OpenAI Goes Hunting for More Suckers in Hollywood

OpenAI wants to be a star. A big, bright, shining star. According to a new report, the influential AI company has spent the last few months courting Hollywood executives in the hopes of convincing them that its newest content-generator, Sora, will be useful when it comes to making movies. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy … Read more

The Oscars Belonged to Minus One’s Tiny, Golden Godzilla

Photo: Mike Coppola (Getty Images) The Oscars award ceremony is a night for the stars of Hollywood to gather together and celebrate cinema, while also looking incredibly glamorous is lavishly expensive and immaculately presented couture. And yet no one at last nights awards—no one—could beat the hottest look of the night: a soft vinyl monster … Read more

How Netflix’s Nimona Defied the Odds to Become an Academy Award-Nominated Film

Cinema’s annual awards race comes to a close this weekend during the Academy Awards, and there’s no other story like Nimona’s journey to becoming a nominee in the Best Animated Feature category. IMDb Changes Rating System After Little Mermaid Review-Bombed | Future Tech Producers Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary sat down with io9 to tell … Read more

Godzilla Minus One’s Director Is Having the Fashionable Time of His Life This Awards Season

Writer-director Takashi Yamazaki brought a friend to the premiere of Godzilla Minus One November 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Stewart Cook/Getty Images for Toho Co. (Getty Images) Let’s give it up for Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, whose red carpet appearances have featured his star in fashionably iconic ways. Yamazaki has taken to … Read more

Godzilla Minus One Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger in the US

Image: Toho Ever since Godzilla Minus One came to North America in December, it’s been raking in cash and catching audience attention. Either on its own merits or because the MonsterVerse movies have helped keep him in folks’ minds over the last few years, there’s a larger Godzilla fever that made Minus One’s reception and … Read more

io9’s Top 100 Posts of 2023

Image: Hasbro Ten years ago, Hasbro announced something akin to a disturbance in the Force—and Star Wars toy fans’ wallets: The Black Series, a brand new line that would bump the iconic heroes and villains of the galaxy far, far away up to 6″ scale for the first time (and away from the 3.75″ scale … Read more

Godzilla Minus One, Across the Spider-Verse Among Oscars Finalists

The Oscars are a few months away, and it won’t be long before we’re hearing about the nominees for the 2024 ceremony. Earlier in the week, a shortlist for 10 categories were revealed, and while they contained some of 2023’s expected hits, other inclusions were interesting surprises. Will We See More of Uhura’s Relationship with … Read more

Did Animation Take Its ‘Next Step’ in 2023?

In mid-March during the Oscars, Netflix’s Pinocchio took home the award for Best Animated Feature. During his acceptance speech, co-director Guillermo del Toro said the animation medium was ready to be taken to “the next step,” a statement that was meant to be inspiring after animation was belittled at that very ceremony just minutes prior. … Read more

Into the Spider-Verse Remains Spider-Man’s Most Impactful Story

Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already? The year 2018 was a busy one for superhero movies, with game-changers like Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and delightful surprises in Deadpool 2 and the Teen Titans Go! movie. In this mix, no one really knew what to make of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. … Read more

The Music Videos for The Beatles’ AI Song Has Some Jump Scares

You have an opportunity. If you turn back now, you can live out the rest of your days without absorbing the cosmic horror that is the music video for “Now and Then,” or as Paul McCartney’s marketing team puts it, “the last Beatles song.” Nick Offerman Auditioned for Lord of the Rings! | First Fandoms … Read more