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All The Clone Wars You Need To Know

Excited by tonight’s opener for the Clone Wars animated series? If you’re not hosting your own Clone Wars house party in celebration, you might want to check out some of our previous coverage of the show’s creation and the movie that, more than anything else, made us want to see the series. We’ve talked to…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Blindness’ Dystopian Fable Becomes An Overwrought Movie

The best thing about the movie version of Blindness is how much it makes you appreciate the transcendent novel by Jose Saramago. The book takes a potentially hackneyed story — everyone goes blind, except for one woman — and turns it into a jarring look at how anything can become normal. At its best, the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is James Cameron’s New Space Epic Rife For A Franchise?

Before James Cameron’s alien saga Avatar has even been properly teased, the studio execs are already looking for a franchise. Why are we already talking about Avatar 2? Because Tom Rothman, co-chairman of 20th Century Fox believes in it, and Fox truly needs something to believe in this year. When asked about the franchise potential…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Did you go blind from some sort of disease that covers your line of sight with milk, and then turns you into a maniac? Don’t worry, we’ve compiled a list of the best stories of the week, assuming you now have your eyesight back, or hired a small child to read io9 to you.Science Fiction…

io9 Meredith Woerner

David Tennant May Never Leave Doctor Who, Claims Producer

Russell T Davies may not be staying on Doctor Who past 2009’s special episodes, but David Tennant is — at least according to Davies. The outgoing producer told British newspaper the Sunday Express that “David may never leave, he could go on forever… I haven’t talked to him about leaving. Maybe it will never happen.…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Sarah Connor Wouldn’t Give Up On You. So Don’t Give Up On Her.

Rumors have been zooming around cyberspace that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been axed. It’s like some kind of Skynet plot. Some have even suggested the show is stopping production early. We checked with sources at Fox, and got the straight dope: the fight against mean robots goes on, for now. “The rumors are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mercury, We Love You But You’re Bringing Us Down

NASA’s Messenger space capsule is aiming to photograph Mercury as it swings by, a prelude to putting the first spacecraft in orbit with the planet in 2011. The Messenger will fly 124 miles above the planet’s surface to grab snapshots of an un-photographed part of Mercury the size of South America. The astrological community has…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Bill Murray: I Am Evil Venkman?

While Bill Murray was campaigning around town for his evil mayor character from The City Of Ember, we managed to ask him a little bit about Ghostbusters. He talked about some old ghosts in his closet, and what kind of man Venkman would be nowadays, if we see him again in Ghostbusters 3.Talking about how…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Is There Hope For Life On Mars?

Life On Mars was one of the most thrilling shows on British TV in recent years, the story of a cop who gets in a car accident and finds himself in the early 1970s. An American remake started up, produced by Ally McBeal’s David E. Kelley, and it had one of the worst pilots I’ve…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor to Tango With Superman again?

Two months ago, Warner Bros. honcho Jeff Rabinov announced his studio’s intentions to release eight franchise-stoking DC comics films by 2011 — among them, a movie “reintroducing” Superman. Since then, all’s been relatively on the Kryptonian front…until now. U.K.’s The Independent has reported, amid an interview with Kevin Spacey, that “producers…will be paying him big…

io9 Nisha Gopalan

Smallville Doesn’t Care About Green People. Thankfully.

Last night’s Smallville didn’t just give you a very rushed version of the origin of Green Arrow, it also gave any over-partying celeb the perfect excuse for whatever drunken behavior they want. Just stumble forward into someone’s arms and remember to say these magic words: “I’ve been poisoned… I only have twelve hours to live!”While…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Bollywood Snake Lady Captured From The Wild, Wants To Be Your Girlfriend

Bollywood starlet Mallika Sherawat slithers about as a sexy snake lady looking for a mate in the new film Hisss. A few stills from the movie have leaked and Sherawat is looking slinky as hell in her scaly snake get-up. I’m assuming by the looks of her that some of this seduction includes swallowing her…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Adapting Saramago’s “Blindness” Was A Journey From Horror To Poetry, Meirelles Tells io9

Fernando Meirelles garnered award nominations for City Of God and The Constant Gardener. So he was probably the perfect choice to direct the film version of Blindness, Jose Saramago’s terrifying novel about an epidemic of inexplicable blindness. The paralyzes an entire country and reduces civilized city-dwellers to near-animal status. But Meirelles struggled to find the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Intelligent Slime and Stripper Estrous Dominate the Ig Nobel Prizes

Last night, the Annals of Improbable Research held its 18th annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The prizes are awarded for scientific and social achievements “that first make people laugh, then make people think.” And this year’s winners include studies on puzzle-solving slime molds, the spermicidal capabilities of Coca-Cola, and the economics of ovulating strippers.The prizes were…

io9 Lauren Davis

No Excuse To Miss Clone Wars

The new Clone Wars series begins tonight on Cartoon Network at 9pm — but if you have a social life, there’s more than just TiVo waiting to help you get your latest dose of Jedi juice. (Including Master Plo Koon and some clones under siege, as seen in this newly released promo image.) In fact,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Ten New Teams Join NASA Astrobiology Institute

NASA’s Astrobiology Program, which has been exploring the future of life in the universe since 1959, just got bigger. In attempt to further its continuing studies, NASA has awarded grants totaling $70 million for university research over the next five years. Their focus is on detecting signs of extraterrestrial life, on determining and creating the…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Smallville + Young Dick Grayson = Crap Sandwich

There was just one upside to the stories about the CW ordering a pilot of The Graysons, a show about Dick “D.J.” Grayson before his acrobat parents died and he became Robin, Batman’s sidekick: at least it seemed like that show would replace Smallville, and put that eight-year baby-Superman angst fest out of its misery.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

See The Dragonball Clearly At Last

A better quality, and slightly longer, version of the Dragonball trailer has turned up online. Now you can see the Hawaiian-shirted Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) preparing to bring the smackdown, and the outrageous outfits of Bulma and Chi Chi. And most of all, you can see Justin Chatwin emoting his little heart out as Goku. And…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Tonight’s Sanctuary Premiere Is Green, But Green’s Good

Sanctuary, the new series from Stargate producers Damian Kindler and Martin Wood premieres tonight at 9 p.m. the SciFi Channel. Starring Amanda Tapping, the show concerns itself with all the creatures you were afraid to see in your bedroom when you opened those cute little eyes of yours. We got a sneak peak at the…

Television Alex Carnevale

Baby Genius School Gets Beautiful Brainiac

Chuck Russell’s upcoming thriller Prodigy has a new student enrolled at the pill popping private school. Danielle Panabaker plays the brilliant daughter of a senator who begins to question the powers that be at her school, after she shovels downs the mandatory pills to become a super genius. [Hollywood Reporter]

io9 Meredith Woerner

All The Clone Wars You Need To Know

Blindness’ Dystopian Fable Becomes An Overwrought Movie

Is James Cameron’s New Space Epic Rife For A Franchise?

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

David Tennant May Never Leave Doctor Who, Claims Producer

Sarah Connor Wouldn’t Give Up On You. So Don’t Give Up On Her.

Mercury, We Love You But You’re Bringing Us Down

Bill Murray: I Am Evil Venkman?

Is There Hope For Life On Mars?

Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor to Tango With Superman again?

Smallville Doesn’t Care About Green People. Thankfully.

Bollywood Snake Lady Captured From The Wild, Wants To Be Your Girlfriend

Adapting Saramago’s “Blindness” Was A Journey From Horror To Poetry, Meirelles Tells io9

Intelligent Slime and Stripper Estrous Dominate the Ig Nobel Prizes

No Excuse To Miss Clone Wars

Ten New Teams Join NASA Astrobiology Institute

Smallville + Young Dick Grayson = Crap Sandwich

See The Dragonball Clearly At Last

Tonight’s Sanctuary Premiere Is Green, But Green’s Good

Baby Genius School Gets Beautiful Brainiac

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

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

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

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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