J.K. Simmons

Hey Tomorrow War, WTF Is This?

I woke up this morning very excited to see the first footage from The Tomorrow War, the new Chris Pratt sci-fi action film directed by Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Movie). Everything we’d heard about it over the years made it sound like one of those mega-blockbusters we love to geek out about—Independence Day, Jurassic…

Trailers Germain Lussier Apr 28

Black Adam Sets Its Sights on 2022

The Paranormal Activity reboot has found its stars. Killer Frost gets framed in what’s to come on The Flash. Wynonna Earp enters its endgame. Plus, what’s to come on The Walking Dead, and the Enchanted sequel has recruited some familiar faces. To me, my spoilers! Black Adam Dwayne Johnson elaborately took over Times Square to…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Mar 29

The First Invincible Teaser Has the Most Epic Game of Catch Ever

Fans have been waiting to see Invincible explode out of the comics and onto a screen for what feels like forever. Now, finally, at New York Comic Con 2020, co-creator Robert Kirkman revealed the first teaser trailer for the animated adaptation, which comes to Amazon in 2021. Invincible follows teenager Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven…

io9 Germain Lussier Oct 8

J.K. Simmons Hopes to Play J. Jonah Jameson For a Long Time

Jai Courtney talks the shifting dynamics of The Suicide Squad. Rob Paulsen teases what and what not to expect from The Animaniacs’ return. Filming has begun on Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season. Plus, a gory clip from Raised By Wolves, and more looks at Helstrom. Spoilers now! Spider-Man 3 In a recent interview with Collider,…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Sep 24

Spider-Man 2 Is a Perfect Sequel

So many follow-ups to successful movies stumble as they chase spectacle at the cost of forgetting what really made their predecessor work in the first place. Sam Raimi’s sophomore Spider-Man movie aimed much higher and bigger than his first movie ever could, in part because of just how keenly it understood Marvel’s mightiest hero. In…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 14

Palm Springs Is an Excellent Time Loop Romance Fueled by Adorable Awkwardness

Take Groundhog Day, sprinkle in the Lonely Island, and add a bunch of heart, and you have Palm Springs, an excellent new film debuting on Hulu Friday. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star as two strangers who find themselves stuck reliving a mutual acquaintance’s Palm Springs wedding day over and over again while also, maybe,…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 8

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Is a Cautionary Tale About the Power Men Wield

We, and Peter Parker, have heard it a zillion times before: with great power, comes great responsibility. The watchwords of Stan Lee are suffused into the very fabric of who Spider-Man is as a character, and how Sam Raimi brought him to the big screen in 2002 is no exception. But Raimi’s first swing with…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 7

J.K. Simmons Could Appear in More Spider-Man Films, But He Doesn’t Have To

It should come to the surprise of absolutely no one that J.K. Simmons’ return as cantankerous journalist J. Jonah Jameson was a prelude to further plans with the character. But yes, Simmons has confirmed he’s there if the SPUMC wants him —but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll have to be in future Spidey movies. Simmons’ recent…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 1

The Underrated Series Counterpart Has New Resonance in the Time of Coronavirus

Speculative fiction is often just that—speculative. Sometimes it’s an effective metaphor for real-world issues. Oftentimes it imagines a world drastically different from our own. But sometimes sci-fi of the past takes on chilling new meaning in the present. Such is the case now with tales of pandemics, stories of widespread disease that we always knew…

io9 Emily Rome Apr 10

J. Jonah Jameson and the 2019 Version of Spider-Man’s Daily Bugle Has Arrived

Spider-Man and the Daily Bugle go together like Superman and the Daily Planet or Iron Man and Stark Industries. It’s simply the place the hero always works. Well, considering digital media, YouTube, and so on are all the rage now, our “new” live-action J. Jonah Jameson had to get with the times. The Tom Holland…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 25

One of Far From Home‘s Shocking Twists Introduces a Key Aspect of Spider-Man’s Lore

Unlike Spider-Man: Homecoming, which did a solid job of rethinking characters from the comics in new ways in order to make yet another Peter Parker-centric story feel fresh for the big screen, Far From Home amps things up by cleaving ever-so-slightly closer to the source material. And it does so in ways both big and small.…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 8

The Voice Cast for Robert Kirkman’s Invincible Is Unbelievable

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is not messing around with the voice cast for his upcoming Amazon animated series, Invincible. Are you ready for this? The show will include the voices of Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), J.K. Simmons (Counterpart), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Andrew Rannells (Girls),…

io9 Germain Lussier Jan 31

The First Counterpart Season 2 Trailer Reveals New Faces and Old Problems

The Starz show Counterpart is about a world that exists next to another, identical world. Well, almost. There’s the dimension we take to be the real one in addition to an alternate version where people look just like us, but have an entirely different agenda. When season two of the show kicks off, the main…

Trailers Germain Lussier Oct 15

The First Teaser For J.K. Simmons’ New Scifi Show Couldn’t Have Less Scifi in It

The pitch is exciting: Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, an amazing actor we’d pay to see in anything, stars in an espionage show that takes place across parallel universes. Boom, done, sign us up, right? Wrong. That’s the pitch for a new Starz show called Counterpart. Now, there’s every chance that when the show actually airs…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 30

Holy Crap, J.K. Simmons Is Playing Commissioner Gordon in the Justice League Movie

The world might have lost its greatest J. Jonah Jameson, but at least it found itself a Commissioner Gordon that can top Gary Oldman: J.K. Simmons has been cast as Jim Gordon in DC and Warner Bros.’ Justice League duology. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, which is obviously great. Not only is J.K. Simmons…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 7

Marvel is bringing Hulk, sexy super-spies, and Luke Cage to your TV screens!

In Marvel’s live-action TV projects, Hulk returns to his beginnings, super-spy Mockingbird and Cloak & Dagger get their own shows, and A.K.A. Jessica Jones introduces Luke Cage and Miss Marvel. Plus the animated return of J.K. Simmons’s J. Jonah Jameson! Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb confirmed that four projects are currently in development: Hulk and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 23

Hey Tomorrow War, WTF Is This?

Black Adam Sets Its Sights on 2022

The First Invincible Teaser Has the Most Epic Game of Catch Ever

J.K. Simmons Hopes to Play J. Jonah Jameson For a Long Time

Spider-Man 2 Is a Perfect Sequel

Palm Springs Is an Excellent Time Loop Romance Fueled by Adorable Awkwardness

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Is a Cautionary Tale About the Power Men Wield

J.K. Simmons Could Appear in More Spider-Man Films, But He Doesn’t Have To

The Underrated Series Counterpart Has New Resonance in the Time of Coronavirus

J. Jonah Jameson and the 2019 Version of Spider-Man’s Daily Bugle Has Arrived

One of Far From Home‘s Shocking Twists Introduces a Key Aspect of Spider-Man’s Lore

The Voice Cast for Robert Kirkman’s Invincible Is Unbelievable

The First Counterpart Season 2 Trailer Reveals New Faces and Old Problems

The First Teaser For J.K. Simmons’ New Scifi Show Couldn’t Have Less Scifi in It

Holy Crap, J.K. Simmons Is Playing Commissioner Gordon in the Justice League Movie

Marvel is bringing Hulk, sexy super-spies, and Luke Cage to your TV screens!

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