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Orphan Black Creators Want to Make a Movie, but What Should It Be About?

The Canadian clone chronicles just ended last night, but creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson are already talking about how eager they are to return for a feature. “Grame and I have always loved the idea of potentially doing a feature film,” Fawcett told Entertainment Weekly. Talking to Deadline, he echoed the same point, saying,…

Television Julie Muncy

Why Are Neo-Nazis on Twitter So Scared of Being Called Neo-Nazis?

Yesterday’s rally of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and so-called “alt-right” activists predictably devolved into violence. One anti-fascist protester and two police officers are dead, and dozens more were injured by neo-Nazis in a fascist rally at the University of Virginia. But after the streets were cleared, far right thugs who participated in the demonstration seemed only concerned…

Tech News Matt Novak

Neo-Nazis Praise Trump’s Response to Charlottesville: ‘He Said He Loves Us All’

President Donald Trump on Saturday condemned violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, where thousands of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and other pieces of human trash gathered brandishing guns, torches, and Confederate flags. But to the elation of Nazis online and armed militiamen in the streets of Charlottesville, Trump declined to distance the White…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Video Shows How Alien: Covenant is Simply Dripping With Classic Art

Alien: Covenant may not have met our expectations, but it was undoubtedly visually compelling. The dark sci-fi tableaus sketched out by director Ridley Scott and cinematographer Dariusz Wolski are lush and vivid, regardless of anything that does or doesn’t happen in them. Part of the reason why Covenant might be so visually striking is the…

io9 Julie Muncy

Chris Hemsworth Felt Liberated By Thor’s Ragnarok Haircut

When Thor faces the fall of Asgard and a trip into outer space in the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, he’s going to do it with a new, shorter hairdo and a full-on Sadness Beard. It’s a look that has at least one major fan in Chris Hemsworth himself. Thor’s new look, which has the air of…

io9 Julie Muncy

One Dead, Dozens Injured After Car Slams Counter-Protesters at White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville [Updating]

Amid the chaos of a canceled “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia attended by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other members of the so-called alt-right on Saturday, a man who has now been arrested drove a car directly into other vehicles and a crowd of people protesting the march. According to the AP, at least…

Tech News Bryan Menegus & Tom McKay

New Video Proves That One Billion DuckTales ‘Woo-oo!’s Might Be Too Many

For their newest DuckTales promo, Disney has tapped into the tragicomic heart of the internet. Beware: The woo-oo looks also into you. For a while now, the internet’s favorite terrible hobby has been distorting, repeating, and generally fucking with cultural ephemera to produce glitch nightmares (glitchmares?) right out of the darkest parts of the Jungian…

io9 Julie Muncy

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Yesterday as white nationalists flooded into Charlottesville, Virginia for the Unite the Right rally, headlining speaker and key organizer Richard Spencer had the time to complain on Twitter about a local restaurant supposedly refusing service to himself and the pale turds who follow his example. Embarrassingly, the restaurant simply wasn’t open. Based solely on the…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

Are we on the brink of all-out nuclear war with North Korea? Experts say no, probably not. But according to a new technical analysis of North Korea’s missile technology in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, even if it did come to that, the closest to the heartland Kim Jong Un can strike is Anchorage,…

Tech News Tom McKay

Big Hero 6 TV Show is Coming This November

Baymax and Hiro are coming to just cute up the gosh-darn heck out of Disney XD’s lineup this fall, and now we’ve got a month: November. There’s also a lovely, albeit all-too brief, new teaser. When Big Hero 6 came out in 2014, it was one of the best surprises of the past few years.…

io9 Julie Muncy

James Cameron Made Only One Change When Bringing Terminator 2 Back to Theaters

James Cameron, perfectionist that he is, seems pretty happy with Terminator 2: Judgment Day And who can blame him? It’s a stunning action film. So for the 3D theatrical re-release this month, Cameron left the film alone. Mostly. Talking to Entertainment Tonight, Cameron discusses his decision to avoid going fully George Lucas on his old…

io9 Julie Muncy

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

Episode 5 of the penultimate season of Game of Thrones will air on Sunday. As with episode 4, an outline of the script has been circulating online in what seems to be the latest leak from the huge HBO hack. And suddenly, it seems like the “cyber incident” that some people—including this blogger—thought would be…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A certain portion of the internet is freaking out over a change to an important list used by ad blockers that facilitates their function. Popular coding repository GitHub received a DMCA request (the same tool copyright holders use to remove links to pirated music and movies online) to remove a domain name from the ad…

Tech News Rhett Jones

A Short Horror Film About the Perils of Choosing the Wrong Hashtag for Your Selfie

Lounging around at home, a bored teenage girl snaps a selfie and posts it to social media with the hashtag “#homealone.” When she checks to see the reaction a few minutes later, she realizes it suddenly reads “#notalone”—and a quick search reveals the hideously grisly fate she may soon face. Sotiris Petridis and Dimitris Tsakaleas’s…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Spider-Man Spinoff Silver and Black Is Coming in February 2019

The second film in Sony’s No-Spider-Man Movie Universe now has a release date. Silver and Black, the Silver Sable/Black Cat superhero movie directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, will be released February 8, 2019. That’s just about four months after Venom, starring Tom Hardy and directed by Ruben Fleischer, hits theaters. Venom is first film in this…

io9 Germain Lussier

Watch the Sandman Fan Film That Earned Neil Gaiman’s Stamp of Approval

Even with the success of American Gods, we still may never get a Sandman movie, or even a TV series. But Neil Gaiman diehards need not despair completely, because there’s a new fan film that pays impressively exacting tribute to one of Sandman’s most brutal installments. It’s “24 Hours,” originally published in 1989, and faithfully…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Though Departed, Han Solo Still Plays a Crucial Role in The Last Jedi

One of the complaints fans had about The Force Awakens was the death of Han Solo wasn’t powerful enough. It happened too quickly and we never saw anyone process it. Well, maybe that’s because his death was so big, it’s going to reverberate into The Last Jedi too. In a new set of interviews with…

io9 Germain Lussier

Atari’s New Centipede Comic Is More Brilliant and Heartfelt Than It Has Any Business Being

Every so often, you come across a comic that throws you for the sort of loop that makes you pause a few pages in and think, “I wasn’t at all prepared for how damned good this is.” Atari and Dynamite’s new Centipede series, based on the classic 1980s video game, is definitely one of those comics.…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

If there’s one thing you should always remember about science, it’s that fact and truth are established after multiple studies converge on an answer. Even after that, further research might turn over what you thought was true of the other studies, because you were looking at it through too narrow of a lens. Single papers…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The 2017 Hugo Award Winners Are Here

The most prestigious awards in science fiction had their 2017 ceremony today, at WorldCon 75 in Helsinki, Finland—and just like last year, female creatives have swept some of the biggest awards of the event. This year’s slate of nominees, unlike the drama surrounding the 2016 and 2015 Hugos, was less impacted by the ballot-stuffing tactics…

io9 James Whitbrook

Orphan Black Creators Want to Make a Movie, but What Should It Be About?

Why Are Neo-Nazis on Twitter So Scared of Being Called Neo-Nazis?

Neo-Nazis Praise Trump’s Response to Charlottesville: ‘He Said He Loves Us All’

Video Shows How Alien: Covenant is Simply Dripping With Classic Art

Chris Hemsworth Felt Liberated By Thor’s Ragnarok Haircut

One Dead, Dozens Injured After Car Slams Counter-Protesters at White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville [Updating]

New Video Proves That One Billion DuckTales ‘Woo-oo!’s Might Be Too Many

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

Big Hero 6 TV Show is Coming This November

James Cameron Made Only One Change When Bringing Terminator 2 Back to Theaters

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A Short Horror Film About the Perils of Choosing the Wrong Hashtag for Your Selfie

The Spider-Man Spinoff Silver and Black Is Coming in February 2019

Watch the Sandman Fan Film That Earned Neil Gaiman’s Stamp of Approval

Though Departed, Han Solo Still Plays a Crucial Role in The Last Jedi

Atari’s New Centipede Comic Is More Brilliant and Heartfelt Than It Has Any Business Being

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

The 2017 Hugo Award Winners Are Here

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