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Here’s Who Andy Serkis Will Be Playing In Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Who is Andy Serkis playing in the upcoming Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens? Well, it turns out that when Annie Leibovitz photographed the movie’s cast for Vanity Fair, she captured Serkis in his mocap suit, and now that photo and his character’s name have been revealed. StarWars.com shared the photograph above and announced that…

io9 Lauren Davis May 28

What’s Behind Marvel’s Campaign To Remove The X-Men From Merchandising?

It’s not too surprising that Marvel and Fox are engaged in a little “secret war” of their own, over the licensing of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. But as Fox presses forward with movies based on both properties, that war is slowly becoming public. Here’s a guide to how Marvel is trying to erase…

io9 James Whitbrook May 28

“Why Not Teach Astronauts To Drill?” Honest Trailers Blasts Armageddon

I might argue how fun Armageddon was, but I do agree with Honest Trailers that Michael Bay’s action-disasterpiece is astoundingly dumb. But whether you’re a fan or not, you absolutely must see this video to learn Bay’s response when Ben Affleck asked him, “Wouldn’t it be easier to teach astronauts how to drill instead?” [Via…

io9 Rob Bricken May 28

Google’s Immersive 360 Action Flick Is So Realistic It’s Not Believable

Google released a new 360-degree immersive video on its Spotlight Stories app yesterday—the first featuring real human actors instead of animation. It’s an action-packed short directed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. I downloaded the 1GB 360 video and took it for a literal spin (I was sitting in a swivel chair). It’s so…

Tech News Brent Rose May 28

10 supposedly futuristic technologies in movies that look so dated now

Movies—no matter how groundbreaking or vision changing or future defining—are trapped under the limitations of the technology of their time. Which often means that a movie’s imagination of the future is handcuffed with those same limitations. Their vision of the future may be correct but the technology used to execute that idea is often hilariously…

Sploid Casey Chan May 28

8-bit video game version of The Shawshank Redemption is still good

It shouldn’t come as a surprise as The Shawshank Redemption is one of the all-time great movies but this 8-bit version of the film captures a little bit of that same spirit and is fun to watch too. I guess Andy and Red’s friendship translates into any medium, even if it’s animated in a retro…

Sploid Casey Chan May 27

Tilda Swinton Is In Talks For Doctor Strange!

Ready your “Holy Tilda Swinton!” gifs, because Holy Tilda Swinton: The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Tilda Swinton will have a part in Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It’s for none other than Stephen Strange’s mysterious magical teacher, the Ancient One! Yes, the Ancient One — who teaches Strange magic after a terrible accident befalls him, guiding…

io9 James Whitbrook May 27

10 of the most impressive movie sets ever built

The biggest movies are spectacles that can teleport your eyeballs to another world but so much of that is done through green screens and special effects now that it’s important to note when it’s not (or when it’s done really, really impressively digitally). CineFix has come up with 10 of the coolest movie sets that…

Sploid Casey Chan May 27

Guess Who’s Chasing the Joker In New Suicide Squad Photos?

Suicide Squad is already filming in Toronto, and recently it seems like Harley Quinn and the Joker are going for a joyride. With a semi-surprising pursuer. Spoiler alert: if you don’t want to see anything from the filming of this chase, don’t click. Since they’re filming the chase scene outside, on real roads, where real…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta May 27

Fox Is Taking Another Shot at a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie

Fox really wants to make Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen a franchise. They wanted to do it with the fairly disastrous 2003 movie. They wanted to try again with a TV show. And now they’re picking themselves up and trying again. Variety reports that John Davis (The Blacklist) will produce the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta May 27

The trailer for the Point Break remake is basically every GoPro video

You know all those GoPro videos you see on the Internet? You know the ones. Where crazy people skydive off planes and fly in wingsuits and snowboard and ride motorcycles and jump off cliffs and live Very Extreme Lives. All of that happens in the trailer for the remake of Point Break. Only they slapped…

Sploid Casey Chan May 26

Robert Rodriguez Is Working On A Jonny Quest Movie

From Dusk till Dawn and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is no stranger to children’s adventure movies, having created the Spy Kids franchise. Now, though, he’s delving into an existing children’s series, bringing the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Rodriguez is onboard to direct an adaptation…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26

This “40 Years Of ILM” Video Shows Just How Far We’ve Come

Industrial Light and Magic has a proud heritage stretching back to the original Star Wars. And to celebrate, they’ve put together a one-minute video that sums up 40 years of visual effects wizardry. How many of these movies can you name? Want even more VFX wizardry? Here’s a brilliant 1984 NOVA episode focusing on “The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 26

Watching sixty seconds of slapping scenes from movies is pretty funny

This is beyond silly but to stitch together this wonderful minute clip of slapping from movies is a work of art. All kinds of slapping is going on here with all sorts of sound effects from all sorts of movies. It goes from being slightly amusing to giggle funny to ridiculously riotous. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan May 26

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

I’m serious. Mad Max: Fury Road should not exist. It should never have gotten made. It certainly shouldn’t be as awesome as it is. And yet somehow, against all odds, this impossible cinematic masterpiece is in theaters right now, in defiance of reality itself. Obviously, the fact that Hollywood decided to make a new Mad…

io9 Rob Bricken May 26

First Look At Matt Damon As The Martian

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s hit scifi novel is on its way, and Empire has given us the first look at Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who is accidentally left behind on Mars and must use his wits to survive. This basically means this is a pic of Damon in a space…

io9 Rob Bricken May 25

The Play’s The Thing (That Gets You Killed) In Trailer For The Gallows

On the heels of its jarring teaser from April, the full trailer for The Gallows — about a cursed high-school play — offers a lotta night vision and shaky-cam, a haunted VCR (?), a slowed-down version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and a spirited prayer that found-footage horror still has one last breath in it.

io9 Cheryl Eddy May 23

See The New Fantastic Four’s Powers And How @#$%ing Huge The Thing Is

MovieTickets.com scored the best look at the new Fantastic Four movie cast displaying their super-powers in their new commercial. It doesn’t have a particularly good look at the Thing, but don’t worry, you can see him after the jump. Just be ready for a shock. This new banner reveals that Ben Grimm’s Thing form isn’t…

io9 Rob Bricken May 22

Michael Fassbender Is The Traitor King In The First Clips From Macbeth

The Scottish Play is headed for the big screen once again in Snowtown director Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth adaptation, starring Michael Fassbender as the treacherous lord-turned-king and Marion Cotillard as his scheming wife. These clips introduce the deadly pair and tease a big, beautiful battle scene. Macbeth premieres this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival and…

Movies Lauren Davis May 22

Tomorrowland Is Baby-Boomer Nostalgia At Its Most Dreary

Lots of movies have a wonderful first half, followed by a blah second half. Setup is often easier than follow-through. But Tomorrowland, out today, might become the clearest example of this syndrome. And the reason Tomorrowland falls apart halfway through is because it sinks into Baby Boomer angst. Spoilers ahead… Tomorrowland wears its Boomer wishful…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 22

Here’s Who Andy Serkis Will Be Playing In Star Wars: The Force Awakens

What’s Behind Marvel’s Campaign To Remove The X-Men From Merchandising?

“Why Not Teach Astronauts To Drill?” Honest Trailers Blasts Armageddon

Google’s Immersive 360 Action Flick Is So Realistic It’s Not Believable

10 supposedly futuristic technologies in movies that look so dated now

8-bit video game version of The Shawshank Redemption is still good

Tilda Swinton Is In Talks For Doctor Strange!

10 of the most impressive movie sets ever built

Guess Who’s Chasing the Joker In New Suicide Squad Photos?

Fox Is Taking Another Shot at a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie

The trailer for the Point Break remake is basically every GoPro video

Robert Rodriguez Is Working On A Jonny Quest Movie

This “40 Years Of ILM” Video Shows Just How Far We’ve Come

Watching sixty seconds of slapping scenes from movies is pretty funny

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

First Look At Matt Damon As The Martian

The Play’s The Thing (That Gets You Killed) In Trailer For The Gallows

See The New Fantastic Four’s Powers And How @#$%ing Huge The Thing Is

Michael Fassbender Is The Traitor King In The First Clips From Macbeth

Tomorrowland Is Baby-Boomer Nostalgia At Its Most Dreary

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