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After he’s caught in a tree during his descent and left dangling high above the ground, a paratrooper’s situation is already looking pretty precarious—and then he realizes there’s something lurking in the forest. Directed by Ben and Jacob Burghart, short Suspense lives up to its title in all the meanings of the word.
Source: io9 – Aptly Titled Short Suspense Finds Terror in the Treetops
Hopefully it’s light outside when you’re reading this because the trailer for Amazon’s Them is creepy as hell.
Source: io9 – Amazon’s New Horror Anthology Them Looks Absolutely Terrifying
Avengers: Endgame has the highest global box office gross of all time. However, only $7.4 million stands between it and James Cameron’s Avatar movie, which held the record for a full decade until Marvel eked out its win. But now Avatar is getting re-released in China, and it’s looking to regain the crown.
Source: io9 – Avatar Re-Release Spells Trouble for Avengers: Endgame’s Box Office Record
WandaVision may be over, but the merchandising has just begun. Now that we’ve all seen Wanda in her full outfit as the Scarlet Witch, companies have revealed a plethora of action figures, replicas, clothes, and more celebrating/monetizing Marvel’s new sorceress supreme. Check out all the newest WandaVision toys and…
Source: io9 – WandaVision Toys and Merch That Will Cast a Hex on Your Wallet
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, there’s bad news for fans of Solid Snake, good news for the fans of Xenomorphs, and downright weird news for the final days of Kickstarter’s third RPG Zine Quest event.
Source: io9 – Alien’s In, Metal Gear’s Out, and More of the Latest Gaming News
Fans looking forward to the universe of The Mandalorian expanding in print are going to be disappointed, as two future books centered on the Disney+ Star Wars franchise have been cancelled. But it’s not for the reason you think.
Source: io9 – Some Mandalorian Books Have Been Cancelled, But Not for the Reason You Think
Hopefully, she’s right.
Source: io9 – Game of Thrones Prequel Star Olivia Cooke Believes the Show Won’t Have ‘Egregious Violence Towards Women’
The live-action Powerpuff Girls show on the CW is a go and the three leads have just been cast.
Source: io9 – Meet Your Live-Action Powerpuff Girls
Though WandaVision was always a show about the Avengers’ Sokovian juggernaut confronting the stifling grief that’s been plaguing her since she first showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series was also the world’s introduction to Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, the now-adult daughter of Maria Rambeau who…
Source: io9 – Monica Rambeau Was WandaVision’s Real Hero, and the Show Did Her Dirty
LeSean Thomas’ first post-Cannon Busters series for Netflix has been known about for a while, but now the streamer has dropped new details about its story of a wandering warrior—voiced by LaKeith Stanfield—protecting a young girl from dark forces, as well as a first look at how it’s being brought to life.
Source: io9 – Netflix’s Yasuke Gives Us a First Look at Its Black Samurai
There’s nothing like the buzz of seeing a great film at a film festival. The mystery, the excitement, the shared experience. And though the covid-19 pandemic continues to mean in-person festivals are a no-go, it also means festival films are being viewed by a more diverse audience than ever thanks to the internet.
Source: io9 – 18 Genre Films We’re Totally Psyched for at South by Southwest 2021
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In both the original Digimon Adventure and the new reboot, each of the chosen human children brought to the Digital World to partner with a Digimon has a special emotional affinity that, when activated, helps give their Digimon the power to evolve. Some of the kids’ specialties, like Taichi’s courage and Yamata’s…
Source: io9 – The Digimon Reboot Said ‘Workers’ Rights’
Although WandaVision had no shortage of mysteries and Easter eggs, fans overthought just every aspect of the show they could, even down to some believing Mephisto, the Marvel comics universe’s analog for Satan, was lurking behind the floppy ears of Agatha’s pet rabbit Señor Scratchy. They were wrong, but it turns out…
Source: io9 – WandaVision’s Finale Nearly Featured Señor Scratchy’s Dark Secret
They’re also demon hunters. Singing demon hunters. So…where do we sign up?
Source: io9 – Sony Animation’s Next Hero Team Is a K-Pop Group
Almost like the Flash had smashed time and space, for a moment, March 8 jumped ahead and became March 18: Zack Snyder’s Justice League was on HBO Max. Then, just as quickly, it was gone.
Source: io9 – Zack Snyder’s Justice League Was Available Today on HBO Max (Briefly)
WandaVision has come to a close, and with it, Wanda Maximoff and her synthezoid paramour have been forever changed. But now that the dust’s settled on a magically messed up Westview, io9’s very own Charles Pulliam-Moore, James Whitbrook, Jill Pantozzi, and Germain Lussier created their very own grief induced…
Source: io9 – The io9 Coven Breaks Down the Highs and Lows of WandaVision
The last season of Doctor Who flipped the titular Time Lord’s script, upending the 13th Doctor as she learned shocking truths about her homeworld, her entire species, and above all, herself. But one of those shocks—the existence of a renegade past-self beyond any of the incarnations she knew about—has a lot more story…
Source: io9 – Doctor Who’s Jo Martin Reflects on the Power of Being a Black, Female Doctor
Space Jam: A New Legacy has “canceled” Pepé le Pew. You might assume a kids’ movie dropping a character whose sole characteristic is his desire to molest female characters without their consent is an unequivocally good thing, but it’s actually more complicated than you might think.
Source: io9 – Space Jam 2’s New Legacy Doesn’t Include a Certain Sexually Predatory Skunk