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  • Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Hocus Pocus 2."
  • At the end of the film, the Sanderson sisters appear to have disappeared from Salem for good.
  • However, the post-credits scene implies that there might be another sequel in the franchise.

The "Hocus Pocus 2" post-credits scene may have teased another sequel in the franchise.

The new movie, which premiered on Disney+ Friday, is set 29 years after the Sanderson sisters (Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler, and Sarah Jessica Parker) were vanquished in the original movie.

In the sequel film, a magic shop owner (Sam Richardson) tricks a group of girls into resurrecting the sisters again on Halloween with a new Black Flame Candle, an item that can resurrect the witches for one night.

Upon their return, the witches decided to perform a forbidden, powerful spell. Thus the girls, Izzy (Belissa Escobedo), Becca (Whitney Peak), and Cassie (Lilia Buckingham), work together to stop them. During their journey, they discover that Becca is also a witch and her powers grow over the course of the film.

While the movie has a conclusive ending for the Sanderson sisters, a short post-credits scene implies that the witches could return in a future sequel.

The post-credits scene shows that there is another Black Flame Candle.

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The post-credit scene shows there is another way for the Sanderson Sisters to return.
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Towards the end of the movie, the Sanderson sisters succeed in completing their spell but it is revealed that the spell has a catch in which the user will lose what they care about the most.

Winifred (Midler), the lead sister, loses her sisters, who both slowly disappear into thin air. In despair, Winifred asks the three children and her magical book to reunite her with her sisters. Their spell works but it sends Winifred to wherever her sisters are instead of bringing them back.

Winifred's ex-lover Billy Butcherson, who was brought back to life in the first film, also starts to disappear because of the spell. This indicates that the witches and their magic have been fully removed from the Earth forever.

However, in the post-credits scene, a black cat, introduced earlier in the movie as Cobweb, stumbles upon a box labeled "BF #2 Candle" in the Sanderson sisters' house, which has been turned into a magic shop. This suggests that the magic shop owner, Gilbert, made a second Black Flame Candle, which could be used in the future to bring back the sisters.

Ahead of the premiere of "Hocus Pocus 2," Midler, Najimy, and Parker expressed interest in returning for a third movie.

"If there was a third one, of course, I'd sign on, but I don't know how. I can't imagine what the story would be, but I love Winifred, Sarah, Mary, and our relationship," Midler, who plays Winifred, told Entertainment Weekly. "It's good for women. We stick together through hell and high water, but we do cause mayhem, and not many women cause that much mayhem!"

Parker also said: "Kathy [Najimy] had a good idea that the third one should be animated. That would be cool and a smart idea. It's fun, funny, and could be interesting and innovative, like old-fashioned or new [animation]."

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Russia’s Annexed Land Is a Crime Scene

Ukraine needs help documenting Russian atrocities.

By , a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and , a writer, journalist, and artist who has reported extensively from Ukraine.
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The city of Mariupol, Ukraine, is seen on Sept. 15. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

In a fresh violation of international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced the annexation of Ukrainian territory on Friday, complete with a celebration in Moscow and a rambling speech. Putin is seeking to bludgeon Ukraine and the West into submission not only because he is desperate to vindicate his grandiose plan for conquering Ukraine but also to avoid any accounting for the war crimes that he and his henchmen have already committed.

But Ukrainians have managed to outwit Putin, and they serve as witnesses to his heinous crimes. Take the dramatic flight of Orthodox Ukrainian priest Pavel Kostel. A clever village elder and a country backroad unknown to the Russian invaders spared his life in March. He was one of tens of thousands of civilians who were saved from the total and deliberate destruction of Mariupol, Ukraine—but at the cost of a still unknown number of dead.

After Russian warplanes began to indiscriminately shell Mariupol in early March, Kostel and his assistant looked for any possible way out of the maelstrom. The city was surrounded by the Russian army, and no civilians were allowed to leave. The Kremlin had decided to destroy Mariupol to serve as an example for other Ukrainian cities. According to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko in a recent interview with FP, Putin targeted the city because its majority Russian-speaking residents had repudiated Putin’s advances in 2014—a repudiation that Moscow never forgot or forgave. In the interim, Mariupol had turned into a bustling city with European-style amenities and a thriving information technology sector.

In a fresh violation of international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced the annexation of Ukrainian territory on Friday, complete with a celebration in Moscow and a rambling speech. Putin is seeking to bludgeon Ukraine and the West into submission not only because he is desperate to vindicate his grandiose plan for conquering Ukraine but also to avoid any accounting for the war crimes that he and his henchmen have already committed.

But Ukrainians have managed to outwit Putin, and they serve as witnesses to his heinous crimes. Take the dramatic flight of Orthodox Ukrainian priest Pavel Kostel. A clever village elder and a country backroad unknown to the Russian invaders spared his life in March. He was one of tens of thousands of civilians who were saved from the total and deliberate destruction of Mariupol, Ukraine—but at the cost of a still unknown number of dead.

After Russian warplanes began to indiscriminately shell Mariupol in early March, Kostel and his assistant looked for any possible way out of the maelstrom. The city was surrounded by the Russian army, and no civilians were allowed to leave. The Kremlin had decided to destroy Mariupol to serve as an example for other Ukrainian cities. According to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko in a recent interview with FP, Putin targeted the city because its majority Russian-speaking residents had repudiated Putin’s advances in 2014—a repudiation that Moscow never forgot or forgave. In the interim, Mariupol had turned into a bustling city with European-style amenities and a thriving information technology sector.

“It was an act of revenge because we had not gotten on our knees to surrender because we had dared to resist,” Boychenko explained. “They were promised that we would meet them with flowers. Instead of flowers, we met them with bullets.”

By March 2, Russian forces had heavily damaged the city’s infrastructure and also interrupted its water supply. There was no potable drinking water. Miraculously, it began to snow, and the residents boiled the snow that they gathered in pots and pans.

“When it started snowing, it was like a gift from God,” Boychenko said. “The snow that fell in early March saved numerous people’s lives.”

Kostel was part of the first convoy of approximately 100 vehicles that left the city of Mariupol without permission on March 5 as the Russian army besieged the city.

“It’s a miracle that we got through at all,” Kostel said. “Everything could have turned out differently. You just go into the unknown full of adrenaline, and thank God that everything worked out.”

The humanitarian situation in Mariupol was dire, and the Russians had successfully created a near-total information blackout. Residents were not allowed out. Kostel had heard on the radio that there was an opportunity to slip out of the city, so he got into his car and drove to the line to leave the city. Yet he quickly became stuck between the third and fourth Russian checkpoints on the way out. The function of the checkpoints was to find current or former members of the Ukrainian military as well as to harass the population. At the fourth checkpoint, Russian soldiers were removing all men of conscription age, thus creating a logjam.

A village elder standing at a fork in the road noticed the women and families with children stuck between the roadblocks and convinced the convoy to take the fork and stay overnight in the remote village of Temryuk. That advice likely spared their lives.

Russia was expected to release the first humanitarian convoy from Mariupol on March 6 but refused to do so. Kostel and approximately 300 fellow travelers were stuck. Another cunning villager came to the rescue, suggesting that the convoy could bypass the fourth Russian checkpoint by taking a rural road through the fields. A group of cars went ahead to scout out the route, with the rest of the large column following along later.

Kostel and his convoy made their way to safety in Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia. “We hoped that our sheer numbers would keep the Russians from shooting us,” Kostel said. “One car is easy to shoot up, but a convoy has too many witnesses. I think that this is what prevented us from being robbed.”

Yet thousands of others stranded in Mariupol would perish. The first Red Cross evaluation didn’t take place until days later on March 11. Boychenko was part of that first Red Cross evacuation, which stopped overnight in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk (another port on the Sea of Azov).

Some of the evacuees stayed in jails, whereas some slept in churches the night of March 11. “It was very cold,” Boychenko recalled.

As a result of the ensuing international pressure, Russia agreed to open a green corridor out of the city on March 13. No filtration camps—the camps set up in early April to interrogate and hold Ukrainian citizens indefinitely in squalid sanitary conditions—had been set up yet, but the Russians bombed the green corridor. Tensions ran high.

Russia let Mariupol residents out of the city until May 1. In total, an estimated 107,000 people were evacuated out of a prewar population of slightly less than half a million people, according to Boychenko. “Every number lives in my heart,” he said.

At this point, no one knows how many people died in Mariupol. The city administration estimates that 22,000 people were killed, but that is just a guess. Boychenko told FP that Russia’s own internal estimate is 27,000 people dead, but that figure is also likely an incomplete estimate.

Mariupol fell to the Russian army on May 20 with international investigators being denied access to the wreckage, independent journalists cut off, and the remaining residents of the city still too scared to speak out. Satellite imagery suggests that at least 9,000 of the people killed were buried in mass graves outside of the city. The world does not know how many innocent people were slaughtered, and at this moment, there’s no immediate way to bring justice to Mariupol while Russia continues to hold the demolished city.

The dead of Mariupol join those who were brutally tortured, raped, and killed in Bucha, Irpin, and Borodyanka—or in Izyum, where more than 400 bodies were recently uncovered in a mass grave.

The Ukrainian government has thought through myriad legal possibilities to bring justice and restitution to its citizens, but none will bring immediate relief or restitution. While encouraging the Ukrainian government to establish an international tribunal and seize Russian assets, the international community should focus on sending prosecutors and investigators to scrupulously document all evidence of war crimes so that when the proper international justice systems are in place, Russia and its soldiers will be held accountable swiftly.

Kyiv says it has documented approximately 34,000 Russian war crimes since the war began, but its law enforcement agencies need more help and expertise to prosecute and investigate war crimes. Specifically, the West should help build national capacity to prosecute and investigate war crimes within the government of Ukraine by loaning prosecutors and investigators to the country to train their Ukrainian equivalents as well as by sending technical equipment—from laptops to drones—to support actual investigations and prosecutions. Fourteen European Union member nations plus the International Criminal Court (ICC) have launched their own investigations, but Russia isn’t part of the EU or the ICC, so these are merely ceremonial exercises.

But one thing is certain. Putin and his criminal army must be brought to justice.

“[Putin] was systematically killing the people of our city until May 13. He knew what he was doing,” Boychenko told FP with tears in his eyes.

With the latest mobilization of Russian citizens, Putin shows no signs of abandoning his ambitions to conquer and subjugate Ukraine. The world should expect more unspeakable violence and war crimes to emerge before the war ends. It is incumbent on the West to ensure that Kyiv has all the resources and expertise that it needs to eventually prosecute the aggressor to the full extent of the law and provide justice for all Ukrainians.

Marta Smyrnova contributed reporting.

Melinda Haring is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Vladislav Davidzon is a writer, journalist, and artist who has reported extensively from Ukraine. He is the chief editor of the Odessa Review.

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Warning: Big spoilers for Hocus Pocus 2 follow. When the original Hocus Pocus landed in theaters in the summer of 1993, it was a box office flop. However, over time, it became a cult classic, which is why its sequel has so much hype 29 years later. The new film is a pitch-perfect blend of nostalgia and silliness, which fans love. And that’s not all — Hocus Pocus 2’s post-credits scene hints this won’t be the final installment in the Sanderson sisters’ story.

The first Hocus Pocus adventure that brought back the Sanderson sisters for a night of Halloween drama was an accident — kids playing around without knowing the consequences. On the other hand, the Sanderson sisters’ return in Hocus Pocus 2 was quite deliberate. Gilbert, the man who sold Becca and Izzy the black flame candle knew precisely what he was doing; he’s a Sanderson devotee, taking over their house, keeping all of their belongings, like Book, intact. Gilbert had been watching Izzy and Becca, waiting for the opportunity to put that candle in their hands to light it and bring the witches back.

It was not his most brilliant move. The Sanderson sisters weren’t grateful; they weren’t interested in being besties with him. Instead, they put a spell on him and forced him to do their bidding while Winnie conspired to perform Magica Maxima, the spell to make her all-powerful. Unfortunately, she did not read the warning before casting it, and the spell took away that what she held most dear: her sisters. Alone and bereft, Winnie gave up her powers to Becca and her friends, and Becca cast a spell to send Winnie to go be with her sisters.

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It seemed the Sandersons were gone for good this time. Winnie’s spells even started undoing themselves, allowing Billy Butcherson to rest. Gilbert also seemed to have learned his lesson, promising Billy to spread the truth about his relationship with Winnie and agreeing with Becca, “No more candles.”

However, Gilbert still seemed a little shifty. And the movie’s post-credits scene, which comes at the 1:43 mark, revealed why. As Gilbert’s cat, Cobweb, wandered through the empty Sanderson house, he jumped up to a shelf in the back room and started rubbing against a wooden crate — the crate’s label read “2567” and “BF Candle #2.”

The meaning of “BF Candle” is pretty clear to fans after the shenanigans just went down. “BF” most likely stands for “Black Flame,” and “#2” answers the question of whether Gilbert had backups. (So much for “no more candles.”)

As for “2567,” that’s a little more obscure, though fans will note it’s part of the postal code for the area of Massachusetts where the Salem Witch Trials took place (Danvers, formerly known as Salem Village). However, that’s just one guess as to what is number means; it could also be something fans haven’t guessed yet.

So, will Gilbert keep that candle locked away so the Sandersons do not return? And even if he does, could some new unsuspecting innocent accidentally find the box and light the candle, bringing the sisters back for another round of mischief? Only time (or magic) will tell...

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'Smile' review: Does one superbly scary scene make it worth watching? - Mashable

The concept of a curse has given rise to some of the most nerve-rattling horror cinema of the last decade. Using this conceit, Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Natalie Erika James's Relic both took the idea of inheritance to places horrifying yet humane. Skipping in their footsteps comes Smile, which sheds their grungy indie veneer for a slick spin on the trope. But can it satisfy on the scares promised with a beaming ad campaign?

On its face, Smile has a terrific setup: A witness to heinous violence is stalked by a corporeal curse that brings on trauma, terror, derision, and ultimately death. It’s like The Ring, but instead of creepy kids, there’s a wretched grin that follows and dooms you. Sadly, this cool concept crumbles under the weight of a major screenwriting problem — our hero is the movie's least interesting character. 

Smile needs a Final Girl worth watching.

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Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is plagued by a mysterious curse that stalks her with sinister smiles, but she’s far from thrilling. In the vein of folk horror, she’s the rational metropolitan figure in her role as a well-respected therapist. And she's a noble one at that, working at a struggling hospital and caring for patients even if they can't pay her a fat hourly fee. But Rose's goodness doesn't make her as instantly compelling as writer/director Parker Finn might hope.

Part of the problem, perhaps, is that the characters around Rose get to have, well, character. Her sister Holly (a cuttingly funny Gillian Zinser) is a nightmare of a suburban housewife, the wine-swigging cliche who complains about parenting in between backhanded compliments. Holly’s husband (Nick Arapoglou) matches her energy as a succinctly snobby doofus whose crass commentary and easy greediness make for grim but solid punchlines. At the hospital, Kal Penn brings flushed concern as Rose's colleague, while Kyle Gallner plays a sensitive, slightly broody cop. Judy Reyes from Scrubs even pops up for an emotional sequence riddled with anger and grief. They all bring color, while Rose is devotedly beige, even as Bacon hurls herself into the frenzied physicality of fear and slippery shrieks of terror.

It's not that being a nice good person is inherently boring. Final Girls like Halloween's Laurie Strode and Scream's Sidney Prescott are also good girls, but each has a bit of attitude that signals she can stand up for herself when push comes to stab. Smile dips into the slasher subgenre with its gesture at this Final Girl trope, yet Finn never gives Rose the essential verve she needs to make us believe she has some fight in her. Without this salty contrast, Rose feels too vague and unreal, lacking the human complexity that makes for a compelling horror heroine. This distance means that as her smiling slasher closes in, her battle for survival earned laughter from the audience, not screams.

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Caitlin Stasey gives the smile to terrify in "Smile."
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The bigger problem for Smile might be that Bacon is outshined in the inciting incident. That unnerving smile you've seen plastered across promo posters (and in the image above) belongs to Caitlin Stasey, who delivers a frightening and full arc in one all-too-brief sequence.

College student Laura Weaver (Stasey) comes to Rose with a story too wild to be believed. The battered girl moves with heavy fatigue yet is electrifyingly on edge, hinting at an offscreen battle that has robbed her of sleep and peace. Desperation radiates from her dark eyes as she spills nonsensical claims about an entity that "looks like people" and wears their skin "like a mask." Stasey is riveting in her weariness and bewilderment, and nerve-rattling as she leaps into wails of terror over something no one else can see. Few screams in a horror movie have given me chills, but Stasey's had me goose-pimpled and trembling. Then, just like that, the smile slides across her face, too broad, perfectly jarring.

In a few short minutes, Stasey has made herself an iconic horror figure. Regrettably, nothing in Smile is as sensationally scary as this early sequence.

Smile relies on jump scares and gore.

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Maybe you're not watching horror in search of someone to root for. Perhaps you just want some mindless fun and frights. Well, if that's the case, you're in luck; Smile is braced with impressively gory sequences of inventive mutilations and gruesome deaths. The central smile gag works to varying degrees depending on the actor putting it on, but is surprisingly — and disappointingly — sparing in its use. Still, these freaky facial distortions build to a climax that reveals a nightmarish creature that's not exactly unique but is nonetheless terrifically scary to behold.

However, too many of the attempted thrills in the movie are just jump scares: a sinister figure revealed in a dark corner, a loud sound inciting panic at a mundane occurrence, like cracking open a can of cat food. Finn does a fine job of setting up these small shocks, so that even if you anticipate them, the payoff will make you jump. And while this can be fun, his heavy dependency on these frightening flourishes feel cheap and flimsy without a roiling boil of tension to keep the momentum going.

This is the great tragedy of Smile. It's not the grisly tale of a therapist who followed her patient down a dark path, but of a concept wasted on jump scares and a boring protagonist. There are moments of promise, like a recurring motif about ringing telephones and what they ultimately mean to Rose. Plus, Finn ambitiously dabbles in different horror tropes with his folk-horror culture clash, his slasher Final Girl, and a clever curse that transforms every building into a haunted house. But he fails to create a heroine we frightfully feel bound to, which leaves Smile little more than a creepy watch. It could have been the kind of sinister flick that follows you home, slipping through the door, up the stairs, and curling up deep inside your head, daring you to sleep. Instead, Smile feels as disposable as a candy wrapper.

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Like most major corporations, Nintendo is very protective of its brand as a leader of family friendly entertainment. This protectiveness has sometimes come at the expense of the competitive Super Smash Bros. community, which for years has often gone it alone to organize grassroots tournaments and nurture a passion they all share.

But in November 2021, Nintendo announced it was partnering with Panda Global on the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros. Circuit. A series of tournaments throughout 2022 will all lead up to the Panda Cup Finale from December 16 to 18. The Los Angeles event will offer a $100k prize pool for 32 of the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Smash Bros. Melee players across the country.

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The Panda Circuit could finally bring Nintendo together with the powerful grassroots community that has grown alongside the popularity of Super Smash Bros. IGN spoke with Nintendo’s Bill Trinen and Panda Global’s Dr. Alan Bunney about what the Panda Circuit means for Super Smash Bros. and its competitive future.

“For [Nintendo], Panda Cup was really an important kind of step for us and finding a way to partner with the community, finding a way that we can partner with a company like Panda who’s been in the community, knows the history of the community, and is really familiar with all of the grassroots efforts that have gone into it,” Trinen says.

The basic structure of the Panda Circuit is broken up into qualifiers at various grassroots tournaments, and existing events like CEO and Dreamhack will field competitors for the Panda Cup Finale. Online qualifiers have also taken place for additional competitors, with the final invitations handed out to players chosen by a panel composed of trusted members of the Super Smash Bros. competitive community.

Nintendo chose Panda for its ability to engage and organize the Smash Bros. grassroots community that has built itself over the years, and give it the official backing of Nintendo’s brand.

“We’ve been in this community for eight and a half years… We understand it very intrinsically. We know what it needs, we know we have that vision. But also we’ve been doing it, we create infrastructure, we create stability,” Bunney explains.

"Smash Bros. kind of epitomizes what has really been at the heart of Nintendo and the smiles that it tries to bring through the entertainment it creates.”

Along with elevating the grassroots tournaments, Panda can also upgrade the health and safety of these events and let these tournaments highlight the players who’ve dedicated themselves to Smash Bros. That's a key element considering some of the controversies the community has faced over the years.

As for Nintendo, becoming an official partner means that these grassroots events can be taken to a new level of polish, with clear goals and prizes for winners.

“In terms of what we’re bringing to the table obviously number one is the license, and licensing this circuit with Panda means Panda becomes the only officially licesned Super Smash Bros. circuit that there is. That opens up a lot of opportunities,” Trinen explains.

Aside from having access to Nintendo’s partners for potential sponsorship opportunities, Nintendo is also helping with logistics, production, and even helping individual tournaments that make up the building blocks of the Panda Circuit series.

Trinen and Bunney point out that this is a true partnership, and Bunney wanted to clarify exactly what that means: “Some people see this little legalese clause that Nintendo’s not a sponsor at the bottom of some of our trailers and social media things and whatnot,” Bunney says. “They make a big deal about that. That specifically means that Nintendo is not paying us to put advertisements like a sponsor would. That is what a sponsor is… [Nintendo is] truly a partner of us.”

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Nintendo has hosted various Super Smash Bros. events and tournaments over the years, most notably the E3 2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate invitational. But the community has also criticized Nintendo for attempting to shut down some grassroots events and competitive ventures.

Trinen says that it is a result of internal challenges that can sometime override the grassroots community.

“We love the grassroots community, we want to see it thrive, we want to see it be strong, but there’s also- we as Nintendo have our own internal challenges,” Trinen says. “For example, if we run into issues where people are trying to do things that aren’t using the brand in a way that’s appropriate, that can be a challenge for us. If people are either not engaging with us or are maybe engaging with us without giving us enough time to be able to work through some of those questions or requests, that becomes a challenge.”

“That’s actually why we wanted to specifically partner with Panda, because they’ve been in the community for a long time as an organization. They’ve been around for a number of years and have been a part of that. But what it does bring is it brings a place where those grassroots tournaments can find a home.”

Bunney says that working with Nintendo elevates the production of these grassroots tournaments. “Nintendo also gives us access to assets that are official from the game, from the brand, and also know the guidelines to be able to assist these events - and doing promotional materials and to do things correctly.” Bunney cites access to “really high quality” character renders which Panda can use for its events.

“I firmly believe that we don’t really want to do the same stuff that everyone else is doing.”

It's Ultimately About Smash Bros.

The crowning jewel of the circuit is the Panda Cup Finale in December and there’s one thing the Panda Cup has that other esports don’t: Super Smash Bros. itself.

“The thing about Super Smash Bros. - and really competitive Super Smash Bros. - is that there’s a camaraderie there that I think is unique among a lot of games,” Trinen explains.

“The way that game brings people of many different backgrounds together, you get exposed to lots of different types of people and the number of people that have made friends through that grassroots community over the years has, to me, been really touching.”

“I think that to me is really kind of what Nintendo is about. If you even go back to the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System or the Nintendo 64, or even the Wii, a lot of what Nintendo has been about is bringing people together in front of the television to enjoy that fun and enjoy that camaraderie and enjoy a little bit of that competition. Smash Bros. kind of epitomizes what has really been at the heart of Nintendo and the smiles that it tries to bring through the entertainment it creates.”

“I firmly believe that we don’t really want to do the same stuff that everyone else is doing,” Bunney agrees. “Everyone’s got what you think of certain ways for competitive play, you think that everyone wants to be that super cool thing and fog machines and all that stuff. That’s fine, that is totally fine. But we view this and the Panda Cup and what we want to create hopefully is more — it’s going to sound corny, I apologize — but magic.”

“We love the grassroots community, we want to see it thrive, we want to see it be strong."

Presently the focus is on the Panda Cup final, and while Nintendo and Panda are keen on growing the competitive Smash Bros. scene they’re not ready to discuss plans beyond 2023 just yet. While the E3 2018 invitational was a huge event for the series, there are no plans for adding next year’s E3 to the event schedule just yet.

“I wish I could answer that question, but obviously, I think the E3 news, at least the most recent news, just hit [this week]. I don’t have any plans at the moment, but also we’re still looking at what the future holds and where we might try to put some of those tournaments and what tournaments Nintendo may be looking at running versus what Panda may do on its own for Panda Cup or how the two of those may mix together.”

While Trinen tells IGN to stay tuned, it seems clear that Nintendo is moving forward with competitive Smash Bros. Lucky for them, the enthusiasm and community for the game are already there, waiting for them.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

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MCSO searching for suspect who allegedly stole trailer, fled scene after crash - WTVG

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a suspect who remains at large after allegedly stealing a trailer, leading officers on a chase and fleeing the scene after crashing.

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, Monroe County Central Dispatch received information about two suspects in a white Ford pickup had stolen a skid steer and trailer and the witness was following the suspects at that time.

MCSO says officials from the South Rockwood Police Department located the vehicle traveling eastbound on Carleton Rockwood Road. A traffic stop was initiated but the driver failed to stop and sped away continuing on southbound I-75 through Berlin and Frenchtown Townships and the City of Monroe.

According to MCSO, stop sticks were deployed which punctured the truck and trailer tires. The vehicle continued on for a short period of time before losing control and crashing into the median barrier.

The two suspects exited the truck and ran away while officers chased after them. One suspect was caught and immediately taken into custody while the second suspect got away and fled into an industrial area along Front Street in Monroe.

MCSO says a large scale search was conducted using a drone and K9 tracking service dogs. During the search, dispatch received a call saying the suspect had stolen a second vehicle from the Detroit Edison employee parking lot. Deputies located the vehicle turning onto northbound I-75 from Front Street and began a second chase.

According to MCSO, deputies chased the suspect into the Detroit City Limits until they lost sight of the vehicle. The suspect is currently sill at large.

The suspect who was apprehended at the scene, a 34-year-old man from River Rouge, is currently being held at the Monroe County Jail and is facing charges of larceny, receiving and concealing stolen property and felling and eluding.

This incident is currently under investigation. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau at 734-240-7530.

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“What do you do for a living?” the door guy, Matt, was asking. He used to be a chiropractor, he explained, making a lot of money until his epic divorce. Now “I make a lot less money but have a lot of fun.” That fun, on Tuesday evening, was managing (and expansively chatting with) hundreds of people at the entrance to the Gramercy Park Hotel, and in a way he became its final doorman. The crowd was there not for cocktails or a post-movie-premiere party but instead to go shopping among the ruins. The hotel had closed abruptly in 2020 and never reopened, and its owner, Aby Rosen’s firm RFR, quit paying rent on the ground lease and got evicted. Rumor has it that the building is going to become condos. So its contents, from its quasi–Spanish Renaissance chairs and beds down to the shoehorns and shot glasses, are being dispersed this week by a firm called Best Buy Auctioneers. People in the line, which stretched up Lexington and around the corner onto East 22nd, told Matt they were writers and bankers, but the look was distinctly “old friend of the Schnabels.” (According to Avenue, the nightlife guru Nur Khan, who ran Rose Bar, was seen hauling out a carpet he’d bought, and event planner Bronson van Wyck was spotted looking at tables.)

The liquidation sale has been running since Sunday, but word got out in a big way yesterday — ABC7, Guest of a Guest, TikTok. As the waiting crowd shuffled forward, they watched movers fill a U-Haul cube truck with dozens of bubble-wrapped lamps and side tables. On the first couple of days of the sale, Matt explained, “people were coming out with tears streaming down their faces. Someone came and bought $33,000 worth of stuff. Came back, bought $10,000 more.” It did seem like a quick way to furnish your place, if you happen to be opening a restaurant or an inn and you like this particular aesthetic. But most of the line was quite clearly civilians, looking for souvenirs or a bargain single piece. Matt noted that the crowd was not the usual group of auction-trawling professionals. “If you want to understand America, you have to go to auctions. Just 50 bucks. 100 bucks. Watch everything.”

On the ground floor of the former Gramercy Park Hotel last night. Clockwise from left: Photo: Katy SchneiderPhoto: Katy SchneiderPhoto: Sukjong Hong

On the ground floor of the former Gramercy Park Hotel last night. From top: Photo: Katy SchneiderPhoto: Sukjong HongPhoto: Katy Schneider

What did you see, if you did indeed watch everything? Most of it was packed into the former hotel lobby, two big rooms replenished steadily with furnishings from upstairs. Red-leatherette bookcases decorated with nailhead studs were selling for $600 each. The shoehorns were $10. There were big arrays of glassware and white Royal Doulton china. Nearby lay some cast-iron Dutch ovens that looked unused and a pile of skillets that had been worked nearly to death. Anything with the GPH logo went for a premium: bathrobes for $100, terry slippers for $50. Some of those figures seemed fungible because there were no price tags. You had to ask one of the attendants what anything cost, and they didn’t all seem to be pricing everything the same way. Your best shot was perhaps with Vivia Amalfitano, a woman who was zipping around the sale, setting prices and accepting Venmo payments.

A couple of longtime residents of the hotel were here to work as sellers, presumably out of affection for the hotel. One, a fashion stylist, had lived there for four years. “My kids, my dogs — they loved it here. All my clients are here.” After the sale, she said, “I’m probably going to throw myself on the floor.” If you were interested in buying a whole room’s worth of furnishings, someone might be willing to take you upstairs for a look, but most requests to get backstage were turned down.

It was funny to see how much nostalgia existed for this version of the Gramercy Park Hotel, which has existed for less than twenty years. That all started in 2003, by which time it was a moderately gone-to-seed place, in decline but beloved as a semi-slummy cool hangout where a downtown music act might stay while on tour. (David Bowie and the Clash did just that, among others, and Hunter Thompson holed up in a room for a while.) It was owned for decades by a single family, one member of which, David Weissberg, took his life in 2002 by jumping off the roof. Soon after, Aby Rosen and Ian Schrager bought it (though not the ground lease, setting themselves up for Rosen’s eventual downfall) and with Julian Schnabel turned the 509 old hotel rooms into 185 new ones, in the process converting a raffish old celebrity hang into a super-glitzy new celebrity backdrop. (There was a liquidation sale back then, too.) Hunter Thompson was out; Scarlett Johansson was in. Rosen — who bought out Schrager in 2010 — has reportedly had cash-flow troubles for awhile, and the pandemic really did a number on hotel operators citywide. Last night’s sale was the latest result. Today it was even busier:

By 8 p.m., Tuesday night, the crew from Best Buy Auctioneers had cut off the back of the line and sent people home. “We’re opening at 11 tomorrow,” a portable P.A. system blared. “There’s not much left inside. We’ll be bringing down a lot more in the morning.” Staff members began pushing people to wrap it up, make their purchases, and leave. Curiously, though, everyone’s instinct seemed to be to stick around, to keep picking over what was left and just generally looking over the room. (Hotel lobbies, even when they’re not functioning as such, are for lingering.) The last thing I saw as I slipped out was a book dated 1949, one that had likely been chosen at random to serve as a prop on a bookshelf. Its title was Never Dies the Dream.

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