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Frozen II is expected to be a smash hit, with projections now pointing to a $100 million opening weekend. Frozen made a killing at the box office in 2013, giving its direct competition, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, a run for its money. Its first three days, Frozen saw a haul of $67.4 million, while its five-day gross topped out at $93.6 million. This is around $5 million behind Zootopia, which still stands as Disney’s highest-grossing non-Pixar film to date....

Arya Stark emerged from the final season of Game Of Thrones as the hero of Winterfell, killing the Night King and stopping the Army of the Dead for good. She had an interesting and empowering arc throughout the series, losing her identity and reclaiming it again before leaving the Seven Kingdoms to forge her future. Like the rest of the characters on the HBO drama, Arya’s costumes were varied and intricate, reflecting the character’s personal growth and location....

Game of Thrones season 8’s Battle of Winterfell has ended but here are the questions that emerged from the feature-length episode. In “The Long Night”, the Night King and the Army of the Dead invaded Winterfell with Bran Stark as the ice zombie leader’s target. However, it was Arya Stark who miraculously killed the Night King and put an end to The Long Night. The Battle of Winterfell featured the longest battle sequence ever filmed and it was the focal point of the White Walker story that began in the very first Game of Thrones episode....

The series finale of Game Of Thrones was divisive amongst fans, some of whom were satisfied by their favorite character’s endgame and some who were not. In a final twist, Arya Stark killed the Night King before Daenerys Targaryen attacked King’s Landing, leading to Bran Stark’s ascension to the throne. Some of the beloved characters in Game Of Thrones received an unlikely happy ending, including Sansa Stark becoming Queen in the North and Tyrion Lannister retaining his position as Hand....

There’s nothing worse than being really into a particular game, and then having it all ruined by a poorly executed sequel. It’s probably happened to everyone at one point or another, but it doesn’t always have to be like that. Once in a while, a merciful game studio descends from the heavens and bestows upon us a game that not only lives up to the one that came before, but actually manages to surpass it....

Gartner is out with its latest report tracking smartphone movement during the previous year and more specifically the holiday quarter. Headlining the report is news that over 1 billion smartphones were sold in 2014, a data point IDC first said was hit in the previous year, adding that two out of three phones sold last year qualified as smartphones. Gartner’s data shows Apple topped Samsung in worldwide smartphone sales with 74,832,000 units shipped during the holiday quarter, just 1....

Friends wasn’t just about friendships, it was about family, too. Friends that are like family, and literal family, most notably in the form of siblings Ross (David Schwimmer) and Monica (Courteney Cox). They hang out more than most siblings do, especially in their adult lives. It’s kind of cool that they share friends and hang out so much, but as we’ve seen, it tends to get too weird or they get on each other’s nerves, as siblings tend to do....

A Friends co-creator has once again dismissed the idea of a revival. The record-breaking, much adored 1990s era sitcom came to the end of its run back in 2004. Since that time, fans have been holding out hope for more, as well as binge watching the complete series on Netflix. Having launched the cast’s careers and secured its place as one of the top American sitcoms of all time, the popularity of Friends continues to linger, even today....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=IWcHR2egWRA] We already knew that Apple would officially open the doors to a new flagship retail location on the ground floor and mezzanine of the Hirsch building at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam. The doors officially open to the public on Saturday, but One More Thing photographer Rogier Visser has shared some great photos of the new store from this morning’s press event. Apple confirmed to One More Thing that the store will hold 300 employees who can serve customers in 14 languages, and it features the world’s longest Genius Bar at 20 meters long with 34 stools....

As the eighth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones rapidly approaches, many people are electing to refresh their memories by binging through the first seven seasons of the show. Due to time constraints however, that’s not a viable option for everyone. So we’ve narrowed it down to the ten most essential episodes to rewatch before the final season begins. Spoilers for the first seven seasons to follow… Episode 1.04 - Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things Not the first episode that people think of, but it remains a major catalyst for everything that came after it....

Game of Thrones season 8 is nearly here, and that means an answer to all the fan theories that have been swirling around the show for the past eight years. While there are plenty of theories to consider, one of the biggest has to be the identity of the Valonqar. For those in need of a refresher, the Valonqar prophecy was given to Cersei as a young woman by the sorceress Maggy the Frog....

Game of Thrones is finally in full-on promo mode for its upcoming seventh season, which premieres on July 16. Details about the truncated seven-episode season have trickled out over time, but there has been very little for fans to sink their teeth into as far as actual content from the show. The first teaser for Game of Thrones season 7 came out on March 9, teasing the “Great War” to come....

Warning: This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Game of Thrones Game of Thrones will never have a direct sequel or spinoff, HBO programming president Casey Bloys says. The fantastical series wrapped up over the weekend, and while conversations about how creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss finished the story continue, some fans are already looking forward to what lies ahead for the lore. But as it turns out, whatever new content that will arrive will not be set after the events of the series finale....

Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect has been quite the success, but not just among console gamers. After realizing that you could connect the Kinect to your computer, thousands have swarmed to create their own homebrew Kinect applications. The interest in experimenting with the Kinect’s motion sensing technology is so strong that Microsoft officially announced an upcoming Kinect SDK within the new month or so. Want to see some examples of what you can do with the Kinect when it’s attached to a computer?...

It’s hard to find good friends these days. That’s why Monica’s so lucky to have her best friends to lean on. In fact, they’re always there for each other. It’s safe to say she was crucial to the group. She’s an amazing chef and feeds her friends all the time. As a matter of fact, they would starve without her. That’s probably why they overlook her many flaws. Friends wouldn’t be the same without Monica....

Riffing on the tune of ‘Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer’, Microsoft has posted a new ad for the Surface Go which pokes fun at the iPad for not being a real computer … With just a few lines of lyrics, the Surface ad sums up a lot of the current hesitation towards iPad usage as true computer replacements. The ad plays off the sentiment that iPads are toys and media devices and not serious work machines; the girl sings ‘Fine when I was 6 but now I’m 10, my dreams are big so I need a real computer’....

Henry Golding, star of the upcoming G.I. Joe Snake Eyes movie, discusses doing stunts and shares his on-set injuries. Snake Eyes is a spin-off of the G.I. Joe movies, the sci-fi action series based on Hasbro’s popular toy and media franchise. The first movie in the main franchise, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, was released in 2009. It starred Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, and Sienna Miller. With its over-the-top action, star-studded cast, and visual effects, it performed well in the box office despite receiving low scores from critics....

With an army of the dead arriving at Winterfell in Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3, could family patriarch Ned Stark rise from his crypt to join them? When Game of Thrones first began, it seemed clear that Ned Stark was the hero. The loving husband and father, newly appointed Hand of the King, hero of the rebellion… but, of course, Ned was shockingly beheaded at the end of the first season, marking the show as one that will happily murder the main characters....

The armies are gathering in Game of Thrones season 8 ahead of the Great Battle of Winterfell, but one character currently missing from the action is Red Priestess Melisandre. With so many major characters having been killed off over the last seven seasons, the absence of one of the survivors is conspicuous - but though she’s not currently in Westeros, Melisandre is sure to return before the show ends. Melisandre was mentioned in last week’s episode, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” when Arya quizzed Gendry on the strange night he had spent with the Red Woman....

Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass are set to star in The Chair, an upcoming Netflix series executive produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Last August, news broke that Benioff and Weiss had signed a huge exclusive deal to write, direct, and produce both movies and television for the streaming service. The deal, reportedly worth $250 million, made headlines at the time for several reasons. It was the end result of a bidding war between several major studios, which competed for content from the duo....