EXCLUSIVE: There’s more bleeding red neon than imagined coming out of Disney’s Tron: Ares. Deadline has learned from sources that the third chapter in the 43-year old videogame matrix protagonist story actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million to $180 million that was floated out there. This means that the Jared Leto-Grace Lee-Jeff Bridges light cycle movie …
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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ace Frehley died on Thursday (Oct. 16), succumbing to a head injury he sustained at his home in September, his family confirmed this week. He was 74. Originally hailing from the Bronx in New York, Ace was born Paul Daniel Frehley. He later became affectionately known as the “Spaceman” of rock music pioneers KISS …
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Marni Grossman/Paramount+ Throughout its nearly 60 years of movies and shows, “Star Trek” has featured high-tech communication devices that vaguely resemble old-school flip phones, magical replicators that can conjure pretty much any known object at will, and a galaxy full of aliens that happen to look just like humans (although there’s a …
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Cinder House by Freya Marske (Tordotcom, October 7) The author of the Last Binding trilogy and Swordcrossed returns with this Cinderella retelling. It’s a queer Gothic romance about the ghost of a murdered girl trapped in her father’s house, who makes a bargain to be almost-alive and free for three nights. Spoiler: three nights won’t be enough. Hole in the …
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Sign up for the Mini Philosophy newsletter A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. Not all conversations are the same. Sometimes, you can be talking to someone for hours, and it feels like only a few minutes. You natter and natter without ever having to think of what to say or cringe …
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IceSitruuna, the developer behind Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune, has revealed Parasite Eve-inspired sci-fi horror RPG Parasite Mutant for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. The game will launch in 2026. Here’s an overview of the game, via Gematsu: About Parasite Mutant Parasite Mutant is a science-fiction horror RPG set in the distant future. Psionic agent Nova was sent …
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NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com NASA has now confirmed 6,000 exoplanets — a dazzling collection of alien worlds ranging from fiery giants and lava oceans to planets with clouds of gemstones or the density of Styrofoam. This milestone not only highlights the staggering variety …
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Two of the cornerstones of modern-day science fiction television, Star Trek and Doctor Who, have spent decades running on parallel tracks, and they’ve finally come together explicitly in 2025. Fans of both will know that the two shows have an awful lot in common. Both began in the 1960s, both boast expansive lore and Universes, and both have passionate, multigenerational …
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The best part of going to a film festival is finding something new. Sure, it’s great to find out that movies you’re excited about are in fact good — I’ve had luck so far with Exit 8, No Other Choice, and Wake Up Dead Man — but it’s so much more exciting to be surprised by something when you had …
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2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars. Star Trek. Tron. Blade Runner. Akira. The Fifth Element. Interstellar. Superman. Flash Gordon. The Matrix. That sounds like a list of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, but actually, it’s a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspirations behind the Backstreet Boys’ popular new residency at the Sphere in …
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