It’s easy to see why filmmakers love setting horror movies at boarding schools: they offer so many opportunities for unsupervised kids to endanger themselves with spooky mischief. As its title suggests, Seance shows what happens when a group of teens add “paranormal meddling” to their list of extracurriculars.
Source: io9 – In the Seance Trailer, Mean Girls and Ghosts Deploy Their Fiercest Scare Tactics
We’ve already got a modern day Dracula movie in the works. A future Dracula movie, too. Hell, Van Helsing’s getting one. So really, one might ask, why not a standalone movie for Dracula’s dominated henchman?
Source: io9 – Universal’s Latest Dracula Spinoff Has Found a New Director
Actually, the much-anticipated TV adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s first fantasy novel is making a lot of changes, including adding material from Six of Crows, a later novel set concurrently with Shadow and Bone. However, the most important and welcome change is this: Alina’s main love interest, Mal, is no longer a…
Source: io9 – Netflix’s Shadow and Bone Adaptation Has One Major Alteration: Mal Doesn’t Suck
Though the CW’s Black Lightning may be ending, the unanswered questions about characters like Khalil (Jordan Calloway) have turned out to be the network’s secret weapon in fleshing out a new chunk of a recently unified Earth Prime. While series sometimes like to be coy when they’re working backdoor pilots for spinoffs …
Source: io9 – Black Lightning’s Painkiller Backdoor Pilot Was a Much-Needed Jolt to the System
Kevin Smith has a new movie coming out but depending on who buys the NFT for it, they might be the only people who ever get to see it.
Source: io9 – Kevin Smith’s New Horror Movie Will Be Sold as an NFT, Because of Course It Will
Set in late-1930s England, with the specter of World War II looming over the landscape, Christopher Smith’s The Banishing captures plenty of doom. But unfortunately, its haunted-house tale feels like a hodgepodge of horror movies we’ve all seen before, even with intriguing period details and a few other…
Source: io9 – The Banishing Finds Plenty of Horror But Not Enough Frights
No need for hashtags this time. When Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is released by Netflix on May 21, it will be his “Snyder Cut” and SnyderVerse, all rolled into one. “This is the movie,” Snyder said during a virtual press event Tuesday. “There are no other cuts of the movie. I didn’t have to fight [Netflix]. It was…
Source: io9 – Army of the Dead Is Zack Snyder’s Full Vision, in More Ways Than One
Last year’s Hugo Awards ceremony certainly had its issues, but getting nominated for a Hugo Award is still a big deal, especially when there’s such an impressive—and diverse—set of finalists.
Source: io9 – Your 2021 Hugo Award Finalists Include The Mandalorian, The Good Place, N.K. Jemisin, Susanna Clarke, and More
Love or hate her brand of comedy, there’s no denying Melissa McCarthy is one of the most energetic, fearless actresses working today. The same goes for Octavia Spencer, an Oscar winner who can just as easily, and skillfully, jump between playing a serial killer or a rocket scientist. Put them together in a superhero…
Source: io9 – Everyone Involved With Thunder Force Deserved Better
We never thought we’d see Chris Eccleston’s beloved Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who again…and I guess we technically haven’t. However, the actor has finally returned to the role that relaunched the beloved sci-fi franchise in the new millennia, so we’ve heard the Ninth Doctor through his new Big Finish audio adventures.…
Source: io9 – Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who Return Could Mean Multi-Doctor Stories Someday
Watch Oscar Isaac practice beating the living bejesus out of people for Moon Knight. Akiva Goldsman teases where Jean-Luc is at coming into Star Trek: Picard season two. We’re already getting teases for how Dune 2 is progressing. Plus, Godzilla strikes on Netflix in June. Spoilers, away!
Source: io9 – A Black Adam Star Teases Another Familiar DC Hero in the Cast
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Take a master of horror, add a master of posters, and connect them with an iconic psychopathic killer. The result is John Carpenter’s Halloween, as reimagined by artist Tyler Stout.
Source: io9 – Poster Artist Tyler Stout Takes a Stab at John Carpenter’s Halloween
The three movies Joe Cornish has directed have been the incredible Attack the Block, the serviceable The Kid Who Would Be King, and the long-awaited upcoming adaptation of Neal Stepherson’s Snow Crash. So, sure, why not have his next movie be about an old, grumpy John Carter wannabe, who’s called in for one last…
Source: io9 – Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish Has Decided to Make Mark Millar’s Starlight Into a Movie, of All Things
HBO’s new sci-fi fantasy series The Nevers focuses on a group of (mostly) women suddenly imbued with superpowers in Victorian London. But circling around the main characters are several frenemies and outright foes—including a pair of slippery aristocrats played by Olivia Williams and Pip Torrens.
Source: io9 – The Nevers’ Olivia Williams and Pip Torrens on Playing Aristocrats Among Superheroes
It is time to put away our childish things, and those things must include Craig McCracken’s beloved 1998 animated series The Powerpuff Girls. Luckily, you should hopefully be able to pick up Powerpuff, an upcoming live-action series about young superheroes as adults—whom you meet see below.
Source: io9 – The Live-Action Powerpuff Girls TV Show Debuts the New Powerpuff Women
As long as the original Superman has had counterparts like Steel and, more recently, Final Crisis’ Calvin Ellis of Earth-23, there have been comics fans who struggled to comprehend—and often pushed back against—the idea of a Black Superman.
Source: io9 – A Brief History of DC Comics’ Black Supermen
The debate over whether or not Starfleet is a military organization, a scientific one, or a messy, often contradictory combination of both has been a part of Star Trek since it began. One thing that we can always be certain of though? It loves a wardrobe shakeup. With Discovery’s upcoming season adding yet another…
Source: io9 – The Long History of Star Trek Uniform Fashions
It would seem the director behind the long-in-limbo Metal Gear Solid movie saw one Japanese parallel for nuclear war and decided “no, there must be more.”
Source: io9 – The Live-Action Gundam Movie Taps Jordan Vogt-Roberts to Direct and Heads to Netflix
We still haven’t gotten over the fact that Dame Helen Mirren has joined DC’s Shazam movie as Hespera, the divine foe that will face down Billy Batson (Asher Angel) in both his normal and superhero forms. Now Hespera will be lent a hand by her sister Kalypso, as played by Kill Bill and Elementary star Lucy Liu.
Source: io9 – Lucy Liu Joins Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Helen Mirren’s Co-Villain