‘Battlefield 2042’ to start daily location reveals ahead of short film premiere

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJeff Daniels is ready to welcome audiences back to Broadway.The producing team behind “Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird,” a box office juggernaut that already ranks as the most successful American play in Broadway history, unveiled a new video on Thursday intended to celebrate the return of the Great White Way after a year of pandemic-related closures.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMeghan McCain, fresh off her exit as the controversial conservative co-host of “The View,” is coming to listeners’ earbuds this fall with an audio memoir exclusively on Audible.McCain’s “Bad Republican” will debut Thursday, Oct. 21, exclusively on Audible, the Amazon-owned premium audio service.

EA has warned that players who leak details from the Battlefield 2042 technical preview risk being banned permanently from the game, even after the game is officially released later this year.In a Twitter thread over the weekend, Adam Freeman, lead community manager at EA Studios Europe reminded players that the Technical Playtest is under NDA and via invitation only. Noting that “you also don’t want to share your account information with folks either, that’s going to end badly for you.

EA Dice’s Battlefield 2042 is currently undergoing a closed playtest, and some players have posted gameplay footage online.The playtest is live for short periods this weekend, and a few thousand players on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 have been invited to play.

Battlefield 2042 may not have a single-player campaign, but it’s bringing a boat load of story in a new short film, Exodus which sees the return of some Battlefield 4 characters.A new short film, titled Exodus has been unveiled by EA which gives us a glimpse of the events behind the all-out war we find in Battlefield 2042.The short film focuses on the “No-Pats” – a group of people whose countries have collapsed and find themselves without patriation.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Adobe have named the winners of their first-ever short film contest, The Great Untold, who will get to bring their pitched shorts to life and receive grants of $10,000, along with access to Adobe experts and tools, and continued mentorship on their projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated POV Shorts, from American Documentary, is set to premiere its fourth season via PBS and streaming at POV.org on Sept. 6. This season will feature 13 new diverse, short nonfiction films across 7 episodes tackling the complexities of family, identity, and community.

Iron Maiden have released a short film to detail the creation of their new album ‘Senjutsu’.The metal icons returned last month (July 15) with their first new track in six years.

The 24th Annual Reel Black Men Short Film Festival kicks off on Saturday with films from Charles Burnett, David M. Massey, and 19 other Black filmmakers. The festival, which will be held virtually through August 22, is put on each year by the Black Hollywood Education Resource Center. The 21 films being screened came from 500 semifinalists that were culled from 1,700 entries submitted from across the globe.

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Urvashi Pathania, Jesse Gi and Jess X. Snow are the three finalists of the fifth annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries, a short film competition which showcases cinematic storytellers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.

EXCLUSIVE: With their action thriller Beckett set to land on Netflix on August 13, Deadline sat down with star John David Washington and director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino to chat about putting together the story of an American on the run amidst political unrest in Greece.

EA’s flagship first-person shooter Battlefield 2042 won’t include ranked play at launch, but it could be added later if there’s enough interest for it.Despite several game modes and a new Battlefield Portal it looks as though Battlefield 2042 won’t be adding a ranked mode.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed All the Crows in the World writer-director Tang Yi after the film won the short film Palme d’Or this month at the Cannes Film Festival.

The summer and winter Olympic games usually have two years in between as a break, however, this year is different.

Angelique Jackson As director Brian Taylor (“Crank,” “Crank: High Voltage,” “Mom and Dad”) watched the NFT market expand from digital paintings and photography to musical projects and beyond, the filmmaker decided to get in on the action, crafting a new experimental short film with Christopher Meloni.“You hardly ever get to be first in anything in my business,” Taylor tells Variety, explaining why he decided to get in on the NFT craze.

EA has confirmed that fan-favourite maps from previous Battlefield entries will make a return in Battlefield 2042.As part of the Battlefield Portal game mode, Ripple Effect Studios has fully remastered six maps from past Battlefield games for players to enjoy in HD.The six maps include Battle Of The Bulge and El Alamein from the first game, Battlefield 1942.

Portal game mode for Battlefield 2042, EA has shared details on what players can expect – including remastered maps, returning weapons and more.Battlefield Portal is the second announced game mode for Battlefield 2042, pitting factions from various Battlefield titles (including 1942, Bad Company 2 and 2042) against each other.As a “love letter to Battlefield fans and one that long-time players will feel right at home with”, Ripple Effect has worked to ensure that the chaotic game mode should

Electronic Arts (EA) is exhibiting its yearly EA Play Live event tonight, and it’s expected to feature Battlefield 2042 – the latest in the long-running Battlefield franchise.READ MORE: The best games of 2021 (so far!)The event will begin at 10 AM PT/6 PM BST and be viewable on Twitch and YouTube.