Nintendo has revealed a new Pokemon and solved a mystery that has been plaguing Pokemon GO players. 

Recently, Pokemon GO fans have spotted a mysterious new Pokemon that resembled a sentient hardware nut. What made the appearance of this new creature all the more bizarre was the fact that it would transform into a Ditto whenever players tried to capture it. Nobody really knew what to make of this, but that didn’t stop fans from coming up with a variety of theories to explain this strange occurrence. 

Fortunately (or unfortunately for all you fan fiction fans out there), Nintendo has stepped in to shed some official light on what this new Pokemon is and how it fits into the game’s massive universe. 

In a new video, we learn that this Pokemon’s official name is Meltan. It turns out that Meltan is a mythical, Steel-type Pokemon that is made of liquid metal. Not only can Meltan corrode and absorb metal, but he also has the ability to use the metal he absorbs to generate electricity. Naturally, that means that it’s able to utilise electric attacks (which seem to originate from its eye). 

What makes this new Pokemon really interesting is the way that Nintendo is utilising it. Not only has the Pokemon GO Twitter account notified fans that they should keep an eye out on their recently caught Dittos as they’ve heard reports that they are transforming into Meltans, but the video that Nintendo released which formally revealed Meltan was for the upcoming release of Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Eevee!. 

While it’s been strongly suggested that Let’s Go and Pokemon GO will be closely tied together, the reveal of Meltan suggests that the relationship between the games may be closer than we previously anticipated. The idea of similar cross-promotions between the two games may certainly be enough to help both games generate a great deal of buzz in the coming months. 

It appears that someone with ties to Telltale Games has started releasing footage and concept art from the studio’s planned adaptation of Netflix’s Stranger Things. 

The leaks are popping up everywhere, but this Reddit thread features some of the most notable pieces of footage that have appeared online as a result of these leaks. The majority of the leaked footage shows Will Byers wandering around his home, interacting with his mom, checking out the contents of a few drawers, and enjoying the new computer that his mom seems to have recently purchased. 

The other, arguably more interesting, leaked sequence showcases someone (presumably Will) hiding from the Demogorgon. The reason the character’s identity is uncertain is that this sequence plays out from a first-person perspective. This is something we really haven’t seen much of in previous Telltale games (outside of the odd action sequence here and there), but it seems that the plan was to create a more modern first-person horror experience via these sequences. 

Story-wise, it’s a little hard to tell what Stranger Things’ season-long narrative would have been about. However, we do see Joyce Byers talking to Dr. Owens on the phone, which would tend to suggest that this series would have taken place after the show’s second season or possibly right before it. Sadly, there’s no official word regarding whether or not that is the case. 

What fans are really obsessed with, though, is that this leaked footage appears to represent our first look at Telltale’s promised new game engine (or at least a version of it). While certain aspects of the game’s characters are clearly unfinished (their eyes are scarier than they Demogorgon), character animations appear to be significantly smoother than the animations featured in previous major Telltale games. 

It’s certainly worth reminding everyone that this footage is not “officially” from Telltale, but we’d be shocked to learn that these clips don’t represent the progress the studio was making on this title. So far as that goes, it looks like it was shaping up to be a standard – if slightly more inventive – Telltale Games experience. 

Earlier in the year, 20th Century Fox announced delays to a pair of its X-Men movies that originally had been earmarked for release in 2017. New Mutants, from director Josh Boone, moved again from February 2019 to August 2019 (its second sizeable shift in release date). X-Men: Dark Phoenix meanwhile, from Simon Kinberg, was shunted from November of this year to February of next.

Writer/director Kinberg then got to work penning some new material to fix things that Fox decided didn’t work in its test screenings, and reshoots are still currently underway on the 90s-set film, which reunites Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto on a mission to save Jean Grey (played here again by Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner) from a malevolent force.

Some behind the scenes snaps from the reshoots have surfaced, and you can check them out below…

James McAvoy (It: Chapter Two, Glass) and Michael Fassbender (Alien: Covenant, 12 Years A Slave) are both reprising their roles as Professor X and Magneto respectively in Dark Phoenix, and these reshoots are set to wrap by the end of September.

More on Dark Phoenix as we get it.

Tommy Wiseau’s notoriously terrible self-financed film The Room has gone on to become so weirdly beloved and memed amongst so-bad-it’s-good fans that they really need to invent a new genre of meta purely for the actor/producer/director and European(?) mystery man to reside within.

Such is his infamy, James Franco even played him in 2017’s Hollywood love letter The Disaster Artist, which dramatised the creation of The Room in the early 00s, and virtually every bonkers decision that was made during its production.

It’s fair to say at this point that Wiseau would quite like to play the Joker, and if we’ve learned anything from the bizarre tales of his life so far, it’s that Tommy Wiseau tends to get things he wants. Somehow. To that end, he’s not only previously ‘auditioned’ as the Clown Prince of Crime, he’s now fully recreated the Batman/Joker interrogation scene from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight for Nerdist.

Is he good in the scene? Well, no, he’s Tommy Wiseau.

Full disclosure: we have already watched this six times today and a seventh viewing is likely ahead. Have a look…

Look, we’re not saying a Tommy Wiseau Joker feature film should happen in earnest, but if Warner Bros and DC are planning to make one for every man, woman and child on this planet, maybe it’s not the most ridiculous idea for the guy to throw his hat into the ring at this stage.

Wiseau and longtime collaborator Greg Sestero’s latest venture, Best F(r)iends, is being released on iTunes today, so this is all great publicity for the pair anyway.

“We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us,” Don Jose said in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. “Perhaps the worst most of all.” The director then took the most graphic violence and realistic gunshots to turn the wild south west into a beautifully tortured regression in time. Warner Bros. is handing the film over to Mel Gibson, who will co-write, executive produce, and direct a remake of the influential 1969 American epic Western movie, according to Deadline.

The Wild Bunch is about a gang of aging outlaws on the Mexico–United States border in 1913 led by William Holden. Lee Marvin was originally cast as the lead, but backed out to do the Western genre musical Paint Your Wagon. Veteran actor Holden was at the beginning of a major comeback. Filmed in Mexico, the film also stars Robert Ryan, who reportedly threatened to punch Peckinpah if he wasn’t given time off to campaign for Robert F. Kennedy. Ernest Borgnine, who also stars, threatened to punch the director if he wasn’t given a break from the dust. Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez and Ben Johnson rounded out the cast.

Peckinpah wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay with Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner. His multi-angle, quick-cut editing, and use of slow motion setups got Peckinpah nominated for an Outstanding Directorial Achievement award by the Directors Guild of America. The American Film Institute considers The Wild Bunch the sixth-best Western movie of all time.

You can sample some of the classic film here:

Warner Bros tried to produce a remake several times. This is Gibson’s first directorial job since the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge, which got him nominated for an Oscar for best director. Gibson won the award for Best Picture for his film Braveheart.

Gibson is still in pre-production for his World War II drama Destroyer, which will star Mark Wahlberg.

There is no word yet on casting or when The Wild Bunch will hit theaters.

CBS All Access’s untitled Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard spinoff series is quickly becoming a reality, as a tweet of the newly-launched writers room from star Patrick Stewart reveals.

Stewart, who made the official announcement of the Star Trek: The Next Generation follow-up series back in August, tweeted a photo of the former-and-soon-to-return Picard actor’s proverbial ready room, joined by a creative coalition consisting of Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), Michael Chabon (Spider-Man 2), Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek: Discovery), Diandra Pendleton-Thompson (Awakening Love) and James Duff (Major Crimes). Indeed, Stewart’s accompanying caption, “The journey has begun,” is enough to stoke excitement amongst even the most lapsed of Trekkies.

The untitled Star Trek Picard series will manifest as the franchise’s first visit to the Star Trek: The Next Generation time period since the 2002 movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, which was the last time Stewart played the iconic captain of U.S.S. Enterprises D and E. The upcoming series will chronicle a storyline set during Picard’s golden years, which were famously teased in an alternate-timeline setting in the 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale, “All Good Things,” living a peacefully idyllic existence working his family’s famous vineyards in France.

Of course, it is unknown if Picard’s fate as an elderly grape-picker will occur on the series and plot details about what might bring the Starfleet legend out of retirement are also not yet known. However, one of the table occupants in Patrick Stewart’s tweeted photo, Michael Chabon, recently teased that the setting of the series will be the year 2399 (using an image of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain from 1975-1977’s Space: 1999 in a tongue-in-cheek way). Consequently, the backdrop of an impending new epoch, going from the 24^th to 25^th century specifically, should figure prominently in said plot.

A notable absence from the table photo is the show’s own behind-the-scenes captain in showrunner Alex Kurtzman, who’s currently juggling TV duties on Star Trek: Discovery and Hawaii Five-0, as well as a stewardship of Universal’s setback-plagued “Dark Universe” monster movies, which launched unsuccessfully with 2017’s Tom Cruise-headlining The Mummy.

Fans will have to settle for this inspiring tidbit for now, since the untitled Star Trek spinoff series has yet to mark a date on which it will engage. Indeed, the series is clearly at the earliest of stages and production won’t likely commence until early 2019.