The Divergent Teaser Is Unveiled; Does It Stand Out In Crowded YA Adaptation Field?

Adding to the almost overflowing list of young adult book adaptations that are trying to capitalize on The Hunger Games and Twilight success, comes another contender in Divergent. 

Directed by Neil Burger (Limitless), and written by two on the rise screenwriters, Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and Vanessa Taylor (Hope Springs), this has the potential to be a major franchise.

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New Characters Revealed in Batman: Arkham Origins Screenshots

The cast of characters in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins game has been slowly rounding itself out as its release inches closer and closer, and recently a batch of screenshots surfaced confirming the appearances of several new faces in the Dark Knight’s video game franchise.

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Here we see Anarky and Firefly, two of Bats’s more minor villains, who should mix up the combat scenarios a little what with the flying and fire-shooting and gadgets and such. However there’s another character in the set of photos who just might be more of a surprising addition:

Katana

The sword-wielding femme fatale seen here mid-fight with Deathstroke is likely Katana. Her inclusion in the game makes a lot of sense considering Arkham Origins allowed players to step out of the cowl and play as Robin and Catwoman in certain areas of the game. It will be interesting to see if Katana is a multiplayer-only character or if she’ll have more of a presence in the single-player campaign.

[UPDATE: Yesterday Arkham Origins‘s official Twitter page confirmed that Arkham Origins will not be released on Xbox One or Playstation 4, making a strictly current-gen game:

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Does this change your purchasing plans for Batman: Arkham Origins?]

Ted 2 Confirmed As MacFarlane Tweets Release Date Window

Seth MacFarlane has been quite the busy bee as of late. Not only is he working on A Million Ways to Die in the West (coming May 30th 2014…hopefully) and executive producing the return of Cosmos, he also has another movie in the works. He confirmed on Twitter recently that he has an idea of the release date for the sequel to his hit raunchy comedy TedCollider had this quote from Seth who said:

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Sharni Vinson Tapped For Female Expendables Flick! Also I Love Her.

Sharni Vinson, the star of the recently released horror flick You’re Next, has lined up her next gig and I couldn’t help but stand up and applaud. Off her awesome badass turn as survivalist Erin, according to TotalFilm and HitFlix, she has earned her way to teaming with some of the other female badasses of the world onto the female Expendables movie. Again, after seeing her wield knives, blenders and keeping her wits about her in You’re Next, Sharni Vinson definitely deserves to be in this movie.

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The flick also stars Gina Carano and Katee Sackhoff so there’s a lot of badass estrogen inhabiting the flick as we speak. Granted, it has yet to have an official name but if it means they get to trade-off the Expendables name a bit longer, whatever it takes to work to get the word out. This project has been bandied about for the last few months and is starting to gather steam. Granted, the pool of female action/sci-fi/horror stars is smaller than the men’s (especially considering the 80s is where most of the Expendables reigned over) but there’s still potential.

As for who else they could add, I’m surprised that Michelle Rodriguez hasn’t joined the flick considering her run of movies. Heck, if we’re spitballing, why not Maggie Q or even get Sigourney Weaver because let’s face it, she was the Queen Badass as Ripley. You can also try Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anna Torv, Franka Potente (go see Run Lola Run), Milla Jovovich, Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey…I’m sure there are more but you get the idea. I think you can do some fun casting with this, just like the Expendables. Regardless, I’m about to totally destroy the message of girl power because I’m posting a picture of Sharni Vinson in a bikini. I don’t do this intentionally but I’m not going to lie, she looks just as incredible in that bikini, just like she looks as incredible wielding an axe in the lead picture being a totally badass.

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