Catwoman Will Reportedly Be In Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Zack Snyder loves to tease fans over what’s coming in HBO Max’s Justice League revamp. Just this week, the director has given us a glimpse of the movie’s Martian Manhunter and he’s even dropped a hint that none other than Catwoman could appear in the Snyder Cut. We previously hadn’t heard anything about this, but the filmmaker recently shared a comic book panel of Batman and Selina Kyle in a romantic embrace on his Vero account. That’s got to mean something.

Following this, We Got This Covered reached out to our sources and we have heard that, yes, Catwoman will reportedly appear in some capacity in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. This intel comes from the same place as much accurate DCEU info in the past – including our report that the Snyder Cut was happening in the first place. We don’t know exactly how Selina will factor into the film as yet, but BatCat fans will be pleased to know she’ll show up somewhere.

What with reshoots going on behind closed doors, Snyder is making the most of his opportunity to expand his movie. It’s been confirmed that he’s brought back Jared Leto as the Joker, alongside Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke, so a bunch of Gotham’s most notorious residents will be appearing in the flick. As we’re not hearing any news on a Catwoman casting, it could be that she’ll turn up for a brief cameo, with a stand-in in her iconic catsuit, but that’s just conjecture at this time.

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Obviously, it won’t be Zoe Kravitz in the part, seeing as she’s busy working on The Batman in the U.K. and Matt Reeves’ movie is part of a completely different continuity. Getting in Ben Affleck’s real-life partner Ana de Armas as Selina would be fun, but that seems unlikely for this project. Hey, maybe that could happen in Justice League 2, if that actually gets the greenlight.

With more and more DC icons due to appear in it, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. We’ll finally see it on HBO Max sometime in the first half of 2021.

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Freaky Review

Who knew Vince Vaughn would be the perfect actor to portray a 2020 version of Tess Coleman, the body swap role that earned Jamie Lee Curtis a Golden Globe nomination for Freaky Friday? Probably only Vaughn himself, who turns in a brilliantly campy performance in Christopher Landon’s body-swap horror flick Freaky.

Landon is best known for merging Groundhog Day with House on Sorority Row in Happy Death Day (as well as writing and directing its sequel). Fans of that movie will recognize a similar approach here: mix Freaky Friday with Friday the 13th and you get…Freaky Friday the 13th?

The Freaky Friday part involves a 17-year-old girl, Millie (Kathryn Newton). She’s an outcast at school, relentlessly bullied save for a couple of close friends. After a football game, she ends up alone in the stadium with the Blissfield Butcher (Vaughn), who just the night before, slaughtered a quartet of horny teens with wine bottles and toilet lids. When the Buthcer stabs Millie with an ancient dagger, the clouds darken and the grass parts to reveal a Temple made of stone. Although Millie makes it out alive, the next morning, The Butcher wakes up in Millie’s body, and she wakes up in The Butcher’s.

The swap offers the opportunity for Newton and Vaughn to play against type. As Millie, Newton is shy and sweet, relying a lot on the support of her fellow outcasts Nyla (Celeste O’Conner) and Josh (Misha Osherovich). As the Butcher, she changes her whole style and spirit, dressing in a red biker jacket and dispatching the bullies who made Millie’s life a living hell.

However, the comedic draw here is Vaughn, who in his 6-foot-5-inch frame, gets to pretend like he’s a teenage girl. He bumps into branches, trips over rocks, and swivels his hips like a JV cheerleader. Like Jack Black in the Jumanji movies, it’s an overtly feminine characterization, but it’s not a condescending one. It’s the scenario that makes you laugh–watching the Butcher flirt with Millie’s quarterback crush, Booker (Uriah Shelton), is priceless.

Opening Friday in theaters, Freaky’s release date was pushed several times before the pandemic, a strategy that often suggests something’s amiss. Not so in this case. Landon walks the knife-edge between funny and scary, without leaning one way or the other.

He infuses the film with graphic, R-rated violence. The kills are dripping in blood-splatter, making use of everything from knives to chain saws. Editor Ben Baudhuin keeps a steady hand on the pacing, with some genuinely shocking jolts interspersed throughout. But the screenplay, by Landon and Michael Kennedy, never feels as sharp as its action.

Unfortunately, the script clings to a generic screen-version of high school, where the mean girls are really mean and the jocks all seem to have transferred from Westerburg High (Heathers). It makes it easy for us to cheer whenever the Butcher tortures Millie’s bullies (good riddance!). But it also makes it hard for us to care for the victims, or to tremble when the Butcher, in Millie’s body, tip toes in the back of the frame toward unsuspecting football players.

A more nuanced film would have fleshed out its students, or at least made them symbols for something greater (i.e. Heathers), that way when everyone gathers at the obligatory homecoming dance, your heart is torn between killer and victim as throats are slashed and revenge is had. Still…

While fans of either Freaky Friday or Friday the 13th might not get enough of what they came for in Freaky, fans of Vaughn will get more than enough to keep them satisfied. He makes Freaky worth it.

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This leaked icon may show what Apple’s rumored over-ear headphones look like

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Apple has been rumored to be working on new over-ear headphones for years, and we might have just gotten a vague idea of what they look like, thanks to an icon found in the first developer beta for iOS 14.3 by 9to5Mac. You can see the icon at the top of this post.

And here’s another look at the icon, apparently from a video in the Find My app in the beta found by MacRumors contributing writer Steve Moser.

New Pairing video in the Find My app in iOS 14.3 beta 1 with the codename Hawkeye hints at Apple Tags support and new Apple over ear headphones. pic.twitter.com/oVdCLQcaWc

— Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) November 12, 2020

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Apple might appease antitrust concerns by suggesting third-party apps to new iPhone owners

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Apple has been staring down the barrel of numerous antitrust investigations this past year, after app developers like Spotify and Rakuten accused the company of unfairly advantaging Apple’s own apps ahead of theirs. But Apple is apparently working on a new feature that might address at least one of the common concerns, by proactively suggesting third-party apps (apps that Apple doesn’t make) to iPhone and iPad users when they first set up their devices. Will Apple suggest Spotify alongside Apple Music? That could be on the table.

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Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue

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Many Mac users reported that their computers have been running slower than usual on Thursday — including a number of Verge staffers — with apps launching slowly or not at all, alongside other Apple service issues.

It appears that the problem is due to many people rushing to download macOS Big Sur, which was officially released today, which in turn seems to have crashed Apple’s OCSP (online certificate status protocol) service — which is used for several key aspects of macOS, including validating digital certificates for both Apple and third-party software on the Mac, as Ars Technica reports.

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The Nintendo Switch has been the US’s bestselling console for 23 straight months

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It’s been a good two years for the Nintendo Switch. According to Nintendo, the gaming tablet has been the bestselling console in the US for 23 straight months. And according to data from the NPD Group, it just had its best October ever, moving 735,926 units of both the Switch and Switch Lite in the US. The company says that represents a 136 percent increase compared to last year. To date, the Switch has sold 22.5 million units in the US, and last week Nintendo revealed that more than 68 million units have been sold globally. “We’re excited about our momentum,” says Nick Chavez, Nintendo of America’s SVP of sales and marketing.

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Apple might appease antitrust concerns by suggesting third-party apps to new iPhone owners

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Apple has been staring down the barrel of numerous antitrust investigations this past year, after app developers like Spotify and Rakuten accused the company of unfairly advantaging Apple’s own apps ahead of theirs. But Apple is apparently working on a new feature that might address at least one of the common concerns, by proactively suggesting third-party apps (apps that Apple doesn’t make) to iPhone and iPad users when they first set up their devices. Will Apple suggest Spotify alongside Apple Music? That could be on the table.

9to5Mac spotted the feature in the new iOS 14.3 beta, and it seems pretty clear from the accompanying text that the feature is designed to satisfy countries who take a dim view of Apple’s current stance. “In...

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Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Many Mac users reported that their computers have been running slower than usual on Thursday — including a number of Verge staffers — with apps launching slowly or not at all, alongside other Apple service issues.

It appears that the problem is due to many people rushing to download macOS Big Sur, which was officially released today, which in turn seems to have crashed Apple’s OCSP (online certificate status protocol) service — which is used for several key aspects of macOS, including validating digital certificates for both Apple and third-party software on the Mac, as Ars Technica reports.

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If you're now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.

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The Nintendo Switch has been the US’s bestselling console for 23 straight months

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge

It’s been a good two years for the Nintendo Switch. According to Nintendo, the gaming tablet has been the bestselling console in the US for 23 straight months. And according to data from the NPD Group, it just had its best October ever, moving 735,926 units of both the Switch and Switch Lite in the US. The company says that represents a 136 percent increase compared to last year. To date, the Switch has sold 22.5 million units in the US, and last week Nintendo revealed that more than 68 million units have been sold globally. “We’re excited about our momentum,” says Nick Chavez, Nintendo of America’s SVP of sales and marketing.

Chavez puts the company’s big October down to two main factors. One is a better supply of stock; this year in...

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