When you think of the "Fantastic Four," you likely don't think of grim, dark imagery.
But if a trailer unleashed Tuesday is any indication, Marvel's first family of superheroes are being rebooted into exactly that.20th Century Fox's new take on the foursome -- last seen in 2007's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" -- looks quite different from what we're used to.
For starters, some of the lead cast members look to be younger than their predecessors, and Michael B. Jordan, an African American actor, is playing the Human Torch. And the trailer is decidedly darker than the two previous breezy, joke-filled movies -- and many of the Marvel Comics as well.
For about an hour this morning, humans across the world were briefly forced to interact with each other in person.
Shortly after 12:10 a.m. ET, Facebook and Instagram went down, leaving millions of users around the world briefly unable to post selfies or humblebrag.
Visitors were greeted with a message that said, "Sorry, something went wrong." For thers, the page wouldn't load.
Facebook was down for many users for several hours Thursday, the second day in a row access to the site was hampered.
"Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users," a spokeswoman said in an email. "The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience."
The problem started early Thursday afternoon and was resolved by about 5:30 p.m. ET.
The spokeswoman said the issue was not related to the one from Wednesday, when problems with a third-party network provider shut the site down, or slowed it badly, for several hours. She didn't elaborate on the nature of Thursday's outage.
"Birdman" won the enormous prize - extraordinary movie cast - at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, however it was discuss legacy and assorted qualities that caught the night.
On the TV side, the victors included "Orange Is the New Black" - an arrangement around a ladies' jail, made by a lady, offering a cast that incorporates a transgender entertainer - and dark on-screen characters Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba.
Furthermore the film champs included Patricia Arquette, who won for an execution in "Childhood" that she recorded in excess of 12 years - and wasn't reluctant to demonstrate to it.
Arquette originates from a long line of entertainers. Her kin, including Rosanna Arquette and David Arquette, are performing artists. So was her dad and granddad. She paid tribute to every one of them in her discourse.
"I'm a fourth-era performing artist," she said, obviously weary, including that her family has been performing for more than a century.
The overdramatic, oversexed and over-the-top clever camp instructors of "Wet Hot American Summer" are set to return for a reboot of the faction exemplary summer camp film, Netflix has reported.
The streaming feature administration discharged a trailer Tuesday for the eight-scene miniseries "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp," which will return to the wacky gathering of children and advocates from Camp Firewood's late spring of '81.
Set to return are troupe thrown parts Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Poehler, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon and Michael Showalter, among others.
Taken 3 (also stylized as Tak3n) is a 2014 English-language French action thriller movie directed through Olivier Megaton and written through Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is the third and final installment within the Taken trilogy, and the sequel to the 2008 film Taken and the 2012 movie Taken 2. The movie stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and forest Whitaker. Essential photography began on March 29, 2014, in los angeles. In North the us, 20th Century Fox will release the movie on January 9, 2015.
Synopsis :
Bryan Mills, an ex-govt operative, is accused of the homicide of his wife Lenore "Lenny" Mills. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills once more brings out his specified set of expertise to seek out the real killer and clear his title. Trailer :
Outcast is an 2014 American-chinese language-Canadian action movie directed by Nick Powell and written with the aid of James Dormer. It stars Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen, Liu Yifei, Ji Ke Jun Yi and Andy On. The movie was once slated for unlock on September 26, 2014 in China however was once postponed to January sixteen, 2015.
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When the heir of the imperial throne becomes the goal of assassination through his despised older brother, the younger prince's best hope is the safeguard of his sister, and the reluctant aid of a warfare-weary Crusader, Jacob (Hayden Christensen), who ought to overcome his own personal demons and rally the help of the legendary Crusader-became-bandit, Gallain (Nicolas Cage), to come the prince to his rightful place on the throne. Trailer :
"The Snow Queen" is an normal fairy story written by using Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The story was once first released 21 December 1844 in New Fairy memories. First quantity. Second assortment. 1845. (Danish: Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling. 1845.) The story facilities on the struggle between just right and evil as skilled through Gerda and her pal, Kai.
The story is certainly one of Andersen's longest and most incredibly acclaimed stories. It's commonly incorporated in selected memories and collections of his work and is most likely reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children.
Synopsis :
An evil troll (called the "devil") has made a magic mirror that distorts the looks of the whole lot it displays. It fails to mirror the good and gorgeous features of men and women and things, while magnifying their bad and unsightly elements. The satan, who teaches a "satan school," took the mirror and his students during the arena, delighting in utilizing it to distort everyone and everything; the mirror made the most adorable landscapes look like "boiled spinach." They tried to carry the replicate into Heaven with the proposal of making fools of the angels and God, but the higher they lifted it, the more the reflect grinned and shook with pleasure, and it slipped from their grasp and fell again to earth, shattering into thousands of pieces. These splinters some no better than a grain of sand had been blown round and got into people's hearts and eyes, freezing their hearts like blocks of ice and making their eyes like the troll-replicate itself, seeing best the unhealthy and unsightly in individuals and matters.
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Years later, a bit boy Kai and somewhat woman Gerda reside subsequent door to one another within the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a tremendous city. One could get from Gerda's to Kai's home just by stepping over the gutters of each and every constructing. The two households grow vegetables and roses in window bins positioned on the gutters. Gerda and Kai have a window-box garden to play in, and they become devoted to each other as playmates.
Kai's grandmother tells the children in regards to the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the "snow bees" — snowflakes that appear like bees. As bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she or he is noticeable the place the snowflakes cluster essentially the most. Watching out of his frosted window one winter, Kai sees the Snow Queen, who beckons him to return together with her. Kai attracts back in worry from the window.
By using the next spring, Gerda has realized a tune that she sings to Kai: the place the roses deck the flowery vale, there, boy or girl Jesus thee we hail! When you consider that roses embellish the window field garden, the sight of roses always reminds Gerda of her love for Kai.
On a high-quality summer day, splinters of the troll-replicate get into Kai's coronary heart and eyes whilst he and Gerda are watching at a picture booklet in their window-field backyard. Kai turns into cruel and aggressive. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes enjoyable of his grandmother, and he now not cares about Gerda, on the grounds that all of them now appear dangerous and unsightly to him. The only gorgeous and excellent matters to him now are the tiny snowflakes that he sees via a magnifying glass.
The next wintry weather, Kai goes out along with his sled to play within the snowy market square and "as was once the custom" hitches it to a curious white sleigh carriage, driven by the Snow Queen, who appears as a girl in a white fur-coat. External the city she displays herself to Kai and kisses him twice: once to numb him from the bloodless, and a 2nd time to make him omit about Gerda and his loved ones; a third kiss would kill him. She takes Kai in her sleigh to her palace. The men and women of the town conclude that Kai died in the local river. Gerda, heartbroken, goes out to seem for him and questions every person and the whole thing about Kai's whereabouts. She presents her new purple sneakers to the river in alternate for Kai; via now not taking the reward in the beginning, the river lets her recognize that Kai did not drown. Gerda next visits an old sorceress with a beautiful garden of eternal summer season. The sorceress needs Gerda to stick with her eternally, so she motives Gerda to overlook all about Kai, and reasons all the roses in her backyard to sink below the earth, when you consider that she knows that the sight of them will remind Gerda of her friend. Gerda's warm tears raise one bush above the ground, and it tells her that it could see the entire dead whilst it used to be under the earth, and Kai is not among them. Gerda flees and meets a crow, who tells her that Kai is in the princess's palace. Gerda goes to the palace and meets the princess and the prince, who just isn't Kai, but appears like him. Gerda tells them her story, they usually furnish her with heat clothes and a gorgeous educate. At the same time journeying in the educate Gerda is captured via robbers and brought to their fortress, where she befriends a little robber lady, whose pet doves tell her that they noticed Kai when he used to be carried away with the aid of the Snow Queen in the direction of Lapland. The captive reindeer Bae tells her that he knows easy methods to get to Lapland on the grounds that it is his house.
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The robber lady frees Gerda and the reindeer to journey north to the Snow Queen's palace. They make two stops: first on the Lapp lady's home and then on the Finn lady's residence. The Finn lady tells the reindeer that the secret of Gerda's exact vigour to save Kai is in her candy and harmless child's coronary heart:
When Gerda reaches the Snow Queen's palace, she is halted by using the snowflakes guarding it. She prays the Lord's Prayer, which explanations her breath to take the form of angels, who resist the snowflakes and permit Gerda to enter the palace. Gerda finds Kai by myself and virtually immobile on a frozen lake, which the Snow Queen calls the "replicate of cause", on which her throne sits. Kai is engaged in the project that the Snow Queen gave him: he need to use pieces of ice like a chinese language puzzle to type characters and phrases. If he's ready to type the phrase "eternity" (Danish: Evigheden), the Snow Queen will unlock him from her vigour and provides him a pair of skates. Gerda runs up to Kai and kisses him, and he's saved via the vigor of her love: Gerda weeps heat tears on him, melting his heart and burning away the troll-mirror splinter in it. Accordingly, Kai bursts into tears (which dislodge the splinter from his eye) and becomes cheerful and healthy again with glowing eyes and rosy cheeks, and also recognizes Gerda. He and Gerda dance around on the lake of ice so joyously that the splinters of ice Kai had been playing with are caught up into the dance. Once they tire of dancing they fall right down to spell "eternity," the very word Kai used to be seeking to spell. Even supposing the Snow Queen have been to come back (despite the fact that it is in no way stated from the place), she would be obliged to free Kai. Kai and Gerda then depart the Snow Queen's area with the support of the reindeer, the Finn lady, and the Lapp lady. They meet the robber lady, and from there they stroll again to their residence, "the gigantic city."
Kai and Gerda in finding that the whole lot at residence is the same and that it is they who've changed; they're now grown up, and are additionally delighted to look that it is summertime.
Enormous Hero 6 is a 2014 American laptop-animated superhero myth-comedy movie produced by using Walt Disney Animation Studios and released through Walt Disney photographs. It is the 54th movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and is inspired by the wonder Comics superhero workforce of the identical name.Directed by using Don hall and Chris Williams, the film tells the story of a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who varieties a superhero team to combat a masked villain. The movie points the voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Daniel Henney, T. J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans, Jr., Génesis Rodríguez, and Maya Rudolph.
Synopsis :
Hiro Hamada is a 14-year-ancient robotics genius who lives within the futuristic metropolis of San Fransokyo and spends his time participating in back-alley robot fights. His older brother Tadashi, concerned that Hiro is wasting his advantage, takes him to the robotics lab at his institution, the place Hiro meets Tadashi's neighbors, GoGo, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Fred as good as Baymax, a individual healthcare robot Tadashi created. Amazed, Hiro decides to apply to the school. He grants his undertaking—microbots, swarms of tiny robots that can link together in any arrangement imaginable—at an annual exhibition to acquire admission. Alistair Krei, President of Krei Tech, a prestigious robotics organization, tries to purchase the technology from him, however Hiro declines the present. Professor Callaghan, head of the institution's robotics application, is impressed with the microbots, and Hiro will get in. When a hearth breaks out at the school, Tadashi rushes in to rescue Callaghan, but the building explodes and both are killed. For this reason of shedding his brother, Hiro secludes himself from others.
One day, Hiro unintentionally prompts Baymax, who follows considered one of his microbots to an abandoned warehouse. There, the 2 detect that any individual has been mass-producing Hiro's bots; they're attacked by using a masked man who is controlling the bots. Realizing this man has stolen his project, Hiro decides to trap him, and upgrades Baymax with armor and a battle chip containing various karate moves. After the masked man assaults Hiro, Baymax, GoGo, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred, they hideout at Fred's loved ones mansion. Fred believes the masked man to be Alistair Krei, and thinks that he stole the bots. Hiro creates superhero suits for every person and so they kind a superhero staff. Utilising the info from Baymax's scan of the masked man, they find him on a quarantined island.
Once there, the team discovers a former lab of Krei Tech that was once experimenting with teleportation science. The test went awry when the experiment pilot vanished inside an unstable portal. The masked man is revealed to not be Krei, but rather Professor Callaghan, who stole Hiro's bots and used them to flee the fire. Realizing that Tadashi died in vain, Hiro angrily gets rid of Baymax's healthcare chip, leaving him with best the fight chip, and orders him to kill Callaghan. Baymax practically does so except Honey manages to insert the healthcare chip back in, restoring Baymax. The others inform Hiro that they simply agreed to catch the masked man. Irritated at his friends, Hiro goes home, and breaks down when Baymax asks him if killing Callaghan will support his emotional state. To melt Hiro's loss, Baymax plays a couple of humorous clips of Tadashi running tests on him for the duration of Baymax's development. Hiro realizes that killing Callaghan is not what Tadashi would've desired and makes amends with his associates.
The staff discovers that the scan pilot used to be Callaghan's daughter Abigail; Callaghan is searching for revenge on Krei whom he blames for his daughter's dying. Callaghan attempts to kill Krei with the reactivated portal. The crew foils the plan by destroying the microbots, but the portal remains active. Baymax detects lifestyles indicators of Abigail, and he and Hiro rush in to save lots of her. On their manner out, Baymax's armor is broken and he realizes the only way to store Hiro and Abigail is to propel them back by way of the portal with his rocket fist. Hiro refuses to go away him, but Baymax insists until Hiro tearfully offers in. Hiro and Abigail make it again, whilst Callaghan is arrested.
Someday later, Hiro discovers Baymax's healthcare chip (which comprises his whole personality) clenched in his rocket fist. Delighted, he rebuilds Baymax and so they fortunately reunite. The six acquaintances continue their exploits through town, enjoyable Tadashi's dream of serving to these in need.
For the duration of the end credit, it's shown through newspaper headlines that Hiro has been awarded a furnish from the institution and a building is committed to Tadashi. In a publish-credit scene, Fred unintentionally opens a secret door in his loved ones mansion and finds superhero gear inside. His father, a retired superhero arrives, mentioning that they have got so much to talk about as they include.
