Germain Lussier

Forty-five years after its release, it’s time to have your chest burst all over again. Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece, Alien, is coming back to theaters later this month, to both celebrate the film’s anniversary and to prep audiences for its latest follow-up, Alien: Romulus. The screenings are happening on—when else?—Alien Day, April 26, and tickets are on sale now wherever tickets are sold. Here’s a TV spot to celebrate the occasion, and remind you of the film’s brilliance. Starring Tom Ske…

From Roman gladiators and personified emotions to vampires, jokers, and Wolverines, CinemaCon 2024 was absolutely stacked. Over four straight days in Las Vegas, major movie studios broke exciting news, showed exclusive footage, and more, and we were there to witness it all. What follows is a list of the 21 best things we saw at CinemaCon. That means, if something happened that’s not on this list, either it’s not something io9 would cover (not a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc. genre project), we…

The star of AMC’s Parish talks to io9 about another one of his projects: the long awaited sci-fi film by director Francis Ford Coppola.

The Blair Witch is coming back and she’s bringing along a thimble. At CinemaCon 2024, Lionsgate broke some major news about its upcoming franchise films. The biggest reveals were that it will be teaming with Blumhouse to bring back The Blair Witch Project—and that Margot Robbie’s company, LuckyChap, is working with the studio to finally make a movie based on Monopoly. Beyond that? There are not many details. The Blair Witch film was described as “a new vision ... that will reintroduce this hor…

When Disney created Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at its theme parks, the aim was to let fans step into Star Wars. This happened both literally, by people moving their bodies through the area, but also figuratively, because everything happening in the land took place in the overall Star Wars canon. At least, that was the aim when Galaxy’s Edge opened in 2019. Park guests were visiting the planet Batuu in the middle of a conflict set between the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Ri…

James Cameron’s Aliens is one of the great sequels of all time. Heck, it might be one of the greatest movies of all time. And, in the almost 40 years since its release, moments, images, and characters from the film have cemented themselves in the pantheon of pop culture. That includes the aliens themselves, of course, but also the true villain of the film: Carter Burke, played by Paul Reiser. In Aliens, Burke is the corporate man sent on the mission with Ripley and the Marines; we eventually l…

If you were to make a list of people you’d expect to make a gritty, grounded, realistic, political thriller-slash-war movie, Alex Garland wouldn’t be on it. From his earliest work writing movies such as 28 Days Later and Sunshine to his directorial efforts such as Ex Machina and Annihilation, Garland has almost exclusively worked in sci-fi. So when his name pops up on a movie like Civil War, a cautionary action film about the political divide in the United States, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher.…

The history of cinema has been filled with interpretations of Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride of Frankenstein—and today, two more are added to the list. Maggie Gyllenhaal took to social media Thursday to reveal the first look at the lead characters of her new film, The Bride!, coming to theaters next year, and they’re both hauntingly beautiful. That they’re played by Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley doesn’t hurt. Bale is Frankenstein and Buckley is the title character in the film, which is…

The problem with Netflix shows is that there are just so many, even good ones can fall through the cracks. It’s simply impossible to keep track of or watch everything. You just have to find the ones that speak to you. So, if you’re into sci-fi oddities, tall skinny young men, My Chemical Romance, and Neil Gaiman, your day—and show—has finally arrived. Netflix just revealed the first trailer for Dead Boy Detectives, a new show based on Neil Gaiman characters that debuted in The Sandman and have…

It’s almost unfathomable to think the new film Monkey Man is Dev Patel’s directorial debut. Sure, we know Patel as a talented, versatile actor. But for him to make a film that’s so assured of itself, so beautifully constructed, so well-considered in every single frame, all on his very first attempt, is borderline superhuman. If you watched Monkey Man without knowing Patel directed, you’d surely guess it was someone who had made dozens of movies before. Someone who had plenty of chances to build…