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Star Trek Was The Most Exciting 76 Seconds Of The Last Year – Official

Not content with being this year’s most successful movie so far, Star Trek is seeking out new frontiers to be successful in. Like, for example, being named the best trailer of the year. The plaudit came from the 10th annual Golden Trailer Awards, held last week in LA, which gave the trailer for JJ Abrams’…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Guess Who Won’t Show Up In Spider-Man 4?

One of these beloved characters is coming back for Spider-Man 4, the other will have to spend the remainder of their days sucking the blood to regain their pale beauty off-set. Guess which is which? Sorry vampire fans, the rumor you heard that super-vampire Morbius would appear in the next Spider-Man feature is false, according…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Can Masi Oka Create A Decent Story About Saving The World?

Masi Oka‘s character on Heroes has dispensed so much conventional wisdom about heroism, it gives the entire audience nosebleeds. But now Oka is set to show us the true nature of heroism: via a story about massively multiplayer online games. Oka tells The Hollywood Reporter that his hours spent playing MMORPGs gave him the idea…

io9 Gary Susman

New “Star Blazers” Trailer Long On Sense Of Wonder, Short On Action

Star Blazers (or Yamato in Japanese) was the gold standard for space opera: crazy fights, ridiculous-but-scary villains, and superweapons like the Wave Motion Gun. So this trailer for a new Yamato movie got me excited… until I watched it. [Fanboy.com]

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Three Recent Breakthroughs That Will Change Your Computer Forever

Scientists are engaged in a race to make electronics components even tinier. Now, three breakthroughs in the manufacture of chips and superconductors are about to make computer components so small that they can operate on the quantum level. At Bristol University, scientists were able to precisely control the movement of 4 photons on a silicon…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Peter Jackson AND James Cameron at Comic-Con?

Peter Jackson has announced he’s planning his first-ever visit to Comic-Con next month. He’ll be there promoting the Jackson-produced District 9 (pictured). Oh and, by the way, James Cameron may be showing up to preview Avatar as well. Hard to believe that Mohammad has never come to this particular mountain before, but then, Jackson’s usually…

io9 Gary Susman

First Glimpse Inside Mark Wernham’s Dystopian 1965 Saga

Mark Wernham‘s Clarke Award-nominated Martin Martin’s On The Other Side left us eager to see what he came up with for his second book. Now he’s providing a surreal first glimpse at his next novel, with an art gallery show. Wernham just opened a gallery show called “Stills From The Unmade Film Of A Half-Written…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Imax Transformers Screening Will Have Additional Robot Fights To Confuse You With

Michael Bay’s preferred method of watching robot fights is IMAX, all the way. Why? Because he added special scenes to his Transformers movie just for the ginormous screen. “I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting.” Bay told fans on his message boards. “Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras, so the screen…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Welcome Back True Blood, Say Goodbye To Pushing Daisies

HBO’s vampire saga True Blood returns to our screens, just in time to save us from the early summer TV doldrums. But meanwhile, the last remaining episodes of Kings and Pushing Daisies‘ finale remind you of those show’s squandered potential. Monday: The Universe – This weeks episode explores the dangers of space exploration, and the…

Television Meredith Woerner

Meet Guest Writer Gary Susman

This week your devoted io9 team will be joined by guest Gary Susman, who will be writing about pop culture and science fiction entertainment. Gary is a longtime blogger, editor, writer, and critic. Most recently, he spent eight years as Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he launched and edited EW.com’s flagship blog, PopWatch. Other…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Dragonball 2 Shooting This Fall?

James Marsters told an interviewer that he’ll be filming the sequel to the much-reviled Dragonball Evolution after he gets done touring with his band in Europe this spring and summer. He’s just been told he can officially announce a sequel. Even fansite DB The Move greets this news with gritted teeth, saying “Let’s just hope…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Take A Tour Of 9’s Post-Apocalyptic Stronghold

Take a deeper look inside the post apocalyptic animated movie 9, produced by Tim Burton. This detailed look at the rag dolls’ throne room shows what scraps human culture will survive past our extinction at the hands of feral machines. The rag dolls that survive past the end of humanity each have a number instead…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Rest Of The World Loves Terminator

Terminator Salvation may have disappointed with its take at the US box office, but with the movie opening internationally this past weekend, it’s looking as if the movie’s true audience might lie overseas. Variety reports that Salvation’s $67.5 million opening weekend across 70 territories is the third largest so far this year, behind Angels and…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Is Futurama Coming Back To Comedy Central?

We’ve been reporting the Futuama, “it ain’t over till Dr. Zoidberg sings” rumors for months now. An update has finally leaked out, and it sounds like our prayers for original and funny television have been answered. https://gizmodo.com/if-futurama-comes-back-whats-next-for-planet-express-5165221 When we last interviewed co-creator David X. Cohen, he showed had high hopes thatFuturama would get picked back…

Television Meredith Woerner

Heavy Metal Movie’s Directors May Rock Your World

What kind of movie could bring together the directors of Pirates Of The Carribean, Fight Club, Terminator and Watchmen? According to producer Kevin Eastman, the answer is the upcoming Heavy Metal. Eastman spilled the beans to Film School Rejects over the weekend that James Cameron, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski and David Fincher have signed on…

Movies Graeme McMillan

What’s Mickey Rourke’s Iron Man 2 Motto? Who’s Dalton Playing On Doctor Who? Who’s Gay In Heroes?

Mickey Rourke gives away crucial Iron Man dialog. There are startling new pics from Surrogates, Transformers, Stargate Universe, Flash Forward and Sorceror’s Apprentice. A tipster tells us Timothy Dalton’s Doctor Who role. Possible Heroes gayness! Plus V, Fringe and Eureka. Iron Man 2: Mickey Rourke says he speaks Russian half the time in this movie,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Alien Life Invades Through Transmorphing BlackBerry? Wake Me When It’s A Transformer iPhone

If Transformers’ “shadow movie” Transmorphers has a Blackberry that morphs into a spiderbot, will the second Tranformers have a killer Decepticon iPhone baddie? Plus, check out the latest batch of Asylum ripoffs, shorts, and Rec 2 clips. Transmorphers: Fall of Man The official synopsis is: In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven

Is there life after death? Maybe, if you’re wired. After all, death is just a failure of storage media. Science fiction is full of people who’ve died in meatspace, only to live on in cyberspace. Here’s our inventory of cyber-Heaven. As the Cyberpunk Project writes in an essay called “Neuromancer Afterlife”: “I am the dead,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Why All The Wonder Woman Hate?

With Transformers starlet Megan Fox calling her “lame” and the most successful writer in the American comic industry joking that she’s “a walking STD farm,” it’s time to ask: Why doesn’t Wonder Woman get the respect she deserves? Fox made her lazy diss in an interview with the London Times last week, addressing rumors that…

Movies Graeme McMillan

This Is A Ghostbusting Penguin Disaster!!! (NSFW)

It seems that there are some of you out there who don’t understand what Disaster is. So for you, I will explain… No, actually I won’t. OMG IT’S A DISASTER! GAMER: Now, I’m sure that controlling Gerard Butler is really special and the pinnacle of the FPS experience, but aren’t there better ways that we…

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Star Trek Was The Most Exciting 76 Seconds Of The Last Year – Official

Guess Who Won’t Show Up In Spider-Man 4?

Can Masi Oka Create A Decent Story About Saving The World?

New “Star Blazers” Trailer Long On Sense Of Wonder, Short On Action

Three Recent Breakthroughs That Will Change Your Computer Forever

Peter Jackson AND James Cameron at Comic-Con?

First Glimpse Inside Mark Wernham’s Dystopian 1965 Saga

Imax Transformers Screening Will Have Additional Robot Fights To Confuse You With

Welcome Back True Blood, Say Goodbye To Pushing Daisies

Meet Guest Writer Gary Susman

Dragonball 2 Shooting This Fall?

Take A Tour Of 9’s Post-Apocalyptic Stronghold

The Rest Of The World Loves Terminator

Is Futurama Coming Back To Comedy Central?

Heavy Metal Movie’s Directors May Rock Your World

What’s Mickey Rourke’s Iron Man 2 Motto? Who’s Dalton Playing On Doctor Who? Who’s Gay In Heroes?

Alien Life Invades Through Transmorphing BlackBerry? Wake Me When It’s A Transformer iPhone

Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven

Why All The Wonder Woman Hate?

This Is A Ghostbusting Penguin Disaster!!! (NSFW)

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Anker Prime Docking Station Hits Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Winds Down (14 Ports With 160W Output)

Google TV Streamer 4K Drops to an All-Time Low, Final Hours in Amazon Spring Sale to Turn Any TV Smart on a Budget

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

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

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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

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