10 Best Things This Week (2/16/18)

Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat

Remember last week when we brought you a bunch of amazing things? Well, here we are again with another exciting batch! We have all the things for you before you go into your long holiday weekend. Enjoy!!!

1. Black Panther will open to a stunning $200 Million Dollar Opening Weekend in the USA
https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/black-panther-looks-to-demolish-the-box-office-with-200-million-opening-four-day-weekend/

2. Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin are reuniting The Smashing Pumpkins…. without D’Arcy Wretsky https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/02/15/news/three-fourths-of-the-smashing-pumpkins-reunite-for-shiny-and-oh-so-bright-tour-dates/

3. Is Maggie (Lauren Cohan) still going to be a part of The Walkind Dead next season? We don’t know 🙁
https://television.mxdwn.com/news/lauren-cohan-now-in-active-contract-talks-with-amc/

4. The full Incredibles 2 trailer is finally here! Squee!!!
https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/new-incredibles-2-trailer-released/

5. Mike Patton did a special one-off set with the legendary DJ QBert
https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/02/11/news/watch-mike-patton-and-dj-qbert-collaborate-live-for-the-first-time-ever/

6. Many brands–including Vans and Spotify–are sitting out SXSW this year. Sadness.
https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/02/15/news/house-of-vans-spotify-and-more-major-brands-will-not-be-holding-events-at-sxsw-this-year/

7. James Hetfield from Metallica is going to….. act??!?
https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/metallica-lead-singer-james-hetfield-joins-extremely-wicked-shockingly-evil-and-vile/

8. Ever thought about playing a farming simulator, but then wanting it to REALLY FRIGGIN’ DARK?
https://games.mxdwn.com/news/gleaner-heights-is-a-farming-simulator-with-a-dark-side/

9. The mighty Melvins return…. with twice the bass player!
https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/02/13/news/melvins-announce-new-album-pinkus-abortion-technician-for-april-2018-release-featuring-two-bass-players-jeff-pinkus-and-steve-mcdonald/

10. 5 lion. 1 big robot. What’s not to like?
https://television.mxdwn.com/news/trailer-released-for-voltron-legendary-defenders-season-5/

Raymond Flotat: Editor-in-Chief / Founder mxdwn.com || Raymond Flotat founded mxdwn.com in 2001 while attending University of the Arts in Philadelphia while pursuing a B.F.A. in Multimedia. Over his career he has worked in variety of roles at companies such as PriceGrabber.com and Ticketmaster. He has written literally hundreds of pieces of entertainment journalism throughout his career. He has also spoken at the annual SXSW Music and Arts Festival. When not mining the Internet for the finest and most exciting art in music, movies, games and television content he dabbles in LAMP-stack programming. Originally hailing from Connecticut, he currently resides in Los Angeles. ray@mxdwn.com
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