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Did Emmerich just replace Independence Day 2 with this alien movie?

Hope you didn’t have your heart set on an Independence Day sequel, because it looks like diretor Roland Emmerich is interested in an entirely different alien invasion. The disaster porn auteur has just picked up a “new take” on the alien invasion movie. Are there any more ways to tell this story? From the perspective…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 7

Star Wars producer is expanding one of the year’s best short films

If you haven’t seen the amazing short film R’ha, stop what you’re doing and go watch it THIS INSTANT. Because this cool “proof of concept” short could very well be the next big feature film, thanks to Star Wars producer Rick McCallum. https://gizmodo.com/this-awesome-sci-fi-short-reminds-us-even-aliens-are-su-5975152 Former head of Lucasfilm McCallum, along with Star Wars: Clone Wars producer…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 7

Much Ado About Nothing proves Joss Whedon is still a comedy genius

Shakespeare wrote several “comedies,” and some of them are still funny today. (As You Like It and Twelfth Night come to mind.) But Much Ado About Nothing is not one of the funny ones. Unless it’s being filmed by Joss Whedon, in which case it’s fall-out-of-your-seat, holy-shit-can’t-breathe funny. There are spoilers for a 400-year-old play…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 7

The Apocalypse comedy Rapture-Palooza will make you hail Satan

There’s not a lot of movies that would have audiences crying out “Hail, Satan!” at the end of them, but Rapture-Palooza is one of them. Thanks due entirely to Craig Robinson, better known as Daryl on The Office, who plays the Antichrist with such a filthy flair as to carry the entire movie, out today.…

Movies Rob Bricken Jun 7

Criminologists explain why RoboCop, Dredd and Running Man make sense

Yesterday’s dystopian thrillers about crime-fighting are tomorrow’s perfectly rational solutions to the crime problem. At least, that’s what a bunch of criminologists told The Atlantic. Here are a few sample quotes from The Atlantic’s roundup of dystopian crime movies, and what criminologists have to say about them: “When you look at the technologies that the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 7

Denzel Washington is Making Another Dystopian Movie

He brought the Good Book to the wasteland in The Book of Eli. Now Denzel Washington has signed on for another Dystopian flick titled Shovel Ready. Hopefully this one won’t actually be about a shovel. https://gizmodo.com/book-of-eli-reboots-zardoz-for-the-twenty-first-cen-5449428 Deadline is reporting that Washington has signed on to star in the movie adaptation of Adam Strenbergh’s unreleased novel…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 7

Pics of actors laughing between takes are instant smiles

“I feel a draft, do you feel a draft?” Redditor Join_You_In_The_Sun set up an amazing behind-the-scenes photo gallery of actors “Laughing Between Takes,” and this Kill Bill shot is just perfect for a caption this moment. The others will just warm your heart into the weekend. Lots more images over at Reddit.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 7

Mulan: A One Woman Show is Absolutely Amazing

Here it is: Mulan recreated by one woman, beautifully. Make up artist and amazing creative Kae has been recreating all the characters from Mulan with a bit of rouge and an amazing eye for detail. On her tumblr she sets her goals: “I’m just a simple girl, who just wants to become a makeup artist.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 6

Man of Steel saves the best trailer for last

It’s kind of insane that Man of Steel would still be releasing new trailers this close to the opening of the movie — which comes out in a mere eight days — but it’s very much worth the time to watch this fifth and final trailer, because not only is it chock full of new…

Trailers Rob Bricken Jun 6

Why You Should Never Write Action Scenes For Your Blockbuster Movie

It’s the height of summer movie season, which means that action movies are blowing up all over. And that makes this the perfect time to revisit some advice from John Rogers, creator of Leverage and writer of the new webcomic Arcanum. Here, he explains why you should never write an action scene. Ever. All images…

Movies John Rogers Jun 6

Hollywood wants an Archie Comics Zombie Movie Mashup — no, really

Earlier this year Archie Comics revealed that the people of Riverdale would be overrun with flesh eating zombies. For fun! And now Warner Bros. wants to adapt the comics into a movie. BUT WAIT, it might actually be good. Deadline broke the news that Warner Bros. has hired Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore to lead…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 6

Human Centipede Where’s Waldo is way easier than regular Where’s Waldo

Finding Waldo in a Human Centipede is much easier than we expected. Also, we’re disturbed by how perfectly this whole thing works. Created by the demented mind of artist Alex Pardee, we really hope he’s selling posters of this at Comic-Con. Now, FIND WALDO!

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 6

Rachel McAdams and Jeff Bridges to revive The Little Prince

Exciting news! The Little Prince is about to be rediscovered all over again, thanks to an insane, all-star cast. James Franco, Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, and Paul Giamatti have all signed on to bring The Little Prince back to life. The Wrap broke the news that this long list of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 6

More Lovely Concept Art of Our Future Space Armadas

Yesterday we brought you some stunning spaceship concept art from the space movie After Earth, by artist Colie Wertz. Now here’s another batch, covering the spaceships and cities in the film, from artist Emmanuel Shiu. Exclusively at io9! https://gizmodo.com/spaceship-concept-art-that-will-blow-your-post-apocalyp-511326531 Shiu worked on environments and spaceships for this movie, and you can see for yourself that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 5

J.J. Abrams will resurrect Rod Serling’s famous lost screenplay

J.J. Abrams is adding another TV show to his long list of projects. Bad Robot has acquired the long-stalled screenplay penned by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling. Abrams will develop the project as a potential miniseries — no word if Abrams is adapting or directing the project himself, but it will have a home…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 5

10 Genres that Superheroes Have Swallowed Up

Superheroes aren’t just one genre. They’re tons of genres, smushed together. Aliens rub elbows with supernatural beings. Gods walk side by side with monsters. Over the decades, superheroes have borrowed from other genres, sometimes swallowing them whole. Here are 10 genres that got absorbed into superheroes, partly or completely. Some of these genres no longer…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 5

30 seconds into the Insidious 2 trailer and we’re already screaming

Picking up right where the last movie left off, James Wan and the entire cast from the first movie are back and freaking us the hell out. Find out what’s happening with the Lambert family, and what’s wrong with Daddy Lambert. Aaaah we can’t wait! First impressions: This movie looks A LOT more like the…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jun 5

An exclusive look inside the 12-year war that leads to Pacific Rim

Before Pacific Rim was shot, screenwriter Travis Beacham created an entire history of his Kaiju-filled Earth. The 12 years leading up to the movie have been illustrated and mapped out in the graphic novel Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero. We got a few exclusive pages that reveal the history behind this monster war —…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 5

First look at Evangeline Lilly as the elf Tauriel in The Hobbit 2

Evangeline Lilly is playing an all-new character in the second movie in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, an elf named Tauriel. All we knew about her character is that she has some kind of relationship with Legolas (who will be stopping by the film) but now we also know that she may…

Movies Rob Bricken Jun 5

The brutally honest Last Airbender trailer (emphasis on the brutal)

all those “Well, it could have been worse!” reviews of After Earth go to director M. Night Shyamalan’s head, the guys at Honest Trailers decided to take a look at his most astoundingly awful work, The Last Airbender, and do their thing. Sadly, this 3-and-a-half minute video only barely scratches the surface of how phenomenally…

Movies Rob Bricken Jun 5

Did Emmerich just replace Independence Day 2 with this alien movie?

Star Wars producer is expanding one of the year’s best short films

Much Ado About Nothing proves Joss Whedon is still a comedy genius

The Apocalypse comedy Rapture-Palooza will make you hail Satan

Criminologists explain why RoboCop, Dredd and Running Man make sense

Denzel Washington is Making Another Dystopian Movie

Pics of actors laughing between takes are instant smiles

Mulan: A One Woman Show is Absolutely Amazing

Man of Steel saves the best trailer for last

Why You Should Never Write Action Scenes For Your Blockbuster Movie

Hollywood wants an Archie Comics Zombie Movie Mashup — no, really

Human Centipede Where’s Waldo is way easier than regular Where’s Waldo

Rachel McAdams and Jeff Bridges to revive The Little Prince

More Lovely Concept Art of Our Future Space Armadas

J.J. Abrams will resurrect Rod Serling’s famous lost screenplay

10 Genres that Superheroes Have Swallowed Up

30 seconds into the Insidious 2 trailer and we’re already screaming

An exclusive look inside the 12-year war that leads to Pacific Rim

First look at Evangeline Lilly as the elf Tauriel in The Hobbit 2

The brutally honest Last Airbender trailer (emphasis on the brutal)

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