Movie posters appearing to show an upcoming remake of the children’s dinosaur movie The Land Before Time (1988) have elicited strong emotions on social media recently. But no matter if you think a remake is a bad idea or a good idea, the movie isn’t happening. At least not in the foreseeable future.
While multi-billion dollar disasters like FTX would lead a reasonable person to believe that the cryptocurrency industry is dead or dying, the unfortunate truth is that it’s doing just fine. Not only has Bitcoin’s market price been on a familiar rollercoaster ride lately, but droves of crypto believers have, in recent…
Pedro Pascal is currently living his absolute best life; after rising to fame on Game of Thrones and Narcos, he’s now an A-list star of screens big (Fantastic Four) and small (The Mandalorian, The Last of Us). But things weren’t always golden for the affable star, who recently spoke about his long, long road to fame.
The only thing more impressive than watching Paul Atreides ride a sandworm in Dune: Part Two is watching director Denis Villeneuve explain how he made it happen. Villeneuve knew the scene was arguably the most memorable and crucial scene in the second half of his adaptation, and he put a mind-numbing amount of time…
Space tourism has unlocked a new brand of luxury travel, one which promises expensive meals and designer flight suits with views of Earth’s curvature as a backdrop. A Florida-based startup is offering six passengers the chance to ride on board its balloon-propelled capsule while chowing down on what it claims to be…
Our brains are in rougher shape than we might think. New research from the World Health Organization and others estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, or epilepsy, just to name a few. Collectively, these neurological problems are now…
AstraZeneca, the UK-based maker of popular inhalers like Symbicort and Airsupra, announced Monday it plans to cap costs for patients using its inhalers in the U.S. at $35 per month starting June 1. The inhalers treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which combined affect roughly 41 million Americans…
X-Men is a comics franchise defined by its evolution. There are few others like it that can be so defined by multiple foundational eras of fandom-shaping periods, from its classics, to Chris Claremont’s reign, to New X-Men, and even all the way to the gates of Krakoa. But for mutantkind, the ‘90s will almost always be…
If you’re burnt out over generative AI hype, you’re not alone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-4, his company’s latest and greatest AI model, actually kinda sucks in an interview with Lex Fridman published on Monday. In fact, Altman is hoping GPT-5 can live up to all the hype.
Godzilla fans are riding high at the moment, between Godzilla Minus One’s recent Oscar triumph and the imminent release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And you can count directors Takashi Yamakazi and Adam Wingard among those happy fans; as this conversation between the pair clearly shows, these guys both really…
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health examined dozens of government employees and their families who experienced “Havana Syndrome” and found no evidence of significant brain injury or other biomarkers that would explain their ailments. Despite the findings, the report authors say that the symptoms felt by…
Social media was flooded Monday with claims that King Charles III has died, with some people pointing to a video of a flag at Buckingham Palace being flown at half-mast. Others passed around an official announcement made to look like the king passed away on Sunday. But they’re all fake. The king is alive, as far as we…
While Bill Pullman’s Independence Day character will likely always be the gold standard for how the President of the United States should react if hostile aliens invade, a certain real-life former POTUS seems a probable close second. It’s sci-fi guyBarack Obama, of course—a fan of author Liu Cixin, though he turned…
A CT scan of Stanley’s viral Quencher cup has confirmed what the company has been saying all along: There’s only lead at the bottom of the cup. The lead is covered by a stainless steel cover, which Stanley says makes it “inaccessible to customers.” In the end, though, lead exposure might come down to a matter of luck.
It’s Day 18 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we’re saying goodbye to one of our biggest contestants! WhatsApp defeated Instagram in yesterday’s tournament. Today, we have the world’s biggest maps app going up against the bain of Android users’ existence.
Stand aside, Mickey Mouse slasher movie (Steamboat Willie Mickey version only): the team behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey—the most high-profile film in the current wave of horror movies based on beloved characters in the public domain—just leveled up. There’s an entire cinematic universe coming.
It’s been four years since the U.S. Space Force unveiled its all-too-familiar logo, establishing itself as the youngest military branch, but with clear signs of an identity issue. If you’ve ever wondered about the other logo designs that were considered, the Space Force clearly doesn’t want you to know what made them…
The first episode of The Don Lemon Show premiered on Monday morning, showcasing a fiery interview with Elon Musk. The interview ultimately killed Don Lemon’s deal with X, in which the former CNN host promised to create exclusive content for the platform.
It’s official. The next live-action Star Wars that’ll hit your eyeballs is The Acolyte, and it’s coming sooner than you may think. Disney just revealed a teaser poster for the show with an intriguing tagline, lightsaber, and the release date of June 4. Oh, and the trailer is coming Tuesday.
There are both pluses and minuses to a movie debuting on Netflix, but one plus is that basically any and everyone will give it a shot. And since so many people did just that with the first Rebel Moon, you have to assume many will want to see where the story ends. Now you’ve got a new look.