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io9Sci-Fi
Star Wars: Resistance Is Coming Back, and It’s Bringing a Tentacle Monster
The shadow of the First Order looms, but something even more dangerous is in the waters beneath. In classic Star Wars tradition—see the Sarlaac Pit—it’s a tentacle monster, and it’s just one of the threats our heroes are going to have to deal with when Star Wars: Resistance returns on January 13th. To tide us … Continued
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io9Movies
The Refreshing Earnestness of Last December’s Blockbuster Genre Movies
In a year filled with some fantastic genre movies, December 2018 went out on a high for me, dragging me into a theater again and again over the month. Bumblebee, Aquaman, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse each surprised me as some of my personal favorites of the year, but what surprised me most was the … Continued
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io9Toys and Collectibles
Godzilla: King of the Monsters Plays Out on Your Toyshelf, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s roundup of all the latest toys threatening the contents of our wallets lately. It’s a new year, which means new toys! We’ve got an early look at the next line of Game of Thrones figures, Snape hits Figuarts’ Harry Potter line, and Medicom takes on the King of Atlantis. … Continued
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io9MoviesFantasy
Glass Will Feature Previously Unseen Footage From Unbreakable
The first big superhero movie of 2019 is mere days away: Glass, the sequel to 2000’s Unbreakable and 2016’s Split, is coming on January 18. There have been several trailers and TV spots, but in grand M. Night Shyamalan fashion, the film’s biggest mysteries remain intact. Well, most of them. In an interview with Fandango, … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars
Star Wars Actor Ahmed Best Opens Up About How Jar Jar Backlash Almost Drove Him to Suicide
Last summer, actor Ahmed Best—who first portrayed Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace when he was a 25-year-old—took to his Twitter account to reflect on the movie’s upcoming 20th anniversary. But that remembrance included how fans’ vitriolic backlash to his performance nearly drove him to kill himself. While dragging … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
The Final Short Trek Is a Lovely Reminder That Star Trek Can Loosen Up Once in a While
We all love Star Trek for its moral core, the way it presents heroes that champion utopian ideals and diplomacy and a love of scientific curiosity over hostility and division (although the bits where spaceships phaser-and-torpedo the shit out of everything are also good). But every once in a while we need a reminder that … Continued
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io9BooksFantasy
Ok, But Why Did Wizards Used to Shit Themselves?
Just a fun fact! To celebrate National Trivia Day and remind us that Harry Potter is getting close to rivaling Star Wars as a franchise so deeply fascinated by gazing into its own canonical navel, the official Pottermore Twitter account decided to #jointheconversation and drop this dookie: Delightful. If your head isn’t now just full … Continued
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io9Trailer Frenzy
Carmen Sandiego Gets a Heroic Origin in the First Trailer for Her Netflix Reboot
Over the years of games and shows, Carmen Sandiego has had several origins—former detective gone rogue, criminal mastermind, agent of chaos, you name it. But her new Netflix show is giving her another…one that’s turning her into a bit more of a Robin-Hood-esque figure. Netflix has just dropped the first trailer for its animated reboot … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Luke Cage Star Mike Colter Wasn’t Shocked by the Series’ Cancellation but Hopes It’s Coming Back
When Disney first announced its plans to launch a streaming service of its own where new, live-action series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would begin airing in the near future, the writing was all but on the wall for Netflix’s MCU shows. So it shouldn’t have been too surprising when Daredevil, Iron Fist, and … Continued
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io9Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones‘ Jon Snow Reveal Won’t Just Be Awkward, It Could Destroy His Relationship With Dany
Many Game of Thrones fans are anxiously awaiting that super-awkward moment in season eight when Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen realize that they’ve boned a close relative. But according to one of the showrunners, as well as the actors themselves, the reveal could also tear them apart—because Dany might not let anyone block her path … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Young Justice: Outsiders Is a Return to Form for the Animated Series
Warner Bros. and DC’s animated films and television shows have always eclipsed their live-action offerings in terms of depth and nuance in their storytelling, and DC Universe’s Young Justice: Outsiders is no exception. When we first met Young Justice’s team of sidekicks almost 10 years ago, they were all still very much in the process … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
What Does Brie Larson Say to Avengers: Endgame Spoilers? ‘Not Today’
Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland might be awful at keeping secrets about the Avengers series—but Brie Larson, the latest superhero to join the fray, knows how to get the job done. In an interview with USA Today, Captain Marvel’s Larson talked about what it was like filming one of the most anticipated superhero films of … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
John Krasinski Keeps Teasing the Intimate Scale of His Quiet Place Sequel
Jumanji 2 could add a Crazy Rich Asians star. Rick & Morty has started teasing potential news about its next season. Christina Hodson teases the importance of Harley Quinn to Birds of Prey, and her ideas for a Bumblebee sequel. Plus, what’s to come on Gotham, and new stills from Captain Marvel and Godzilla: King … Continued
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io9Toys and Collectibles
You Brew It Up! Ah, Damn You! God Damn You All to Hell!
The handful of trailers we’ve seen for The Lego Movie 2 have only given us fleeting glimpses of Apocalypseburg, where minifigures like Emmett and Lucy struggle for survival—and decent coffee—after the invaders from planet Duplo laid waste to Bricksburg. But Lego’s new 3,178-piece Welcome to Apocalypseburg! set now gives us all the gritty details of … Continued
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io9Trailer Frenzy
The Sci-Fi Film Crossbreed Stars Vivica A. Fox as the President, and It’s All Downhill From There
In the trailer for Crossbreed, a character screams “I can’t look away, I can’t look away!” We know exactly how he feels. The film, which comes to VOD on February 5, stars Vivica A. Fox as the President of the United States. If the description stopped there, that would be enough. But no. She’s the … Continued
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io9Animation
Watch These Star Wars Resistance Shorts While You Wait for the Series to Return
No, there wasn’t a Star Wars movie out this Christmas, but there was a bunch of new Star Wars content released over the holiday season. The remainder of the 12 new Star Wars Resistance shorts hit the web in the past several days, each telling a short and sweet story packed with either action or humor. … Continued
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io9Horror
Another Character Is Jumping From The Walking Dead to Fear the Walking Dead
Burned face and all, Dwight is heading to Fear the Walking Dead. Negan’s former right hand man, played by actor Austin Amelio, was last seen being banished from Alexandria by Darryl at the end of The Walking Dead season eight. He didn’t return for the start of season nine and now we know why. He’s … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror
This Mashup Reimagines Jordan Peele’s Us as a Disney Channel Movie
We don’t really know all that much about the plot of Jordan Peele’s new horror project Us, but the film’s first trailer provided just enough inspiration for one clever video editor from Yeek Studios, who drew some interesting comparisons between the live-action thriller and The Proud Family Disney Channel Original movie. The Proud Family Movie tells … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
The Batwoman Series Starring Ruby Rose Nabs a Game of Thrones Director for Its Pilot Episode
Ruby Rose’s debut as Kate Kane during the CW’s Elseworlds event last year was undeniably interesting—but the question it left everyone with was whether the network would ultimately end up moving forward with its potential plans to give the character her own Batwoman spinoff in the future. Technically, the CW has yet to full-on greenlight … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
Rainn Wilson on the Many Layers of Harry Mudd, and the Lighter Side of Star Trek
Star Trek: Short Treks has so far been the perfect way to while away the time until Discovery’s return in a few weeks. Tonight, “The Escape Artist,” the fourth and final minisode in the series, shines a spotlight on the infamous Harcourt Fenton Mudd—and to learn more, we spoke to Mudd himself, Rainn Wilson. Wilson, … Continued