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Harrison Ford Knows The Idea Behind Indiana Jones 5

After the last Indiana Jones movie, featuring Indy and his wacky alien pals, we’re nervous when Harrison Ford says Spielberg and Lucas have a new secret idea. We’re taking guesses below: Name the next Indy movie. [BBC]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Fox Wins Bidding War For Futuristic Young Adult Prison Franchise

British author Catherine Fisher’s young-adult dystopian novel Incarceron has only been out a few weeks, and already the rights have spurred a studio feeding freenzy. The big winner: Fox. Get ready for a future prison-world on the big screen. The trades reported that a studio bidding war started over the next big YA book, Incarceron.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Roland Emmerich Puts Foundation On The Back Burner, Thank Goodness

Is Roland Emmerich really going to adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books? Maybe, but he’s doing another movie first. And he’s making the writer rewrite the script so the movie will have “a hero” and “a bad guy.” Minor spoilers ahead. Emmerich is going ahead with his next movie project — Anonymous, which is based on…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

New Tron Legacy Still Shows The Fall of Kevin Flynn

How far has the mighty Kevin Flynn fallen? The latest picture from Tron Legacy paints a dire picture for the Flynn franchise, but at least it looks like the Space Paranoids game took off, at some point. This new still from BadTasteit, the image was shown at last year’s San Diego Comic Con, where the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Feel Banshee Spit Hit Your Face, In Avatar 4-D!

Forget 3-D, the Koreans are taking the Avatar viewing experience all the way to 4-D. Which means you’ll actually get to feel the spittle from a wild banshee hit your cheek, mid-scream. According to the Post Chronicle Korea’s Seoul Theater has lined up 25 different special effects to give audiences the full 4-D experience: The…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Why “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” Is A Steampunk Masterpiece

With Tim Burton’s revisionist 3D flick Alice hitting theaters this Friday, it’s time to revisit the origin story: Lewis Carroll’s original novel. Why has this story endured, and been championed by artistic rebels from 1960s hippies to today’s steampunks? Though there have been many movie and cartoon versions of Carroll’s mid-19th century novel of nonsense,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

What Superhero Is Making His First On Screen Appearance In Iron Man 2?

Last week we showed you the first clip from Iron Man 2. And now hawk-eyed fans have spotted what might be another one of Marvel’s infamous cameos. Also, there are new and disturbing-looking Iron Man 2 toys. https://gizmodo.com/your-bilingual-first-look-at-new-iron-man-2-scene-5480561 If you go back and watch the new clip, right around 1:18 there’s an inmate getting his…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Behind The Scenes With Sam Rockwell’s “Transvestite Captain Kangaroo”

We’re all familiar with Sam Rockwell’s brutal hero from Jared Hess’ Gentlemen Broncos. But what about his metafictional other half, the femmed-up Brutus? Check out our exclusive behind-the-scenes clip with the superhero that Rockwell nicknamed the “Transvestite Captain Kangaroo.” https://gizmodo.com/sam-rockwells-superhero-looks-like-a-transvestite-capt-5054541 Jared Hess’ Gentlemen Broncos is coming onto DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow and to celebrate we…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Convert Your Paycheck to Battlestar Galactica Cubits

If you’re looking to invest in some extremely foreign currency, try Jon Heilman’s Battlestar cubits. Sure, they’re only replicas, but how else will you impress those Twelve Colonies high-rollers? Also check out Jon’s time map, from Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits. Here’s a closer look at those counterfeit Battlestar cubits… …and the detail on Jon’s time…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

Last week, a long list of actors testing for Marvel’s Captain America movie was leaked. Among mostly square-jawed handsome stars was Cloverfield’s Mike Vogel. We caught up with Vogel this weekend and got his take on the Cap casting. While doing roundtables for She’s Out Of My League, the shy Vogel was pretty mum about…

Movies Meredith Woerner

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

What’s in store this week? New episodes of Lost, Caprica, Chuck, and the 82nd Academy Awards! Will the Academy crown James Cameron the King of the Cat-Men or blow him a big blue raspberry? Watch and see! NOTE: In honor of this week’s Oscars, I’ll be inventing a number of awards to bestow upon this…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

In the midst of a vampire-movie flood, there’s one film we’re very excited about: Amy Heckerling’s Vamps. Besides bringing back Heckerling’s partnership with Alicia Silverstone, it sounds pretty clever clever according to what the lead, Krysten Ritter, told us. Spoilers… We caught up with the hilarious Krysten Ritter at the roundtables for her up-and-coming film…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Nic Cage Versus Gandalf: Who’d Win? We Asked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

We cornered Nic Cage’s wizard in training, Jay Baruchel, to find out just how magical Jerry Bruckheimer’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice is going to be. Find out how the movie opens, and who would win a Gandalf Vs. Cage sorcery throw-down. We caught up with Baruchel, doing press for She’s Out Of My League and managed to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Robot Lion – The March Guide To Science Fiction!

March may be a drab month for weather, but this month has tons of shiny new scifi waiting for you. There’s the return of V, io9’s Time Bender at SXSW, Roger Corman’s Dinoshark, and cons and author appearances galore! You can download the March calender as a printable PDF by clicking here. And here are…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Church of Lunology’s Moon City Conspiracy

There are people on a secret city on the moon, and they are from the future. Find out what the Church of Lunology doesn’t want you to know. Plus, the video game Dead Rising gets a live action flick. Lunopolis The little faux-documentary Lunopolis, which received great reviews from the Boston scifi festival, blows the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How Aeon Flux Killed Black Widow And Made Iron Man 2 The Movie It Is Today

Iron Man 2 may be the cinematic debut for Marvel’s femme fatale spy the Black Widow, but it’s not the first time she was headed for the big screen. X-Men screenwriter David Hayter explains how Charlize Theron ruined everything. Latino Review spills the beans, quoting from a Hayter interview in the book Tales From The…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Todd McFarlane Is Almost Finished Writing Spawn 2

Spawn creator and toy mogul Todd McFarlane is writing a sequel to 1997’s Spawn. Unlike the first film, Spawn 2 is shaping up to be lower budget indie affair. Does this mean no John Leguizamo as a demonic clown? At Toy Fair 2010, McFarlane told Newsarama that he had made some serious headway with the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

5 (Imaginary) Movies About Your Favorite Childhood Games

Hollywood’s latest retro craze is board games, what with Ridley Scott directing an alternate dimension Monopoly movie and Peter Berg helming a Battleship flick about aliens. But what if other directors made game movies? What if Joss Whedon directed POGs? https://gizmodo.com/ridley-scotts-monopoly-movie-is-about-parallel-universe-5402621 https://gizmodo.com/epic-alien-battleship-movie-leaks-the-details-on-the-ne-5416779 We don’t know what’s weirder – the fact that board games are the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

A New Superman Director… And A JLA Rumor As Well?

Would Warner Brothers really use the Man of Steel’s precarious movie reboot as the launch pad for a new director? Maybe so, if said newbie happens to be the brother of The Dark Knight’s Christopher Nolan. IESB is reporting what they themselves are calling “unconfirmed (that is the key word here, boys and girls) rumors”…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Will Kick-Ass Kill Superhero Movies?

With Kick-Ass heading up the forefront of a new “What if superheroes existed in the real world?” trend, it may be time to wonder if this is a sign that superheroes are finally on their way out of mainstream culture. The prevalence of superheroes in mainstream pop culture always seems to go in a cycle…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Harrison Ford Knows The Idea Behind Indiana Jones 5

Fox Wins Bidding War For Futuristic Young Adult Prison Franchise

Roland Emmerich Puts Foundation On The Back Burner, Thank Goodness

New Tron Legacy Still Shows The Fall of Kevin Flynn

Feel Banshee Spit Hit Your Face, In Avatar 4-D!

Why “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” Is A Steampunk Masterpiece

What Superhero Is Making His First On Screen Appearance In Iron Man 2?

Behind The Scenes With Sam Rockwell’s “Transvestite Captain Kangaroo”

Convert Your Paycheck to Battlestar Galactica Cubits

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

Nic Cage Versus Gandalf: Who’d Win? We Asked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Robot Lion – The March Guide To Science Fiction!

The Church of Lunology’s Moon City Conspiracy

How Aeon Flux Killed Black Widow And Made Iron Man 2 The Movie It Is Today

Todd McFarlane Is Almost Finished Writing Spawn 2

5 (Imaginary) Movies About Your Favorite Childhood Games

A New Superman Director… And A JLA Rumor As Well?

Will Kick-Ass Kill Superhero Movies?

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