io9’s Top 100 Posts of 2024

Years travel and go, but blogs? Blogs are forever. As 2024 comes to an end, revisit the precise champion of the thousands of posts io9 produced this year—from the biggest breaking quality to captious investigation of the latest TV shows, films, games, and more—with the apical 100 stories you each work and shared the astir successful the past 12 months. From everyone present astatine io9, convey you for sticking with us. Here’s to different year, and galore much to come, of posting!

100) 8 Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books to Read Ahead of Their Adaptations

Since its earliest days, Hollywood has been fond of adapting books for the screen—and successful caller years, sci-fi, fantasy, and fearfulness books have go adjacent much fashionable with screenwriters and studios. io9 has done several lists like this in the past (there’s inactive clip to read Mickey7 before Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson’s Mickey 17 comes retired adjacent year!), but determination are ever imaginable caller movie and TV projects being announced. [Read much here]

99) Looking Back astatine When Star Trek Made Its Own Galaxy’s Edge

This month, Disney is celebrating the Season of the Force at its taxable parks—new additions to Star Tours, quality tweaks at Galaxy’s Edge, and more merch and snacks than you tin question a lightsaber at. It’s the apex of what the institution has done with Star Wars astatine the parks truthful far… but a agelong clip ago, successful a postulation person to home, the different Star franchise of our hearts did its ain bang up job. [Read much here]

98) Optimus Prime Gets an Ultra Update successful New Transformers HasLab Project

In the satellite of Transformers, Optimus Prime is the guy. The accepted person of the Autobots is the most fashionable character in the full franchise and for bully reason. He rules. You’d ideate it couldn’t get overmuch bigger than him, but acknowledgment to Hasbro, Prime is astir to get a batch bigger. [Read much here]

97) I Finally Watched The Last Airbender, and It… Wasn’t Worth It

Adaptations can beryllium tricky, peculiarly erstwhile the root worldly is animated. More often than not, they’re reviled upon reveal, due to the fact that they often consciousness similar they’re going done the motions oregon twisting the archetypal happening into thing it’s not. It tin beryllium a dismal imaginable to spot thing you grew up with suffer its identity, and things get adjacent worse erstwhile you can’t truly fto it go. [Read much here]

96) Star Trek Is Quite Different successful the World of For All Mankind

In a definite way, the unthinkable Apple TV+ show For All Mankind tin beryllium looked astatine arsenic an unofficial precursor to Star Trek. Both shows ideate an alternate world wherever events successful the past made it truthful exertion and abstraction question continued to make passim our lifetimes. But portion Star Trek starts successful the future, connected For All Mankind, we spot that past. We took the moon, we took Mars, and we’re inactive going. If you displacement that communicative a fewer 100 years into the future, you tin easy ideate a Starfleet made up of ships with warp drives. [Read much here]

95) Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Should Have Been Out This Weekend

Last year’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ended connected a somewhat down note: Miles Morales was trapped connected Earth-42, chained up by that universe’s mentation of himself, who’s operating arsenic the caller Prowler alongside his still-alive Uncle Aaron. Gwen Stacy, meanwhile, had rounded up her ain squad of Spider-heroes to spell find him crossed the multiverse, conscionable arsenic an amped-up Spot had made his mode backmost to Miles’ location magnitude truthful helium could devour it. That “To Be Continued…” paper deed like a gut punch, but 1 alleviated by the information that astatine the time, follow-up Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse was little than a twelvemonth away. [Read much here]

94) Severance Reveals Its Return Date and a Tantalizing First Clip

Severance fans person been dangling connected that agonizing cliffhanger since April 2022, and there’s a spot much of a hold to spell until season two—but astatine slightest we cognize precisely erstwhile it’s coming. Apple TV+ has conscionable announced that its quirky, Emmy-winning sci-fi thriller volition instrumentality Friday, January 17, 2025, and shared immoderate appropriately mysterious footage from the caller season. [Read much here]

93) Umbrella Academy Season 4 Finally Has a Premiere Date

Who’s acceptable for different apocalyptic summer? Fans haven’t seen The Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves family since season three’s space-time chaos arrived successful June 2022—but we present know the 4th and last season volition yet deed Netflix globally connected August 8. [Read much here]

92) Lego’s April Releases Roll for Initiative

After a mates of bumper months—and with eyes looking up to next month’s celebration of Star Wars Day—Lego is keeping things a small much quiescent successful April. But that doesn’t mean determination aren’t immoderate large kits… and 2 precise big, precise peculiar ones. [Read much here]

91) Hasbro’s New Deadpool and Wolverine Figures Are Not Deadpool & Wolverine Figures

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Truly, it is the week of “here is merchandise featuring Deadpool and Wolverine, but it’s decidedly not Deadpool & Wolverine merchandise, due to the fact that licensing takes time.” Just aft we got to spot some rad Logan and Wade art, Hasbro has announced 2 updated movie figures of the irascible mutant duo… but it’s mostly truthful you person thing to clasp you implicit until actual Deadpool & Wolverine toys happen. [Read much here]

90) 10 Recent Horror Movies Streaming connected Hulu

Winter weather is a large crushed not to permission the couch—so wherefore not crank up the heat, heap connected immoderate blankets, and seek chills successful your entertainment instead? Hulu’s got a large enactment of recent horror films streaming close now, truthful present are 10 to get you started. [Read much here]

89) Discovery Is Opening Star Trek‘s Biggest Pandora’s Box

This week, Star Trek: Discovery kicked disconnected its last season with a bold adventure—one with intimate ties to a classic Star Trek: The Next Generation story nary different amusement successful the franchise has dared to travel up on. In doing so, it’s opening up the kinds of opportunities that only Discovery truly can—but it requires a delicate balancing enactment successful the process. [Read much here]

88) The Walking Dead Just Won’t Die

The zombie plague mightiness beryllium a spot of a MacGuffin successful AMC’s The Walking Dead—you know, due to the fact that the existent play comes from struggle betwixt humans—but that life-after-death taxable present applies to the franchise too. After 11 seasons of the main series, positive 5 erstwhile spin-offs, the latest entry, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, is shaping up to beryllium a ratings smash. [Read much here]

87) In Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2’s New Trailer, Voyager Flies Again

There’s definitely a definite song that could beryllium sung about the road Star Trek: Prodigy’s 2nd play volition person taken to our eyeballs by the clip we get to watch it connected July 1. But present we person our archetypal extended look astatine Prodigy’s sophomore season, I mostly conscionable find myself whistling the Voyager taxable song instead. [Read much here]

86) September’s Lego Releases Take Us to Hyrule and Halloween Town

After August’s Lego deluge, September is looking comparatively quiescent for the brickbuilder… extracurricular of 2 monolithic sets successful particular, that is. [Read much here]

85) San Diego Comic-Con 2024: 10 Winners and 5 Losers From This Year’s Event

San Diego Comic-Con 2024 was astir arsenic adjacent to the Comic-Con of aged arsenic it could perchance be. Last year, the writers’ and actors’ strikes put a spot of a damper on some of the event’s prestige, but that was backmost and much successful 2024. Huge drone shows, large movie premieres, monolithic celebrities, and big-time quality were each backmost connected the menu—and that was conscionable from Marvel Studios. [Read much here]

84) Colin Farrell Hated Filming That Penguin Finale Scene arsenic Much arsenic You Did Watching It

While The Penguin‘s finale was filled with twists and turns arsenic the bid cemented its spot successful comic publication TV royalty, possibly it’s unsurprising to larn that prima Colin Farrell had a unspeakable clip making it. No prosthetic wang needed this clip to marque things miserable, but alternatively the sheer fearfulness of having to enactment done 1 of the series’ darkest moments. [Read much here]

83) Netflix Cracks Down connected Discord to ID the Person Behind the ‘Worst Leak successful Streaming History’

Back successful August, Netflix suffered from a monolithic leak that saw afloat episodes of shows like Arcane, Terminator Zero, and Ranma 1/2 leak online up of their authoritative release. At the time, Netflix released an authoritative connection saying it was “actively taking action” against the perpetrator of the leaks, and present the streamer has acceptable its sights connected Discord to unveil the perpetrator down the leaks. [Read much here]

82) The Boys Completes Its Supernatural Infinity Stones With Jared Padalecki

Supernatural’s Jared Padelecki confirmed he’s yet acceptable to marque an quality on The Boys pursuing the CW’s caller cancelation of the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot. [Read much here]

81) Hasbro Is Selling Power Rangers‘ History, and No One’s Happy About It

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Last year, Power Rangers: Cosmic Fury brought a definitive extremity to the 30-year TV (and films, comics, etc) saga that began each the mode backmost with Mighty Morphin in 1993. While the future of the franchise is presently up successful the grid, its past is being enactment to furniture successful the worst mode possible. [Read much here]

80) 10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars

Oscar nominations volition beryllium announced aboriginal this month, and Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Barbie’s Margot Robbie are each but guaranteed to beryllium successful the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once swept 3 of the 4 acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and phantasy films, whose stars don’t ever get attraction they merit (same goes for horror; check retired our database of caller fearfulness snubs here), person afloat entered into the realm of Academy Award prestige. [Read much here]

79) Deadpool 3 Set Pictures Tease a Multiverse of Madness

The Minecraft movie formed continues to turn weirder and weirder. Get a look astatine the stars of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender successful caller posters. Halo teases the combat for Reach successful a caller trailer. Plus, James Gunn talks Superman: Legacy’s summation of the Authority. Spoilers get! [Read much here]

78) Crunchyroll Will Start Paywalling One Piece Anime Arcs Behind Premium Subscriptions

Earlier today, Crunchyroll announced that it volition soon beryllium paywalling circumstantial arcs of the megapopular One Piece anime arc connected the streamer for premium subscribers. [Read much here]

77) Stellan Skarsgård Went Through Hell Playing Baron Harkonnen

Playing a relation wherever your assemblage is artificially enlarged, you’re perpetually attached to tubes, and you walk ample portions successful a enigma liquid is evidently not easy. But that’s precisely what Stellan Skarsgård had to bash not once, but twice, to play the evil Baron Harkonnen successful Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films. And portion the histrion admitted the process was “hell,” it seems arsenic if it was worthy it. [Read much here]

76) Lego’s 25th Anniversary Star Wars Sets Deliver Ships, Droids, and a Must-Have Minifigure

In 1999, Star Wars changed the satellite each implicit again with the commencement of the prequel trilogy in The Phantom Menace—and changed the artifact satellite each implicit again too. Not conscionable with its ain enactment figures though: 1999 saw Lego uncover its precise archetypal licensed subset successful Lego Star Wars, and has been pillaging our savings with awesome toys ever since. So, to people the 25th day of it all, the institution is… well, pillaging those savings each implicit again. [Read much here]

75) Sonic 3 Confirms a Major Character Casting

Wes Ball details the mounting for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. New acceptable pictures uncover Disney’s live-action instrumentality connected Lilo & Stitch. Plus, different Marvel Netflix prima wants to marque a instrumentality for Daredevil: Born Again. Spoilers, away! [Read much here]

74) Borderlands‘ First Clip Is a Bunch of Bloodless Bull(et)crap

Gearbox’s Borderlands games are known for rather a fewer things, but the biggest among those is arguably its consciousness of humor. It was Borderlands 2 wherever the franchise’s consciousness of drama truly took shape, and the bid has since been littered with wit mostly successful the vein of crass oregon net humor. No astonishment past that carries implicit to the live-action film, whose archetypal clip is…well, it is what it is. [Read much here]

73) The Acolyte Ends arsenic the Rot Within Becomes the Rot Without

“Power corrupts, and erstwhile you’re successful charge, you commencement doing things that you deliberation are right, but they’re really not,” George Lucas erstwhile said successful a 2005 interrogation with Wired, heralding the extremity of the Star Wars prequel trilogy—seemingly astatine the time, with Star Wars at all—in Revenge of the Sith. The movie gave america the fall of the Republic, the autumn of the Jedi Order: the twilight of a aureate property wrought by a bid of choices, idiosyncratic and systemic, that saw grasps connected powerfulness gaffe and and tighten connected each sides of its struggle until adjacent its eventual survivors were near everlastingly scarred successful immoderate signifier oregon another. [Read much here]

72) Lego’s Nightmare Before Christmas Set Comes With a Perfectly Long-Legged Jack Skellington

When Lego archetypal confirmed that it would beryllium taking a fan-designed Nightmare Before Christmas pitch from its “Lego Ideas” crowdsourcing platform and turning it into an authoritative set, determination were immoderate absorbing questions arsenic to however the brick-builder was going to instrumentality the unsocial shapes and aesthetics of Henry Selick’s animated classic and render them successful artifact form. Well, present we know, and the effect is beauteous genius. [Read much here]

71) Disney’s New Tangled Ride Has to Be Seen to Be Believed

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Here’s our archetypal look wrong Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival, a caller acheronian thrust at Tokyo DisneySea’s Fantasy Springs based connected Disney Animation’s Tangled. The attraction is simply a vessel thrust not dissimilar Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you done the communicative of Rapunzel’s imagination to spot the floating lanterns glow—and observe that her “mother” kidnapped her to usage her magical agelong hairsbreadth for eternal youth, and that possibly she’s her kingdom’s mislaid princess. [Read much here]

70) Alex Garland’s Controversial Civil War Is Now Playing astatine Home

One of the year’s champion and most polarizing movies just made its mode home. Alex Garland’s Civil War, the terrifying near-future thriller about a United States that’s nary longer truthful united, is present disposable connected demand. It grossed astir $70 cardinal domestically, which means plenty of movie fans saw it, but adjacent much didn’t. So now, if you were connected the fence, you tin cheque it retired successful the comfortableness of your ain home. [Read much here]

69) It’s Time for Power Rangers to Morph Into Something New

The Power Rangers have been doing their happening for decades, but caller times person been benignant of each implicit the place. While the Boom! comics have been going for astir a decennary successful the Mighty Morphin clip play nether a rotating roster of creators, Hasbro hasn’t done a batch with the larger property. But a caller opening is seemingly successful store for the Rangers, truthful let’s unpack what’s happening, shall we? [Read much here]

68) House of the Dragon Director Breaks Down Alicent’s Big, Silent Moment of Horror

House of the Dragon‘s astir memorable moments thin to beryllium flashy, (quite literally) fiery, and changeable done with agonizing violence. There was plentifulness of that in past week’s episode, but episode five, “Regent,” which aired past night, gave america 1 of the astir almighty reactions we’ve ever seen connected the show—and besides 1 of the quietest. In a caller interview, “Regent” manager Clare Kilner discussed however it each came together. [Read much here]

67) The Best Mutant Movie of the Year Has a New Trailer

When Marvel’s mutant-filled movie Deadpool 3 hits theaters successful July, we’re assured it’ll beryllium great. However, nary substance however amazing that monolithic film ends up being, we’re going to stake manager Thomas Cailley’s caller film, The Animal Kingdom, ends up being the champion mutant movie of the year. It’s retired successful March and io9 has your exclusive look astatine its marque caller trailer. [Read much here]

66) Kurt Russell Offers His Own Take connected The Thing’s Enigmatic Ending

During Kurt Russell’s acting retrospective for GQ, the famed histrion gave his thoughts connected the ever-constant statement of which subsister is the Thing astatine the extremity of John Carpenter’s The Thing. During the shoot, what would beryllium shown of the divisive ending was a substance of contention adjacent for Carpenter himself, who present swears he’s the lone 1 who knows who the Thing is—even though manager of photography Dean Cundey has claimed the reply is successful the eyes of the last 2 near standing. [Read much here]

65) Godzilla Minus One Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger successful the US

Ever since Godzilla Minus One came to North America successful December, it’s been raking successful currency and catching assemblage attention. Either connected its ain merits oregon becausethe Monsterverse movies have helped support him successful folks’ minds implicit the past fewer years, there’s a larger Godzilla fever that made Minus One’s reception and turnout a pleasant surprise. And arsenic of this weekend, it’s present crossed a caller milestone and deed a caller benchmark for Japanese-made films successful the U.S. [Read much here]

64) Lego’s Tribute to Batman: The Animated Series Is a Stylish City Skyline

Lego has, of course, done plenty of Batman sets in its time. But however bash you seizure the unsocial aesthetic of 1 of the character’s astir iconic adaptations—the legendary Batman: The Animated Series—in ceramic form? It’s not the accepted play acceptable immoderate mightiness person hoped for, but this caller physique is astir apt astir arsenic bully arsenic you tin get. [Read much here]

63) 10 Years Ago Today, Star Wars Changed Forever

Arguably the astir important, game-changing lawsuit successful the past of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years agone today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe was being pushed aside. All aboriginal storytelling would beryllium portion of the same, cohesive canon, and the EU stories fans knew and loved implicit the years would go disconnected “Legends.” [Read much here]

62) 30 Years Ago Today, Deep Space Nine Made Star Trek‘s Deadliest Threat Clear

There is simply a batch to emotion astir Deep Space Nine earlier it punctuation unquote “Gets Good.” The show’s first 2 seasons are, successful a batch of ways, astir the things galore praise DS9’s backmost fractional for dealing with: the outgo of compromising Star Trek’s utopian future on the furthest fringes of its last frontier. But adjacent then, fewer things prepared its assemblage for the infinitesimal everything changed with the accomplishment of the Dominion War. [Read much here]

61) Steven Spielberg’s New Movie Will Battle Avengers and Star Wars

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Forty years to the time aft Steven Spielberg sent Indiana Jones connected a excavation cart chase, he’s chasing his adjacent movie, and it sounds similar a biggie. The legendary manager conscionable acceptable May 15, 2026 for the release of his caller movie, which is being described arsenic a “new archetypal lawsuit film.” David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds for Spielberg, is penning the publication based an thought by Spielberg himself. [Read much here]

60) Doctor Who‘s New Streaming Home Has Been a Huge Success

To observe Doctor Who’s 60th day past year, the BBC made a huge, unprecedented move: for the archetypal time, almost the entirety of Doctor Who, from episodes from 1963 each the mode up to the then-airing day specials, would beryllium made disposable to watercourse successful the UK successful 1 place, connected the BBC’s ain streaming level iPlayer. And it turns retired doing truthful has helped the BBC interruption streaming records implicit the festive period. [Read much here]

59) I Must Not Fear the Dune: Part Two Wormussy Popcorn Bucket

Everything astir the moviegoing experience is merchandisable, and agelong has been. But the rising inclination of progressively analyzable and elaborate collectible popcorn buckets mightiness person yet reached the apex with Dune: Part Two, which invites you to spot your manus successful a precise antithetic benignant of Gom Jabbar test. [Read much here]

58) Inside Out 2 Becomes First Animated Film to Earn $1 Billion

Variety reports Inside Out 2 has present “surpassed $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office,” becoming the archetypal animated movie successful past to bash so. [Read much here]

57) Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trapped the MCU successful a Machine of Its Own Making

Back successful the early Marvel Cinematic Universe days, the 2nd movies of a sub-franchise weren’t overmuch to constitute location about. Both Iron Man 2 successful 2010 and 2013’s Thor: The Dark World felt similar unremarkable sequels compared to their predecessors, hamstrung by being fast-tracked earlier they were acceptable oregon conscionable not doing overmuch beyond offering immoderate airy spectacle. [Read much here]

56) 2024 Is a Hell of a Year successful Star Trek History

The twelvemonth 2024 is shaping up to beryllium coagulated for Star Trek successful our ain reality—we’ve got the final play of Discovery, enactment is underway on Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 film, and we’ve got the aboriginal of Strange New Worlds, Prodigy, and Lower Decks to look towards (and maybe adjacent more?). But successful Star Trek itself, this twelvemonth is… well, it’s not great. [Read much here]

55) Glasgow Worldcon Apologizes for ‘Damage’ Caused by 2023 Hugo Awards Controversy

You’d deliberation the biggest headlines surrounding an yearly solemnisation of sci-fi and phantasy penning would be applauding the winners—but that’s not always the case with the Hugos. Its latest contention involves works being deemed “not eligible” for consideration at the 2023 event, which was presented by Chengdu Worldcon successful Chengdu, China. Now, we person a interaction much clarity astir what happened—and an apology from the enactment arsenic it looks to the future. [Read much here]

54) 10 More Amazing Sci-Fi Shows to Watch connected Amazon Prime

This week brought the quality that each 4 seasons, positive the miniseries and the made-for-TV movie, of the Battlestar Galactica revival are present easy accessible connected Amazon Prime. That summation means the streamer—which is already an fantabulous destination for sci-fi films—has adjacent much crushed to lure successful fans of deep-space shenanigans, wasteland adventures, and alien encounters. [Read much here]

53) 10 Essential Giallo Movies to Watch connected Shudder to Understand True Horror

What is a giallo, and wherefore should you ticker one? io9 has antecedently covered that question in detail, but the speedy reply is: these vintage European, horror-adjacent thrillers present benignant and sleaze successful adjacent measures. Looking for coherent plots and susceptible acting? Keep it moving. But for lurid bully times that precise overmuch bespeak the epoch successful which they were made, these Shudder titles person you covered. [Read much here]

52) Mads Is a One-Shot Rollercoaster Ride Through a Deadly Outbreak

We’ve each seen movies that amusement the beginning of an outbreak. Viral, zombie, nary substance which it is, the outbreak ever starts with 1 idiosyncratic and past rapidly spreads everywhere. What you astir apt haven’t seen, though, is that communicative told successful real-time without edits, pursuing a radical of friends connected what was expected to beryllium a amusive nighttime retired that turns into an absolute nightmare. [Read much here]

51) How the Finale of the Dungeons & Dragons ’80s Cartoon Became a Pop-Culture Mystery

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Hasbro’s multitude of celebrations marking the 50th day of Dungeons & Dragons see streaming the fan-favorite 1980s D&D cartoon connected the 24/7 Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures FAST channel. The animated series, contempt a comparatively abbreviated tally of 3 seasons and 27 episodes, has go a phantasy genre classic. The engaging storytelling and acheronian themes greatly influenced aboriginal media—and the characters were truthful memorable, 40 years aboriginal they caused a societal media frenzy erstwhile their live-action counterparts made an unexpected cameo in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. [Read much here]

50) One of the Most Important Sci-Fi Shows of the 21st Century Is Finally Easy to Stream Again

Just similar having to leap distant each clip the Cylons amusement up, Battlestar Galactica has agelong had a spot of a unsmooth clip having a unchangeable location connected streaming—perhaps each excessively thematically potent a reminder of the pitfalls of streaming’s dominance over carnal media successful the past fewer years. But if you haven’t snagged a bully Blu-ray transcript yet, past bully news: Battlestar Galactica is taking a small clip betwixt jumps on Amazon Prime. [Read much here]

49) 13 Must-Watch Cult Movies That Make Tubi the Underrated King of Free Streaming

With nearly each large service committed to regular terms hikes, there’s ne'er been a amended clip to cheque out free, ad-supported streamers like Tubi. But with truthful overmuch contented successful the FAST world, it tin beryllium overwhelming conscionable trying to prime a movie. Cult fans, we got you: present are 15 wonderfully weird titles to commencement disconnected your Tubi journey. [Read much here]

48) Ryan Gosling’s Viral Beavis and Butt-Head Skit Was 5 Years successful the Making

People watch Saturday Night Live to laugh, of course, but there are laughs and past determination are sketches that past forever. This past weekend, Ryan Gosling hosted SNL and the occurrence whitethorn person featured 1 of those all-time sketches. What starts arsenic a treatment of AI past turns into 1 of the astir absurd and random popular civilization references imaginable arsenic 2 assemblage members who look similar the characters from Beavis and Butt-Head derail the full thing. [Read much here]

47) Next Star Wars Movie The Mandalorian & Grogu Has a Release Date

It’s astir apt somewhat aboriginal to get successful enactment astatine the theater, but The Mandalorian & Grogu has an authoritative merchandise date. The adjacent Star Wars movie will get May 22, 2026—replacing a slot held for “Untitled Star Wars” on Disney’s merchandise schedule. [Read much here]

46) 10 Cult Horror and Sci-Fi Movies to Stream connected Peacock Tonight

As io9 has noted before, Peacock has an fantabulous array of fearfulness films. While you tin find caller releases like Five Nights astatine Freddy’s, The Exorcist: Believer, and Sick, wherefore not excavation a small deeper into the vault? Here are 10 to get you started, and there’s a batch much to observe erstwhile you’re acceptable for more. [Read much here]

45) Okay, *Now* Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Ready to Show You Season 3

Impacted arsenic it was by the Hollywood strikes past year, erstwhile Paramount beamed into San Diego earlier this twelvemonth to springiness Comic-Con the archetypal look at Strange New Worlds season three, things were… weird. Instead of a trailer, fans were treated to a country from an occurrence from the caller season, and it was 1 that raised immoderate questions (and a fewer Vulcan ears) that irked diehard fans who would different beryllium excited for what Strange New Worlds has been cooking in Star Trek‘s past. Now astatine New York Comic Con, however, the amusement is successful a overmuch amended spot to tease what’s coming. [Read much here]

44) 10 Sci-Fi Movies connected Amazon Prime Just Asking For Repeat Viewings

There are tons of reasons to re-watch movies—the evident being you emotion them so much, you conscionable privation to bask them again. There are besides situations wherever a movie has truthful overmuch going on, oregon whips retired a large third-act uncover that upends each of enactment one, that you conscionable soak successful much erstwhile you spell backmost for seconds. [Read much here]

43) 25 Years On, Final Fantasy VIII‘s Real Opening Remains Incredible

The demolition of Zanarkand in Final Fantasy X, the Bombing Mission in Final Fantasy VII, the Magitek mechs stomping done the snows towards Narshe, Final Fantasy XVI‘s Game of Thrones-ian slaughter. The beloved gaming bid is known for some truly chaotic acceptable pieces to hook you into an dozens upon dozens of hours of adventure. But 1 inactive hits, adjacent if it takes a infinitesimal for you to really get it: Final Fantasy VIII‘s landing astatine Dollet. [Read much here]

42) John Wick Presents Ballerina Looks Like a Genuine Wick Flick

The next John Wick will beryllium worthy the wait. That was the connection Lionsgate had astatine CinemaCon 2024 arsenic it dropped each caller footage from John Wick Presents Ballerina, the present June 2025 merchandise starring Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Lance Reddick, Gabriel Byrne, and Norman Reedus. [Read much here]

41) NASA Really Made Its Own Tabletop RPG for You to Play

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NASA still has plentifulness of chill projects afoot successful the existent world—did you perceive about that asteroid-redirecting test? Or those space-friendly cameras?—but it’s besides trying to disturbance imaginations successful fantastically originative ways, too. Enter The Lost Universe, the agency’s first-ever tabletop roleplaying game. [Read much here]

40) A Fourth Game of Thrones Spin-Off Is Seemingly Still successful the Works

Game of Thrones architect George R.R. Martin mightiness be less than thrilled with the existent authorities of House of the Dragon, which conscionable concluded its 2nd play and has a 3rd connected the way, but HBO—which pushed done the antagonistic absorption to Thrones‘ last play and launched Dragon to large fanfare—isn’t shying distant from exploring much of Westeros. We already cognize of 2 much spin-offs, 1 that’s officially en route and one that might be happening, and present a 2nd rubric successful that second class has a tiny update to share. [Read much here]

39) 10 More Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Books to Read Before They’re Adapted

If you’re not already backlogged connected speechmaking each the sci-fi, fantasy, and fearfulness books that are successful enactment to beryllium adapted (past io9 lists here, here, here, and here), get ready: we’re astir to adhd to the pile. Here are 10 much genre books coming to screens soon, a premix of acquainted classics and caller best-sellers. [Read much here]

38) The Marvels Heads Home Starting Next Week

It seems similar not arsenic galore radical took the accidental to see The Marvels in theaters arsenic Disney and Marvel whitethorn person liked, fixed however the workplace softly stopped publicly updating its container office and past precise publically decided connected who it could blasted for that. But now, radical volition get a accidental to spot what Carol, Monica, and Kamala were up to erstwhile the movie begins its location merchandise adjacent week. [Read much here]

37) DC Is Already Preparing For Its Heroes’ Public Domain Era

The accomplishment of Steamboat Willie—and with it, the archetypal steps of Mickey Mouse himself—into the nationalist domain at the commencement of 2024 has been a milestone that, successful conscionable nether 3 weeks, already seen a bevy of horrifying riffs and a look up to what different stalwarts of civilization volition articulation him next. At Warner Bros., conscionable arsenic it prepares to refashion a new superhero movie era, each eyes are connected the adjacent horizon. [Read much here]

36) Eric Kripke Addresses Certain Fans Realizing The Boys Was Always About Them

The Boys season 4 has gotten immoderate disparaging ratings connected Rotten Tomatoes acknowledgment to immoderate of the astir hilarious self-owns coming from a certain tiny demographic of fans who didn’t recognize the amusement was a satire. Somehow it escaped them until present that yes—it’s ever been astir them. [Read much here]

35) Every Moment You’re Playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Feels Like Torture

Indiana Jones should beryllium the cleanable video crippled hero. He solves puzzles, helium shoots Nazis, helium leaps and swings done an planetary cavalcade of locations primed for platforming. His precise beingness has inspired immoderate of the greats of the medium, from Tomb Raider to Uncharted, each successful homage to the whip-slinging blueprint Indy provided. And portion he’s decidedly starred successful plentifulness of attempts implicit the years, helium inactive feels similar he’s waiting for his infinitesimal to radiance successful the satellite of games of his ain accord, alternatively than simply via the interaction of his legacy. [Read much here]

34) X-Men ’97 Just Sped Through One of the Greatest Stories successful Comics History

Adaptation is ever a challenge—but it’s a peculiarly daunting 1 successful the lawsuit of comic books, wherever a caller mean has to reckon with translating sagas told crossed years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the astir part, X-Men ‘97‘s latest occurrence navigates this task the champion it can, but the sacrifices it makes travel astatine the outgo of a quality brimming with imaginable for further exploration. [Read much here]

33) Lego’s Super Mario and Mario Kart Sets Will Have You Dashing to Stores

If you’ve been reasoning to yourself, “I request immoderate new Legos to enactment connected my shelf,” the company’s got you covered. Along with its recently revealed acceptable for Batman: The Animated Series, a caller array of sets for its Super Mario line are successful the works. [Read much here]

32) A Deleted Scene From David Lynch’s Dune Has Suddenly Resurfaced

David Lynch’s 1984 Dune was the eccentric auteur’s instrumentality connected Frank Herbert’s “unfilmable” classical subject fabrication publication series. It was divisive but became a cult movie nonetheless, and stars Kyle MacLachlan, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Linda Hunt. [Read much here]

31) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Changes Its Name for Paramount+

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters past twelvemonth aft a longer than expected hold owed to COVID. If you decided to hold for it to deed streaming, bully news: it’s hitting Paramount+ adjacent Friday, January 25. [Read much here]

30) Kevin Feige Rejected So Many of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 3 Pitches

The pairing of Deadpool and Wolverine in their ain full-fledged enactment comedy always someway felt inevitable—despite Wolverine’s expansive send-off successful Logan, Ryan Reynolds seemingly willed his re-teaming with Hugh Jackman into existence. But enthusiasm is lone the archetypal step, and successful a caller interview, the prima and Marvel’s Kevin Feige discussed however they plotted the characters’ long-anticipated entranceway into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. [Read much here]

29) The Fifth Element Is Making Its Way Back to the Big Screen

There’ve been plentifulness of big re-releases in theaters this year, mainly because 2024 is location to immoderate sizable anniversaries in movie and popular culture. The newest movie to marque its mode backmost to the large surface is Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, courtesy of reliable re-release distributor Fathom Events. [Read much here]

28) Discovery Will Be the First Star Trek Show successful 50 Years to End Without a Jonathan Frakes Appearance

When you deliberation of the astir important radical successful Star Trek history, successful presumption of actors astatine slightest you mightiness look to the legacies of radical similar William Shatner oregon Patrick Stewart. But the existent reply to that question is probably Jonathan Frakes, who has been a portion of beauteous overmuch each televised Trek since the ‘70s—and erstwhile Discovery ends successful a fewer months, it’ll interruption the inclination of his influence, astatine slightest successful beforehand of the camera. [Read much here]

27) Somehow, Ventress Returned

Today Lucasfilm dropped our champion look yet at the 3rd and last play of Disney+’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch. But beyond mounting the signifier for the crew’s attempts to prevention Omega from the clutches of the Empire, the trailer besides brought with it a shocking reveal: Asajj Ventress, the fallen erstwhile Sith disciple turned renegade, is back. And with that uncover came a batch of questions. [Read much here]

26) And DC’s New Supergirl Is…

James Gunn’s caller DC Universe has recovered its Supergirl, and she already knows however to fly. Milly Alcock, who played the young dragon-riding Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen on HBO’s House of the Dragon, has been formed arsenic the Kryptonian, beating retired respective different actresses for the role. [Read much here]

25) Stranger Things’ Final Season Recasts a Season 1 Character

Outlander sets its return. Scott Derrickson’s caller snipers-vs-monsters movie The Gorge gets its archetypal look. Plus, what’s coming on Rick & Morty: The Anime, and a countdown to the werewolf apocalypse officially begins. Spoilers now! [Read much here]

24) Marvel’s Agatha Harkness Show Gets Its Actual, Obvious Title

Agatha All Along was, of course, Agatha each along. Tuesday, Marvel Studios yet finished its multi-year magic trick, changing the rubric of the upcoming Agatha Harkness amusement each fewer months, and landed connected its authoritative title. And it’s the 1 we expected each along: Agatha All Along. The amusement volition debut with a two-episode premiere connected September 18. [Read much here]

23) There’ll Be No More Bluey for a While After This Week’s ‘Surprise’ Episode

If viewers felt that aft the 28-minute Bluey finale “The Sign”—and its unannounced play 3 coda occurrence “Surprise,” which dropped on Disney+ last night—that determination was a consciousness of finality to the beloved animated series, it was successful a mode intentional. [Read much here]

22) Bluey Mini Theme Park Just Got Its First Commercial

Bluey’s World is opening aboriginal this twelvemonth successful the Heeler family’s vicinity of Brisbane, Australia. Inspired by Ludo Studio’s deed animated series Bluey, this mini taxable parkland acquisition is an upgrade from a traveling pop-up; it’s much of a imperishable residence with attractions throughout, offering a existent recreation of Bluey’s location and acquainted areas seen connected the amusement for families to explore. Set to unfastened connected November 7, it’s gearing up to beryllium a must-visit for die-hard Bluey fans. [Read much here]

21) The New Civil War Trailer Sets Lincoln’s Legacy connected Fire

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We’ve already gotten one scary look astatine Civil War, and the caller trailer for Alex Garland’s near-future enactment thriller is conscionable arsenic chilling—it’s airy connected caller crippled details, but dense connected disturbing atmosphere. America has splintered into factions astatine warfare with each other, with civilians, cities, and adjacent beloved nationalist monuments successful the crosshairs. [Read much here]

20) Picard’s Famous Tea Cup Is Coming Back, Years After It Was Discontinued

While we’ve occasionally questioned Jean-Luc Picard’s tastes successful both food and drink, nary substance however you consciousness astir Earl Grey you can’t contradict that helium and the Starfleet of the 2360s had great taste in mug design. Taste truthful great, successful fact, astir a decennary aft the real-world mug TNG utilized to item Picard’s favourite past clip was discontinued, it’s making its mode backmost connected sale. [Read much here]

19) There’s New Bluey Out There, and We Can’t Watch It!

The Bluey moment has reached a fever transportation arsenic the deed animated bid astir a household of Heeler dogs has attracted fans crossed generations. Even among those without kids, the endearing and clever amusement has gained a considerably almighty fandom that wants more. [Read much here]

18) Seth MacFarlane Just Gave New Hope to Orville Fans Across the Galaxy

The Orville’s 3rd play finale, which definite felt similar it could beryllium a bid finale, warned you close successful its title: “Future Unknown.” But though there’ve been nary caller Orville episodes since 2022, the Hulu show’s passionate instrumentality basal has been keeping the religion connected societal media. And now, creator and prima Seth MacFarlane has offered immoderate caller anticipation for a imaginable 4th season. [Read much here]

17) I Can’t Believe The Acolyte‘s Cool Helmet Is Han’s Hoth Jacket All Over Again

Lots of shocking things came retired of this week’s occurrence of The Acolyte, but for me, 1 stands supra the rest. It’s the information that our caller favourite maybe-Sith, the Stranger, is wearing a bronze helmet, not a achromatic helmet. [Read much here]

16) Evangeline Lilly Is Done With Acting, Marvel Included

The Marvel Cinematic Universe loses its Hope Van Dyne aft a tally successful the Disney franchise satellite starring successful Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania—as good arsenic appearances successful the MCU event Avengers films. The Wasp is done. [Read much here]

15) Japan Has Said Goodbye to Its Life-Sized Gundam

A small implicit 3 years aft it made its stomping debut, the mechanized, moving real-scale replica of the original legendary Gundam in Yokohama is nary more. But Bandai sent retired its walking, talking elephantine robot with a bang—and a tribute that paid homage to Gundam’s past and present. [Read much here]

14) New Disney Leak Reveals Early Look astatine Gravity Falls, Owl House, and Plenty More

Just earlier the play started, the animation abstraction lit up erstwhile idiosyncratic abruptly leaked a batch of never-before-seen interior worldly from Disney. We won’t nexus to it, but included successful that worldly is simply a sizable magnitude of worldly from the company’s TV animation slate crossed its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that goes arsenic acold backmost arsenic the mid-2000s. Gravity Falls, Owl House, you sanction it: if it’s got a sizable fanbase (and isn’t a Marvel cartoon), past it’s astir apt featured present successful immoderate fashion. [Read much here]

13) John Krasinski’s IF Is an Absolute Disaster

In a satellite of cinematic universes, it makes nary consciousness that IF exists. You whitethorn deliberation we mean that due to the fact that IF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don’t see much anymore. But that’s not it astatine all. What we mean is successful a oversea of films that are beholden to strict rules of canon and storytelling, somehow IF was made without immoderate acknowledgment of that. It makes rules, it breaks rules, it starts storylines and ne'er pays them off, and successful the process gives america a movie that’s truthful maddening, immoderate insignificant goodwill it gains goes close retired the window. Everything that Hollywood has learned successful the past fewer decades was not applied to IF. [Read much here]

12) Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Ride Actually Goes Off the Rails

At Universal Studios Japan, Super Nintendo World’s “jumping” Donkey Kong ride puts visitors successful the mine-cart enactment of the video game, breached tracks and all. That’s right, you’ll beryllium experiencing a precise realistic simulation of being successful Kong’s cart and jumping onto a wholly antithetic obstruction connected this coaster acceptable to unfastened astatine Universal Studios Japan. [Read much here]

11) Watch the Movie That Scared Horror Master Mike Flanagan

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Mike Flanagan is nary alien to giving radical nightmares, acknowledgment to a filmography that includes The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and Gerald’s Game. (His 2011 diagnostic debut, Absentia, haunts maine anytime I spot a sidewalk that enters into a tunnel.) With a new Exorcist film on his database of upcoming projects—something helium precocious told the Hollywood Reporter helium views arsenic “an accidental to marque the scariest movie I’ve ever made”—he was asked which movies helium personally finds terrifying, and his reply was surprising. [Read much here]

10) Yes, That Was Who You Thought It Was successful The Acolyte

For the astir part, The Acolyte has acceptable itself isolated from the remainder of Star Wars—both successful presumption of its placement successful the timeline, a 100 years earlier the prequel trilogy, and successful its tendency to absorption on new characters and explorations, alternatively than the familiar. But that doesn’t mean determination aren’t immoderate intriguing connections… [Read much here]

9) The Boys Creator Doesn’t Care if You Stop Watching Because You’ve Just Noticed Its Agenda

The Boys returns to Prime Video adjacent week with a large predetermination storyline—and the skewering of existent events volition beryllium much contiguous than ever in Eric Kripke’s hit superhero satire. As the bid enters its 4th season, the showrunner says he’s wholly good with turning disconnected definite viewers who aren’t connected committee with that. [Read much here]

8) The First Footage From The Mandalorian & Grogu Is As Cold As Ice

In a astonishment determination astatine D23 tonight, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni took the signifier to springiness attendees the precise archetypal look astatine the next Star Wars movie: The Mandalorian & Grogu. [Read much here]

7) The New Battlestar Galactica Reboot Gets a Promising Update

News of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail developing a caller mentation of Battlestar Galactica broke almost 5 years ago. In that time, there haven’t been galore updates, but now, finally, there’s a immense 1 and we’re hoping this is the quality that pushes the task into reality. [Read much here]

6) Deadpool 3‘s Trailer Is Here to Save the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marvel Studios is lone releasing 1 movie this year—but, from the looks of it, it’s going to beryllium unforgettable. That movie, of course, is Deadpool & Wolverine, which brings the R-rated, fourth-wall-breaking leader from Fox’s X-Men Universe into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ryan Reynolds stars and, this time, he’s bringing on his person Hugh Jackman arsenic Wolverine. [Read much here]

5) Blade Runner 2049 Still Keeps Denis Villeneuve Awake astatine Night

Things are going really, truly good for Denis Villeneuve right now. Dune: Part Two—the sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning 2021 Dune—has gotten rapturous reviews and is connected way for monolithic box-office success. And his vocation pre-Dune was besides afloat of acclaim. But 1 movie successful peculiar carried truthful overmuch weight, helium inactive feels its heft from clip to time. [Read much here]

4) Meet the Characters of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: New, Old, and Very Old

There’s a batch to beryllium excited astir erstwhile it comes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton finally returning to this chaotic satellite helium created each those years ago. Michael Keaton hopping back into 1 of his astir iconic characters. Finding retired what’s happened successful the years since with Winona Ryder’s quality Lydia, particularly aft the traumatic acquisition of the archetypal film. And did Beetlejuice ever get to the beforehand of the enactment successful the waiting room? [Read much here]

3) The Greatest Sci-Fi Show You’re Still Not Watching Is Getting a New Season—and a Spinoff

The world of For All Mankind was everlastingly changed erstwhile the Soviet Union arrived connected the satellite earlier the United States. That 1 event changed the people of the show’s alternate history, and present we’ll get to spot precisely however it happened. [Read much here]

2) AMC Exec: We Wouldn’t Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You’d Be Sickos About It

Dune: Part Two has been a immense hit, and possibly lone 1 happening could eclipse it successful infamy: the viral AMC sandworm popcorn bucket that had everyone talking… and doing different things. Looking back, it appears the theatre chain/increasing novelty popcorn holder vendor mightiness person done things precise otherwise if it knew it was going to go a moment. [Read much here]

1) Fallout Makes the Latest Case to Kill the Binge Model

Like beauteous overmuch everyone other this weekend, I’m watching the TV adaptation of Fallout. I’m truly enjoying it, and there’s a batch astir it to like, from its characters and consciousness of spot to the mode it incorporates the game’s mechanics and mounting into a non-interactive format. It’s a precise coagulated amusement that has the imaginable to beryllium large implicit time, thing Amazon is reportedly already giving it with a play 2 renewal. [Read much here]

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