Universal has spent so long trying to get its Battlestar Galactica movie off the ground we’ve literally had an announcement about a new TV show set in its universe that’s had time to get going with its own showrunner. But now the studio is bringing the movie back to life again, with a little help of a former X-Men…
Source: io9 – Universal’s Battlestar Galactica Movie Lives Again, With X-Men’s Simon Kinberg
Roald Dahl’s The Witches was terrifying as both a novel and as a high-camp ‘90s horror-comedy. It presented, quite frankly, a world full of child-hating witches whose sole purpose in life was to exterminate young people. Robert Zemeckis’ new adaptation of the story is far sillier than any of its predecessors, but it…
Source: io9 – The Witches Remake Is a Silly Comedy for Kids Who Aren’t Afraid of the Dark
Director Tim Burton is the master of creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky. Now, his next project may be bringing all of those things together. Burton is reportedly attached to produce, and possibly direct, a live-action TV reboot of The Addams Family.
Source: io9 – Tim Burton’s Planned Addams Family TV Show Sounds All Together Ooky
Everyone has a Weird Al memory—whether it was hearing a song of his while you were growing up, watching a video on MTV, or just a general knowledge of his persona, Weird Al Yankovic is undoubtedly an icon. But if you start comparing memories, one man has more than anyone…besides maybe Al himself. It’s Jon Schwartz,…
Source: io9 – Weird Al’s Sci-Fi Roots as Told to Us by His Long Time Drummer and Photographer
The novel coronavirus pandemic has reshaped the entertainment industry as we know it, with 2020 seeing countless movies and TV shows delayed. It can be hard to keep track of them all, so we’ve created this list of movie release changes (and delays) due to covid-19.
Source: io9 – 2020 and Beyond: The Ever-Shifting Movie Release Dates Due to the Coronavirus
The Skyline franchise is delivering on the promise other sci-fi franchises have not. Aliens invaded Earth and we won. But now, humans are heading to the alien planet to end things once and for all.
Source: io9 – The First Trailer for Skyline 3 Is Here and Earth Is Taking the Fight to Space
Pokémon. It’s the biggest multimedia franchise on the planet. Everyone knows what a Pikachu is. The Pokéball, a red-and-white sphere bisected by a black line, is immediately recognizable to even your most out-of-touch aunts and uncles. But it all started with a game: 1996’s Pokémon Red and Blue versions, for…
Source: io9 – All The Big Pokémon Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
Brendez Wineglass, a 12-year-old Black girl wearing dainty earrings and a broad grin, had a very simple plan for a more just and common-sense future, mirroring that of many children living under the tyranny of sensible bedtimes, mandatory vegetable consumption, and the kid’s table at Thanksgiving. Wineglass was…
Source: io9 – Revisiting Nickellennium, The Millennial Time Capsule of a Brighter World That Never Came
Scream 5 could be doing something very interesting with its classic Ghostface iconography. Star Trek: Picard might go back to back to produce its next two seasons. Elizabeth Olsen says WandaVision will tackle mental health and trauma. Plus, new set pictures from The Witcher’s second season. Spoilers now!
Source: io9 – The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wants to Bring Back Early MCU Characters and Make Them ‘Cooler’
Netflix’s revival of 1990s-2000s TV staple Unsolved Mysteries just dropped its second season, and while there’s no word yet on more episodes to come (fingers crossed!), there is some Unsolved Mysteries-related news today: the show is getting its own tie-in podcast.
Source: io9 – Unsolved Mysteries Somehow Didn’t Have a Podcast Before, But Is Getting One Now
Twenty-two years ago today, Deep Space Nine—at the height of its dark, complex, morally nuanced depiction of war, and the impact it has on utopia—delivered a poignant message about the concept of accepting loss. It did so in a comedy holodeck baseball game, and the result cemented itself as one of the all-time greatest
Source: io9 – Death to the Opposition: Joy, Loss, and Baseball in Deep Space Nine’s Most Endearing Episode
Proving you don’t need a notable anniversary of the original film to release new Ghostbusters merchandise, Reebok’s new Ghost Smashers sneakers look like something straight out of Egon’s lab with what appears to be proton pack hardware strapped to the back, and a pre-worn finish because ghostbusting isn’t pretty.
Source: io9 – Reebok’s New Ghostbusters Sneakers Look Like They’ve Already Been Through a Few Ghost Battles
Monkey Punch’s beloved gentleman thief has been an animated icon for decades, giving us oodles of cinematic and small screen escapades. But Lupin’s latest heist is an epic unlike anything he’s done before, and not just because he’s been stunningly realized in a whole new medium.
Source: io9 – Lupin III: The First Is a Gorgeous Adventure About Finding Family and Punching Nazis
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any more bonkers, Jared Leto’s Joker is making a very unexpected comeback.
Source: io9 – Jared Leto’s Joker Is Joining the Snyder Cut of Justice League
No one can escape spooky season, not even Star Wars. While there are plenty of frightful things in the galaxy far, far away—the Dark Side and the Sith, the Empire and the First Order, when you watch your idealized Jedi savior just casually swig milk straight from an alien teat—Star Wars has a legacy of turning to …
Source: io9 – Star Wars’ Universal Monsters
Happy Back to the Future Day, a time when we celebrate one of the greatest movie trilogies ever—and look back at all of those times we totally could’ve used a DeLorean to change our own family history.
Source: io9 – What Year Would You Back to the Future To?
Going to Batuu virtually beats trying to go to a Disney park right now. But the new Star Wars VR game is letting you do so much more than just check out the wait lines at a theme park. Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB have dropped a new teaser for the upcoming Tales from Galaxy’s Edge VR game, which looks, mechanically at…
Source: io9 – Star Wars’ Tales From Galaxy’s Edge Trailer Puts You in Black Spire Outpost and Beyond
This isn’t your daddy’s Animaniacs—because, I hate to break it to you, you’re the daddy now. Hulu has released the first full trailer for The Animaniacs reboot, which brings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot into the 2020s to remind of us our long-ago nostalgia, and add a little bit more of it to our strange new reality.
Source: io9 – The Animaniacs Reboot Tackles Trump, Tinder, and Mansplaining in Its Zany Debut Trailer
Long ago, the four nations (and dragons) lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when an “evil force” attacked. Disney has released the first trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, a fantasy epic that stars Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran as the only person who can save her world—though I don’t imagine it will involve…
Source: io9 – Kelly Marie Tran Goes on an Epic Quest in Raya and the Last Dragon’s Trailer
