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Hasbro’s multitude of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons include streaming the fan-favorite 1980s D&D cartoon on the 24/7 Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures FAST channel. The animated series, despite a relatively short run of three seasons and 27 episodes, has become a fantasy genre classic. The engaging storytelling and dark themes greatly influenced future media—and the characters were so memorable, 40 years later they caused a social media frenzy when their live-action counterparts…

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard whose employees famously started publicly shit-talking as soon as he was out the door, is reportedly looking for a new company to rule. Word on the street is that the company is TikTok.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme MachineAccording to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Kotick approached several investors about forming a consortium of partners to buy TikTok if ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, agrees to (or is forced to) sell. The…

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who stepped down at the end of last year, is apparently interested in buying TikTok as a new or force its sale. According to a report by , Kotick mentioned the idea of partnering on such a purchase to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others seated with him at a conference dinner last week, and brought it up with ByteDance Executive Chair Zhang Yiming. If TikTok is sold, the WSJ notes, it would likely go for hundreds of billions of dollars.Kotick led Activision for over 30…

Millie Bobby Brown is not here for the comments about how her accent has changed as she has spent more time in America. The Stranger Things star sat down for an interview with internet personality Max Balegde and discussed the social media conversations surrounding the actress seemingly losing her British accent as she mostly lives in the United States now. “I’m an actor,” Brown said. “I grew up in the public eye. I grew up in America. I come to set, and I’m an actor and I adapt, and so I want…

Damsel Movie ft Millie Bobby Brown. (Photo Credit – IMDb) The Netflix film Damsel was released on March 8. The fantasy period drama stars Millie Bobby Brown as Elodie, Angela Bassett as Lady Bayford, Nick Robinson as Prince Henry, Ray Winstone as Lord Bayford, Robin Wright as Queen Isabelle and Brooke Carter as Queen Isabelle. Dan Mazeau wrote the story, and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed the film. In Damsel, after marrying Prince Henry, Elodie is thrown into a cave as a ruthless ancestral royal tradition. A…

`Stranger Things` actor Millie Bobby Brown has opened up about performing all her stunts on her own in Netflix`s new film, `Damsel`, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I feel like the female version of Tom Cruise," Brown declared during a recent appearance on `The Drew Barrymore Show`. "I did all my own stunts from start to finish." Notorious for executing his own death-defying stunts, Cruise reportedly stated of his action work, "No one asked Gene Kelly, `Why do you dance?`" This week, Brown clarified that her…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMillie Bobby Brown has responded to fans who questioned the apparent loss of her British accent in interviews, saying: “I’m trying my best”.Last week, some fans of the actor were left confused and bewildered by Brown’s accent during her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.Viewers said they were distracted by the disappearance of her formerly prominent British accent. The…

Taking age-old expectations of how a fairytale is supposed to play out and giving them a brisk shuffle is by no means as fresh as some film-makers often like to think, upending cliches with a tired wink and a smug smirk. But Netflix’s Damsel, itself loosely similar to Hulu’s 2022 offering The Princess, doesn’t require our astonishment at its wheel reinvention to pass the bar and is far too sprightly to get overly bogged down in the self-satisfaction of such an endeavour.There are, in fact, very few surprises in store here…

“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress,” a voice informs us before a single image appears on the screen. “This is not one of them.” It probably isn’t necessary to prep and/or warn viewers that Damsel, Netflix‘s expensive-looking throw of the cinematic D&D dice, isn’t your typical sword-and-sorcery fantasy before it’s even started, but thanks for the heads up. For one thing, there’s no sorcery in it unless you count the magic that certain performers bring to any…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNetflix’s Millie Bobby Brown micro-industry continues apace with Damsel, which revives the blunt-force teen girl empowerment of the Enola Holmes series, dresses it up for ren faire, and then strips it of all its joy. Here, the Stranger Things star plays the headstrong, pure-hearted Elodie, a dutiful child to Ray Winstone’s Lord Bayford, and a loving stepdaughter to Angela Bassett’s…