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Joe Cornish Says He’s Spoken to John Boyega About Attack the Block 2

Ewan McGregor discusses the tech powering the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ show. Legends of Tomorrow promotes another regular for its next season. Get a look at Netflix’s new The Grude show. Plus, what’s to come when Hanna returns to Amazon, and the Jeff Lemire/Dustin Nguyen comic series Descender could be coming to TV. Spoilers away! Attack…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Force Is With This Stunning Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Poster

By now, you’re surely well aware that 2020 is the 40th anniversary of one of the best films of all time: The Empire Strikes Back. We here on io9 have been celebrating, as has Lucasfilm, which released an official poster to commemorate the event. That poster, by artist Matt Ferguson, may have caught your eye over…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Wonderful 101‘s Enduring Superpower Is Its Focus on Teamwork and Community

In the world of The Wonderful 101, the recently remastered and re-released action-adventure game that originally launched in 2013 for the Nintendo Wii U, the planet’s best line of defense against an invading army of aliens is a massive squad of sentai-like superheroes who, in addition to having a variety of powers, are able to…

Games Charles Pulliam-Moore

That’s Right, the Legends of Tomorrow Are Fighting Aliens, and It’s Gonna Get Weird

The Legends have battled demons, gods, and the deadliest creature of all: a unicorn. When the CW’s Legends of Tomorrow has defeated all the villains of heaven and hell, the only way to go is up. Way, way up. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Phil Klemmer confirmed that season six of Legends of…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

This Candyman Shadow Puppet Short Film Is a Horrific Mirror You Can’t Look Away From

Much as the Candyman film franchise focuses on the stories of people foolish enough to summon a murderous ghoul into their midst by chanting his name, the films have always been, at their cores, gruesome reflections on the American legacy of anti-Black racism that led to the lynchings of thousands over the centuries. Though the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Jaws at 45: The Scenes, the Sounds, the Shark

Going in the water hasn’t been comfortable for 45 years. That’s how long it’s been since director Steven Spielberg first released his filmJaws and subsequently changed everything. The summer blockbuster season was born. A new wunderkind director emerged. A little-known composer instantly became a legend. And audiences everywhere have been afraid to go back in…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who‘s Time War

The Last Great Time War. Those five words have hung over Doctor Who ever since it was revived in 2005: an earth-shattering conflict that saw the Doctor’s people, the Time Lords, pitted against the Daleks. It’s been started, ended, revived, and discussed across Who media for years, and will be explored once more this year…

io9 James Whitbrook

Doom Patrol‘s New Season 2 Trailer Is a Dark Disco Extravaganza

Before Doom Patrol’s Danny the Street was reduced to a single brick, the extradimensional being used to delight in throwing wildly extravagant partiesfor their friends—all of whom were social outcasts in need of a compassionate community. Danny might not be at their full power just quite yet, but in the latest trailer for Doom Patrol’s…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

In Warrior Nun‘s First Trailer, the World’s Salvation Is a Badass Sister Act

In Warrior Nun’s first trailer, you can see that the story’s changed ever so slightly.

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Ahsoka Tano Leads the Charge in the New Star Wars Lego Sets

There’s a lot to love in the new Lego Star Wars sets coming later this summer. But frankly, only one of them has a season seven Clone Wars Ahsoka in it, so we’ll start there, please and thank you. Revealed by StarWars.com this morning, this summer’s wave of building sets in the galaxy far, far away…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

Image: John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books Creatures of Charm and Hunger

Read Creatures of Charm and Hunger: Chapter 16

Two years ago, io9 shared author Molly Tanzer’s Victorian fantasy novelCreatures of Will & Temper in serialized excerpts. And now we’ve got good news for fans of the author, not to mention fans of free books: We’re doing it again, with her newest title! Check out chapter sixteen today. Here’s the link to the prologue where it…

Books & Comics io9 Staff

Ewan McGregor Teases His Role in Guillermo Del Toro’s Take on Pinocchio

Another day, another look behind the production of Avatar 2. Saint Maud wants to be one of the first films to debut theatrically amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Creepshow is getting a new script order to get early work started on season three. Plus, the Justice Society assembles on Stargirl, and Neal McDonough comes to…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Max Brooks’ Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen

Author Max Brooks has a new book out called Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, and it arrives with some exciting news: much like Brooks’ previous best-seller, zombie-apocalypse story World War Z, Devolution will be getting the feature-film treatment. As the Hollywood Reporter reveals, as far back as 2012 Brooks was actually…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Palm Springs Trailer Features Andy Samberg in an Infinite Wedding Time Loop

Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Death Day, Russian Doll—we all love a good time loop story. And the latest one, Palm Springs, looks like it could end up on par with those classics. Palm Springs debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which feels about 500 years ago at this point. Andy Sambergand Cristin Milioti…

Trailers Germain Lussier

6 Things We Liked About Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Season 2 (and 3 We Didn’t)

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is one of those word-of-mouth shows that started small and grew into a tidal wave. The post-apocalyptic story of a half-jaguar girl and her friends roaming a brightly colored wasteland continues with season two, which wonderful expands its world while making a few sophomore missteps. Here are the six…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula‘s Latest Trailer Is a Terrifying Thrill Ride at the End of the World

The key to surviving Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula’s zombie-infested world is having enough common sense to run the hell away when swarms of the undead make it clear they they want to rip the flesh from your bones. That, and knowing the zombies have to be destroyed—lest one, for whatever reason, think that being…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Warner Bros. Is Doing Its Own Virtual Con This August

Warner Bros. has long been one of the staples at San Diego Comic-Con, getting fans psyched about new DC films, CW shows, and, two years ago, an entire streaming platform. This year, the novel coronavirus pandemic has pushed Comic-Con online, but it may not have its usual DC presence. Warner Bros. is doing its own…

Movies Beth Elderkin

In Our First Look at Umbrella Academy Season 2, Long Hair and Swedish Assassins Abound

Look, it’s been a wild time for everyone, let alone the time-hopping heroes of Umbrella Academy. You’ll be forgiven for some of them letting their hair get a bit out of place. Or, really, a lot out of place. Netflix has revealed the first look at Umbrella Academy’s upcoming sophomore season, and our first glimpse…

io9 James Whitbrook

Read Creatures of Charm and Hunger: Chapter 15

Two years ago, io9 shared author Molly Tanzer’s Victorian fantasy novelCreatures of Will & Temper in serialized excerpts. And now we’ve got good news for fans of the author, not to mention fans of free books: We’re doing it again, with her newest title! Check out chapter fifteen today. Here’s the link to the prologue where it…

Books & Comics io9 Staff

Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks

Every June 16 we gather to celebrate Captain Picard, for it is—based on a loose extrapolation of the stardate of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s season seven episode “The Pegasus”—Captain Picard Day. A day to recall his triumphs, his heroism, his morals, and his earnest sincerity. Not this year. This year I come to drag…

io9 James Whitbrook

Joe Cornish Says He’s Spoken to John Boyega About Attack the Block 2

The Force Is With This Stunning Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Poster

The Wonderful 101‘s Enduring Superpower Is Its Focus on Teamwork and Community

That’s Right, the Legends of Tomorrow Are Fighting Aliens, and It’s Gonna Get Weird

This Candyman Shadow Puppet Short Film Is a Horrific Mirror You Can’t Look Away From

Jaws at 45: The Scenes, the Sounds, the Shark

The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who‘s Time War

Doom Patrol‘s New Season 2 Trailer Is a Dark Disco Extravaganza

In Warrior Nun‘s First Trailer, the World’s Salvation Is a Badass Sister Act

Ahsoka Tano Leads the Charge in the New Star Wars Lego Sets

Read Creatures of Charm and Hunger: Chapter 16

Ewan McGregor Teases His Role in Guillermo Del Toro’s Take on Pinocchio

Max Brooks’ Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen

The Palm Springs Trailer Features Andy Samberg in an Infinite Wedding Time Loop

6 Things We Liked About Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Season 2 (and 3 We Didn’t)

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula‘s Latest Trailer Is a Terrifying Thrill Ride at the End of the World

Warner Bros. Is Doing Its Own Virtual Con This August

In Our First Look at Umbrella Academy Season 2, Long Hair and Swedish Assassins Abound

Read Creatures of Charm and Hunger: Chapter 15

Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

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