In what might be the quickest turn-around between allegation and repercussion, the manager of Overwatch e-sports team San Francisco Shock Max Bateman was let go just 14 hours after the abuse allegations were shared over Twitter. A woman under the handle Krystlin had tweeted that Bateman had sexually assaulted her in September after giving her a drink that made her go “in and out of consciousness” and driving her back to his home.
21st Century Fox has held multiple talks to sell a large portion of its entertainment business to the Walt Disney Company, close sources say this week.
This week on The Coven we throw asexuality into the cauldron and take a look at how aces are represented in television. We look at Bojack Horseman and how they tackle asexuality in one of their characters, as well as Riverdale and Big Bang Theory, and how the (lack of) representation in those two shows have impacted the community.
Hollywood alums Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate and All the President’s Men) and Brett Ratner (The Revenant and Prison Break) now have accusations of sexual misconduct coming out against them. Hoffman has been accused of harassment, and Ratner of full-fledged assault.
Decksplash enters a free-to-play week starting today, and needs at least 100,000 players to convince the folks at Bossa to keep working on the game and not scrap it completely. For Decksplash, it is literally skate or die.
Welcome to Pop Tabs: keeping tabs on all things pop culture. Matt, Tyler, and Daley discuss the latest Black Panther trailer and representation in the movie industry, the Nintendo Switch getting a host of new games (including Skyrim), and the novel To Kill A Mockingbird being banned from a Mississippi school’s curriculum.
Cory Feldman, former child actor and current frontman of the band Truth Movement, has announced a movie devoted to the subject of child abuse and pedophilia in Hollywood. This announcement came via YouTube video posted by Feldman himself.
The voice acting union SAG-AFTRA has announced this week that they have voted to potentially end their strike on video game publishers such as Electronic Arts, Activision and Take 2.
As the name implies, the new game is coming to mobile devices, rather than the Switch or 3DS, late Nov 2017.
Netflix original content is planned to reach 50% of the content available by 2018, and the price of having Netflix is being raised as well. Say goodbye to all the classic shows you love- and the money in your wallet!
Carson Crow is the assistant director for the musical and a theatre student here at Ball State. In the past, he was an assistant director for performances such as Boeing-Boeing, Everything will be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy, and Hairspray. He also directed a smaller scale musical John and Jenn in the Cave Studio Theatre.
