Author: Loryn Stone

“Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” is getting some crossover downloadable content with “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” A new update available now lets racers compete using the Master Cycle Zero and Champion’s Tunic Link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyPy6fUaCs https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1020112660778561536 Variety reports that this is “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s” second significant bit of downloadable content recently. Last month, Nintendo released a free patch that added Labo support to the game. Labo is Nintendo’s new DIY cardboard construction toy line designed to work with Switch software. The “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” DLC lets players control their in-game vehicles using the Toy-Con Motorbike from…

Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, whose work is credited as being among the most influential in film history, has died. He passed away Thursday at his Tokyo home from pneumonia, according to reports in the Japanese media. He was 100 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBeeOdQRiE Hashimoto worked closely with Akira Kurosawa and penned many of his classics, including 1958’s The Hidden Fortress (a major influence on George Lucas in constructing the original Star Wars), The Seven Samurai and the Harakiri, Japan’s Longest Day. According to Deadline, He wrote an adaptation of a Ryunosuke Akutagawa short story, In A Grove, and sent it to Akira Kurosawa, was already established as a director but not yet a…

After months of dueling with Disney for ownership of the majority of 21st Century Fox, Comcast has pulled out of the battle, ceding the prize and ending one of the highest-stakes duels in media history. “Comcast does not intend to pursue further the acquisition of the Twenty-First Century Fox assets and, instead, will focus on our recommended offer for Sky,” the company said in a statement. Deadline reports that CEO Brian Roberts, who had sought to outdo Disney given Comcast’s history with the company, which dates to an unsolicited takeover bid rebuffed by Disney in 2004, delivered a sporting statement. “I’d like to congratulate Bob Iger and the team…

Warner Bros. confirms during San Diego Comic Con; The stand alone ‘Joker’ film starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular telling the origin of the Clown Prince Of Crime/forever antagonist to Batman will hit theaters on October 4th, 2019. “Joker” becomes the third title slated for Oct. 4, 2019, joining Fox’s thriller “The Woman in the Window” and Paramount’s sci-fier “Gemini Man.” We here at Nerdbot have already speculated what Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ origin movie means for the DCEU’s future. We discussed how the budget for this project is set at 55 million dollars, which for a major player studio, is an afternoon…

SAG-AFTRA members have approved a strike authorization for work in TV animation, with more than 98% voting in favor. The union announced the vote Wednesday evening, shortly after the deadline for members to vote. As per Variety.com, the key issue for the union is the refusal of employers to provide scale wages or residuals in the fastest-growing area of animated performer’s work — animated programs made for subscription-based streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon. More than 75% of those voting had to approve of the strike authorization for SAG-AFTRA’s national board to call a strike. The authorization was sent to “affected members”…

During the heyday of the anime fan-subbed VHS boom of the late 90s, obscure magical girls were everywhere. Lists upon lists of anime series like the one listed on the website above existed, and you’d see the same series’ names over and over again. If you were a big collector of fan-subbed VHS tapes like I was, you knew that when it came to the magical girl genre, not all series were created equal. From the oldest of old-school days of Minky Momo and Sally the Witch here’s no dispute about it- Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon was the top-shelf magical…

CBR.com reports that The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has continued his defense of the shows characterization of Apu, calling the debate “tainted” and lacking “nuance.” During an interview with The New York Times about his upcoming Netflix series Disenchanted, Groening was asked about his previous comments about the criticisms surrounding Apu, as well as The Simpsons’ apparent side-stepping of the issue. For those of you unaware of “the issue”, the long and short is this, as described by CBR.com: In 2017, Hari Kandabolu released The Problem With Apu on TruTV. The documentary essentially had two major criticisms over the depiction of Apu, the Indian owner and manager of the Springfield…

Dan Harmon is a pretty busy guy; the Community creator is working on 70 episodes of his Adult Swim series Rick and Morty and is penning a script for a TV remake of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Sirens of Titan. He’s now moving into music. Deadline reports that Harmon is exec producing a comedy rap album by comedian Rob Tanchum. The album, Disturbed, Depressed, Inadequate is a concept album from the New Yorker, who caught Harmon’s eye after setting one of the latter’s long-running jokes to song and tweeting it at him. The title of the album comes from one of George Costanza’s outbursts on Seinfeld, after he is coldly rejected by yet another…

Film buffs rejoice! The Dark Knight’s 10th anniversary is upon us (where does time go, right?) and Warner Bros. is celebrating with a 70MM IMAX release. (As if this film wasn’t beautiful enough upon initial viewing, right?) Suffice to say, Heath Ledger’s final performance as The Joker gave us all something to remember. Venues in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Toronto will host the film for a limited one-week engagement beginning Friday, Aug. 24. Tickets for opening day of the “Dark Knight” Imax re-release go on sale this Friday, July 20 for the following venues: AMC Universal Citywalk IMAX,…

CBR.com reports that Hallmark’s ’80s icon Rainbow Brite is back, with a brand-new, all-ages comic arriving in stores this fall. Written by Jeremy Whitley with art by Brittney Williams, the series is the latest addition to Dynamite Entertainment’s line of kid-friendly comics. “Rainbow Brite captured the imaginations of kids born in the ’80s (like myself) as a fantasy heroine who could change the world not just through magic, but through kindness,” Whitley said of the series in statement. “She is a symbol of what can happen when we all work together and fight back against the shadows that want to…