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io9BooksFantasy
A Fate Worse Than Death Visits a Dying City in This Exclusive Excerpt From Caitlin Starling’s Yellow Jessamine
Caitlin Starling’s 2019 debut novel, Bram Stoker Award nominee The Luminous Dead, introduced an exciting new voice in horror-infused speculative fiction. This year, she’ll be releasing a new novella in a similar vein, Yellow Jessamine—and we’ve got an exclusive excerpt to share, along with the full cover. Here’s a brief description of Yellow Jessamine, if … Continued
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io9ComicsIndies
Coronavirus Isn’t Stopping San Diego Comic-Con and Next Month’s WonderCon, For Now
Coronavirus has been declared a pandemic. Schools are canceling in-person classes, theme parks around the world are closing their doors, and several major events have been called off. Some folks are wondering what this means for the biggest comic convention of the year, San Diego Comic-Con, as well as next month’s WonderCon in Anaheim, California. … Continued
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io9MoviesReviews
Bloodshot Successfully Puts You in the Head of a Super Soldier
A little over halfway through Bloodshot, everything clicks. Up until that point, the new Vin Diesel joint is a familiar sci-fi action movie about a soldier who is brought back to life and goes after the man who killed not just him, but his wife. Then the story changes and like the last piece of … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
Disney’s Avengers Campus Will Open in July (Unless It Doesn’t)
Disney has set an opening date for its Marvel park experience at Disney’s California Adventure, revealing that Avengers Campus will open this July. It sounds like a wild time…but what about that whole looming pandemic thing? Disney’s already closed some of its theme parks around the world to combat the coronavirus, but it looks like … Continued
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io9Fantasy
For a Show About an Alt-America Run by Witches, Motherland: Fort Salem Is Surprisingly OK
When we first heard that Freeform was working on a Handmaid’s Tale-style alternative history show where witches had been drafted into the military to escape persecution, our first thought was: “That’s redonkulus.” In some ways, that’s still true, but Motherland: Fort Salem has managed to balance out the bizarre with great characters and an invented … Continued
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io9Fantasy
Wheel of Time’s Rosamund Pike Feels She Was Called to Play Moiraine
Producer Rosamund Pike is ready to take on the Dark One as Moiraine Damodred—the magical protagonist of Amazon’s Wheel of Time series—tasked with finding a hero who could save or destroy their world. In a new interview, she’s shedding light on what drew her to the character and the series, along with the year it’s hopefully … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Sony Has Plans for Another Spider-Man Spinoff Movie
Stephen Lang says Avatar is playing a long game with his villain. Todd McFarlane still wants Jamie Foxx to be his Spawn. Syfy is thinking about resurrecting Sanctuary. Plus, get a first look at the Altered Carbon anime series, and a mysterious tease for the theme of the tenth season of American Horror Story. Spoilers … Continued
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io9Games
E3 2020 in Los Angeles Has Been Canceled
Update 5/10: E3 organizers announced on Wednesday that the gaming event is officially canceled. “Following increased and overwhelming concerns about the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation,” the organizers wrote in a statement. The original post is below: Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2020 in … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror
Dracula Will Rise Again From Director Karyn Kusama
We’ve known for awhile that Invisible Man was just the beginning of Universal’s “let’s try this again” revival of its monster series (after the Dark Universe flopped). Now, there’s another classic joining the list of upcoming projects: a brand-new take on Dracula from a director with major horror cred. That director, according to The Hollywood … Continued
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Disneyland and Disney World Remain Open Despite Coronavirus, But Are Taking Extra Precautions
Shanghai Disney remains closed. So does Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, and Tokyo Disney Sea, all because of the rapid spread of coronavirus. It has U.S. residents wondering: What about here? Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida remain open as of this week with no sign of that changing. But the company … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
Tessa Thompson Played the Kate Winslet Role in an Eternal Sunshine Live Read, and We Were There
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a damn near perfect film. A film that has, and will, stand the test of time and should not be tinkered with or remade ever. But if—for one night only—you cast different famous actors in the roles and they read the script out loud for a live audience, … Continued
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io9MoviesAnimation
Hayao Miyazaki Apparently Doesn’t Know What Streaming Services Are
Considering there’s now approximately 70 billion streaming services, I think not knowing about them is the thing I would like to most share in common with Hayao Miyazaki right now, instead of the, you know, incredible artistic and storytelling talent. After years of refusal, Studio Ghibli made waves in recent months when it announced the … Continued
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io9ComicsMarvel
New Mutants Latest TV Spot Highlights Magik and Mayhem
New Mutants’ stripped-down, horror-focused vibe has always made it appear as if the movie might be somewhat more grounded compared to most of Marvel’s other live-action movie adaptations. But the fact that Anya Taylor-Joy’s Illyana Rasputin is set to seemingly wield the full scale of her mystical abilities in the film introduced the compelling possibility … Continued
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io9MoviesFantasy
The First Reactions to Disney’s Mulan Remake Are Here
Does it bring honor to us all? Last night in Hollywood, Disney finally pulled back the curtain on Mulan, its much-discussed and sometimes controversial live-action remake of the 1998 animated film. Director Niki Caro removed that film’s musical numbers in favor of a mythical, but more straightforward, period war drama with a cast that includes … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Black Lightning‘s Season 3 Finale Was a Family Affair at the End of the World
In Black Lightning’s third season, the Pierce family and their allies found themselves at the center of a crisis threatening Freeland. The city was occupied by the corrupt American Security Agency and besieged by operatives from the nation of Markovia in attempts to gain control of Freeland’s population of young metahumans. The war that’s been … Continued
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io9ComicsDC Comics
You Can Finally See What Would’ve Happened If a Phone Poll Hadn’t Killed Jason Todd
Jason Todd’s grim fate is one of the most infamous in superhero comics. Not just for the fact the boy wonder got brained by Batman’s most enduring foe, the Joker, or because he came back from it years later as the Red Hood. But instead, because it was a death mandated by an unprecedented reader … Continued
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io9BooksFantasy
A First Look Inside Witcher Author Andrzej Sapkowski’s Newly-Translated Historical Fantasy
Andrzej Sapkowski might be best known for writing the Witcher series (and giving incredibly candid interviews), but there are plenty of titles under his belt. His other major fantasy series—one that’s based on real history—is finally coming to the United States in the first English translation of The Tower of Fools. io9 is excited to … Continued
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io9Trailers
Disney’s New Jungle Cruise Trailer Has Snake Faces, Magic Trees, and Plenty of Shenanigans
If you thought this movie was going to show Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson taking a leisurely cruise with hippos, monkeys, and corny jokes—get ready for a new voyage on the high-stakes adventure called Jungle Cruise. Well, except for the corny jokes. Those can stay. Disney has released a trailer for Jungle Cruise, its latest … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Some Familiar MCU Heroes Could Be Joining Thor: Love and Thunder
Jason Blum wants to turn Halloween Horror Nights into a movie. Gemma Chan teases the romantic triangles of The Eternals. Get to know Cillian Murphy’s mystery new Quiet Place: Part II character in a new featurette. Plus, a surprise return on Legends of Tomorrow, and a bloody new trailer for Mortal Kombat’s next animated movie. … Continued
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io9ComicsDC Comics
DC’s Three Jokers Comic Will Revisit Batgirl and Red Hood’s Most Devastating Traumas
Both A Death in the Family and Batman: The Killing Joke are infamous for featuring stories in which the Joker waged war against the Dark Knight by targeting other members of Bat-Family, like Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon, in ways that left them brutalized. Over the years, Batgirl and the Red Hood have both worked through … Continued