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Netflix finally unveils Liam Hemsworth's Geralt in The Witcher season 4 teaser, and fans are... well, not as mad about him as you'd think
Don't get us wrong, there's still a great deal of Witcher-ites in mourning for Henry Cavill, but fans of the Netflix series aren't blaming Hemsworth for taking over the role in season 4
September 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Blumhouse's The Invisible Man opens with the best final girl of the 2020s [The Coldest Open]
The role of "The Invisible Man's girlfriend" was one that had been underwritten and overlooked for over a century. But in eleven minutes, Elizabeth Moss and director Leigh Whannel changed that forever.
September 12, 2025
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The one Helluva Boss scene that "broke my heart" for Blitzo actor (and series co-writer) Brandon Rogers
For the many, many characters that comedian Brandon Rogers has played over the years, few if any relate to him as much as Biltzo, the titular Helluva Boss of the Immediate Murder Professionals
September 11, 2025
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Anime nerd John Boyega loves Naruto the most, and has some hot takes on Attack on Titan
Oh, and don't forget One Piece. John Boyega has thoughts on One Piece too, and they're probably similar to yours
September 11, 2025
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David Harbour went into Avengers: Doomsday "not even convinced" about the massive Marvel event - then the Russo Brothers changed his mind
Harbour, who plays Red Guardan in the MCU, says brothers Joe and Anthony Russo have a "special sauce" when it comes to making movies like Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming Doomsday
September 10, 2025
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Predator: Badlands director teases Dek/Thia relationship - "It's like Chewbacca and C-3PO: The Movie"
Remember when you saw the Predator: Badlands poster and thought, 'Huh, this broken droid tied to a monster looks familiar'? Dan Trachtenberg isn't running from the comparison
September 10, 2025
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Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller wants Zendaya to be Clarice Starling opposite Mads Mikkelsen... but wouldn't that mean getting rid of Hugh Dancy's Will Graham?
Don't get us wrong, we've been dying for Bryan Fuller to tackle The Silence of the Lambs... but what would Fannibals think about separating the Murder Husbands?
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow will team David Corenswet's hero and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor against a "much bigger threat," says DC Studios head
Well now we know what James Gunn meant went he said the next Superman movie wouldn't just be about Superman. But now we have even more questions about Man of Tomorrow
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Black Mirror USS Callister was almost a standalone Netflix series, and Charlie Brooker has leaked what we missed
USS Callister, Netflix's bleak Star Trek satire that appeared in the fourth and seventh season of Black Mirror, almost became a full spinoff. Here's what that would've looked like
September 10, 2025
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Alien icon Sigourney Weaver prefers Alien: Earth to the movies
FX's Noah Hawley-created Alien series is "more profound" than an Alien movie, says Ellen Ripley herself. We ask: More profound than that basketball scene in Resurrection?
September 10, 2025
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28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy warns fans not to expect too much of him in the next 28 Years Later movie
Jim, the character Murphy played in 2002's 28 Days Later, will make a small cameo in The Bone Temple. But if the actor gets his way, that won't be the last we see of him
September 10, 2025
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HBO Max is bringing The Conjuring to the small screen, but it might lose its spooky creative center in the process
James Wan, who directed the first Conjuring and has been with every other film in some capacity, wants more of a cut from the franchise he pioneered. Otherwise, Warner Bros. might be bringing the story to TV without him
September 10, 2025
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The Downton Abbey set is usually home to an actual desk owned by Napoleon... but not while filming
It might surprise you to learn that Highclere Castle, the real-life estate where Downton Abbey is filmed, operates business-as-usual while filming is going on. Well, almost.
September 09, 2025
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The late Maggie Smith is "still very much in the atmosphere" in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, says Elizabeth McGovern
Ahead of the release of the final Downton Abbey chapter (and only one without Smith's involvement), the Cora Crawley actor spoke about her costar, who passed in 2024
September 09, 2025
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The new Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie could become the highest grossing movie in Japan's box office history, but it's still got a Miyazaki film (and its own predecessor) to beat
As of now, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train is still the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, followed by Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. But there's a chance that might change
September 09, 2025
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Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic actor Kevin Foster knows who is behind the mysterious Bite of '87 (and he's written the song to prove it)
Not only has Foster put on the actual Freddy Fazbear suit for the Blumhouse film, he knows the answer to one of the FNAF franchise’s biggest mysteries
September 09, 2025
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Been on a Spider-Man forum lately? One of the folks you might've talked to was Tom Holland
Holland recently revealed he'd been doing some "sneaky research online" in preparation for his return as Peter Parker in the fourth MCU Spider-Man outing
September 09, 2025
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The 13 people who survived the Saturday Night Live summer 2025 cuts (Yes, Kenan Thompson is still there) and are coming back for season 51
Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman and more are headed back to SNL, while a Please Don't Destroy regular joins the core cast
September 08, 2025
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Stephen King's condition for keeping The Long Walk movie from feeling like "a superhero movie"
Francis Lawrence's brutal adaptation of King's dystopian tale earns its R-rating, the same way The Long Walk writer seems to think PG-13 Marvel movies earn theirs
September 08, 2025
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The Conjuring: Last Rites officially surpasses IT as the biggest horror movie opening weekend ever - and underscores a thriving appetite for horror in 2025
Michael Chaves's wrap-up to the blockbuster Conjuring saga scored a wild $194M at the global box office, floating just above the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's beloved tale of Pennywise the Dancing Clown
September 08, 2025
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on which of the D&D Monsters they'd choose to live as
Bailey and Willingham have done their share of flipping through the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual in their capacity as Critical Role founders - but which of the creatures therein spoke to them the most?
September 05, 2025
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How Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham would play Dimension 20's wildest campaign: Never Stop Blowing Up
D20's Never Stop Blowing Up (led by Critical Role's campaign 4 GM Brennan Lee Mulligan) is a balls-to-the-wall parody of the action genre, and Bailey and Willingham know just which action movie types they'd play
September 05, 2025
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on bringing Marvel's Mary Jane Watson & DC's Superman to life
Critical Role's Bailey, who brought Mary Jane to life in Insomniac's Spider-Man games, and Willingham, who brought Superman to life in Battle of the Supersons, explain how they embodied Marvel & DC's titanic characters
September 05, 2025
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey reveals one of her favorite aspects of The Mighty Nein's Jester actually came from castmate Marisha Ray
As any D&D player knows, you discover core pieces of your character as the campaign goes along. And sometimes, like in the case of Critical Role pals Bailey and Ray, your fellow adventurers discover it for you
September 05, 2025
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Critical Role's Travis Willingham reveals more character-DM'd one-shots are on the way in 2026
Willingham's Grog One-Shot from 2017 is still a favorite among Critical Role fans - and if what he said at GalaxyCon San Jose is true, more of its like are on the way
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
James Cameron opens Aliens with the same fundamental horror that Alien: Earth is built upon: a xenomorph too close to home [The Coldest Open]
Cameron creates a shot of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley that might as well be in the marketing for Alien: Earth... if Ripley was a character in Alien: Earth
September 05, 2025
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Netflix cancels its existing Tomb Raider cartoon one day after Prime Video announces their upcoming Tomb Raider live-action show star lead & showrunner
Hayley Atwell & Sophie Turner won't be going head-to-head as Lara Croft in the near future, as Netflix's animated series is wrapping up after its second season
September 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Which Star Trek actor DMs for other Star Trek actors? Strange New Worlds' Celia Rose Gooding reveals how they prepared for Critical Role's Exandria Unlimited
Gooding, AKA Star Trek's latest Uhura, got into D&D liveplay with not just the help of the Critical Role gang (including Brennan Lee Mulligan), but also a name that Enterprise and Picard fans will know well
September 04, 2025
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Disney's Sword in the Stone movie is getting a sequel with Madam Mim as its big bad in comics
Return to Disney's landmark take on Arthurian Legend with The Sword in the Stone: Arthur's Magical Kingdom, written by Michael Snow and Gabriel Valentin, illustrated by Lorenzo Colangeli, and published by Papercutz and Mad Cave Studios
September 04, 2025
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Netflix is already mulling a Thursday Murder Club sequel, and director Chris Columbus said they will decide this week
Columbus, who navigated stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley through Netflix’s treacherous tale, says there’s one thing that will determine a Thursday Murder Club 2 - the viewership
September 04, 2025
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How Dan Trachtenberg became a better Predator director, thanks to Prime Video's The Boys
Before Trachtenberg was kicking off a new saga of Predator vs. humans with Prey, he was the guy in the chair for The Boys’ pilot episode
September 03, 2025
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Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner returns as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider reboot (with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge writing)
Amazon MGM Studios announced Turner & Waller-Bridge's collaboration to bring the massive Tomb Raider franchise to life, along with director Jonathan Van Tulleken and co-showrunner Chad Hodge
September 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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James Gunn unveils DC Studios' Superman movie sequel title, release date, and possibly the plot - Lex Luthor's revenge
Man of Tomorrow, the newly announced entry into the Superman saga led by DCU chief James Gunn, is coming in 2027.
September 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Tom Cruise might be going to outer space (and possibly reteaming with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman to film it)
We're starting to wonder if Mission: Impossible Cruise star is addicted to doing his own stunts, and if so, if The Bourne Identity director Liman is a bit of an enabler
September 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s stunts will be courtesy of Jackie Chan
In the MCU, Peter Parker's moves come from a radioactive spider. But in real life, the flips and tricks that Spider-Man performs will be powered by one of Hollywood's greatest stunt artists, Jackie Chan
September 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
James Wan's The Conjuring jumps right to the scares, and there's nothing wrong with that [The Coldest Open]
Are the opening moments of the first film in The Conjuring universe a triumph in character development and narrative introduction? No. Do they make you go, "AGH!"? Yes.
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
After Critical Role's Tusk Love and Armory of Heroes, more in-universe Exandrian projects are on their way
Expect more texts published as though they were written by citizens of Exandria themselves, says Licensing Brand Associate Niki Chi
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How to cosplay Exandria: Critical Role's Armory of Heroes is a tome of reference for cosplaying critters
From Vox Machina to The Mighty Nein and even into the Age of Arcanum, the Armory of Heroes has Exandrian style you wish to emulate
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday's creators weren't planning on bringing Gwendoline Christie's Principal Weems back for season 2
Christie, whose antagonistic Weems from season 1 has turned spirit guide for Wednesday in season 2, was not what Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had panned for the Netflix series' sophomore season
August 28, 2025
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Critical Role invites you back to Exandria (and back in time!) with The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 2—Cassandra
Amazon MGM is also partnering with Critical Role and Dark Horse to publish a prequel graphic novel starring the bold but beleaguered Cassandra de Rolo, little sister of Percival and survivor of the Briarwoods massacre
August 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Oz, Manhattan, and German Expressionism: What inspired Age of Arcanum, according to Critical Role star Liam O'Brien
O'Brien recently spoke to the worldbuilding that went into the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity campaign, set centuries before Critical Role's Campaign 1
August 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What Critical Role's Liam O'Brien imagined for the Vox Machina 'Deathwalker's Ward' armor is not what the costume ended up looking like
Vox Machina's Vax'ildan sports a gloomy, feathered, and ornate piece of leather armor in Critical Role's famous Campaign 1 and its adaptations thereafter. But that wasn't exactly what Vax's actor, O'Brien, had in mind
August 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The most hated skin of Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 won't be coming back, according to Miles Morales voice actor Nadji Jeter
At Fan Expo, one Spider-Man redditor caught up with Jeter to talk about the widely-criticized (and corporate-sponsored) 'Evolved' suit, and the Miles voice actor shares many fans' concerns
August 26, 2025
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Prime Video's definition of "purchased" has been hazy for a while... now they're getting sued over it
Can you really claim to have sold something if that thing can be stripped away from the buyer at any time? A proposed class action lawsuit against Amazon says "no"
August 26, 2025
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Jared Padalecki reveals The Boys season 5 will be split into two parts
Asked about a Supernatural reunion on Prime Video's superhero satire, Padalecki revealed when he'd be sharing screentime with both Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins. And in doing so, revealed a key facet of the final season's release
August 26, 2025
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Predator: Badlands is getting a Marvel Comics prequel... that's coming out after the movie itself
The Predator: Badlands prequel will take the form of a one-shot comic by Ethan Sacks and Elvin Chang, and will go on sale in November
August 25, 2025
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Stranger Things may be ending, but Sadie Sink admits she "didn't really feel like" she was saying goodbye to Max Mayfield
To be clear, we're not saying Stranger Things's Max is getting a spinoff. We are saying, though, that Sadie Sink would be ready for one
August 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
With IT: Chapter One's opening scene, Andy Muschietti proves you can be scared even if you know where this is going [The Coldest Open]
Director Andy Muschietti, who is returning to Pennywise's realm for IT: Welcome to Derry on HBO, knows that you know your Stephen King. And that's not gonna stop him
August 22, 2025
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Blind, deaf, and carrying 17 pounds on your head - what filming is like in a Five Nights at Freddy's suit
Kevin Foster and Jess Weiss, who play Freddy Fazbear and Chica, respectively, in Blumhouse’s FNAF movie, make playing a haunted animatronic sound like an unenviable gig
August 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role smashes the mold for Campaign 4, with 3 tables, 13 cast members, and a whole new (non-Exandrian!) setting
GM Brennan Lee Mulligan is guiding a baker's dozen adventurers through misty and mysterious Aramán using the West Marches style of TTRPG storytelling - we'll explain what that means here
August 21, 2025
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Alien filmmaker Fede Álvarez collects Marvel Alien comics, says they influence his work on the franchise
While Noah Halwey's Alien: Earth airs on Hulu, Álvarez is hard at work on a sequel to Romulus. And now, we know at least what some of his research material will look like
August 21, 2025
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Batman is core to James Gunn's new DCU, even without the cape and cowl
Gunn recently sat down to discuss the power of Wayne Enterprises as it related to corporations like Lex Luthor's Luthor Corp (as seen in Superman) and Maxwell Lord's Lord Tech (as seen in Peacemaker)
August 20, 2025
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Weapons director Zach Cregger has never seen a Resident Evil movie, says his reboot will honor "the tone of the games"
Horror darling and Barbarian director Cregger said his upcoming Resident Evil film "has nothing in common with" the movie franchise that came before it
August 20, 2025
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It's official: Stranger Things' Duffer Brothers are leaving Netflix (soon, and not entirely)
Matt and Ross Duffer are trading Netflix red for Paramount blue starting in April 2026, but don't worry, they're still finishing out their Stranger Things deal
August 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What to Watch September 2025: Wednesday season 2 wraps up on Netflix, Gen V returns to Prime Video, Only Murders in the Building is sluething about Hulu again, and so much more
Plus: Haunted Hotel, Helluva Boss, Futurama and at least one more adult animated series
August 19, 2025
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Comic art collector offers $20K reward for stolen Spider-Man art by co-creator Steve Ditko
The Ditko splash page, which was drawn for The Amazing Spider-Man #27, is part of the Albert Moy Collectables Original Art. Now, Moy himself is offering cash for a no-questions-asked return of the work
August 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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James Gunn says Peacemaker is "probably" coming back for another DCU project, but... that doesn't mean Peacemaker season 3, necessarily
Yes, yes, the Superman Saga is James Gunn's biggest focus for the DCU at this point, but we still expect to see more of Peacemaker. Literally - that underwear gag isn't going anywhere
August 18, 2025
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The Severance / Zoolander crossover you didn't know you wanted has arrived, and we have Mr. Milchick to thank for it
At a Hollywood Forever Cemetery showing of the Ben Stiller classic, fans were treated to Tramell Tillman doing what he does best - leading a marching band
August 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Before Pennywise comes to HBO in IT: Welcome to Derry, he’s coming to your gaming table in a Betrayal at House on the Hill expansion pack
Betrayal at the Neibolt House: The Evil of Pennywise weds a classic Stephen King villain to Hasbro's megahit horror boardgame in time to kick halloween off early
August 16, 2025
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What will happen to Stranger Things if the Duffer Brothers sign a deal with Paramount?
Better start considering the possibilities now, Stranger Things fan. Matt and Ross Duffer are in talks with Paramount to leave the Hawkins, Indiana streamer behind
August 15, 2025
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Dan Trachtenberg calls Predator: Badlands a "toe dip" into an Alien-connected universe
Prey director Trachtenberg wants both Alien and Predator fans to know that the plan for combining the storylines is not "grabbing our action figures and we're just smushing them together"
August 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The beginning of An American Werewolf in London stumbles a bit, but that's understandable on the misty English moors [The Coldest Open]
An American Werewolf in London opens with a so-so protagonist and debatable title song, but I'll walk through the countryside on a full moon myself before I criticize those visuals
August 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Friday the 13th reboot short Sweet Revenge is a Jason Voorhees fan's dream... and a 15-minute ad for Angry Orchard
I loved the new Jason Voorhees mini-movie (available for free on YouTube!). I just also came out of it needing Refreshing Hard Cider with Attitude™
August 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix's Wednesday creators are rebooting the Addams Family again, this time as an animated movie
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar's feature film will not be connected to the Jenna Ortega-centered Wednesday universe, nor will it be produced with Netflix's involvement
August 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix's Wednesday season 2 part 2 trailer spoils a returning character... and makes a Sandman joke?
Maybe the Wednesday season 2 part 2 trailer *didn't* actually make a Sandman joke, but both are shows on Netflix and both star... oh, sorry spoilers.
August 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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NYCC 2025 welcomes Tomi Adeyemi, George R. R. Martin, R. L. Stine, and more to Writers Block at the Javits Center this October
From the far-flung futures of science fiction to the steamy bedrooms of romantasy, meet your favorite authors at New York Comic Con’s literary hub
August 14, 2025
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DC’s Tom King, Spider-Man’s Dan Slott, Transformers’ Daniel Warren Johnson and so many, many more are tabling at NYCC ‘25’s Artist Alley: Get a look at the full list right here
The biggest names from the biggest comics are taking over the Javits Center for New York Comic Con 2025, and we’ve got a list of who to prepare for
August 14, 2025
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Zach Cregger's Weapons had one of the best opening Mondays in horror box office history, outperforming Get Out, 28 Years Later, Five Nights at Freddy's, and more
Creepy-kid mystery Weapons, which starts Julia Garner and Josh Brolin, is fats becoming the little horror movie that could. And on a Monday!
August 13, 2025
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Alien co-creator Ridley Scott told Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley a scrapped idea to make the xenomorph even scarier (and to kill Ellen Ripley)
Ellen Ripley might've had to undergo the Alien: Resurrection treatment earlier in the franchise than anticipated, had the idea Ridley Scott shared with Noah Hawley stuck
August 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Daggerheart, the Dungeons & Dragons rival from the Critical Role team, hits half a million characters online: "It hasn't really slowed"
Stats come from Demiplane, an online resource for fans of TTRPGs like Daggerheart
August 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Alien: Earth episode one features an adorable easter egg to the original Ridley Scott film just a few minutes into the story [minor spoilers]
Yes, that sure looks like [REDACTED], but it’s almost impossible the member of the Nostromo crew is on Alien: Earth’s spacefaring USCSS Maginot
August 13, 2025
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Jacob Batalon just posted a picture of Marvel's Hobgoblin, and our spider-senses are tingling
Batalon has played Ned Leeds ever since Spider-Man: Homecoming, and in Marvel Comics, Ned Leeds becomes the villain Hobgoblin. What are the chances he'll board the glider for his next outing?
August 12, 2025
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"David is a pimp:" The Bible according to Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld
Liefeld, who once had an Old Testament adventure book at Image and infamously drew Jesus fighting the Greek pantheon, has a little lesson in Biblical history for SDCC '25
August 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Explaining Rachel Rozman, Natasha Lyonne's Fantastic Four: First Steps character [Lore Corner]
Poker Face star Lyonne's character might have even longtime Marvel Comics readers scratching their heads after they get out of Fantastic Four: First Steps. Allow us to clear up the confusion
August 12, 2025
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James Cameron isn't making Avatar for the money, but because "hopefully it can do some good"
While the Avatar: Fire and Ash director says movies aren't the solution to human problems, they can help connect us to lost things, like our ties to nature
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
It's all doom and gloom at Nevermore Academy, but the Wednesday season 2 cast seemed to have fun on their group vacation to Greece
The Addams' daughter isn't the "sun and and type," but the real people that play her friends and family on Netflix's Wednesday season 2 seem to be
August 08, 2025
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#ReleaseTheHorvitzCut: The greatest Hazbin Hotel impressionist is the series voice director Richard Horvitz
At San Deigo Comic Con '25, Hellaverse fans got to cheer on favorites like VivziePop and Brandon Rogers. But they were cheering on Richard Horvitz, who voices Moxxie and, behind the scenes, everybody else
August 08, 2025
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Simpsons creator Matt Groening's rules to animation (and why the Disenchantment characters have five fingers)
The Simpsons creator didn't want to see "a lion that looks like it came from a ruler," says Claudia Katz, animation producer for Futurama and Disenchantment
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Live Comedy, Live Play: Dimension 20 (and future Critical role!) GM Brennan Lee Mulligan on the parallels between TTRPGs and Improv
'Yes, And' can make for an incredible improv comedy show, but how does it factor into GMing a game such as Dropout's Cloudward, Ho, or Critical Role's Campaign 4? Let Brennan Lee Mulligan explain
August 08, 2025
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FX's Alien: Earth prequel has built a replica of Ridley's Nostromo from the original movie, for the Maginot
At SDCC '25, Hawley told Hall H that walking onto the set of the USCSS Maginot "collapses time." Metaphorically, we assume - Alien: Earth isn't that kind of scifi
August 08, 2025
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Hazbin Hotel's Erika Henningsen wants Charlie to meet Helluva Boss's Loona - but not just because the characters would get along
Look, we all want the Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel characters to cross over. But maybe not quite as much as the people that, well, play those characters
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Disney has killed Goosebumps, but there's a good chance Sony may resurrect it
The series based on R.L. Stine's landmark YA horror novels is deceased at Disney+, but producer Sony Pictures Television is looking for another network to give it the Frankenstein treatment
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Alien: Earth isn't planning a crossover with Predator (yet), but showrunner Noah Hawley is talking to Predator: Badlands director - and others
Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg have had talks about their franchises, but their projects are on "separate tracks" (for now)
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Ridley Scott's Alien opener reminds us there's more to be afraid of than just the xenomorph [The Coldest Open]
Even before the first chestburster scene, there's already a villain onboard the Nostromo, and plenty of warning signs that the cast of Alien aren't going to make it
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Is Marvel villain the Rhino in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? A report from the Glasgow set of the MCU movie has us speculating
Set pieces bearing a rhino head are on set for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, reports a Glasgow local. Is it a coincidence, or evidence of another popular Spidey rogue headed to the MCU?
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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"He's an iPhone 1 in an iPhone 20 world": Alien: Earth co-star Babou Ceesay on his cyborg character
Ceesay, who plays one of the three types of artificial life at the center of Noah Hawley's FX sci-fi horror series, says his character won't have the most cutting edge tech on the show
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
There are darker, more intense things on the way for Wednesday in season 2, but Bruno actor Noah Taylor is staying mum about them
No spoilers, we promise. Much as we tried to get Wednesday's werewolf heartthrob to spill the beans, Taylor stayed true to the spirit of the show and kept his secrets
August 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix series The Hunting Wives based Margo on First Lady Melania Trump, says Malin Åkerman
Åkerman, who stars as Margo Banks in the Netflix adaptation of May Cobb's scandalous novel, says the First Lady was "the only reference, really" for her character
August 07, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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"I love Marvel movies, but it's time to give the underdog a shot" - MCU star Peter Dinklage on why the Toxic Avenger, not the Fantastic Four or Superman, is the hero for summer 2025
The Toxic Avenger doesn't have the looks of Clark Kent or Reed Richards (hell, even Ben Grimm), but he's got something just as valuable - originality
August 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Get Out & Black Panther star Daniel Kaluuya becomes the second Spider-Verse star to get a spinoff, as Sony greenlights Spider-Punk
Like Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir, Kaluuya will be take the character he brought to life in Sony's Spider-Verse into another story - but unlike the Prime Video series, Spider-Punk will stay animated
August 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Matthew Mercer is working on a Romantasy-themed TTRPG camapign, and we're wondering how big a 69-sided die would have to be
Mercer and Darrington Press's Daggerheart has explored haunted wastelands, dungeon kitchens, and colossus-ridden deserts. Now, it looks like it'll venture behind castle walls (and bedroom doors)
August 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Inside the unmade Futurama episode where Fry & Leela were time-crossed lovers that was too "complicated" to make work
There are a lot of science fiction concepts that Futurama is perfectly capable of tackling, but ahead of season 13, head writer Cohen revealed the one that's too out there for even the Planet Express crew
August 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Wars: Hunters stalled out because Lucasfilm was wishy-washy on what they could do with key characters like Darth Vader, says Zynga
"Could you play Darth Vader or could you not?" - that question was never properly answered, says Frank Gibeau, CEO of Hunters developer Zynga
August 05, 2025
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The South Korean government is giving online comic companies a discount on their taxes to encourage them to make more webtoons
The Promotion of Comics Act was unveiled by South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance in July 2025
August 05, 2025
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How fans and a social media meme got Lady Gaga cast in Netflix's Wednesday season 2
I mean it's Lady Gaga, so you can assume that at least a little bit of her success in snagging a role in Wednesday comes down to... Just Dance.
August 05, 2025
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Wednesday season 4? 5? 6? The show's creators see this show running for years - if Netflix and you let them go that long
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar aren't planning a specific number of seasons for Netflix's goth teen drama - they learned not to do so from their experience on Smallville
August 05, 2025
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It sure seems like Tim Burton knows something about a monster movie that we don't
Is it Medusa? Is it Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman? What are you talking about, Burton??
August 05, 2025
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Tim Burton was "pissed" when he heard about the Beetlejuice Broadway musical
Burton, who is collaborating with Netflix again for Wednesday season 2, says he feels very "proprietary" about his creations
August 05, 2025
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Machine Gun Kelly says he was "supposed to" be in Sinners, but turned down the audition because a slur was in the script
"They had me set up to do the audition," says Kelly of Ryan Coogler's vampire period piece, but his discomfort with the script meant it never happened
August 04, 2025
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar shares training, laughs, and maybe a Twilight joke (?) with new slayer Ryan Kiera Armstrong
"Warrior 1 and 2," says Gellar of herself and new Buffy costar Armstrong, "We don’t sweat … we sparkle."
August 04, 2025
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