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io9Toys & CollectiblesAt Last, Mandalore’s Rightful Heir Gets the Figure She Deserves
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all the coolest nerd merch around the internet. This week, Wonder Woman 1984‘s glorious golden armor enters the Bandai Figuarts line, the finest Jurassic Park homeware arrives, and we’re all going to start rhythmically chanting about Star Wars eggs. Check it out! Hot Toys Star … Continued
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io9The Best Blockbuster Movies of 2020 (in a Parallel Universe)
Something strange is afoot on io9. [Editor’s note: This is absolutely not io9’s Best Movies of 2020 list. That’s still to come in our year in review series. This is a list of big-budget films that were supposed to come out in 2020 but were delayed by the pandemic. It was sent to me from … Continued
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io9MoviesPatty Jenkins Will Direct the Next Star Wars Movie, Rogue Squadron
It’s going to be some time before we see a new Star Wars movie in theaters but, now, at least we know what that’s going to be. On Disney’s 2020 Investor Day Thursday, it was announced that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins would direct Rogue Squadron, scheduled for release December 22, 2023. It’s described as … Continued
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io9MoviesWonder Woman 1984 Director Patty Jenkins on the Tough Decision to Release on Streaming
Patty Jenkins finished Wonder Woman 1984 before the world changed. The writer-director had completed work on the highly anticipated superhero sequel in early March, before covid-19 forced most of the world into a lockdown. Then everything went quiet. “I just cooked and cleaned all year and no one has seen it until today,” Jenkins told … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDC’s Brand New Wonder Woman Is Getting Her Own CW Show as Wonder Girl
Welcome to the DC-CWverse, Yara Flor. Deadline reports that the latest addition to the ever-growing cast of DC shows at the CW will now include Wonder Girl. Being made with Queen of the South executive producer/co-showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez, and Sarah Schechter, David Madden, and Greg Berlanti of Berlanti Productions, the Wonder Girl show will be … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDC’s Next Event Will Introduce a New Justice League
Though DC Comics is still very much in the midst of weirding up its comics universe with Dark Nights: Death Metal, the publisher’s already dreamed up its next major event. It’s one that will take readers into a future populated by new iterations of iconic legacy characters crafted to usher in a new age of … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWonder Woman’s Next Graphic Novel Is a Celebration of Real-Life Amazons
Wonder Woman changed comics forever when she made her debut in the pages of Sensation Comics back in the early ‘40s—and now, eight decades later, Diana’s comic adventures are bringing back an old regular to create a graphic novel celebrating the Amazon champions of the real world. When Diana spun out of Sensation Comics and … 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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Tech NewsSea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Because I am, at my core, a basic bitch, I have a sign in my office that says “Today is a good day for a good day” (in garish sparkly gold and white letters naturally). It’s a sentiment that’s been harder to believe in these days, what with the universe apparently going through its rolodex … Continued
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io9TrailersWonder Woman 1984’s New Trailer Reveals Friends and Furry Foes
Warner Bros. has just dropped the newest trailer for the long-awaited Wonder Woman sequel at DC FanDome, what feels like a lifetime after we were first meant to see the film release earlier this year (thanks, global pandemics!). We’ve been waiting a long, long time for this, but just like Max Lord claims he can, … Continued
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io9MoviesWonder Woman 1984‘s ‘Amazon Olympics’ Will Bring an Important Part of Diana’s Lore to Life
Wonder Woman 1984, as the title implies, is set in 1984, at the height of a golden age of greed and excess. But that doesn’t mean the entire movie is set in our near past. At least some of the highly anticipated sequel will transport us back to Diana’s island home Themyscira to show us … Continued
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io9MoviesHow Wonder Woman 1984 Will Use Our Past to Talk About the Present
It’s faced a few delays, and, well, a global pandemic that could perhaps lay even an Amazon low. But at long last, Wonder Woman 1984 is ready to return Diana Prince to the DC Cinematic Universe spotlight. Her new adventure will not take her into the present but keep her in a somewhat recent past: … Continued
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io9MoviesCelebrate John Saxon With 8 of the B-Movie Legend’s Most Memorable Genre Roles
The world lost a commanding presence over the weekend with the passing of John Saxon, a beloved cult actor whose career stretched back to the 1950s and encompassed a wide range of Westerns, sci-fi, crime dramas, horror (including three Nightmare on Elm Street movies), and so, so much more. Considering Saxon was active for seven … Continued
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io9Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 2010s
For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theater won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s summer months into fall, spring, or even next summer. Since we can’t enjoy summer blockbusters in theaters this … Continued
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io9MoviesHBO Max Will Keep Some DC Movies Streaming a Little Longer After All
This isn’t confusing at all! Between the continued existences of Warner Media-owned streaming services DC Universe and HBO Max, the fact they’ll share some show premieres, and this month’s utter confusion at HBO Max’s sudden plans to rotate DC content in and out every month, the relationship between DC Entertainment and Warner was already, diplomatically … Continued
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io9MoviesIn Our First Look at Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Wonder Woman Faces the Myth of Darkseid
Darkseid Is, and most importantly, Darkseid is here. Just a few short weeks after confirming that he would begin work on turning out his very own version of Justice League, Zack Snyder has released our first teasery glimpse of what fans can expect out of his extended cut of the movie. The answer is for … Continued
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io9MoviesWonder Woman 1984 Has Been Delayed Once Again, Matrix 4 and Godzilla vs Kong Also Get Bumped [Updated]
Wonder Woman 1984 should be old news by now. It was supposed to come out last week before being moved to August. Now we’re going to have to wait even longer to see it. Though it was originally scheduled to be released on August 14, Wonder Woman 1984 has now been moved back to October … Continued
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io9MoviesWonder Woman 1984 Is Delayed, But Here Are 17 Other Female Fighters to Watch in the Meantime
Today was supposed to be the day we got to hear that unmistakable guitar riff again. You know the one. The song that plays when Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman makes an epic entrance (or at least some radical ‘80s remixes this time!). To hopefully provide some consolation, we’ve compiled a list of movies starring other … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesA Gloriously Golden Wonder Woman Is the Shiniest Toy of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things plastic on the internet lately. This week: Hot Toys soars into action with Wonder Woman 1984 goodness, Lego assembles Earth’s mightiest heroes and perhaps the chonkiest Iron Man around for Avengers playsets, and Godzilla brings the appropriate amount of calm to the game of … Continued
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io9MoviesThe ‘Snyder Cut’ of Justice League Is Being Released
Some fans demanded it, we’ve all debated it, and now it’s finally happening. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. announced that a new cut of Justice League, one approved and finished by Zack Snyder, will be released on its upcoming streaming service, HBO Max. Snyder announced that the film, called Zack Snyder’s Justice League, will come to … Continued