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“I’m not a fan of AI,” Nebojša Vujinović Vujo says. The admission surprises me: He has built a bustling business by snapping up abandoned news outlets and other websites and stuffing them full of algorithmically generated articles. Although he accepts that his model rankles writers and readers alike, he says he’s simply embracing an unstoppable new tool—large language models—in the same way people rationally swapped horse-drawn buggies for gas-powered vehicles. “I hate cars. They’re making my planet bad,” he says. “But…

Netflix has a teaser for Family Pack, the board game-based film starring Jean Reno. Taika Waititi is adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun with Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams set to star, and there’s a new poster for murderous teddy bear movie Imaginary. It’s spoilerin’ time!V. E. Schwab on Her New Fantasy Series, Anime, and Book Recommendations | io9 Interview (Part 1)Screenshot: YouTubeAttack of the 50 Foot WomanDeadline reports Tim Burton is attached to direct a new remake of 1958's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman…

It looks like Marvel’s short-term plan for the big Jonathan Majors-shaped hole in their wide-reaching multiverse is to make the most of Vincent D’Onofrio‘s popularity among its fanbase by casting him in everything. New rumors from industry insider Daniel Richtman indicate that the masterful actor — who we’ve just seen in action in Echo and will again soon in Daredevil: Born Again, currently in production — has been offered a role in the upcoming fourth Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man film. Of course, Spidey and…

Image: Marvel StudiosWith the release of Echo bringing the MCU back into the gritty criminal world that was, long ago, the bread and butter of its TV series boom on Netflix, much has been made of the show’s repositioning of Marvel’s canonical context to that era through characters like Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin. But according to the latter, that push only really began when Marvel had to take a hard look at its approach to its faltering Daredevil revival.Is Netflix’s DareDevil…

Image: Marvel/NetflixThe upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. Is Netflix’s DareDevil Canon to Echo?Per Jeff Sneider, both of the Netflix Marvel actors will be coming back for Born Again, though it’s presently unclear as to what capacity. In the years since this new show was announced, Disney and Cox…

Image: Marvel StudiosAfter a first episode that’s largely about filling in the blanks from the previous show, the next two episodes set up Maya as would-be Queen-Pin, only for that to go away when Kingpin arrives. Then the final two episodes become very much a showdown between the two characters—until, finally, in the last few minutes of a five-episode series, Maya gets the powers that have been hinted at since the very beginning, uses them, and it’s over.Along the way, Maya runs away a lot, contemplates a lot, drives…

Despite the MCU’s attempts at replicating the long-running stories of the comics, supervillains tend to not last very long. It’s a tradition in movies dating back to the ’90s era of Batman inevitably dropping the bad guy off a roof before the credits rolled, something not even Marvel’s interconnectedness can seem to fix. And even those in the MCU that do regularly reoccur, like Thanos and Loki, are either built up over time or flip-flop their allegiances. The biggest outlier to this rule, though, remains Wilson Fisk,…

Image: Disney+To coincide with the release of Echo, Disney+ has rolled out its own take on the correct order to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s shows and movies. It includes shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, holdovers from the Netflix slate of once loosely related universes. They officially enter the fold, with Echo tying the Daredevil universe in even more.Spoilers of the Week: July 8thAfter Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) showed up on Hawkeye with Maya Lopez’s introduction as Echo, we finally got confirmation…

Marvel Studios’ latest show, Echo, is unique in that the bulk of its story is isolated. After quickly explaining its place in the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, the show focuses on Maya Lopez, her family, her heritage, and, eventually, her “uncle” Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin. Is Netflix’s DareDevil Canon to Echo?This is Marvel though. And after being more isolated from the larger MCU than not, Echo’s end credits scene dropped a massive tease of what’s next, not just for all the characters in this world, but the Marvel…

Echo, the latest show from Marvel Studios, debuts on streaming tonight. It’s the first Marvel show to not only drop all of its episodes simultaneously, but also to premiere both on Disney+ and on Hulu, which is happening for a few reasons. One, it’s TV-MA, meaning it’s aimed at a more mature audience. Two, it’s the first “Marvel Spotlight” title, a new banner marking Echo as a show that’s purposefully grounded and more removed from the epic scope of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Basically, it means you don’t need to be…