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Daybreakers Directors Working On A Mysterious 1940s Alt-History

One thing the Daybreakers directors love, and excel at, is world-building. And we’ve got the exclusive update on the new worlds they’re building, including Warner Bros.’ space-pirate reboot of Captain Blood, and another mysterious 1940s alternate-history film. While chatting about the vampire world the Spierig brothers created, they shared updates on their next two in-the-works…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Many Faces Of Adam Baldwin On Chuck

Celebrate Chuck‘s miraculous return on Sunday, by watching Adam Baldwin showcase his many facial expressions as superspy Casey, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan. And check out Baldwin’s tutorial on how to be a spy, below. Baldwin and his amazing comic timing are among the main reasons we’re excited to see Chuck come back.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

What You Need To Know For Marvel’s Siege

The first issue of Marvel Comics’ big event, Siege, hits stores this week, bringing to a close storylines that’ve been going on for the last few years. But if you’ve missed those stories, don’t worry: We’re here to help. There’s a lot to digest before you’ll fully understand what’s going on in Marvel’s first big…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

The Future History Of Everyday Life, In Pictures

A burning house, a flooded road, and a man with a gun. The images captured by the Google Street View van’s automatic camera are poignant and weird. According to one artist, they’re also how future historians will study our world. Art Fag City recently ran a guest post from Montreal artist Jon Rafman, who sifts…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Darren Aronofsky Would Rather Kill Robocop Than Make It 3D

Could Darren Aronofsky‘s RoboCop reboot be left to rust? Rumor has it that in the wake of Avatar’s success, the up-for-sale MGM doesn’t want to greenlight Aronofsky’s RoboCop vision unless he’s willing to make it in 3-D. And he’s not. We knew things weren’t looking good for the metal arm of the law when the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Mega-Creatures Who Wear AT-AT Armor – Revealed!

Over at TeeFury, the truth behind the AT-AT has been revealed at last, in this tee showing us the turbo-skeleton of the creature driving those AT-ATs. Yes, you thought they were giant robots – but they are actually giant monsters! You can order this tee today only at TeeFury. A must for people who like…

io9 Annalee Newitz

When Tarantulas Shoot Barbed Hair Into Your Eyes

In 2009, a man from Leeds visited an eye specialist due to lingering sore eyes. The cause? His pet tarantula had shot tiny hairs at him, lodging in his cornea. The 29-year-old was referred to an eye specialist by his GP due to eye troubles that had been bothering him for three weeks. Under magnification,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Watch Jackie Earle Haley’s Freddy Krueger Skewer His First Teen

There’s been a lot of debate over whether or not Jackie Earle Haley’s Krueger will be scary or just sad. Plus, the Nightmare reshoots haven’t helped our optimism. But hope is not lost: This new behind-the-scenes video delivers the horror. https://gizmodo.com/the-inside-scoop-on-doctor-who-lost-jonah-hex-elm-st-5423066 This new clip from the Final Destination DVD takes us behind the scenes on…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Revealing Pics From Scott Pilgrim, Fringe And Doctor Who, Plus Iron Man 2 Hints

One of Iron Man’s comics writers hints at a movie storyline. And there are set pics of Doctor Who and Fringe, plus your first official Scott Pilgrim image. Plus Lost, Book Of Eli, Supernatural, Chuck, True Blood and Smallville spoilers. Iron Man 2: Bob Layton, who created War Machine in the comics, visited this movie’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Eyes On With Ray Kurzweil’s Blio Ereader App

If you’ve caught a good whiff of CES, you know it smells like tablets. And if you’re up on tablets, you know they’re supposed to save print, or something. And this, the Blio ereader software, is part of the plan. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-blio-ray-kurzweils-tablet-friendly-ebook-5435814 Designed and conceptualized in part by futurist/engineer/inventor Ray Kurzweil, Blio diverges from traditional ereaders…

Books & Comics John Herrman

Best Satan Scene Ever: I’ll Show You The Life Of The Mind!

The Coen Brothers have made some awesomely fucked-up movies in their time, but none contains a scene quite so freakishly compelling as this one, where a Satanic John Goodman goes apeshit on quivering Hollywood writer John Turturro. I don’t want to spoil the whole story for you, because it’s an incredible flick and you should…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Willem Dafoe Gears Up To Start Making John Carter, Next Week!

Willem Dafoe revealed to us that next week he’s headed off to London to start filming Disney’s John Carter of Mars. But how do you go about portraying a 10-foot tall, four armed green Martian? We caught up with Dafoe doing press for his next film Daybreakers, and squeezed in a few roundtable questions on…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Three Ways to Fix Heroes…Right Bloody Now

No, we’re not talking about the usual “return to the kind of storytelling we loved in the first season” or “Kill Mohinder.” (Not that killing Mohinder is ever a bad idea.) Here are a trio of concrete, honest-to-goodness course corrections. Oh, yes, it’s bad. The badness of Heroes seems to grow, exponentially, every week. (Poor…

Television Marc Bernardin

Deadpool Movie Gets The Dark Comedy Writers That Wade Deserves

Fans of loopy banter and insane violence rejoice — Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, of Zombieland fame, are writing the Deadpool movie. This means the “Merc with a Mouth” film could actually be clever. Variety announced that Fox has selected Zombieland writers Reese and Wernick to bring Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool film to life. While there’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Capturing the Veined Beauty of Lightning

Acclaimed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has turned his attention to electricity, with a new project entitled Lightning Fields. The word uses a Van de Graaf generator to run 400,000 volts through a metal table, creating remarkable patterns and designs. In a recent interview, Sugimoto explained both the artistic and practical underpinnings of the project: “I…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Dark Reign

Following Marvel’s Civil War, the superheroes of Marvel’s United States found themselves offered a choice: Either register their secret identities with the government and become federal employees, or else consider themselves criminals and be hunted down like rabid dogs if necessary. Of course, with Iron Man in charge of that latter operation, things never really…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

The 20 SF Movies We’re Most Excited To See In 2010

Are you prepared for cinematic awesomeness? This year sees a number of movies we’re eager to watch, from Christopher Nolan’s acid trip to new Iron Man, Predator and Tron films. Here are 20 reasons not to give up on movies. 2009 was a mixed year for films, to say the least — a number of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Thor: From Ragnarok To Oklahoma

Unlike Captain America and Iron Man, Thor managed to miss out on the overgrown hissy fit that was Marvel’s Civil War by, essentially sleeping through it. Not that that mattered, because he had already previously fallen out with both heroes over the subject of religious freedom of a small European nation (Admittedly, said argument included…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Netflix Is Losing New Release Rentals

Bad news, Netflix customers: Warner Bros. and Netflix have just made an agreement to delay all new release rentals by 28 days so people will keep buying DVDs. Or, as is more likely, turn to piracy. The upside of the deal is that Warner is offering up more movies for streaming on Netflix to make…

Movies Adam Frucci

Iron Man: From Asshole To Reboot

Even though he won, Iron Man was left massively damaged by the events of Marvel’s Civil War. Seen by many heroes – and even more fans – to have trended towards the fascistic in his pursuit of those who opposed the Superhero Registration Act, his placement as Director of SHIELD coincided not only with the…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Daybreakers Directors Working On A Mysterious 1940s Alt-History

The Many Faces Of Adam Baldwin On Chuck

What You Need To Know For Marvel’s Siege

The Future History Of Everyday Life, In Pictures

Darren Aronofsky Would Rather Kill Robocop Than Make It 3D

Mega-Creatures Who Wear AT-AT Armor – Revealed!

When Tarantulas Shoot Barbed Hair Into Your Eyes

Watch Jackie Earle Haley’s Freddy Krueger Skewer His First Teen

Revealing Pics From Scott Pilgrim, Fringe And Doctor Who, Plus Iron Man 2 Hints

Eyes On With Ray Kurzweil’s Blio Ereader App

Best Satan Scene Ever: I’ll Show You The Life Of The Mind!

Willem Dafoe Gears Up To Start Making John Carter, Next Week!

Three Ways to Fix Heroes…Right Bloody Now

Deadpool Movie Gets The Dark Comedy Writers That Wade Deserves

Capturing the Veined Beauty of Lightning

Dark Reign

The 20 SF Movies We’re Most Excited To See In 2010

Thor: From Ragnarok To Oklahoma

Netflix Is Losing New Release Rentals

Iron Man: From Asshole To Reboot

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘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

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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