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The second DC Extended Universe installment released in 2016, Suicide Squad, was a success at the global box office; taking in $746 million in theaters and driving Time Warner to exceed expectations for its third quarter earnings this year. It’s not clear yet exactly what comes next for DC’s “Worst. Heroes. Ever”, be it a Harley Quinn-driven spinoff and/or a direct followup to filmmaker David Ayer’s hit DCEU movie. In the meantime, Ayer is reuniting with Will Smith (who plays Deadshot in Suicide Squad) for a very different, non-DCEU related project....

No one could have predicted how important Cable would be to the future of the X-Men franchise and the Marvel universe. He was introduced in New Mutants #87 as a gun-wielding guy with a glowing eye and a fetish for outfits that were covered with pouches. Cable would go on to transform the New Mutants into a new team known as X-Force, which were edgier than the other X-Men teams....

Thread has emerged over the last year as the latest way for smart home devices to communicate. Apple built-in support for the protocol with the HomePod mini and we’re seeing a variety of third-party smart home products from Eve and Nanoleaf introduce support. Now Eve has shared a nice deep dive on Thread, the advantages of the P2P smart home device protocol, and why it could be the future of HomeKit....

Deezer is the latest music streaming service to announce native HomePod integration. When the HomePod first launched, it required an Apple Music subscription to play music, without using AirPlay. But last year, Apple opened up the APIs to support third-party services … The API was introduced with iOS 14.3, last fall. Pandora was the first service to get onboard. Spotify shared its frustration to the European Union in 2017 that it had been locked out of the HomePod....

The worldwide film industry just got their very first look at Dave Baustita’s upcoming family comedy My Spy, directed Peter Segal. During the STX Films presentation at CinemaCon, the first studio showcase from this year’s event, STX Films boss Adam Fogelson took to the stage to tease the young company’s impressive upcoming slate, which also included 21 Bridges, UglyDolls, Poms, The Best of Enemies, The Gentlemen, and The Secret Garden....

Director Todd Phillips expresses doubt that Joker will be able to beat Marvel, but is instead aiming to do something different. Actors like Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and Jared Leto have all played the character in movies over the years, but three-time Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix is the latest actor to take on the Joker. Last year, Phoenix was officially cast as the Joker for an origin story of the character....

‘Asylum’ - the most recent episode of Titans - seems to be trolling those Dick Grayson fans who are anxious to see him take up the mantle of Nightwing. This is a foregone conclusion, given that the show is mirroring the classic New Teen Titans comics where the young acrobat eventually retired as Robin to make a name for himself as a hero outside of Batman’s shadow. Nevertheless, the slow-boiling pace of the series has fans itching Dick Grayson to become Nightwing sooner rather than later....

Fox has shifted the release date for Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express sequel, Death on the Nile, back to 2020. Branagh revived Agatha Christie’s world-famous detective character Hercule Poirot on the big screen with last year’s Orient Express adaption, a film that he both directed and starred in as Monsieur Poirot himself. The movie was quick to became a box office success (in spite of mixed reviews) and Fox wasted little time before green-lighting a sequel that once again has Branagh both calling the shots and headlining as Christie’s iconic Belgian sleuth....

In Death Stranding, part of the gameplay involves figuring out how to get from point A to point B. But sometimes, the path isn’t easy to figure out. And anyone familiar with Hideo Kojima’s previous games knows that the developer loves to stump players by throwing puzzling scenarios into the mix. That’s why getting to Edge Knot City is more complicated than many players might think. In Episode 8, Sam acquires a mission that requires him to travel to Edge Knot City....

Having previously defended Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, actor Dave Bautista is now taking the fight to the cybernazis whom he blames for Gunn’s firing from the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Disney recently cut all ties to the writer/director, after reports surfaced regarding a number of offensive jokes that Gunn had made on his personal Twitter account ten years ago. Gunn’s firing stunned the entertainment world, coming as it did in the middle of San Diego Comic-Con 2018....

David Tennant isn’t happy that the Doctor Who Christmas specials have stopped. Tennant starred as The Tenth Doctor, from 2005 to 2010, on the long-running BBC series. Doctor Who follows the title character, a Time Lord, as he moved through time and space in the TARDIS. The first version of the Doctor was portrayed by William Hartnell until 1966, when it was revealed that Time Lords had the ability to regenerate in near death situations....

In stunning news over the weekend, it was revealed DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio is exiting the company. Details about the exact nature of his departure are sparse and at times conflicting, but the biggest question remains - what comes next for DC Comics after Dan DiDio’s exit? Dan DiDio first boarded DC Comics as vice president-editorial as well as the writer of Superboy in 2002. He became Co-Publisher of DC Comics along with Jim Lee in 2008....

Having seen huge success with the DC fighting video game Injustice: Gods Among Us, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios are back with the sequel to the critically-acclaimed sequel, Injustice 2. In a couple of months, the one-on-one fighter will hit shelves across the globe, bringing together some of DC’s most recognizable heroes, villains and everything in-between. The lead-up to that release has seen an incredible series of teasers and trailers drop, with a slew of big names including Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Gorilla Grodd making their marks....

The final trailer for Deadpool 2 is out, and yet again the Merc With A Mouth is throwing shade at the DCEU and Marvel. The big-screen version of Deadpool is well aware that he’s in a superhero film, and it seems he even knows about the triumphs and failings of his competitors, making way for some great one-liners. Over in the comics, Deadpool is well known for his habit of “breaking the fourth wall”....

Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool 3 is in the works and will go in a “completely different direction” than the films before it. As of 2019, Reynolds has technically been playing the Deadpool character for a decade, going back to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. However, it wasn’t until the Merc with a Mouth’s solo movie in 2016 that Reynolds really got to put his personal stamp on the foul-mouthed, fast-healing, superhero with a heart of gold....

Tim Miller’s Deadpool film was stuck in development for many years until leaked test footage - released on the heels of Comic-Con International in San Diego in 2014 - garnered enough positive response that 20th Century Fox finally gave the superhero feature a green light. Shortly afterward, Ryan Reynold signed on to return as Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool for the film that had a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland)....

Fox’s irreverent, R-rated X-Men spinoff, Deadpool, broke more than just conventions when it released in theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend. Without the benefit of 3D ticket premiums, this mini-budgeted superhero comedy managed not to just out-gross the worldwide box office total of every other R-rated film of all time, but also every other X-Men film. A sequel co-starring Cable has already been announced, but has yet to receive a solid release date....

Today’s best deals include a selection of iPhone price drops at Woot, Best Buy’s latest 3-day sale, and a small discount on the new MagSafe charger from Apple. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. iPhone deals start at $380 today only Today only, Woot is offering various certified refurbished iPhones from $380. You can pick up the iPhone XS from $380. That’s the best price we’ve tracked and down from the new condition starting price of $999....

Destiny 2 won’t have any information left to reveal tomorrow during Bungie’s livestream regarding the future of the game. A new leak reports that Destiny 2 will be available on Google Stadia, meaning that the loot shooter will be a premier title for Google’s streaming platform and that Destiny 2 will technically be mobile on Chrome-enabled devices. Destiny 2 can’t seem to keep a secret this week, but that hasn’t hurt the game as much as one would think—most of the news leaking about the title has been positive....

Warning: SPOILERS through The Flash #49. The latest chapter of the Flash War event sees both versions of The Flash - Barry Allen and Wally West - in a race that has them picking up speed as they circle the globe. Unfortunately, their actions cause a number of instabilities that threaten the Earth, forcing their allies in the Justice League and the Titans to take action against them. Flash War spun out of the events of DC Universe Rebirth #1, which reintroduced the original Wally West (the first Kid Flash, who took up Barry Allen’s mantle after his apparent death in Crisis On Infinite Earths) into the DC Comics Universe....