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Zoe Saldana Talks Na’Vi To Us

After Avatar showed off its 3-D bestiary to an awe-struck Comic Con crowd, we cornered the blue Na’vi princess Neytiri, Zoe Saldana herself, and asked her to talk a little native tongue to us. The results were phenomenal. A Saldana says: It’s been a while, so please forgive me if it’s a, there’s this prayer…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Videos From Gamer, G.I. Joe And Time Traveler’s Wife, Plus The Plot Of Asteroids: The Movie!

Spoilers go on forever! The producer of Asteroids explains that movie’s plot. Plus there’s a new Gamer clip, and a predatory new Jennifer’s Body pic. Also: G.I. Joe, G-Force, The Prisoner, Time Traveler’s Wife, Green Hornet and 2012 spoilers! Gamer: Here’s a sneak peek from this deadly video game movie, showcasing the rapport (or lack…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Pandorum’s New Space Madness Trailer Unleashes Orc-like Albino Army

Here’s the brand new Pandorum trailer that debuted at Comic Con. Looks like there isn’t just one demented blood-thirsty crawler-like baddie, but a whole army. Watch Ben Foster peel the skin back on this space horror. Plus new stills below. Pandorum will be out September 18, 2009.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Holy Freaking Avatar! We Saw 25 Minutes Of Cameron’s Weird Masterpiece

Avatar, James Cameron’s long-awaited visit to an alien 3-D world, got its first exposure today at San Diego Comic Con. We watched around 25 minutes of dragon-riding, monster fighting and alien first contact, including Zoe Saldana’s sexy alien. Spoilers below… Here’s a description of the clips we got to watch: The Pep Talk A room…

io9 Lauren Davis

Kristen Bell Talks Astro Boy’s Robot Love

Astro Boy star Kristen Bell explains why we’ll fall in love with the movie’s robot hero, in this exclusive video interview. And at the movie’s panel, the director revealed Samuel L. Jackson is playing a killer robot. In the movie’s panel, director David Bowers revealed that Samuel L. Jackson will be playing a robot named…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Twitterati To Follow At Comic Con

Didn’t get passes to Comic Con? Looking for even more obsessive coverage than what you’ll find here on io9? Fear not. Twitter’s got you covered snugger than a lightsaber-slashed Tauntaun. Here’s the Twitter accounts you’ll want to follow this week. For starters, you’ll want to be following Team io9: •@io9 (top stories from io9), @Annaleen…

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“Tetsuo: The Iron Man” Gets A Crazy English Sequel

Fans of the Japanese cult series Tetsuo got a welcome surprise this afternoon at Comic-Con: Director Shinya Tsukamoto announced that he’s made an English-language sequel, coming out in 2010, called Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. We saw a ten-minute clip. Hailed as one of the greatest Japanese cyberpunk movies of all time, Tetsuo: The Iron Man…

Movies Annalee Newitz

From The Floor: Bronze Monsters, Snarky Fans, And Clone Troopers

Comic Con-goers have pulled out all the stops, and we wanted to show you exactly what you may be missing on the big stretch of convention floor. Here’s our gallery of lego-made crotch shots, green girls and glorious displays.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Bared Chests And Blood Dominate New Moon Clips

The moment Twilight fans have been waiting for has arrived: the New Moon panel and the premiere of two clips starring Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson‘s abs. Here’s what we were able to decipher, over the screaming fans. After waiting hours in line and sitting through trailers for gorey slasher films, Twilight fans were rewarded…

io9 Lauren Davis

NGC 1097 Is Watching You With Its Black Hole Eye

NASA’s Spitzer telescope captured this stunning image of the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 1097. It also reveals rings of stars and turbulent star formation, creating a creepy eye effect at its center. This galaxy is similar to ours in some ways. Both the Milky Way and NGC 1097 are…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

The Teen Wolf You Never Saw, Sadly

A surprise announcement from Jeph Loeb at this afternoon’s Mondo Marvel panel: There may be a Teen Wolf 3 – but there’s one particular actor who won’t be involved. Surprise spoilers ahead. When prompted by a fan question (and then even more prompting from Marvel’s Jim McCann), Teen Wolf creator Loeb talked about the third…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

The Arc Gun—the most recent non-human weaponry discovery by the Multi-National United—is one bad-ass piece. It fires a huge charge of electricity to its target, kind of like a bolt of lightening, heating the target enough to cause extreme burns and rapid molecular expansion of gas and fluid. In a soft biological or animal target,…

io9 Chrissie Lamond

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Tim Burton has confirmed that his next project will be remaking ABC’s vampire soap Dark Shadows, whose rights are rumored to belong to Johnny Depp. This could mean we’ll finally see our Johnny Depp vampire dreams come true. At the Alice In Wonderland press conference, people cornered Burton about his next rumored movie project Dark…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

Fans feeling as if you have to buy every book that Marvel publishes in order to follow their favorite characters can take one piece of good news from the Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon: No more crossovers. Well, for awhile. Asked whether or not Marvel’s current Dark Reign branding and cross-continuity will lead into another…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

With scenes from Avatar and New Moon screening today, it’s no surprise that the line to get into SDCC’s screening room was littered with tents and sleeping bags. We learned the secrets of extreme line-waiting from the folks in front. Twilighters, Tim Burton fans, and people looking to get a glimpse of James Cameron’s latest…

io9 Lauren Davis

Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year

Wondering why the Superman comics seem to be very superhero-ish, for an alien rocketed to Earth from a dying planet? DC’s creators apparently agree with you, and they’re promising some more sci-fi for the character’s world in the next year. The next year of DC’s Superman family of comics will call back to some classic…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level

We finally saw some new footage from Tron Legacy, the new Tron movie. And it was totally worth waiting a year for: Kinetic, delirious and full of light-cycle brilliance. Spoilery descriptions below. It’s been a full year since Disney surprised us and blew our minds with a surprise glimpse of the Tron sequel we didn’t…

io9 Lauren Davis

See The Best Fight Scene from Dollhouse, According to Joss Whedon

The Dollhouse season 1 DVDs hit stores soon, complete with the show’s brilliant unaired pilot and season finale. We’ve got an exclusive clip – with special io9 intro from Joss Whedon – of a terrific fight scene. One of the things you’ll learn when you get the DVDs is that this scene would have played…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Middleman Returned, And Our Heads Exploded!

The Middleman, one of the greatest and craziest shows ever to bludgeon television with awesomeness, finally got the finale it deserves. The cast read the unaired finale script, and it was like the greatest rock concert ever. Oh man, it is so great to see the Middleman cast all together talking glibly and to hear…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters

The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz Media. Now Viz is publishing translations of two prose novels, about alien invasion, time travel and power-armor smackdowns. “Haikasoru” translates as “High Castle” and is meant as a riff on Philip K. Dick’s classic allohistory…

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Zoe Saldana Talks Na’Vi To Us

New Videos From Gamer, G.I. Joe And Time Traveler’s Wife, Plus The Plot Of Asteroids: The Movie!

Pandorum’s New Space Madness Trailer Unleashes Orc-like Albino Army

Holy Freaking Avatar! We Saw 25 Minutes Of Cameron’s Weird Masterpiece

Kristen Bell Talks Astro Boy’s Robot Love

Twitterati To Follow At Comic Con

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man” Gets A Crazy English Sequel

From The Floor: Bronze Monsters, Snarky Fans, And Clone Troopers

Bared Chests And Blood Dominate New Moon Clips

NGC 1097 Is Watching You With Its Black Hole Eye

The Teen Wolf You Never Saw, Sadly

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year

Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level

See The Best Fight Scene from Dollhouse, According to Joss Whedon

The Middleman Returned, And Our Heads Exploded!

Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters

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‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

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