Vincenzo Natali explains why Splice is not an anti-science film

Splice, opening Friday, deals with the abuse of science and the ways in which genetic engineering could go horribly wrong. But it’s not an anti-science film, insists director Vincenzo Natali, who talked to us at Wondercon. Natali points out that he worked with scientists in the making of this film, and the more he worked…

Why you should be happy Del Toro left The Hobbit

Not everybody is sad that Guillermo Del Toro isn’t going to be directing The Hobbit after all. Lauren Panepinto, creative director at Orbit Books and Yen Press, explains why she had misgivings about a Pan’s Labyrinth-style Hobbit. Back when Guillermo Del Toro was announced as the director of The Hobbit, my initial response was an…

This is your new Captain America

Earlier this week you read what that new Captain America suit would look like, now you can see it for yourself. Here’s the authentic costume concept art for Marvel’s new Captain America movie. AICN has a collection of costume mock-ups of Captain America. Which seem to accurately portray exactly what JoBlo described earlier this week.…

A 2-CD set of James Horner’s complete Star Trek III score? Yes please.

For those of us who played the LP version of the Star Trek III: The Search For Spock soundtrack until it was just a mass of scratches, there’s a bold new hope. James Horner’s full score, never before released in its entirety, just came out on CD. (Good thing too — according to Amazon, the…

Real police investigate theft of virtual furniture

Users of the virtual world Habbo Hotel have engaged the Finnish police to look into 400 cases of theft, with some customers reporting up to 1000 euros worth of “furniture” stolen. According to the BBC, the targeted users fell pray to a phishing scam, where they entered passwords and names to fake websites. “Habbo as…

New wearable tech allows your cats to tweet. Srsly.

Iron Man 2 is a hit — but not as big as people had predicted

Before Iron Man 2 came out, people speculated on whether it could beat The Dark Knight. But after a month, Tony Stark’s latest adventure seems like it’ll barely match Iron Man’s domestic gross. Box Office Mojo offers a few explanations.

Jules Verne Book Comes With QR Codes For 21st Century Footnotes

A special-edition of Jules Verne‘s Around The World In 80 Days has been published with QR codes included at various points of the book. Pointing an iPhone (loaded with Ubimark’s app), the codes take you to relevant sites for context. It’s like the 21st century version of footnotes, I guess you could say. When you…

Tech giant Cisco goes into the business of building instant cities in Korea

Cisco is a Silicon Valley company that makes routers, and famously helped generate the “great firewall of China” to aid that country’s government with internet censorship. Now they’re creating an instant, high tech city in Korea, controlled entirely via internet. Searching for a new business model, Cisco has turned to high tech city-building. Their beta…

Katee Sackhoff in a Fight Club Vs. Werewolves film? SOLD!

A traveling underground fight club fights local werewolves. No, you’re not still drunk — this is the premise of an actual film titled, Growl. “It’s the last sound you’ll hear.” Starring Katee Sackhoff. Quick, give it all your money now. Shock Till You Drop has a collection of stills from the film Growl, by Sxv’Leithan…

Best Year In Science Fiction: 1931

We’re winding up our survey of the best year in scifi with a Great Depression year that transformed the genre forever with original monster classics like Frankenstein and Dracula, plus a horror novel from Nobel laureate William Faulkner. Universal’s monster movies are now so classic that it’s hard to imagine what it would have been…

TRON NES. I repeat, TRON NES.

This TRON-inspired NES illuminates with or without a black light thanks to glowing paint and eye-burning LEDs. And unlike most gaming mods, it’s actually on sale for $250. [Threatris via Kotaku]

First look at AMC’s Walking Dead

Production has started today in Atlanta for AMC’s highly anticipated live-action adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic. Check out the first zombie pictures from the set, and a behind-the-scenes teaser for the series. Based off the comic series from Robert Kirkman, Walking Dead follows a band of apocalypse survivors as they make their…

Walking Dead

Photo Credit: David Tattersall, Director of Photography For more images check out AMC’s Walking Dead blog. Photo Credit: David Tattersall, Director of Photography For more images check out AMC’s Walking Dead blog. Photo Credit: David Tattersall, Director of Photography For more images check out AMC’s Walking Dead blog.

R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois, the woman who unleashed an army of giant spiders

Sculptor Louise Bourgeois created an array of surreal images in her career, including mutant body-parts. But Bourgeois, nicknamed “Spiderwoman,” will be best remembered for the giant spiders she placed all over the world. She died Monday, aged 98. [Daily Telegraph]

A new ThunderCats series is coming in 2011. Rowr.

Warner Bros. Animation is teaming with the Japanese animation house behind Batman: Gotham Knights and The Animatrix to dust off ol’ Lion-O and his refugee clan from Thundera for a new Cartoon Network series. This new Thundercats will have a decidedly anime flair, given that it’s being coproduced by Japan’s Studio4ºC, the animation house behind…

Anti-STD propaganda posters kept our boys’ flagpoles clean

Back in the day, venereal disease was the bane of the bored and horny soldier, and military propaganda posters resorted to sensationalist tactics to make privates scared of their privates. Mother Jones has collected some of these stunningly bizarre placards. The idea of stern military men preventing their troops from consorting with dubious orifices may…

The Secret History of the Giant Man is heading to the screen

Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black is adapting Matt Kindt’s somber, moving graphic novel 3 Story — about a man who can’t stop growing, told by the three women in his life — for Warner Bros. It’s a slightly odd move for Warner to scoop up a Dark Horse comic, and one with such an indie…

Finally, a trailer that shows all the crazy fang-banging True Blood’s third season has been promising

We’ve got the brand new, extra long trailer for True Blood’s third season. Plus a round-up of the best quotes from last night’s fan-panel, featuring just about every vampire and fangbanger in the cast. First up, here’s the brand new trailer which premiered last night, and it’s stuffed with bloody bits from True Blood’s third…

Help a crazy person out, won’t you?

A fellow in Queens, NY took out a Craigslist ad looking for a “listener.” We’d like to think the want ad that follows is a fake — but we’re prepared for the very real possibility that it isn’t. What gets me isn’t what he’s asking for — someone to “sit in my living room and…