Star Wars: Episode IX has only just started pre-production, and there's already great news coming out of that shoot. Yesterday, Ava DuVernay announced via her Instagram that the film's director and Executive Producer, J.J. Abrams, has hired Victoria Mahoney as his 2nd unit director on the film, making her the first black woman to direct a story from a galaxy far, far away.

Continuing his success with Ready Player One, filmmaker Steven Spielberg will be joining the DC universe as the producer and a possible director for Blackhawk, according to the LA Times.

We've seen Cassie Lang, daughter of Ant-Man Scott Lang, in Marvel's movies before, but Avengers 4 is apparently doing something unexpected with the character that only adds to ongoing speculation about the secretive Avengers: Infinity War followup that's already wrapped filming. It's been reported that the sequel will feature a teen version of the character, so get ready for some time travel shenanigans.

While horror movies are designed to scare, many of us had our first frightening cinema experience unintentionally. Maybe we were too young to be watching that particular film, or what was marketed as a kid's movie was surprisingly terrifying. What was the first film that taught you movies could unsettle?

The current Arrow executive producer/co-showrunner, Wendy Mericle, will be departing at the end of the current season. Her replacement will be Beth Schwartz, who was promoted to executive producer and sole showrunner for the upcoming seventh season.

By now, we've all heard about the preposterous incident that occurred at a Philadelphia Starbucks. Last week, two black men entered the Starbucks asking to use the bathroom as they waited for someone, and were denied. When they sat to wait for their friend, a Starbucks employee called the police, and the two men were arrested for trespassing. It's something that would likely never have happened had it been two white men.

An article in The Hollywood Reporter is positing what Louis C.K.'s return to comedy might look like, all of five months after he confirmed allegations of sexual misconduct.

A visualization of which '90s movie stars would have been cast in The Avengers and various Marvel properties gives me such glee that I want it turned into a poster for my wall.

Before the watershed moment of #MeToo and #TimesUp, Westworld was using robots to tell a story about female bodily autonomy. In a recent interview, co-creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan discuss being able to openly talk about things that were once merely whispered about, as well as how their inherently feminist professional (and married) relationship allowed for each of them to get what they need while working on Westworld.

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If this message–that women can not just exist is STEM, but thrive, surrounded by other awesome and talented women–has to come in the form of a makeup commercial, I'm all for it.

Lowry’s most iconic works are the sorts of mandatory middle-school fare that stick with you longer than you’d expect; you probably remember the themes of The Giver better than you realize. Her lesser-known books are cheerful slice-of-life novels, like the nine-book Anastasia series, that wouldn’t be out of place in Beverly Cleary’s back-catalog. Taken together, Lowry’s body of work shows her awareness of what makes writing for young readers unique.

Get an earful of John Scalzi's new book Head On, which hits shelves, e-readers, and your earbuds today. Scalzi's first-person protagonist, FBI Agent Chris Shane, does not have a specified gender identity. Chris can be visualized as the gender that we read them as, which is an important step forward in the realm of science fiction heroes.

Amy Schumer claims there has been "a lot of projection" on her upcoming film and what it is trying to say about beauty.

While their deal has yet to be signed, director Cathy Yan is Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment's top pick to helm their upcoming female ensemble film featuring Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn. This would make Yan the second female director DC has hired, after Patty Jenkins, and it would also make her the first Asian female director to take on a superhero film. It's an exciting day in movies!

 Universal Pictures is potentially looking to adapt the queer YA graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker

If you’ve been watching Supernatural for the last few years, you know about the darkest moment in recent memory and the fandom implosion it caused. Well, in the most recent episode, “Bring ‘Em Back Alive,” fans finally got their wish … sort of.

Jordan Peele wants us all to have a lot more incredulity about what we see on the Internet. To drive this point home, he's made quite the "fake news" video.

Just because someone tells jokes for a living, it doesn't mean they don't take these things seriously.

Thanks to the Hidden Figures book and biopic, more people are now aware of the contributions of women, particularly black women, to NASA and the U.S. Space Program. Now, a new documentary from Netflix wants to shine a light on the women who not only were scientists, but who were tested for spaceflight and passed ... only to be denied a chance to go to the Moon because NASA wasn't ready for female astronauts.