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The Kids and Adults Inside of Us Can’t Wait For This Imagineering Doc

Even if you think Disneyland and Walt Disney World are too artificial, too sappy, too cutesy, you still have to admit they completely redefined the idea of a theme park. Visiting them makes you feel like you’re entered another world, and all of the ‘magic’ responsible for that feeling comes from the hardworking designers, engineers,…

10 Influential Movies (Where Everybody Copied the Wrong Thing)

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that changes everything. A film that rewrites the rules and influences a generation of film-makers. But all too often, the people who imitate these ground-breaking movies miss the point. Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy movies from which everybody copied the wrong thing. https://gizmodo.com/19-science-fiction-movies-that-could-change-your-life-5963166 1)…

Best look at the live-action Gatchaman‘s awesome superhero suits

You’ve seen a glimpse of them in action, but Toho has put the bird-themed superhero outfits of the live-action Gatchaman movie’s new team outside the 109 Men’s department store in Shibuya, and my god, are they fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/see-the-all-new-live-action-gatchaman-team-in-action-530345244 They’re updated without being overdesigned; they’re clearly indebted to the originals without being beholden to them; they’re…

Starting in 2016 Netflix streaming subscribers will have first dibs at Weinstein Company flicks released that year. [AP]

Which character surprised you by dying and not coming back?

Nowadays, it’s not really a surprise any more when someone dies and then comes back to life. Death is a revolving door, in both science fiction and fantasy. But which dead character did you most expect to see come back — only to watch them surprisingly stay dead forever? Please include a picture or clip…

Why shouldn’t Arrow cross over with the big-screen Justice League?

Warner Bros. is building on the success of Man of Steel by making a Batman/Superman movie. But how will Warners build the rest of its cinematic Justice League? One possible approach is to incorporate the successful universe that DC has already been building on the small(er) screen, with Arrow. https://gizmodo.com/theyre-doing-a-superman-batman-movie-but-thats-not-851711013 Whatever DC does after the…

In the first trailer for How I Live Now, the Apocalypse is a turn-on

Like a more romantic version of Red Dawn, behold the trailer for How I Live Now. This sexy young-adult apocalypse novel is translated onto the big screen with nuclear fall-out, and lots of cuddling in big comfy sweaters. Based on Meg Rosoff’s novel, this film stars Saoirse Ronan, who plays Daisy. She’s an angry girl…

Fox is starting its own Marvel cinematic universe with X-Men and FF

Fox’s Head of Marvel Movies, Mark Millar, has announced that the X-Men movies and the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot will in fact share the same cinematic universe. Now, he’s quick to point out that there are no actual crossovers planned… so what does this actually mean? Hilariously, not much. Claiming that Fantastic Four and X-Men…

The Queen from Aliens poses for her Mondo portrait

You’ve seen the queen from Aliens many times before. But check out our exclusive first look at Mondo’s new poster art, which aims to show you the ultimate version of the queen. Artist Jason Edmiston tells us his goal is to make it look as though the queen came and posed for him. Edmiston’s solo…

What could this baffling new trailer from J.J. Abrams possibly mean?

Looks like J.J. Abrams is back to his old tricks, plying us with viral marketing that’s shrouded in mystery. His Bad Robot studio just dumped this black-and-white teaser that reminds us of a modern day The Crow. Is it for a movie? A TV series? A webseries? We have no idea. Ideas? Comments? Does this…

Iron Man battles his most obsessed fanboy in new IM3 deleted scene

Iron Man 3 doesn’t hit DVD and Blu-ray until September 24th, but deleted scenes and extras are leaking out — like these alternate versions of Tony Stark’s encounter with his #1 fan Gary (played by Happy Endings’ Adam Pally). I’m pretty Stark would rather deal with Whiplash again than look at that tattoo. https://gizmodo.com/first-iron-man-3-deleted-scene-shows-the-mandarin-on-th-1124038015

The incredible miniature vehicles used in The Dark Knight

While many of the chase scenes in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight may have looked larger than life, some were actually quite a bit smaller. Take a look at the model mobiles that sped and smashed through the streets of Gotham. New Deal Studios designed, fabricated, and photographed the 1:3 scale model Lower Wacker Drive…

Peggy Carter finds a mysterious vial in latest Agent Carter clip

We get more and more excited for the Marvel one-shot short film Agent Carter, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy Carter, with each new clip. In this one, Peggy discovers a strange vial, but she won’t make off with it easily. https://gizmodo.com/hayley-atwells-back-in-action-in-marvels-newest-short-747805424 You can also watch the first clip over at EW. Agent…

Timur Bekmambetov is making a movie about flesh-eating squirrels

Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov is turning his sights on the fluffy menace that is squirrel-kind. And although there’s no word on production starting, the movie apparently already has a promo trailer. In May, Red Sea Media announced that it was partnering with Timur Bekmambetov on Squirrels, a horror film about,…

New Images Suggest Event Horizon Could Have Been Awesome

One of the movies that showed great promise that it never quite managed to deliver on was Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon. The space horror starred Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill and Kathleen Quinlan as members of a rescue vessel, the Lewis and Clark, sent to check on a distress signal sent from the Event Horizon,…

The Terminator 3 Effects Team Basically Built Real Robot Assassins

Sometimes when you need a Terminator, a crazy puppet backpack will do. Sometimes, you’ve just gotta go a little further. And when it came to Terminator 3, the effects team took the second option and basically built actually Terminators. Almost. https://gizmodo.com/t-600-is-a-fantastic-backpack-for-exterminating-mankind-621931354 In this behind the scenes video from the alway-enlightening Stan Winston School, some of…

Joseph Kosinski, prepare to enter The Twilight Zone. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Tron: Legacy and Oblivion director is in negotiations to direct the latest big-screen incarnation of The Twilight Zone, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

How Pacific Rim‘s kaiju parasites came to animatronic life

Pacific Rim’s “Rollie Pollies” are the bug-like parasites that hang out on kaiju bodies. Visual effects house Spectral Motion posted a video showing how these critters went from concept art to scuttling in the builders’ hands. [via Comic Book Movie]

The jury is still out on whether this is science fiction or not

Is Breaking Bad science fiction? I mean, it’s fiction about science. What about William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition? Don’t even get me started on Person of Interest and Sneakers. We could argue all day! And we will. What’s your candidate for the story that defies categorization? Tell us about stories — books, movies, comics, TV,…

Rare Dune art from Omni reveals Frank Herbert’s original vision

One of the many reasons we’re excited for the return of Omni magazine is access to their vaults. Just recently, the new owners of the magazine republished this iconic Dune art from a collection of rare work by John Schoenherr. Not only are these illustrations stunning, but Frank Herbert praised their accuracy. These are taken…