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All of Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies are swinging back into theaters.

You can easily watch most of Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies on Disney Plus if the mood strikes you. But if you’ve been yearning to see Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland’s Peters Parker back on the big screen, you’ll have a shot at catching all eight of the past Spidey films in select theaters beginning April 15th.


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James Gunn is making a Teen Titans movie.

Aside from Batman and Superman, we don’t really know which DC superheroes will make up the foundation of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new cinematic universe of cape projects at Warner Bros. Discovery.

But the studio’s just announced its plans to produce a new live-action Teen Titans movie from writer Ana Nogueira, which — for other films — could portend the arrival of characters like Wonder Woman and the Flash as the larger franchise continues to come together.


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Robert Pattinson’s Batman won’t be back until 2026.

While Matt Reeves’ The Batman Part II was originally slated for an October 2025 release date, Warner Bros. has reportedly bumped the project back by a full year.


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The Ready Player One-branded metaverse has a new name and a teaser.

It’s going to be hard to believe that Readyverse Studios’ plans for “an immersive multi-genre metaverse” will come together until the company actually puts out a demo, or at least some real gameplay footage. But in the meantime, here’s a teaser starring an avatar from the Ready Player One movie.


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3 Body Problem’s final trailer is a prelude to war.

The latest (and seemingly final) trailer for Netflix’s upcoming 3 Body Problem adaptation doesn’t quite spell out exactly what kind of mysterious threat plunges humanity as a whole into a panic. But it’s pretty clear that the Earth’s most brilliant minds are gearing up for a war they might not be able to win when 3 Body Problem debuts on March 21st.


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House of the Dragon sounds like it’s coming back in June.

HBO still hasn’t announced the official premiere date for House of the Dragon season 2, but according to a new report from Variety, it’s probably going to be a good idea to get all caught up on the show by this June.


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Netflix’s Ripley looks downright stunning.

It was sort of a given that Netflix’s new adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley would make for an intriguing watch, but the series’ latest trailer also leaves little question about how absolutely gorgeous it’s going to be when it hits the streamer on April 4th.


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A thorough review of Chris Dixon’s new blockchain book.

“The book is peppered with glowing references to companies a16z has backed, but is completely devoid of any disclosures.” There’s gotta be a more efficient way to hype your companies than a book, right?

Anyway this does seem like a problem for a 15-year-old technology: “Throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale.”


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Dear sir: am in receipt of your love letter, addressed to “keyboards” and weighing nine pounds.

I just got my copy of Shift Happens, an absurdly overengineered, utterly lovely, two-volumes-and-change book by Marcin Wichary on the history of the keyboard. It’s astonishing.

A small number of extras will be available soon.

The Verge’s Jon Porter spoke to Wichary last February just as the book’s Kickstarter launched. Check it out.


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Netflix’s The Witcher has added Laurence Fishburne to its season 4 cast.

When season four of Netflix’s The Witcher drops, folks are going to be tuning in to see what’s what about Geralt of Rivia’s new face.

But as curious as everyone is about the pseudo-new witcher, it feels safe to assume that Laurence Fishburne’s turn as the (presumably vampiric) barber surgeon Regis might be what keeps people watching.


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3 Body Problem author Cixin Liu is very into Netflix’s spin on his sci-fi epic.

Netflix’s adaptation of 3 Body Problem from David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo is going to feature more than a few major differences from Cixin Liu’s original sci-fi novel.

But in a new piece from The Hollywood Reporter, Woo says he and his collaborators received Liu’s blessing to adapt the show for an international audience “in the way that we saw fit,” which could be a sign of interesting things to come.


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I for one can’t wait for Keanu’s socialist surrealism era.

China Miéville, the phenomenal novelist, took on a new writing partner, Keanu Reeves, for a novel called The Book of Elsewhere. I would be hype for this if it were Miéville alone — The City and the City is a personal favorite — so I’m curious to see what Reeves adds to the mix besides publicity and being very good-looking.


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Who’s interested in a Ready Player One-branded metaverse?

One of the bigger takeaways from Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was how nightmarish it would be if the internet of the future ended up being a corporate-owned amusement park built around an eccentric billionaire’s obsession with IP they loved as a child.

But that isn’t stopping Cline and Warner Bros. Discovery from trying to launch the Readyverse — “a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse” — which is absolutely a thing people people are going to sign up for.


The Verge’s 2023 in review

It was the blurst of times.

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The bird is freed (and the book is available for pre-order).

Verge alum Zoë Schiffer just announced her new book, Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter, which will expand on her reporting from Platformer, New York Magazine, and of course, this very website. Here’s what Bloomberg’s Matt Levine has to say about it:

Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess.

The book comes out next February. Pre-order it!


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A cookbook helped me understand Dragon Age’s origins

Food, fine dwarven food straight from Orzammar!

Braun: Designed to Keep is a book worth holding onto

A century of design — with and without Dieter Rams — giving credit where credit is due.

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It’s curtains for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series.

Netflix’s adaptation of author Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone series seemed like it could have been the streamer’s next big hit when it was first dropped back in 2021. But after just two seasons, Netflix has done what Netflix does, and announced that the show has been cancelled.


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The message is clear in Leave the World Behind’s new teaser clip.

The scale and gravity of the imminent danger everyone is in isn’t clear to humans in Netflix’s upcoming feature length adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind.

But in a new clip from the film, every single forest animal living in the northeast coast seems to know what the deal is, and that they need to get the hell out of dodge before whatever the danger is gets them.


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Michael Lewis would like Sam Bankman-Fried’s jury to read his book.

“If I were a juror, I would rather hear my story than either defense or prosecution,” Lewis tells Andrew Chow at Time. Also:

I want to ask about some details that appeared in various charging documents and complaints against Sam but are featured less prominently or not at all in your book. One is that Bankman-Fried allegedly bribed Chinese officials to release money from a frozen Alameda account.

I know too much about that, and it seemed like a distraction.


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Amazon released a new Kindle app for the sickos who read books on a Mac.

Amazon has released a new Kindle app for macOS, reports Good e-Reader. The new app has been redesigned to look more like iOS and now supports new features like a reading ruler, more fonts, a full-screen view, and page-turn animations.

You had me at page-turn animations, Amazon.


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“Yes, it is a Ponzi structure. But it is not a Ponzi.”

In this entertaining excerpt from Zeke Faux’s forthcoming book, we get a glimpse of the crypto Bahamas conference before Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall. Pretty fun stuff! Seems like Michael Lewis was all-in on SBF, among other nuggets here.


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Stephen King illustrates, in his way, the difference between human writers and AI.

The famed horror author, whose body of work is weaved (in a multi-verse-before-multiverses-were-popular way) around a fantasy series about a gunslinger in a post-technological society that incorporates a sentient AI train (who is a pain), wrote for The Atlantic that he isn’t worried about AI supplanting him.

At least, not yet. This abridged passage illustrates why:

A character creeps up on another character and shoots him in the back of the head with a small revolver. When the shooter rolls the dead man over, he sees a small bulge in the man’s forehead. The bullet did not quite come out, you see. When I sat down that day, I knew the murder was going to happen, and I knew it was going to be murder by gun. I did not know about that bulge, which becomes an image that haunts the shooter going forward. That was a genuine creative moment, one that came from being in the story and seeing what the murderer was seeing. It was a complete surprise.

Could a machine create that bulge? I would argue not, but I must—reluctantly—add this qualifier: Not yet.