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The Latest Black Widow Set Photos Hint at a Very Specific Timeline [Updated]

Travel abroad with Spider-Man: Far From Home. David Harbour is asked about the possibility of a Hellboy reboot sequel. Titans gives us a tease and The Lost Boys TV show gets some movement. Spoilers, onward! Black Widow The latest batch of Black Widow set photos show Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh driving a 2017 BMW … Continued

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Attack on Titan Will End With Its Fourth Season

The giant-killing anime will slay its last when it wraps up in its fourth season. As revealed in a new teaser, Attack on Titan, which began airing in 2013, will wrap up with its fourth season, which will begin airing next year. The show premiered to massive acclaim and became a smash hit in the … Continued

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Jeremy Renner Reveals Avengers: Endgame Once Had a Thanos Battle on Vormir

The sequence in Avengers: Endgame on Vormir is one of the most intimate, emotional moments in the film. But it wasn’t always planned that way. As revealed by Jeremy Renner at a recent appearance at Ace Comic-Con in Seattle, the sequence in Vormir was originally planned to be a lot more action-y. As reported by … Continued

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A Small Update on the New RoboCop Movie, Which Is Apparently Still Happening

Last year, we got news that Neil Blomkamp, possibly as penance from the universe for not getting to make that Alien movie he was really hype for, was working on RoboCop Returns, a direct followup to the original 1987 film. Now, we’ve got an update that confirms that the movie, while moving slowly, is definitely … Continued

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Tell Us Who You Would Cast in a New Version of The Matrix

So there’s this bonkers rumor going around. You might’ve heard it. It says that the Wachowski Sisters are jacking back into The Matrix, directing a reboot of the film that will star Michael B. Jordan. Is this rumor true? I mean, we live in a wacky world where a Final Fantasy VII remake is happening … Continued

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Thanks to This Cover, the Cantina Theme From Star Wars Is Going to Be Stuck in My Head All Day

Back in the day, before all the Nazis and creepy algorithmically generated children’s shows, YouTube was great for two things: old Saturday Night Live clips, and song covers. It’s honestly still pretty great for the latter. Which is why, at ten thirty on a Sunday morning, I find myself listening to a fantastic a capella … Continued

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Stranger Things 3 Is Like an 8-Hour Summer Blockbuster, Here’s Our Non-Spoiler Review

Almost two years after its second season debuted, Stranger Things 3 finally comes to Netflix this week. We’ve seen it, we’ve enjoyed it, and we’ll get into a lot of the specifics after everyone else has had a chance to do the same. Until then though, we thought you might be interested in some broader, … Continued

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This Video Proves Once and for All That Luke Skywalker Is Star Wars’ Straight Man

What makes a good straight man? Keep calm and don’t know what’s going on. As this new video from Star Wars Kids shows, Luke Skywalker is, at least in the first couple of movies he appears in, fantastic in at least one of those categories. Mark Hamill has often described Luke as the “straight man” … Continued

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Ingrid Michaelson and Artist Nicola Scott Create a Pretty Tribute to Stranger Things

If you’ve never heard of Ingrid Michaelson, she’s a pretty fantastic indie pop folk artist. Her newest album is a long tribute to Stranger Things, and the newest video released for the project is lush. Each song on her new album, Stranger Songs, is a riff on an idea, a theme, or a reference from … Continued

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Daisy Ridley Has a Funny Memory of That Hug Scene With Carrie Fisher That’s Going to Be in The Rise of Skywalker

The late Carrie Fisher is known for bringing sharp humor to her time working on film sets. The scenes of hers used in The Rise of Skywalker are no different. The most notable of the known scenes, first recorded for The Force Awakens, being used in the upcoming Star Wars film is a scene featuring … Continued

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Comics Writer Sina Grace Talks the Lack of Support He Received From Marvel While Writing Iceman

In 2017, writer and artist Sina Grace had a historically significant run on Iceman, a book we covered as it came out, in which the powerful mutant struggled as much with superheroic shenanigans as he did with the lived experience of life as a gay man, work for which he was nominated for a GLAAD … Continued

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This Video Dives Into the Bizarre, Complex History of the Muppet Babies

I learned a lot about the Muppet Babies recently. The Henson-created cartoon, which I watched in syndication as a kid in the ‘90s, has a fascinating history. Like, for instance, did you know that it was produced by Marvel? Yeah, that Marvel, with the same TV division that created GI Joe. Henson was, apparently, reluctant … Continued

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What’s Up, Danger? Oh, Just an Into the Spider-Verse Tribute Art Show

The best movie of 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is now on Netflix and—whether by coincidence or not—an art show celebrating its brilliance is about to open too. “What’s Up Danger? The Into the Spider-Verse Tribute Show” kicks off on June 29 at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA. Nearly two dozen artists, many of whom … Continued

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Hellraiser, Which Already Has a Movie Reboot in the Works, Now Has a TV Series on the Table Too

Hellraiser is having a renaissance. In the grand tradition of Child’s Play, not only is the long-running horror franchise possibly getting a movie reboot, it’s also now being considered for a new TV series. And also much like the dueling Chucky projects, Hellraiser the new movie (which has David S. Goyer aboard as writer and … Continued

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Not Even Samurai Captain Phasma and a Lego PS4 Spider-Man Can Compete With This Tiny Sega Genesis

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all things toy-related. This week, even more San Diego Comic-Con exclusives haunt our wallets (whether we’re going or otherwise!), Captain Phasma heads to medieval Japan, a very large Toy Story piggy bank is ready to feast on your coins, and more. Check it out! SDCC … Continued

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Holy Crap, This Star Wars Short Made Me Excited About the Jedi for Once

It’s a weird thing to admit as a Star Wars fan, but I can honestly take or leave the Jedi and Sith. They dominate the storytelling landscape of Star Wars far too much, telling the same old tales. Give me a pilot, or a smuggler, or literally anyone but yet another force sensitive with a … Continued

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Remember 1998, When the World (Almost) Ended Twice?

Disaster movie fans were living their best lives in 1998, specifically the two-month span of 1998 that delivered two earnest epics about what might happen if a rogue celestial object suddenly threatened our planet: Deep Impact and Armageddon. Despite the déjà vu, both films were massive box-office hits. But how do they hold up 21 … Continued

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Open Channel: What ‘Normal’ Franchise Would You Like to See Go Full Sci-Fi?

The Fast & the Furious franchise has fully embraced science fiction with the upcoming Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which features Idris Elba as a genetically altered super-soldier who actually refers to himself as “Black Superman.” Now I have to know: What other non-genre movies and TV shows could do with a healthy … Continued

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Disney’s Live Action Little Mermaid May Have Found Its Ursula

With Dumbo, Aladdin, and The Lion King all being released this year, you might think Disney would slow down with its modern remakes of classic animated films. You’d be wrong. The Little Mermaid, which has long been rumored, is reportedly started to speed up—and none other than Melissa McCarthy may be playing Ursula. Variety reports … Continued

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Danny Boyle Reflects on Making Beautiful Music With Yesterday, His Beatle-Less Alt Universe Story

Even though he’s won an Oscar and made a ton of hugely popular films, Danny Boyle still auditioned to make his new film, Yesterday. However, it was his choice to do so and a technique he learned from a very unlikely source. “That’s something, actually, I learned from Leonardo DiCaprio,” Boyle told io9 on the … Continued