Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. Fear the Walking Dead is still on the air and a trailer for its eighth and final season is here. In it, the show makes direct reference to a major character in the original series, providing a link that fans have been curious about since day one.
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The Saga of Victoria Alonso's Firing From Marvel Studios Heats Up
When one of the key figures behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe was fired seemingly out of the blue, you had a sense it was going to get much more complex. And now, it has.
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Did You Catch the John Wick: Chapter 4 End Credits Scene?
John Wick: Chapter 4 just had a killer weekend at the box office, grossing $73.5 million, the biggest opening weekend yet for the franchise and the second biggest opening of Keanu Reeves’ career, behind The Matrix Reloaded.
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Marvel Actor Jonathan Majors Arrested on Assault Charge
Jonathan Majors, the actor who portrays the villainous Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was arrested and charged in New York City this weekend after an alleged domestic dispute. TMZ first reported the news.
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The New Hunger Games Prequel Poster Brings the Bling
With just a teaser out in the world so far, the movie version of Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—the prequel to the Hunger Games series, set six decades before the revolution sparked by Katniss Everdeen—has dropped some sparkle to remind you it’s on the way. Behold, this 24k new poster!

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After 35 Years, Dead Ringers Is Still Packed With Uncomfortable Chills
David Cronenberg’s name has become shorthand for skin-crawling body horror, and many of his films do lean into the extremely visceral. But while Dead Ringers tells a story rooted in the medical profession, its shocks are (mostly) more psychologically distressing than stomach-turning—with no potency lost 35 years after…
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Here's Your History-Twisted First Look at HBO Max's New Clone High Series
The much-anticipated “modern refresh” of MTV’s cult animated series Clone High is inching toward its HBO Max release—and the series, created in part by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller, has some hilarious new history-twisting images to prove it. Plus: more casting news!
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Star Trek: Picard's Showrunner Knew Data Had to Be Part of the Next Generation Reunion
Star Trek: Picardfans knew that the show’s third and final season would be a Next Generation reunion, featuring characters from the series that introduced Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard. But while Brent Spiner had appeared in previous Picard seasons, many wondered if season three would find a way to bring him back…
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A Most Unusual Robot Revolution Rises in Animated Short Seniors 3000
After a mishap involving her office’s slick new printer, aging pencil-pusher Marlène gets called out by her smarmy young boss. Perhaps, he suggests, if she can’t evolve with the technology, she should take herself out of the workforce entirely. As sci-fi short Seniors 3000 reveals, there is another, far wilder way!
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The Past Four Months Have Been Rough on Rockets—Especially New Ones
Earlier this week, Relativity Space’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket failed to reach orbit on its first flight. That’s now the sixth failed launch in the past four months across the global space industry, in what’s an upsetting yet not altogether surprising trend.
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Get a Taste of Walt Disney World's Toy Story-Themed Roundup Rodeo BBQ
Shrink down to the size of toys at Toy Story Land in Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios, where you can play and dine alongside Andy’s treasures. Disney Parks invited io9 to preview the food and theming at the newest dining destination that has something for everyone, even plant-based BBQ!
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Hallmarks of an Action Scene with John Wick Director Chad Stahelski
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The Kings League Finals Will Be The Biggest Streamer-Run Live Event Ever
The days where streaming was synonymous with playing video games in a bedroom are over. In recent years, streamers have been moving their cameras away from their desktops and towards impressive, hilarious, and sometimes downright strange live events. On Sunday March 26, streamer-run live events will reach a new peak…
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Should Anyone Believe Elon Is Killing Legacy Blue Checks on April Fools' Day?
If you got your blue Twitter verification checkmark the old-fashioned way—you know, by not paying for it—then I have bad news for you. The Tesla CEO turned Twitter CEO reiterated today that legacy blue checkmarks on the platform will be yoinked from users’ authenticated hands on April 1...or will they?

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The New Knights of the Zodiac Movie Trailer Is an Act of the Gods
What if I told you that actor Madison Iseman is the reincarnation of the goddess Athena? Would you have any idea I was referring to Knights of the Zodiac, the upcoming live-action adaptation of a hit manga/anime series from the 1980s originally called Saint Seiya? I would be surprised, because adaptations were…
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Hackers Render Tesla Car Unsafe to Drive, Win Themselves a Model 3
A group of security researchers have, once again, proven that Tesla vehicles’ high-tech software and systems are easily exploited. At Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own 2023 hacking competition this week, cybersecurity firm Synacktiv successfully cracked both Tesla’s infotainment and Gateway networks in a Model 3 car, as…
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The Unheard's Intriguing Premise Falls Prey to Too Many Horror Clichés
After undergoing a procedure aimed at restoring her hearing after 12 years of silence, college student Chloe (Chucky’s Lachlan Watson) heads to her family’s Cape Cod cottage to recuperate. It’s lonely—but as The Unheard explores, she finds she’s not alone, seemingly in both natural and supernatural ways.
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Blue Origin Blames Faulty Engine Part for Fiery New Shepard Booster Crash
Months after Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster went up in flames, the company released a report pinpointing the cause of the rocket anomaly that halted its operations.
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Almost Everyone on Star Trek: Picard *Really* Wants a Spinoff to Happen
Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season is shaping up to be a fitting, nostalgic farewell to its titular hero so far—but is the journey of boldly going ever over when there are both the vast reaches of the final frontier and the capitalist mechanism of the mega-franchise to consider? Not really, but hey, at least…
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Elon Reportedly Pulled Out of OpenAI Because They Wouldn’t Let Him Be the Big Boss
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley’s newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the center of the tech world’s new obsession with AI, but a new report claims that back in 2018 Musk proposed he take over the nonprofit research…
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