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Vader Immortal is what a ‘theme park film’ actually looks like, and it’s great

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If you hang out on the internet, you may be familiar with a certain ongoing fight over big-budget superhero movies that all traces back to an interview in which director Martin Scorsese called Marvel movies “theme park films.” Scorsese meant the comment negatively, contrasting MCU films with “real” cinema. But as I played Vader Immortal, a virtual reality Star Wars series that concluded this week, I realized that “theme park” is the perfect term for it. And here, that’s not an insult.

Vader Immortal is a short-form narrative VR game for the Oculus Quest and Rift headsets, written by screenwriter David S. Goyer. It’s composed of three episodes, each of which lasts less than an hour, although there’s a non-narrative “lightsaber dojo” for...

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Fossil’s Hybrid HR smartwatches have good battery life and bad software

The battery lasts 10 days, but the software will bother you in one

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No Response Yet from BCCI on KPL Betting Scam: KSCA Treasurer

The BCCI is yet to contact Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) regarding the fixing scam that hit Karnataka Premier League (KPL).

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Verge readers can save $350 on the DJI Mavic 2 Pro ahead of Black Friday

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Black Friday is an excellent time to snag some pretty significant discounts on expensive electronics, and that includes drones from DJI. Wellbots is offering an exclusive discount on the DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone for Verge readers. It’s normally priced at $1,729, but you can save $350 when you enter the code DRONEVERGE at checkout. That leaves you with a price of $1,379, and if you live outside of New York state, you won’t be charged any sales tax on the purchase. The deal should last through Cyber Monday, or as long as supplies last.

When he reviewed it last year, Verge video director Vjeran Pavic said the DJI Mavic 2 Pro produces great video footage and photos, even if you’re not an experienced photographer or videographer.

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Verge readers can save $350 on the DJI Mavic 2 Pro ahead of Black Friday

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Black Friday is an excellent time to snag some pretty significant discounts on expensive electronics, and that includes drones from DJI. Wellbots is offering an exclusive discount on the DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone for Verge readers. It’s normally priced at $1,729, but you can save $350 when you enter the code DRONEVERGE at checkout. That leaves you with a price of $1,379, and if you live outside of New York state, you won’t be charged any sales tax on the purchase. The deal should last through Cyber Monday, or as long as supplies last.

When he reviewed it last year, Verge video director Vjeran Pavic said the DJI Mavic 2 Pro produces great video footage and photos, even if you’re not an experienced photographer or videographer.

The DJI Mavic...

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Pakistan Bowlers Didn’t Get Their Lengths Right: Waqar Younis

Pakistan’s bowling coach Waqar Younis admitted Pakistan’s bowlers got their lengths wrong on the third day of the first Test against Australia at Brisbane.

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India vs Bangladesh | Kohli Scores 20th Ton as Skipper, Surpasses Ponting

India skipper Virat Kohli on Saturday brought his 27th ton in the ongoing Day-Night Test against Bangladesh being played at the iconic Eden Gardens here.

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Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen Ring Eden Bell on Day 2 of Pink Ball Test

The famous Eden bell, which is rung at the start of day’s play whenever the iconic venue hosts a Test match was graced by two chess legends on the second day of the Pink Ball Test, as Viswanathan Anand and Magnur Carlsen signaled the start of play on Day 2.

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Australia Dominate Pakistan With Bat and Ball on Day Three of Brisbane Test

Australia look certain to take a 1-0 lead in their series against Pakistan after dominating with both bat and ball on day three of the first Test in Brisbane on Saturday.

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'It Just Happens' - New Zealand Hero Watling Struggles to Explain Success

A gritty BJ Watling, New Zealand's go-to man when the chips are down, produced an unbeaten 119 to put the Black Caps ahead of England in the first innings of the opening Test on Saturday.

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Hope India Play a Day-Night Test in Adelaide: Shane Warne

Australian spin legend Shane Warne is hoping Virat Kohli and his men will agree to play with the pink ball when they tour Australia next year.

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Rayudu To Give Ranji Trophy a Miss, Cites 'Politics' in HCA as Reason

India batsman Ambati Rayudu has opted out of representing Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy, citing ‘a lot of politics’ in the team as the reason, according to a report in Telangana Today.

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BJ Watling's Gritty Ton Puts New Zealand Ahead of England

A gritty BJ Watling, New Zealand's go-to man when the chips are down, produced an unbeaten 119 to put the Black Caps ahead of England in the first innings of the opening Test on Saturday.

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India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Match at Kolkata, Day 2: India Look to Extend Lead

India vs Bangladesh Live Score and latest Update of 2nd Test at News18.com. Stay with CricketNext for live score and ball by ball commentary of Ind vs Ban cricket match being played at Kolkata.

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PCB COO Subhan Ahmed Steps Down From Position

The Pakistan Cricket Board's Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmed has stepped down from his position, after serving the board for nine years in the position, and in many different capacities before.

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India vs Bangladesh: Pant Released to Play Mushtaq Ali, KS Bharat to Join Indian Squad as Saha Cover

The Indian selection committee has decided to release Rishabh Pant to get some match time in domestic cricket ahead of the limited overs series against the West Indies next month.

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Here are AT&T’s first real consumer 5G coverage maps

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AT&T announced today that its 5G network will launch in the first half of December. You can use it if you’ve got a compatible Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, one of two unlimited plans, and are fortunate enough to live in one of the five cities where it will be available at launch — or ten cities that will get 5G by early next year. Now, AT&T has also shared its initial 5G coverage maps, and we’ve included them all in this post.

AT&T claims it has two kinds of 5G already, but this third one is the real deal, sort of.

  • You might have seen a 5GE icon on your phone — that’s actually just LTE.
  • You may have also heard about mmWave 5G, which is what AT&T calls 5G+. mmWave 5G offers lightning-fast speeds, but extremely limited coverage (see: Verizon’s...

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Here are AT&T’s first real consumer 5G coverage maps

AT&T stock

AT&T announced today that its 5G network will launch in the first half of December. You can use it if you’ve got a compatible Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, one of two unlimited plans, and are fortunate enough to live in one of the five cities where it will be available at launch — or ten cities that will get 5G by early next year. Now, AT&T has also shared its initial 5G coverage maps, and we’ve included them all in this post.

AT&T claims it has two kinds of 5G already, but this third one is the real deal, sort of.

  • You might have seen a 5GE icon on your phone — that’s actually just LTE.
  • You may have also heard about mmWave 5G, which is what AT&T calls 5G+. mmWave 5G offers lightning-fast speeds, but extremely limited coverage (see: Verizon’s...

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Deadpool Director Quit The Franchise Because Ryan Reynolds Wanted Control

Ryan Reynolds spent the best part of a decade trying to bring a Deadpool solo movie to the big screen, sticking with the Merc with a Mouth following the character’s botched cinematic debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It turned out to be a wise decision, with the first installment turning out to be a critical and commercial smash hit, with the two entries in the franchise so far earning over $1.5bn at the box office.

Terminator: Dark Fate director Tim Miller made his feature debut on Deadpool, but declined to return for the sequel due to creative differences before being replaced with John Wick creator David Leitch. In a recent interview reflecting on the disappointment of Dark Fate, Miller revealed that one of the main reasons he refused to helm Deadpool 2 was Reynolds’ desire to steer the ship and control the direction of the franchise.

“It became clear that Ryan wanted to be in control of the franchise. You can work that way as a director, quite successfully, but I can’t.”

Credit should go to Miller for sticking to his guns and believing that the director should be the driving force behind any movie, which is something of a rarity in today’s studio-mandated blockbuster environment. However, as a bankable star and producer on Deadpool, Reynolds held a lot of sway over the project, especially given the fact that he was the one that lobbied so hard to get it made in the first place.

It seems unlikely that Reynolds will be the point man on the series for much longer now that Deadpool is officially going to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward. Everybody knows that Kevin Feige is the person with the final say on all MCU-related offerings, and the two will need to figure out a balance between Wade Wilson’s R-rated, fourth wall-breaking antics and the family-friendly comic book movies that Marvel Studios have built their empire on.



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Terminator: Dark Fate Director Says He’ll Never Work With James Cameron Again

In the build-up to the release of Terminator: Dark Fate, we were told that the movie would finally give us the follow-up to Judgement Day that we’d all been waiting for. Audiences had been burned already by three disappointing sequels, but this one was said to be different. Of course, it helped that franchise creator James Cameron’s name was plastered all over the marketing, with his involvement hopefully indicative of the series finally returning to form.

As we all know, that turned out not to be the case. Dark Fate generated decent enough reviews, but tanked at the box office, and with the movie set to lose up to $120m for the studio, it may well be the final nail in the coffin for a franchise that has struggled to remain relevant for decades. Director Tim Miller has spoken previously about attempting to take the well-worn Skynet narrative in a different direction, and in a recent interview, the filmmaker admitted that this caused clashes with Cameron.

“Even though Jim is a producer and David Ellison is a producer and they technically have final cut and ultimate power, my name is still on it as director. Even if I’m going to lose the fight, I still feel this obligation to fight because that is what the director is supposed to do. Fight for the movie.”

It turned out that Cameron’s involvement in shaping the narrative was so extensive that Miller frequently found himself being overruled on key creative decisions, so much so that he was brutally honest when asked if he would be interested in working with the Avatar and Titanic director again at some point in the future.

“I can say no, but it has nothing to do with whatever trauma I have from the experience. It’s more that I just don’t want to be in a situation again where I don’t have the control to do what I think is right.”

Based on Miller’s comments, it sounds as though he was playing second fiddle to James Cameron throughout production, despite being the man behind the camera. Fans had been desperate for Cameron to return to the franchise ever since 1991, and when he finally did, it seems that all we’ve ended up with after Terminator: Dark Fate is a box office bomb and an unhappy director.



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Avengers: Endgame Writers Reveal Deleted Smart Hulk Scene

Few films need as little introduction as Avengers: Endgame, Marvel’s final, all conquering fantasy-crossover extravaganza, and there are few facets to it that superfans haven’t already micro-analyzed into oblivion. Props then to Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for dropping some morsels of information that fans won’t have heard – alternate story ideas that ultimately went unused, but will no doubt be intriguing for aficionados of the franchise.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Markus and McFeely shone some light on concepts for Endgame and its predecessor Avengers: Infinity War that never made it to production:

Markus : “There was a sequence in [Infinity War] where they went into the places in the Doctor Strange universe called the Mindscape and everyone faces themselves. It was great but had absolutely nothing to do with anything.

When asked how that sequence played out, McFeely elaborated:

McFeely: The Hulk refuses to come out, if you remember, and [in the discarded storyline] they eventually came to a realization or a compromise and he busted out of the Iron Man suit and beats the heck out of this [monster]. That whole Third Act is a march toward losing, and this Hulk scene is a big win, right? It’s a guy solving his problem and being a funny character because now, he’s eloquent. We had to, at the last second, scrap all that, put aside all these scenes that used to have Smart Hulk and then re-shoot the First Act of Endgame, going to Thanos’ country lodge, that used to have the Smart Hulk.

Markus: “We wanted everybody to have this enormous journey in the five year jump [after the Thanos snap], and to really see, in sometimes shocking ways, how the loss had affected them. We hadn’t given Banner [a change] because we had transformed him earlier, and he had nowhere to go. And suddenly by needing to take it out of the first movie, it was the perfect thing.”

Storyboards for these films – epics of preposterous proportions – likely look as sprawling as the finished article, and one can envisage that these fragments barely scratch the surface of potential story destinations they floated. Even without them, Avengers: Endgame clocked in at over 3 hours, perhaps suggesting even firmer editorial supervision was required (Infinity War was a comparatively lean 149 minutes).

As for the ultimate fate of these never-to-be-filmed scenarios? They’ve been consigned to an alternate dimension of an altogether different kind. Fitting, don’t you think?



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