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The Dark Knight features a surprise cameo from the singer and guitarist of Blink-182 and Alkaline Trio. Released in the summer of 2008, Christopher Nolan’s second Batman effort proved to be a defining moment in modern cinema, giving the superhero world Heath Ledger’s magnificent portrayal of Joker and mastering the gritty, urban styling introduced previously in Batman Begins. One of The Dark Knight’s biggest side stories is the threat of Bruce Wayne’s secret hobby being revealed to the public, after a Wayne Enterprises employee finally puts two-and-two together and figures that Lucius Fox’s R&D department is finding its way onto Gotham’s streets each night....

Blumhouse Pictures and Damon Lindelof’s action thriller The Hunt has received a release date from Universal. Lindelof became one of the hottest names in Hollywood off his tenure as showrunner on the hit TV series Lost. Big time screenwriting gigs followed, including the task of penning Prometheus for director Ridley Scott. Lindelof also co-wrote the script for Star Trek Into Darkness, the less-than-beloved second entry in the Star Trek reboot series....

Go to the desktop in Windows 8, right click an empty area and select New » Shortcut. The Create Shortcut windows comes up. In the Location of Item field Type: shutdown.exe -t 00 -s then click Next. Give the shortcut a name…this is up to you, I am naming it ShutDown. After naming it, click Finish. The shortcut is created, but the icon is rather boring, but it’s easy to change....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the end, the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths lived up to the tagline it shared with the DC comic book mini-series that inspired it. “Worlds will live, worlds will die and nothing will ever be the same.” To say that Crisis forever changed the state of the CW’s shared reality would be a vast understatement. Indeed, the mini-series changed the state of DC Comics’ television and film adaptations as a whole, revealing every superhero show and movie ever based on a DC Comics’ property to be part of the same multiverse....

Other than his (ex)wife Cheryl, there is nobody in Curb Your Enthusiasm who Larry spends more time with than his agent Jeff Greene. Jeff always attempts to bring level-headedness to the ideas Larry often springs on him. The keyword being “attempts.” As a husband, father, friend, and businessman, Jeff never fails to get himself into a fiasco. Although he tries his hardest to be professional, Jeff is drawn to folly like a moth to light....

Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond has been marked by a lot of controversy and also a lot of success. When Craig debuted in the role back in 2006’s Casino Royale, the Bond franchise was at something of a low ebb artistically after a series of increasingly cartoonish movies starring Pierce Brosnan. Martin Campbell promised a grittier, more realistic Bond in Casino Royale, but there were some who found Craig a little too rough-around-the-edges to play the debonair secret agent....

Sony is currently in the market for their next big franchise. There is reason to believe Spider-Man: Homecoming should deliver that, but the studio may have bigger plans with Venom and Silver Sable & Black Cat movies also being discussed. Outside of superheroes however, Sony is hoping that a beloved Stephen King series will help them as well. The Dark Tower was originally scheduled to hit theaters early this year, and with stars like Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba attached, and the use of King’s source material, the movie was positioned to be a potential early hit in 2017....

Is Smallville’s Oliver Queen going to be in “Crisis on Infinite Earths”? That’s the biggest question at the moment regarding Smallville in the Arrowverse crossover. As the highly-anticipated event goes into production, the number of guest stars and superheroes appearing in “Crisis” keeps getting bigger and bigger. Most recently, the crossover added Osric Chau as Ryan Choi and Ashley Scott’s Huntress from Birds of Prey. What may be the most important bit of casting news came when it was announced that Tom Welling, who portrayed Clark Kent for ten seasons on Smallville, would be back to reprise the role in “Crisis on Infinite Earths”....

Kevin Conroy may be playing an older version of Adam West’s Batman in the Arrowverse crossover, “Crisis on Infinite Earths”. West is one of the most iconic versions of the Caped Crusader, having played the character in the campy 1960s Batman series on ABC, and the movie that followed it. West has also voiced the character in various cartoons. The celebrated Batman star passed away at the age of 88 in 2017....

But those data points only scratch the surface of what social can offer your company. Imagine if you could monitor and analyze all social media conversations happening around your brand, and tap into consumer insights that prove crucial for growing your business. That’s what social listening offers. Listening makes creating data-driven marketing strategies more accessible, and gives your entire organization the tools to outpace the competition, improve your content strategy, iterate on new product designs and build more impactful campaigns....

Creators: Here’s How to Build a Successful Membership Business What Is a Membership Business? A membership business is a subscription site that offers content to members. These businesses offer things like educational content, access to a community, new content on a regular, ongoing basis, and more. For creators, membership businesses provide recurring revenue and opportunities for community building that will keep members coming back again and again. With a membership business, creators charge a recurring fee for access to exclusive services, original and curated content, and community....

The CW has ordered five new shows to series, including its Charmed reboot and another new Vampire Diaries spinoff titled Legacies. It’s the time of year when audiences find out if their favorite shows are being canceled or renewed, along with announcements of plenty of new projects. The CW seems to be building a fresh, diverse roster of programming geared toward supernatural themes. The Charmed reboot, in particular, has endured failed attempts before finally advancing to a series order in 2018....

Daniel Wu, known for his roles Into the Badlands, Warcraft, The Man with the Iron Fists, and several Hong Kong action flicks, plays Lu Ren, a new character made specifically for Tomb Raider, and an ally of Lara Croft. Daniel discusses playing video games, watching Alicia Vikander do her own stunts, and the amazing diversity found in the cast of this film. Screen Rant: So, did you get to play Tomb Raider, did you play Tomb Raider at all when you were growing up?...

The cast and crew of Daredevil react to Netflix’s cancelation of the series. The first Marvel TV series created in partnership with the streaming giant, the Charlie Cox-led show just dropped its critically acclaimed third outing last month. Its season finale was crafted so well that it is a satisfying end to Matt Murdock’s adventures. That said, considering the quality of its latest installment, many were still hoping that a fourth season was going to happen....

The first trailer for the next X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, has finally been released - and it still leaves us none the wiser about the role of Jessica Chastain’s villain and the alien Skrulls. The trailer focuses almost entirely upon the threat of the Phoenix, setting up an intensely personal story that sees the X-Men apparently battling against one of their own. It’s been widely reported that Dark Phoenix features the shapeshifting aliens known as the Skrulls....

Cyber Monday launches at every major retailer Apple Cyber Monday deals As we’ve been combing over the Black Friday discounts all week, the M1 Pro Mac discounts never came. But now that Cyber Monday is here, Adorama is finally delivering with all-time lows on the new Apple releases. Right now, the 14-inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro is down to $1,799, saving you $200 and marking the best price to date at $100 under our previous mention....

Crowdstrike’s 2022 Global Threat Report details how the cyber-threat landscape has evolved during the past year. One of those developments is the rise of new countries engaging in offensive cyber operations, including Turkey and Colombia. In accordance with Crowdstrike’s naming conventions, attacks by Turkish-linked groups are detailed as attacks by ‘Wolf’ while attacks by Colombian operations have been Dubbed ‘Ocelot’ – in a similar way to how cybersecurity researchers name Russian government-backed activity ‘Bear’ or Chinese hacking groups ‘Panda’....

Cybersecurity professionals are found in almost every industry imaginable: government agencies, corporations, universities, financial institutions and even defense/aerospace firms. Any company that handles private data or classified information relies on highly trained specialists to protect their business and customers. Thanks to the critical nature of the work, cybersecurity jobs salary are highly lucrative: “Cybersecurity professionals report an average salary of $116,000, or approximately $55.77 per hour. That’s nearly three times the national median income for full-time wage and salary workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” wrote CIO Magazine’s Kenneth Corbin in 2013....

3.5 million cybersecurity positions will be unfilled by 2021, up from just 1 million in 2016 40% of open security jobs received fewer than five applications 25% of priority security positions take at least six months to fill Unfortunately, the alarming trend doesn’t end when a job is filled. Sixty percent of cybersecurity team leaders report that their staff can’t handle anything more complex than simple incidents. Even employed cybersecurity professionals may lack the skills and training they need to keep up with their work or may be mismatched for the role they were hired into....

HomeKit compatibility is pretty much table stakes for today’s smart home devices, and D-Link has recognized this in announcing its latest home security camera. The Omna 180 Cam HD is a neat-looking full HD camera with HomeKit support added to the feature list … The Omna is essentially a next-generation version of the company’s existing DCS-2630L, offering the same full 180-degree field of view for whole-room viewing, 1080p resolution, night vision, motion-detection, two-way audio and a microSD card slot with support for 128GB cards....