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Frank Miller’s Next Gritty, Dark Project: Buck Rogers?

Rumored for so long that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was already a done deal, sources are now saying that The Spirit’s Frank Miller is close to officially signing on to direct Buck Rogers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Miller and production company Odd Lot Entertainment (The company behind The Spirit) are in discussions…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Will James Cameron Team Up With Robby the Robot For Forbidden Planet?

Hollywood bigwig, and big ship-sinker, James Cameron is rumored to be interested in filming J. Michael Straczynski’s Forbidden Planet script. Warner Brothers has the script, penned by Straczynski (Changeling, World War Z), and according to IESB’s sources James Cameron has been interested in getting this project off the ground for a decade and is ready…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Astro Boy’s Pointy Head Is A Lightning Rod

I love this new Astro Boy still that the studio just sent us, especially the way the peak of his head gets hit with a little lick of lightning from the super-machine. Giant version below.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Robert Downey Jr. Is Calling Who Daddy in Iron Man 2?

If rumors are to be believed, Tony Stark’s dad is just one of three very familiar faces we’ll see in 2010’s sequel to this summer’s Iron Man – and there’s some interesting casting involved, too. Latino Review is reporting that Tim Robbins will play Howard Stark, Tony’s genius inventor father, in flashback scenes for the…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Sew Buttons Over Your Eyes And Paper Your Walls, Coraline Style

Coraline is opening the doors to her home, where you can dance with mice, download gorgeous wallpapers, make your own starry sweater and buttonize yourself with the cast of Neil Gaiman’s stop-motion movie. The Coraline site is now offering a very detailed tour of Coarline’s home, which will take you all over the Other Mother…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Time To Lose Interest In Green Hornet

Get ready to be disappointed in the upcoming Green Hornet movie. Stephen Chow, the one man who could make us overlook Seth Rogen’s stoner parody schtick, has announced that he’ll no longer be directing it. Chow, the man behind Shaolin Soccer and CJ7, signed onto the project in September to both direct and star as…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Neo Still Plans On Claiming Spike Spiegel Role

Keanu Reeves has been yearning to do a Cowboy Bebop movie for years now, no matter how many scifi movies he has to stone-face his way through — and it sounds like he’s getting closer. Right now, Reeves is working on bringing the classic Japanese series Cowboy Bebop to life with producer Erwin Stoff (who…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Dark Knight Takes Another Crown

Not content with a historic box office take in theaters, The Dark Knight is now just showing off by outselling all but one of this year’s other DVDs – within a week of release. The one movie that hasn’t been outsold by Chris Nolan’s behemoth this year is Marvel’s Iron Man – and that may…

Movies Graeme McMillan

MIB Director Gives Us A How-To Guide for Saving the World

When the world ends, you’ll need to know the appropriate protocol. So thank goodness Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld is here to school us. The script A How-To Guide for Saving the World is about an unlikely hero (I’m assuming a regular Joe) who has to employ an instruction manual on how to save…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Stanislaw Lem’s Trippiest Story Gets The “Bashir” Treatment

If you thought A Scanner Darkly’s surreal mix of live-action and animation could work really well in adapting satirist Stanislaw Lem, you’re about to get your wish, courtesy of Waltz WIth Bashir director Ari Folman. Folman wants to make a full-length film of The Futurological Congress, one of Lem’s weirdest stories. In Congress, Lem’s traveler…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Jeff Bridges’ Tron 2 Beard — Now In 3D!

Light cycles will be jumping off the screen and into your laps in TR2N (I refuse to call it the rumored TRZ). Word has it that all of Tron 2 will be shot in 3-D. The latest technology allows filmmakers to shoot the movie wearing 3-D glasses, so they can view exactly what they want…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Bruce Willis Is Back, And Ready To Kick Some Robot Ass

Bruce Willis looks distressed by first person shooter games and futuristic robot murders, in the first official picture from Jonathan Mostow scifi thriller Surrogates. The new movie, adapted from Robert Vanditti’s graphic novel Surrogates is set in a world where humans no longer leave their homes. Instead they send life like surrogate robots out to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Eddie Murphy Is Batman’s Riddler In The Magical World Of Unicorn Moonbeams

Today in ridiculous Batman rumors, Eddie Murphy is playing the Riddler in the next Dark Knight, Shia LaBeouf is Robin, and I ride a sleigh drawn by tiny ponies to work. The tabloid UK paper The Sun (no doubt ears perking from the recent Rachel Weisz Catwoman rumors) is reporting that Eddie Murphy has been…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watchmen’s Day Of Reckoning Now Two Weeks Later

Waiting for March’s release of the Watchmen movie? Get ready to wait a little while longer – The lawsuit over who owns the movie has hit a couple of roadblocks en route to early settlement. The legal action brought by Fox against Warner Bros. claims that the former studio was the true owner of the…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Director Frank Miller rewrote the Spirit script to accommodate ScarJo and let Samuel Jackson improvise — and even reinvent his character’s look. We met the director and cast, and learned just how much they collaborated. Letting Frank Miller gallop across The Spirit film set unedited opened the doors for the actors to do so as…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Time Travel Tales Go Mainstream – Sort Of

With Spanish time travel mindbender Timecrimes getting rave reviews, and the arty Primer becoming a new cult classic, it seems that the time travel story has gone from pulp mainstay to high art. https://gizmodo.com/time-travel-is-like-heroin-in-primer-321829 Perhaps the only precursor to today’s arty time-leaping flicks is Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, a tough story about a man adrift…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Will The Recession Make Hollywood Epics Even More Depressing?

When the economy tanks, people demand feel-good musicals and comedies. But Hollywood has already green-lit a slate of dystopian downers, in the wake of The Dark Knight. Are these bummer-fests doomed at the box-office? The New York Times took a close look at Hollywood’s upcoming roster of depressing movies and how box office sales could…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Will Terry Gilliam Finally Get His Time/Space Map Back?

We’ve only been waiting a decade for the return of Terry Gilliam, the visionary director, from the hole in space/time he vanished into. Luckily, his next project sounds just smart/weird enough to give us hope. Gilliam is working on a movie called Zero Theorem, confirms the screenplay’s author, University of Central Florida professor Pat Rushin.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Avatar Casting Makes Fans See… White

M. Night Shyamalan’s movie version Avatar: The Last Airbender is apparently in danger already, as fans of the original animated series protest seemingly racist casting decisions. Is there nothing the director can do right anymore? There’s no way of getting around it; the announcement last week of the actors chosen to play the lead roles…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Pokemon Rip-Off To Ride Dragonball’s Anime Coattails

It’s a cynical mix of Transformers and Pokemon, it’s massive with kids and stoned students watching Cartoon Network and — barring a Christmas miracle — Bakugan Battle Brawlers will soon reach a theater near you. The Japanese cartoon series, which airs six times a week on Cartoon Network, ties in with a trading card game…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Frank Miller’s Next Gritty, Dark Project: Buck Rogers?

Will James Cameron Team Up With Robby the Robot For Forbidden Planet?

Astro Boy’s Pointy Head Is A Lightning Rod

Robert Downey Jr. Is Calling Who Daddy in Iron Man 2?

Sew Buttons Over Your Eyes And Paper Your Walls, Coraline Style

Time To Lose Interest In Green Hornet

Neo Still Plans On Claiming Spike Spiegel Role

The Dark Knight Takes Another Crown

MIB Director Gives Us A How-To Guide for Saving the World

Stanislaw Lem’s Trippiest Story Gets The “Bashir” Treatment

Jeff Bridges’ Tron 2 Beard — Now In 3D!

Bruce Willis Is Back, And Ready To Kick Some Robot Ass

Eddie Murphy Is Batman’s Riddler In The Magical World Of Unicorn Moonbeams

Watchmen’s Day Of Reckoning Now Two Weeks Later

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Time Travel Tales Go Mainstream – Sort Of

Will The Recession Make Hollywood Epics Even More Depressing?

Will Terry Gilliam Finally Get His Time/Space Map Back?

Avatar Casting Makes Fans See… White

Pokemon Rip-Off To Ride Dragonball’s Anime Coattails

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

‘Pizza Movie’ Has a Hilariously Grisly New Way to Say ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ (Exclusive)

Amazon Makes a Last Push for Govee LED Strip Light at a Black Friday Low as the Spring Sale Winds Down, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant

Forget Shokz, Anker Pushes Soundcore AeroClip Open-Ear Earbuds to an All-Time Low in the Final Hours of Amazon’s Spring Sale

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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