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io9The Mandalorian Season 3 Is Aiming to Film This Year Despite, You Know, Everything
Do you believe we are just two weeks away from the season two premiere of The Mandalorian? Better yet, can you believe the third season of The Mandalorian will start filming soon after? It’s true on both accounts. Season two will begin airing on Disney+ October 30, and in a new interview with Variety, executive … Continued
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io9GamesPokémon‘s Spooky Lore Is Better the More Messed Up It Is
In Pokémon Sword and Shield’s upcoming DLC expansion, The Crown Tundra, trainers are pulled into yet another adventure in the Galar region, this time in a frozen expanse where a number of previously unseen, legendary Pokémon are said to live. Like The Isle of Armor before it, The Crown Tundra’s meant to represent a trainer’s path … Continued
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io9Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Mike McMahan on Making Sure Cameos Matter
Lower Decks is a show that rejoices in the nerdy little details of Star Trek. From Pakleds to Exocomps, from Kirk punches to movie riffs, its first season delivered a show that earnestly loved Trek’s ideals and the callbacks that made it such a rich franchise in the first place. But when the show wanted … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe Story Behind the Ultimate Star Wars Lightsaber Book
Star Wars fans are about to get a book all about lightsabers and they have Harry Potter to thank. It’s called Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection, a slick, wide-format, hardcover book that features exclusive images and information on almost 60 different lightsabers in the Star Wars universe. None of which would’ve happened if not for … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Latest His Dark Materials Season 2 Trailer Slices Into Whole New Worlds
If the first season of His Dark Materials didn’t open up the world enough for you, the second season is going to do exactly that. The new trailer for season two of the HBO show, based on Philip Pullman’s novels, follows Lyra (Dafne Keen) into another world—one that holds the keys to her destiny. There … Continued
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io9MoviesOur 10 All-Time Favorite Stephen King Horror Roles
Stephen King needs no introduction. Though he spends most of his time writing books and stories that almost inevitably get made (and remade) into movies and TV series, he also manages to do a little acting on the side, most often popping up in adaptations of his own works. Would you have guessed? We have … Continued
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io9Star Wars‘ Lego Holiday Special Welcomes Back Kelly Marie Tran, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels
We already knew that Rose, Threepio, and Lando were all part of Lego’s comedic riff on the Star Wars Holiday Special, but now we know they’ll be voiced by their live-screen counterparts…and, in some cases, have a bigger role in the adventure than they did in the Skywalker Saga’s climax. Disney and Lucasfilm have officially … Continued
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io9GamesThis In-Browser Game Gives the Chrome Dino a Run for Its Money
A game hidden in Vivaldi version 3.4 is adding “pixel-perfect” 8-bit cyberpunk action to your browsing sessions. The game, which appears when you type “vivaldi://game” in the browser’s URL field, is a side-scrolling shooter that pits a speedy, wheeled hero against flying snail monsters in a dystopian future. It runs on both desktop and mobile … Continued
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io9TelevisionUpdates From The Boys, The Mandalorian, and More
Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have boarded Roland Emmerich’s moon disaster movie. Brannon Braga has hopes for more Books of Blood. Stephen King gives a tiny update on HBO’s The Outsider. Plus, The Walking Dead zombie-shambles back into production, and Dexter returns. Spoilers get! Moonfall Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have joined the cast of … Continued
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io9Star Trek: Discovery Boldly Returns to Remind Us of the Burden of Hope
When the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery chose to sacrifice their livelihoods in the 23rd century by catapulting themselves into the 32nd, they did so on the promise that they would themselves be hope: hope that a future would be there for them to arrive in the first place. But as Discovery returns for season … Continued
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io9MoviesLeonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and an Earth-Bound Meteor Will Star in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up
“Fake news” is about to get taken to a whole new level in a new movie from the man behind Vice and Anchorman that sounds like Dumb Armageddon. Director Adam McKay is currently putting together a movie called Don’t Look Up, which is about two scientists who discover a meteor is going to hit the … Continued
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io9MoviesLegendary Hopes a Buck Rogers Reboot Film Can Lead to…an Anime Series Spinoff
At any given point in time, there are dozens of would-be cinematic adaptations of classic properties that are either caught up in production hell, or trapped in a battle over the rights as to who gets to make money off which specific characters. Take, for example, Buck Rogers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, after years-long negotiations … Continued
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io9Amazon Knows What You Did Last Summer and Is Making a TV Show About It
Get ready to feel the guilt…and pain. Amazon Studios has signed on for a television adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer, about a group of teens who do something really stupid and get murdered for it. As reported by Deadline, Amazon Studios has given the greenlight to YA horror series I Know What … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsIn This Rick and Morty: Worlds Apart Exclusive Preview, Old People Are the Worst
In their many dimension-hopping adventures, Rick and Morty have encountered all sorts of messed up weirdos who, for one reason or another, end up either trying to befriend the science genius and his grandson, or trying to murder them. In Oni Press’ upcoming comic, Rick and Morty: Worlds Apart, you get a little from Column A, … Continued
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io9MoviesBlack Adam Adds Sarah Shahi in a Mysterious New Role
After adding both Hawkman and Atom Smasher to its cast of classic DC Comics characters, the Dwayne Johnson-led Black Adam is welcoming another lead star to its ranks. It’s a mysterious role that might shed a little bit of light about where the movie’s focus is ultimately going to end up. Deadline reports that Chicago … Continued
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io9This Halloween, I’ll Be Ghostbusting With Egon’s Old Wand
Many, many things make the Ghostbusters cool but near the top of the list has to be their gadgets. Ghost traps, PKE Readers, proton packs and, of course, their neutrona wands. That’s the Ghostbuster version of a gun which fires powerful streams that could grab a ghost and, well, bust it. It’s a key accessory … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe Cast of Critical Role on Why They Love Roleplaying Games
Hand in hand with the meteoric resurgence of tabletop gaming in the past few years is the rise of the Actual Play show, as hundreds of thousands of fans watch or listen along to teams of hosts doing the actual gaming and storytelling for them. The biggest bang in all of that boom is perhaps … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsComics, Contracts, and Covid: Inside the Scandal at Terrific Production
The novel coronavirus pandemic has devastated the comic book industry. So it seemed too good to be true that one publisher was not only hiring en masse, it was recruiting new talent. But it could come at a price: the company would keep half of their pay until 90% of Americans were vaccinated against covid-19. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsJurassic Park Gets a Scarily Gorgeous Collector’s Edition for Its 30th Anniversary
Open the pages, and there you are: Welcome to Jurassic Park. The Folio Society has unveiled its latest collector’s edition, this time taking us deep into the world of genetically modified dinosaurs with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. But don’t worry, the book doesn’t bite back. Well, hopefully. The Folio Society has announced a 30th-anniversary edition … Continued
