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21-minute Oblivion featurette shows how its post-apocalyptic Earth came to be

The first reviews for Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion have not been promising, but this featurette hopes to lure you to the theater anyway. It offers a longer behind-the-scenes look at the movie’s world both above the clouds and back on the damaged Earth. https://gizmodo.com/first-oblivion-reviews-its-as-lifeless-as-the-earth-i-472164153 There’s plenty of eye candy in this featurette, which isn’t surprising, given…

Movies Lauren Davis Apr 14

In the creepy future of Antiviral, people pay to be infected with celebrity diseases

The conceit at the core of Brandon Cronenberg’s surreal, indie film Antiviral is perfect for our celebrity-obsessed era. Instead of buying astronomically expensive DVD box sets or action figures, fans of the future pay to be injected with virus strains that have infected their favorite celebrities. This is a movie that’s packed with sexy metaphors.…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 12

Hugo Weaving suits up as Agent Smith to sell GE products… they’ve seen The Matrix, right?

While completely befuddling we’re super excited that the Wachowskis gave GE their blessing to pay for one last moment with The Matrix’s Agent Smith. We’re not sure why a giant electric company would want a dangerous virus that hates the stink of humanity to market its product but who cares? The more Hugo Weaving, the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 12

Iron Man meets the doomed Starship Enterprise in the best poster mashup of the day

A new poster came out today for Star Trek Into Darkness, showing the U.S.S. Enterprise heading in the wrong direction. Where have we seen this image before? Oh yeah. This handy poster mashup reminds us. https://observationdeck.kinja.com/the-new-poster-for-star-trek-into-darkness-shows-the-en-472713301 This awesome poster mashup by Charles de Lauzirika comes via Ryan Turek, and here’s the whole thing:

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 12

What’s the absolute worst space movie ever made?

What is the very worst movie about space adventures? Weigh in below! Please make sure to include a picture of your choice. Also, which movie has the worst inexplicably tiny outfits? Which movie features the crappiest spaceship in all the land? And who deserves the crown of worst space movie to ever attempt to film…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 12

Forget Oblivion, you really want to know what the critics are saying about Scary Movie 5

There’s only one movie coming out this weekend that continues a long-running franchise and features Lindsay Lohan — that’s right, Scary Movie 5 is out today. It wasn’t screened for critics, and there weren’t any midnight showings, but some folks still managed to review it. Not us, though. We’re just not that masochistic. Here’s what…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 12

Is a remake of Stephen King’s Cujo really coming this year?

It’s the 30th anniversary of Stephen King’s mad-dog horror novel Cujo. And to celebrate, Sunn Classic Pictures (which produced the original Cujo movie) wants to do a remake. They’ve even made this spooky pitch video. The video above was found by Dread Central, which says Sunn aims to have the movie out this year —…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 12

Ronald D. Moore explains why he’s back on Syfy with Helix

Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore is finally coming back to television, to bring us Helix, a show set in an Arctic research facility, studying a plague that could wipe out our planet. So how much of Moore’s scrapped script for The Thing wound up in there? And why isn’t he doing another spaceship show? https://gizmodo.com/director-singled-out-for-ronald-d-moores-the-thing-pre-5132707…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 12

The Art and Industry of Making Monsters

By Geoff Manaugh. This winter, while out in Los Angeles on a trip for Venue, I had the enormous pleasure of stopping by special effects house Spectral Motion — responsible for the effects in Hellboy, X-Men: First Class, and Pacific Rim, among others. I visited with Nicola Twilley to interview Mike Elizalde, CEO of Spectral…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 12

Satan cackles as new Trolls Dolls movie, TV show, video game and whatever humans can market moves forward

Who’s going to tell Dreamworks everyone hates Troll Dolls? Dreamworks Animation has just nabbed the rights to the super hot toy that all the kids are talking about 20 years ago — yes, the hideous Troll Doll, with its “please kill me eyes” and bedazzled belly button. It makes perfect sense that the kids of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 12

The Real Reason Why Science Fiction Westerns Are Such a Hard Sell

On Monday, Syfy launches its $100 million show Defiance, which is full of Wild West tropes, and this summer we’re getting the fantasy-oriented Lone Ranger. Lately, tons of people have tried to combine the rollicking Western with the wider expanses of science fiction and fantasy. And they’ve failed financially. For one simple reason. On the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 12

Cameron Crowe is making Lost the romantic comedy with Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams

Cameron Crowe’s latest movie sounds like a zany romantic comedy-esque Lost, but instead of everyone dying there’s a talking robot. Fingers crossed the Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams have to teach the robot about love, but then it’s the ROBOT who teaches them. Here is the completely bat-shit insane premise (according to The Hollywood Reporter):…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 12

All Movie Trailers Are the Same Freaking Thing

Let’s all admit it: we love movie trailers. A minute or two of bite sized scenes showing off great looking shirtless actors with even better looking almost topless actresses combined with explosions, laughs, mind blowing sequences and a tinge of sex is a wonderful formula to get us hyped. Even if all movie trailers are…

Movies Casey Chan Apr 11

Elysium‘s Neill Blomkamp shares the secrets of designing a dystopia

Now that you’ve seen the first stunning trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium and picked apart the screencaps, you can start to see a few similarites to Blomkamp’s first movie, District 9. The politics, the cool gear, and the massive object floating in the sky. We caught up with Blomkamp a while ago, and he told…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 11

How to Sell Star Trek to Foreign Audiences: Downplay the Space Stuff

The 2009 Star Trek reboot was a huge hit among U.S. audiences, restoring the classic series to much of its past glory. But overseas, not so much. At a time when tentpole movies draw more of their box office from foreign markets, Paramount aims to conquer the real final frontier: Asia and Europe. There’s a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 11

And now gorgeous women in tiny leather shorts will kick everyone’s ass as the Dimension Police

Check out the trailer for Travelers: Jigen Keisatsu (Dimension Police) set in the future, where gorgeous women in tiny shorts run the police with high kicks. According to Crunchy Roll, the Japan-Taiwan co-production is directed by Koichi Sakamato, one of the founding members of Alpha Stunts. Hence why the action in this trailer is so…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Apr 11

12 Iconic TV and Movie Roles That Were Recast Successfully

By Charlie Jane Anders and Katharine Trendacosta. It’s an unfortunate fact of life: roles get recast all the time. Sooner or later, Robert Downey Jr. will quit playing Tony Stark. Once Upon a Time is said to be recasting its Mad Hatter. Game of Thrones has already recast a few minor roles. Usually, when an…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 11

New photos and details from Man of Steel reveal two massive changes for Superman

We’ve got a crop of amazing new images from Man of Steel — plus find out about the one massive detail director Zack Snyder stripped from Superman. In the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, Snyder revealed his first big chance, “I’ll be honest with you, there’s no Kryptonite in the movie.” No ultimate weakness…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 11

First tiny but awesome look at the heroes of Japan’s live-action Gatchaman movie!

It’s short, and all you can see are part of their helmets, but this new teaser trailer for Japan’s live-action Gatchaman movie (a.k.a. Battle of the Planets, a.k.a. G-Force) has the first look at Science Ninja Team Gatchaman in uniform, and they look completely awesome. Here are two adjectives I never thought I’d be able…

Movies Rob Bricken Apr 11

First Oblivion Reviews: It’s as lifeless as the Earth it’s set on

Sounds like Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski director is two for two with making beautiful-but-brainless films. A crop of early reviews of Oblivion praise the post apocalyptic flick for its meticulous world-building and futuristic eye candy. But that’s about it. Take a look at our roundup of early reviews below… The Hollywood Reporter gives Kosinski…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 10

21-minute Oblivion featurette shows how its post-apocalyptic Earth came to be

In the creepy future of Antiviral, people pay to be infected with celebrity diseases

Hugo Weaving suits up as Agent Smith to sell GE products… they’ve seen The Matrix, right?

Iron Man meets the doomed Starship Enterprise in the best poster mashup of the day

What’s the absolute worst space movie ever made?

Forget Oblivion, you really want to know what the critics are saying about Scary Movie 5

Is a remake of Stephen King’s Cujo really coming this year?

Ronald D. Moore explains why he’s back on Syfy with Helix

The Art and Industry of Making Monsters

Satan cackles as new Trolls Dolls movie, TV show, video game and whatever humans can market moves forward

The Real Reason Why Science Fiction Westerns Are Such a Hard Sell

Cameron Crowe is making Lost the romantic comedy with Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams

All Movie Trailers Are the Same Freaking Thing

Elysium‘s Neill Blomkamp shares the secrets of designing a dystopia

How to Sell Star Trek to Foreign Audiences: Downplay the Space Stuff

And now gorgeous women in tiny leather shorts will kick everyone’s ass as the Dimension Police

12 Iconic TV and Movie Roles That Were Recast Successfully

New photos and details from Man of Steel reveal two massive changes for Superman

First tiny but awesome look at the heroes of Japan’s live-action Gatchaman movie!

First Oblivion Reviews: It’s as lifeless as the Earth it’s set on

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Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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