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Traditionally, the Star Wars film franchise has called summer home, with the three installments of the classic and prequel trilogies hitting theaters in May. Things changed when Lucasfilm released Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. Disney, the studio’s parent company, opted to premiere the new film in December, distancing the return of the galaxy far, far away from the Mouse House’s other major property, Marvel. The results were greater than even the most optimistic could have anticipated....

Dubbed as a diabolical puppet master by Barney and a psychopath by Ted, Lily Aldrin can be a very capable manipulator when she wants to. Luckily, her heart is always in the right place. The truth is, Lily is a pretty amazing friend. She’s supportive, caring, and she’s always got some words of wisdom to help her friends get through a rough time. Over the course of nine seasons, Lily has given tons of life lectures to her friends (most often Ted), but those life lectures have taught us a thing or two as well....

John Carpenter’s iconic horror movie, Halloween, was made for $325,000 back in 1978; this incredible small budget was utilized in such a way that Carpenter managed to create expensive looking shots and crisp cinematography without spending large sums of money. Halloween created a legacy not only for the horror genre, but for Carpenter himself. Carpenter wisely employed incredibly talented actors, such as Jamie Lee Curtis, to tell his haunting story of “The Boogeyman”, who escaped a mental asylum and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night to cut a bloody swath through suburbia....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Avengers: Endgame The introduction of “Professor Hulk” in Avengers: Endgame has raised a number of questions among those fans unfamiliar with the original comics, and has also raised some interesting possibilities for the future of Hulk in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Though he’s usually depicted as a loner or a monster, the Hulk was a founding member of the Avengers during the Silver Age of American Comics....

Since Barney Stinson spent his days pulling so-called “plays” from his “Playbook” to trick women into bed, hardly any fans of How I Met Your Mother expected him to settle down into a long-term relationship. But by the end of the series’ nine seasons, we’d seen him date more than a few women, despite his many rules and codes decreeing otherwise. During his character arc on the show, he matured a lot, emotionally (and occasionally de-matured and went back to his old ways between relationships)....

We have previously looked at YouTube ads from the YouTubers’ point of view in How To Make Money On YouTube. This post focuses on YouTube from an advertiser’s point of view. YouTube ads have an average cost-per-view of $0.010 – $0.030, and the views that you generate will count towards your overall YouTube viewer count. The average cost of reaching 100,000 viewers is around $2,000. Summary: YouTube Ad formats, Targeting and Bidding Why Would You Advertise on YouTube?...

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Midsommar and Hereditary How does Midsommar compare to Hereditary? The two A24 films from the same creator share thematic links yet build suspense in entirely different ways. In both Midsommar and Hereditary, writer/director Ari Aster utilizes traditional horror techniques to trigger the audience, all the while using the settings and visual aesthetics for sub-commentaries about internalized fear. Released in 2018, Hereditary examines how a family copes with death and psychological trauma....

How I Met Your Mother might have had the worst finale of all time, but hilarious characters like Marshall and Barney live on to raise our spirits whenever we’re down. Barney Stinson in particular was the breakout character of the series, and is responsible for several pop culture references that were born on the show. He was also the funniest character for most viewers, with his quotes never getting old for fans....

While How I Met Your Mother told the story of how Ted Mosby met the mother of his children, romance bloomed for many other characters as well. In the CBS sitcom, an adult Ted is telling his children in the year 2030 the long-winded story of how he met their mother, looking back to his life in New York City as a 20- and 30-something-year-old man looking for love. He’s surrounded by his good friends Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney....

Read More: Spider-Man Is The Root Of Marvel’s Timeline Problems But the inner workings of Marvel itself and its prolific and successful film studio is even more complex. If the past ten years of box office success has got confusing and you’ve always wondered how Marvel Studios really works, fret not - we’re here to explain. This Page: Marvel Studios Origins Before Disney Marvel Studios Was Very Different Before Disney Though many assume Marvel Studios began life with the birth of the MCU when Iron Man was released in the summer of 2008, they actually started some time before that....

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Both run by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock and the new Netflix Dracula have their fair share of similarities, although it is where they differ that tentatively makes the latter a stronger show. The first days of 2020 were met with the first episodes of Netflix’s new Dracula series. It is not Steven Moffat’s first run with adapting a piece of classic literature into a multi-part series. His adaptation of Sherlock Holmes in the BBC’s Sherlock joins the several dozen on-screen iterations that exist of the detective....

Snapchat opens directly to a camera which is its standout feature because it lets you capture moments instantly. Unlike others, where you might have to go through a few maneuvers, you only need to tap the big circle for a photo or hold it down for a video immediately after opening the app. However, you might have noticed the app puts a short limit on how long you can record videos compared to other social platforms....

It sucks when Facebook asks for your ID and locks you out of your account. But you should be grateful for that because if someone attempts to hack your account sometime in the future, they won’t be able to bypass the verification because they don’t have proof of identity. Facebook uses both manual and AI verification to ensure that the review result is best for all parties involved, so it may take a while....

The latest installment in the Star Wars video game franchise was announced a few days ago during the ongoing Star Wars celebration - Jedi: Fallen Order is officially being developed by EA and Respawn, and the timing couldn’t have been better. As EA nears the end of its exclusivity period with the media franchise, the Jedi: Fallen Order marketing is a weirdly distinct 18o-degree change from the likes of Star Wars Battlefront....

There has been some confusion among players regarding the maximum number of players in the Multiplayer Mode of Command and Conquer Remastered. Everyone who purchases the game will obtain the base game along with Red Alert and the map editor. For each of those games, there is a different limit for maximum players. Gamers were at a delight to see Electronic Arts’ classic real-time strategy shooter, Command and Conquer: Red Alert Remastered launched on Steam today....

The Flash star John Wesley Shipp is suggesting fans take to Twitter to voice their desire to see him don the red and gold costume he wore when he starred as Barry Allen in the 1990 series about the scarlet speedster. In the wake of Tim Burton’s 1989 box office smash Batman, DC decided to give one of their heroes a small screen spin, which resulted in CBS’s 1990 iteration of The Flash....

There haven’t been many sitcoms that captured the essence of friendship as well as How I Met Your Mother with the Maclaren’s Pub Gang constantly getting in and out of hilarious predicaments that served as subplots to the overall story of Ted explaining how he met his wife. The number of subplots and side-stories How I Met Your Mother went through were vast (as with any sitcom) but some of them were definitely wrapped up better than others....

It’s clear that How I Met Your Mother never backed down when an opportunity came along to build on a long-running joke, but when the series circled back to the Slapsgiving gag in season 9, a certain episode stirred up a lot of controversy due to the unnecessary use of yellowface. Throughout the show, one thing that kept cropping back up every once in a while was the slap bet, something that Barney feared from Marshall....

The MCU’s Phase 4 is inspired by Marvel Comics’ most controversial era - but, fortunately, Marvel Studios has learned from the comics’ mistakes. There’s a sense in which Avengers: Endgame marked the point at which the comics and the movies diverged. In the comics, iconic characters like Captain America and Iron Man are never truly gone. When heroes like Wolverine and Thor are killed off, it’s usually because their sales have dropped a little and Marvel wants to generate short-term interest or shelve them until the right moment....