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Netflix Gave Away 83 Year Subscription!

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Netflix recently gave away an 83 year subscription! Yes you read that right, an 83 YEAR subscription. So basically you’ll never have to pay for Netflix again. To promote the new Charlize Theron Film The Old Guard, they held a gaming tournament. With the prize being the basically lifelong subscription.

To win, all you needed to do was to be amazing at the original video game of The Old Guard. The task? To beat everyone and by the number 1 gamer by the end of a weekend a couple of weeks ago.

Netflix described the prize as an ‘immortal’ subscription of 1,000 months. Which is 83 and a third years.

The game was a ‘browser-based, top-down beat em up”. You’ll be  playing as Charlize’s character, Andromache of Scythia.

Originally, in the comics, Andromache was the oldest in the gang of immortals. She uses a double-bladed axe called the Labrys to hack and slash her way to victory.

The Netflix film is about immortality, so even if you die in the game, you’ll just move slower, which would have made it difficult to get the top score.

While the competition has now ended, you can still enjoy the game! So, go ahead and play it, why not!

The game is available here!

(Gizmodo)

The game will be available here from 4pm today (Friday 17th July). Good luck.

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Kill Ben Lyk – New RED BAND TRAILER

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British Dark Comedy is always a blast at the cinema and the new film Kill Ben Lyk, looks to continue that trend! It’s the debut film written and directed by Erwan Marinopoulos and stars Eugene Simon (“Game of Thrones”) and Simone Ashley (“Sex education”)
The film has had success on the international film festival circuit, Kill Ben Lyk will be out in UK Cinemas nationwide from 22nd November via ourscreen.

Plot

Multiple bullets, multiple targets, one name. Pop quiz: someone is running around London killing your namesake. What do you do? Do you run? Do you stay and fight? If you’re quasi-famous YouTuber Ben Lyk (Eugene Simon), you vlog about it and hope for the best. That is, until Scotland Yard try and sort it out, rounding him up along with every other Ben Lyk in town, keeping them holed up in a safe house that isn’t so safe. And once the Ben Lyk’s begin dropping dead one by one, it’s a mad dash to figure out why this is even happening in the first place.

Kill Ben Lyk Stars:

Eugene Simon (“Game of Thrones”) stars as one of eight other Ben Lyk’s, including:

Ashley Thomas (“Top Boy” and “Black Mirror”),
Distraction Pieces Podcast presenter Scroobius Pip (“Taboo”),
Bruce MacKinnon (Guardians of the Galaxy),
Bronson Webb (The Dark Knight),
Youtube star Daz Black (“Daz Black watches”),
Charlie Rawes (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
Gretchen Egolf (The Talented Mr. Ripley).
Dimitri Leonidas (“Riviera” and The Monuments Men)
Mixed Martial Arts superstar Martyn Ford (“The Nevers” and Kingsman: The Golden Circle)
and James Chalmers (Vanity Fair).

Kill Ben Lyk is 77 mins / English / Cert 15

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50 all time biggest movie FLOPS!

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Firstly, let’s talk about movie records! Earlier this year Avengers: Endgame became the highest grossing movie of all time! Bringing in a total of over $2.79 billion at the box office. That’s Billion. With a capital B! Jheeeze! So much money! However, not all films were this lucky, our friends over at musicMagpie analysed over 1,000 different movies to find out which movies were the biggest box office failures of all time.  Detailing which of the movies earned very little compared to what it cost to make it. Therefore making it on to the list of  movie flops!

So, which one made the top of the list? While, Mars Needs Moms came out at the very top of of the biggest box office flop of all time. How much did it lose? It lost a cool $110, 450, 242. That’s A LOT of money to lose on a film! Dark Phoenix, the last movie in the long running X-Men Franchise came out second with a loss of $103, 643, 105 at the box office.

So, check out the table below which details 50 of the biggest box office flops of all time!

50 biggest box office flops of all time:

Movie Loss $ Production Budget $ Worldwide Gross $
Mars Needs Moms (2011)  -110,450,242  150,000,000    39,549,758
Dark Phoenix (2019)  -103,643,105  350,000,000  246,356,895
Town & Country (2001)   -94,635,231 105,000,000   10,364,769
Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)  -92,905,005  100,000,000  7,094,995
Promise (2017)   -79,448,583    90,000,000    10,551,417
Renegades (2019)  -75,978,328  77,500,000  1,521,672
A Sound of Thunder (2005)   -73,699,549  80,000,000  6,300,451
Cutthroat Island (1995)  -73,482,678   92,000,000    18,517,322
How Do You Know? (2010)   -70,371,823  120,000,000  49,628,177
Monkeybone (2001)   -69,590,483   75,000,000     5,409,517
Nutcracker in 3D (2010)   -69,533,984   90,000,000    20,466,016
Alamo (2004)  -68,088,638   92,000,000    23,911,362
Air Strike (2018)   -64,483,721  65,000,000   516,279
Monster Trucks (2017) -63,357,202  125,000,000   61,642,798
13th Warrior (1999)  -63,301,101  125,000,000   61,698,899
Stealth (2005)  -61,583,254 138,000,000    76,416,746
Soldier (1998)  -60,376,918   75,000,000  14,623,082
Postman (1997)   -59,158,877    80,000,000  20,841,123
Osmosis Jones (2001)   -56,403,089  70,000,000   13,596,911
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)  -55,705,158  70,000,000  14,294,842
Lucky Numbers (2000)  -54,985,766   65,000,000  10,014,234
Timeline (2003)  -53,296,816  80,000,000  26,703,184
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)  -51,868,170  137,000,000  85,131,830
R.I.P.D. (2013)  -50,923,322  130,000,000  79,076,678
Blackhat (2015)  -50,334,996  70,000,000  19,665,004
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)  -50,274,337  80,000,000  29,725,663
Hard Rain (1998)  -50,129,433  70,000,000  19,870,567
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2014)  -49,892,067  70,000,000  20,107,933
Great Raid (2005)  -49,402,930  60,000,000  10,597,070
Father’s Day (1997)  -49,318,920  85,000,000  35,681,080
Last Man Standing (1996)  -48,884,073  67,000,000  18,115,927
Beyond Borders (2003)  -48,572,910    60,000,000   11,427,090
Holy Man (1998)  -47,930,281  60,000,000  12,069,719
Hudson Hawk (1991)  -47,781,084  65,000,000 17,218,916
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)  -46,766,780  60,000,000  13,233,220
Red Planet (2000)  -46,536,031  80,000,000  33,463,969
Flyboys (2006)  -45,183,621  60,000,000  14,816,379
Supernova (2000)  -45,183,506  60,000,000  14,816,494
Virus (1999)  -44,373,310  75,000,000  30,626,690
Rollerball (2002)  -44,147,492  70,000,000  25,852,508
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)  -43,291,152  62,000,000  18,708,848
Live by Night (2016)  -43,225,568  65,000,000  21,774,432
Last Legion (2007)  -41,642,229  67,000,000  25,357,771
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)  -40,990,820  75,000,000  34,009,180
Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)  -40,870,390  76,000,000  35,129,610
Meet Joe Black (1998)  -40,349,997  85,000,000  44,650,003
Son of the Mask (2005)  -40,081,578  100,000,000  59,918,422
Invasion (2007)  -39,852,958  80,000,000  40,147,042
Last Castle (2001)  -39,458,332  60,000,000  20,541,668
Oliver Twist (2005)  -38,329,080  65,000,000  26,670,920

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Blair Witch – THE GAME!

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Blair Witch 2019 Gameplay Trailer

The gameplay trailer for Blair Witch The Game 2019 – Out on Xbox One and PC August 30th 2019Read more via the link in the first comment!

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Wednesday, 31 July 2019

 

Blair Witch was first shown at E3 2019 by Microsoft and the game is inspired by the movie of the same name. It’s a story driven-psychological horror game. While fun, the game will study your reactions to fear and stress.

The gameplay trailer will give players an introduction to the canine Bullet. It will also look at the gameplay elements of the game. Looking at exploration, commands, combat and environmental interaction. Also we get a look at how players will interact with Bullet.

EVIL HIDES IN THE WOODS – PLOT

So, it’s 1996 and a young boy mysteriously disappears in the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland. You play as Ellis a former police office with a troubled past. Joining the search to find the lost boy. While the search starts off normally, it soon descends into a nightmare. Where you confront the Blair Witch, a mysterious force which haunts the woods!

  • It’s an original story based on Blair Witch from the makers of Layers of Fear
  • Navigate through the cursed forest. Which warps and distorts time and space.
  • Take on the Blair Witch, whilst being dragged down by your sanity.
  • How you react to danger and behave under pressure will ultimately teach you more about yourself.

Blair Witch is coming to the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X and PC worldwide on August 30, 2019.

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The Predator

THE PREDATOR: NEW TRAILER

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So, THE PREDATOR is back and badder than ever, in another installation of the once Arnold Classic! This movie looks absolutely incredible! While, we cannot wait to catch it in theatres once it is released on September 13th in UK Cinemas.

Plot: THE PREDATOR

From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

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Ready Player One

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Ready Player One, Co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on Cline’s novel of the same name.

In the dystopian near-future, much of Earth’s population centers have become slum-like cities; to escape their desolation, people engage in the virtual reality world of the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), where they can engage in numerous activities for work, education, and entertainment.

Wade Owen Watts is a teenager from Columbus, Ohio who frequents the OASIS and attempts to win “Anorak’s Game”, a game created by the recently-deceased creator of the OASIS, James Halliday, in search of its Easter Egg. The winner is to be granted full ownership of the OASIS and Halliday’s $240 billion fortune. While Wade works with several friends from the OASIS to discover Anorak’s treasure, the corporate giant Innovative Online Industries (IOI) employs a number of players to try to discover the treasure first and seize control of OASIS for themselves. Due For Release March 2018.  (Wiki)

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