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The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2012

In 2012, science fiction and fantasy accounted for the biggest box office hits, as well as the largest flops. The year’s breakout hits on television were genre fare. The publishing landscape was transformed, and science fiction and fantasy drove the earth movers. Stories of the fantastic have never wielded so much power over mainstream culture,…

Movies io9 staff

This awesome Hobbit concept art is an expressticket to Middle-Earth

Behold the majesty of Middle-Earth! Discover Radagast’s home! Sneak a glance at the face of the Wargs! Artists John Howe and Alan Lee have shared their unique look at the world of The Hobbit with this collection of select panels of gorgeous concept art in the new issue of ImagineFX, and here’s a sneak peek…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Can Anyone Really Survive the Booby Traps in Home Alone?

There are few movies that get me in the holiday spirt as much as Home Alone does. I’m not kidding! As a kid, I always imagined myself being as clever as Macaulay Culkin, rigging my house with booby traps, holding down the fort at home. But do those booby traps actually do anything? The Week…

Movies Casey Chan

You Can’t Replicate These Ultra-Rare Blade Runner Storyboards

Even after three decades, Ridley Scott’s dystopian saga remains a hallmark of science-fiction cinema, retaining a fervent and loyal fan base. But even among dedicated memorabilia collectors, Geoff Hutchins’ exhaustive archive of Blade Runner-related items is simply stunning. Over the past ten years, Hutchins’ catalog has grown from a single Big Box VHS tape to…

Movies Andrew Tarantola

Fox wants to make a quantum physics thriller, Theory Of Everything

Fox is nearing a deal to make Dan Casey’s one-off comic Theory Of Everything into a wild science thriller. The main character is a disgraced scientist who is desperately trying to save his (formerly presumed dead) wife from a parallel dimension. How? With science! Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox is nearing a deal…

Movies Meredith Woerner

First look at Tom Hardy as the new Mad Max

We’ve seen the creepy creatures George Miller has been creating for his Mad Max sequel Mad Max: Fury Road, but we’ve yet to see the main character. Will Tom Hardy be able to fill the sandy boots of former Mad Max Mel Gibson? The very first image as Hardy in his Mad Max costume has…

Movies Meredith Woerner

9 Joyful Ways to Demolish Your Favorite Genre

Genres don’t have to be comfortable old pairs of socks. Genre storytelling can be thrilling and unexpected — and one major way to seize the element of surprise is to bust out of genre boundaries, like a rocket sled crashing through the walls of dreamland. Drop some nanotech into that literary story. Nuke the fairy…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne Hurd is getting into anime with a Gaiking movie

Gale Anne Hurd, queen of the genre legend and tastemaker, is getting into the giant robots business. Perhaps it was something she say in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim trailer? https://gizmodo.com/monsters-vs-giant-robots-in-the-first-trailer-for-guil-5968031 According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walking Dead producer is backing a live-action, feature film adaptation of the classic anime Gaiking. Her production company…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Lost Blade Runner storyboards will let you see things you wouldn’t believe

From the most extensive collection of Blade Runner memorabilia we’ve ever laid eyes on comes a series of original storyboards from Ridley Scott’s dystopian masterpiece — and holy heck are they outstanding. “This is just a few of the FX story boards I now have,” writes the webmaster for Ridleyville, a self-professed Blade Runner devotee…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Supercut of Epic Movie Visions of the Future Looks Past the Apocalypse

Who doesn’t love a good movie about the future? Zany gadgets, floating cars, dystopian cities—we’ve seen it all on the big screen. And here’s the very best of the lot of them. This superbly edited compilation by Eclectic Method grabs all the best scenes for you to nerd-out on. Most of them are downright terrifying…

Movies Michael Hession

A humble, odd little movie that might make you happy for no reason

Filmmaker Florina Titz wrote to io9 to tell us about her strange new short film, Kurupuru, which she described enticingly as being about “glitches, systems, maps, unicorns and brothels.” Here’s the official synopsis: A programmer is working on a map of the city when he discovers a glitch inside the system. Set on fixing this…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen to the Pacific Rim Trailer

Someone put the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers opening music to the recent trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s giant mecha-vs.-monster movie Pacific Rim, and the results are divine. The only problem I have is that I wish it had ended with its own mashed-up title card, instead of just the Pacific Rim logo. Hmm… let’s see……

Movies Rob Bricken

Who would win in a fight: Superman, or the Death Star?

The Death Star is the most powerful battle station ever constructed. And it’s virtually indestructible — once you take care of that one tiny reactor vent thingie, that is. But meanwhile, Superman is also impervious to most weapons, has insane super-strength and can travel at Mach Infinity. And he’s already polished off Warworld a couple…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Catch Gatchamania with the first live-action Gatchaman movie footage!

Everybody has their first exposure to anime, and for many kids in the ’70s, it was Battle of the Planets, an awkwardly edited cartoon was based on the super-popular anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, about a group of five teens who dress like birds to thwart alien terrorists. The first footage of Japan’s live-action Gatchman…

Movies Rob Bricken

This Insane Life-Sized Lego Hobbit Bag End Is Made With Two Million Bricks

Lego has made one of their best sets of 2012 at human scale. Made using two (2!!!) million 1×1 bricks—and 3,000 man-hours—it’s so big that you can walk inside. It even has a chimney that smokes! https://gizmodo.com/the-best-lego-sets-for-the-holidays-2012-5964438 The set is called An Unexpected Gathering. It didn’t make our best Lego sets of 2012 gift guide…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Here is your possibly leaked Star Wars: Episode VII plot of the day

In celebration of the Earth’s impending Mayan-mandated apocalypse, the good folks of the Reuters news agency decided to take a look at some Mayan temples, including the one seen in the background of the original Star Wars movie (on Yavin-4, to be specific). Tucked inside this little article was a bit of a thermal detonator:…

Movies Rob Bricken

Joss Whedon wanted the Wasp and an extra villain in The Avengers

The Avengers was one of our favorite movies of the year, in large part because it avoided excessive clutter, with just one villain and mostly characters we’d met in previous Marvel Studios movies. But now, it turns out that if Joss Whedon had gone with some of his earlier ideas, the film could have been…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why 48 FPS Fails

Peter Jackson, a terrifically talented film maker and pioneer of new cinema technology, has given the world of cinema a very important, and perhaps unintended, gift with his latest film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” as we wrap the year 2012. Tonight I went to see his latest film in all three flavors of its…

Movies Vincent Laforet

Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2012

This was a pretty good year to be a fan of genre movies. More and more low-budget movies had the courage to tackle science fiction and fantasy themes, and meanwhile Hollywood seemed to step up its game a little. But at the same time, there were still tons of boring sequels and prequels, and mountains…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

How To Sign Up for Redbox Instant

Sick of Netflix? Verizon’s Redbox Instant service-a cheaper competitor-starts rolling out in beta today. Here’s how to get in on the action (or at least, on the waitlist). https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-redboxs-streaming-service-is-really-real-an-5967801 Go to RedboxInstant.com and enter your email address to get sent an access code. Once you have the secret password, you’ll enter it on the site,…

Movies Leslie Horn

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2012

This awesome Hobbit concept art is an expressticket to Middle-Earth

Can Anyone Really Survive the Booby Traps in Home Alone?

You Can’t Replicate These Ultra-Rare Blade Runner Storyboards

Fox wants to make a quantum physics thriller, Theory Of Everything

First look at Tom Hardy as the new Mad Max

9 Joyful Ways to Demolish Your Favorite Genre

The Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne Hurd is getting into anime with a Gaiking movie

Lost Blade Runner storyboards will let you see things you wouldn’t believe

Supercut of Epic Movie Visions of the Future Looks Past the Apocalypse

A humble, odd little movie that might make you happy for no reason

The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen to the Pacific Rim Trailer

Who would win in a fight: Superman, or the Death Star?

Catch Gatchamania with the first live-action Gatchaman movie footage!

This Insane Life-Sized Lego Hobbit Bag End Is Made With Two Million Bricks

Here is your possibly leaked Star Wars: Episode VII plot of the day

Joss Whedon wanted the Wasp and an extra villain in The Avengers

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why 48 FPS Fails

Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2012

How To Sign Up for Redbox Instant

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