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Spider-Man: The slowest crimefighter in New York City

There are many things to recommend about the live-action Amazing Spider-Man series that aired in the late ’70s — okay, well, Nicholas Hammond was a good-looking kid — but ol’ Webhead’s ability to rapidly foil crime isn’t one of them. Sure, looking at the opening credits, Hammond seems to sprint lots of places — when…

Television Marc Bernardin

Tony Stark gets a new dad in Captain America, and Transformers 3 finds a new leading lady

There will be a member of the Stark clan in Captain America – and we now know which actor is playing him. Michael Bay has chosen his latest eye-candy. Plus cool pics for Inception, Predators, Splice, and more. Captain America: Dominic Cooper has said that he’ll be playing the younger version of Iron Man’s father…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Hollywood Considering $20-$30 Movie Theater Sidestep

Time Warner Cable just pitched the major Hollywood studios a new idea: “home theater on demand.” It would allow people at home to watch movies just 30 days after they’re released in the theater for $20-$30. This 30-day home distribution method cuts the general 4-month movie-to-DVD wait time significantly, which means that movie theaters will…

Movies Mark Wilson

HBO TV Shows Available To Download From PlayStation Network

Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Blood, Entourage, Big Love, Flight of the Conchords—these are just some of the TV shows that PS3 owners will be able to download after Sony and HBO-owners Time Warner join forces. With new shows added the the PlayStation Network every Tuesday, PS3 owners can download HBO shows for what they called…

Television Kat Hannaford

From Rough Sketch to Final Scene In Toy Story 3

Rough sketches like this are one of the first steps in creating animated movies like Pixar’s Toy Story 3. Wired took a look at how 49,516 such rough, vague sketches were used to create detailed scenes like this: From color scripts being created to props and details being added—the process of making an animated movie…

Movies Rosa Golijan

The 5 nuttiest Punisher alternate universe tales

The Punisher doesn’t beat around the bush. He hates crime, so he kills criminals. But every now and again, writers spice Frank Castle up with some screwball alternate realities. Read about the Punisher going to the post-apocalypse, heaven, and Riverdale. Marvel recently announced that the Punisher would be going the I Am Legend route, with…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Best “human realizes he’s secretly a robot” scene of all time

Creation Of The Humanoids is rumored to be Andy Warhol’s favorite film, and camp-meister Susan Sontag extolled it in “The Imagination Of Disaster.” It’s easy to see why, from this scene where an anti-robot bigot realizes he’s a robot. You have to love the slow literalism of this scene: “I remember being a child. My…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mythbusters becomes a television empire. Prepare to be schooled!

It couldn’t happen to more deserving geeks. The guys behind Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, have signed a new, multiyear contract for the show. And they’ve got a development deal with Discovery Channel to produce several new television series, too. Here’s the press release from Discovery: LOS ANGELES, CA, — Jamie Hyneman and Adam…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New concept art, details and creature designs spill Riddick’s next movie details

New concept art gives us some precious glimpses of the new creatures in the third Riddick movie, and there’s some more news about the film. Which, last we heard, might be called The Furian… Left For Dead… https://gizmodo.com/first-concept-art-from-the-third-riddick-movie-left-fo-5512911 Vin Diesel decided to release this video of the film’s Riddick concept art presentation, and we’re glad…

io9 Meredith Woerner

With “Kraken,” China Miéville sinks tentacles into contemporary London

China Miéville’s long-awaited squid epic, Kraken, hits shelves next month. Like his previous novel, The City & The City, it’s about an urban landscape that forms its own alternate reality. In Kraken, the city of London is haunted by gods. Though The City & The City was set (sort of) on Earth, Kraken is one…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What anime can teach you about ending a story

I’ve noticed an alarming trend in television finales, lately: God. Warning: the following contains spoilers for the endings of Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, LOST, Supernatural (current) and The Prisoner. The presence of God in television finales alarms me for a number of reasons. Culturally, I think…

io9 Madeline Ashby

Riddick Gallery

Accodring to Twohy, “On this god-forsaken world are alien artifacts, totems to an advanced society.” This must be one of the “artifacts.” Twohy called this a bison-like creature, which is a source of food for Riddick as well. This is the “fiercest” new beast on the alien planet where Riddick is stranded. He even has…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A map of American SWAT raids gone wrong

The Cato Institute, a Libertarian think-tank, has created a detailed map of “botched” paramilitary raids by government entities from 1985-2008. No matter your political leanings, it makes for an intriguing (albeit totally depressing) read. [The Cato Institute via Fast Company]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lady Gaga meets Frankenstein: Why did it take so long?

It’s Lady Gaga-inspired Frankenstein fashions from France! Say that five times fast. The Cannes premiere for Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project, a Hungarian postmodern retelling of Frankenstein, featured some bizarrely awesome fashions. More awesomely over-the-top Franken-headgear below. According to Variety, Tender Son is not actually such a great retelling of Frankenstein: Never afraid to take…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why I actually liked the Lost finale

There are lots of ways to feel about a finale: pleased, peeved, betrayed, bemused. Charlie Jane Anders already gave us her perfectly valid, less-than-happy take on the Lost finale — but I kinda swung with it. https://gizmodo.com/lost-was-the-ultimate-long-con-5545911 It’s easy to ask a lot of a finale to a series you’ve stuck with for years. You…

io9 Marc Bernardin

The Best Year of Science Fiction…Ever

Every now and again, there are nexuses in time that deliver unto us scifi goodness: literary classics, film masterpieces, TV wonderment. We’ve identified a bunch of such nexuses — and you get to crown the Best of the Best. We’re going to start with 1999. Why ’99? Because it shook the foundations of genre cinema.…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Welcome to Xanadu, the (foam) house of the future

Throughout the 1980s, tourists flocked to the Xanadu House, a futuristic home in Kissimmee, Florida. This domestic pleasure dome was made of polyurethane and filled with “friendly computer servants.” In 1983, the Xanadu House in Kissimmee opened to visitors. A previous Xanadu home had opened in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin in 1979. Bob Masters, one of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Fringe deleted scene offers tantalizing hints

A scene cut from the Fringe season finale is available as a “Ford exclusive.” Which makes sense, considering it’s mostly product placement for the Taurus. But don’t be fooled – there are clues about Violet Sedan Chair here too. It’s not hard to guess why the scene was deleted – all those loving shots of…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Mammoth farts could have stopped the ice age 12,000 years ago

When humans migrated to the Americas roughly 13 thousand years ago, they hunted megafauna like mammoths to extinction. The result? Scientists say that without giant animal farts, there was a massive depletion in atmospheric methane, possibly causing an ice age. Over the weekend, a group of researchers published in Nature Geoscience the results of a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Hey, is that J.J. Abrams claiming that Lost doesn’t take place in Purgatory?

Why, yes it is. Back in 2005, at a Paley Center event, Abrams fielded a question about his favorite fan theories on what Lost is about — and his answer kinda flies directly in the face of the finale. [Vulture]

io9 Marc Bernardin

Spider-Man: The slowest crimefighter in New York City

Tony Stark gets a new dad in Captain America, and Transformers 3 finds a new leading lady

Hollywood Considering $20-$30 Movie Theater Sidestep

HBO TV Shows Available To Download From PlayStation Network

From Rough Sketch to Final Scene In Toy Story 3

The 5 nuttiest Punisher alternate universe tales

Best “human realizes he’s secretly a robot” scene of all time

Mythbusters becomes a television empire. Prepare to be schooled!

New concept art, details and creature designs spill Riddick’s next movie details

With “Kraken,” China Miéville sinks tentacles into contemporary London

What anime can teach you about ending a story

Riddick Gallery

A map of American SWAT raids gone wrong

Lady Gaga meets Frankenstein: Why did it take so long?

Why I actually liked the Lost finale

The Best Year of Science Fiction…Ever

Welcome to Xanadu, the (foam) house of the future

Fringe deleted scene offers tantalizing hints

Mammoth farts could have stopped the ice age 12,000 years ago

Hey, is that J.J. Abrams claiming that Lost doesn’t take place in Purgatory?

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