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As fans are trying to find different ways to pass the time during these quarantined weeks, many directors have decided to join fans for virtual watch parties of their films. One such director is James Gunn, who recently tweeted alongside fans for a virtual watch of his Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. During the watch he revealed many new details about his film, and since then he has continued to answer fans’ questions about his Marvel movies....

The future of Star Wars video games is a bright one. After years under an EA monopoly on the IP, the floodgates are finally open and anyone can now pitch their digital adventure in the galaxy far, far away to Lucasfilm. Amongst the next wave of titles is LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, an open-world title from Ubisoft, and Star Wars: Eclipse. Eclipse is being developed by Quantic Dream and was debuted with a teaser trailer at last year’s Game Awards....

Due to the success of both The Mandalorian and the Season 7 conclusion of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Disney and Lucasfilm have announced an impressive slate of new Star Wars projects for Disney+ including Ahsoka, Andor, Rangers of the New Republic, and a series specifically focusing on Clone Force 99. CONFIRMATION We’ve got a good feeling about this! During the company’s four-hour Investor Day Presentation, Disney confirmed Star Wars: The Bad Batch, an animated series focusing on the experimental clone unit from Season 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will be coming soon to Disney+ in 2021 and released the series’ first trailer....

While there were a number of surprises announced during Disney’s Investor’s Day event, such as Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron film and the return of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, a live-action series about Rogue One’s Cassian Andor was a project fans had long been aware of but knew little about. During the event, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy finally shed some light on the project, revealing the series will be called Andor and that it had already begun principal photography in London with plans to debut on Disney+ in 2022....

Early next year, Star Wars fans will get to jump back into Din Djarin’s story as The Mandalorian Season 3 preps for its release on Disney+ in February 2023. This story will bring back a number of major players from the growing MandoVerse, including longtime fan-favorite Bo-Katan Kryze, who first came into play in The Clone Wars animated series.While footage from Season 3 hasn’t been made public yet, Star Wars Celebration 2022 attendees had the opportunity to see exclusive new footage that showed where Bo-Katan is heading in the galaxy far, far away....

This BluMartin freeAir unit has almost no ductwork. One of the big selling points of Passivhaus design is the air quality. There is almost no air leakage through the walls, so most Passivhaus buildings have a heat recovery ventilator where exhaust air pre-warms or pre-cools incoming air, because in an energy efficient building you don’t want people opening the windows when they need fresh air, which is responsible for as much as 50 percent of heat loss....

Have you ever seen this optical phenomenon? Though it looks rainbow-esque, it’s not a rainbow. Nor is it a 22-degree halo or an instance of cloud iridescence, though it is occasionally confused with that phenomenon. No, it’s not the tracks left by a unicorn galloping across the sky either. Rather, this beautiful phenomenon is called a circumhorizontal arc, and if you spy one, you can consider yourself blessed, as they only form in certain parts of the world....

The now-highest-grossing film of all time, and the second-to-last entry in Marvel Studios’ famed ‘Infinity Saga’, Avengers: Endgame was released one year ago this week. In celebration of this particular milestone, the film’s directors, brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, joined a Watch Party hosted by ComicBook.com for the film on both Twitter and Instagram. Throughout the viewing, they dropped several behind-the-scenes videos of the making of the film, all of which have been compiled below for your viewing pleasure....

Hey green fingers, how green does your garden really grow? If you suspect that your pastoral idyll is breeding more toxic chemicals than prize hybrid-tea-rose bushes, then read on. We’ll have you footloose and pesticide-free yet, whether you’re an intrepid landscape designer earnestly shaping topiaries to reenact the Fall of Troy or an apartment dweller content with a couple of potted begonias. The only question you need to ask yourself: Can you dig it?...

From tallest to oldest and fastest-growing to most dangerous, these superlative specimens are trees at their most extreme. Given that human life is literally dependent on trees, all trees great and small are remarkable in our book. But there’s another book that makes mention of a number of specific trees and tree species: The book of Guinness World Records. Started by the managing director of the Guinness Brewery in 1954, the first version of the now-famous brand was as a promotion book of facts and figures to help settle pub arguments....

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe continues to expand past the Venom and Morbius stories, most prominently with S.J. Clarkson’s Madame Web, which is currently filming ahead of its 2023 release. This new solo movie will add a new dynamic to the SSMU with a clairvoyant character, and Sony has an all-star cast assembled to bring the story to life.Dakota Johnson was cast as the titular Madame Web, taking her experience from the oft-discussed Fifty Shades trilogy into something completely different from the world of superhero movies....

Animals have been used as test subjects for medical experiments and other scientific investigations for hundreds of years. With the rise of the modern animal rights movement in the 1970s and ’80s, however, many people began to question the ethics of using living creatures for such tests. Although animal testing remains commonplace today, public support for such practices has declined in recent years. Testing Regulations In the United States, the Animal Welfare Act sets certain minimum requirements for the humane treatment of non-human animals in laboratories and other settings....

When it comes to unlocking the pollen from certain types of flowers, only a secret buzz will work — a buzz that bumblebees know how to perform. Not even honeybees, the most famous of pollinators, know how to crack the code. Called buzz pollination, the strategy is utilized by some 20,000 flowering plant species including many agricultural crops we know and love like tomatoes, blueberries, potatoes and cranberries to name just a few....

Batman is back at the forefront of comic book media thanks to The Batman and a couple of highly-anticipated spin-offs, and that popularity is helping the character push forward in other areas as well. There’s even a Batman spin-off series in development entitled Gotham Knights for The CW, classically known as a home for DC content with the long-standing Arrowverse. Gotham Knights won’t be connected to the Arrowverse in any way - instead, it looks to tell its own story based on lesser-known characters in the Caped Crusader’s extended gallery....

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn set the record straight on whether the actors from The Suicide Squad were safe from being recast in the new DC Universe (DCU).Gunn and his partner, Peter Safran, have made headlines in recent days with the news of a new story for Superman in the DCU, one that didn’t use Henry Cavill in the role. This set off a chain reaction as fans heard reports that the rest of the DC Universe would be recast as well, setting up a completely blank slate for Gunn and Safran....

A first look at Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn in Joker 2 has been revealed to celebrate Valentine’s Day.Joker: Folie à Deux was announced back in May 2022, with news that pop sensation Lady Gaga joined the sequel as Arthur Fleck/the Joker’s (played by Oscar-winner Joaquin Pheonix) psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel coming shortly after. While it is unknown if the Joker sequel will alter Dr. Quinzel’s origins at all, it seems like the film will focus on the character’s clown-themed alter-ego Harley Quinn, baking described as a “romantic musical” from Harley’s perspective....

Insulation is a crucial part of green building, because it’s key to reducing the energy usage of a structure. This serves both the immediate owner by lowering energy costs and the greater environmental goal of reducing greenhouse gasses. Spray polyurethane foam has been shown to be one of the most efficient insulators on the market and is regularly used in buildings that want to achieve low energy needs. Yet a growing number of green builders are embracing other insulation options and turning away from spray foam....

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are in preparation for their third team-up effort together as Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne in next year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania for the MCU. With filming for the threequel having wrapped at the end of 2021, more than a year still remains until Rudd and Lilly’s work on the script and plot comes to life on the big screen. For Lilly specifically, Ant-Man 3 will put her character into a more prominent role than ever before as she makes her fourth appearance in the MCU and her first after the Infinity Saga....

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige remains as integral as ever to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is currently two episodes into its final Disney+ show of 2022 in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. While he doesn’t oversee every detail of what happens on screen in the MCU anymore, he still makes sure that the franchise’s movies and TV shows include what he deems as vitally important in them.Although Feige is still at the top of his game with running the MCU, this sometimes leads to disagreements between him and the A-list crew that works for Marvel Studios....

Instructable’s user masynmachien gave us permission to share his cool DIY wind turbine project with you. This project is meant to be easy enough for older kids and adults to do without too much experience. It’s a great way to brush up on your own skills or teach renewable energy basics to kids. Because these turbines are able to power LEDs and decoration is part of the fun, they would make great additions to a garden....