If you missed Jeffrey Dean Morgan's eerie Negan whistle—you know, the one made popular in The Walking Dead's season six to establish he's the Bad Guy—then boy, have we got you covered. That creepy sound is prominent in the new trailer for Dead City, a spin-off centered on Negan and Maggie Rhee, played by Lauren Cohan. The post-apocalyptic drama returns for a second season in 2025, but AMC dropped an early teaser during the show's San Diego Comic-Con panel."You wanted Negan dead once, now you want to save his life?" someone asks Maggie in the clip. They're not wrong—Maggie spent a lot of t ..read more

Having recently gotten a big infusion of Disney cash, the Doctor Who franchise is determined to spend it—announcing today, at its Comic-Con panel in San Diego, that it's launching a new five episode spin-off series staring Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. (Both of whom have previously appeared in Doctor Who, of course, but there's maybe no franchise on Earth more comfortable with swapping actors and parts around, so go figure.) The series will be verbosely titled The War Between The Land And The Sea, and will center on a race of "Sea Devils" who decide they're not&nb ..read more

All that is gold does not glitter, but Sauron sure does. Following two years, two strikes, and one Bombadillo, Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power returns to Comic Con's Hall H for season two. Sporting a darker tone, fan-favorite characters, and hopefully answers to what Sauron was doing in the middle of the ocean, Rings Of Power hopes to win over some critics of season one and set up an intense season two. Of course, we at The A.V. Club were big fans of season one’s warmth, its emphasis on the relationship between Elrond and Durin, and the episode where the Elves accidentally create Mordor ..read more

The Boys may be ending with its upcoming fifth season, but damn if Prime Video won't stretch its satire as much as possible. At the show's San Diego Comic-Con panel, a new prequel was announced by its stars: Aya Cash and Jensen Ackles. They're set to reprise their roles as Stormfront and Soldier Boy in Vought Rising, a 1950s-set spin-off from series creator Eric Kripke and producer Paul Grellong. Think of this show as a twisted murder mystery about the origins of two of Vought's most evil Supes.Before Ackles ventures into the past, he will show up in The Boys' final season again as a ..read more

Unfortunately, the allegations of Francis Ford Coppola’s misconduct on the set of Megalopolis aren’t going away. Instead, Variety has obtained video that seems to substantiate some of the stories that he was touching and kissing extras while filming his expensive, long-gestating epic. The behind-the-scenes footage was taken during the filming of a nightclub party scene, where female extras were listed on the call sheet as “cleared for topless nudity” and “cleared for scantily clad.”You can see the video for yourself here. In the clips, the 85-year-old filmmaker wanders through the crowd embrac ..read more

“A hundred million sharks are murdered every year,” impassioned activist Mika (Léa Léviant) decries in Under Paris, the recent Netflix original about a massive shortfin mako that manages to swim up the Seine and breed in the city’s catacombs. “Decades of overfishing have deprived sharks of their food source, forcing them to hunt in new territories.” Indeed, the crux of this otherwise outlandish premise revolves around how man-made climate change has begun to infringe on the existence of vital ecosystems, causing nature to retaliate against humanity itself.The irony of a killer shark thriller d ..read more

This week’s freshest hits are a blast from the past. On the same day Ice Spice released her debut album Y2K, Halsey dropped a new single and video “Lucky” mining that very same aesthetic. Directed by Gia Coppola, Halsey plays a pop princess in the 2000s mold. But, surprise, there’s something deeper going on underneath the surface. To really hammer both the aesthetic and the themes home, the interpolates “Angel Of Mine” (originally released by Eternal and popularized by Monica in 1998) and shares a chorus with Britney Spears’ 2000 hit “Lucky.” In the video—which, as expected, is gorgeously ..read more

The internet is filled with facts, both true and otherwise. In Film Trivia Fact Check, we’ll browse the depths of the web’s most user-generated trivia boards and wikis and put them under the microscope. How true are the IMDb Trivia pages? You want the truth? Can you handle the truth? We’re about to find out.Claim: “Musician Glenn Danzig, whose muscular physique and height (5’4"), almost perfectly matched the Wolverine character portrayed in the comic books, was interviewed for the role of Wolverine. A common myth has it, that he was offered a part in the movie, but this confusion occurs, large ..read more

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what theories it’s got you kicking around.Out of the various hobbies that exist adjacent to gaming—collecting games, writing fan fiction, getting apoplectically, lifespan-shorteningly angry at the existence of women or people of color in "your" hobby, etc.—few require as muc ..read more

Few rock albums from the early ’80s experienced the kind of blockbuster success The Police enjoyed with their final studio LP,  Synchronicity, upon its release on June 17, 1983. Its title comes from Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s study of coincidence as the driving factor of external world events as opposed to causal circumstances. The theory opened up a whole new realm of songwriting possibilities for frontman and bassist Sting that would support the thread stringing the album's original 10 songs together, and those themes are explored in even more depth in the new six-CD deluxe edition ..read more