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io9Sci-FiYour Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 3
If you made it through our two other big television preview lists, congratulations—there’s one more to go: all the streaming TV you will never possibly be able to ingest in 2021. We’re honestly in awe of how much sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, and horror TV we’ll be getting this year considering so many productions were shut … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-FiAn Astronaut Has an Unwelcome and Possibly Undead Visitor in the Eerie Sci-Fi Short Decommissioned
A piece of NASA’s past makes a surprising return in Decommissioned, which packs genuine sci-fi horror suspense into just six minutes. From the windows of the ISS, an astronaut notices a strange—and horrifyingly familiar—bit of space debris floating in his direction. It can’t be what he thinks it is…can it? We’ve featured Australian filmmaker Josh … Continued
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io9Sci-FiThe Mandalorian (and Baby Yoda) Spotted Ripping in Los Angeles
We’re actually in a good mood today for reasons, but to say it’s been generally bleak during the pandemic would be an understatement. With no outlet for his comedy stylings during covid-19, a Los Angeles man grabbed his board and a Mandalorian costume, and set about lifting moods in an entirely different way. NBC Los … Continued
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io9Sci-FiThe Expanse Just Pushed Everyone to the Limit and Things Are About to Explode
After last week’s Expanse gave extra space to one of this season’s most devastating farewells, episode eight finds time to see what all the other characters are up to on Earth, Luna, and various points around the Belt. As you might guess, nobody in “Hard Vacuum” is having an easy time of it. As we … Continued
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io9Sci-FiYour Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 2
Early on into our prep for all the television our readers might like to watch in 2021, we realized there was a lot. Like, a lot a lot. That’s not even accounting for the fact that io9 typically only covers sci-fi, fantasy, and horror creations. So we broke up our recommendations into three parts; yesterday … Continued
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io9Trailer FrenzyPixar Popcorn Serves Up Bite-Sized Adventures With Fan-Favorite Characters
Apparently, it’s National Popcorn Day—in honor of that food we used to eat when we went to this place called a “movie theater”—but there’s no reason you can’t microwave up a bag at home and celebrate the coming of Disney+’s mini-shorts series Pixar Popcorn, which just dropped its first trailer today. This looks fun and … Continued
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io9MoviesFantasyThat Willy Wonka Prequel You Didn’t Ask for Is Still Happening
Don’t worry, though—Johnny Depp is nowhere near this one. Deadline reports that Wonka—a prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that we first heard about all the way back in 2016—is still very much in play, so much so that Warner Bros. has even scheduled a release date of March 17, 2023. Which … Continued
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io9AnimationYour Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 1
Finally, 2021 is here, and with it, so much television to look forward to. In fact, there’s so much, we’re breaking down our big new year preview of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and superhero shows into three massive parts! Ready for part one? We’re kicking off io9’s epic 2021 TV preview with a look at some … Continued
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io9MoviesHorrorCreatures of the Night Fight to Survive in John Carpenter Homage Goodnight, Halloween
The year is 1986, the tech is appropriately old-school, and alt-history America empowers a gang of powerful, right-wing zealots to hunt down every creature of the night who dares to challenge the country’s homogeneous ideal. That’s the set-up for Luther Bhogal-Jones’ retro horror short Goodnight, Halloween. The fun here is seeing that very specific, dystopian John … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvelElizabeth Olsen’s Love of Star Wars Inspired Her Shift From Indies to Blockbusters
Though she hails from a famous show biz family, and she’s now starring in her own Marvel TV series after appearing in multipleAvengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen started out making indie films, like 2011 cult tale Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired her shift from art-house to multiplex? Though the, uh, obvious reasons any actor … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-FiGodzilla vs. Kong Gives Us a First-Look Tease of the Brawl We’ve Been Waiting For
Hot off the news that Godzilla vs. Kong would be arriving two months earlier than expected, we now have a first look at the monsters going mano-a-mano. “Change is nature,” the teaser informs us, but we’re certain to never change our stance on the fact that Godzilla and King Kong fighting each other is cool … Continued
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io9Trailer FrenzyNic Cage’s Latest B-Movie Extravaganza Pits Him Against Demonic Animatronics
If you thought that Banana Splits movie was macabre, behold Willy’s Wonderland. It’s about a man who needs some cash fast after his car breaks down, so he agrees to clean a Chuck E. Cheese-style restaurant overnight. The twist: the animatronics are killers. The other twist: the man is played by Nicolas Cage. That’s pretty … Continued
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io9AnimationWill This T-Rex Ever Get a Kid-Shaped Snack?
The kids of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous can’t catch a break. The delightfully violent animated series is back for season two next week, and Netflix has shared a new clip depicting a perilous encounter between a handful of stranded campers and Isla Nublar’s hungriest resident. Hold onto your butts! “The stakes are higher than ever … Continued
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io9Sci-FiThe Expanse‘s Latest Episode Sets Season 5’s Endgame in Motion
The Expanse’s fifth season is inching closer to its finale, and this week the show narrowed its focus, spending most of its time on one especially heartbreaking storyline. Episode seven’s title, “Oyedeng,” is the Belter word for “good-bye”—and the series has rarely taken us through such a painful, powerful farewell. We don’t get many flashbacks … Continued
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io9AnimationIn This Cleopatra in Space Season 3 Clip, the Kids Make a Daring, Fiery Escape
Based on the graphic novels by Mike Maihack, Peacock’s animatedCleopatra in Space series follows a teenaged Cleo as she time-travels to a futuristic, Egyptian-themed plane, where she trains to fulfill her duty as the world’s long-awaited savior—while also dealing with high school stuff. Season three arrives this week, and io9 a sneak peek! This action-packed … Continued
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io9BooksFantasyHades and Persephone Get a Divine Meet-Cute in This Peek at Fantasy Erotica Neon Gods
In Neon Gods, erotica author Katee Robert shifts her focus from Disney villains to Greek mythology, a realm that also happens to be overflowing with steamy romance. Today, io9 is revealing the cover and an excerpt that sees heroine Persephone, on the run from Zeus, meeting a dark stranger at the River Styx. First, here’s … Continued
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io9Trailer FrenzySnowpiercer‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Full of Flamboyantly Evil Sean Bean
All aboard for season two of TNT’s Snowpiercer! The series is, of course, based on the graphic novel Le Transperceneige and the 2013 Bong Joon-ho film. If this new season two trailer is any indication, the show’s frozen world is about to expand immensely and get way, way more unstable. Snowpiercer’s first season ended … Continued
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io9BooksFantasyPeter Pan Is Real (and Wendy Is Terrified) in This Excerpt From Aiden Thomas’ Lost in the Never Woods
Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book, Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter Pan, and io9 has an … Continued
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