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In an impassioned end to his keynote address on the opening day of Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show in Bangkok, Dead Space creator and industry veteran Glen Schofield has declared that the games industry is in dire need of fixing, and he believes he knows just how to go about it. “We need to fix the gaming industry right …

The affable yet thin Hulu comedy “Chad Powers” is a redux on several fronts. The basic premise — a silly gag set against the backdrop of high-level football, extrapolated into a feel-good sports series named for its protagonist — has obvious parallels to that of the Apple TV+ hit “Ted Lasso.” For leading man and co-creator Glen Powell, “Chad Powers” marks …

In 2013, NBC produced a 4-minute, 41-second commercial to hype up its acquisition of broadcast rights for the English Premier League. Jason Sudeikis starred as “an American Coach in London.” After that viral marketing success, some TV writers and producers realized that Ted Lasso, as Sudeikis’ character was named, could be good television. The resulting series became the first big …

Sydney Sweeney didn’t invite just anyone to her birthday party — but she did invite Glen Powell. The Anyone But You costars recently reunited as the actress celebrated her 28th birthday with a space-themed party. Photos from the event show Sweeney rocking a sparkly, silver mini dress while surrounded by friends and family in similar space-inspired attire. “Welcome to planet …

Sydney Sweeney didn’t invite just anyone to her birthday party — but she did invite Glen Powell. The Anyone But You costars recently reunited as the actress celebrated her 28th birthday with a space-themed party. Photos from the event show Sweeney rocking a sparkly, silver mini dress while surrounded by friends and family in similar space-inspired attire. “Welcome to planet …

Powell, 36, who also served as a co-writer and executive producer on the series, told the Globe in a Zoom interview last week that he and co-creator and executive producer Michael Waldron (“Loki,” “Heels”) didn’t want the show’s tone to be “binary.” Instead, they wanted to bring a mixture of emotions, drawing upon their passion for “great sports movies, the …

The new Hulu series “Chad Powers” combines the “over-the-hill athlete makes a comeback” movie and the “person wears prosthetic makeup to pretend to be somebody else” movie. It’s not a combination that has been attempted before, to my knowledge, and when you watch even one episode, you’ll understand why. Glen Powell, who also executive produced the series, plays Russ Holliday, …

Glen Powell recently appeared on Jake Shane’s “Therapuss” podcast and detailed an awkward encounter he had at a Hollywood party when he was asked to take a photo with a canceled actor. Powell, who is currently promoting his Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers” and Paramount’s upcoming action movie “The Running Man,” did not name the celebrity. “I was at a …

If you’re a cancelled actor and attempt to take a photo with Glen Powell, he’ll quickly turn into The Running Man.  This awkward scenerio recently happened to the Twisters star at party, as he detailed on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast. “I was at a party and there was somebody [there] that had basically been on the ropes in …

Since Glen Powell’s Chad Powers was first announced, there’s been a kind of creeped-out fascination with it at The A.V. Club. In the show, the actor portrays a disgraced college quarterback who pulls a Juwanna Mann, reinventing himself as the titular player. Staff writer William Hughes dubbed it “one of the worst ideas” he’d ever heard and described Powell’s Chad voice …