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Another amazing short film gets a feature deal. We loved Beyond, the short film about a woman exploring space. And now it’s on tap to become a feature film from Syfy Films, the movie arm of Syfy.

Why does science fiction portray extended human lifespans negatively?

So many of our big media stories about living to be over 120 are negative or take place in a dystopia — from Dorian Gray to In Time. Why is that? Sonia Arrison, author of 100+, tries to explain — and predicts that this could soon change. https://gizmodo.com/three-new-books-that-will-prepare-you-for-the-future-of-480167228 Arrison talked to Slate as part of…

Ben Kingsley’s secret Marvel Project revealed?

Last week, Sir Ben Kingsley spilled the beans that his time with Marvel was definitely not over. And now everyone is speculating on where his character, The Mandarin, will appear next, and this particular theory makes the most sense. According to Latino Review, the secret project Kingsley was talking about was the next Marvel One-Shot…

What On-Screen Characters Are Secretly Terrible at Their Jobs?

Sorry, movie paleontologist brushing aside a light layer of dust to reveal a fully articulated Velocirapter fossil, we’re on to you. Today, we want to know your picks for the most egregious examples of bad on-screen work habits. Is it a research scientist with terrible lab protocols, a doctor who doesn’t ever crack a medical…

Beloved Halloween horror story Trick ‘R Treat (by director Mike Dougherty) is getting a long-awaited sequel! Finally! [Via Badass Digest]

Netflix Is Thinking of Making Original Movies Now, Too

Netflix is no stranger to making original TV anymore, but it seems it has bigger plans than that: it’s floating the idea that it’ll foot the bill for a “big” movie, which would appear in theaters and on Netflix at the same time. All Things D reports that Netflix’s content boss Ted Sarandos is interested…

The Secret to Creating Great Environmentalist Art

Alex Rivera blew our minds with his movie Sleep Dealer, and now he’s organizing a film festival for environmental films, the Tales From Planet Earth festival in Madison, WI. Talking to the Cap Times, he explains how great art can challenge our ideas about what “the environment” is, and how to save it. Says Rivera:…

Noomi Rapace to headline in the “doomed septuplet” movie

The dystopian movie What Happened to Monday, centered around a pack of illegal septuplets, just got its star. Noomi Rapace has joined the scifi drama set in a future where each family is only allowed one child, so naturally a family of septuplets is doomed. Written by Max Botkin and directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel…

Who You Gonna Call? The Littlest Ghostbuster and His Adorable Ecto-1

Do you recognize Cooper? Probably not, because he’s a year older than the last time you saw him driving a tiny time-traveling DeLorean and wearing an adorable Marty McFly costume. This year, however, Cooper’s hitting the trick-or-treating circuit in a wonderful Ghostbusters getup complete with his trusty push car turned into an absolutely amazing miniature…

Get your hopes up, because Sam Raimi may direct Army of Darkness 2

Last week, Bruce Campbell announced that Army of Darkness 2 was in the works, but the internet — having heard so many rumors about a sequel for so many years — dared not to let themselves get too excited. But now the Evil Dead’s remake director Fede Alvarez has announced that Sam Raimi will be…

Original Star Wars Gag Reel is the best thing you’ll see all week

This adorable Star Wars “blooper” footage is blowing our minds. This footage appears to be brand new – and we’re pretty sure we would remember Grand Moff Tarkin cracking up Princess Leia. So many amazing behind-the-scenes cut ups. Get to GIF-ing, people. Discovered by Redditor Forceduse via Reddit.

10 Terrible Movies that Had Great Candy Tie-ins

Everybody loves candy, but candymakers still don’t mind hopping on board the marketing machine of a big summer movie. The result: promotional candy tie-ins, which are often unusual flavors, and usually limited edition. Like movies themselves, some of these are good, and some are bad. Here are 10 delicious candies and chocolate bars that happened…

Bilbo eavesdrops on Gandalf and Elrond in extended Hobbit clip

It’s amazing to think that anything from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ended up on the cutting room floor, but this exposition-heavy scene between Gandalf and Elrond—and overheard by Bilbo and Thorin—didn’t quite make it into the first film intact. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition comes out on DVD/Blu-ray November 5. ‘The Hobbit’:…

Brilliant Wackos Are Acting Out “Back To The Future” On Twitter

Look, Marty McFly isn’t coming back until 2015. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some BTTF fun right now! The movie started out on October 25th, 1985, and last night, some brilliant wackos marked the anniversary by kicking off a real-time reenactment — on Twitter. https://gizmodo.com/paleofuture-psa-2-more-years-before-marty-mcfly-arrive-1450274656 We know this isn’t the first time someone…

Meet Pixar’s new characters in The Good Dinosaur poster

We’ve seen some digitally painted concept images from Pixar’s alt-prehistory film The Good Dinosaur, but this teaser poster shows our dinosaur and his human companion rendered as 3D figures. https://gizmodo.com/pixars-good-dinosaur-is-an-alt-history-where-the-aster-1081802762 The Good Dinosaur has been pushed back to November 2015, following the removal of Bob Peterson as the movie’s director. We’re definitely getting a cartoony…

Which hero and villain do you wish would just get a room already?

The best hero-villain dynamics are the ones where sparks fly… and sometimes the tension is so thick you could cut it with a butter knife. But what if that tension were… something else? Which villain and hero do you wish would just get a room? Please include a picture or clip of this duo. And…

X-Men: Days Of Future Past stills tie all the X-Men movies together

Check out how our mutants have grown from X-Men: First Class in these new stills from the follow up film X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Including an excellent look at a bullet-riddled, shirtless Wolverine and Mystique covered head-to-toe in her original blue skin. https://gizmodo.com/watch-jennifer-lawrence-endure-7-hours-of-half-naked-ag-5835540 These come from Empire Magazine and Entertainment Weekly (there are plenty…

Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again

Hellraiser has been trying to come back from the dead for years. But now that Clive Barker has signed on to reboot the whole series will the franchise find new life? Or should Dimension Films just stop trying to make Hellraiser happen? Original writer and director Clive Barker announced on his Facebook that he is…

What’s the best (or worst) fake-out a story has ever pulled off?

Sometimes you think you know what’s going on in a story… and then the rug is pulled out from under you. You think you know that the Mandarin is the big bad, or that Ned Stark is the big hero, of the story. And then — everything changes. What’s the best, or worst, fake-out a…

Why is J.J. Abrams replacing the writer of Star Wars: Episode VII?

Lawrence Kasdan and JJ Abrams are replacing Michael Arndt as the screenwriters on Star Wars Episode VII. And the internet is running wild with rumors and speculations about why Arndt is getting replaced. Some good, some bad. Earlier today Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy released this statement on StarWars.com about new work being done on Episode…