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Ridley Scott Will Curate a Night of New Science Fiction Programming for TNT
Though Ridley Scott is best-known for directing feature films, including this week’s Alien: Covenant, he’s also extremely involved in TV—one recent example being his producing role on The Man in the High Castle. Next up, he’ll be working with TNT to bring even more science fiction to the airwaves.
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King Kong Is Coming to Broadway as a Musical
With Kong: Skull Island still fresh in the pop culture consciousness, the giant ape has just announced another star turn—though it’s unrelated to his activities on the big screen. King Kong, an animatronics-laden musical written by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s Jack Thorne, is heading to Broadway.
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Alien Only Ever Needed One Sequel
No one argues that Alien and Aliens are the best films in the Alien franchise. It’s an objective, undisputed fact. After that, though, nothing is certain—is Alien 3 a good movie? How bad is Resurrection? Do the Alien vs. Predator movies count? Did you like Prometheus? The debates go on and on.
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Good News, Everyone! Futurama Lives on, This Time as a Mobile RPG
Try as the universe might, Futurama’s a property that seemingly can’t be killed—or at least stay dead for very long. Even though the show’s been officially off the air since 2013, Futurama’s getting yet another chance at life in the form of a Worlds of Tomorrow, a mobile video game that picks up after the series’…
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Adorable Carbon Fiber Rocket Is Finally Ready to Launch
Rockets are big, shiny hunks of metal that do extraordinary things—but you’d probably never call one “cute.” Kittens are cute. Capybaras? Definitely. But rockets, not so much—except for this little guy, from New Zealand-based startup Rocket Lab. Its name is Electron, and after years of preparation, its’s finally…
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Superman Managed to Retcon His Romance With Wonder Woman Out of Existence
Recently, Superman managed to warp his personal timeline—and maybe even vast swathes of the DC Universe—by merging both his New 52-era and Pre-Flashpoint selves into one single Superperson. While we still don’t know the full ramifications of what’s been affected, we now know one thing: Clark no longer snogged Diana.
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The Handmaid's Tale Flips the Script to Show the Women Behind the Misogyny
The Handmaid’s Tale continues to surprise me. In a welcome twist, the show takes a step back from Offred and puts us in the shoes of the women complicit in her oppression... proving enablement is a crime all its own.
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Today's Best Deals: Wake-Up Light, MX Master Mouse, Hoover FloorMate, and More
A $40 Philips Wake-Up light, Logitech’s MX Master Mouse, and Hoover’s FloorMate Deluxe lead off Wednesday’s best deals.\
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Terrifying Looking T.Rex Ants Actually Total Wimps
There are a lot of silly ways you can name a new species—maybe after a boat, or the President, or the sound you made when you found it. But this little ant probably received one of the most badass names possible: Tyrannomyrmex rex, T. rex for short.
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The Latest Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer Is All Explosions and Madness
A new trailer for the fifth Transformers movie is here, and boy... are many, many things happening in it. I’d say it contains a 60/40 percent ratio of explosions to outright gibberish, which indicates to me that it may be the most insane Transformers movie since Dark of the Moon. Judge for yourself.
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Why You Probably Shouldn't Believe the Latest Justice League Rumors
The Last Jedi could bring back another familiar ship. James Mangold discusses the future of X-23 in the X-Men movieverse. Plus, new details on Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s next movie, dark times ahead on Riverdale, and new footage from Supergirl’s season finale. Spoilers assemble!
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The First Picture From Star Trek: Discovery Explores Strange New Worlds
Our first good look at the stars of the next Star Trek show is here, and there’s not a Starfleet uniform in sight. But there is a mysterious planet, and a peek at the show’s two leading ladies—Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green—in action.
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This Alarm Clock Is One of Kinja Deals' Most Popular Products Ever, and It's Never Been Cheaper
If you still haven’t upgraded your morning routine up a life-changing wake-up light, Philips’ entry level model just got a huge price drop.
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The Witcher Is Getting A Netflix Series
The Witcher series is being turned into an English language Netflix drama by CG visual effects company Platige Image S.A.
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Who Needs Marvel's Inhumans When We've Got This Funky Inhumans Cartoon From the '70s?
Later this year, the Inhuman royal family will make its debut in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe in a new series about how they... crash land in Hawaii and struggle to blend in, or something. You can wait to watch that or you can watch this fantastic vintage cartoon about Queen Medusa instead.
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Jordan Peele's Next Project Is a Terrifying Lovecraftian Story About Race in 1950s America
It was clear that after Get Out made a cool $162 million in America alone, writer-director Jordan Peele was going to go on and make more fantastic (and hopefully horrifying) things. After a couple of months of speculation, we now know what his next project’s going to be.
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Matthew Vaughn, Robert Zemeckis, and Sam Raimi Have All Entered The Flash Movie's Potential-Director Roulette
Turn on your TV any Tuesday night and you’ll see that The Flash is a great live-action character. When it comes to his big screen solo debut, however, things have had trouble getting up to speed. Now three top-tier directors are reportedly in talks for a job that no one seems too keen to keep.
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In ABC's First Trailer For The Crossing, Mysterious Migrants From a Future War Land in 2017 America
If the shot of hundreds of bodies floating to the shore of a small fishing town wasn’t weird and creepy enough, what if they were the bodies of refugees fleeing from a terrible war in the future? That’s the premise behind ABC’s new mystery series, The Crossing, and it looks pretty damn intriguing so far.
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You Will Feel Unclean Watching This Video of Bee Sex
For those who came here expecting the uncut version of Bee Movie, you’re in the wrong place. This is a blog about some very unnerving bee-on-bee action—not some culmination of sexual tension between Renee Zellweger and Jerry Seinfeld’s characters in the 2007 cult movie. Apparently, long-horned bees copulating is…
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If The Last Jedi Really Has the Biggest Reveal in Star Wars History, What Could It Be?
A Japanese ad for Star Wars: The Last Jedi makes a very intriguing claim—it says the film will include the biggest, most shocking reveal in Star Wars history. The obvious answer is that this will be the discovery of Rey’s origin, but we got to thinking... what if it isn’t?
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