Super Bowl 2018: the best commercials, trailers, and performances from the big game – The Verge

Hulu offers free month of live TV to users whose Super Bowl stream cut out

2018-02-07T16:08:30-05:00

Hulu is offering one free month of its live TV service as an apology to the customers whose streams were disrupted during the final moments of Super Bowl LII last Sunday. In an email sent to eligible customers, the company says it will automatically credit one month of subscription to users' accounts as it continues to investigate what caused the issue.

Impacted users on Sunday flocked to Twitter to notify Hulu's support account, citing a variety of error messages from "rights restrictions" to "no content available." Hulu says only a "small percentage" of users were affected, though it did not specify exactly how many and which markets. "We …

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Watch the first trailer for Skyscraper, Dwayne Johnson’s skyscraper movie

2018-02-05T10:16:36-05:00

The first teaser trailer for Dwayne Johnson's China-set disaster movie Skyscraper aired during the Super Bowl tonight.

Update: The full trailer debuted during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon after the game.

Skyscraper stars Johnson as Will Ford, a former FBI agent who works in skyscraper security. Neve Campbell (House of Cards, The Craft), Chin Han (Contagion, The Dark Knight), and Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders) co-star. There was little information about the plot of the movie before the release of tonight's teaser trailer, but it looks like there will be a skyscraper. Cool! Will Ford's family is "trapped 240 floors i …

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Hulu’s Super Bowl stream fails during final moments of game

2018-02-04T22:38:14-05:00

Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game. Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium. Not everyone experienced the abrupt cutoff, which occurred at approximately 10:00PM ET.

But those who did received an error screen before the game's conclusion. Error messages ranged from "no content available" to one that said the game couldn't be shown due to rights restrictions.

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The latest Avengers: Infinity War teaser packs a lot of heroes into 30 seconds

2018-02-04T21:34:44-05:00

The latest teaser for Avengers: Infinity War debuted during the Super Bowl tonight, and features all your favorite heroes from the various Marvel properties that have been piling and interlocking for the last 10 years.

Black Panther is there, as is the original set of Avengers, as is the Guardians of the Galaxy crew, Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, Tom Holland's Spider-Man, and Paul Rudd's Ant-Man. This should be fun and very confusing! They're all teaming up to face down Thanos, the evil space god last seen in a post-credits scene from 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. He was fully introduced as a primary villain in James Gunn's Guard …

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NBC’s brief blackout during the Super Bowl was due to an “equipment failure”

2018-02-04T21:19:58-05:00

The Super Bowl briefly went dark tonight after what NBC has attributed to a "brief equipment failure" during a commercial break in the first half. Instead of any ads, viewers just saw a black screen.

NBC claims that no commercial time nor game time was missed. If it had lost ad time, the seconds could have cost millions of ad dollars, considering a 30-second spot has been quoted to cost $5 million.

From NBC Sports spokesperson:

"We had a brief equipment failure that we quickly resolved. No game action or commercial time were missed."
- NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) February 5, 2018

Users of the NBC app or NBC's livestream on its website als …

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Westworld’s second season gets its first trailer

2018-02-04T21:11:08-05:00

HBO's Westworld wrapped up its first season with plenty of twists, surprises, and unanswered questions, and now the show's upcoming second season has just received its first formal trailer. The spot, which aired during the Super Bowl LII broadcast, features Jeffrey Wright's Bernard Lowe, Thandie Newton's Maeve Millay, and Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores Abernathy - along with a peek at a frightening new host.

The spot begins almost like a commercial with the Westworld resort itself, with Dolores commenting in voice-over that "We built this world together… this world where dreams come true." But things soon turn dark as the spot looks inside the …

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J.J. Abrams’ The Cloverfield Paradox is now available on Netflix

2018-02-04T19:45:16-05:00

Two years ago producer J.J. Abrams surprised audiences when 10 Cloverfield Lane appeared seemingly out of nowhere. During Super Bowl LII today, the franchise upped the ante with a shocking revelation: the new entry in the series is called The Cloverfield Paradox, and would be coming to Netflix immediately after the game.

Directed by Julius Onah, the film was originally produced under the title God Particle, and focuses on a group of astronauts that deal with some strange and mysterious happenings in space. There had been long-running speculation that the movie would be part of the Cloverfield universe, but in true mystery box fashion the ex …

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The first trailer for Mission Impossible: Fallout shows high-flying Tom Cruise action

2018-02-04T19:34:56-05:00

Paramount Pictures has released its first full trailer for Mission Impossible: Fallout, teasing more death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise.

Directed by Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation and Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie, Fallout is the sixth installment of the franchise. The trailer opens with what looks like the aftermath of a mission gone bad on the part of Cruise's Ethan Hunt, and some plutonium has gone missing. Henry Cavill's character August Walker points out that Hunt has been betrayed and disavowed by his own government numerous times, and asks when someone would just give up. The trailer then launches into motorcycle c …

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Watch the first teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story

2018-02-04T18:47:38-05:00

After weeks of waiting, Disney has finally released the first official look at the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story , in the form of a brief teaser during this evening's Super Bowl.

The teaser opens with an Imperial recruiting officer asking a recruit what branch he's interested in joining, to which he's told, "I'm going to be a pilot, the best in the galaxy." Along the way, we get some glimpses of a new-looking Millennium Falcon, Woody Harrelson (playing a new character named Beckett), Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, and a brief glimpse of the film's titular character, played by Alden Ehrenreich. Interspersed throughout are s …

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s new trailer looks downright terrifying

2018-02-04T18:37:30-05:00

Three years ago, Jurassic World rebooted the Steven Spielberg dinosaur franchise, and the inevitable sequel has just received its latest trailer. The clip from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom builds on the first trailer that was released last year, and sets up the basic premise: the island that the Jurassic World theme park was built on is under threat, and both Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard's characters are brought in to help save the dinosaurs from extinction… again.

The first Jurassic World, which was directed by Colin Trevorrow, ended up grossing more than $1.67 billion worldwide, and marked a dramatic return to form for a film ser …

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