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Image: Universal Pictures Vampires aren’t supposed to be sparkly , and we’re here for bat creature Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter . Based on the eerie captain’s log from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula , André Øvredal’s (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) upcoming film The Last Voyage of the Demeter recounts the chapter that Dracula spent traveling on the merchant ship Demeter— and the horrors he unleashed on the crew hired to charter his private cargo with 50 unmarked wooden crates of “dirt.” You know, lots of bloody death and terror. Here’s a look behind the scenes of the film starring Corey Hawkins (In The Heights) , David Dastmalchian ( The Boogeyman ), and Liam Cunningham ( Game of Thrones ). The Last Voyage of the Demeter | A Look Inside Featurette The impressive look of Javier Botet (Mama) as Dracula in his own creature feature at sea has us intrigued. Universal Pictures is trying different ways to reinvigorate its monster slate, this latest being anot...

SpaceX has had 52 launches in 2023 as of July 31. SpaceX will attempt up to 100 launches (may include Starship) in 2023. July 1, 2023 SpaceX launched the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine the redshift ... Read more

Photo: Sabina Graves/Gizmodo Halloween started this past weekend at Midsummer Scream, the season’s official kick-off convention in Long Beach, CA. Held over the course of three days, the event showcased horror films like Saw X , haunts like Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights , and Halloween season creatives previewing what to expect for the fall season. Fans who celebrate came out in their spooky best, and the cosplay showcasing icons of terror did not disappoint. Here’s a gallery of our favorite looks from the convention. This cosplay roundup, which includes characters from major studio projects, was published during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes . Without the labor of writers and actors currently on strike, the films and TV celebrated here by fans wouldn’t exist. Midsummer Scream 2023 Photo: Sabina Graves/Gizmodo Chucky x 2 and their bride. Midsummer Scream 2023 Photo: Sabina Graves/Gizmodo Nope , don’t look up. Midsummer Scream 2023 Photo: Sabina Gra...

Llama 2 is a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Meta fine-tuned LLMs, called Llama 2-Chat, are optimized for dialogue use cases. The models outperform open-source chat models on most benchmarks they tested, and based on their human evaluations for helpfulness and ... Read more

Screenshot: Sunrise/Crunchyroll Witch From Mercury broke ground for the Gundam franchise with— and sales records spurred in part by—its depiction of the burgeoning romantic relationship between its main characters Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran. But while the series itself came about as close to text as it could on their bond, Bandai itself is more hesitant. This past week the latest issue of Gundam Ace magazine featured an interview with voice actress Kana Ichinose, who played Suletta Mercury, in the wake of the conclusion of the show. The final scenes of the series , set in a flash-forward to three years after the events of the main show, depicted Suletta and Miorine embracing and wearing matching silver bands on their ring fingers. “After three years, they seem much closer, and to see them married like that really touched my heart,” Ichinose’s comment reads in part, the first explicit confirmation of the characters’ marriage outside of the show itself. News of the co...

Here's an attempt at a summary in a form of a blogpost, AI's tend to … lose detail but I've tried to work around this, cannot verify 100% since I don't speak Chinese Attempting to Reproduce the Room Temperature Superconductor This highly anticipated experiment has generated… — Alex Volkov – targum.video (@altryne) July 31, 2023 ... Read more

Image: Good Smile, Sentinel, and Hot Toys Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Hot Toys delves into Kamen Rider , Bandai debuts its chonky new Godzilla, and NECA’s Gargoyles line gives us the Iron Man Jonathan Frakes of our dreams. Check it out! Good Smile Company Dead Space Figma Isaac Clarke Image: Good Smile Revealed at WonHobby 37 this weekend, Good Smile Company will bring Dead Space to its Figma toyline with a new version of series protagonist Isaac Clarke. Based on his appearance in the recent remake of the original game, Isaac was only shown off in prototype form, so there’s no details on accessories or release date just yet—other than that he’ll come with a stand and his trusty Plasma Cutter. [ Preternia ] Hot Toys Kamen Rider: Black Sun Black Sun and Shadowmoon Image: Hot Toys From the recent Amazon reboot of the classic series, Hot Toys is dipping into the world of Kamen Rider with the...

Image: Marvel Comics Dracula strikes in more new Last Voyage of the Demeter pictures. Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s TMNT: Mutant Mayhem soundtrack. Warwick Davis wants to reprise his Rogue One character. Plus, get a glimpse of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ’ musical episode. Spoilers now! The Fantastic Four According to host Jeff Sneider on the latest episode of The Hot Mic podcast , Adam Driver has purportedly turned down Disney’s offer to star in the MCU’s upcoming Fantastic Four movie. This contradicts some stuff some we’ve put out there in the past, but…this comes from someone apparently working on the Fantastic Four movie. They said that Adam Driver was never really engaged in this. They sent Adam Driver the script a while back and he said that he couldn’t connect with the character on the page, and he passed very early on. [ Coming Soon ] Cheat Variety reports Black Mandala has acquired the rights to Cheat , a supernatural horror movie written and di...