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Please Enjoy the Creepiest High-Five Ever in This Exclusive Peek at The Banana Splits Movie
I haven’t had a chance to see The Banana Splits Movie yet but I still have to salute its game plan, which is roughly: Nostalgia, but make it horror. Why aren’t more reboots and remakes taking this approach? Ahead of the film’s digital and home video release, io9 has an ominous-as-hell clip to share. First, … Continued
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The Return of an Old Face in House of X #2 Champions Some of Its Boldest Ideas
While speaking about his new “Dawn Of X” revitalization of the X-Men at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Jonathan Hickman explained one of the core rules for the event, an idea more comics publishers should take to heart. Though House of X and Powers of X were meant to take the X-Men into a bold, … Continued
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Updates From the Arrow Finale, Loki, and More
Add another Stephen King adaptation to the pile, courtesty of Andy and Barbara Muschetti. Teagan Croft shows off more of Raven’s familiar new look for Titans season two. Plus, tons of new clips from the horrifying Banana Splits movie, behind-the-scenes on Two Sentence Horror Stories, and a new DC’s World’s Finest is formed on the … Continued
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io9Animation
This Artist Shared Her Excellent Storyboards for She-Ra Season 3
Jasmine Goggins is a storyboard artist who’s done work with Dreamworks TV, Powerhouse, and Titmouse, and she does excellent work. Today, she took to Twitter to share some storyboards from her work on the latest humdinger of a season of She-Ra. In a few great panels, Goggins manages to convey all the important details of … Continued
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Showrunner of The Boys Shares a Picture From the Already in-Progress Season 2
It’s not that The Boys are back in town so much as that they never left. Amazon surprised recently by renewing The Boys, their new show about outlandish action in a world run by corrupt superheroes, for a second season before the first had even aired. And now it seems that second season has already … Continued
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The Lion King Has Edged Out Frozen As the Highest-Grossing Animated Film of All Time, More Proof That Disney’s Monopoly Is Inescapable and Nothing Matters
This is what entertainment journalism is, in 2019: watching Disney score an unending series of victories over itself as the film industry grows smaller and smaller. The latest victory is The Lion King, which, as Cinema Blend reports, with a worldwide gross of over $1.3 billion, has now beaten Frozen as the (not adjusted for … Continued
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Rob Liefeld Shares Some Cut Concept Art From the Deadpool Movie
The Deadpool movies have a lot of affection for Rob Liefeld’s X-Men-adjacent work, including not just Deadpool but a variety of other characters familiar to Liefeld’s readers, and even an ersatz X-Force team in Deadpool 2. One character that was slated to appear but didn’t, however, is X-Force’s Kane, a former ally of Cable’s and … Continued
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Contortionist Troy James Talks His Journey From Hobbyist to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark‘s Scariest Monster
One of the most frightening things in the recent adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark might be the Jangly Man, a character adapted from the story “Me Tie Doughty Walker”, who can detach his limbs and reassemble his own body. Playing the Jangly Man, in the latest of an impressive series of … Continued
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Explore the Creation of Jim Starlin’s Marvel Characters, With Jim Starlin
Jim Starlin’s creations have become a major lynchpin of the Marvel Universe in its modern iteration, with characters like Gamora, Drax, and Thanos dominating films, becoming memes, and generally entering broader pop culture in a way that would have been difficult to imagine only a decade ago. In a great interview and montage created by … Continued
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Don’t Worry, Cartoon Network Is Already Teasing New Episodes of Infinity Train
Watching a high-quality cartoon in the modern age always comes with a bit of terror. Is this going to get cancelled, or shafted, or have its release schedule constantly shifted around in a way that baffles everyone including the creators? So I’d understand if fans of Infinity Train, after watching the first excellent batch of … Continued
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Watch This Campy Series of Chucky Short Films to Learn More About the Killer’s Backstory
Let’s unravel the secrets of the Lakeshore Strangler. Before Chucky was a horrible murderous doll, he was a fairly mundane serial killer, y’know, so far as serial killers go. He was also known for strangling people, an MO that is suspiciously absent from his actual depicted murdering in the movies. And where there’s a plot … Continued
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Universal Pictures Has Pulled The Hunt From Its Release Schedule
The film, a purported satire about a world where humans hunt each other for sport, will no longer be released. In a statement today, Universal Pictures has announced that The Hunt, directed by Craig Zobel, co-written by Damon Lindelof, and starring Hilary Swank, Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, and Emma Roberts, will no longer be released. … Continued
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Amanda Seyfried Apparently Turned Down the Role of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy
Not every actor in Hollywood wants to dress up as a green alien all the time. For the few, the brave, the willing to sit in makeup chairs for hours upon hours every day, the chance to play heroes from places other than Earth can be an exciting one, but it’s not an opportunity all … Continued
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io9Toys and Collectibles
Doctor Octopus Calls for a Superior Action Figure, and More of the Best Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all the coolest new toys tempting our wallets on the internet lately. This week: somehow, Marvel’s White Rabbit gets an action figure! Lego will be there for you with an oddly specific new Friends set! Plus, Danny Rand gets a Mezco figure worth of the … Continued
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It’s Time to Get Animated With the Gif Party!
It’s Friday, so that means it’s perfect time for a gif party! We’re celebrating the release of Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, and the new Invader Zim movie, which means it’s time to get our nostalgic animated dance on. It’s Gif Party Time! Be sure to leave your favorite party gifs in the comments. As … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars
Celebrate the 61 Looks of Padmé Amidala in This Fashionably Specific Star Wars Video
Forget blasters. Forget lightsabers. Forget navies and flotillas, and armies of clones and droids alike. Padmé Amidala’s wardrobe is the deadliest weapon in the galaxy far, far away, because these looks are killer. The Star Wars Kids Channel’s “By the Numbers” series is one of the weirdest, most specific bits of official ephemera Lucasfilm puts … Continued
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Another Ensemble G.I. Joe Movie Is in Development, Along With the Snake Eyes Solo Film
Six years have passed since the Real American Heroes known as G.I. Joe were on the big screen, but the wheels continue to spin. We’ve known that a Snake Eyes solo film has been on the table for a while, but now a new ensemble film is being developed in the franchise. According to the … Continued
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Power Rangers‘ Sina Grace on Go Go‘s Mission and His Spooky New Series
Sina Grace is a busy, busy, writer whose dreams and ideas for comics pour out of his head with an ease that can take you by surprise. After speaking his piece about his time at Marvel writing and championing his Iceman series, Grace is moving on to new things at other publishers to show off … Continued
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Wow, Superman’s Good at Twitter
DC’s been doing a weird thing lately—slowly but surely, its iconic trinity has been signing up to Twitter, with their own, in-character accounts. First came Wonder Woman. Superman’s just arrived. Batman is surely inevitable, but for now? Clark Kent may be the unsuspecting king of DC twitter. As Wonder Woman’s official twitter has been around … Continued
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io9Movies
Karls Urban, Ranked
Karl-Heinz Urban is good. His sneers are excellent, his range extends from grandiose to gritty, his look is fine, and his appearances in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys are numerous. But which version of Karl Urban is the best Karl Urban? Who among the Karls Urban is supreme? After extensive investigation, I … Continued
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