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Fallout 4's next-gen update will introduce more than just upgraded visuals and graphics. The new update will also include a well-known Fallout franchise faction, introducing them into the game with a unique quest. The new faction has been a mainstay in Fallout and a glaring omission from the game.

After close to a decade since its launch, Fallout 4 is receiving a free next-gen-only update to fix a major story omission. Due to the release of the Fallout Show, it was announced that Fallout 4 would be receiving an update to help scale up its performance to go along with new cosmetics and weapons. Though an update now seems odd, the massive success of the franchise's first live-action show made it a smart decision. Every Fallout game has seen significant increases in sales and player base since the show's release.

Fallout 4 brought players to the northeast for the first time, focusing on eastern Massachusetts,...

Fallout 4 is getting a brand-new update for Playstation, Xbox, and PC gamers, and the best part? It’s completely free!

Get ready to dive back into the post-apocalyptic wasteland because Bethesda is giving the game a massive upgrade visual upgrade, coincidentally announced right around the release of the new Fallout Amazon Prime TV show. Mark your calendars for April 25th, because your wasteland adventures are going to get more immersive and action-packed than before.

Fallout 4 Gets a Free Next-Gen Update for Consoles

The new Fallout 4 update has a lot in store for players

What exactly does this update entail? For starters, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S players can look forward to native applications, performance mode, and quality mode settings, along with stability improvements and fixes. This means buttery-smooth gameplay running at up to 60 Fps and eye-catching resolutions.

Bethesda also has stuff laid out for current-gen console users. PlayStation 4 and...

Exclusive: Netflix has handed control to its Arabic content slate to long-serving exec Nuha El Tayeb following the exit of Ahmed Sharkawi.

El Tayeb has been with Netflix since 2018 and rose to her current role as Content Director for the Middle East & North Africa (Mena) region and Turkey in December 2019.

Following the exit of Arabic originals boss Sharkawi this month, she will expand her role to oversee the entire Arabic content slate, spanning acquisitions and originals for film and TV, both in scripted and unscripted. We understand she will be based at Netflix’s international HQ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Sharkawi, who was Director of Arabic Content, Development, for the past five years out of Amsterdam, announced on LinkedIn earlier this month that he was leaving after “an unforgettable journey” and was “excited for new adventures ahead.” He exits Netflix under amicable circumstances. C21 first reported on his exit.

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Netflix has officially announced their full TV slate for 2024…and they’re promising a ton of new content this year!

We now officially know which series will be returning this year, and we’ve gathered up everything that has been released in one easy to read list.

Keep reading to find out more…

February Releases

⬥ One Day – On Netflix February 8

⬥ Love Is Blind S6 – On Netflix February 14 (Releasing Weekly)

⬥ The Vince Staples Show – On Netflix February 15

⬥ Al Rawabi School for Girls S2 – On Netflix February 15

⬥ Ready, Set, Love – On Netflix February 15

⬥ Rhythm + Flow Italy – On Netflix February 19 (episodes 1-4) + February 26 (episodes 5-7) + March 4 (episode 8)

⬥ Avatar: The Last Airbender – On Netflix February 22

⬥ Formula 1: Drive to Survive S6 – On Netflix February 23

⬥ The Mire: Millennium – On Netflix February 28

March Releases

⬥ The Gentlemen – On Netflix this March

⬥ The Netflix Slam – On Netflix March 3

⬥ Hot Wheels Let’s Race – On Netflix March 4

⬥ Full Swing S...

Netflix has unveiled the highlights of its Original Arabic-language content for the Middle East and North Africa in 2024, with shows coming out of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan.

Fresh announcements included the second season of hit female-driven, Kuwaiti finance world drama The Exchange and a third season of unscripted show Dubai Bling, which Netflix promised would “delve deeper” into the lives of the existing characters and expand the “Dubai Bling family”.

Netflix also announced the arrival of Tunisia acting star Dhafer L’Abidine in the cast of the second season of Hend Sabry’s drama Finding Ola.

He joins Sabry in a cast also featuring Sawsan Badr, Hany Adel, Nada Moussa, Mahmoud El Leithy, Acel Ramzy, Omar Sherif, Yasmina El-Abd and Tarek el Ebiary.

In this new season, as the titular Ola’s business teeters on the edge of collapse, she discovers the need to reinvent herself and embarks...

Siding with Mathis in Starfield doesn't lock the player character into betraying Delgado and can even unlock major benefits down the line. If the player character sides with Mathis and maintains a good relationship, they can recruit him to their crew and benefit from his combat skills. The choice between siding with Mathis or staying loyal to the United Colonies faction doesn't have a significant impact, but complimenting Mathis' performance offers more benefits than risks in the game.

Starfield offers many opportunities to choose sides in a conflict, and befriending Mathis Castillo is one of those choices. He's a greenhorn pirate looking to join the Crimson Fleet, which rules over large swathes of space with an iron fist. The player character may join the Crimson Fleet for any number of reasons, either on their own or as part of an infiltration mission for Starfield's United Colonies faction, and will be...

In the Renaissance era of the 1990s, Walt Disney Animation Studios had seemingly cracked the code in terms of telling old-fashioned stories with a modern twist. There were still plenty of fables and fairy tales to adapt, from the story of a mermaid who wanted to be a human to a star-crossed romance between a brainy young woman and a monstrous beast. And the studio was able to harness present-day Broadway-style songs into these stories, lending them a grandeur and epic quality that made them annual theatrical events. To the eagle-eyed viewer, there were also funny little Easter eggs referencing past Disney films, if you knew where to look. In "Aladdin," for example, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in which the portly Sultan is seen playing with a series of figurines, including one that is unmistakably the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast." To recognize this gag was a miniature reward...

In Starfield, there are 20 distinct companions with their own skills and strengths, some suited for combat, diplomacy, or stealth-based scenarios. Crewmates can be assigned to follow the player, take care of the player's ship, or work at an outpost, and the choice depends on their skills and the specific needs of the outpost. There is a strict limit of one follower at a time for the player character on foot, but there are ways to exploit temporary followers to have multiple companions temporarily. There are also caps on ship and outpost crew sizes, but no overall limit on how many crewmates can be recruited.

There are tons of potential crewmates to be recruited in Starfield, but the system has its limits. There are 20 distinct companions in the game, all spread out in different locations across the galaxy. Each has their own skills, strengths, and weaknesses, making some of them uniquely suited to combat,...

On the 13th of December, 1943, something so awful happened in the small Greek town of Kalavryta that the few survivors struggled to speak of it for many years afterwards, and were not always believed when they did. Ultimately, many of them realised that telling their story was a vital thing, a way of preserving their stories and traditions as well as a crucial step in the struggle for justice. This became all the more urgent over the course of a century in which similar atrocities came to be committed elsewhere, not stopping with the Nazis. Sometimes, where a true story is too painful to tell, a fictionalised version can be used to get the important points across, and Echoes Of The Past strives to do just that. it is a story about a story, focusing on the push for reparations and one modern German lawyer’s (Alice Krige) experience of.

A new film about a notorious Nazi massacre in Greece during World War II has angered the descendants of the victims amid accusations that the filmmakers falsified historical events, with a victims’ group saying it’s filed a lawsuit against the producers.

Now the filmmakers are fighting back, with writer-producer Dimitrios Katsantonis describing the legal threats on Wednesday as “empty fireworks that will soon be revealed for what they are.”

“Echoes of the Past,” which is directed by Nicholas Dimitropoulos and stars the late Max von Sydow in his final performance, will have its world premiere Saturday at the Thessaloniki Film Festival before rolling out in Greek cinemas Nov. 11, where it will be released as “Kalavryta 1943.”

The film recounts the brutal massacre of some 700 Greek males by German troops in the Peloponnesian village of Kalavryta, in retaliation for the execution of nearly 80 Nazi soldiers by resistance fighters.

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Stage and screen acting legend Max Von Sydow, who starred in The Seventh Seal and appeared in The Exorcist, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Flash Gordon, and Game of Thrones, died on March 8 at the age of 90, according to Variety.

“It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow,” his wife, the producer Catherine Brelet, said in a statement.

Von Sydow made his Hollywood debut as Jesus in the 1965 Biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told. This gave him the authority to observe “if Jesus were alive today and saw what they are saying in his name, he would never stop throwing up” in Woody Allen’s 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters. Von Sydow had the power to compel Satan as Father Merrin in William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic The Exorcist and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), directed by John Boorman.

Iconic actor Max von Sydow who appeared in numerous movie and television shows for decades including The Exorcist and Game of Thrones, has sadly passed away. Though an exact cause of death wasn't provided, the news was confirmed by the actor's family that von Sydow died on Sunday. "It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow," says Von Sydow's wife, Catherine. The veteran performer was 90 years old.

A Swedish native, von Sydow was born in Lund in 1929. Taking an early interest in theatre and acting, von Sydow founded an amateur theatrical company with some friends as a teenager. He'd later begin studying the craft at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre as a young man and began appearing in Swedish movies during this time. Clearly finding his calling, von Sydow was working regularly with Swedish film...

Max von Sydow, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and battling a demon in The Exorcist, died Sunday. He was 90.

His wife, Catherine Brelet, announced the news without citing a cause of death in Paris Match. “It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow on 8 March 2020,” she said, according to The Guardian.

The Swedish actor became a breakout star in the late Fifties...

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It is with great sadness we must announce the passing of Max von Sydow. The international acting legend had worked steadily since his big screen debut in Sweden in 1949. Multiple Swedish classics followed including Miss Julie, Wild Strawberries, and The Virgin Spring. International fame happened quickly through his mutli-film collaboration with Sweden's most celebrated auteur Ingmar Bergman. By the mid 60s he began headlining international productions, first as Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and by the 1970s he was a mandatory for prestige all star productions. He's been a mainstay of cinema for 70 years, that exceedingly memorable long face flipping from sweet to sinister to authoritative to wise (and everything inbetween) on command for the demands of any role.

Before his death he completed a lead role in an as yet unreleased WW II drama Echoes of the Past which is currently in post-production. Let's...

Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal Photo: Criterion Collection Max von Sydow's French wife has said that the Swedish born star of The Seventh Seal and The Exorcist has died at the age of 90.

Documentarian Catherine Brelet announced that he had died yesterday "with a broken heart and with infinite sadness".

Von Sydow - whose final film Echoes Of The Past is currently in post-production - starred in more than 100 films and TV series. Although he began his career in theatre, he quickly carved out a career onscreen, working 11 times with Ingmar Bergman, including The Seventh Seal, Through A Glass Darkly and Wild Strawberries.

His career saw him span a range of genres and included roles as Jesus (The Greatest Story Ever Told), a priest (The Exorcist), the Devil (Needful Things) and Bond villain Blofeld (Never Say Never Again). He also featured as Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens...

Max von Sydow, the Sweden-born French actor whose credits included Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, and the role of Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon, has died at the age of 90.

The actor’s 65-year career spanned acclaimed arthouse, Hollywood blockbusters, and television. In recent years, he played Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Three-Eyed Raven in Game Of Thrones, and voiced a character on The Simpsons.

“It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow, on March 8, 2020,” a statement from his widow Catherine von Sydow read, sent via the actor’s international reps who confirmed to Deadline that he passed away on Sunday, March 8.

Born in Lund, Sweden, von Sydow studied at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre before getting his start in the film business...

The Greek pubcaster is backing 33 Greek and international co-productions with a total of over €2 million. The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (Ert Sa) has announced that it is supporting 33 Greek and international co-productions during its latest round of financing. This is the first slate of funding announced by the new board of directors, which was appointed soon after the latest national parliamentary elections. The support granted amounts to €2,205,000, in accordance with the rule that broadcasters should allocate 1.5% of their gross income to Greek cinema. The selection comprises 21 feature-length fiction titles, eight documentaries and four film projects with a limited budget. Among the selected fiction projects are the third features by Spiros Stathoulopoulos (Meteora), Godard Knows the Truth (producer: Neda Film); Giorgos Servetas, Woman With the Gun (Argonauts Productions); and Nicholas Dimitropoulos (Alter Ego), Echoes of the Past (Foss Productions). In addition, the sophomore...