

As the year 2000 approached, pop culture channelled its millennial unease into science fiction.

Back in the early Marvel Cinematic Universe days, the second movies of a sub-franchise weren’t much to write home about.

Benedict Wong teases his return to the MCU. Karen Gillain has hopes for the future of Jumanji. Get a look at the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land. Plus, Warner Bros. wants to make Dr. Seuss strike again with a new Cat in the Hat movie. Spoilers get!
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It’s the final week of 2023, but the news hasn’t stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year’s events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!—James Whitbrook

David Oyelowo has an update on his sequel to The Rocketeer. The next Saw movie might have already found its place in the chronology. Zack Snyder wants to take on a young James Bond. Plus, behind the scenes on Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa. Spoilers, away!

Chris Nolan insists he’s not joining the Bond franchise. Tim Burton insists he wants no part in a Nightmare Before Christmas sequel. The cast of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom discuss its new creatures. Plus, what’s coming on Shining Vale. To me, my Spoilers!

This actually makes perfect sense, considering Poltergeist is about ghosts that gain access to a suburban family via their TV: the 1982 Steven Spielberg-produced and co-written horror classic, which spawned