Gizmodo

Keanu Reeves has spent the last near decade moving from different parts of the entertainment industry. Both The Matrix Resurrections and Cyberpunk 2077 proved that he could hack it in games, he’s had a really good streak of action and comedy films with John Wick and Always Be My Maybe, and he co-wrote the BOOM graphic…Read more...

We’ve known Chucky would return since late last year—welcome but not entirely surprising news, considering that the series (creator Don Mancini’s continuation of the campy, creepy Child’s Play movies) was a huge hit in its first season. We got a very brief teaser earlier in July announcing the October 5 premiere date,…Read more...

The Orville: New Horizon’s San Diego Comic-Con panel unfortunately didn’t bring much in the way of news—still no word on whether or not the show will be getting a fourth season, for instance—but series creator, writer, producer, and star Seth MacFarlane did drop one promising nugget: the Hulu series will soon also be…Read more...

Marvel Studios just tore the roof off of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, taking to the con for the first time properly since 2019 with a boatload of new looks at what’s to come on screens big and small for the MCU. io9 was there to cover it all—but in case you need a reminder of what just went down, here’s what you need…Read more...

Just how could the MCU continue to expand the world of Wakanda after the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman? We just got a taste, as Marvel took to San Diego Comic-Con to give us a look at Ryan Coogler’s daunting Black Panther sequel.

Although we don’t have any details on cast or crew, we do have a few new dates to report for the long-anticipated new Fantastic Four film. At the Marvel theatrical panel during San Diego Comic-Con it was revealed that Fantastic Four will release in theaters on November 8, 2024.Read more...

It’s easy to forget that four years ago James Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The whole situation was messy—but as a result, when the filmmaker took the stage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to reveal the first footage from the long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel, it was more than just a…Read more...

After Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the next on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s docket, so it should be no surprise the studio had something to show from the movie at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately, while it’s not coming online, we got to see it—which means we got…Read more...

Marvel’s She-Hulk is set to premiere later this year, and is aiming to take a more comedic tone than the other Disney+ properties, the trailers billing the new show as a kind of sitcom with some superheroing thrown in. Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, an attorney who just wants to do…Read more...

Kevin Feige, after teasing Marvel fans during Cinema Con, has officially revealed Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve known that something big was in the pipeline for a while, so while this isn’t a surprise, it’s always interesting to see the full plan laid out and speculate about…Read more...

This time, this place three years ago, Kevin Feige and like, 50 of his most famous friends helped lift the lid on Marvel’s plans for phase 4 at one of the wildest panels to grace San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H. Now he’s back. What could he bring with him? Come join us and find out.

For All Mankind might look like a typical show, but it absolutely is not. It’s set in an alternate reality that looks like ours but has one big fork in the road that changed everything after it. In 1969, the United States lost the Space Race to the Soviet Union. And so at the start of the second and third seasons, to…Read more...

There have been numerous casting announcements for the Netflix adaption of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman leading up to San Diego Comic Con, and with each new addition the hype has only grown. From Gwendoline Christie’s Satan to Mark Hamil as Merv Pumpkinhead, and Thomas Sturridge’s haunting Dream/Morpheus, the cast is…Read more...

The television remake of Interview With The Vampire by the late Anne Rice has a trailer and a release date. Taking a pretty clear departure from the source material, and doing its best to stand out from the atmospheric 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst, the new show looks like a sexy…Read more...

Star Trek’s been making some pretty bold moves in its current ascendant era of shows, but it’s just announced it’s pulling one of its boldest, most bonkers moves so far: Lower Decks is teaming up with Strange New Worlds.

When we last left the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos on Lower Decks, things were looking a little rough for them. Captain Freeman got arrested for a war crime she didn’t commit—and now, as we head into season 3, Mariner, Boimler, and the gang have got to find a way to prove her innocence... while pissing off as little of…Read more...

We knew they were coming back, but at last, they’re here! Just revealed at San Diego Comic-Con in today’s Star Trek Universe panel, Paramount+ dropped a brand new series of posters for the third and final season of Picard, giving us our first proper look at the return of the legendary crew of The Next Generation.

You can’t be too surprised, considering the fact that Shudder previously made the excellent Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, but the streamer’s latest documentary series looks like it’ll be a must-watch. Executive produced by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), Queer for Fear examines the horror genre through an LGBTQ+…Read more...

This weekend is San Diego Comic-Con, and that means more than just big comics and TV/film-related news. It means that it’s time for the comic industry to celebrate itself via the yearly Eisner Awards, and from the sound of things, the awards show thankfully went fairly smoothly this year...as long as you ignore most…Read more...

The past few years we’ve had to make do with putting on a little show ourselves when it comes to geeky con cosplay, but at last: San Diego Comic-Con is back in person this year, and so are the wonderful costumes! After scouring the floor on for some great cosplay, we managed to find even more for day two!

Black Adam is DC’s next big superhero release so there was no way a star as big and connected to his fans as Dwayne Johnson was not going to show up at San Diego Comic-Con and bring something special. What he brought, besides a good chunk of his cast, was a brand new trailer for the October 21 release that dug a bit…Read more...

Billy Batson is back and this time, he’s got his whole family with him. Shazam: Fury of the Gods is the sequel to 2019's Shazam and once again it’s directed by David F. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel. Angel is Billy, a young boy who gets the powers of a superhero (Levi) when he says the word…Read more...

The Last Ronin spent the last year wowing TMNT fans with its tender, yet brutally action-packed alt-reality story, following one last surviving member of the Hamato Clan in a future New York ruled by the descendants of the Foot. It may have come to a pretty definitive end by its fifth and final issue, but the world it…Read more...

The days until Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series finally releases on September 2 get shorter and shorter. After a trailer earlier in the month, Amazon brought the show to San Diego Comic-Con so its creators, Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, could talk about their grand plans for the Prime Video series…Read more...

Last year, Nickelodeon announced their plans to continue the beloved universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender. With the titular Avatar Studios at the helm, we learned last month that the studio’s first outing would be not one, but three feature films set in the universe of Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s martial…Read more...

She-Hulk flyers distributed at San Diego Comic-Con over the past two days show Jennifer Walters (played by Tatiana Maslany) and the tagline “Super Heroes Need A Super Lawyer,” on top, with a hotline and a quippy “I go green, so you get green,” just underneath. If you call the hotline (which is 1-877-743-4855) you…Read more...

The World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the current global outbreak of monkeypox. The declaration comes amid an ongoing rise in cases from dozens of countries this year, including over 2,000 cases reported in the United States.Read more...

A Gremlins prequel has been in the works for HBO Max since before the streamer was even called HBO Max—and now we’ve finally got eyes on it! The cast and crew of the Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai animated series took to the stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to share more.

If The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power does its job, it might make Peter Jackson’s movies look like Mad Max. In a way. The upcoming show took over Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday to yes, debut a new trailer, but also explain a bit more of what the show is about, and what the intentions of its creators…Read more...

John Wick movies come out with a reliable amount of frequency and impressively realized violence, and the first look at the fourth film will make you wish it was March 2023. The preview dropped in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con when leading man Keanu Reeves showed up at a panel featuring returning Wick director Chad…Read more...

Cryptocurrency is rife with scams—we all know this to be true. Everybody’s heard the horror stories: “rug pulls,” “pump and dumps,” the typical “investment” ploy that leaves your bank account high and dry. But there’s a new type of fraud going around and it sounds pretty goddamn weird: it’s called “pig butchering”…Read more...

Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone.Read more...

Welcome back to io9's Toy Aisle: our regular weekly round up of the toys and collectibles worthy of a spot on your shelves. San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing this week, and even with all of the convention’s exclusive toys and collectibles already revealed, we’ve still got Hasbro debuting its new Dungeons & Dragons…Read more...

Maybe it’s because there’s another Spider-Man out there with just an immense amount of style (it’s Miles Morales, obviously), but Peter Parker has been playing catch-up in the visuals department for a while. In the Marvel Animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios revealed a first look at Spider-Man…Read more...

Read more...

The past few years we’ve had to make do with putting on a little show ourselves when it comes to geeky con cosplay, but at last: San Diego Comic-Con is back in person this year, and so are the wonderful costumes! Here’s some of our favourites from the first day of Comic-Con 2022.Read more...

Three-and-a-half years after its announcement, with only a paltry CG teaser that didn’t even have the title of the movie in it since, we finally have actual proof that The Walking Dead’s much-anticipated return of former star Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes is something that is still happening. But now it’s no longer a…Read more...

Many, many years have passed since the first zombie appeared in the world of The Walking Dead. The highly-anticipated anthology Tales of the Walking Dead aims to revisit some of those years as you can see in this truly star-studded first trailer for the series.Read more...

It’s a bit hard to believe, but there are only eight episodes of The Walking Dead left. Eight more hours of TV, and then the zombie show that began back in 2010 will receive a proverbial bullet in the head and finally be laid to peace. But that still gives the show eight hours of screentime to kill off god knows how…Read more...

I have to hand it to Marvel, I really didn’t think they could go any more over the top with their merchandising, but they seem to come up with more and more ridiculous ways to promote their movies, shows, comics, toys, video games, and theme parks every year. Now, Marvel and East Continental Gems have announced the…Read more...

To me, my X-Men! It’s hard to believe it’s actually happening, but at last: visual evidence that the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series is returning for all new adventures in X-Men ‘97. And if the first look at the series right out of Marvel’s animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con is any indicator, we’re in for a…Read more...

Rightfully worried about using your phone during a bathroom break? Stressed that you won’t survive three hours of Hamilton at the theater without a distraction? As the Scouts say, “always be prepared.” But instead of packing bandaids and a pocket knife, keep the Asterisk close at hand for when boredom rears its ugly…Read more...

What if...there was a trailer for season two of Marvel Studios’ What If? Well, sadly, we will have to wait a little bit longer. The studio has not released first trailer for the animated series, but the Marvel Animation panel did show off the kinds of characters and cameos we can expect from the franchise.…Read more...

In a special reveal today at Comic-Con Marvel screened the first trailer for the animated show, I Am Groot. Vin Diesel is reprising his role as the voice of Groot, and it was said on the panel that Bradley Cooper will also be returning to voice Rocket Raccoon, Groot’s rascally best friend and terminal bad influence.

In bleak times, funny-looking animals are worth their weight in gold. So it’s with great pleasure that Gizmodo presents the finalists from this year’s Comedy Pet Photography Awards.

Every day, Lake Mead seems to be less deserving of its title. The waterbody has officially reached yet another historic low. The reservoir is now less full than in April 1937, when it was still being filled for the first time. It is hovering around 27% of its full capacity, according to NASA Earth Observatory.…Read more...

I’m not averse to the avatar. I’ve been a fan of virtually identifying myself as a PNG since the dawning of the “cartoon dolls” from the online avatar hangout app called The Palace. Those were the days of anonymously floating around the internet.

We might have only just recently got a better glimpse at Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show, but today at San Diego Comic-Con the streamer gave us another glimpse back into Middle-Earth’s Second Age—and it’s looking quite fantastic.

A federal lawsuit filed against the city of Chicago is calling into question law enforcement’s use of controversial gunshot detection technology for gathering key pieces of evidence. The suit, filed this week by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University’s law school, alleged Chicago police misused…Read more...

Just days after Russian authorities slapped Google with a multi-billion-Ruble fine for hosting YouTube videos critical of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, Moscow’s sympathizers in Ukraine are going after the company’s flagship search engine. On Friday morning, the Ukrainian cities Donetsk and Luhansk announced they’d be…Read more...