Henry Cavill Explains Why Batman v. Superman Isn’t Man Of Steel 2

Witness the Birth of the Vision and Scott Lang stealing the Ant-Man suit, in new clips from Age of Ultron and Ant-Man. Simon Pegg discusses Idris Elba’s role in the next Star Trek film. Will everyone make it out out alive at the end of Gotham’s first season? Plus more Doctor Who monster glimpses. Spoilers…

Anime Film The Boy and the Beast Gets a Glorious Action-Filled Trailer

It’s a fighting and training montage of a young human boy learning from his supernatural bear master. It looks so awesome. This English-subtitle version of the trailer was released by the Australian distributor of The Boy and the Beast, Madman Entertainment. The film was written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through…

Marvel’s Been Hiding a Star Wars Easter Egg In Its Movies

If you’ve noticed that hands and arms have been flying pretty regularly in Marvel’s Phase Two movies, congratulations: you’ve found the Empire Strikes Back tribute purposefully placed there by Marvel. Spoilerish information ahead. In an interview with Cinema Blend, Marvel president Kevin Feige revealed how his love of Star Wars turned into this weird little…

JK Simmons Will Travel to an Alternate Universe in Counterpart

Starz has made a deal for Counterpart, a metaphysical show following a lowly UN bureaucrat who discovers that his department has a secret portal to an alternate dimension. Counterpart sounds pretty spectacular. It was created and written by Justin Marks (Disney’s upcoming live-action Jungle Book) and the first two episodes will be directed by Morten…

Happy 25th Anniversary to the Hubble!

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In First Maggie Clip, Arnold Schwarzenegger Loves His Zombie Daughter

Arnold Schwarzenegger put the first clip from Maggie, where he plays the father of Maggie (Abigail Breslin), who has been infected with a zombie virus. If this clip is representative of the whole movie, expect a lot more ruminating on family and losing a loved one to a deadly disease than the action typifying the…

We’ve Seen The First Spectre Footage And Know What’s Happened To Bond

Sony unrolled a whole mess of movies at their annual CinemaCon presentation, but the real star wars Bond. James Bond. Their premiere of the first ever Spectre footage had a bunch of clues as to what’s happened in our favorite spy’s life. Spoiler talk ahead. The first footage opened with a note from the Director…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Are Making an Animated Spider-Man Movie

Sony just announced that Phil Miller and Chris Lord (The LEGO Movie) are making a fully animated Spider-Man movie which will hit theaters on July 20, 2018. UPDATED The news comes from Sony Chairman Tom Rothman, who announced it at CinemaCon. The new animated movie will follow the new live-action Spidey’s appearance in the Marvel…

A Simple Website Helps Sort Your Movie-Watching Options

Leanflix is a stripped-back website that rounds up the best movies from your favourite streaming (and pay-to-own) sites, sorts them by almost any criteria you could dream of, and spits out the results. It’s simple, effective, and everything you wish Netflix’s interface actually was. The site — which is currently in beta — incorporates listings…

Here’s The Scene From Ex Machina that Made My Jaw Drop

Ex Machina has a lot of crazy brilliant stuff in it, and we’ve gushed about this movie a lot. But there’s one scene in particular that made us freak out when we saw it in the theater, because it’s hilarious and weird and insane. And now that the studio has released as a clip, I…

We Think We’ve Finally Figured Out Tomorrowland’s Insane Premise

Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof’s befuddling science fiction movie Tomorrowland has baffled us for years. But now we think we know the premise of this secret scientist illuminati society set not in the future, but in a future world. Spoiler talk ahead. Today, Disney released a website Take Me to Tomorrowland and inside this marketing…

Here’s Why Fish Scales Get Put In Lipstick

If you are a lady, you have probably at one point slathered your lips in fish scales. (If you are a gentlemen, you have probably pressed your lips against those scales.) Why? Because it looks pretty. And because of physics. To understand why fish scales were first used in makeup, we have to understand why…

These Interactive Billboards React To The World Around Them

For some advertisers, it’s not enough that ads constantly flash in front of your eyeballs. They want to make sure that you don’t just see their ads, but also interact with them in the hopes of searing their brands into your brain. Do these interactive ads actually entertain you? Or are they more trouble than…

Joss Whedon Bummed That Marvel Brought Agent Coulson Back From The Dead

“Coulson lives!” was the excited cry from many Marvel movie fans when they learned that Agent Phil Coulson would be resurrected for the TV show Agents of SHIELD. But not everyone was a fan of bringing Coulson back, including director Joss Whedon, who felt it took “some of the punch out of” his Avengers movie.…

Which TV Or Movie Adaptation Made You Ashamed To Be A Fan Of Something?

We all know that movie and TV versions of books, comics and games don’t always capture what’s truly great about them. But sometimes, they do something far worse. Which movie or TV version of a beloved story was so awful, it actually made you embarrassed to admit in public you were a fan? Please include…

An Aspiring Knight Must Solve The Mystery Of Her Brother’s Disappearance

Samantha, the young heroine of Angelica Maria’s webcomic Solstoria, wants two things in her life: She wants to become a knight and she wants to find out what happened to her older brother, an alchemy student who went missing. In her quest she’ll encounter a protective crow, a moon priestess, and plenty of things that…

The Biggest Mystery Of The Flash Isn’t Harrison Wells

And before I reveal this mystery, remember that I am 100% a fan of this show — one who has unequivocally enjoyed the show since its mid-season return. Ready? The mystery is this: Why do I love this show so much when the characters are often so damn dumb? It’s weird, because as a show,…

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London Series Is Coming To Comics!

Ben Aaronovitch’s “magical detective” series Rivers of London (known as Midnight Riot in the US) was a fresh take on the mashup of Police procedural and the supernatural when it released in 2011 — and io9 can exclusively reveal that the world of Police Officer/Wizard Peter Grant is coming to comics, thanks to Titan! An…

The 2015 Eisner Awards nominations are out! See if your favorite comic book writers, artists, colorists, letterers, and comics made this year’s list. The winners will be announced during San Diego Comic-Con.

The Most Badass Robotic Bird On The Planet Just Got Better

Since 2007, researchers at the Maryland Robotics Center have been steadily upgrading Robo Raven, a super-realistic robotic bird that’s so lifelike it even fools the real thing. Its developers recently unveiled two new versions, including one that can take off by itself. https://gizmodo.com/the-robo-raven-is-so-lifelike-it-fools-birdbrains-511919948 Robo Raven — the brainchild of University of Maryland roboticist SK Gupta…