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Barney is a dinosaur who we all know from TV, but now Mattel is bringing Barney & Friends to the big screen. Variety reports that Mattel Films and Daniel Kaluuya’s (Get Out, Black Panther) production company, 59%, are teaming up to make a live-action Barney movie about a stuffed purple dinosaur who’s brought to life … Continued
Bruce Campbell says a director has been found for a new Evil Dead—and it’s not Sam Raimi. Robert Pattinson teases the grey morality of his Batman. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker gives us another look at Keri Russell’s mysterious bounty hunter. Plus, f-bombs aplenty in new Terminator: Dark Fate footage. To me, my spoilers! … Continued
Writer Dan DiDio and artist Shane Davis’ new Metal Men series, out this week, is drenched in bright splashes of gleaming color that hide a dark, human truth. It binds the comic’s team of heroes and their creator together in ways that devastate them all. The book still features the Metal Men series’ signature camp … Continued
If you are even on the fringe of online Star Wars fandom, over the past few years you have probably heard the term “Reylo” bandied about. What was once merely the moniker for fans of a romantic relationship between Rey and Kylo Ren has, in fits and starts, become a heated war between people for … Continued
You didn’t think HBO was going to just sit back and let the raging river of Stephen King adaptations pass it by, did you? The network’s adaptation of King’s 2018 novel The Outsider just dropped its first teaser, and along with a glimpse of its incredible cast (Ben Mendelsohn, Jason Bateman, Cynthia Erivo) we get … Continued
We’re halfway through October, and you know what that means? The march of time itself is unyielding and relentless. But also! We’re one week closer to Halloween. Which means it’s one week closer to the annual io9 Halloween Costume Show! Earlier this month we kicked off our yearly celebration of the io9 readership’s ability to … Continued
In 2018, we were thrilled to share the first peek at Skyward, the brand-new YA book from acclaimed sci-fi and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, Stormlight Archive). Now, io9 has another treat for Sanderson fans: the exclusive first excerpt from Skyward’s sequel, Starsight. Here’s a brief summary of Starsight. All her life, Spensa has dreamed … Continued
I mean, the man churns out books that are then transformed into TV and movie adaptations in the time it takes most of us to get out of bed in the mornings. If you’re gonna go to a writer’s retreat? This is the one to go to. https://gizmodo.com/george-r-r-martin-to-stephen-king-how-the-fuck-do-yo-1782503280 Rolling Stone reports that yesterday evening, the … Continued
When a Jonah Hill leaves, a Paul Dano swoops in, apparently. The Hollywood Reporter has word that, in the wake of recent news that Jonah Hill had exited talks to join Matt Reeves’ Batman movie, Paul Dano has signed on to take one of the alleged roles Hill was in discussions for: Edward Nygma, a.k.a. … Continued
The streaming rights to the works of Studio Ghibli have long been a complicated and arcane thing. It has seemed like an impossibility to have anything even remotely near a complete archive of the beloved animation house’s work available to stream. We’re in the age of the streaming wars, however, and the impossible is possible…for … Continued
Because Ruben Fleischer’s Venom was missing a number of major elements of Eddie Brock’s antiheroic origins from Marvel’s comics (see: Spider-Man), there was a significant chunk of time when the public’s feelings about the movie ranged from apprehensive to outright hostile. But then the movie finally hit theaters and—surprisingly(?)—it made bank at the box office. … Continued
If you haven’t been able to scrounge up a few hundred dollars to improve your daily commute with an electric scooter, there might be an alternative hiding in your parents’ basement. This electric go-kart is made entirely from Lego, so if you’ve got bins and bins of plastic bricks left over from your childhood, it … Continued
The Craft reboot is out there, and now it’s got David Duchovny. Another DC hero has joined the cavalcade that is Crisis on Infinite Earths. Korg lives, and he’ll be in Thor: Love and Thunder. Plus, a bomb threat on Riverdale, Edward Norton wouldn’t mind coming back to the MCU, and new The Suicide Squad … Continued
Titans’ Dick Grayson has come a long way from beating up goons in rainy alleyways and snarling “fuck Batman” at anybody who cared to listen. These days, he’s posted up in San Francisco, mentoring a bunch of young superpowered teens, reforming the Titans, and becoming the kind of mentor that Bruce Wayne always tried to … Continued
Mutantkind has entered a bold new age. Mutants are here, they are proud, they are independent—and they are also down to fuck. In the wake of the shocking conclusion to the duology that is Marvel’s House and Powers of X, this week saw the release of X-Men #1, kicking off an entire new roster of X-books … Continued
The multiverse is on the brink of war, with the Third Reich yearning to invade and dominate all realities. But in the new trailer for the last season of Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle, the rebels who’ve been fighting this alt-history world aren’t going down without a last fight. The first trailer … Continued
A show as long-running and as thematically varied as American Horror Story isn’t going to please every fan every season (the “timely” Cult was a low point, but last year’s crossover, Apocalypse, was fabulous). From its very first promos, I had a good feeling about AHS: 1984—and so far the slasher homage has not let … Continued
Bone, the graphic novel series about a trio of cousins and unlikely heroes, is finally getting adapted onscreen. Netflix has announced it’s picked up Jeff Smith’s award-winning series, with plans to turn it into a kids’ show on the streaming platform. As reported by Deadline, Smith’s Bone will be turned into an animated kids’ show … Continued
Eight seasons ago, Arrow opened with an audacious tease—a strange island, and on it, an arrow through the black-and-orange mask of Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke. In 2012, it felt audacious. A villain from the comics? Being teased this soon? Impossible. Superhero TV couldn’t just do that, let alone in the very first episode of the … Continued
Surprise: he looks like the Monitor. Just…you know. Anti. Entertainment Weekly has given us our first official look at LaMonica Garrett in costume as the Anti-Monitor, the sinister counterpart of a character Garret’s been playing since the big Elseworlds crossover between Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl last year. He is, basically, what you’d get if you … Continued