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Could Ghost Rider Turn Up on Agents of SHIELD After All?

J.K. Simmons talks Justice League. A wrestler is making a guest appearance in Arrow’s next season. Gillian Anderson teases her American Gods role. Plus, new set pictures from The Dark Tower, what’s in store for Lucifer, and tons of new clips from Star Trek Beyond. To me, my Spoilers! Transformers: The Last Knight Santiago Cabrera … Continued

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Talk About Anything In the Great Game of Thrones Withdrawal Thread

Ladies and Gentlemen, for the past ten weeks io9 has set up a post-Game of Thrones chat thread for fans to feverishly ruminate on the events of the latest episode. But there is no new Game of Thrones episode to talk about this week. So let’s break from tradition and talk about, well… anything. Even … Continued

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Steven Spielberg’s BFG Is Taking a Box Office Beating

Critical reaction to Steven Spielberg’s traditional take on the Roald Dahl classic The BFG has been positive, if mostly ambivalent. The same, sadly, can’t be said for its reception at the box office, where it is setting the world on fire with all the force of the dampest squib. Reports for the first three days … Continued

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Ben Affleck Is Well On His Way to Becoming the Most Murderous Movie Batman

In the comics, one of Batman’s most sacred virtues is to never kill his foes. That’s not been the case in his cinematic incarnations, where Batman is more than happy to murder dozens of people to get the job done. The latest Batman though, even after one movie, is setting himself up to be the … Continued

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Open Channel: What Was the Last Great Movie Theme Song?

It’s been a weird time for movie theme songs lately. We had the dire Fall Out Boy/Missy Elliot Ghostbusters theme. Suicide Squad gave us an ‘unofficial’ theme that wasn’t great. Then Rihanna’s Star Trek Beyond music video has us wishing she was in the movie. But what was the last truly great movie theme song? … Continued

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Make MODOK Great Again

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s a Donald Trump MODOK eating a famous Trump Tower taco bowl. 2016 is really weird, you guys. This is from the pages of Spider-Gwen Annual #1, which came out this past week—a series of short stories set across all of the radioactive superhero’s alternate reality of Earth-65, a place where … Continued

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Attack on Titan Will Finally Return in Spring 2017

Fans of Hajime Isayama’s smash hit manga, and the wildly successful anime that it spawned in 2014, have been waiting for the show’s return to TV for over two years now—they’ve had to make do with movies, spinoff short series, and even baby-fied versions of Eren and the crew. But the wait for season 2 … Continued

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The Original Starship Enterprise Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory

The original on-screen model for Star Trek’s USS Enterprise is back in action—as much as being on display in a museum can be “action” for a spaceship. But after a long process of restoration, the ship has finally been made available for public viewing again, just in time for the show’s 50th anniversary. Following the … Continued

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Rejoice, One Punch Man Is Coming to Toonami Really Soon

The viral Japanese webcomic and manga One Punch Man was finally turned into an excellent, frequently ludicrous anime by Madhouse last year, and it was a brilliant take on over the top superhero action. But good news! It’s finally coming to the West on Adult Swim’s Toonami—and it’s coming very soon. https://kotaku.com/one-punch-man-is-superheroes-comedy-and-over-the-top-1753726268 A surprise announcement … Continued

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The Producer Behind the Ghost in the Shell Movie Finally Responds to the Casting Controversy

Ever since Paramount released the first image from the Ghost in the Shell remake, people have been up in arms at the idea of Scarlett Johansson playing the lead role of Motoko Kusanagi—the latest in a long line of Asian characters being portrayed by white actors. Three months later, the team behind the film finally … Continued

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Marvel’s The Vision Is Telling a Story Unlike Any Superhero Comic I’ve Ever Read

The Vision is one of the biggest surprises to come out of Marvel Comics in years. The company announced the android would get his own comic, just as the character was about to appear in Age of Ultron, so fans expected a light, action-y series to cater to movie fans. The Vision took that preconception … Continued

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Independence Day Resurgence‘s Unlikely Japanese Partner: Gundam Unicorn

Turns out the Independence Day sequel forgot to bring the heart alongside its lovely explosions. If only it had decided to bring some giant goddamn robots to replace it with instead. https://gizmodo.com/independence-day-resurgence-has-the-spectacle-of-the-o-1782538577 What you can see above is indeed an official trailer for Resurgence in Japan, advertising its partnership with, of all things, Mobile Suit … Continued

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And Now the Important News: How the Brexit Will Impact Game of Thrones

Winter is coming, but the Brexit is already here—the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Economists are worried. Scientists are worried. Adam from Manchester is worried, and also a complete buffoon. But so are Game of Thrones fans, as the show films across the EU. Good news, though: the show will be fine. https://gizmodo.com/british-scientists-are-flipping-out-about-brexit-1782557431 … Continued

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Japan’s New Godzilla Makes for a Beautifully Monstrous Action Figure

We’ve seen the gnarly-looking star of Shin Godzilla stomping about in the trailer and stills already, but this new Figuarts action figure of the monstrous design really gives us our best look yet at the new King of Kaiju. It also helps that it’s a fantastic-looking toy, too. https://gizmodo.com/our-first-solid-details-about-japans-next-godzilla-movi-1781981552 Part of Tamashii Nations’s ‘Monsterarts’ spin-off … Continued

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Pop Culture’s Greatest Vehicles Get Ready for a Mad Max-Style Dystopia

The iconic vehicles of film and TV—your Ecto-1s, your Deloreans, your Batmobiles and what have you—are already pretty cool. Kit them out for the Mad Max post-apocalypse though? Infinitely cooler. That’s what Scott Park did for his latest project, part of a monthly art challenge by Planet Pulp for artists to put their take on … Continued

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Hot Toys’ Force Awakens Han Solo Is the Grumpiest Harrison Ford Figure Ever Made

Look at that face. That is the face of an action figure that has had enough of this shit. Hot Toys, makers of extraordinarily detailed and expensive action figures, has finally unveiled a duo many fans were waiting for in their Force Awakens range: Han Solo and Chewbacca, older, wiser, and now 1:6th scale-ier than … Continued

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The Heath Ledger Joker-in-a-Box Is the Stuff of Nightmares

San Diego Comic-Con is getting nearer, and day by day we’re getting to see more of the exclusive goodies that will be available at the convention. Sometimes, they delight us. In this case, they scare the living bejeezus out of us. https://gizmodo.com/behold-glorious-saga-action-figures-that-will-be-nearl-1782306689 Announced by retailer Entertainment Earth as one of the many exclusive toys they’ll … Continued

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More Details About Darth Vader’s Presence in Rogue One

Legends of Tomorrow casts its new Vixen. Norman Reedus continues to hype up The Walking Dead’s gruesome return. Kevin Conroy teases the Batman’s laugh in The Killing Joke. Plus, even more casting for Spider-Man: Homecoming, behind the scenes on Doctor Who season 10, and Stephen Amell on Arrow’s future. Spoilers! Rogue One: A Star Wars … Continued

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What If Only Black People Could Get Superpowers?

A young black person gets shot by police. This time, he gets up, discovering that he’s more powerful than he ever could have imagined. Created by Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle, and Khary Randolph, BLACK—which took Kickstarter by storm earlier this year, and is now being published by Black Mask Studios—follows Kareem Jenkins, … Continued

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George R. R. Martin to Stephen King: ‘How the Fuck Do You Write So Fast?’

This entire nearly hour-long conversation between writing luminaries George R. R. Martin and Stephen King is well worth listening to in its entirety, but before that: skip to around 50:08 and hear Martin ask the one question he’s always wanted to put to King. It’s worth it. The interview comes from a recent event in … Continued