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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Which Female Marvel Hero Could Lead ABC’s Agents of SHIELD Replacement?
The still-untitled Walking Dead spinoff casts another young star. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is going straight to hell next season. Get a glimpse of the beginning of the end for Legion. Plus, new It Chapter Two footage, what’s to come on American Horror Story 1984, and a cheekbone-laden Maleficent: Mistress of Evil poster. Spoilers, … Continued
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io9Toys and Collectibles
Exclusive: Watch a Japanese Man in a Tuxedo Slowly Transform Hasbro’s Giant New Unicron Toy
Just before San Diego Comic-Con, Hasbro’s HasLab—a crowdfunding platform it uses to bring its most elaborate toy creations to life—revealed a towering 27-inch tall Transformers Unicron toy. With over 50 points of articulation, transforming the world-destroying planet to a massive bot is an arduous task, as demonstrated in this exclusive video we’re revealing to fans … Continued
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io9Horror
Amazon Just Picked Up a Ghost Hunting Show Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
There are few better acting bromances than the one between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and we’re going to get more of it in the near future. Variety reports that Amazon has picked up the rights to a new show called Truth Seekers, which will be produced by Frost and Pegg’s company, Stolen Picture. Originally … Continued
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io9Animation
A Live-Action Little Mermaid Is Coming…No, Another One
While director Rob Marshall is busy working with Lin-Manuel Miranda and others to bring The Little Mermaid to the big screen with Halle Bailey as Ariel, another live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated hit is coming to TV. The Hollywood Reporter says Auli’i Cravalho, also known as the voice of Moana, will play Ariel in a … Continued
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io9ComicsMarvel
Powers of X #1 Paints a Bold, Bonkers Future for the X-Men
A few weeks ago, Marvel ushered in a fascinating new era for its X-books. House of X, from Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia gave us a haunting, alien glimpse at the new status quo of mutantkind. But its new sister series, Powers of X, presents a wild far future born out of the … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
Captain Marvel‘s Gemma Chan May Pull MCU Double Duty With Eternals Role
When an actor who has previously been seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is cast in another MCU movie, the assumption is that they’ll be playing the same character. That might not be the case for Gemma Chan. Variety reports that Chan, who played Kree Star Force member Minn-Erva in this year’s Captain Marvel, is … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
Gloriously Gruesome Sci-Fi Cult Classic Event Horizon Might Become an Amazon Series
I have often proclaimed my love for Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1997 sci-fi horror film Event Horizon, about a deep-space vessel that goes to a very bad dimension and returns with mind-warping powers, and features Laurence Fishburne barking the immortal line “Fuck this ship!” A TV series might happen, you say? Fuck YES! Amazon and Paramount … Continued
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io9Animation
She-Ra’s Excellent Season 3 Is a Massive Leap Forward for Its Heroes and Villains
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s relatively short second season left you wanting more, in large part because its length led to a chunk of Adora’s story feeling incomplete. The new third season not only continues to give She-Ra’s sizable cast space to evolve, it also introduces new, fascinating revelations about the nature of She-Ra’s … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
Whoa! The Matrix Will Celebrate 20 Years With Special Anniversary Screenings
It’s hard to believe The Matrix is 20 years old—aside from some late-1990s stylistic choices and its reliance on the ready availability of landlines, it somehow still feels futuristic. Soon, you’ll be able to revisit it on the big screen when the Wachowskis’ visually inventive cyber-thriller returns to theaters. Aside from the fact that The … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
Netflix Cancels The OA After 2 Seasons [Updated]
All of the dangling mysteries on Netflix’s The OA will, unfortunately, remain that way. Netflix has canceled the show after two seasons. “We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of The OA,” said Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of Original Content. “And are grateful to Brit [Marling] and Zal [Batmanglij] for sharing their audacious … Continued
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io9ComicsIndies
Archie’s Interstellar Hero Cosmo Is Coming Back for Another Series
Last year, Archie Comics gave the, err, Archie treatment to another old name from its library: Cosmo the Martian, kicking off a new look and new series of adventures for a character not seen in comics since the late 1950s. Now, though, he’s back once more for a set of adventures that see him officially … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Batwoman Producer Confirms Kate Is Jewish, But References in the Pilot Were Cut
We’ve got a bit of a Schrödinger’s Kate situation going on. Batwoman’s executive producer has confirmed that lead character Kate Kane is Jewish in the CW series, addressing the concern that the show would erase or ignore the DC Comic character’s heritage. However, the producers don’t know when her ancestry will actually come into play, … Continued
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io9Animation
Get Mad, in a Good Way: Aggretsuko Will Return for Season 3
Rock on, fans of red pandas and death metal: Retsuko’s rage-filled journey through life is not over yet. Netflix Japan and Sanrio took to Taipei Comic Exhibition today to confirm that Aggretsuko will return to the streaming service for a third season. Fanworks studio writer/director (and also singer for Retusko’s metal-screaming singing interludes in the … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Another DC Superhero Show Could Join the CW’s Arrow-less Arrowverse
James Wan teases an old-school vibe to his next horror project. Black Widow co-writer Jac Schaeffer wants the film’s combat to be visceral. Star Trek: Discovery will have to sort out its captain vacancy in season three. Plus, get a look at the Katy Keene spinoff of Riverdale, and tons of new pictures from the … Continued
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io9Animation
This Sonic the Hedgehog & OK K.O Crossover Clip is Pure Nostalgic Joy
In another nostalgic reminder today, I’m thinking about how much I used to love the awful, terrible, absolutely egregiously bad Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. Like, it is a bad kid’s TV show by most metrics, unless your metric is the consumption of chili dogs. But, oh, did I love it. And seeing Sonic in a … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
The 100 Will End With Its Seventh Season
The 100 has had a fascinating arc, from darling apocalyptic fantasy to a deeply controversial fandom piece to a show that’s keeping steadily on, doing its own interesting thing quietly. And now it’s finally coming to an end. That news came via Twitter today, as creator Jason Rothenberg posted the news. “I have some bittersweet … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Kevin Conroy Will Finally Get to Play a Live-Action Bruce Wayne in CW’s Crisis On Infinite Earths
Old Bruce is coming back, and he’s being played by the only person who really should be playing him. It’s a common fan request, the kind of thing Batman nerds have been dreaming of for years: Kevin Conroy, who has voiced the character in many fantastic animated iterations, should play him in live action. And … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
There’s a Reason Thanos Never Fought This Character in Avengers: Endgame
There’s nothing fans love more than a good climactic rematch. But some fights just aren’t meant to happen. One of those long-awaited fights, for people who enjoyed Avengers: Infinity War, is a rematch between Hulk and Thanos, a fight that was lightly foreshadowed via Hulk’s development in that film. But as viewers of Endgame know, … Continued
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io9Trailers
The Brief Teaser for Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? Reboot is Just the Right Kind of Spooky
As a kid, I watched a lot of Nickelodeon. Are You Afraid of the Dark? always made that a gamble for my young, wimpy self. I could flip on the channel hoping to catch some cartoons, only to find way more horror than I was prepared to deal with as a child. Now, the classic … Continued
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io9Comic Book Shows
Cress Williams Seemingly Confirms that Black Lightning Will Appear in the Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths
Black Lightning was the only superhero show on the CW that didn’t belong to or relate to the Arrowverse in some way. Seems like that’s changing, at least a little. Recently, a rumor emerged on a few pop culture websites that Cress Williams’ Black Lightning, star of the (pretty great) superhero show of the same … Continued
By Julie Muncy