Katharine Trendacosta, Author at Gizmodo

The Animated Ghostbusters Movie Has a Director and Is, Apparently, Happening

Sony’s banking hard on new Ghostbusters content saving them putting them back in the black. In that vein, they’ve gotten a move on with their long-rumored animated Ghostbusters movie, hiring Fletcher Moules to direct it. Moules is the animator and director behind those Clash of Clans commercials that you can’t escape no matter how hard…

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‘iMom’ Will Haunt Your Dreams

“iMom” isn’t a short with a brand new idea or even a totally shocking plot twist. There are many stories about what happens when a piece of technology takes over a quintessentially human function (in this case, mothering). What is great about iMom, though, is the execution. Matilda Brown plays the robotic iMom better than…

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The Elektra Movie Is Somehow So Much Worse Than You Remember

When Daredevil returns for season two later this month, we’ll be treated to Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios. The last time the Greek ninja had a live-action performance, she was portrayed by Jennifer Garner in the critically unacclaimed 2005 movie of the same name. And yet I’m here to tell you it’s infinitely more terrible…

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Anthony Mackie Discovered He Was an Avenger at the Age of Ultron Premiere

If you were wondering just how far Marvel’s infamous secrecy goes—well, it extends to not telling actors what their cameos even mean until the movies actually come out. That’s why Anthony Mackie learned that Falcon was becoming an Avenger in the movie theater. IGN interviewed Mackie on the set of Civil War, only a few…

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Hold on to Your Tail Feathers: Here’s the First Image From the New DuckTales

Disney XD has released the first image from its reboot of DuckTales, presenting one of the first cases of a single still getting a song stuck in my head with no prompting. “Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckburg!” The song even played a role in the tweet Disney PR sent out with the…

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JK Rowling Tackles the Magical History of America in New Harry Potter Stories

“The History of Magic in North America” is a new series of four original stories about the Wizarding United States which will premiere tomorrow on Pottermore at 9:00 AM. This is presumably tied to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which has Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) accidentally releasing a bunch of magical creatures during…

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RIP Gary Hutzel, the Man Who Made Starships

Visual effects artist Gary Hutzel, most famous for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Battlestar Galactica, passed away on Thursday at the age of 60. Hutzel was visual effects coordinator and supervisor on the first five seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space…

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Shells Collide as the ’80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Join the Modern TMNT Cartoon

Did you think the 2009 Turtles Forever 25th anniversary movie would be the only only chance for various iterations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to kick ninja butt together? Not so, thanks to Nickelodeon’s current animated TMNT series, which is sending the ‘80s 2D turtles to the 3D present. The episode “Trans-Dimensional Turtles” will…

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This Visit to an Alien World Is the Most Soothing Thing in Ages

“Vessels-4 AM” by Chloe Hayward is like being on a tourist spaceship touring a volatile world. And, as it navigates water, ice, and lava, to music, it’s somehow perfectly lovely. [Vimeo Staff Picks] Contact the author at [email protected].

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Data Conclusively Proves That The Force Awakens Is Just A Newer Hope

In other news, a bear shits in the woods and the Pope is Catholic. Okay, that’s a bit dismissive of a fair amount of actual data analysis. McGill University computer science professor Derek Ruths mapped the similarities between the two movies by figuring out how many scenes each character had and how often they interacted…

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Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker Looks Like It Could Be Fresh and Exciting

Disney’s picked Lasse Hallström to direct The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, a live-action adaptation of the classic Christmas story. Amazingly, this is a live-action project that isn’t simply another take on one of its classic animated features. Hallström (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) will direct a script from Ashleigh Powell.…

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The First Images from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Are Totally Creepy

Entertainment Weekly has the first images from Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and they are, as one would expect, completely creepy. From left to right, the characters in this photo are Olive (Lauren McCrostie), Bronwyn (Pixie Davies), Millard (Cameron King), the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell), and Emma (Ella Purnell). I think…

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Bust Out Your Best Moves for the Gif Party

It’s Friday, get up and dance! I mean, uh, share your gifs. That’s like dancing. Contact the author at [email protected].

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Everything We Learned About Ghostbusters From Its Trailer

We have finally seen footage from Paul Feig’s rebooted Ghostbusters and it looks perfect. But hidden in all of that action was a lot of information about the characters and the plot, as well as plenty of Easter eggs to the original.movie Here’s the trailer, broken down for you. (If you haven’t seen the trailer…

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Joss Whedon Is Returning to Comics to Celebrate Captain America’s 75th Anniversary

While Joss Whedon may be done making live action stories for Captain America, he’s reuniting with John Cassaday, with whom he worked on Astonishing X-Men, to write a comic story. In March 30’s Captain America: Sam Rogers #7, Whedon and Cassady will write a new story “celebrating the legacy and legend of Captain America,” all…

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Frank Miller’s Batman Was ‘Too Nice’ for Darren Aronofsky

Later this month, we’ll see Batman v. Superman, loosely based on Frank Miller’s Batman comics. But we almost got a Batman film from Miller and Darren Aronofsky, based on Batman: Year One. In an interviewwith the Hollywood Reporter, Miller explained what that looked like, and it was very, very strange. Miller says that his Batman…

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All of Star Trek: Enterprise Was Really Just Will Riker’s Holodeck Program

As with any franchise that has been around 50 years, Star Trek has a number of plot holes and continuity errors. The last show, Enterprise, was veritable font of these kinds of questions, which is always a problem when you’re making a prequel. TV Tropes’ Wild Mass Guessing page for Enterprise is ripe with fan…

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Of Course Warner Bros. Has Already Planned a Suicide Squad Sequel

Why wouldn’t they? Otherwise, they might wait too long and the sequel would come out a few months later than it originally would have, and all the momentum would be gone! This news is actually buried in aWrap article about Will Smith and David Ayer’s other possible project together, Bright, which is apparently a cop…

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Ian McShane Will Be the Perfect Mr. Wednesday in American Gods

This is such perfect, beautiful, brilliant casting. How are we supposed to wait an entire year to see this? Executive producer Bryan Fuller tweeted the news with an appropriate amount of enthusiasm: We’d tell you more about this character—but if you’ve read the book, you already know, and if you haven’t, that would be spoilers.…

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Morgan Freeman Is Not at All Sure About This ‘Batfleck’ Thing, You Guys

Of course Morgan Freeman is going to be asked what he thinks about the new Batman. There’s nothing better than someone from one incarnation of Batman slagging off another, and Freeman sort of obliged. Although his comments are more like the “reasonable caveats” than “lobbing a firebomb at Zack Snyder’s house.” Freeman told Entertainment Tonight:…

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The Animated Ghostbusters Movie Has a Director and Is, Apparently, Happening

‘iMom’ Will Haunt Your Dreams

The Elektra Movie Is Somehow So Much Worse Than You Remember

Anthony Mackie Discovered He Was an Avenger at the Age of Ultron Premiere

Hold on to Your Tail Feathers: Here’s the First Image From the New DuckTales

JK Rowling Tackles the Magical History of America in New Harry Potter Stories

RIP Gary Hutzel, the Man Who Made Starships

Shells Collide as the ’80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Join the Modern TMNT Cartoon

This Visit to an Alien World Is the Most Soothing Thing in Ages

Data Conclusively Proves That The Force Awakens Is Just A Newer Hope

Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker Looks Like It Could Be Fresh and Exciting

The First Images from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Are Totally Creepy

Bust Out Your Best Moves for the Gif Party

Everything We Learned About Ghostbusters From Its Trailer

Joss Whedon Is Returning to Comics to Celebrate Captain America’s 75th Anniversary

Frank Miller’s Batman Was ‘Too Nice’ for Darren Aronofsky

All of Star Trek: Enterprise Was Really Just Will Riker’s Holodeck Program

Of Course Warner Bros. Has Already Planned a Suicide Squad Sequel

Ian McShane Will Be the Perfect Mr. Wednesday in American Gods

Morgan Freeman Is Not at All Sure About This ‘Batfleck’ Thing, You Guys

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Cut Your Daily Coffee Costs at Home

Amazon Clears Out Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs (2-Pack) at a Record Low, Each Bulb Costs Just a Few Dollars

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees