Margot Robbie to assemble an all female cast for upcoming ‘Harley Quinn’ movie

The character of Harley Quinn, which was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm and first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, has recently gained critical attention as Margot Robbie filled her shoes in DC Comics and Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad. The character was created as a close accomplice and lover to Joker and was also an ally to the villainess, Poison Ivy.

From the trailers of the movie, the character of Quinn played by Margot Robbie seems to have already captivated the audience with its blatant and weird(ish) humour while playing the part in an absolute chic manner.

Now as The Hollywood Reporter brings us the news, Warner Bros. will be coming up with a movie surrounding Harley Quinn, although she will not likely be the only notable character in the movie as it will also feature other female protagonists and villainesses alike.

Margot Robbie will once again be seen in the attire of Harley Quinn. If reports are to be believed, Robbie was the harbinger of this project. When she got the role of Quinn in Suicide Squad, she started delving deep into the comics from DC universe and fell for its female characters and thus brought in the writer to help her out with the project, which in turn she pitched to Warner Bros. and they took it up. Robbie is also being said to be producing the movie.

Harley Quinn

The script is apparently already in works by a female writer, although no names are known yet. The names of Batgirl and Birds of Prey have appeared too. Other possible characters that might have a chance in the movie are Katana, Bumblebee and some more.

With the recently launched ‘DC SuperHero Girls’, a comic line focused on the young female comic readers and news of an all female DC movie on the lines, DC really seems to be bringing everything together to enthuse its male and female fans alike.

We will have to wait for further information to be revealed officially, till then we can only speculate which characters will the movie boast.

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Overwatch animated short ‘Dragons’ – Honour resides in one’s actions

Blizzard Entertainment is famed to the community for its versatility in stories and of course for their vast and rich universes. The thing that truly sets Blizzard apart from its contemporaries is probably the fact that, they plan and execute with equal élan.

The company excels in constructing a strong connection between their properties and their fans. Be it Warcraft, Diablo or Starcraft, Blizzard has always walked that extra mile to gift the consumers with fillers in the form comics, cinematic and animated shorts, which in turn assist the fans in getting to know the lore, further instigating their interest.

Blizzard Entertainment’s new, upcoming hero shooter, Overwatch, which is scheduled to release on 24 May, this year, has already managed to create a strong fan base with appreciation pouring in from everywhere. The open beta of the game which was held from 5 to 9 May (later was extended till 10 May) saw 9.7 million players taking part in it. While the fans wait impatiently for the game’s release on 24 May, Blizzard is definitely making efforts to keep them hooked to the essence of the game.

Blizzard had confirmed that they will be releasing four animated shorts related to Overwatch and have already released two animated short features. While the first one named ‘Recall’ featured the scientist chimp Winston and Reaper, the second one titled ‘Alive’ featured Widowmaker and Tracer. Now, they have released a third one featuring the two dragon brothers, Hanzo and Genji.

The story in brief takes us on a stroll through Hanzo’s past, where an ancient tale of two Dragon brothers, Dragon of the North Wind and Dragon of the South Wind, who maintained harmony of the universe is narrated. Until one day, when the Dragon of the South Wind ‘struck down’ his brother, only to realise that his sense of victory has turned into isolation after a point. The scene is cut to a temple, dotted by guards, while Hanzo tries to infiltrate it. After he takes down the guards successfully, he bows down near the shrine and offers incense. Suddenly an assassin appears from behind and they indulge in a hefty battle. While Hanzo gets pinned down by the metal geared masked assassin, he resorts to his primal ability, ‘Dragonstrike’ which summons two spirit dragons to fight for him, but to his surprise, the assassin also conjures a dragon of his own and retaliates a deadly strike back to Hanzo and he collapses on his feet. Surprisingly, the assassin doesn’t kill him, and in an argument, reveals that he is indeed Hanzo’s dragon brother Genji, whom he had killed (at least what was thought). He tells Hanzo that, he has forgiven him; it is time that Hanzo forgives himself. The world was on the brink of change, and that he has to “choose a side”.

The animated short is not only brilliant because of its richly indulging story telling but that it connects the players to the original game, the map and the abilities featured, can all be used in the game while playing these characters. Like Hanzo’s scatter arrows and Dragonstrike and Genji’s deflect and Dragonblade, the previous short had also followed the same.

One more animated short has been confirmed by Blizzard and though the characters that will feature in it have not been seen, the community thinks it will be related to Soldier 76, as he has a big role in the universe of Overwatch. Let’s wait and see what Blizzard has in store for us.

 

Also read: Overwatch beta review

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With Campus Party, Government of Telangana one step closer in making Hyderabad the startup capital of India

What started out as a LAN party back in 1997 in Spain has now grown out to become world’s greatest technological festival of innovation, creativity, science, digital entertainment and entrepreneurship. After being held 54 times in 20 years, Campus Party is finally arriving in Asia and India has been chosen as the Campus Party destination.

The city of Nawabs – Hyderabad is chosen as the host city and the timing couldn’t have been any better. With the immense support from the Telangana government as it recently unveiled its IT policy, Innovation policy, Policy on Rural Technology Centres, IMAGE policy and Electronics policy along with the emergence of the startup incubator space ‘T-Hub’, Hyderabad is growing out to become the one stop destination for the IT and tech industry.

CIM Global along with the Telangana Government made the announcement of this next edition of Campus Party at Hyderabad. Present at the launch of the event were government of Telangana’s Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) department principal secretary, Jayesh Ranjan; Campus Party director – business development, Eduardo Lorea; T-Hub co-founder and COO, Srinivas Kollipara and CIM Global India CEO, Prasant Saha.

The event for tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs is scheduled to be held from 14 to 19 September, 2016 at Hyderabad.

“India has a huge bunch of people interested for entrepreneurship, innovation and making match between actual things and new society to flourish. Campus Party finds India the perfect place to learn from, to help and develop and we specifically chose Hyderabad because of the incubator space T-Hub,” comments Lorea on choosing India as the first Asian country to host Campus Party.

From Left: Eduardo Lorea, Srinivas Kollipara, Prasant Saha, Jayesh Ranjan

From Left: Eduardo Lorea, Srinivas Kollipara, Prasant Saha, Jayesh Ranjan

According to him, two important speakers are seen every day at any Campus Party event and so for the five day event, we can expect 10 renowned names from the tech industry. Also around 300 plus speakers will be attending the event with about 5000 young geeks, the so called ‘Campuseros’ from all over India will code, game, hack, challenge, sleep and be energised these five days.

CIM Global along with the support from the Telangana government will be organising the event and T-Hub is their partner. “SInce T-Hub is well connected with the startup industry, they will be helping Campus Party get in touch with these budding entrepreneurs”, adds Kollipara. How did the association with Telangana government take place? Explains Ranjan, “We explained CIM Global our approach towards startups and innovation and they were taken to T-Hub and as of today there is no other such facility anywhere in the country. They were impressed by that and when they explained us Campus Party, we realised that this will be a very important event to further our own goals to become the startup capital of the country.”

As far as the involvement of CIM Global is concerned, they acquired the license to hold Campus Party in India, Europe, Middle East and South Africa two years ago. “As a company we have always believed in one thing – creating common platform. Campus Party is not an event, it’s a movement. It doesn’t end at the event, it begins from there,” expounds Saha.

Campus Party

He further mentions that Ranjan agreed to host this event within two hours as he immediately saw that there’s a complete alignment with T-Hub and the vision of IT. They saw a perfect opportunity that can amplify what they are doing as rather than they creating something bottoms up. This event has a profound legacy and is coming for the first time in Asia.

In terms of budget, Saha exclaims, “The budget is around Rs 200 millions (20 crores) and it will be held at HICC that has a total area around 300,000 sq ft. The event will witness participants not just from India but also from the neighbouring countries.”

The participation fee would roughly be $100 to $150 (Rs 6000 to 10,000) and for students who can’t afford, will get in subsidised rates. For that, they are in talks with some universities and institutions who will subsidise 50 per cent of it. CIM Global will also subsidise some of their travel part.

In terms of what are the expectations out of this event, Lorea says, “I expect that Campus Party helps the network of people that are working on the entrepreneurship and innovative side of the society grow. The event is not made by us, it’s made by the people that attend it, participate in it and interact in it. We expect that the environment in India is very promising and fertile one, and that there’s very good match between what we can bring for the country and what the country could provide to make this flourishment be very useful one for the company.”

So gamers, innovators, hackers, scientists, startups get ready to witness the the world’s greatest technological festival at Hyderabad International Convention Centre in Hyderabad from 14 to 19 September, 2016.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s visit to mark a new facility in Hyderabad

Apple CEO, Tim Cook’s first visit to India as the head of the tech giant will mark with him inaugurating the Apple’s Hyderabad facility and the probable announcement of a manufacturing unit in the country on 19 May.

Tim CookThis comes at a time when the sales of its iPhones have fallen for the first time since they were first introduced. But on a flipside, sales has picked up in India although it captures a tiny per cent in the vast Indian market where the budget phones (ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000) have been dominating. Recently, Apple also came in news after India rejected Apple’s request to import and sell refurbished iPhones.

Cook is expected to meet Telangana CM, Chandrashekar Rao and Information Technology minister, KT Rama Rao (KTR) in Hyderabad. After Hyderabad, he is travelling to Delhi where is appointed to meet PM Narendra Modi and discuss investment plans in the country which is going to be in line with PM’s ‘Make in India’ campaign.

Foxconn, Apple’s largest global manufacturing partner, has already signed a joint-venture with the Adani Group to manufacture Apple products in the country and this aligns properly with Apple’s plan to set up its first retail, brand-owned outlet in the country.

After USA, China is Apple’s second largest market when it comes to its iProducts and with both markets seeing a sale downfall this could be the chance for Apple to redirect its focus for India and maybe have products which are compatible with the ecosystem in the country. Currently, the cheapest iPhone that is available in the country is iPhone SE which is selling for Rs 37,990.

Cook, in a conference call with investors, describing India’s potential said: “Because the smartphones that are working there (India) are low end, primarily because of the network and the economics, the market potential has not been as great. But I view India where China was seven to 10 years ago. From that point of view, I think there’s a really great opportunity there.”

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Batman Noir

“Batman Noir” is the title of the new DC graphic novel comes to Portugal courtesy of Público newspaper and Levoir Publishing House. The Dark Knight from the pencil of Eduardo Rosso. This print advertisement won gold at the Golden Awards of Montreux.

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The Batman Noir ad was developed at Fuel, Lisbon, by creative director/copywriter Marcelo Lourenco, creative director/art director Pedro Bexiga, with photographer Ivo Cordeiro, producer Pedro Silva, account directors Duarte Simoes and Vania Araujo.

Staley pranks fans in claw machine – Teaser


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Corn Drill in Slow Motion – The Slow Mo Guys


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Home | short film


“A beautifully photographed minimalist documentary.” Roger Donaldson We often think of houses as strong, solid permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and mobile. ‘Home’ explores the idea of what makes a house a home. Home – a short documentary film by Thomas Gleeson. Festivals Include: New Zealand International Film Festival 2012 – (Winner Friends of the Civic Award) San Francisco International Film Festival 2013 – (Winner Special Jury Prize) Vancouver International Film Festival 2012 Raindance Film Festival London 2012 Aesthetica Film Festival 2012 Palm Springs Shortfest 2013 Camden International Film Festival 2014 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Montana 2013 Hot Docs 2013 Nashville Film Festival 2013 Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2013 Seattle International Film Festival 2013 Sydney Film Festival 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival 2013 Milano Film Festival 2013 Encounters 2013 – (Winner Audience Award) Show Me Shorts 2013 – (Winner Best Editor and NZFC Jury Prize) Herceg Novi – Montenegro Film Festival – (Winner Special Jury Mention) EIDF Korea FIFE Paris ShortVision Ningbo, China 2014 Aviles International Architecture and Film Festival, Spain 2014 Budapest Architecture Film Days 2014 Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival Nominated for Best Short Film at the New Zealand Film Awards 2012 Director: Thomas Gleeson www.thomasgleeson.xyz Co-Producer: Pip Walls Cinematography: Max Bellamy www.maxbellamy.com Sound Design and Mix: James Hayday http://www.jameshayday.com/ Colourist: Alana Cotton / Images and Sound http://www.alanacotton.com/ Music: Jack Northover http://www.blackjackalmusic.com/

Mount Moriah – Precita


From the album How to Dance, out now on Merge Records. http://www.mergerecords.com/how-to-dance Directed By Fidel Ruiz-­Healy Produced By The American Standard Film Co. // theASFC.com CAST: M.C. Wolfe David Rysdahl Steve Siltanen Fatoumata Toure Makoyan Toure Anna­Lisa Ashman Carmen Falcon Matthew Rosvanis Oriane Rembalsky Bill Hartin John McPoyle Travis Barrett Emmett deMuzio Edward Sellner Alexander Jameson Phyllis Pastore Helton Llaven Peter Cron Samantha Hribick Zack Block CREW: Producer/Assistant Director ­- Veronica Pomilla Producer ­- Tyler Walker Cinematographer -­ Conor Murphy Production Design -­ John Arnos Assistant Camera/ DIT -­ Shaun Kim Production Coordinator -­ Mary Pomilla Driver/PA ­- Ben Levine Casting Director -­ Jeff Cummings Color ­- Phil Haley Executive Producer ­ Jordan Michael Blake Special Thanks ­ Jamie Hartranft, Lt. Sam Lobb, Jonathan Qualtere, Antonio’s Pizza, and the City of Easton, PA Shot on Location in Easton, PA