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Netflix Encodes Every Movie 120 Different Ways

The problem with streaming video to different devices—computers, tablets, phones, and whatever else—is that they all demand subtly different streams if they’re to look their best. If you’re Netflix, which streams to 900 different types of device, that leaves you with some work to do. According to Netflix, it has to encode each and every…

Movies Jamie Condliffe

Here’s Everything That Was Wrong with The Avengers

Confession: I haven’t watched The Avengers yet. But after watching this three minute video that points out and explains all the things wrong with the movie, I might never watch it. I can’t unsee these things! It’s one thing to laugh out loud while reading crappy Chinese subtitles on The Avengers, it’s another thing entirely…

Movies Casey Chan

What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum

In the original script for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the ginger-haired Faramir has a vision of Frodo’s future, should the ring take hold of Frodo’s soul. So Elijah Wood had to be done up as Frodo-Gollum. And now, here are the alleged results of that makeup monster. According to Movie Ramblings…

Movies Meredith Woerner

8 Signs That Pop Culture Is Finally Done With the Apocalypse

The world has ended, civilization has collapsed, the undead hordes have overrun everything. We’ve seen the apocalypse so many times, even Roland Emmerich is bored with it. So what comes next? We’ve still got some apocalyptic movies to look forward to next year, and post-apocalyptic TV shows like Revolution and Walking Dead are coming back…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Monsters University banners reveal the villainous Monster Frat

We’ve got two new images from the Pixar Monsters University: one showing the wacky monster hijinks on campus (look at that monster pig with the hypnotoad eyes!), and another shot of a banner that reveals this prequel’s villains. Spoilers ahead! These banners, found by Pixar Post, show Sulley and Mike on the presumed team good…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Secret Behind The Hobbit’s Epic Sound

The Soundworks Collection has released a mini-documentary about how the epic sound of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was created. From begininning to end, Peter Jackson’s team used more advanced tech than on the original Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Despite having three films worth of Middle Earth sound to draw on, basically everything for…

Movies Mario Aguilar

Are all the humans (including James Franco) dead in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?

Looks like the ape attack on San Francisco was a lot worse than we saw in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. James Franco, human star of Rise revealed to MTV that he’s probably not going to be appearing in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes directed by Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves. But that’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

2012’s List of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Full of Amazing Science Fiction Ideas

The Black List is out! This is an annual list of the year’s best unproduced screenplays — it once included Inglorious Basterds and The King’s Speech. This year’s list is positively stuffed with time traveling plots, alien encounters and survivalist films. We would like to call out Hibernation as a particular favorite. This is a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of All the Plot Details Hidden in the New Star Trek into Darkness Trailer

Earlier today a new trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness aired, filled with scenes of death and destruction. What clues are hidden in the new scenes? We broke down only the new moments to see what lies ahead for James T. Kirk and his crew. Warning: spoiler talk! https://gizmodo.com/new-star-trek-into-darkness-trailer-shows-lots-and-lots-5969074 First new image of the Bridge.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How Jurassic Park’s FX Wizards Sculpted a Life-Size T-Rex Out of Clay

Before special effect artists can bring a creation like a T-Rex to life with robotics and animatronics, they first have to build and sculpt a life-size detailed mockup of the creature out of clay. And while it’s probably one of the best jobs on earth, seeing the artists at Stan Winston Studios having to hand-carve…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Your Favorite Crazy Taiwanese Animators Weigh In on The Hobbit

There’s been a lot of talk about The Hobbit surrounding it’s release, whether it’s about the special effects or about that contentious frame rate, but there’s been a certain zaniness missing in the conversation. Not any more, characteristically wacky Taiwanese Animation studio NMA has weighed in with some absurdity. The critics who can’t hang with…

Movies Eric Limer

That fourth Ninja Turtles movie could have also given us Super Splinter and Raptor Raphael

A few days ago, we posted a few concept art pieces from the unmade fourth ’90s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, revealing a fifth turtle named after Jack Kirby and an evil April so busty she looks ready to tip over. But the ’90s turtle train doesn’t stop there; Comic Book Movie poster nailbiter111…

Movies Lauren Davis

Short film Tempo forces a scientist to turn his velocity-warping gun into a weapon

Two researchers invent a powerful device that can speed up or slow down any object in its path, but they’re determined not to see it turned into a weapon (no matter how many cows they accidentally blow up). But when a crew of gunmen invade their lab, one of the researchers must stop them with…

Movies Lauren Davis

Tetsuo wins and Gotham lies in ashes in Alternate Ending art

What if the Nazis defeated Indiana Jones, Bane destroyed Gotham City, and Tetsuo reigned supreme over Neo-Tokyo? Bottleneck Gallery’s Alternate Ending show celebrates filmdom’s losers by imaging popular movies with very different endings. Alternate Ending opened last night at Bottleneck’s Brooklyn gallery and runs through January 4th. Even if you can’t make it to the…

Movies Lauren Davis

If 2001: A Space Odyssey were made today, would it be marketed as a generic action flick?

If Stanley Kubrick was somehow able to make 2001: A Space Odyssey in the year 2012, would he be able to release a trailer that captures the scope and majesty of his film? Or would the tale of humanity’s journey from one stage of development to the next be marketed as just another spacefaring action…

Movies Lauren Davis

A Collection of the Best Disney Gifs the Internet Has to Offer

The weekend is here, and what better way to start the next few days off right than with just a massive collection of all of our favorite Disney gifs? We dare you to try and top Ariel’s “My Body is Ready” gif. Seriously, put your favorite Disney gifs in the comments. Tennant Snow White via…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 of the Most Insane Death-Defying Stunts from Science Fiction Movies

Science fiction and fantasy movies are full of amazing visuals — but the coolest thing about any SF film is usually that there’s a real live human being in the middle of all that overwhelming strangeness. We want to see ourselves, in all our human frailty, juxtaposed with the danger and mystery of fantasy —…

Movies Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

David Cronenberg explains why his sequel to The Fly got swatted

Last year David Cronenberg revealed that he had penned a sequel to The Fly. But swiftly after this news was released Fox pulled the plug on Cronenberg’s project. And now we know why. https://gizmodo.com/david-cronenberg-has-penned-a-sequel-to-the-fly-so-wh-5846345 https://gizmodo.com/fox-officially-pulls-the-plug-on-cronenbergs-sequel-to-5861631 In an interview with The Playlist, the director revealed his plans for the sequel. “It wasn’t really a remake, it…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Hobbit is a lot better once you realize it’s a war movie

The Hobbit has officially joined the ranks of franchises like Star Wars that are so eagerly anticipated that they suffocate under the weight of audience expectations. So far, critical responses to The Hobbit have been terrible, and I think at least fifty percent of the hate is coming from people’s outrage that this movie isn’t…

Movies Annalee Newitz

We’ve seen the first 9 minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness

Last night, a nine-minute prologue for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness screened before the first IMAX showing of The Hobbit, and we were there taking notes. Here’s what we saw! Spoilers ahead… First Impressions: For every minute I spent wishing the last Abrams Star Trek would have spent more time at the Starfleet Academy,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Netflix Encodes Every Movie 120 Different Ways

Here’s Everything That Was Wrong with The Avengers

What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum

8 Signs That Pop Culture Is Finally Done With the Apocalypse

Monsters University banners reveal the villainous Monster Frat

The Secret Behind The Hobbit’s Epic Sound

Are all the humans (including James Franco) dead in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?

2012’s List of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Full of Amazing Science Fiction Ideas

Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of All the Plot Details Hidden in the New Star Trek into Darkness Trailer

How Jurassic Park’s FX Wizards Sculpted a Life-Size T-Rex Out of Clay

Your Favorite Crazy Taiwanese Animators Weigh In on The Hobbit

That fourth Ninja Turtles movie could have also given us Super Splinter and Raptor Raphael

Short film Tempo forces a scientist to turn his velocity-warping gun into a weapon

Tetsuo wins and Gotham lies in ashes in Alternate Ending art

If 2001: A Space Odyssey were made today, would it be marketed as a generic action flick?

A Collection of the Best Disney Gifs the Internet Has to Offer

10 of the Most Insane Death-Defying Stunts from Science Fiction Movies

David Cronenberg explains why his sequel to The Fly got swatted

The Hobbit is a lot better once you realize it’s a war movie

We’ve seen the first 9 minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness

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‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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