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The Clock Is Ticking in the First Official Teaser for HBO’s Watchmen

Who watches the Watchmen? Well, it looks like we all will be soon. HBO has released the first official teaser for Watchmen, showing a reality where superheroes are unlawful, dangerous, and a major threat…but quite possibly the only people who can save the world. Following months of cryptic images and teasers, HBO has finally released…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Star Wars‘ 3-Year Box Office Hiatus Could Be Just What the Franchise Needs

Yesterday, Disney announced a fully armed and operational movie slate, bolstered by its recently formalized acquisition of Fox. But the news brought with it a bit of a bombshell for Star Wars fans: new films are coming, but they won’t start coming until 2022, three years after The Rise of Skywalker. And that’s actually pretty…

Movies James Whitbrook

io9 Digs Into Daenerys Targaryen’s Mindset in the Latest Episode of Game of Thrones

Welcome back to Battle of Thrones, io9’s weekly breakdown of an important moment of conflict in the latest Game of Thrones episode. Last week, Cheryl and Germain talked about “The Long Night,” a 90-minute war fans had been waiting for since the first episode of the show. This week, Germain and Beth will talk about…

io9 Germain Lussier

Batwoman, Katy Keene, and Nancy Drew Are All Coming to the CW This Fall

Forget the dark knight, it’s time for a bat woman to rise. The CW has announced that Ruby Rose’s Batwoman has officially been picked up to series, along with the Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene and a brand-new Nancy Drew mystery drama. In short: I’m pretty sure I’ll never leave my couch again. The CW revealed…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

King of the Monsters‘ Mike Dougherty Has a Great Idea for Another Godzilla Movie

Roland Emmerich has another bonkers-sounding sci-fi movie up his sleeve. Rob Liefeld teases another Deadpool animated project coming soon. Get another look at John Wick Chapter 3 in action. Plus, new Aladdin clips, what’s to come on iZombie, and a glimpse of The Flash’s season finale. Spoilers, away! Godzilla In a recent interview with JoBlo,…

Television James Whitbrook

How Spider-Man: Far From Home Brings Peter Parker Back Down to Earth

On the UK set of Spider-Man: Far From Home last summer, one question was on the minds of press: How does Peter Parker’s next solo adventure deal with the cataclysmic events of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame? We didn’t get to find out, obviously. But we did learn how a different scale for Jon Watts’ Homecoming…

Movies James Whitbrook

Disney’s New Release Schedule Has Me Thinking a Lot About Mortality

On Tuesday, Disney updated its list of scheduled movie releases, providing tantalizing new details for fans of Earth’s preeminent sequel-making omnicorp—and forcing me to think farther into the future than I ever have before. I’m not joking. Three new Star Wars films are now scheduled for December of 2022, 2024, and 2026. That last one…

Movies Hudson Hongo

Legion‘s New Trailer Suggests Season 3 Will Zip Through Some More X-Men History

The end is near for Legion—all according to plan by showrunner Noah Hawley—but FX and Marvel’s trippy adventures within the X-Men universe aren’t going to wrap up without turning your brain fully inside out first. What are David Haller (Dan Stevens), Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), Syd (Rachel Keller), and all the rest up to now after…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Spider-Man: Far From Home Wants to Dive Into the Minutiae of What Happened After Thanos’ Snap

Ever since Avengers: Infinity War saw half the world’s population vanish in a single snap, there’s been the joke that a great Disney+ Marvel series could delve into the little details of just how the world logistically deals with such a monumental population shift. Turns out, it might not need a TV show, because Spider-Man: Far…

Movies James Whitbrook

Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden May Be Joining Marvel’s The Eternals

It’s been a while since Richard Madden has actually been on Game of Thrones—the Red Wedding was all the way back in season three!—but he’ll always be Robb Stark to us, even though he’s gone on to other things, including winning a Golden Globe for BBC thriller Bodyguard. However, he may be about to make…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

How Walt Disney Helped Promote the Space Race to America

In the 1950s, the world started to wonder in earnest about what it would take to see humanity reach beyond its home and into the stars. The rise of speculative work on space colonization—and the science fiction to match—helped propel the United States into the earliest days of the space race. And part of the…

Movies James Whitbrook

Adam Savage Teaches You How to Set a Deadline (By Way of Alien) in This Excerpt From His New Book

Adam Savage is known to most people from Discovery Channel’s popular series MythBusters, but if you’re a sci-fi fan, you’ve no doubt taken notice of his extracurricular activities as well—many of which are inspired by Savage’s fascination with iconic props from some of his favorite movies. Now he’s got a new book that offers a…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

8 More Game of Thrones Goofs That Show Maybe We Shouldn’t Take the Coffee Cup So Damn Seriously

Game of Thrones enraged the world when it had the audacity to forget a coffee cup was in one of the shots—so much so, it’s already been digitally removed. But this isn’t the first time that a mistake like this has happened. Whether it’s a forgotten laptop cord, a hopeful king mispronouncing the name of…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Tolkien Struggles to Justify Its Existence and Almost Succeeds

From the moment Tolkien began, I found myself continually asking the same question: Why is this a movie? Of course, we all know who J.R.R. Tolkien is. He’s one of the most beloved fantasy writers of all time, responsible for creating one of the greatest literary worlds ever. Plus many of us, myself included, don’t…

Movies Germain Lussier

3 New Star Wars Films Will Start Arriving in 2022 (and All the Other News Disney Just Dropped)

The Star Wars saga returns in 2022, and it’s sharing some time with Pandora. Disney just revealed a bunch of new release dates, with the highlight being that three new, yet-to-be-titled Star Wars movies will be released every other December starting in 2022. In the years between, Disney will release new James Cameron Avatar movies,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Project Ithaca Looks Like Psychological Saw in Space

Take the idea behind Saw, set it on a spaceship, replace torture devices with psychological torment, and you have Project Ithaca. Check out the trailer exclusively on io9. If you’ve never seen a Saw film, here’s what happens: A maniac named Jigsaw drugs a bunch of strangers, puts them all in a room together and,…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Avengers: Endgame‘s Editor Came Up With One of the Best Lines of the Film

Avengers: Endgame is a movie almost entirely about providing a sense of payoff—to varying degrees of success—to 11 years of Marvel moviemaking. But one of its most powerful payoffs to the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe wasn’t actually in the film from the start. In fact, it didn’t even come from the Russo brothers or the screenwriters.…

Movies James Whitbrook

Microsoft Patent Imagines an Xbox Controller Customized for Gamers With Visual Impairment

Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a big leap towards making gaming accessible to all players—not just those who can hold and manipulate the console’s standard controllers. Now it looks like the company is planning to expand its accessibility efforts. A Microsoft patent from last year reveals a special controller customized for visually impaired gamers. On the…

Games Andrew Liszewski

Professor Hulk Is Avengers: Endgame‘s Gift to Bruce Banner

Hulk smash. The Hulk has always smashed; it’s his thing and he’s incredibly good at it. But in Avengers: Endgame, the Hulk is given a new emotional depth that allows him to do more than express rage with his irradiated fists. Bruce Banner has become a new, more complicated person, and after nearly a decade…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Updates From It: Chapter 2, Jessica Jones, and More

Disney+’s Lady and the Tramp will make some tweaks to one of the film’s most controversial songs. Jessica Jones’ final season gets an ominous tease. Get a new look at DC Universe’s Stargirl. Plus, what’s to come on The Twilight Zone and Krypton, and even more Swamp Thing teases. Spoilers, away! Lady and the Tramp…

Television James Whitbrook

The Clock Is Ticking in the First Official Teaser for HBO’s Watchmen

Star Wars‘ 3-Year Box Office Hiatus Could Be Just What the Franchise Needs

io9 Digs Into Daenerys Targaryen’s Mindset in the Latest Episode of Game of Thrones

Batwoman, Katy Keene, and Nancy Drew Are All Coming to the CW This Fall

King of the Monsters‘ Mike Dougherty Has a Great Idea for Another Godzilla Movie

How Spider-Man: Far From Home Brings Peter Parker Back Down to Earth

Disney’s New Release Schedule Has Me Thinking a Lot About Mortality

Legion‘s New Trailer Suggests Season 3 Will Zip Through Some More X-Men History

Spider-Man: Far From Home Wants to Dive Into the Minutiae of What Happened After Thanos’ Snap

Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden May Be Joining Marvel’s The Eternals

How Walt Disney Helped Promote the Space Race to America

Adam Savage Teaches You How to Set a Deadline (By Way of Alien) in This Excerpt From His New Book

8 More Game of Thrones Goofs That Show Maybe We Shouldn’t Take the Coffee Cup So Damn Seriously

Tolkien Struggles to Justify Its Existence and Almost Succeeds

3 New Star Wars Films Will Start Arriving in 2022 (and All the Other News Disney Just Dropped)

Project Ithaca Looks Like Psychological Saw in Space

Avengers: Endgame‘s Editor Came Up With One of the Best Lines of the Film

Microsoft Patent Imagines an Xbox Controller Customized for Gamers With Visual Impairment

Professor Hulk Is Avengers: Endgame‘s Gift to Bruce Banner

Updates From It: Chapter 2, Jessica Jones, and More

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