“Please don’t shoot the messenger. The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been pushed to spring 2023, Nintendo announced in a brief video today. ‘We previously announced that we were aiming for a 2022 release for this game,’ Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said. ‘However, we have decided to extend our development time a bit and change the release to spring 2023. For those of you who have been looking forward to releasing this year, we apologize.’” Read more at Kotaku Actor Elliot Page reveals the first look at Viktor Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy season 3. Read more at The Mary Sue It appears that IT (the movie series) will be getting an HBO Max spinoff show explaining the origins of Pennywise the Clown. “The deep, disturbing mythology of Stephen King’s creepy creation Pennywise the Clown might be getting its very own streaming series. Currently being referred to as Welcome to Derry, the show, which is currently in the early stages of development, would tell a 1960s-set story in the same timeline as the recent It movies and, somehow, also weave in Pennywise’s origins.” Read more at Gizmodo The good news? The Oscars got significantly better ratings than last year. The bad news? The number is still low enough for the second-worst ever, even with the ratings boost from the slap. Read more at The A.V. Club Speaking of The Oscars, did you know it’s possible to tie for an award? Here are six different occasions when that occurred. “Only six ties have ever occurred during the Oscars’s more than 90-year history. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) members vote for nominees in their corresponding categories; here are the six times they have come to a split decision.” Read more at Mental Floss A trailer for the last segment of episodes for Netflix’s Ozark has been revealed, along with a late-April release date. Read more at HypeBeast
