Brendan Depa, 18, was sentenced to five years in state prison on Tuesday for “brutally” beating a high school teaching assistant over a Nintendo Switch. The incident, which occurred on February 21, 2023, at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida, was captured on video and widely reported. Depa will also serve 15 years of probation following his release, as reported by Daytona Beach News-Journal.Depa, then 17, attacked Joan Naydich after an altercation involving the gaming console. The video shows Depa assaulting Naydich in a school hallway, pushing her to the ground, and repeatedly kicking and punching her.”Compounding the senseless physical violence was the screaming of obscenities, spitting on Ms. Naydich both before and during the incident,” Circuit Judge Terence Perkins said, also…

Only cool kids play with Lite-Brite toys which allow their imagination to shine with the unbridled power of neatly arranged LEDs, but really cool kids play with Pokemon Lite-Brites. Released over the holidays last year, the Pokemon Lite-Brite featuring Pikachu is on sale for 20% off at Amazon, dropping the price from $25 to $20. See at Amazon

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Warner Bros. will not release yet another finished film, it appears. Multiple reports claim Warner Bros. is no longer planning to release the adult-themed animated movie Fixed from director Genndy Tartakovsky, but it could still see the light of day.Before this, Warner Bros. did not release the live-action Batgirl and the animated movie Coyote Vs. Acme, both of which were completed. Those movies were shelved in part for tax write-off purposes as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery looks to turn its business around. The company’s share price is about $7 today, August 9, which is down by 70% over the past five years.

As of this week, The Umbrella Academy has finished its four-season run at Netflix. While there is still the possibility that the show could get some spin-offs, the fourth season premiered under the cloud of the accusations that showrunner Steve Blackman created a toxic work environment, including one account that came from Season 4 co-showrunner Jesse McKeown. Now, Blackman is sharing his response to the allegations.Regarding reports that Blackman made sexist and bullying statements to the people working under him, the showrunner told The Hollywood Reporter that those accounts “simply weren’t accurate.” He added that, “They weren’t correct… the truth is, I don’t accept those statements because I didn’t say them, and it’s just disappointing. But I’m very proud of the journey for Umbrella …

Ever since the Dune: Part Two popcorn bucket came along, it seems like there’s a competition to outdo it. The Deadpool and Wolverine and Alien: Romulus popcorn buckets veered into slightly obscene territory. Now, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is going to arrive in theaters next month with three popcorn buckets of its own.Regal Cinemas has released preview images of the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice popcorn buckets, starting with one based on the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which is seen in both the 1988 original film and the upcoming sequel.

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EA Sports College Football 25 released a few weeks ago, and players are clearly happy with it based on its continued presence on sales charts since launch. The development team has been working to implement changes based on feedback from those players, and today it has unveiled over 50 changes now live in CFB 25 via the Title Update 2 patch.Multiple adjustments have been confirmed for the latest patch, including new shotgun formations for nearly three-dozen teams, new uniform pieces for 15 other teams, behavioral adjustments to AI opponents, and a few key changes to the Wear and Tear system. For example, a quarterback forced to scramble behind the line of scrimmage will use more stamina than they would running up the field, which can affect their performance later in the game.

Saturday Night Live will premiere its 50th season this fall and coinciding with that will be the Jason Reitman-helmed Saturday Night. The film focuses on the first night of the show and the 90 minutes leading up to the inexperienced cast and crew going live.Reitman co-wrote the script with his Ghostbusters collaborator Gil Kenan. The trailer featured the chaos that ensued with creatives butting heads and a cloud of doubt hovering over them. Check it out below. The cast features Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Rachel Sennott, Dylan O’Brien, Lamorne Morris, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn, Kim Matula, Matt Wood, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Rhys, Jon Batiste, Finn Wolfhard, J. K. Simmons, and Willem Dafoe.Images of Braun as Henson were released along with Vanity Fair’s look a…

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The Joker has been the main subject of some wild stories, but nothing can prepare you for the recent three-volume limited manga series. These Joker manga books imagine the clown prince of crime taking on his greatest challenge yet: raising baby Batman. See Joker manga at Amazon We swear we’re not making this up, as the manga series starts off with Batman accidentally falling into the same vat of chemicals that created the Joker that one fateful night, and transforming back into a wee baby. Again, we promise that this is not an elaborate joke, and if you want to read it, you can grab all three volumes at a discount on Amazon.

Warner Bros. has debuted the first trailer for the long-in-development Minecraft movie, and it looks pretty great. For a deeper dive, make sure to check out our trailer breakdown. The film, which is based on Mojang’s popular sandbox game, has a big cast of huge names, including Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Kate McKinnon, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge, Emma Myers, and Jemaine Clement.Since the film was announced more than 10 years ago, people have been wondering how director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and the writers might make a movie out of a game that has no real story. And now we know–take a look at the trailer for yourself below.

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