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Image: Geraldo Borges and Mark Englert/Image ComicsRadiant Black has become a smash hit for Image Comics, now playing host to a whole rainbow of Radiant heroes and villains. But its next big thing isn’t bright lights and big superheroics—it’s a multimedia thriller about murder in a world of heroes, and io9 has your first details.The latest addition to the “Massive-verse” series is NO/ONE, a 10-part thriller penned by Radiant Black’s Kyle Higgins and former Detective Comics scribe Brian Buccellato, with art from…

M3GAN plots her next kill, probablyImage: Universal PicturesThere’s nothing more annoying than a moviegoer who can’t stay off their phone—and there’s nothing more terrifying than M3GAN, title star of next year’s killer-doll sci-fi horror tale, which is already at the top of our must-see list for 2023. What happens when these two antagonists meet? Imminent bloodbath!At least that’s what this new PSA from the Alamo Drafthouse—a chain noted for its zero-tolerance policy regarding phone use during movies—would have you…

Image: Warner Bros.Amid all the Golden Globe nominations this morning, we’ve got your daily roundup of nerdy news and geeky content. A lot of rumors and sequels are in the works as the industry prepares for the happiest time of the year: awards season. Get your ballots out, because spoilers are in the mix!WickedDeadline reports Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Aaron Teoh, and Colin Michael Carmichael are the latest to join the cast of Wicked. Bode will play Nessarose, Elphaba’s sister, while Yang and…

Screenshot: Lucasfilm/HBOThey may have only just recently come to a close, but Andor and House of the Dragon already have some of their first major awards nods of the season, leading a solid contingent for genre TV at the Critics Choice Awards.Andor picked up nods in Best Drama and Best Actor in a Drama Series for Diego Luna’s role as the burgeoning Star Wars revolutionary, with House of the Dragon joining it in Best Drama and Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen sweeping in for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, with Milly…

Photo: Sophie Mutevelian/Prime VideoThe Peripheral—Prime Video’s William Gibson adaptation from the producers of Westworld—explored some intriguing ideas in its tale of a young woman whose virtual-reality adventuring vaults her into a broken version of the future. But today’s season finale felt like a scramble to the finish; there was too much going on in too little time, with an end that felt too abrupt to be satisfying... and required rewinds to make sense.“The Creation of a Thousand Forests” isn’t the first time in my…

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American alligators in a notoriously polluted North Carolina waterway could be facing similar consequences from chemical contaminants as local people, according to new research. Gators living in the Cape Fear River, with high levels of PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances) accumulated in their blood, displayed signs of weakened immune systems and autoimmune disease, according to a study, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Toxicology. PFAS are a class of manmade compounds commonly called “forever chemicals” because…

Helen Hunt may return for a sequel to Twister.Image: Warner Bros.Hop in the truck, strap in Dorothy, and watch out for the flying cows. Hollywood is getting back into the storm-chasing game with the film that brought the weather to the extreme, Twister. Deadline reports that after producer Steven Spielberg “flipped” out over a new script, his Amblin Entertainment is teaming up with Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. to make a sequel to the 1996 hit called... wait for it... Twisters.The Rings of Power | First FandomsThe…

Screenshot: NetflixLines are drawn at The School for Good and Evil, the place where “every fairytale begins.” Friends Sophie (Beetlejuice on Broadway’s Sophia Ann Caruso) and Agatha (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ Sofia Wylie) are set up to become great enemies when they’re enlisted in opposing schools—yes, one on the good side and the other on the evil side. Things get complicated when they realize there may have been a mistake. The film, directed by Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Bridesmaids), is based onthe…

Deepcake, a Russian tech company, previously created Willis’ deepfake for a 2021 phone commercial.Image: Theo Wargo (Getty Images)Bruce Willis was back in headlines last week as news broke that the actor had seemingly sold the rights to his face to Deepcake, a Russian AI company specializing in deepfakes. Willis’ representatives, however, are contesting these reports. Willis and Deepcake previously collaborated on a 2021 Russian phone ad, with an AI-generated likeness of the actor appearing in the spot. The sale of…