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Concept art shows Al Pacino as Interview with the Vampire‘s Lestat

At the time of his casting, Tom Cruise seemed like an odd choice to play Interview with the Vampire’s infamous Lestat. But what if Al Pacino had taken the role instead? In 1993, concept design Miles Teves was working for Stan Winston Studio on the adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel. He explains that the filmmakers…

Gorgeously animated Walking with Dinosaurs ads with dino fun facts

The latest series of video ads for the upcoming movie Walking with Dinosaurs shows off the myriad animated beasts trotting, flying, and stomping through the film. It also shares so quick factoids about its prehistoric stars. Walking with Dinosaurs hits theaters on December 20th. I almost can’t wait for it to come out on home…

Do Music and Movie Suggestion Algorithms “Get” You?

I pretty much universally hate streaming music services. They all promise to broaden my horizons, analyzing my tastes to bring me music I never knew I couldn’t live with out. They can all go to hell. My typical algorithm-driven streaming music experience goes like this: I’ll punch in a song, or artist, or whatever, that…

Bad Milo is a movie with heart — and it’s about an ass demon

Bad Milo, out now on VOD, is a feel-good, body horror comedy. It sounds like something that shouldn’t exist, but it’s utterly marvelous, with great comedy performances and grossout effects. The weirdest part? This is an emotionally moving film about a butt demon. Writer/director Jacob Vaughan has created a movie that is the ultimate genre…

Who has the coolest mind powers in science fiction or fantasy?

Science fiction and fantasy are full of people who can do amazing stuff with their minds. Telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and just regular mind control. But who has the absolute coolest mind powers of all? Please include a picture or clip of this amazing mastermind. And include their name and where they appear, please. Top image:…

How I Live Now could be the year’s most brutal apocalyptic movie

If you dropped a nuclear bomb on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, you would end up with How I Live Now. This exceptionally violent story drags a collection of country-mice kids through hell and back, at the outbreak of World War 3. Here’s why this movie can stand up with the best of the…

Holy crap, the first clip from 47 Ronin is pretty amazing

Curious about the amount of fantasy and magic Carl Rinsch is adding to his version of 47 Ronin? Check out this first clip, featuring the evil witch with two different colored eyes. Watch as she turns a man’s hatred into a living creature. It certainly is beautiful.

Our Biggest Unanswered Questions about Jamie Foxx’s Baffling Short Film

Jamie Foxx has made a short film called “…And She Was My Eve.” Which he has called, “Frankenstein on acid.” We have some pressing questions. First, please watch for yourself: Here are our questions: What kind of college offers a Masters in Creativity? Are the ingredients to his robot Candy, Apple and Brown? What sort…

The robot-gone-rogue movie is perfected in The Machine

We’ve seen it a hundred times— a human creates a sentient robot, sentient robot realizes humans are crap — but we’ve never seen it quite like this: The Machine is positively dripping with atmosphere, tension, and gorgeously unsettling design choices. Check out the trailer if you don’t believe me. Here’s the small clip too, if…

Will Smith to sail New York City across the Atlantic like a boat

This could very well be the most fantastic premise for an urban fantasy movie ever. Will Smith is set to star in The City That Sailed, about a New York street magician who is separated from his daughter in London…. and winds up sailing the entire island of Manhattan to England to retrieve her. That’s…

Bad Robot just tweeted the first official production picture from Star Wars: Episode VII, featuring director J.J. Abrams meeting R2-D2 in person, and it’s the first real, tangible proof that this sequel is really happening. Anyone else feel it’s weirdly surreal to see the two of them together?

Everything you didn’t notice about Back to the Future

Usually, CinemaSins makes a hilarious video pointing out all the goofy errors and everything wrong with a popular movie and we all get a good laugh out of it. But when it comes to a classic like Back to the Future, well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that masterpiece of cinema! Not Doc Brown’s…

Wonder Twins, starring Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher?

The poster is either the best joke ever, or an early warning of the oncoming apocalypse. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher could be playing the Wonder Twins, or it could all just be a hoax. Please be a hoax. Midtown Comics received this suspicious package in the mail from Warner Bros. heralding a Superfriends movie…

​10 Scientists Who Played God (And Didn’t Get Punished)

Fictional mad scientists usually meet a dreadful fate: destroyed by their own creation, or by villagers with torches. After all, we can’t send the message that dabbling in the universe’s secrets is okay. But sometimes, a scientist is just too clever, or lucky, to get burned. Here are 10 mad scientists who didn’t get punished.…

The First Noah Trailer Is Full of Biblical Disaster Porn

God is PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSED. We are really not sure what to think about Darren Aronofsky’s Ye Olde Day After Tomorrow, er Noah. There’s just so much going on. The CG animals and massive rain storm and geyser attack we understand because it’s about God flooding the Earth. However, there’s a lot of other fantasy trappings in…

Comment of the Day: Peak Geek Edition

Today, we whispered our secret hatreds of beloved films into the unknowing winds, assembled a super-team of the worst mentors ever to hand down a piece of terrible advice, and predicted when the geek-bubble would come crashing down on all of our heads (wait for it, wait for it, and…) In Morning Spoilers, commenter Daniel…

Full Length Divergent trailer shows the future ruins of Chicago

The new dystopian teen movie Divergent could be upping the ante for post-apocalyptic devastation, judging from this brand new trailer. What’s happened to Lake Michigan? Find out, in the movie’s first full-length trailer. Divergent, based on Veronica Roth’s YA book series, is set in a future Chicago, that’s surrounded by a dried-out Lake Michigan and…

Who’s the most irresponsible mentor of all time?

We all need a little guidance sometimes. So it’s a good thing there are mentors, who can teach us and shelter us and… generally screw everything up. Because that’s what mentors do. But who’s the most irresponsible or just plain evil mentor in science fiction or fantasy? https://gizmodo.com/what-scifi-teaches-us-about-lying-deceitful-mentors-5020640 Please include a picture or clip (or…

Watch the storyboards for the Stretch Armstrong Movie that Never Was

Remember when Stretch Armstrong was supposed to be a live action feature film starring Twilight werewolf Taylor Lautner? But then Lautner’s spy movie tanked, as did the other toy-to-film production (Battleship). Now all we have left of Armstrong, the toy movie that never was, is this animatic storyboard. Thanks to the keen eye over at…

Stephen Fry’s Insane Look in Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Entertainment Weekly just released a collection of new Hobbit 2 images. Including one particularly interesting shot of Stephen Fry with an epic hairstyle. Just call him Stephen Fry: Master of Laketown, and the Comb-Over. Plus look who learned how to do the fishtail braid: Legolas!