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Edgar Wright answers your hottest movie questions

You asked, and now our guest editor Edgar Wright is answering. Will you ever do TV again? Where did Jason Schwartzman’s mole disappear to on the Scott Pilgrim DVD cover? Who’s funnier Nick or Simon? Here’s a video clip of him answering a few of your questions, in the flesh. Sorry we couldn’t include them…

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Seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa on Blu-Ray is like watching it for the first time

In many ways, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind marks the birth of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. And now that it’s out on Blu-Ray, it looks like a whole new movie. Twitch’s Ard Vijn reviews the Blu-Ray release. Seeing an old classic like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in high definition, via…

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Fan-Made Ender’s Game trailer shows what could be

Steven Davis mashed together clips from some of our favorite science fiction films to build one hell of an intriguing fan-made trailer for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. A film we’re betting will never exit development purgatory. https://gizmodo.com/the-director-of-wolverine-may-also-direct-enders-game-5644475 [via topless robot]

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New Tron Legacy trailer shows off Jeff Bridges’ CG evil twin

As much as we tease other movies for plunging into the uncanny valley, we’re pretty impressed with Tron’s CG Jeff Bridges (who rules Tron City with a digital fist). Watch man fight twin/program in the new Tron Legacy trailer.

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Uwe Boll releases his trailer for the “first fat female superhero” Blubberella

You’ve seen the poster for Uwe Boll’s fatsploitation superhero film Blubberella — now feast your eyes on its disaster of a trailer. One think you can say about Boll’s work: at least he’s consistent in lowering the bar. All we knew about this film was from the poster’s tagline: “The first female fat superhero ……

Movies Meredith Woerner

Another director quits Dune, as time runs out on for the project

Pierre Morel (Taken) has reportedly quit as director of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which Peter Berg was also on board to direct at one point. And unless Paramount can get the film up and running by spring, they’ll lose the rights. According to Deadline, Paramount faces a “ticking clock situation” over Dune, which is seeking a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

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…

Movies Meredith Woerner

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.

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Iron Man’s biggest challenge, Star Wars’ greatest Jedi and Fringe’s deadliest secret!

Things television has in store for you this week: A double dose of Bruce Campbell! More Fringe and The Walking Dead! King Arthur in high school! A Jedi team-up on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Plus some amazing so-bad-they’re-great movies! Today: There’s no new Scooby Doo – Mystery Inc. tonight, but there is a new…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

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…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Sunday Matinee: “Return of the Ewok,” a bizarre Ewok promotional film from 1982

In 1982, a 15-year-old Warwick Davis starred in a short promotional video about his tryout for Return of the Jedi. This comic oddity, Return of the Ewok, was never released and featured Boba Fett and Darth Vader hunting Wicket. Given that the mockumentary was scrapped in post-production, copies of Return of the Ewok are incredibly…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Will Morgan Freeman play the Colonel in Akira?

We learned last week that Zac Efron is in talks to play Kaneda in Albert Hughes’ live action adaptation of Akira. We’ve now discovered that Morgan Freeman may play Neo-Tokyo Neo-New York military man Colonel Shikishima. https://gizmodo.com/zac-efron-in-talks-to-star-in-akira-5682725 Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Freeman is in the running to play the hard-bitten Colonel in charge of…

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David Duchovny confirms that X-Files 3 script is in the works

In an interview with the French website TVMag, David Duchovny revealed that a script for a third X-Files movie is being penned, and that it will return to the series’ conspiracy roots. Duchovny’s been talking up a third X-Files movie for a while now, and after the self-contained story of X-Files: I Want to Believe,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Timur Bekmambetov’s Apollo mission vs. aliens movie gets off the ground

The Weinstein Company is funding Apollo 18, the Timur Bekmambetov-produced thriller about a never-was Apollo mission’s encounter with extraterrestrials. From Deadline: Bob Weinstein met several times with Bekmambetov before making a deal that came after Bekmambetov presented film footage purported to have been shot by the crew of Apollo 18. That moon mission from the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Is this the first promo image for Star Trek 2?

Yesterday Collider posted this cryptic image of the Enterprise. It’s unclear if this is affiliated with J.J. Abrams’ second Star Trek film (which is due 2012), but Simon Pegg has Tweeted the image sans explanation. How curious!

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Studio Ghibli announcing newest anime project December 15

At the Rome International Film Festival, Studio Ghibli president Koji Hoshino revealed that the venerable animation house would be unveiling a new project next month. Could this be the Porco Rosso sequel Hayao Miyazaki spoke of several months ago? [Collider] https://gizmodo.com/hayao-miyazaki-wants-to-make-a-sequel-to-his-flying-pig-5619063

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

New images from the Tintin movie reveal Thomson and Thompson, the endless desert

Earlier this week, images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn hit the web. Here are some more shots from the film, including our first look at Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s hapless detective duo, Thomson and Thompson. https://gizmodo.com/check-out-the-first-images-from-steven-spielbergs-tinti-5678314 It’s a safe guess that these are from Empire magazine’s November issue, which is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Snow White Just Rocked My Face Off

You’ve never heard Disney like this: the sampled sounds of Snow White remixed, reshuffled, and refitted into a soaring trip-hop beat. And wait until you hear Harry Potter. The tunes are compliments of Pogo, who’s also responsible for that Dexter music video from a few weeks back. The artist known as Pogo composed many of…

Movies Brian Barrett

Walk through this portal with me into another world

The “portal fantasy,” where somebody walks through a magical door (or wardrobe) into a fantasy world, has become a terrible cliche. So why do we keep walking through those portals and loving the hell out of it? I heard a lot of grumbling about portal fantasies last weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Ohio,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Sean Connery’s chest hair vs. a rogue meteorite fragment — to the death!

Sean Connery, shirt unbuttoned halfway to his navel, plays chicken with a meteor fragment heading straight for his base, while Natalie Wood and Martin Landau watch. Will it strike before he can launch his missiles to destroy the big meteor? 1979’s Meteor isn’t exactly the greatest movie ever made — it’s really, really slow and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Edgar Wright answers your hottest movie questions

Seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa on Blu-Ray is like watching it for the first time

Fan-Made Ender’s Game trailer shows what could be

New Tron Legacy trailer shows off Jeff Bridges’ CG evil twin

Uwe Boll releases his trailer for the “first fat female superhero” Blubberella

Another director quits Dune, as time runs out on for the project

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

Ask guest editor Edgar Wright your questions now

Iron Man’s biggest challenge, Star Wars’ greatest Jedi and Fringe’s deadliest secret!

Is Jeremy Renner the next Snake Plissken?

Sunday Matinee: “Return of the Ewok,” a bizarre Ewok promotional film from 1982

Will Morgan Freeman play the Colonel in Akira?

David Duchovny confirms that X-Files 3 script is in the works

Timur Bekmambetov’s Apollo mission vs. aliens movie gets off the ground

Is this the first promo image for Star Trek 2?

Studio Ghibli announcing newest anime project December 15

New images from the Tintin movie reveal Thomson and Thompson, the endless desert

Snow White Just Rocked My Face Off

Walk through this portal with me into another world

Sean Connery’s chest hair vs. a rogue meteorite fragment — to the death!

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