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Modern Samsung smart TVs equipped with Bluetooth remote controls, such as the SolarCell remote, boast a clever feature called Universal Remote. It allows users to control multiple devices connected to the TV using only the TV remote, thus eliminating the need for extra remotes and buttons. However, in some cases, it can cause frustration, particularly for Xbox console users. The Universal Remote allows Samsung TV users to control their Xbox consoles with the TV remote and turn the Xbox ON automatically whenever they…

Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind October’s critically acclaimed survival horror game Alan Wake 2, revealed that it is reworking what was previously a free-to-play multiplayer game into a premium cooperative title. Remedy Entertainment While Remedy made a name for itself with trippy, narrative-focused single-player franchises like Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Control, a multiplayer project code-named Vanguard has been in the works at the Finnish studio since at least 2018. In 2021, Remedy announced that it…

With Barbie set to eat the box office alive and cement her as Hollywood’s newest massively successful director of $100+ million blockbusters, Greta Gerwig isn’t wasting any time at all in continuing down her latest career path. Having first been rumored last year, it was officially confirmed not too long ago that the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker would be taking on the daunting task of rebooting The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix with at least two feature-length fantasy epics. The streaming service has held the…

There’s a special place in infamy reserved exclusively for the Dark Universe, which is without a doubt the single worst attempt at building a shared universe the industry has ever seen. Dracula Untold was intended to be the first installment in the resurgent horror saga – and even reshot its ending to connect to the present-day timeline – but it was completely cast aside by Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, which then tanked so spectacularly the entire operation was completely abandoned one movie in. The photo of Cruise, Sofia…

via Freestyle Releasing Having established himself as one of the most important and influential figures in 21st Century horror, seamlessly segued into action-packed blockbusters, and then moved across to the world of superhero cinema, James Wan has more than proven to be a master of all trades. In fact; as the creator of the highest-grossing horror franchise in history, the highest-grossing Fast & Furious movie, the highest-grossing DC Comics adaptation ever made, and the first director other than James…

via Disney Superheroes are the biggest business in Hollywood and have been for over 20 years and counting, but that most definitely wasn’t the case back in the early 1990s. Sure, Tim Burton’s Batman had changed the face of cinema forever at the end of the previous decade, but nobody seemed to care at the time that The Rocketeer was one of the best comic book adaptations ever made. Enthusiastically greeted by critics at the time and widely-lauded for its old-fashioned sense of adventure, explosive set pieces, and…

via Sony Just when you thought the never-ending cycle of reboots and remakes was over for good, Prime Video has announced that True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has signed on to write and executive produce a TV show based on The Magnificent Seven. What makes it even more infuriating is that Deadline reveals he was originally in talks create an entirely original concept for a Western series at the streamer’s behest, only for the seed to evolve into what’s basically the reboot of a remake of a remake, one of…

via Paramount Under most circumstances, you’d think that a franchise peaking with its very first installment would prevent an endless slew of reboots, but John McTiernan’s classic The Hunt for Red October was merely the first step in an ongoing Jack Ryan saga that still shows no signs of slowing down. Harrison Ford is arguably the best of the four actors to play the character, but Alec Baldwin still headlined the best movie. Ben Affleck and Chris Pine suffered from being surrounded by mediocrity in The Sum of…

via MGM HBO’s quickfire renewal of The Last of Us may have been dominating the video game discourse with good reason, but the announcement that Amazon is rebooting Tomb Raider as a Marvel Cinematic Universe-style multimedia franchise runs it a close second. After Alicia Vikander’s sequel was finally put out of its misery and killed off for good, it was inevitable that iconic adventurer Lara Croft would be dusted off and rebooted yet again, but an entire unified mythology that spans film, television, and games…

via Paramount Having already cannibalized all of the good ideas, Hollywood is now dipping into its own back catalogue to remake or reboot the truly awful, with infamous sci-fi action disaster Aeon Flux in the midst of being coated in fresh episodic paint. It’s easy to forget the 2005 original – or wipe it from your memory on purpose – because it’s unquestionably one of the worst sci-fi adaptations to emerge throughout the entirety of the 21st Century. That might sound hyperbolic when Academy Award winner…