Jay Peters
Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is returning to theaters in 70mm film and on IMAX.
The re-release debuts on January 29th.
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Star Wars is (sort of) coming to the Super Bowl.
Star Wars Funday Football will be a real-time, animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI that will animate the players as Star Wars characters, just before the original cut returns to theaters on February 19th.
Anthony Daniels will voice C-3PO, and it’ll stream live on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. Will it be weird? Judge for yourself with this Simpsons version in 2024, or other versions for the Australian Open, NBA, and NHL.
Jay Peters
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos reportedly wants more focus on TV shows and movies.
The co-CEO has “complained internally for months that Americans were spending less time watching Netflix and that the service was short on new hit shows,” according to a big story from The Wall Street Journal.
Also in the report: apparently just 3.5 percent of subscribers play its games every month, which is below the company’s 2026 goals.
Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall
[The Wall Street Journal]
Jay Peters
Spotify is now asking some Premium Family plan members to verify with QR codes.
The idea is to verify that a plan member actually lives with the plan manager, according to a Spotify support page reported on by 9to5Google. Basically, it seems like a way to crack down on non-affiliated people from using a family plan to save money on Spotify.
Jay Peters
My favorite game from GDC 2025 just got a release date.
Faraway, a game where you play as a shooting star and slingshot around other stars, is launching on November 5th on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S. The game blew me away in just a 10-minute demo last year, and I can’t wait to check out the full release.
Jay Peters
Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is “on ice.”
The planned film was announced in 2020, but Waititi tells Inverse that he and screenwriter Tony McNamara are “going to actually put it on ice and we’re working on a different thing together.”
Jay Peters
Saros’ new “Zenith” update adds a boss rush mode, a slo-mo mode, New Game Plus, and more.
The update for Housmarque’s intense PS5 shooter is out today.
Andrew Liszewski
Watch Adam Savage nerd out with legendary ILM model maker Lorne Peterson.
In the latest episode of Adam Savage’s Tested the former model maker sits down with Lorne Peterson who discusses the earliest days of ILM, his work on Star Wars, and how off-the-shelf model kits were integral to the design and construction of iconic vehicles like the Millennium Falcon and Jawa Sandcrawler.
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