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A Terrifying Entity Makes a House Call in This Chilling Clip from The Diabolical

It’s Halloween season, and to paraphrase the movie of the same name … everyone deserves a good scare at least once a day. Here’s an exclusive clip from the upcoming horror-scifi movie The Diabolical that just might do the job today. First, check out the official synopsis for the film: When a single mother (Ali…

Rumor: Mattel Wants to Make a Dino-Riders Movie. People Want a Lot of Things.

The latest 1980s toyline-to-movie franchise could be Dino-Riders, if Mattel has its way—and if this rumor is true. Tracking Board says the toy company is teaming up with Solipsist to bring the former franchise to movie theaters, which is interesting because Dino-Riders wasn’t even popular in the 80s. Sure, it sounds like a sure-fire winner—it’s…

Luke Skywalker Has a Perfectly Good Explanation for His “Flub” in A New Hope

It’s a factoid years old that when Luke emerges from his X-Wing after the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope, the over-excited Mark Hamill accidentally cries “Carrie!” rather than “Leia!” when Carrie Fisher’s Princess comes running into his arms. But did he really? Not according to Luke Skywalker himself. The famous flub has been…

Warner Bros. Wants People to Consider Mad Max: Fury Road for Best Picture

Or, at least, Warner Bros. would like to people to be forced to mention Mad Max: Fury Road when discussing next year’s Academy Awards nominations for Best Picture–for a massive, free amount of publicity, even though it doesn’t really expect Fury Road to get nominated, let alone win. Film critic Mike McGranahan found the first…

The First Lego Movie Sequel Will Be Even More Meta 

2014’s hit film, The Lego Movie, was destined for sequels. And those will be coming in a few years. But next year in January, you can see Wildstyle, Unikitty, MetalBeard and Benny on the big screen–exclusively at Legolands everywhere. Those characters are returning for a new film called The Lego Movie 4D: A New Adventure,…

Coming Soon: A Movie About A World That’s Slowly Losing Its Gravity

Say what you want about Hollywood movies all being remakes and sequels. If a good idea comes across an executive’s desk, he or she is going to consider it, and that’s what happened with a script called Ascension. Ascension is a disaster movie set on a version of Earth that’s slowly losing its gravity. 20th…

Steven Spielberg Is Cutting The Steven Spielberg Movies From Ready Player One

Like many of us, Ready Player One author Ernie Cline is a disciple of Steven Spielberg. If you grew up in the Eighties or Nineties, his films were your everything, which is why they’re so important in the Ready Player One book. But they won’t be in the movie. “The movie won’t have any of…

Furiosa Won’t Be In George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road Sequel

This year’s surprise hit Mad Max: Fury Road may have had Max’s name in the title, but few would say it was his movie. Instead, most people walked out raving about Imperator Furiosa. Unfortunately, that won’t be the case for the sequel. In a new interview, Mad Max writer/director George Miller revealed that Furiosa doesn’t…

Wes Anderson’s next film will be a stop-motion movie about dogs. The director is returning to his Fantastic Mr. Fox medium, but Indiewire notes it’s a funny choice of subject, given Anderson’s propensity for killing dogs in his movies.

Matt Damon Does Even More Science in Deleted Scene From The Martian

If you didn’t get enough of Matt Damon’s Mark Watney sciencing the shit out of his accidental home in the feature cut of The Martian (and to be honest, we could always watch more), here’s an entry from Watney’s video diary that didn’t make it into the film. /Film notes that, with all of the…

Vin Diesel Could Play a Second Marvel Character With One Big Difference From Groot

Long before Vin Diesel was Groot, he teased fans about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So few thought saying a few words as a talking tree would be enough for the star. In a new interview with io9, Diesel teased something very different could be on the horizon. First of all, the actor explained that…

Vin Diesel Just Told Us Who Is Directing the Extreme Sports Spy Sequel XXX 3

Vin Diesel is an incredibly busy guy. He’s got The Last Witch Hunter coming out this month; a director just signed for Fast and Furious 8, and he’s long teased a return to the world of XXX, too. We recently spoke to Diesel about all those things and he offered up some new, exclusive, information.…

Come See io9 Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders at New York Comic Con!

If you’re at New York Comic Con this weekend, you can see the founding editors of this very site, in our natural habitat. Including a panel with economist and science fiction guru Paul Krugman! Today at 2 PM, io9 Editor in Chief Charlie Jane Anders is signing copies of her upcoming book All the Birds…

Sam Raimi Was Working On Evil Dead 4 With This Insane Plot

For decades, fans have been asking Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell about a potential Evil Dead 4. Now, finally, they can just point them to Starz where the new show Ash vs. Evil Dead will live. But Raimi was working on a sequel and it sounded crazy. Screencrush was on hand at a recent Q&A…

James Cameron’s Avatar Universe Expands Into Comics

Because three sequels filmed back to back was not enough Avatar content to sate the public’s massive demand, James Cameron has announced that there will also be a number of Avatar comics. You can see Cameron’s video below, but the part that stands out to us is the idea that the series will cover “the…

Celebrate The Upcoming Wasp Marvel Movie With This Beautiful Concept Art

If the fact Marvel is making an Ant-Man sequel wasn’t cool enough, the fact it’s called Ant-Man and the Wasp is simply amazing. Evangeline Lilly’s character Hope Van Dyne was a highlight of the first film and to see her team up with Paul Rudd should be an exciting and unique addition to the MCU.…

For Some Godforsaken Reason, Disney Is “Fast-Tracking” a Cruella de Vil Movie

It’s a day ending in ‘y,’ so Disney has another live-action, villain-focused adaptation of one of their classic animated films in the works. This one coming from the screenwriter Kelly Marcel, who wrote the 50 Shades of Grey script. Excuse me while I weep for a bit. All the way back in April of this…

That New Peter Pan Movie Is Kind of a Disaster

Hollywood has a few failure modes when it tries to adapt classic fairytales and fantasy stories for the umpteenth time. And one of the main ones is, “Let’s tell the origin story that’s never been told before.” Pan is the latest fantasy prequel to show why this is a bad idea. Minor spoilers ahead… Remember…

Surprising New Details About The Power Rangers Movie Have Been Revealed

The new Power Rangers movie is starting to heat up. Earlier this week, the first piece of casting broke, and now potential details on the film’s villain, timeline and opening have all made it online. If true, there are some spoilers here, but nothing too crazy. Collider has the goods on Power Rangers. According to…

One Of The Bleakest Monologues In Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy Never Made It Into The Films

The very first teaser for Batman Begins had a laser-guided focus: to remind you that this was far from the goofy Batmans of Forever, of Batman & Robin or Batman ‘66. But apparently, its bleak monologuing was even a bit too much for the actual (and plenty grim) movie itself. The 2004 teaser for the…