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Crystal Lake Gives Friday the 13th Its Most Unsettling Twist Yet: Jason’s Mother Is the Story

Crystal Lake’s official trailer moves the Friday the 13th legend backward, putting Pam Voorhees’ grief—and the town’s fear—at the center of the nightmare.

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VisionQuest Brings Vision and Ultron Back Together—and That Is a Much Stranger Reunion Than It Sounds

Marvel’s VisionQuest will reunite Paul Bettany’s Vision and James Spader’s Ultron in the final chapter of the WandaVision-era trilogy. The surprising hook is not a cameo: it is a reckoning between two versions of synthetic life.

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Clayface Is Turning DC’s Horror Experiment Into a Movie About Losing Your Face

DC’s Clayface movie is using a classic Batman villain to ask a very human horror question: what happens when the face everyone recognizes stops belonging to you?

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The Horror Movie Theater Is Back in the Spotlight—and Its Empty Seats Are the Scariest Part

Horror works differently in a theater because the room becomes part of the scare. The next wave of genre movies is testing whether audiences still want to be frightened together.

Lanterns lead through an ancient moonlit forest toward a moss-covered stone burial mound.

The Oldest Fantasy Detours Still Know How to Surprise Us

The fantasy scenes readers remember most are not always the battles. Sometimes they are the eerie detours where a road, forest or burial mound seems to have its own agenda.

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Star Wars and Marvel Are Finally Crossing Over—and Kevin Smith Is Writing the Collision

Luke, Leia and Han are about to meet Avengers and Spider-Man in the first official Star Wars/Marvel crossover. Kevin Smith is writing the five-issue comic, turning a once-impossible fan question into an actual story.

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Superman Is Going Back to 1938—and DC Is Making His Newest Origin Story Adults-Only

Wes Craig’s new Superman comic returns to 1938 Metropolis, draws from the Golden Age and carries an Ages 17+ label. The surprise is how directly DC is putting innocence and menace in the same frame.

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Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson May Be Half Brothers—and Now Hollywood Is Turning That Mystery Into TV

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson may be half brothers, and a new Apple TV comedy is using that uncanny real-life possibility as its starting point. The stranger story happened before the script.

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Diablo IV Reaches Switch 2 With Two Expansions—and a Different Starting Line

Diablo IV: Age of Hatred Collection arrives on Switch 2 with the base game and both expansions. That changes the starting point, but leaves important port questions to test.

A yellow taxi bursts from an arcade cabinet onto a curling strip of film above a sunny, hilly city.

Netflix’s Crazy Taxi Movie Has One Big Challenge: Making the Next Fare Matter

Netflix and SEGA are developing a Crazy Taxi comedy. Its most interesting challenge is turning a brilliantly simple arcade loop into a story worth riding through.

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One of the most ambitious projects from Amazon Prime Video is undoubtedly the series of The Lord of the Rings they are working on. The platform has plans to have the first season released by 2021. Amazon has decided to invest several seasons into this project and is the series expected to be the most successful so far, with names… Read more »

Natalie Portman Is The New Thor And This Is What Artists Think She’ll Look Like

Natalie Portman will return to the Marvel Studios film universe in the fourth installment of the Thor saga, which will be titled “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Portman had appeared in the first two films of the Nordic superhero with the role of Jane Foster, but this time around the actress will be a female version of Thor. Marvel announced the news during this year’s Comic-Con that… Read more »

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD – Official Trailer

It only takes one person to inspire a world of kindness. Based on the true story, #ABeautifulDayMovie in theaters this Thanksgiving.

Soviet Union Superman Movie Announced At SDCC 2019

Years ago, DC Comics had a comic series that was called Elseworlds, created specifically to release stories starring its most popular superheroes but outside of any official continuity and placed in alternate scenarios Simply put, they were the “What would happen if… “ comics. One of those stories was Superman: Red Son, whose film adaptation has… Read more »

Marvel Studios Announcements from Hall H at SDCC 2019!

Ryan “Agent M” Penagos recaps all the breathtaking announcements from Marvel Studios’ Hall H presentation at SDCC 2019!

SDCC 2019: Sir Patrick Stewart Gets Emotional About Star Trek: The Next Generation During The Sta…

During Saturday’s Star Trek: Picard panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, the iconic actor tears up when discussing the Star Trek: Next Generation finale. Star Trek: Picard will premiere in early 2020, exclusively on CBS All Access.

The Witcher Official SDCC Teaser Release

After sharing some images and the first poster the previous week, Netflix took advantage of the San Diego Comic-Con 2019 to release the first trailer of The Witcher, the series based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s books and the videogame saga from CD Projekt Red, and of course, it is starring Geralt de Rivia, a character that… Read more »

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