Here’s a neat behind the scenes video showcasing how trials cyclist Danny MacAskill pulled off a wild stunt: riding down a very short ramp so he could jump off right next to someone’s house on a cliff, and front flip straight into the damn ocean. It’s fun to see how he tries to figure out … Continued

They’re only one-shots for now, but who’s to say we couldn’t get a Sabrina book or even more Archie Horror in the future? The world of the “New Riverdale” reboot in Archie Comics is getting a little bigger next year with four new standalone comics. Announced by Entertainment Weekly, the four new one-shots will come … Continued

It’s good to just stare at pretty images and forget the rest of the world exists sometimes. So take your time as you watch this edit by Jim Casey that is just one beautiful shot after another beautiful shot from all sorts of beautiful films. It covers a wide range of movies too: classics, recent … Continued

Good news for fans of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time: the show will return at the end of January for a four-night special event, composed of eight episodes. It’ll be called Adventure Time: Islands, and it promises to delve into the question of what happened to all of Finn’s fellow humans. Here’s the official synopsis, followed … Continued

The Aquaman movie has found another potential villain, in the form of Aquaman’s half-brother: Orm the Ocean Master. Deadline has revealed that Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Insidious, The Conjuring) will be playing Orm, the half-brother of Arthur Curry who eventually becomes the Ocean Master in the comics—envious of his brother after living in his shadow for … Continued

The Golden Globes may have been the biggest news in Hollywood today, but second was the release of the Black List. It’s an annual list where Hollywood tastemakers vote on the best unproduced screenplays floating around town. And this year, as expected, there’s a good amount of science fiction. The scripts on the list, and … Continued

With Star Trek: The Original Series celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, you wouldn’t think there was still more new footage to be found. You’d be wrong, and the experts behind the Star Trek Encyclopedia have spent nine years working to show it to us. io9 spoke with Denise and Michael Okuda about what there … Continued

President-elect Donald Trump sent Lockheed Martin stocks plummeting on Monday morning after he published a hostile tweet about the huge cost of the F-35 Lightning II program. By now, it’s well known that Trump’s tweets have a tendency to set the daily news agenda on his own terms. For example, last week Trump tweeted about … Continued

Free Comic Book Day is already a good deal—after all, there is no better deal than “free comics.” But it’s an even better deal when the comics made available for the annual event sound absolutely incredible, and 2017’s output is shaping up to be very interesting. Three words, you guys: Mirror. Universe. Picard. The “Gold … Continued

The first season of Ash vs Evil Dead was nonstop insane mayhem, continuing a story that began 35 years ago in the most rewarding way possible. How could the second season possibly top that? Sam Raimi had the answer: raise the stakes, allow certain characters to evolve, and make everything at least 10 times gorier. … Continued

CBS All Access’ show has added three new castmembers—all reportedly playing Klingons—to Star Trek: Discovery. This tells us that instead of the traditional rotating cast of Klingons, we’re going to have an ongoing focus on specific members of the Klingon Empire. Deadline reports that Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) will be playing Kol, a Klingon “commanding … Continued

Rob Reid’s 2012 novel Year Zero drew from his experiences as the founder of the music-streaming service that became Rhapsody. His new book, After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, is similarly tech-obsessed—though from what we can tell, there aren’t any aliens in this one. But we’ve still got an exclusive excerpt to share below. … Continued

In Hollywood, the prevailing thought is an R-rating holds a film back. The feeling is, by limiting the audience to people over 17, studios aren’t allowing films to live up to their full financial potential. Forget the fact forcing a rating hinders creativity and kids will see a movie anyway, it’s just the way some … Continued