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io9TrailersThe Stand‘s First Teaser Gives Us Creepy Times in the Post Apocalypse
Oh, floating Skarsgårds. That can’t be good. We’ve had a few teasing pictures, but CBS has dropped our first actual look at its adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic weirdness-in-the-post-pandemic novel, The Stand. Set in the aftermath of the accidental release of a lab-created virus that infects and kills much of humanity, The Stand follows pockets … Continued
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io9TelevisionUpdates From American Horror Story, Dune and More
Peyton Reed says that Hope and Scott will still be an equal pairing in Ant-Man 3. Karl Urban continues to have hope to return to Mega-City One. John DiMaggio discusses the progress of Disenchantment’s third season. Plus, explore the stuntwork of Mulan and what’s to come on Lovecraft Country. Spoilers away! Dune Empire Magazine has our … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Haunting of Bly Manor’s Trailer Reminds You Not to Leave Creepy Dolls Lying Around
Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s followup to the fantastically spooky The Haunting of Hill House has just released its first teaser trailer. You are welcome to step into The Haunting of Bly Manor. If you dare… This horror tale, based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, stars Victoria Pedretti, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate … Continued
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io9The Table Read of The Good Place‘s Finale Will Break Your Heart All Over Again
Time to walk through the door. On the other side of the door? Lots of crying. I feel, occasionally, like I might be over The Good Place’s heartfelt finale, a long meditation on grief, companionship, and mortality at the limits of all reality. Then something happens to remind me that I’m most definitely not. This … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesThis Video Shows You How to Make Brilliant Fluorescent Lightsabers for Your Star Wars Action Figures
2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive? That’s the goal of a video recently released by the people at Adam Savage’s Tested (not Adam, today, but Norman Chan does a fantastic job … Continued
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io9MoviesNew Mutants Made $7 Million at the Box Office, Which Is a Lot, Considering
Considering, y’know, the coronavirus. This weekend marks the first in ages where big companies decided, for some reason (money, the reason is money), that releasing major motion pictures was somehow safe and appropriate in the United States, a country still utterly ravaged by the novel coronavirus and our government’s broad failure to contain it in … Continued
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io9MoviesParamount Sets New Release Dates for Scream, Snake Eyes, and Others
At some point, it starts to feel like maybe setting firm release dates for movies during a global pandemic is just not a good idea. But here we are, at it again. At least these dates, released recently by Paramount, are a bit more…. realistic than some others we’ve seen. As reported by Slash Film … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsLev Grossman Talks the Joy of Writing for Children in His Newest Novel, The Silver Arrow
If you’ve come to Lev Grossman from his most popular work, The Magicians series of novels, his newest is going to be something of a departure. The Silver Arrow is his first middle-grade book, a story of an 11-year-old girl named Kate and an enchanted train given to her as a gift by her eccentric … Continued
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io9Let’s Celebrate That Cobra Kai Is Now on Netflix
As great as the Karate Kid sequel show Cobra Kai is—let’s face it, it got buried on YouTube. Sure, everyone watches and uses YouTube, but most of them don’t pay to watch its original content. Now the show has made the move to Netflix and it feels like a coming-out party. Audiences from all over … Continued
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io9Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate as Missy on Big Mouth
Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth. A couple of months ago, as much of the animation industry reckoned with its regular tendency to cast non-Black actors to voice Black characters, Jenny Slate, who previously voiced the Black character Missy on Netflix’s Big … Continued
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io9MoviesNicolas Cage Will Play an Alcoholic Dragon in Hiding in Amazon’s Highfire Adaptation
If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Cage will be starring in and executive producing a drama for Amazon based on the book Highfire, by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer. The story, based on the book published this past January, is one of a … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsMarvel Made Fortnite Canon and I Have Lost My Entire Mind
Trying to make sense of comics continuity at the best of times requires offering up a tiny little part of your brain to be smushed to gooey smithereens in the mortar and pestle of comic book publishing tomfoolery. But friends, I fear trying to make sense of Marvel’s newest tango with the world of Fortnite … Continued
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io9MoviesChadwick Boseman, Star of Black Panther, Has Passed Away at 43
The Associated Press has just revealed actor Chadwick Boseman has passed away from cancer at just 43 years old. We’ve very sad to be sharing this news with you tonight. The AP says Boseman has died “after 4-year fight with colon cancer.” He had not spoken publicly about this diagnosis. Boseman is well known in … Continued
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io9MoviesA New Haunted Mansion Movie Is Rising From the Grave at Disney
Since the Eddie Murphy disaster, it feels like there have been about 999 tries to adapt iconic Disney ride The Haunted Mansion into a movie. If so, maybe lucky 1,000 will be the ticket. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney has hired writer Katie Dippold to pen a new script based on the ride about the … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesSpiky Batmen and Crystal Babies Are the Most Angular Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the best in plastic nonsense you can buy on the internet. Except it’s not all plastic this week: we have a suitably ludicrous crystal baby, a die-cast cyborg, and then…okay, quite a bit of the regular ol’ plastic stuff actually. Check it out! Swarovski Star Wars … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Force Is Strong with the Friday Gif Party
Another weekend, another lost convention. Star Wars Celebration might have been canceled this year, but the Friday gif party is here to, well, celebrate everything Star Wars. Grab your lightsaber and let’s begin! Be sure to leave your greatest “It’s Friday!” party gifs in the comments below. This week’s Bonus Points challenge is everything and … Continued
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io9Fox Is Developing an X-Files Animated Spinoff About the Dorkiest FBI Agents
What if Star Trek: Lower Decks…but The X-Files? TV Line reports that Fox, alongside X-Files creator Chris Carter in an executive producer role, are building up an animated spin-off of the beloved supernatural investigation series. We weren’t being flippant about the Lower Decks comparison, either: the new show won’t follow Agents Mulder and Scully, but a … Continued
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io9Movies10 Totally Excellent Fictional Movie Bands
Since today marks the release of a new movie featuring a pair of dudes who just wanna rock, but also have to do things like time travel and save the world, we got to thinking about other standout bands—some heroic, some flat-out evil, and a few with zero human members—that’ve appeared in our favorite movies. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Darkwalker on Moonshae
This first book in the Moonshae trilogy holds the great distinction of being the very first Dungeons & Dragons novel ever set in the Forgotten Realms. It also holds the distinction of having the series’ raddest, most evocative title. Unfortunately, the story itself doesn’t evoke much of anything—which, given that it’s about a supernatural beast … Continued
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