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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Jared Leto May Have Let Slip Tron 3‘s Working Title
Netflix has nabbed Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy for a monthly release next year. Disney has given Mulan a vague plan for theatrical release in China. Henry Golding hypes up the Snake Eyes movie. Plus, Daisy lays out a plan in a new clip from Agents of SHIELD’s finale, and new tease for the next … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Watch the Agents of SHIELD Cast and Crew Say Goodbye Ahead of Tomorrow’s Finale
September 2013. Comic book fans were still reeling over the fact that Marvel had done the impossible, linking multiple movies into an event film like no other, The Avengers, and starting a whole new story with Iron Man 3. Plus, it seemed like it was going to continue on TV with a new show called … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Doom Patrol‘s Sex Ghosts Were the Season’s Real MVPs
Early into this season of Doom Patrol, the show’s heroes end up having to deal with a paranormal threat drawn to their manor because of the powerful, reality-bending orgasms that Rita Farr demands Flex Mentallo give her in order to help clear her mind. Though the Doom Patrol’s able to defeat the sex demon threatening … Continued
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io9MoviesReviews
The Night Stalker Was a Vampire Horror About the Power of Stating the Obvious
A protagonist’s utter unawareness about the supernatural danger they’re dealing with can oftentimes make horror-thriller films that much more enjoyable to watch. But there are times when all you want to see is a hero with a head on their shoulders who, when confronted with the reality that there are vampiresin their midst, thinks to … Continued
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io9BooksStar Wars
What Poe Dameron: Free Fall Tells Us About the State of the Star Wars Galaxy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker did a lot of things—arguably too many things, depending on your love of excess. One of those many things felt like it came out of nowhere: the revelation that hotshot pilot/pretty boy Poe Dameron had a criminal past. A new novel shines some light on that past, and a … Continued
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io9Games
The Princess Bride Board Game Is an Inconceivably Good Idea
Turning only one part of The Princess Bride into a board game is an exercise in futility—the framing device is what makes the whole damn thing shine in the first place. So Ravensburger’s new attempt to actually incorporate that into its tabletop adaptation of the classic is a really neat idea. Announced this morning, The … Continued
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io9Comics
New York Comic Con Has Been Canceled, Will Move Online
The stretch of sad (but predictable) convention news continues. New York Comic Con 2020, meant to take place in October in Manhattan, has been canceled because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Instead, ReedPop will be partnering with YouTube to move the convention online, similar to what San Diego Comic-Con did last month. ReedPop’s NYCC is … Continued
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io9Movies
The 10 Best (and 5 Worst) Talking Cats
Cats are mysterious creatures, and we often wish we could know what they’re saying every time they meow, hiss, or calmly walk away. Well, what if you could? Talking cats are a surprisingly robust part of sci-fi and fantasy storytelling—probably because we’re so damn eager to know what these creatures really think of us. We’re … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
Tenet’s Editor on How She Got Over Being ‘Intimidated’ by the Film’s Intense Action Scenes
Editing any big-budget movie is a challenge, but Tenet’s editor faced two major hurdles. Not only was her background in indie dramas, not blockbusters, but director Christopher Nolan was calling it “the hardest movie any editor has ever had to cut.” Jennifer Lame is sharing how she got over the hump and found the story … Continued
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io9ComicsDC Comics
Massive Warner Layoffs Gut DC Comics, DC Universe
The merger between AT&T and Time Warner into another monolithic media megacorporation has seen a massive wave of layoffs targeted primarily at Warner Bros. this week. One area hit hardest overnight was DC Entertainment, with reports of huge swathes of staff at both DC Comics and DC Universe laid off. The Hollywood Reporter has word … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Updates From Wonder Woman 1984, The Boys, and More
The Boys recruits an Iceman to play with fire. Netflix is making a new sci-fi “eco-fable” for kids. Nickelodeon’s weird plans for Spongebob expand with another new spinoff. Plus, Agents of SHIELD looks back ahead of its grand finale, and a new tease for Hulu’s take on Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. Spoilers now! Wonder … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
2 Months of Un-Hulk-Like Calm Went Into Making This Incredible Avengers Flipbook
Remember how proud you were of the stickman riding a skateboard flipbook you made in your high school chemistry textbook? Had you continued improving your skills, this is where you’d be now: creating flipbooks of famous movie scenes, including Bruce Banner hulking out during the climactic final battle in The Avengers. According to the artist … Continued
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io9Games
I’m Still Not Over the Bob-omb Thing
It’s been weeks since I finished Paper Mario: The Origami King. I’ve since moved on to another replay of Fallout 4, this time delving into the moral dilemma that is playing as a raider in the Nuka-World storyline. But nothing that Fallout 4 (or most other games) makes me experience can compare to the emotional … Continued
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io9Animation
Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson Would Like to Remind You That They Fought to Make Animation More Queer
With both Steven Universe and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power having finished their respective stories and becoming shining examples of this current moment in queer representation in animation, it can be exceedingly easy to forget that up until very recently, queer characters more or less didn’t exist in the animation space outside of being … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
The Cassian Andor Star Wars Show Adds Good Omens‘ Adria Arjona
A great spy sneaks up on you without you even knowing it. And so it’s rather appropriate that the upcoming Star Wars show about Rebel spies just added actress Adria Arjona. Deadline reports that Arjona is joining the upcoming Disney+ show that will focus on Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna. Set before the events … Continued
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io9ComicsMarvel
Why Do We Celebrate Spider-Man Day on (Probably) the Wrong Day?
Every August 1, social media lights up in celebration of one of comics’ greatest heroes: the amazing, spectacular, ultimate, and every so often sensational Spider-Man. It does so because August 1 is “Spider-Man Day,” a celebration of the character’s debut in August 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15. But why do we celebrate it on August 1 … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
All the Big Summer (Streaming) Blockbusters of 2020
Black Widow. Wonder Woman 1984. Fast and Furious 9. No Time to Die. These were meant to be some of the big summer blockbusters of 2020. And yet, none of them have been released yet. We all know why—the novel coronavirus—but in the place of those films, something strange happened. New movies… did come out. … Continued