Tom Holland flies with hero boy

A young boy, who saved his sister from a dog attack in 2020, was treated to a day on the Spider-Man: No Way Home set, where he got to go web-slinging with star Tom Holland.

Bridger Walker was six years old when he jumped between his four-year-old sister and a charging German shepherd mix in July 2020. He underwent two hours of surgery after the attack and received more than 90 stitches.

Walker’s father posted a video to YouTube showing the family’s visit to the set to meet Holland and co-star Zendaya. The footage shows Holland taking the boy up in the rig filmmakers used to simulate Spider-Man’s web-slinging in the film.

A glimpse from Multiverse of Madness teaser

Marvel shared a teaser trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, aka Doctor Strange. The preview shows Strange (Cumberbatch) reunite with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), aka Scarlet Witch, following the events of WandaVision, Loki and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Strange and Wanda (Olsen) team up to take on monsters and villains, including an evil, alternate version of Strange.

Benedict Wong co-stars as Wong, with Rachel McAdams as Dr Christine Palmer and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mordo. The movie is based on the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange, created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, and opens in theatres on May 6, 2022.

World’s largest winter festival in Minecraft

The world’s largest winter festival has opened its virtual doors to the public to experience Christmas festivities — all in a Minecraft world.

Covering an area with a representative size of over 155,000 square metres or 38 acres, the virtual wonderland is four times the size of the biggest real-world seasonal event in Austria and took specialist artist Ushio Tokura over 300 hours and more than 30 million individual blocks to complete.

Commissioned by NVIDIA, the NVIDIA RTX Winter World will give families across the globe a free festive immersive experience to explore from the comfort of their own homes. Utilising NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPU’s (Graphics Processing Unit), real-time ray tracing stunningly simulates the physical behaviour of light, enabling reflections, shadows and other realistic lighting effects.

There are rollercoasters, a Christmas village, frozen ice-skating lake, penguin postal service and petting zoo tent, with playable storylines and quests.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 1st, 2022