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The Platonic Form of the B-Movie

Everything that producer/director Brian “Beyond Re-Animator” Yuzna does is carefully crafted to embody the perfect B-movie. Case in point is his production company Halcyon International’s new flick Alien Uprising. This trailer makes the movie so uncannily similar to every other scifi horror movie that it transcends trash to become a kind of apotheosis of genre.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tyra Banks Plans Tell-All On Twilight’s Monsoon Of Fans

Still confused about all this crying and screaming mob nonsense surrounding the Twilight movie? Don’t worry — Tyra Banks is going to get to the bottom of it, by inviting the weeping fan masses onto her show. I can just see it now: Tyra Banks in all her “look at me, look at me” glamor…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Meet J.J. Abrams, And See A Rare Bear From The Dharma Initiative

If you’re in Los Angeles next Wednesday, this could be your chance to meet most of Lost’s writers and producers. The team behind the island-castaway show will be at Meltdown Comics and Collectibles, signing collectible Lost Kubrick and BE@RBRICK figurines from MediCom. (A BE@RBRICK figure is just a Kubrick figure that happens to be a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Which Technical Inaccuracies in Scifi Annoy You the Most?

They’re doing it again! With the brain surgery in the back of a moving van and shiny computers that can magically find 150-year-old articles about obscure murders online! We’ve all had that *facepalm* moment when reading or watching a scifi tale. Why couldn’t the writers spend five minutes researching things like, I dunno, GERM THEORY?…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Will Lost Viewers Stick Around For Life On Mars?

ABC is giving its moderately popular time-traveling cop show, Life On Mars, a nice boost. Starting in January, it’ll air right after the ever-so-popular island-castaway show Lost, on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Seriously if this can’t seal the deal for Life On Mars, then it’s beyond anyone’s help. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Television Meredith Woerner

Fox Is Still Polishing Dragonball, As Release Date Changes Again

Just how much trouble is Fox’s Dragonball movie in? Our first looks at pics and footage haven’t inspired much confidence in the saga of an alien warrior’s quest for the seven orbs of power. And some newly released promotional photos (see gallery below) aren’t likely to change anyone’s mind. Meanwhile, news comes that the film…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

NaNoWriMo’s Chris Baty Explains How to Write a Science Fiction Epic in 30 Days

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), when amateur and professional writers alike scramble to write a first draft of a novel in a mere 30 days. For science fiction writers, that’s an especially daunting task, which can involve not only telling a story and creating compelling characters, but also craft an entirely new world.…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Godzilla Finally Arrives To Stomp Your Gaming Table To Dust

The arrival of Monsterpocalypse last month served to fill a void in the gaming world. But for some kaiju fans, there was still something missing – their favorite movie monsters. A new game is in development by veteran game designer Richard Berg that will feature Godzilla himself, along with some of his very tall friends.…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Lance Henriksen And C. Thomas Howell Join Kevin Sorbo In The Illuminati Saga

Bishop, Hercules and Pony Boy all in one movie — am I drunk? The trio are joining the ancient-secret-society movie, Illuminati. Sorbo plays the club’s assassin who wants to quit his day job and start using his keen killing skills for good. Henriksen plays a high ranking member of the Illuminati, and Howell’s character is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Maelstrom of Weird New Genetic Information

The human genome was sequenced almost a decade ago. Now we’ve entered the age of genomics — the study of what genes do, as well as what they don’t. A terrific article by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times gives you a crash-course in cutting-edge genomics research, complete with some gorgeous charts like this…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Why Can’t We Teach Battlestar In High School?

“There’s no point asking what’s cooler; the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica or any version of Hamlet produced in the last four hundred years. BSG kicks the bard’s dead white male butt before the first viper’s even left the launch chute. So why not teach it at high school? In fact why not give senior English students…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Deep Thoughts From 6 New Watchmen Posters

Warner Bros. sent us six new Watchmen character posters, and it’s like a visual seminar in brooding. Each costumed avenger has their own “I’m thinking about the world” sad-face moment: Silk Spectre gives her over-the-shoulder sexy brooding-but-ass-kicking stare, the Comedian gives good troubled-but-funny, Ozmandias’ pretty kitty makes a cameo, and Rorschach wields some high tech…

Movies Meredith Woerner

President Elect Obama Now To Govern Comic Books As Well

He was one of the first superheroes to get political this year — and now Erik Larsen’s The Savage Dragon has become the first superhero to shake hands with our new President Elect. The page from an upcoming issue of the Image Comics series was released to the Chicago Tribune’s Geek To Me blog in…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

A Crucial Turning Point For HRG In Heroes Volume 4

Morning! A producer of Fringe shared some details about what to expect from the rest of the season — and he hinted that the relationship between Walter and Peter may not be what you think. Meanwhile, Heroes actor Jack Coleman let out some major spoilers for a pivotal HRG episode in next spring’s “Fugitives” storyline.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Princeton Scientists Discover Proteins that Control Evolution

Click to view Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works. In fact, their discovery could revolutionize the way we understand evolutionary…

io9 Annalee Newitz

An A-List Cast Recites Z-Grade Dialogue

The greatest special effect in The Core isn’t the CGI magma flows, crazy space shuttle crashes, or “diamonds the size of Cape Cod” at the center of the Earth. Rather, it’s the amazing cast. Just watch this scene, where Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank handle technobabble and cheesy lines that would have made the writers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Check Out the New Enterprise, (Almost) the Same as the Old Enterprise

Click to enlarge this beauty – first picture of the Enterprise from JJ Abrams’ upcoming preboot of the Star Trek saga. [EW]

Movies Annalee Newitz

An Aviation Show That Will Warp Your Brain

This crazy shot of aeronautics insanity with multi-colored exhaust smoke was just one of the many weird sights last week in Guangdong Province, China, during the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition. Check out the planes up close, and see what the experience did to one extreme fan. This airshow fan had planes on…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Push Preview Shows 1980s Psychic Cold Warfare

The first issue of DC Comics’ prequel to next year’s psychic Dakota Fanning movie Push hits stores tomorrow, but the opening of the book has been released online, allowing all of us to get our first taste of Reagan era black ops telepathy a day early.The series, which previews February 2009’s movie, is co-written by…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Terminator: Seduction!

Finally, we see why having a Terminator in the shape of Summer Glau might pose some strategic advantages, in a scene that either made you go “hubba hubba” or made your skin crawl… or maybe both. Last night’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was one of the most action-packed yet, but it was also one…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Platonic Form of the B-Movie

Tyra Banks Plans Tell-All On Twilight’s Monsoon Of Fans

Meet J.J. Abrams, And See A Rare Bear From The Dharma Initiative

Which Technical Inaccuracies in Scifi Annoy You the Most?

Will Lost Viewers Stick Around For Life On Mars?

Fox Is Still Polishing Dragonball, As Release Date Changes Again

NaNoWriMo’s Chris Baty Explains How to Write a Science Fiction Epic in 30 Days

Godzilla Finally Arrives To Stomp Your Gaming Table To Dust

Lance Henriksen And C. Thomas Howell Join Kevin Sorbo In The Illuminati Saga

A Maelstrom of Weird New Genetic Information

Why Can’t We Teach Battlestar In High School?

Deep Thoughts From 6 New Watchmen Posters

President Elect Obama Now To Govern Comic Books As Well

A Crucial Turning Point For HRG In Heroes Volume 4

Princeton Scientists Discover Proteins that Control Evolution

An A-List Cast Recites Z-Grade Dialogue

Check Out the New Enterprise, (Almost) the Same as the Old Enterprise

An Aviation Show That Will Warp Your Brain

Push Preview Shows 1980s Psychic Cold Warfare

Terminator: Seduction!

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