Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey had a very successful opening weekend domestically, making $124.5 million, per Deadline. In a summer full of flopping franchise films, The Odyssey's success is a testament to why studios should care about and support the artists actually making their movies.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is prompting movie fans revisiting just about every corner of Matt Damon's career. Naturally, that means returning to the Bourne films, Contagion, The Martian, Interstellar, and The Departed. While they’re all great movies that challenge the actor in many fascinating ways, they don’t quite match the same mythical feel promised by The Odyssey.
While Bethesda announced multiple new projects on July 17, including several Fallout titles, it did not indicate whether they would be Xbox console exclusives. New statements about exclusivity published by GamesRadar make speculating about that even more confusing.
Forza Horizon has always occupied a strange place in racing games. It's more approachable than simulation-heavy racers like Assetto Corsa or iRacing, but it's also far more nuanced than people sometimes give it credit for. On a controller, it's easy to lose yourself in the spectacle — especially in the lush Japanese setting of Forza Horizon 6. Blasting through rural fields, drifting around sweeping cherry blossom-laden street corners, and bouncing between supercars with barely a second’s thought are as exhilarating as…
Late summer and early fall seem to have unusually stacked release schedules this year — likely because developers are giving Grand Theft Auto 6’s Nov. 19 release a wide berth. July in particular has already seen some heavy hitters, including Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and the full launch of Palworld.
Activision and Paramount recently confirmed that the Call of Duty movie will be based on the Modern Warfare games. While I understand why that was chosen for the film adaptation, it's proof to me that the Call of Duty franchise will keep retreading the same ideas for the foreseeable future.
Alan Ritchson feels like he wandered in from another era. Whether he's playing Jack Reacher in Reacher, Anders Lassen in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, U.S. Army Ranger 81 battling an alien invasion in Netflix's War Machine, or the rough-and-tumble hero of the upcoming Motor City, Ritchson keeps gravitating toward the same type of role: an unstoppable physical force whose greatest weapon is simply walking into a room. 35 years ago, he would've fit comfortably alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph…
In July 2000, Final Fantasy 9 launched in Japan. As the last PlayStation entry in the series, it featured numerous familiar elements, ranging from magical crystals to black mages with pointed caps. Many players saw the game as a love letter to everything that made Final Fantasy great, and a fitting swan song for Hironobu Sakaguchi before he left Square to found Mistwalker.
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India finally get their first wicket of the day as Jacob Bethell is caught for 91, bringing to an end a record-breaking opening partnership of 192 alongside Ben Duckett, as England make a brilliant start to the series-deciding One Day International at Lord's.