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On Box Office news, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 had a great US debut with $17 millions, making it the best Thursday night debut of 2015! It is expected the movie will pass the $100 million mark this weekend, which will make the movie win over the debuts of Transformers: Age of Extinction and Guardians of the Galaxy. Go, female lead movies!
The next issue of Empire Magazine will definitely be something else! Not only will it be guest-edited by Peter Jackson, it will have a beautiful collector’s cover depicting a concept art look of Thorin Oakenshield in the regal armour he will don in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Damn, just watching this cover make me tear up. I just have a lot of feels about this movie, ok?
And to continue my feels, there is a new music video of “The Last Goodbye,” the song that will play over the credits when The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Which will also serves as closing both trilogies or so implies the music video, since it has footage and behind-the-scenes moments of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies. Here’s what Billy Boyd had to say:
The Lord of the Rings films were such a special time for me in many ways—working with Pete, Fran and Philippa, being in New Zealand, being part of Professor Tolkien’s work or even just the incredible friends I made. And being asked to go back to that, to work in that wonderful fantasy world again and to be singing the song that says goodbye to Middle-earth for everyone involved and the fans who took this beautiful journey with us is truly a great, great honor.
Peter Jackson just loves watching us fans cry. Also, we have another reason to watch the movie. It seems the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer will be attached to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. It won’t be the official premiere tho, since Disney and Lucasfilm have much “bigger plans” for the debut… so, just a teaser then? Still, yay!
Talking about crying, Mark Gatiss said there will be “tragedy” in Sherlock Series 4. Really, showrunner are a-hole who feed on fan tears! Anyway, I guess it will have something to do with Mary, since poor Watson keeps getting widowed in the original books? Gatiss wants us to believe other wise tho~
Just because it’s in the stories doesn’t mean it’ll happen in the series because there’s an awful lot of changes and an awful lot of places to go and things to do. It should be clear by now that while, of course, Doyle is our absolute god, we have gone quite a long way away as well — we’ve introduced Sherlock and Mycroft’s parents [for instance], I don’t think they’ve ever been seen in any adaptation — so there are lots of surprises to come.
Let’s talk about something happier! Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer will fight zombies side-by-side in Patient Zero! Yay! What? Zombie fighting is happier! My favs getting jobs is happier! And this will be the second time Matt Smith will be near zombies what with him being in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Here’s what the story is about:
Patient Zero takes place in a post-outbreak zombie apocalypse and follows the adventures of one man who has the unique ability to speak with the undead and who hopes to use his gift to discover a cure for the plague and his infected wife.
To finish this column, here’s an interesting Marvel comics news. Remember that Guardians of the Galaxy post-credits scene? The one with the anthropomorphic duck known as Howard The Duck? Well, he’s back with a new ongoing comic-book series by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones in which this alien duck is a private investigator. Here’s what Zdarsky had to say about Howard~
He’s an everyman who happens to be a duck! He’s angry, exasperated, and he’s had it up to here with the world around him, but he’s trapped here! Infinitely relatable!
Expect Howard the Duck #1 on sale at March 4.
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And that it’s for the week. Before I go, I want to wish Happy Birthday to Jonny Lee Miller (15), Maggie Gyllenhaal (16), Martin Scorsese (17), RuPaul (17), Steven Moffat (18), Jodie Foster (19), Ming-Na Wen (20) and Björk (21)
