U.S. President Andre Curtis (Keith David) has served as a foil for super scientist Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland, replaced by Harry Belden in season 7) throughout much of Rick and Morty’s eight-season run on Adult Swim. The president has alternated between calling Rick in to help with threats to Earth, trying to arrest Rick for his dangerous antics, and causing big problems all on his own like taking over an...

There’s been major hype building around Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi series. And now, after years of bits and pieces of information being released in the press, and a dayslong countdown, we finally have our first (highly unusual) look at Pluribus. On Tuesday, Apple teased a reveal on X with the tagline “Happiness is Contagious,” with a countdown YouTube video appearing shortly afterward. Fans have been abuzz with...

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. David F. Sandberg’s adaptation of the 2015 video game Until Dawn checks into Netflix, providing a tour through a selection of horror subgenres as a group of teens tries to survive the night during a time loop where they keep getting...

Marvel’s Spider-Man will be joining the growing list of popular franchises to get their own Magic: The Gathering set, following the huge success of collections based on Final Fantasy and Lord of the Rings. Along with being able to add Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and other Spider-Man characters to their Magic decks, fans will also be able to pick up action figures based on the card art. Hasbro...

Variety has reported Amazon MGM Studios is developing a TV series adapting the Wolfenstein games, and it has a wonderful and true logline: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” No other plot details have been shared at this time, but fans of the series can expect series mainstay William B.J. Blazkowicz to, ya know, kill plenty of Nazis in the show. The early games were set in World War...

Final Destination: Bloodlines debuted in May and quickly became the most successful film in the 15-year-old franchise; now the hit is coming to HBO Max on Aug. 1. This reboot of the long-running franchise, where death hunts down those who once escaped it using intricate traps, centers on the family of a woman whose life was spared by a premonition in 1969. Decades later, her descendants, who were never meant...

In 2018, Stan Lee died at age 95. His greatest work was accomplished throughout the mid-20th century in the halls of Marvel Comics, but Lee was never better known than during the post-2000s boom of superhero movies. Co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Man made him a legend, but countless big-screen cameos made him a mainstream icon.  Lee’s final Marvel movie cameo was, fittingly, in Avengers: Endgame,...

In a recent general meeting at Ubisoft, CEO Yves Guillemot was quick to blame Star Wars Outlaws‘ failure to meet sales expectations on the brand itself. According to Guillemot, “the brand that [Outlaws] belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters.” And now it seems as though Outlaws itself has been canceled, if the rumor about a potential sequel for the game being scrapped is to be believed. Gutting...

In the opening scene of Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four: First Steps, Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) discovers that she’s pregnant and breaks the news to her husband and fellow superhero team member Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal). Reed freaks out about normal parent stuff, like babyproofing their retro-futuristic home/headquarters, the Baxter Building. But he’s also worried about the possibility that the cosmic rays that gave him and Sue superpowers might cause abnormalities...

Robert Downey Jr. unveiling himself as Doctor Doom at SDCC 2024 The mid-credit and post-credit scenes in The Fantastic Four: First Steps go where you think they’ll go… at least, until you stop to think, What does this really mean? In spite of dangling plot threads scattered across 17 years of post-credit scene teasers, Marvel has yet to slow down its efforts in dangling a sequel carrot at the end...