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See the full John Gallagher artwork, featuring a possible early rendering of a Krayt Dragon, in the slideshow below. Image: Heritage Auctions/HA.com Heritage Auctions —the same outfit that just sold an extremely rare “rocket-firing” Boba Fett toy for half a million bucks —is back with more Star Wars treasures, this time offering over 100 pieces of concept art created by John Gallagher for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Last year, io9 got a chance to ask Gallagher about his artwork for the BioWare and LucasArts title, which has had a robust fanbase since its release in 2003. He emphasized that his work was part of a team that helped create the game together. “We got together—the design department and the art department—and started riffing on big ideas. Star Wars doesn’t exhaust you with its designs, and it’s very much an elegantly simple universe in terms of its shapes, form, language, and its palettes. It’s rich and deep and beautiful too, of course,” he said. He also

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Image: Giuseppe Camuncoli/Marvel Since early 2020, many of Marvel ’s primary Star Wars comics—the main Star Wars series, Darth Vader, and the already concluded Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters—shifted to a new period in the timeline of the original movies: the immediate days and weeks after the events of The Empire Strikes Back. Like the first renewed generation of Marvel Star Wars material before it, which explored the years between A New Hope and Empire, this one would explore the time between Empire and Return of the Jedi. Now, that era is coming to an end, with Marvel’s confirmation that both Star Wars and Darth Vader’s current volumes would end with issue 50, with both to set to release as bumper-sized, 50-page comics in September. Here’s the problem though: the time period between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back was about three years , much as it actually was between the release of both films in our world. That’s a lot of time to write Star Wars comics in, and Marvel did,

Image: Blumhouse There’s a new eerily lifelike android coming from the same tech universe that created M3GAN —but this one’s aimed squarely at adults. Fans of the Blumhouse killer AI doll movie will recall that the invention’s files slipped out of company HQ, which could be the thread leading to the plot of the upcoming spin-off Soulm8te. Not to confused with M3GAN’s upcoming sequel, which is also in the works , Soulm8te is, according to Variety , an offshoot in the M3GAN universe from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. The trade describes the film as centering on a man that “acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.” Think ‘90s thrillers like Fatal Attraction and Single White Female,but updated with a tech vibe. The film is set to be helmed by Kate Dolan ( You Are Not My Mother ) who also re-worked a script by Rafa

Image: Universal Studios Products and Experiences Universal Studios would not be the premiere cinematic experience theme park without the Universal Monsters. Influencing filmmakers from Spielberg to Peele, they are the blueprint of thrills and it’s about damn time that the almost century-old fandom will finally get its due with Epic Universe’s Dark Universe, the theme park home of gods and monsters. This new area joins the previously announced lands at Universal Studios Orlando’s newest theme park, including Super Nintendo World and How to Train Your Dragon’s Isle of Berk . That’s right, monster fans: our time is coming with a whole horror film-inspired land! No longer are the Universal Monsters solely regulated to Halloween Horror Nights, random character meets, and disappearing attractions and shows like Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue ; the monsters are here to stay and play at Epic Universe. Within the Darkmoor, the Dark Universe’s rustic village topped by Frankenstein’s manor,

Image: Toho Here at io9, we love Godzilla Minus One . We also love very cool art . And we especially love very cool Godzilla Minus One art . So it’s a good job Toho is getting ready to release some of the film’s most glorious official posters for us to plaster our walls with—and we’ve got your first look. io9 can exclusively reveal four new Godzilla Minus One posters coming this Thursday, June 20, to the U.S. Godzilla store—bringing familiar art with a new twist, and home access to some of the swankiest official posters dropped during the film’s titanic run at the box office. The new drop includes four releases: the “Destruction” poster, depicting Godzilla looking over the ruins of Ginza, in a lenticular format created with the poster experts at Bottleneck Gallery; the U.S. and Japanese theatrical posters for the film’s black-and-white re-release as Minus One/Minus Color ; and the “For Your Consideration” poster used as part of Minus One’s successful Oscar nomination campaign ea

The Milestone June 8, 1974 agreement between the USA and Saudi Arabia was not about exclusively pricing oil in US dollars. It was about enabling Saudi Arabia to use its windfall of oil money into the US economy. n a blog post published Friday, Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, remarked that ... Read more

Image: Ludo Studio The Bluey moment has reached a fever pitch as the hit animated series about a family of Heeler dogs has attracted fans across generations. Even among those without kids , the endearing and clever show has gained a considerably powerful fandom that wants more. While the next season of the series or movie plans have yet to be announced, Ludo Studio, the team behind Bluey, is slowing down from its breakneck release schedule. There’s been three seasons so far, with 154 episodes made since its initial release in 2018. The only upcoming Bluey that’s been confirmed is a few sets of mini episodes that were released on June 16 in Australia. Fortunately for anxious fans not in Australia, they’re due for a wider release through Disney+ and related platforms this Fourth of July weekend. That’s almost two weeks later and it better not be just because of the tagline marketing for the “Red, White and Bluey” marathon. As a fan who doesn’t want to be spoiled on social media

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy have started a new Superintelligence company. Ilya was chief scientist at OpenAI. Ilya posted the following on X. Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time. We’ve started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: ... Read more

Image: Prime The Boys season four has gotten some disparaging ratings on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to some of the most hilarious self-owns coming from a certain small demographic of fans who didn’t realize the show was a satire . Somehow it escaped them until now that yes—it’s always been about them. In an interview with Variety , showrunner Eric Kripke discussed that even though he and his team didn’t set out to mirror real life, it just naturally played out that way in our political climate. “When we first pitched the show, it was before Trump was elected. And the idea that a celebrity would actively want to turn themselves into a fascist autocrat was kind of a crazy idea. I mean, it still is. But it turned out to have happened?” he said, “We sort of lucked into a show whose metaphor is really about the moment we’re living in, which is the cross-section of celebrity and authoritarianism. And so once we realize that, we’re like, ‘Well, we have to go all the way.’” He continued to

Image: MGM Last week, Josh Gad teased sci-fi fans with an excited but cryptic social media post referencing a script “based on characters created by Mel Brooks” that opens on a “star field.” Now, a new report confirms what everyone suspected : it’s a Spaceballs sequel, coming from Amazon MGM. The scoop came from the Insneider , and Variety also spoke to a source close to the production; additionally, io9 confirmed with a source that Amazon is developing the film. Details are pretty thin other than Gad, who co-wrote with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Pokémon Detective Pikachu), will star and produce with Brooks; Josh Greenbaum (Too Funny to Fail, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) is aboard to direct, and Kevin Salter (History of the World: Part II) is an executive producer. That means we don’t yet know the title, the plot, how much of a Star Wars spoof this will be or whether it will expand its influences, who will co-star with Gad,

Screenshot: BBC/Disney At this point, modern Doctor Who has been around for almost as long as classic Doctor Who was—which means the opportunity for returning legendary baddies that the series hasn’t already taken is running rather thin. But this week, Doctor Who finally played one more familiar ace up its sleeve (no, not that Ace ), and brought back one of its most infamous one-off villains. “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” the penultimate episode of the current season of Doctor Who, revealed the mysterious reason why Doctor and Ruby have been seeing the same woman (played by perpetually persistent guest star Susan Twist, a name born to be used in Doctor Who in such a capacity) across their adventures in Time and Space. Now manifested in modern day London as nebulous tech mogul Susan Triad, the head of Triad Technologies, the episode climaxed with the reveal that Triad was in fact a herald for another of the gods that have been menacing the Doctor from the shadows since last year’s