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Galactus is Nigh: Counter-Protestors Warn of the Comic-Con Apocalypse

While it’s nothing on the scale of 2010’s grand, nerdy San Diego Comic-Con counter-protest of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Galactus is Nighs team is keeping that spirit alive with their own faux-religious placards. They’ve been collect photos of their sign with various cosplayers on their Facebook page, occasionally standing near some more earnest religious…

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What will Purgatory bring to Supernatural?

With two of Supernatural’s characters trapped in Purgatory at the end of this past season, could we see some familiar faces returning? And how will the separation of Sam and Dean affect the rest of the show? The Supernatural cast and crew were on hand at San Diego Comic-Con to tease the possibilities for the…

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We’ve seen into Fringe‘s future!

Fringe is gearing up for its final season, and we’ll learn the final fates of the Fringe team. Filming hasn’t begun yet for Season Five, but at today’s San Diego Comic-Con Fringe panel, we got a peek at what’s ahead. Here there be spoilers. It’s official: Season Five will take place in the future we…

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Watch the Futurama cast describe the coming episodes in character and the Fry meme performed live

Yesterday’s Futurama panel was a genuine spectacle, featuring the voice cast reading the descriptions for future episodes in character, a performance of the “Not Sure Fry” meme featuring Billy West, a drawing contest that pit Matt Groening against Peter Avanzino, and a Futurama costume competition. Plus, we got to see footage from the upcoming Octoberfest…

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Guess which villain is coming to Once Upon a Time!

Now that the curse of Storybrooke has been lifted and the fairytale characters of Once Upon a Time have had their memories restored, what’s in store for the next season? The cast and show creators teased Season Two for their San Diego Comic-Con audience, including a big new villain. Spoilers within! Creators Edward Kitsis and…

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Looper promises Terminator-style time travel with a crime movie twist

Writer-director Rian Johnson gave San Diego Comic-Con an extended peek at his new film Looper, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hit man who has to kill his future self, played by Bruce Willis. But Willis isn’t just out to save his neck — he wants to save the future from his past. Minor spoilers…

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Elysium gives Matt Damon cyborg enhancements in Earth’s filthy slums

Yesterday we got our first taste of new footage from Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium. These freshly filmed scenes haven’t even been edited and polished — but already they show off an action-packed tale of a desperate man trapped in a dismal, impoverished slum whose only salvation is a space station that knows no…

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New Total Recall footage includes lots of shout-outs to the original

How much does the Total Recall remake pay homage to the original? Director Len Wiseman and several of the movie’s stars came to San Diego Comic-Con with footage from the film, showing off the moments that pay tribute to the 1990 action flick. Just don’t expect Colin Farrell to rattle off any witty (or cheesy)…

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Game of Thrones reveals new cast members for Season 3!

Fans have been speculating what characters from A Storm of Swords might appear in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. At today’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, George R.R. Martin revealed new cast members for Season 3. Martin began the panel by apologizing for the absence of series creator David Benioff and D. B. Weiss,…

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We’ve seen Walking Dead‘s Michonne and the Governor in action!

The producers of The Walking Dead announced today their zombie show has a return date: on Sunday, October 14th, we’ll return to the post-apocalyptic South for another round with Rick and his fellow survivors. And this time, they’ll be joined by katana-wielding Michonne and the nefarious Governor of Woodbury. Today at the San Diego Comic-Con…

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Stop-motion zombie flick ParaNorman combines John Hughes and John Carpenter

Coraline animators Laika are returning to the world of stop-motion horror with ParaNorman, a film that blends cartoon zombies with ’80s-style coming of age comedy. The creators and actors held a panel today at San Diego Comic-Con to talk about the movie’s influences, and why this movie will look like no other stop-motion film. Co-director…

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Captain America gown spotted on the Comic-Con floor

First we saw an Iron Man dress with its own glowing Arc Reactor, now Kelsey Michele’s gorgeous Captain America gown design has been spotted in the fabric. We grabbed this photo of a San Diego convention-goer who stitched up her own version of the red, white, and blue number. Maybe we’ll eventually see the whole…

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Samurai Jack creator explains how Hotel Transylvania will return cartoonishness to CG animation

Dexter’s Laborator and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky is making the leap from 2D animated television to 3D animated features with Hotel Transylvania, his tale of a vampire-run hotel that provides monsters refuge from the dangers of humanity. At his San Diego Comic-Con panel, Tartakovsky talked about his attempt to make CG animation more cartoonish…

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Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

This scale model of Bilbo Baggins has been confidently standing his ground at San Diego Comic-Con’s LEGO booth, but trouble may be afoot now that he and Gandalf have been discovered by zombie Frodo. Will a Sting made from plastic bricks be of any use in fighting the undead? Photo credit: Lucia Alba.

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Dredd is a brutal action flick with both a high body count and a brain

Tonight we got our first look at Dredd, the rebooted adaptation of Britain’s favorite dystopian super-cop, Judge Dredd. Yes, this movie is ultra-violent, and no, Karl Urban doesn’t take his helmet off. But amidst the bullets and blood, Dredd leaves some questions about its heroes’ role in their dystopian society while taking a very artistic…

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The time an astronaut called into Car Talk from the Space Shuttle

In January 1997, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Tappet Brothers of NPR’s Car Talk, received an unusual phone call. A John from Houston wanted to pick their brains about the odd behavior of the government vehicle he was driving, and the car-savvy duo quickly realized he wasn’t talking about a car. On the January 18th,…

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Plan your next Star Wars tattoo with these ink-inspired paintings

Tattoo artist Joshua Couchenour playfully mixes Star Wars characters with traditional tattooing iconography like skulls, snakes, religious symbols, and roses. Even if they’re not your tattooed cup of tea, it’s not hard to imagine them adorning a Star Wars fan’s skin. Couchenour has, in fact, done a few Star Wars tattoos, including C-3PO and Darth…

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Enjoy the stop-motion dance of the plastic army men, to the tune of Pink Martini

David Fain may have hit on the only thing missing from the Toy Story movies: a big dance number featuring the green army men. Here, the plastic toys appear to sway and stomp thanks to Fain’s stop-motion magic and a swinging instrumental track by Pink Martini. Choreography for Plastic Army Men [via Neatorama]

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Fraggle Rock‘s Doozers are getting their own TV show

On the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock, the hardworking Doozers were the foils to the always playful Fraggles. Now the Doozers are headed back to television, where they and their tiny construction hats will be the stars. The Jim Henson Company has greenlit production on a new Doozers TV show, based on the original Fraggle…

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Lose yourself in the hypnotic dance of a squid’s pulsing pigment cells

The color patterns on cephalopods are controlled in large part by chromatophores, pigment-filled cells controlled by the animal’s muscles. Michael Bok, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, filmed this video of a dead Longfin Inshore Squid (Loligo pealeii) still-active chromatophores expanding and contracting, and set the whole thing to Johann Pachelbel’s…

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Galactus is Nigh: Counter-Protestors Warn of the Comic-Con Apocalypse

What will Purgatory bring to Supernatural?

We’ve seen into Fringe‘s future!

Watch the Futurama cast describe the coming episodes in character and the Fry meme performed live

Guess which villain is coming to Once Upon a Time!

Looper promises Terminator-style time travel with a crime movie twist

Elysium gives Matt Damon cyborg enhancements in Earth’s filthy slums

New Total Recall footage includes lots of shout-outs to the original

Game of Thrones reveals new cast members for Season 3!

We’ve seen Walking Dead‘s Michonne and the Governor in action!

Stop-motion zombie flick ParaNorman combines John Hughes and John Carpenter

Captain America gown spotted on the Comic-Con floor

Samurai Jack creator explains how Hotel Transylvania will return cartoonishness to CG animation

Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

Dredd is a brutal action flick with both a high body count and a brain

The time an astronaut called into Car Talk from the Space Shuttle

Plan your next Star Wars tattoo with these ink-inspired paintings

Enjoy the stop-motion dance of the plastic army men, to the tune of Pink Martini

Fraggle Rock‘s Doozers are getting their own TV show

Lose yourself in the hypnotic dance of a squid’s pulsing pigment cells

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