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New Short Circuit’s Directorial Choice Short Circuits Potential

Here’s how to quickly and easily kill any interest we had in the Short Circuit remake completely dead: Bring Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Daddy Day Care’s Steve Carr on board to direct. Poor Number Five. You deserved better. [Empire]

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

Long before directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry made the jump from music videos to movies, Russell Mulcahy innovated on MTV and directed Highlander. What would movies even look like without him? Mulcahy is still around and still directing movies — he directed Resident Evil: Extinction, which was a much, much better film than…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Great News: No All-New 3D Star Wars

The rumor is that the greedy all-you-can-sell-and-eat alien entity known in Earth as George Lucas was preparing a new trilogy, all filmed in 3D digital. You can rejoice now, for there won’t be any new Star Wars movie in 3D: It wasn’t a news item. It was something that somebody made up. It’s totally, totally…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Monster Smackdown Day Two: Zombie Vs. Poltergeist!

The bodies of the dearly departed versus the spirits! Mind versus muscle! Misguided science versus mystical spirituality! In today’s second round of io9’s interspectacular monster clash, zombies take on poltergeists and you – yes, you get to decide the outcome! Apparently, you people have no respect for the classics. How else to explain the poor…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Straczynski Tears America Apart For New Movie

J. Michael Straczynski is teaming up with uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer to destroy America. The Babylon 5 creator has just been announced as the writer to bring post-nuclear civil war videogame Shattered Union to the cinema screen. The game, released in 2005, takes place in a new American civil war as the United States fall apart…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Are the Novel’s Days Numbered?

In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury envisioned a future where society had abandoned literature in favor of watching their screens. According to writer Philip Roth, we’re getting closer to that future, and in 25 years, hardly anyone will be reading novels. Roth has declared the novel all but doomed, saying that within 25 years, its audience…

io9 Lauren Davis

Love Mad Max? You Could Be Living It Soon Enough

Mad Max’s vision of a shattered world where social order has broken down, and everyone fights over the last drops of oil, could be reality soon. Oil prices are starting to tick upwards again after coming down from summer 2008’s heights. Imagine what would happen if oil reached double the price levels it hit a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Wood, Dreams And The Victory Of Evil In This Week’s Comics

Killer puppets and wily foxes offer the best thrills in this week’s new comic releases, but there’s also a nice taster for curious potential Hellboy fans and even the seventh issue of a six issue mini-series. Hello, Comics We Crave! While present-day Marvel finds itself beginning to tie up their uber-story Dark Reign with this…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

The Morbid Anatomy of Infant Werewolves, Vampire Pharohs, and Eldritch Horrors

If your anatomical collection is shy a demon child or cursed monkey’s paw, then you’re in luck. Artist Alex CF crafts macabre sculptures styled after dead scientific specimens. Only the deceased creatures in his cases are demons and monsters Alex CF includes a story to accompany each piece, which is available for sale. And if…

io9 Lauren Davis

Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat

Cup of Tears’ trailer is teaching Hollywood how to put together a sleek green-screen martial arts flick properly, even in outer space. This sick trailer should make everyone who worked on The Spirit blush. Quiet Earth has pointed out the super sleek The Cup of Tears from Gary Shore. which was all shot on Red…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Definitely No New 3D Star Wars, Stupid, Says Lucasfilm

Hope you weren’t getting too excited over those rumors about George Lucas preparing to make three all-new, all-3D Star Wars movies. According to Lucasfilm’s Head of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet, they’re not going to happen anytime soon. Or ever. When asked by Movie Geek Feed about the rumors, Sansweet offered this denial: It wasn’t a…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Daybreakers Vamps Practice The “See Something, Say Something” Anti-Human Law

New images for futuristic vampire dystopia Daybreakers showcase Willem Dafoe’s big sexy vamp-killing toy. Check out the images from the not so distant future, where human blood is served via soda shop. https://gizmodo.com/can-ethan-hawkes-daybreakers-make-vampires-edgy-again-5302795 These images are via MTV, so if you want to take a better high depth look at Willem’s fancy new crossbow head…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Would Warners Say Yes To An Abrams Superman Reboot?

Warner Bros. may not have been planning on making another Superman movie anytime soon, but now that Star Trek‘s JJ Abrams is announcing his interest in the project again, could that change…? https://gizmodo.com/dc-ent-prez-no-plans-for-superman-movie-5359981 MTV’s Splash Page blog quotes Abrams, who wrote a screenplay for an unmade Superman movie years ago, as saying that he wouldn’t…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Batman’s Vanishing Act is Only Impressive When It Works

Sure, Batman’s “vanishing silently into the shadows” routine is impressive and unnerving 99% of the time. But what about those rare occasions when he doesn’t pull it off? College Humor reveals what happens when the Dark Knight’s mystique fails. Click to view See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. [via Superhero Hype!]

io9 Lauren Davis

How Overboard Will Mad Max 4’s Car Stunts Go?

George Miller talks Mad Max 4’s vehicles, and it sounds like he’s putting the “mad” back in the series. There’s a crazy Avatar 2 rumor. Plus Sarah Jane, 2012, Lost, New Moon, V, True Blood, Smallville and Chuck spoilers. Mad Max: Fury Road: Director George Miller says the film’s many vehicles are so intricate that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Version Of Splash Ron Howard Never Wanted You To See [NSFW]

An idealistic painter rediscovers the beautiful mermaid that served as his boyhood muse… but she’s living in a sewer and has horrible golf-ball-sized pustules breaking out on her stomach. And that’s not the disgusting part of Mermaid In A Manhole. Rather, this is the disgusting part: The painter gets her home, and puts her in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Turns Out There’s Something Darker Than The Dark Side

Having a zombie overload? You still might want to save some room for the “zombies in the Star Wars universe” book, Death Troopers, which came out last week. It turns out stormtroopers and zombies do mix. Spoilers below. The storyline for Death Troopers is pretty simple, really — an Imperial prison barge, during the years…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When Monsters Change Sides: 10 Horror Icons Who Turned Good

Monsters cannot live (or unlive, in some cases) on terrorizing alone – sometimes, even the most horrible feel the need to spread some happiness in the world. Here are ten of the more memorable examples of horror icons going soft. Frankenstein Conquers The World Because, sometimes, a monster has to save the world from a…

io9 Graeme McMillan

I Pity the Fool Who Doesn’t Want to See the New A-Team

(Gizmodo’s bullpen a few minutes ago). Me: The new A-Team. Liam Neeson will be Hannibal. Brian: What the fuck. Backlink to the team limo. Me: That’s not for posting. https://gizmodo.com/the-a-team-limousine-chauffeurs-of-fortune-329935 Brian: Oh, I think it’s postable late at night. Me: Hahaha, you think that’s for posting, you fool. Brian: They always had gadgets, home made.…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Felicia Day Assures Us the Milky Way Isn’t Doomed

In an unholy blending of space porn and Felicia Day, the Spitzer Science Center has released a funny and informative PSA on colliding galaxies. In this mock behind-the-scenes video, Day explains to an explosions-loving filmmaker why we shouldn’t fear Andromeda. Bad Astronomy]

io9 Lauren Davis

New Short Circuit’s Directorial Choice Short Circuits Potential

The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

Great News: No All-New 3D Star Wars

Monster Smackdown Day Two: Zombie Vs. Poltergeist!

Straczynski Tears America Apart For New Movie

Are the Novel’s Days Numbered?

Love Mad Max? You Could Be Living It Soon Enough

Wood, Dreams And The Victory Of Evil In This Week’s Comics

The Morbid Anatomy of Infant Werewolves, Vampire Pharohs, and Eldritch Horrors

Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat

Definitely No New 3D Star Wars, Stupid, Says Lucasfilm

Daybreakers Vamps Practice The “See Something, Say Something” Anti-Human Law

Would Warners Say Yes To An Abrams Superman Reboot?

Batman’s Vanishing Act is Only Impressive When It Works

How Overboard Will Mad Max 4’s Car Stunts Go?

The Version Of Splash Ron Howard Never Wanted You To See [NSFW]

Turns Out There’s Something Darker Than The Dark Side

When Monsters Change Sides: 10 Horror Icons Who Turned Good

I Pity the Fool Who Doesn’t Want to See the New A-Team

Felicia Day Assures Us the Milky Way Isn’t Doomed

The Best Pop Culture Art Gallery In the World Is No More

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Forget Apple’s Magic Keyboard, Logitech MX Keys for Mac Refuses to Go Back to Full Price After Amazon Spring Sale

Google’s Next Fitbit Sounds Exactly Like a Whoop Clone

Amazon eero WiFi 7 Router (3-Pack) Keeps Its Spring Sale Price, Covering Up to 120 Devices Across 6,000 Sq. Ft.

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