EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS:In the wake ofThe Hunger Gamesceasing andDivergentin limbo, Lionsgate may just have another franchise on its hands, or so it seems from Comic-Con:Attendees learned, to considerable surprise, that the distribs Sept. 16 horror filmThe Woodsis actually a straight-up sequel to 1999sThe Blair Witch Project. Even The Woods title was a fake-out: The movie will be called Blair Witch.
Last night Lionsgate invited fans and select press to a so-calledWoods screening, and mostwalked into the theater thinking it was just your next run-of-the-mill horror film screening at Comic-Con, likeNew Line/Warner Bros.Lights Outand Screen GemsDont Breathe.
But attendees learned during the screening that The Woodsis really a sequel in the Blair Witch horror property canon.During the screening, the distrib literally changed outThe Woodsone sheets and bannersinthe lobby forBlair Witch ones.
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The film was shot in secret last summer, and picks up where the last two Blair Witchfilms left off: In the Burkittsville, Maryland woods where three filmmakers disappeared 20 years ago.
In the new one,four millennials venture into the Black Hills forest to filmthe weekend for a documentary class. One of them, James, has spent his life searching for his older sister who disappeared with her film crew 20 years ago in these woods trying to uncover the Blair Witch legend.
While the 1999 overnight found-footage title directed by Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick was initially fueled by moviegoers belief that the film was documenting an actual phantasm incident and grossed $140.5M at the domestic B.O. and $248.6M worldwide, the ball was dropped on the 2000 sequelBook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.Sanchez and Myrick werent involved with the sequel and it free-fell at the B.O. with $26.4M stateside, $47.7M worldwide.Blair Witchis directed by Adam Wingard. Reception coming out of last nights screening was truly upbeat with many feeling that the pic returns the series back to its original roots.Heres the trailer:
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FIND ANY POKEMON IN POKEMON GO - PokeVision (3 Steps Nearby Glitch/Bug Fix)
Pokmon Go"s tracker, which hasn"t worked correctly in about a week. The Pokemon Company
It"s been about a week since Pokmon Go"s tracker the tool that guides players towards hiddenPokmon has worked as intended.
The tracker sits in the lower-right corner of your screen and shows you whichPokmon are in your immediatearea.
When aPokmon is far away, it shows three little paw prints. As you get closer, it goes down to two paw prints, then one, then the prints disappear and the Pokmon will appear on your map.
It"s like a hot-or-cold game. At least, that"s how it works ideally.
For the last several days, for reasons unknown, it"s been showing three paw prints no matter how near or far you are from aPokmon. It"s been frustrating a lot of players:
The rumor on the street is that Niantic, the developer ofPokmon Go, purposely turned off the tracker to ease the strain on the servers, which have been unreliable since the game"s launch just over two weeks ago.Regardless of the reason, players are getting annoyed.
But Nick Johnson, the Pokmon Go master who recently became the first to captureall 142 monsters currently available in the United States, says he used a very clever workaround to find and catch "em all. Plus, here"s a bonus method that Johnson didn"t use, but that could work for you.
Download Ingress
Before Niantic madePokmon Go, they were best known as the creators of Ingress, a similar kind of map-based real-world game, but with more of a science-fictional bent.
Not only is Ingress still up and running on both iPhone and Android, but players like Johnson find it to be an indispensable tool forPokmon hunting, since Niantic brought a ton of data from the older game to the new.
This is Ingress:
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See the white dots on the screen? In Ingress, that"s called "exotic matter," or "XM," and it"s the key to the whole affair. Players like Johnson have noted thatareas where the XM dots are concentrated in Ingress also have a very high correlation with wherePokmon pop up.
So if you"re having trouble finding a Pokmon that"s showing up on your tracker, and you"re really dedicated, you can switch over to Ingress, find an area with a high concentration of XM,and walk towards it. Once you"re over it, switch back toPokmon Go, and aPokmon should appear.
"I found more than a few rare ones by spotting them on radar, then ignoring the radar and using the Ingress in-game map to navigate to those hotspots," Johnson told Business Insider. "May not work 100% but definitely helped me."
This comes with a massive caveat:Pokmon Go draws a lot of battery, and so does Ingress, so tread with caution or carry an external battery pack on yourPokmon hunts.
PokVision
There"s a second option, not used by Johnson, but loved by plenty of others. It"s calledPokVision, and it"ll show you all thePokmon currently around any address you plug into it.
Here"s Central Park"s Grand Army Plaza, as viewed through PokVision:
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Dang, that"s a lot ofPokmon. No wonderGrand Army Plaza has become such a hotspot forPokmon hunters.
The timer you see below eachPokmon shows how long they"ll be at that particular spot. If you make it to their precise location before the timer expires, you"re all but guaranteed to find thatPokmon.
In a brief excursion to testPokVision, it wasn"t 100% reliable: I tore out my front door and jogged a few blocks to succesfully capture a Gastly that PokVision had spotted before time ran out, but I wasn"t quite able to locate an Eevee that it assured me was close. And at one point, I caught a Squirtle thatPokVision had completely failed to mark on the map at all.
This might feel like cheating to you, so use it at your own discretion. Also, it uses data taken straight from Niantic, so it seems possible that they could change something and turn offPokVision"s access. So enjoy it as much as you can, for as long as you can.
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In the meanwhile, we"re still waiting for word on whenPokmon Go"s radar glitch will get fixed. So if you don"t want to stop your hunt, you have some options.
On a final note, Johnson says that a good idea is topay close attention to your fellow players. If you"re out hunting, and it looks like the crowd is about to stampede in one direction, it"s probably time to stop what you"re doing and open your map.
"The stampeding horde was also an awesome form of real-lifepush notification at Grand Army Plaza," Johnson jokes. "I caught a few things just by following the crowd or hearing other people shout out that it had spawned."
Mike Huckabee: Tim Kaine is an honorable guy Photo Under Virginias lax ethics rules at the time, the gifts that Tim Kaine received as governor, which had a total value of more than $160,000, were all legal as long as they were disclosed. Credit Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
WASHINGTON Barr Pharmaceuticals gave Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia a ride on a private jet to a meeting in Aspen, Colo., at a time in 2006 when it was lobbying him over issues related to its drug sales, state records show.
Dominion Resources, Virginias largest electric utility and a lobbying force in the states capital, Richmond, picked up the tab for a trip that Mr. Kaine took that same year to the college basketball Final Four tournament (and a funeral) in Indianapolis, according to the records.
McCandlish Holton PC, a law and lobbying firm that represented Virginias small vineyards and worked closely with Mr. Kaines office to create a new system for distributing wine produced by the vineyards, presented Mr. Kaine with four cases of wine in 2007, the records show, the same year he signed the legislation into law.
Under Virginias lax ethics rules at the time, the gifts, which had a total value of more than $160,000, were all legal as long as they were disclosed.
But with Mr. Kaines selection on Friday as Hillary Clintons vice-presidential running mate, the gifts he received in the four years he served as Virginias chief executive and his time as lieutenant governor before that are certain to be cited by his Republican critics as a sign that Mr. Kaine, who is now a United States senator, is not as squeaky clean as he portrays himself.
It would be nave to think a pharmaceutical company like Teva was not interested in maintaining access to the governor as a result of a gift of that size, said Andrew P. Miller, a former Democratic attorney general in Virginia, who now works as an energy industry lawyer and lobbyist, referring to Teva Pharmaceuticals, which bought Barr in 2008.
Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, wasted little time in starting to attack Mr. Kaine, branding him on Friday night as corrupt Kaine.
Mr. Kaines acceptance of gifts has been reported on at times, dating back to when he was in the governors office. But an examination by The New York Times of archival email traffic from Mr. Kaines tenure as governor shows that he received gifts, in some cases, around the same time he and his staff were considering official government requests from these donors.
In Barrs case, the email records show that executives from the company asked Mr. Kaine to intervene with the Food and Drug Administration on its behalf in August 2006, just days before the flight to Aspen for a meeting of the Democratic Governors Association, later valued at $12,000 in Mr. Kaines disclosure report.
Mr. Kaine signed the letter to the F.D.A. a draft of which had been written by Barr as requested before leaving on the trip, and a company lobbyist suggested that he was prepared to follow up during the plane ride.
The Gov will be on a plane on Friday with Phil Smith, Eileen Filler-Corn, an aide to the governor, wrote in an August 2006 email, after she had met with Mr. Smith, then a lobbyist from Barr. Phil will likely speak with to Gov about him sending a letter in support of the petition in Aspen this weekend, hence this email to yall.
State records compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project show that a total of 139 companies or individuals gave about 220 gifts or reimbursements for travel to Mr. Kaine to work-related conferences while he served as governor from 2006 to 2010 and lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006. Amy Dudley, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kaine, said that two-thirds of the filings were in the work-related travel category, and that Mr. Kaine was careful to disclose any gift, even if it was from a family friend, which is not required under the law.
She rejected any suggestion that Mr. Kaine may have done anything to benefit any individual or company that had given him a gift, including Teva, which sells generic drugs and has a large manufacturing plant in Forest, Va.
Many governors at the time believed, as then-Governor Kaine did, that more widespread use of generic drugs would reduce state and federal health care costs without compromising the quality of care, Ms. Dudley said.
The issue of gifts to elected officials has become particularly delicate in Virginia in the aftermath of the criminal case against Mr. Kaines successor, Bob McDonnell, which was filed in 2014, even though his conviction was vacated late last month by the United States Supreme Court. Mr. McDonnell took much more extravagant gifts including a Rolex watch and catering for his daughters wedding and other gifts and loans worth $177,000 from a single businessman who was seeking help with a state government-related matter, and Mr. McDonnell did not disclose all of those gifts.
Until the Virginia General Assembly moved last year to tighten state ethics laws prohibiting any single lobbyist, in most circumstances, from giving an elected official more than $100 in gifts each year it was common practice for state lawmakers to accept gifts, at times worth more than $10,000.
The largest proportion of the gifts that Mr. Kaine received was for political and campaign-related travel, including the $45,075 it cost for him to campaign around the country in 2008 for Barack Obama.
Other major gifts came from personal friends, including a weeklong stay, worth $18,000, in 2005 shortly after Mr. Kaine was elected governor on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique, provided by James B. Murray Jr., a Virginia-based venture capitalist specializing in telecommunications investments, who also donated $45,000 to Mr. Kaines election campaign and to a political action committee affiliated with Mr. Kaine. Mr. Murray owned an oceanside estate named Les Jolies Eaux which boasts five bedrooms, two pools and, at least nowadays, a chef, butler, housekeeper, maid and gardener, according to a rental listing that was designed for Princess Margaret, countess of Snowdon, the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
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Barr Pharmaceuticals gave Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia a ride on a private jet to a meeting in Aspen, Colo., at a time in 2006 when it was lobbying him over issues related to its drug sales, state records show.
Mr. Kaine, state records show, was meticulous at filing his gift disclosures, and even listed a set of cuff links worth $75 that he was given in 2006 by officials from Kent County, England, to help commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va., the first permanent English-speaking settlement in America. Other small gifts came from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan (a 3-foot-by-5-foot prayer rug worth $345) and a signed baseball (worth $500) from the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation.
Terence Crawford improved to 29-0 (20 KOs) with a dominant performance over Viktor Postol 28-1 (12 KOs) to unify the WBC and WBO junior welterweight titles and make an emphatic statement about who the best 140-pound fighter in the world.
Crawford started slow, as is the norm for the star from Omaha, Nebraska, feeling out Postol"s length and figuring out how to attack the taller fighter. In the fourth round, he started to open things up, letting his hands go, and then in the fifth round, the fight turned totally in his favor as he knocked Postol down twice to take a commanding lead on the cards.
The dominance shown by Crawford over Postol, who is the consensus pick as the second-best fighter at 140 pounds, was mightily impressive as he completely dismantled the Ukranian star. Postol, normally a high-output puncher, threw only 244 punches in the fight and landed just 83 of those. Crawford landed 141 of 388 punches in the fight, but it was the ease with which he landed his power punches -- 107 of 216 found their target from Crawford -- that separated him. The jab was only a range finder in this fight for Crawford, waiting for Postol to step into his power shots.
Crawford"s best punch of the fight was with his left hand, as he spent the entirety of the fight in the southpaw stance, neutralizing the Postol jab and creating space for his left hand to shoot through.
The dominant performance by Crawford leaves only one question: Who"s next? It"s hard to look at anyone currently in the 140-pound division that could give him problems, but the name on everyone"s mind right now is Manny Pacquiao. The superstar welterweight is in need of an opponent for Nov. 5 in his return bout after a brief retirement.
Both guys are under Bob Arum"s Top Rank umbrella, so the promotional side would be easy to negotiate, but it"s a matter of whether Pacquiao wants to make a return to 140 pounds for the first time since 2009 and whether Top Rank wants to put their best pound-for-pound guys in the ring, with the chance of their best young star losing right when he"s hot on the market.
We"ll find out soon enough as a Pacquiao opponent is expected to be announced in the next two weeks, but whoever Crawford faces next, Pacquiao or not, is in for an extremely tough challenge.
HBO PPV Results Winner Loser Result Terence Crawford Viktor Postol Unanimous decision
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Tommy Karpency 6th-round KO Jose Benavidez Jr. Francisco Santana Unanimous decision Oscar Valdez Matias Rueda 2nd-round TKO
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Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) holds court at the Warner Bros. panel. (From left: Director Patty Jenkins, Gadot, Chris Pine and Connie Nielsen.)(Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
It"s the most wonderful time of the year: Comic-Con, and, specifically, Warner Bros. Day.
On Saturday, the studio revealed trailers for next year"s big films: Wonder Woman (in theatersJune 2) and Justice League (Nov. 17, 2017).
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We"ve been waiting for this since Gal Gadot stole the show in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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We"re so relieved to know Khal Drogo finally learned to swim.
The Warner Bros. Comic-Con panel on Saturday morning in San Diego ended up being chock full of footage from upcoming films! Instead of trying to cover all of the information that was disseminated on the panels (some had more to share than others), the internet people who are not in San Diego were blessed with a wealth of material to gawk at from Wonder Woman, Justice League, Suicide Squad, Kong: Skull Island and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The DC Cinematic Universe is expanding with Suicide Squad in mere weeks and Wonder Woman flying an invisible jet into theaters next year, so its unsurprising those properties kicked off the panel.Moderator Conan OBrien brought out all the DC Cinematic Universe film directors (that we know about) to line-up on the stage Zack Snyder, Patty Jenkins, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Rick Famuyiwa, and James Wan before booting all of them but the lady.
Patty Jenkins took over the stage and brought out the cast of Wonder Woman, including Gal Godot (Diana) and Chris Pine. The big news, of course, was the unveiling of a full Wonder Woman trailer that shows off more of the setting and the action of the film.
Not a lot of plot on display, but considering the movie doesnt open until June 2017, theres plenty of time to push Wonder Woman as her own story. It was important to start the DC Comics part of the panel off with the message of course correction from the dark, underwhelming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Course correction continued with new material from Zack Snyders Justice League, which is currently in production. The Justice League part of the panel withAffleck, Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Henry Cavill, andRay Fisher kicked off by unveiling a high resolution image of the whole Justice League in costume for the first time.
Surprising everyone, Zack Snyder has also prepared footage from the movie and cut it into a San Diego Comic-Con teaser. Prominently featured are Jason Momoas Aquaman and Ezra Millers Flash.
Wrapping up the live-action superhero part of the panel was the Suicide Squad cast, including the big stars Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Margot Robbie. Since their film opens on August 5th, there wasnt a lot of new information given out, well just have to wait for the movie. Although Will Smith did have an entertaining anecdote about how Jared Leto behaved on set.
It wouldnt be a DC Comics domination push if they didnt also release a video for Comic-Con, especially when the Suicide Squad footage from last year caused such a piracy kerfuffle. If Wonder Woman and Justice League had clips, Suicide Squad was going to make one too.
The Lego Batman Movie had a presence with Will Arnett, who voices the character on hand. Lego Batman comes out February 10th next year.
The most unexpectedly awesome footage came from Legendary and Warner Bros.sKong: Skull Island, the King Kong prequel by the producers of Gareth Edwards American Godzilla that will eventually lead to a cross-over movie where Godzilla and King Kong fight (in a few years, if the movie doesnt flop).
Dude. That Kong is huge. Certainly the largest version of Kong to ever be made in America (Im fuzzy on how big Kong is in Godzilla Vs. King Kong compared to here, but Im sure there will be many a think piece about it)
Check out this Vietnam War-esque shot. Ape-pocalypse Now.
Director Guy Richie is going to do to the legend of King Arthur what he did to Sherlock Holmes, which is try to make him cool in a modern blockbuster context. Thats going to happen with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword starring Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as the title character.
Then, Eddie Redmayne appeared in the audience and began to hand out wands. Yes, it was time for new things from the Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling, as the first movie in a planned trilogy this November 18th Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. After some very cagey answers to Conans questions, Fantastic Beasts debuted its first full trailer!
Wow! Actual fantastic beasts! This is like magic Pokmon Go!
Lots of trailers have been released during this weekends Comic-Con in San Diego; Marvel has posted clips promotingupcoming Netflix showsThe Defenders,Luke CageandIron Fist, and they also shareda glimpse of the debut of Ghost Rider, who will appear on the TV seriesAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
DC has parried with the first trailer for the highly anticipatedJustice League;Justice Leagueis like DCsAvengers, uniting all of the companys big heroes: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg. Superman, however doesnt appear in the trailer (as he died at the end of Batman V. Superman, he probably needs to be resurrected at some point in the film).
The trailer starts with a piano based score before kicking into the White Stripes classic Icky Thump.
