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Geek Tyrant
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Dan Stevens To Play Fallen Jedi in LEGO STAR WARS: REBUILD THE GALAXY – PIECES OF THE PAST — GeekTyrant
The Legion and Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens has officially been cast as Solitus, a fallen Jedi on a mysterious quest, in LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past . The new Disney+ animated series continues the chaotic, canon-bending LEGO Star Wars fun introduced in 2024's Rebuild the Galaxy. According to the show's description, Stevens' character is 'a fallen Jedi who's looking for access to the Forcehold – a secret realm full of discarded pieces of the past.' Alongside Stevens, the project stars Ashley Eckstein returns as LEGO BrickHeadz Ahsoka Tano, and Ben Schwartz will bring the fan-favorite rabbit-like smuggler Jaxxon to animated life. The returning cast includes Gaten Matarazzo as Sig Greebling, Tony Revolori as Darth Dev, Bobby Moynihan as Jedi Bob, Marsai Martin as Yesi Scala, Michael Cusack as Servo, and Ahmed Best as Darth Jar Jar. Oh, and Mark Hamill is also showing up as Luke Skywalker. The story picks up where Rebuild the Galaxy left off, with a wild twist: 'A new threat rises in the galaxy, and Sig Greebling and Darth Dev must combine their powers of Force Building and Sith Breaking to stop it. Alongside Jedi Bob, Yesi Scala, and Servo, they will journey into the deepest corners of LEGO Star Wars lore, uncovering pieces of all the galaxies that have come before.' The series is written and executive produced by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem ), and directed by Chris Buckley. LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past is set to premiere on September 19, 2025, a
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Rumor Is Good News for Keanu Reeves Fans
A new rumor surrounding Shadow from the Sonic the Hedgehog film series will have fans of the character very happy. According to a new report from noted insider MyTimeToShine suggests that a Shadow spin-off is currently in development at Paramount. No official word on whether or not the project would be a television show (like the Knuckles series that aired on Paramount+), or a full-fledged movie was mentioned at this time. Shadow was first introduced in 2024's Sonic the Hedgehog 3. He was played by Keanu Reeves, and toward the end of the film, he attempted to sacrifice himself alongside Dr. Ivo Robotnik in an attempt to save Earth from a cannon. However, the final scene of the film shows Shadow survived. 'Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before,' the synopsis for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 reads. 'With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.' Ben Schwartz returns to play Sonic the Hedgehog in the new movie, while the voice cast also includes Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Miles 'Tails' Prower, Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna, and Keanu Reeves as Shadow the Hedgehog. James Marsden will reprise his role as Tom Wachowski. The live-action cast also features Tika Sumpter, Krysten Ritter, Natasha Rothwell, Cristo Fernández, Alyla Browne, and more.
The Verge
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It's Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and intimacy coordinators, finally making a dent in Barbarians at the Gate, watching all the Ben Schwartz and Friends I can find on YouTube, planning my days with the new Finalist beta, recklessly installing all the Apple developer betas after WWDC, thoroughly enjoying Dakota Johnson's current press tour, and trying to clear all my inboxes before I go on parental leave. It's… going. I also have for you a much-awaited new browser, a surprise update to a great photo editor, a neat trailer for a meh-looking movie, a classic Steve Jobs speech, and much more. Slightly shorter issue this week, sorry; there's just a lot going on, but I didn't want to leave y'all hanging entirely. Oh, and: we'll be off next week, for Juneteenth, vacation, and general summer chaos reasons. We'll be back in full force after that, though! Let's get into it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What do you want to know more about? What awesome tricks do you know that everyone else should? What app should everyone be using? Tell me everything: installer@ And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) The Drop Dia. I know there are a lot of Arc fans here in the Installerverse, and I know you, like me, will have a lot of feelings about the company's new and extremely AI-focused browser. Personally, I don't see leaving Arc anytime soon, but there are some really fascinating ideas (and nice design touches) in Dia already. Snapseed 3.0. I completely forgot Snapseed even existed, and now here's a really nice update with a bunch of new editing tools and a nice new redesign! As straightforward photo editors go, this is one of the better ones. The new version is only on iOS right now, but I assume it's heading to Android shortly. ' I Tried To Make Something In America.' I was first turned onto the story of the Smarter Scrubber by a great Search Engine episode, and this is a great companion to the story about what it really takes to bring manufacturing back to the US. And why it's hard to justify. The F1 haptic trailer. That link, and the trailer, will only do anything for you if you have a newer iPhone. But even if you don't care about the movie, the trailer — which actually buzzes in sync with the car's rumbles and revs — is just really, really cool. Android 16. You can't get the cool, colorful new look just yet or the desktop mode I am extremely excited about — there's a lot of good stuff in Android 16 but most of it is coming later. Still, Live Updates look good, and there's some helpful accessibility stuff, as well. The Infinite Machine Olto. I am such a sucker for any kind of futuristic-looking electric scooter, and this one really hits the sweet spot. Part moped, part e-bike, all Blade Runner vibes. If it wasn't $3,500, then I would've probably ordered one already. The Fujifilm X-E5. I kept wondering why Fujifilm didn't just make, like, a hundred different great-looking cameras at every imaginable price because everyone wants a camera this cool. Well, here we are! It's a spin on the X100VI but with interchangeable lenses and a few power-user features. All my photographer friends are going to want this. Call Her Alex. I confess I'm no Call Her Daddy diehard, but I found this two-part doc on Alex Cooper really interesting. Cooper's story is all about understanding people, the internet, and what it means to feel connected now. It's all very low-stakes and somehow also existential? It's only two parts, you should watch it. ' Steve Jobs - 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.' For the 20th anniversary of Jobs' famous (and genuinely fabulous) speech, the Steve Jobs Archive put together a big package of stories, notes, and other materials around the speech. Plus, a newly high-def version of the video. This one's always worth the 15 minutes. Dune: Awakening. Dune has ascended to the rare territory of 'I will check out anything from this franchise, ever, no questions asked.' This game is big on open-world survival and ornithopters, too, so it's even more my kind of thing. And it's apparently punishingly difficult in spots. Crowdsourced Here's what the Installer community is into this week. I want to know what you're into right now as well! Email installer@ or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we'll feature some of our favorites here every week. For even more great recommendations, check out the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky. 'I had tried the paper planner in the leather Paper Republic journal but since have moved onto the Remarkable Paper Pro color e-ink device which takes everything you like about paper but makes it editable and color coded. Combine this with a Remarkable planner in PDF format off of Etsy and you are golden.' — Jason 'I started reading a manga series from content creator Cory Kenshin called Monsters We Make. So far, I love it. Already preordered Vol. 2.' — Rob 'I recently went down the third party controller rabbit hole after my trusty adapted Xbox One controller finally kicked the bucket, and I wanted something I could use across my PC, phone, handheld, Switch, etc. I've been playing with the GameSir Cyclone 2 for a few weeks, and it feels really deluxe. The thumbsticks are impossibly smooth and accurate thanks to its TMR joysticks. The face buttons took a second for my brain to adjust to; the short travel distance initially registered as mushy, but once I stopped trying to pound the buttons like I was at the arcade, I found the subtle mechanical click super satisfying.' — Sam 'The Apple TV Plus miniseries Long Way Home. It's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's fourth Long Way series. This time they are touring some European countries on vintage bikes that they fixed, and it's such a light-hearted show from two really down to earth humans. Connecting with other people in different cultures and seeing their journey is such a treat!' — Esmael 'Podcast recommendation: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Christianity Today. A deep dive into the Satanic Panic of the 80's and 90's.' — Drew ' Splatoon 3 (the free Switch 2 update) and the new How to Train Your Dragon.' — Aaron 'I can't put Mario Kart World down. When I get tired of the intense Knockout Tour mode I go to Free Roam and try to knock out P-Switch challenges, some of which are really tough! I'm obsessed.' — Dave ' Fable, a cool app for finding books with virtual book clubs. It's the closest to a more cozy online bookstore with more honest reviews. I just wish you could click on the author's name to see their other books.' — Astrid 'This is the Summer Games Fest week (formerly E3, RIP) and there are a TON of game demos to try out on Steam. One that has caught my attention / play time the most is Wildgate. It's a team based spaceship shooter where ship crews battle and try to escape with a powerful artifact.' — Sean ' Battlefront 2 is back for some reason. Still looks great.' — Ian Signing off I have long been fascinated by weather forecasting. I recommend Andrew Blum's book, The Weather Machine, to people all the time, as a way to understand both how we learned to predict the weather and why it's a literally culture-changing thing to be able to do so. And if you want to make yourself so, so angry, there's a whole chunk of Michael Lewis's book, The Fifth Risk, about how a bunch of companies managed to basically privatize forecasts… based on government data. The weather is a huge business, an extremely powerful political force, and even more important to our way of life than we realize. And we're really good at predicting the weather! I've also been hearing for years that weather forecasting is a perfect use for AI. It's all about vast quantities of historical data, tiny fluctuations in readings, and finding patterns that often don't want to be found. So, of course, as soon as I read my colleague Justine Calma's story about a new Google project called Weather Lab, I spent the next hour poking through the data to see how well DeepMind managed to predict and track recent storms. It's deeply wonky stuff, but it's cool to see Big Tech trying to figure out Mother Nature — and almost getting it right. Almost.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves-starrer 'Sonic The Hedgehog 3' to stream from April 24
Picture Credit: X Actors Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves-starrer ' Sonic The Hedgehog 3 ' to stream from April 24 on Prime Video . Based on the globally popular Sonic video game series, the film is directed by Jeff Fowler with a story by Pat Casey & Josh Miller and screenplay by Pat Casey & Josh Miller and John Whittington. The film's live-action stars Jim Carrey in a dual role, alongside James Marsden, Krysten Ritter, Tika Sumpter and Lee Majdoub, with an all-star voice-cast including Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba and Colleen O'Shaughnessey alongside Keanu Reeves . In "Sonic The Hedgehog 3", Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails get back for their most epic adventure yet. The team reunites to face a formidable new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious hedgehog with unmatched abilities that threaten to upend everything they've fought to protect. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo As Shadow unleashes chaos, Team Sonic is forced to seek out an unlikely alliance to stand a chance at protecting the planet. With high-stakes action, breathtaking CGI, and emotional depth, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 levels up the franchise in ways fans never saw coming. "Sonic The Hedgehog 3" will be available to stream on Prime Video India in English and Hindi from April 24. The film is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution . The first installment of the film will be released in 2020. It marked the directorial debut of Fowler. Ben Schwartz voices Sonic, a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds and teams up with small town sheriff Tom Wachowski to stop the mad scientist Dr. Robotnik from taking over the world. The second installment released in 2022, James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Colleen O'Shaughnessey and Jim Carrey reprise their roles, with Shemar Moore and Idris Elba joining the cast. In the film, Sonic the Hedgehog and his friend Tails embark on a journey to find the Master Emerald before their nemesis, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and his accomplice, Knuckles the Echidna.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ben Schwartz still gets paid cheques for his voice work on Star Wars
Ben Schwartz still gets money from his voice consultancy work on BB-8 in 'Star Wars'.
