Meredith Woerner

How you can help Neil Gaiman’s “The Price” get made into CG movie

An unknown filmmaker is attempting to bring his eerie vision of Neil Gaiman’s short story “The Price” to life, with Gaiman’s blessing. But this project needs your help — here’s how. Animator and filmmaker Chris Salmon has started a Kickstarter page in attempt to raise enough money ($150,000) to bring his CG-animated vision of “The…

Ask guest editor Edgar Wright your questions now

Tomorrow Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright will be stepping in as an io9 guest editor. So now’s your chance to ask him anything you want. Write your questions for Edgar Wright in the comments.

Is Jeremy Renner the next Snake Plissken?

Breck Eisner’s Escape From New York remake just took a strange and interesting twist. Rumor has it, Jeremy Renner is being courted for Snake Plissken… Say what? Bloody Disgusting is reporting that The Hurt Locker’s Renner is in very early talks for the role of the one-eyed antihero Plissken. The new film, which is shadowing…

The 10 best moments from The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror

Tomorrow The Simpsons will unveil their 22nd Treehouse of Horror episode. In honor of this creepy cavalcade, we’ve rounded up Treehouse’s top 10 horror stories. What made the cut? Dolphin overlords, doughnut rain, and an extraterrestrial Bob Dole. Night Of The Dolphin (2000) Lisa unknowingly releases the king dolphin from captivity — in return, he…

Hot Tub Time Machine’s director to take on the Toxic Avenger

This looks like a perfect mash-up of minds, gore and sex jokes. Steve Pink, director of the smutty Hot Tub Time Machine is going to direct a Toxic Avenger movie. Let the New Jersey jokes fly. [Deadline]

Spider-Man publicly apologizes for “Turn Off The Dark”

Spider-Man took a little time out from his busy day of web-slinging and ruining musical theater to deliver an important message. It’s time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms. It’s a “why don’t you caption it” PSA! The Fire Department of New York and your friendly neighbor Spider-Man held a press conference to…

Zac Efron in talks to star in Akira

Zac Efron in Akira? We’re not surprised. Ever since Albert Hughes came on as director for the live-action adaptation of Akira, rumors of the studio demanding a more family friendly, PG-13 movie have followed. So why not cast Efron too? https://gizmodo.com/trouble-in-neo-tokyo-the-akira-movie-could-be-pg-13-5572134 Slashfilm is reporting from various sources that Zac Efron is “in talks” with the…

Final Tron Legacy poster pieces together the Tron City skyline

The final Tron Legacy poster has been released. Together the previous posters join together to form a neon triptych of Clu, Baby Sam, and the original Flynn. Your Tron City indoctrination starts now. [Empire]

New Deathly Hallows clips increase the action, drama, and the number of Potters

Here’s the first collection of clips from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Check out how much the Hogwarts kids have grown up — these videos are all action, magical murder and mayhem. This last clip is a collection of crazy action scenes from the new film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…

Rhett Reese talks Zombieland 2, Deadpool and becoming a novelist

While chatting with Rhett Reese about his latest addition to the terminally-panicked collection of antiheroes in Anxiety, we also touched base about his upcoming Hollywood projects. Find out what’s happening with Deadpool, G.I. Joe 2 and Zombieland 2. https://gizmodo.com/read-an-excerpt-from-deadpool-and-zombieland-writer-rhe-5682050 In the last year Reese, and his writing partner Paul Werneck, have written three major Hollywood…

Fox fires the whole writing staff of Spielberg’s Terra Nova

It’s trouble again for Steven Spielberg’s time traveling dino drama Terra Nova. 20th Century Fox Television has decided to lay off the entire writing staff. But this startling news may only be temporary. New television drama Terra Nova hasn’t had it easy. In August, it was announced that the time traveling series would be pushed…

Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters attack NYC’s Grand Central

Now this is some serious cosplay. A group of angry Death Eaters attacked a poor bystander in New York’s Grand Central. Check it out — the magic starts getting scary real about 30 seconds in. [Topless Robot]

All the stuff we’d like to buy at the Back To The Future prop auction

Back To The Future producer Bob Gale mentioned they were auctioning off memorabilia, but we had no idea there would be so many goodies. Check out the greatest scores, including the exceptionally rare Eric Stoltz vanishing photograph. https://gizmodo.com/things-we-learned-at-the-back-to-the-future-reunion-5673070 The auction is being held at Profiles In History. All proceeds go to charitable foundations like The…

New Sucker Punch trailer delivers robots, dragons and sexy lady fights

Zack Snyder released another trailer for his fetish stylegasm Sucker Punch. Watch as a team of leather-clad heroines fight all sorts of genre monsters, from Nazis to dragons. Like all things Snyder, this is a gorgeous trailer. But the premise gets a wee bit lost in the collage of confusion. So here’s the latest synopsis…

SGU does Groundhog Day — in space!

Young may command the crew, but Rush continues to command the ship, and yet still no one has made a decision. We like the direction SGU has been going lately, but last night’s episode started to make us worry again. Spoilers ahead… After last week’s “is this a dream or is this reality” episode, we…

Walking Dead cover remade in the “living” flesh

Over Halloween weekend, a very special variant Walking Dead cover was released, and here it is. Looks like a recreation of one of the earlier covers from Robert Kirkman’s comic. Fingers crossed they remake Issue #19, with Michonne! [MTV]

Millennium Falcon rear window sticker upgrades any car in less than 12 parsecs

Now you can get lucky in the backseat of the Millennium Falcon, with this decal. Just think of the annoying quotation potential! We’ll get you started: “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts.” [Buzzfeed]

5 new Skyline clips will eat your brain

Don’t stare directly into these five new clips from the alien-invasion movie Skyline — it’s what the aliens want! Check out the alien madness in theaters November 12th.

Watch Captain America stick his skateboard trick in this Scott Pilgrim bonus clip

Check out our exclusive look at the Scott Pilgrim DVD’s behind-the-scenes footage, take a sneak peek at the making-of documentary, and watch Guillermo del Toro quiz director Edgar Wright, Michael Cera and Bryan Lee O’Malley about the movie. First up is an exclusive looks at one of the many Scott Pilgrim bonus features on the…

Scott Pilgrim Behind The Scenes