News Brief: AVENGERS: ENDGAME’s Metacritic Score, Takashi Miike’s FIRST LOVE, THE 100 Renewed, & More

News Brief: Avengers: Endgame’s Metacritic Score, Takaski Miike’s First Love, The 100 Renewed, and More

In brief, new movie news and television show news has broken. Below you will find a brief rundown on all that news and their most significant segments, distilled down to the most salient information.

TV Show News

The 100 and other The CW TV series Renewed

The 100, All American, In the Dark, and Roswell, New Mexico have all been renewed for an additional TV season by The CW.

Designated Survivor Season 3 Premiere Date Announced by Netflix

Designated Survivor‘s 10-episode Season 3 will premiere on Netflix on June 7, 2019.

Warrior Renewed for Season 2 by Cinemax

Warrior has been renewed for a second season by Cinemax.

New Star Trek Animated Series Comes to Nickelodeon

An CG-animated Star Trek TV series is coming to Nickelodeon and “will follow a group of lawless teenagers who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and take it on adventures while searching for meaning and salvation in the universe.”

The Good Fight Renewed for Season 4 by CBS All Access

The Good Fight has been renewed for a fourth season by CBS All Access.

Movie News

Avengers: Endgame Metacritic Score

Avengers: Endgame‘s Metacritic Score is seventy-eight out of a possible one hundred, based on forty-six reviews so far. That means Avengers: Endgame is in Metacritic’s “generally favorable” category.

Of the 46 reviews listed on the site, 43 are positive, 2 mixed, and 1 is outright negative. It’s worth noting that Endgame’s 78 is ten points higher than Avengers: Infinity War‘s 68 and ten points lower than Black Panther‘s 88.

Avengers: Endgame Breaks Chinese Box Office Record

Since Wednesday in China, Avengers: Endgame has made 719 million yuan ($107.2 million). That is the “highest opening day of all-time in China (including both local and foreign features).”

Steven Spielberg Delivers Additional Thoughts on Netflix

Steven Spielberg said this in an email to The New York Times yesterday about Netflix:

“I want people to find their entertainment in any form or fashion that suits them. Big screen, small screen — what really matters to me is a great story and everyone should have access to great stories.

However, I feel people need to have the opportunity to leave the safe and familiar of their lives and go to a place where they can sit in the company of others and have a shared experience — cry together, laugh together, be afraid together — so that when it’s over they might feel a little less like strangers. I want to see the survival of movie theaters. I want the theatrical experience to remain relevant in our culture.”

Netflix made this reply to Spielberg:

We love cinema. Here are some things we also love:

-Access for people who can't always afford, or live in towns without, theaters
-Letting everyone, everywhere enjoy releases at the same time
-Giving filmmakers more ways to share art

These things are not mutually exclusive.

— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) March 4, 2019

Takashi Miike’s First Love Production Details Released

Takashi Miike‘s First Love‘s plot synopsis: “Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.”

Takaski Miike will be directing the film, Miyabi Nakamura wrote the film, Koji Endo will be the film’s composer, and Nobuyasu Kita will be the film’s cinematographer.

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