Today, a very rough version of a trailer for the movie adaptation of Dark Tower leaked. It’s clearly a long way away from being ready to be seen by actual audiences, but it still tells us a bit more about the way this movie is updating Stephen King’s series.
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One of the best things about the weekly Show Me Your Nerd show on Facebook Live is getting to actually touch priceless comics and other nerd paraphernalia. I’ve laid hands on the pen strokes of Jack Kirby and watched Amy Reeder’s noted two-handed drawing style in person. And then today, I saw a man open a long box of comics picked up at New York Comic Con over the weekend and discovered he’d turned a $300 issue of Cable & Deadpool into a $10 issue.
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When museum curators cracked open two time capsule drums in Dallas last week they didn’t know exactly what to expect. What they found were some amazingly well preserved pieces of World War II history—bombing technology that helped defeat the Nazis.
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If you’re planning to live in the Big Apple for the foreseeable future, it’s time to invest in flood insurance and a gondola. A new study finds that nine-foot floods, like those produced by Hurricane Sandy, will be three to 17 times more frequent by the end of the century, thanks to sea level rise and shifting storm conditions.
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Seriously, you might want to hide your wallet before watching this video. It may tempt you into financial ruin—but at least you’d have some fancy toys, right?
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Vizio’s 2016 M-series TVs include basically every feature you could possibly want, including 4K resolution, Dolby Vision HDR (the good one), Google Cast, local dimming, and even a tablet remote. Do I have your attention? The 50" model is on sale for just $549 right now, or nearly $300 less than usual.
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The doors have closed on another year of New York Comic Con—but we’ve still got one last dose of cosplay goodness to share from the Javits Center. Here’s our absolute favorite cosplayers from the final day of NYCC!
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None of this news is official, but according to a post on Angry Asian Man, the script Disney bought for The Legend of Mulan has decided that what was missing from that story was a white merchant for Mulan to fall in love with. And it’s generating a heated debate about the way Hollywood makes Asian stories.
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You know, when I think “Aladdin,” I instantly think “Guy Ritchie.” It’s an automatic association for me.
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HBO’s new series Westworld has probably got a lot of people reconsidering their most recent Grand Theft Auto V murder spree.
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Want to check out Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s popular manga before, say, Netflix releases its adaptation next year? Well, this new Japanese release of the entire thing in a single book could be up your street, as well as double as a solid enough weapon against potential home invaders.
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A joint mission led by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos arrives at Mars next week, and its first order of business will be to make history. If all goes well, NASA is about to lose its bragging rights as the only space agency to successfully land probes on the Red Planet.
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Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is trading in his singing pipes for another mutant superpower. It was announced online that Clement is joining the cast of Legion in a multi-episode role.
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Batman and Wonder Woman have teamed up more times that we can count in the comics—but their latest is a real first, as Adam West and Lynda Carter’s iconic takes on the World’s Finest team up for Batman ‘66/Wonder Woman ‘77. We sat down with series writer Marc Andreyko to learn more.
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Few people love playing a role as much as Matt Ryan loves playing Constantine. He played him on the short-lived NBC show Constantine, he showed up as him again in Arrow, and now he’s voicing the character in DC’s animated movie Justice League Dark.
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The Season 3 trailer for Syfy’s time-traveling thriller 12 Monkeys is here, and we’re spending more time in 2163, over a century in the future. Do you think they can tell us who won this election, so we don’t have to think about it anymore?
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Marvel does it, DC is doing it, so why not Valiant? The indie comic company recently announced they’re doing an online series called Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe which will introduce the company’s popular comic book characters into live action for the first time ever, creating what they hope will be their own shared, cinematic universe.
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The United States may have avoided the brunt of Hurricane Matthew’s deadly rain and wind storms, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Southeast coast from receiving severe damage. After Hurricane Matthew rolled through the Caribbean and killed nearly 900 people in Haiti, the storm continued along the US Southeastern coast, pummeling states like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina all weekend.
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This image from the Emojimovie fills me with existential dread. The smile that looks coincidentally like Wyldstyle from the LEGO Movie. The bandage/bandanna on the high five. The bow-tied poo with raised eyebrows. The presence of T.J. Miller (Deadpool), James Corden (Into the Woods), and Ilana Glazer (Broad City) cannot remove that dread.
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On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew.
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For practical purposes, the metal Cesium can be found in spacecraft propellant, radiation devices that treat cancer and atomic clocks. For impractical purposes, it reshapes itself and explodes in the most beautiful and unpredictable ways.
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The Doctor Strange movie has pushed itself as being mindbending, just like the comic books that inspired it—but honestly, most of what we’ve seen so far is a little less Steve Ditko, a little more Inception. That’s all well and good (and weird), but we’re very glad this new teaser leans more towards the Ditko trippiness.
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Elon Musk made it pretty clear than anyone hoping to colonize the Red Planet has made a tactic agreement to be a blood sacrifice to SpaceX. Fine, no one said space travel was safe. But the survivors have a new danger to consider: space brain.
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Good news, everyone! Hayley Atwell officially has more Agent Carter in her future. However, it’s perhaps not in the form that you were hoping for.
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Researchers have successfully beefed up the delicate thread of the silkworm by feeding them graphene, or single-walled carbon nanotubes. You know what that means. Get ready for some silky-smooth wearable tech.
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