The shroud of mystery surrounding Jordan Peele’s next horror movie is about to be lifted. Nope, Peele’s third feature film, is poised to be another hit for the acclaimed writer-director, with IGN’s Nope review calling it “one of the most effective and purely entertaining summer blockbusters in years.”
Nope is in theaters starting thsi weekend. If you're wondering how and where you can watch it yourself, take a look at the information below.
Where to Watch Nope – Showtimes
Nope is available in most theaters across the U.S. today, but AU and U.K. moviegoers will have to wait until August 11 and 12, respectively. To find when and where you can watch the film, check the local showtime listings at the links below:
When and Where Will Nope Be Available to Stream Online?
Nope is not currently available with any streaming subscriptions, but it will eventually be released on Peacock as part of a new deal between the service and Universal Pictures (the distributor of Nope). While there’s no official streaming date, we know it will hit Peacock no later than four months after its release, putting its streaming debut sometime before November 22.
Where to Watch Jordan Peele’s First Two Movies
If you want to watch Peele’s previous two films ahead of Nope, you have a couple of options. Neither Get Out nor Us is available to watch with a streaming subscription, but you can rent or purchase either movie on Amazon, Apple TV, or YouTube. You can go to the links below to watch the movies.
Not only is Ubisoft delaying Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and another unannounced game, but it's also apparently flat-out canceling four whole titles in an attempt to cut costs and focus on its bigger names. Among those canceled games are both Ghost Recon Frontline and Splinter Cell VR.
Ghost Recon Frontline's cancellation is a bit surprising, given that the game wasn't even actually out yet. It was first announced back in October as a free-to-play battle royale spin-off with 102-player battles. Initial reception was fairly negative, though, and a planned closed test of the game was indefinitely postponed. Now it seems like we'll never see it again.
Splinter Cell VR is a bit less shocking. It was first announced way back in 2020 alongside an Assassin's Creed VR game, but hasn't been heard from since. The Assassin's Creed game still seems to exist, according to some leaked menu footage from this past April that indicated it would be called "Nexus" and was coming to the Quest 2.
Meanwhile, two other unannounced games have also been completely canceled according to CFO Frederick Duguet, who said that all four cancellations were part of the company's wider strategy of putting "even more focus on our biggest development opportunities."
For Splinter Cell fans, that just leaves the announced Splinter Cell remake in development at Ubisoft Toronto. Cancellations aside, Ubisoft has been a major culprit of game delays lately, including the Prince of Persia remake, Roller Champions (which did make it out earlier this year) and Skull & Bones (out this fall, hopefully). They aren't alone, though – 2022 has been a massive year for delays, in part due to the delayed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on production.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
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Harley Quinn Season 3 debuts on HBO Max with three episodes on July 28, 2022, followed by one episode weekly on Thursdays. Below is a spoiler-free review.
For two seasons, Harley Quinn, mirroring the delightfully chaotic energy of its title character, gleefully and hilariously skewered every self-serious corner of the DC universe with abandon, while also sneaking in some of the best character development available in superhero streaming. Season 3 is no different, refusing to lose any of its signature satirical bite even as its heart gets a little softer due to Harley and Ivy’s finally-canon romance. It may sag a little in its various subplots, but when its focus is on our new favorite Gotham couple, it, like Harley herself, is hard not to love.
The first episode of Season 3 ends with the typical title card, but with a twist, reading “Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy.” That doesn’t seem to be a permanent name change (the subsequent title cards go back to just name-checking Harley), but it sets the tone for the season: this installment is very much a co-starring effort. It already started to look this way in Season 2, but by this batch of episodes, it’s clear that Ivy is just as much a headliner for the series as Harley, and it’s all the better for it. Just as they’re compatible as a couple, they continue to make for a great duo on-screen, with Harley bringing the unpredictability with all her smishy-smashy impulses and Ivy in more of a straight-man role, albeit with a good bit of complexity.
And shippers, rejoice: we finally get a show where Harley and Ivy are unabashedly a loving, romantic couple, as Season 2 ended with them quite literally riding into the sunset and Season 3 picks up just a couple weeks into their honeymoon – er, rather, their “eat, bang, kill tour,” as Harley insists on calling it. But we quickly learn that it’s not all rainbows and butterflies (or maybe in Harlivy’s case, photosynthesis and baseball bats), as the two have plenty of new struggles to face that their previously platonic relationship didn’t.
That’s not surprising if you’ve been keeping up with these characters: Harley loves all the time in the world with her significant other, and Ivy’s a little more independent, to say the least. These may be predictable – some may even say mundane – issues, but the way they play out is incredibly relatable and realistic, with each character believably growing a lot throughout the season. The writers tackle this new challenge with aplomb, being true to what incompatibilities they may face while never losing sight of the loving bond we’ve seen grow between them, which is what holds Season 3 together.
It also achieves something very important with Harley and Ivy: it reminds us that, in case you forgot, they’re still supervillains, particularly the latter. Ivy may balk at being called an eco-terrorist, but Season 3 leans into that aspect of her character, giving us an incredibly intriguing good vs. evil play that makes the end of the season feel very high stakes, especially for such a gonzo half-hour comedy.
Before you start to worry that Season 3 is all couple’s therapy and morality struggles, rest assured: it’s just as cartoonishly violent, crass, and riotous as before. You still get your Suicide Squad parodies, bloody beat ‘em ups, and even a well-placed orgy (and I’ve got to point it out: between an episode in this show and The Boys’ recent Herogasm, this is a banner year for superhero orgies). Harley Quinn has always been, and continues to be, deft in balancing all of this.
There are some nice Batman/Harley scenes, harkening to some of the two's best moments in Batman: The Animated Series.
It’s the subplots of Season 3 that lead to more mixed results. Let’s start off with the positive: just about everything done with the Bat family is a welcome addition, since Harley Quinn is especially skilled at poking fun at DC’s most serious characters. Its kinda pathetic take on Batman/Bruce Wayne isn’t only funny, particularly in his relationship this season with Selina Kyle, but it also somehow manages to tread some new ground in this character’s incredibly well-worn trauma. There are some nice Batman/Harley scenes too, harkening to some of the two'sbest moments in Batman: The Animated Series. And Nightwing, though a tad underutilized, is always funny is his desperate quest for Batman’s approval.
The other secondary characters don’t fare as well. The Joker standalone episode is a low point of the season; it has its moments, but the “hey, Joker goes to PTA meetings now” bit gets tiresome when stretched across even a short 22 minutes. The same goes for James Gordon’s storyline about running for mayor. Like the aforementioned Joker bit, his is one that works in small doses, but doesn’t earn nearly as much screentime as it gets, especially since Gordon has shown far less growth than other characters in the series (and maybe that’s the joke, but it’s not one worth dwelling on). And Clayface’s acting subplot earns a few chuckles – it is fun to watch James Gunn mock himself – but the many inside-baseball jokes will probably mostly be funny only to those entrenched in the entertainment industry.
There are some other sidequest highlights, though: Kite Man’s appearance this season is brief (and probably mostly just there to tee up his spinoff series), but it gives us some closure on what he went through at the end of Season 2, and Harley Quinn’s take on the Court of Owls is appropriately ridiculous in the best way. But let’s face it: we’re here for Harlivy, and Season 3 ultimately does them justice. And hey, as a lifelong fan of the character of Harley Quinn, it’s just kinda nice to see the gal happy.
Primal premieres with two episodes on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on July 21, 2022.
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal is back and it is as violent and engrossing as ever. The show continues to be in a unique position in American animation: an adult-oriented animated show that is not a comedy, is devoid of dialogue, and has a penchant for bloody carnage, with exquisite animation and sound design, all while bringing us drama that pulls at the heartstrings as hard as anything This Is Us does. New this season is an overarching story that has Tartakovsky playing with serialized storytelling and the result is unlike anything else currently on TV.
Like Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack, Primal is set in an anachronistic prehistoric Earth where cavemen not only coexist with dinosaurs and monsters, but also early civilizations, witches, and the Picts. The show focuses on the relationship between Spear and Fang, a caveman and a female T-Rex that bonded over their tragic losses and set out to explore a world of cruelty and savagery.
Where the first season focused on telling standalone stories exploring different facets and monsters that inhabit this world, Season 2 has bigger ambitions. If you haven't rewatched the Season 1 finale since it aired two years ago, you should rectify that. This season's opener, Sea of Despair, picks up right where we left off, with Spear and Fang shouting out in anger and, well, despair over their friend Mira being kidnapped and taken away by slavers on a ship. That being said, even if there is an overarching story connecting the first two episodes, so far this is not like a Netflix show meant to be binged at once. Tartakovsky understands that serialization doesn't have to come at the loss of good standalone episodes, and the first two episodes of the season can be enjoyed separately.
This is in no small part due to the focus remaining solely on Fang and Spear, and their relationship is as bonkers and entertaining to watch as ever. They have an “old married couple” dynamic that leads to hilarious moments of bickering and roaring. Even if Primal toes with “a boy and his dog” tropes with its two leads, it never turns Fang into Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. Yes, Fang acts like a dog at times, playful and loyal to Spear, but she is very much still a dinosaur that can eat him alive, and she behaves like it. Spear, meanwhile, remains careful not to cross a line that would cause his companion to tear him apart.
There are few things on TV right now as satisfying as the sight of a caveman riding a T-Rex into battle, and watching the two fight together to shred their enemies to pieces continues to be a delight in Season 2. Tartakovsky and his team at studio La Cachette continue to push the boundaries of what 2D animation can do in exciting ways. Tartakovsky storyboards the two-episode premiere himself, and you can tell that he has a clear and concise vision for action choreography and timing that channels not only the bizarre pulpy imagery of Ralph Bakshi cartoons but also the aptitude for rhythm and timing of golden age Chuck Jones and Tex Avery.
These aren’t just your run-of-the-mill action sequences, but bone-crunching, flesh-tearing, eye-gorging, teeth-breaking carnage, where bodies of everyone from small fish to men to giant sharks are ripped apart, smashed to bits, and otherwise beat to unrecognizable pulps in poetic bursts of bright red blood.
Primal grants heft to every punch, and earns a visceral reaction from every broken bone and torn muscle.
More impressively, however, is the fact that the action always has weight to it. A problem in many animated action shows, but especially computer-generated ones, is that the action can feel weightless and devoid of impact. That is definitely not the case with Primal, which grants heft to every punch, and earns a visceral reaction from every broken bone and torn muscle. The storyboards give extra attention to making sure every muscle in the characters' bodies moves in a way that supports their weight, and the creatures on the receiving end of the punches and bites move with the impact of a bite from a 15,000-pound T-Rex. This is aided by exquisite, crunching sound design that makes the pained grunts, the bone breaks, the ripped flesh, and ground-shaking roars engross you in a way no movie featuring dinosaurs has managed to do since the T-Rex tore through the original Jurassic Park.
Plus, the action is not there for action's sake, but to further explore the savagery of the world and the toll it takes on Spear and Fang. They would rather do literally anything other than fight, but this is what the world pushes them to, and the show makes it a point to showcase the sadness in their eyes at having lost any semblance of a normal life. Primal manages to accomplish this without any lines of dialogue. That isn’t new for this series, but what is new this season is a sense of being out of time, with Spear and Fang encountering more advanced civilizations than they could have dreamt of, which expands the Conan the Barbarian-inspired pulpy world in fascinating ways. Most importantly, it uses these encounters with more advanced creatures to illustrate Fang and Spear’s realization that there is no place for them in a world that is slowly outgrowing savagery. They can't find peaceful happiness or achieve a sedentary life, and that dawning truth is devastating.
Tartakovsky has tested the limitations of what 2D TV animation can do for over 20 years, but Primal shows that he is not done yet, pushing boundaries of genre, of animation, and of storytelling. The director and animator still has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, and our TVs are much better for it.
It’s time to set your parental controls – Deadpool, and Logan are heading to Disney Plus.
Although not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet, Deadpool and Wolverine are making their Disney Plus debut as Marvel puts all its eggs in one basket.
After Disney purchased 20th Century Fox back in 2019, it was only a matter of time… now, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will appear on Disney Plus in the US on July 22, 2022.
Deadpool tells the story of Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) – a former special ops soldier who becomes a mercenary after being subjected to a rogue experiment… the same one that created Wolverine.
Brought to the big screen thanks to Reynolds himself, it was a major hit for Fox. Deadpool 2 follows the story with a time-traveling tale that introduces some of the coolest X-Men characters to the big screen.
Meanwhile, Logan brings a stirring end to Hugh Jackman’s run as Wolverine – the tale of an older, grizzled Wolverine who comes out of hiding to help a girl with extraordinary powers. The addition of these 18-rated films to Disney Plus is a bold move… but not unexpected.
The films have long been available on other streaming services, but now Marvel’s dedicated brand page on the Disney Plus service will be the home to one of the biggest Marvel collections online. It remains to be seen which other Fox/Marvel movies will head to the service.
Hilariously, Disney is even offering free chimichangas to celebrate.
“Fans heading to San Diego Comic-Con can pick up a free mini chimichanga, a.k.a. Deadpool’s favorite word to say, while supplies last,” read the official announcement. “Disney+’s Deadpool chimichanga truck will be available at Seaport Village at the corner of Kettner and S Embarcadero in San Diego from 12-5pm PT on Friday, July 22, and Saturday, July 23.”
