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Indiana Jones 5 Picks Up the Talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Another Lucasfilm saga to add to her ridiculously talented belt. Today Disney confirmed that Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who previously appeared as the self-righteous droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars story—will join the main cast of the still-untitled Indiana Jones 5. According to Lucasfilm, Waller-Bridge will “star alongside” the returning Harrison Ford, who of course … Continued

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Star Trek: Discovery and She-Ra Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation held their annual Media Awards ceremony last night (virtually, of course) to celebrate the fiction and nonfiction that best represents the LGBTQ community. While She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was probably a lock to win Outstanding Kids & Family Programming, Star Trek: Discovery also snagged the Best … Continued

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Updates From Black Adam, Black Widow, and More

A new Saw is in development. The 4400 reboot expands its cast. The Mortal Kombat kast assembles in a new poster. Plus, what’s next on Supergirl and Batwoman, and a sneak peek at today’s Invincible. Spoilers get! Black Adam Deadline reports Tony-nominated actor James Cusati-Moyer has joined the cast of Black Adam in a currently … Continued

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Ranking the Ghostbusters Mini-Puft Toys From Least Distressing to Infinitely Disturbing

Yesterday, a short clip from the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife introduced the Mini-Pufts, miniature versions of the classic Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man that terrorized Manhattan back in the original 1984 movie. They’re adorable…in theory, because in practice they’re tiny nightmares who live only to torture, murder, and cannibalize each other. Hasbro has revealed some of Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s … Continued

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Renée Elise Goldsberry Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s First Hamilton Alum

Looks like someone included women in the sequel after all. Deadline reports Renée Elise Goldsberry, best known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, has been cast in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ show She-Hulk. Tatiana Maslany stars as the title character, a lawyer with powers similar to that of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo, … Continued

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Godzilla vs. Kong‘s High-Speed Hollow Earth Trains Are the Dream

One of the first things that gives away how disappointing Godzilla vs. Kong’s focus on humanity will be is the way the movie seemingly foregoes any sense of internal logic, moving characters like Millie Bobby Brown’s Madison Russell from one location to another faster than a human could reasonably travel. At multiple points during Adam … Continued

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Marvel’s Avengers Campus at Disneyland Will Finally Open on June 4

Disneyland is reopening later this month, but the company will give you a few more weeks to get vaxxed before breaking out the big guns. Disney Parks just announced that Avengers Campus, the brand new Marvel-themed land at California Adventure, will officially open on June 4. It was originally supposed to open last summer but, … Continued

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LIGHTSPEED Presents: “The Equations of the Dead” by An Owomoyela

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Equations of the Dead” by An Owomoyela. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on our website. Enjoy! The Equations of the Dead The boyo working … Continued

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Joss Whedon Changed Justice League So Much, Its Screenwriter Wanted His Name Off of It

Oscar-winning writer Chris Terrio was working on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when he saw, for the first and only time, a film he was credited with writing: 2017’s Justice League, directed by Joss Whedon. “I drove to the studio and I sat down and watched it a couple of weeks before release,” Terrio … Continued

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I’ve Been Wrong About Scream 4 for 10 Years

It took me 30 minutes to remember who the killers were in Scream 4. That’s how long it had been since I’d seen it, let alone thought about it. You see, I’m a fan of the Scream franchise. I’ve seen the first three films dozens of times. Ask me about those killers and I’d spout … Continued

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Regé-Jean Page Speaks on His Reportedly Racially Motivated Rejection From Syfy’s Krypton

Among the many, many bombshells dropped in Tuesday’s revelatory, distressing Hollywood Reporter exposé on more of what Ray Fisher dealt with, both during and after Justice League, were allegations that Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page had not been cast as Superman’s grandfather Seg-El in the 2018 Syfy series Krypton because he is Black. Now, Page has … Continued

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Spider-Man Movies Will Stream on Netflix First Thanks to New Sony Deal

For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. Warner Bros. has one strategy, Disney another, and Paramount yet another. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix. After a nearly two-year auction, Netflix has secured the rights … Continued

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The Witcher Prequel Blood Origin Has Lost Its Star, Jodie Turner-Smith

Less than two months after it was announced that Queen & Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith would be playing the lead in Netflix’s upcoming prequel to its hit adaptation of The Witcher series, Turner-Smith has had to step down due to scheduling conflicts. Deadline reports that the change has come after after Blood Origin was forced … Continued

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General Grievous’ Clone Wars Debut Remains a Masterclass—But Not for the Reason You Think

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars Clone Wars micro-series is remembered—deified even—for its action. It is all killer, no filler: the dialogue is spartan, its themes layered but simple. This is Star Wars and you are here for tight, explosive, bombastic action unlike anything the franchise had dared to dream of before, and rarely would after. The … Continued

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The First Powerpuff Set Pictures Tease Some Classic Costumes

Borderlands’ cast continues to expand like some kind of talent black hole. The Tomorrow War is taking Chris Pratt to Amazon. Wynonna Earp’s finale teases good news for Wayhaughts. Plus, what’s next on For All Mankind, Black Lightning, and Nancy Drew. Spoilers, away! Borderlands Professional bodybuilder Olivier Richters has been cast as the bandit leader, Krom, … Continued

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Made For Love Is All About Escaping the Tangled Web of Other People’s Minds

Though HBO Max’s new series Made For Love, an adaptation of Alissa Nutting’s 2017 novel of the same name, is charged with the same foreboding dread about a technology-saturated near future that’s present in Black Mirror, the show imagines a hero who has enough sense to understand how messed up the world she lives in … Continued

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Voyagers‘ Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar

Voyagers, the new sci-fi film from writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent), begins with an interesting twist on a tried and true premise: Earth is screwed. Disease, climate change, and more have doomed humanity unless it can find a new home. Which, luckily, it does. The problem is it’ll take 86 years to travel there. Obviously, 86 … Continued

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An Ancient Aliens Movie Is Coming From the Guys Behind Cobra Kai

Sweep the leg? No. More like sweep the globe. For aliens. A movie based on the History Channel’s long-running, frequently memed TV show Ancient Aliens is now in the works and it’ll be directed by Josh Heald, one of the three creators of Netflix’sCobra Kai. His karate co-creators, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, will join … Continued

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Hunting for Pokémon Cards Has Become a Different Kind of Game

A few weeks back, during a particularly unremarkable late night of insomnia-fueled doomscrolling, a notification slid its way onto my phone’s screen that quickened my pulse and dilated my pupils. For the next few minutes or so—there was no way to be sure for how long—the long out-of-stock Pokémon cards that I, and other collectors … Continued

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Is Coming Back—Again

In 1997, Mike Nelson and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, watched a bad sci-fi film called The Thing That Couldn’t Die. We might as well rename the beloved TV series Mystery Series Theater 3000with the same title, because the fan-favorite show looks like it’s almost certainly going to be resurrected from … Continued