Prepare to be hosted by Ken if you manage to nab a booking of the Barbie Dreamhouse in Malibu, CA through Airbnb. Even though Ryan Gosling is presumably not part of the deal, Ken’s version of the Barbie Dreamhouse does include an exclusive stay with your own skates and surfboard—all the better to live your best …
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James Gunn Is Casting His Superman and Lois Very Soon. Seriously.
By the end of the week, we may have a new Superman and Lois Lane. That’s what the Hollywood Reporter is saying in a detailed update on the casting for James Gunn’s 2025 film, Superman Legacy.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Challenges Disney for Immunity From Lawsuit
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ response to Disney’s lawsuit against the governor and his Reedy Creek Oversight Board—the area in Florida that contains Disney World—is to claim immunity from litigation. As reported by Deadline, DeSantis filed a motion against Disney’s claim in his effort to strip to the company of control…
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The One Cut of the Dead Remake Finally Gets a Trailer
A surprising remake of one of the best zombie films of all time (which you may or may not have heard of) is coming to theaters next month—and its trailer has finally arrived.
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Influencers Gas Up Shein After Sketchy Factory Tour: No Slave Labor Here!
Fast fashion giant Shein paid for influencers to take a tour of part of its Chinese manufacturing operation several weeks ago, and the lucky Instagram and TikTok stars filled social media with videos from their recent trip last Tuesday. The videos showed off clean, pleasant factories, smiling workers, and a stalwart…
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
The internet convinced Disney Parks to make Rogers: The Musical a reality—and its limited run starts this week at Disney California Adventure, just in time for Fourth of July weekend. If you’re traveling to Las Vegas, AREA15 lights up immersive fantasy realms with Secret Garden, complete with Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart…
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Uber Passenger Allegedly Shot Driver After Mistakenly Believing She Was Being Kidnapped
An Uber passenger has been charged with murder for shooting and killing her driver in El Paso, Texas. Phoebe D. Copas, 48, allegedly shot her driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, several times in the head, while in the backseat of his Nissan Maxima, according to a City of El Paso news release.
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The Texas Heat Wave Is Heading North This Week
A scorching heat wave that has roasted the Gulf for much of June is likely to head upwards to Northern Texas and other nearby states. Oklahoma, a lot of the Mississippi Valley, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle are going to be especially hot this week, Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, told…
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This Malware-Laced Mario Fan Game Will Turn Your Computer Into an Unwitting Crypto Miner
Security researchers recently discovered a trojanized version of Mario Forever that will make you wish you’d never been born.
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Paramount's Star Trek Struggle Is a Mess Of Its Own Making
“My goal is that there should be a Star Trek something on all the time on All Access,” CBS TV Studios president David Stapf told Deadline in 2018, when the return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series was a glimmer in the mind’s eye. Five years and a name change later, Paramount+ achieved that for a…
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A Rule That Could Help Save Coal Miners’ Lives Is Mired in Red Tape
Gary Hairston worked as an electrician in an underground coal mine for almost 30 years. It was hard, often grimy work. When a big machine called a continuous miner dug into the hard earth, it kicked up all kinds of dust. Slowly, Hairston began to notice that daily tasks wiped him out.
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Why James Mangold Decided to Feed the Trolls Before Indiana Jones 5
Whether you live in a magical mystical world, or just post on the internet, one rule is always the same: don’t feed the trolls. In internet terminology, trolls are people who purposefully stir up shit. They say things hoping to get a reaction. And, the best way to deal with them, is to ignore them. But last year, one…
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Is Google's New $1,800 Pixel Phone Worth It? | Gizmodo Review
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The First Lord of the Rings Secret Lair Magic Cards Are Ralph Bakshi Classics
If you, Magic: The Gathering neophyte or otherwise, sat down and cracked open a bunch of the card game’s grand new Lord of the Rings crossover, Tales of Middle-earth, this past weekend and thought you were done? Good news/bad news: there’s even more very cool cards coming soon.
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Meet the Full Cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
It’s been quite the summer if you’re a fan of amazing animation. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseis still blowing minds at the box office. Nimona is ready to make your heart melt on Netflix this week—and soon after that, you truly aren’t ready for the awesome that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
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Astronomers Uncover an Entirely New Way for Stars to Die
Gamma-ray bursts are extremely energetic explosions caused by some of the cosmos’ most remarkable objects: black holes, neutron stars, and the violent deaths of stars. Now, astronomers have found evidence of gamma-ray bursts emerging from the collisions of stars.
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San Antonio Airline Worker Dies After Being Ingested Into a Plane Engine
On Friday, a Texas airline worker was ingested into an engine and killed at San Antonio International Airport. The employee, whose name has not yet been released, was working on the runway at 10:25 p.m. when he was “ingested” into the engine of an Airbus A319aircraft, which had just arrived from Los Angeles…
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How to Watch Star Trek: Prodigy Now That It's Been Removed From Paramount+
Paramount apparently couldn’t wait more than a weekend after its shocking decision to both renege on the season two greenlight for Star Trek: Prodigy and remove its entire first season from its Paramount+ streaming service: the animated Trek series, barely a year old, has now been removed from “the home of Star Trek.”…
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Meta's New Subscription Service Comes With Two Quest Games Each Month, But You Don't Get to Pick Them
Even with a $3,500 price tag for the Vision Pro headset, Meta now still has to consider Apple one of its competitors in the VR space, so today the company announced another reason for consumers to opt for its more affordable Quest hardware with a new subscription service delivering two new titles every month.
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Musk’s Megarocket Requires ‘Well Over a Thousand’ Tweaks Ahead of Second Launch
The largest rocket to ever take flight requires a substantial number of upgrades ahead of its second test flight, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed this past weekend.

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