The vacation season at the theme parks is winding down as Halloween begins to creep into the dead of summer, with its fall events arriving sooner than later. Here’s a roundup of this month’s happenings at major amusement parks and immersive experiences featuring Disneyland 70, Universal Horrors, and a Wednesday x Wendy’s not-so-happy meal coming […]
SDCC 2025: Winners and Losers
San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is officially in the books, and it was a unique year, to say the least. Without Marvel or DC to anchor the pop culture excitement, the field was wide open for a number of smaller properties to steal the spotlight. Some took full advantage, building crazy buzz. Others did not. Here’s […]
SDCC 2025: How Star Wars Inspired Predator: Badlands
With Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg did something no one ever thought was possible. He took a beloved franchise, Predator, and flipped it on its head. By giving it a fresh perspective and a new timeline, he took something old and brought it into the now. For his follow-up, he wanted to do that again, but […]
SDCC 2025: The Vampire Lestat Press Conference
During San Diego Comic-Con, io9 was invited to a press conference for The Vampire Lestat, the latest Anne Rice Immortal Universe series for AMC. And don’t get it twisted, this is not Interview With The Vampire season three; this is officially the Lestat show, as he takes the mic to tell his story and put […]
SDCC 2025: George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro on Lucas Museum
To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during […]
The Most Amazing Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Day 3
Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 had everyone’s best cosplay out in full force. Characters from across the fandom-verse showed up. While Peacemaker, It: Welcome to Derry, and Hazbin Hotel were not only some of the weekend’s most memorable events, but the hard work of talented cosplayers saw fans from all these fandoms (and many, many more) […]
The Directors of ‘Project Hail Mary’ Explain Why the Movie Is a PC, Not a Mac
Making movies is all about compromises. This actor is unavailable, so you cast someone else. That location is too expensive, so let’s build a set. This shot is impossible, so let’s think of something better. At every step, the big, huge mechanism of filmmaking is always a work in progress. But on Project Hail Mary, […]
The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025
Hasbro always brings out the big guns at Comic-Con, and this year’s convention was no exception. Quite literally, in fact, as both Marvel and Star Wars got some reveals that you could ostensibly count as big guns for Marvel Legends, Black Series, and Vintage Collection, and also some reveals that did actually include some actual Big […]
Crunchyroll is Bringing More Anime to Movie Theaters
The last few years have seen anime movies and premiere episodes take to the big screen and make a ton of money, so Crunchyroll is getting on that with its new Anime Nights program. During San Diego Comic-Con, the streamer/distributor revealed its plan to put an anime on the silver screen for the third Monday […]
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cast and Creators Lift the Lid on Their New Series
Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con, we know quite a bit more about Star Trek‘s next new series, Starfleet Academy. We got a teaser trailer and character details—and the show’s cast and creators took to the Hall H stage to share even more hints about what’s to come. Though Paul Giamatti—who portrays the show’s “half-Klingon, half-Tellerite” […]