropy, and torment. The video game equivalent of that kid who spends all summer pulling the legs off insects, only in Dark Souls’ case, the kid is a 40 foot dragon, and the legs are your self-esteem. Dark Souls is not that. Dark Souls is the opposite of that. Dark Souls is a warm, benevolent, enriching, and deeply, deeply gratifying experience. Yes, it will demand things of you. Things that, when you first start out, will feel impossible. But here’s the thing. Dark Souls does not make those demands out of cruelty or spite. Dark Souls, … [Read more...] about Top 100: Why Dark Souls is simply the greatest game of all time

The challenge sounds simple enough: assassinate Kalvin Ritter by drowning him in a toilet, for 1000xp. Hitman creator IO Interactive dubs this fate ‘ironic’, since jewel thief Ritter is aboard his own ship, a superyacht covered in lifebelts - but none are to be found in the toilet bowl. The execution, in both senses of the word, is deceptively complex. Ritter isn’t standing next to a toilet, waiting to be drowned. He’s patrolling his vessel, from bow to stern, accompanied by an armed guard at all times. In order to complete the challenge, I’ll need to disrupt that routine in a way that not only isolates Ritter, but leads him to the lav. In other words, I’ll need to make him sick. Hitman 3 teaches you that if you want to find poison, you should take the stairs down, not up. It’s in the lower quarters of any high-class environment that you’ll find the maintenance rooms, and the shelves lined with toxic powders and liquids. … [Read more...] about Hitman 3 has finally made 100% completion something worth striving for