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Image: Junji ItoJunji Ito is one of the biggest horror creators in manga, and his longcareer has led to numerous adaptations of his work. While much of it as of late has been in anime form, several stories such as Scarecrow and Uzumaki have been adapted in live action.Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyThe next manga of his to get the adaptation treatment is Bloodsucking Darkness. Per Variety, the short story of the same name will be brought to film written and executive produced by Jeff Howard (Midnight Mass,…

Samurai Shelldown The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic The Last Ronin is being adapted into a video game. The surprising but intriguing news was confirmed by Paramount Global’s senior vice president for games, Doug Rosen. A developing studio, platforms, or release date was not revealed. Released in 2020, TMNT: The Last Ronin tells of a single turtle — wearing a black mask and wielding the iconic weaponry of all four Heroes in an Half-Shell — as they pick their way through a dystopian, futuristic take of New York,…

The Oscar for the Best Adapted Screenplay was awarded to Sarah Polley for her work in `Women Talking`. The film is based on the 2018 eponymous novel by Miriam Toews, and is inspired by real-life events that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia. Also Read: Oscars 2023: Guillermo del Toro`s `Pinocchio` wins Best Animated Feature Film In 2009, the insular Mennonite colony in eastern Bolivia became international news when nine male members of the sect were accused, and…

When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the fate of the Expanded Universe was thrown up in the air. Eventually, it was decided that everything outside of the films, television shows, and a few select novels and comics, would now come under the banner of Legends. This meant that hundreds of books, comics, games, and other media were essentially no longer considered canon. Included among the vast amount of Legends material were stories set after the original trilogy that had been disregarded when it came to…

Primate Labs announced a new version of its popular benchmark today - Geekbench 6. The company says phones and computers are getting faster so previous methods of measuring improvements are quickly getting out of date. Changes include bigger photos, a larger library of images for importing tests, bigger and more modern PDF examples. The app is now heavier across all platforms since it comes with several new tests, including for background blur during video calls, photo filters in social media and object detection for…

Image: Sean Phillips/Image ComicsRight now, Prime Video is on a pretty good streak with adapting various properties to TV. Between Critical Role, Jack Reacher, and Invincible, plus its various original series, the streamer is good about finding something for a particular niche.Per Deadline, Prime Video is currently finalizing plans to adapt Image Comics’ crime series Criminal. Written by Ed Brubaker (Batman, Uncanny X-Men) and drawn by Sean Phillips (Hellblazer, Kill or Be Killed), the series already has Brubaker tapped…

The Last of Us pilot — out now on Disney+ Hotstar — was a tremendous showcase of breaking the video game adaptation curse, by putting faith in the source material's writing. The inclusion of Neil Druckmann — the writer of the original 2013 PlayStation game — coupled with Craig Mazin's (Chernobyl) filmmaking expertise on the HBO show, strengthened the belief in core fans that this could be special, and it did indeed deliver beautifully. While a good chunk of the pilot felt like a shot-by-shot remake, it was nuances in…

At CES, unveiled new StreamSet wired headsets that it designed with content creators in mind. Based on the popular , the M50xSTS comes in two flavors. One model has 3.5mm aux and XLR connectivity. The other has a USB cable that enables some extra features, but the two versions are otherwise very similar. You'll get the same 45mm large-aperture drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils that are present in the M50x, along with swappable earpads. The M50x earpads are focused on audio quality…

by Brittany Lambert, Brianna Barker Caza, Erin Reid and Susan Ashford, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the wake of the pandemic, it is clear that remote work is here to stay. It seems every week there are more news stories about workers preferring to work remotely, or companies closing physical office spaces. …

Plant material from Yale-Myers Forest and YSE greenhouses were used to study how their vascular systems are constructed and how they compare to the extinct plants from the fossil record. Without developing their vascular systems, plants would largely still look like mosses. Shown here: Huperzia lucidula, also known as Shining club-moss. Credit: Craig Brodersen Lab.A recent study has solved a longstanding mystery in paleontology, revealing how early plants were able to transition from aquatic environments to land through…