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Men in Black screenwriter joining Will Smith’s Colossus: The Forbin Project remake

It’s been a while since we last heard news of the Will Smith-starring remake of the 1970 evil computer film Colossus: The Forbin Project, but we’re excited to hear about the latest talent brought onboard. Ed Solomon, the screenwriter who co-wrote the Bill & Ted movies (and the TV series) and penned Men in Black,…

What if Fred Savage’s grandpa read him A Game of Thrones instead of The Princess Bride?

In The Princess Bride, Fred Savage’s grandfather cheers him up by reading a humorous tale of adventure and romance with a happy ending. But what if instead, Grandpa read him the much darker story of the battle for the Iron Throne? Season/Book One spoilers. [via Tor]

Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs movie has been delayed from its original April release date. No word on when it’ll come out.

Slave Leia and Uhura collide in the Star Trek/Star Wars crossover we all secretly want

This ridiculously sexy cosplay wins the sexy cosplay wars. Seriously, top that. [Chickopolis via Fashionably Geek]

This Tea Party science fiction movie trailer is better than both Atlas Shrugged movies put together

This fake trailer for a conservative science-fiction movie just premiered at CPAC, the big right-wing confab, and… it’s a thing of true beauty. It contains more awesome scenes of socialist oppression, and a few heroic people fighting back, than both Atlas Shrugged movies. And the acting is truly epic as well, especially the woman who…

This goofy scene from A Knight’s Tale recreates history far better than a documentary could

When A Knight’s Tale came out in 2001, critics snarked about how director Brian Helgeland used contemporary rock music in a medieval jousting flick. But this opening scene, with peasants dancing to Queen at a jousting match, is one of the greatest examples of historical recreation you’ll ever see. Imagine if this scene had had…

What happens when Game of Thrones runs out of books to adapt?

This is the biggest question everybody’s wondering about. With George R.R. Martin toiling away on book six of A Song of Ice and Fire, what happens when the Game of Thrones TV show runs out of material to adapt? The good news: they’re not going to slow down the TV show’s hectic pace, or pad…

The 10 Greatest Personality Tests in Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Katharine Trendacosta and Charlie Jane Anders. When you explore the darkest reaches of the space, you find out just who you really are. But why wait? Most science fiction heroes find out about their own inner psyches long before they ever leave home, thanks to the genre’s huge range of personality tests. Why not…

Why is it so hard to create a good science fiction movie romance?

Some of the coolest science fiction movies of all time are love stories — Eternal Sunshine, Brazil, and plenty of others. Combining big ideas with an epic passion just makes sense. But why do so many films fail to pull off this combination? Watching the new movie Upside Down, which fails so spectacularly as a…

New Man of Steel images prove that Henry Cavill truly is the hairiest Superman of all

A collection of brand new Superman images dropped in the latest issue of Total Film, delivering plenty of mountain man Clark Kent pics. Truly, this is the manliest of Supermans to ever expose his chest hair in a deep V. There’s also a hefty interview with director Zack Snyder, with one particular quote that kind…

If you want to understand the ethical implications of Google Glass, watch this short film now

Several years ago, scifi filmmaker and videogame designer Jim Munroe wrote a film called Infest Wisely, an anthology of short movies about the near future. “Early Adopter” is a story about a woman who ingests nanobots that allow her to take pictures with her eyes, invisibly, without anyone realizing she’s filming them. At first she…

Safety Not Guaranteed‘s director has been chosen to save Jurassic Park 4

Jurassic Park 4 finally has a director, Colin Trevorrow. You may remember him from the indie picture Safety Not Guaranteed, which is kind of short on its T-Rex-fighting-humans moments. But maybe that’s a good thing? Yes, the director who built a full-length (and fairly touching) movie around the famous 1997 time-travel-themed “help wanted” ad, has…

Pessimistic Optimism: Goro Miyazaki on His Post-Nuclear Romance, From Up On Poppy Hill

Goro Miyazaki, son of the famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, has taken over his father’s Studio Ghibli and released a new feature film, From Up On Poppy Hill (out in the States tomorrow). In this exclusive profile by Scott Thill, Miyazaki talks about the new movie and his father’s legacy. If Goro Miyazaki is feeling…

Dear God What Have We Done: Kickstarter could help fund a Chuck movie next

Yesterday we the people swiftly crowdfunded a Veronica Mars movie. Whether you’re for or against the massive fan funding, one thing is certain: the success of Rob Thomas’ Kickstarter is certainly going to inspire plenty of canned TV shows to try to convince their fans to pay out for a second coming. Including Chuck. It…

First clips from Stephenie Meyer’s movie The Host kind of feel like an alien Twilight

Maybe we’re biased because we know Stephenie Meyer wrote the novel source material, but dang it if these new Host clips don’t have a Twilight twang to them. All the notes are there: a slightly sepia world, completely nonthreatening violence, and a crap load of teen love and introspection. Not that that’s necessarily a bad…

How Watchmen helped kill the BioShock movie

What ever happened to that BioShock movie we were promised almost six years ago? Turns out Watchmen killed it. Way back in 2008, news of a BioShock movie broke. But this wasn’t just another shoot-em-up Resident Evil video game adaptation but a serious, R-rated vision of tantalizing, underwater world that made BioShock so incredibly popular.…

Helena Bonham-Carter fires her tattooed cannon leg in the new trailer for Lone Ranger

So, is any part of The Lone Ranger television show in the Lone Ranger movie? Don’t get us wrong: Gore Verbinski’s version of a Western is wickedly insane. But after witnessing Helena Bonham-Carter shoot cannon balls from her tattooed fake leg, we have to wonder when will they be shooting rounds of some original canon…

Ramez Naam’s nanotech mind-control novel Nexus gets a movie deal

We loved Ramez Naam’s novel Nexus, about a group of subversive grad students who invent a drug that allows you to run software in your brain. Now it may become a movie. Deadline Hollywood has the story: Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Nexus, the science fiction novel by Ramez Naam. The project will…

Watch This Disturbing Cyberpunk Movie About Turning Memories into Drugs

You won’t be able to stop thinking about this low budget short film, Anamnesis, about a guy who invents a machine that turns him into a lowlife memory dealer. It’s got a gritty, realistic feel and a weird premise that sometimes doesn’t quite work — but then, when it does, it’s a smart exploration of…

16 Obscenely Over the Top Home Theaters

If you love watching movies but hate the unwashed masses—and happen to have giant heaping truckloads of money—designers and interior architects can offer a simple solution: your very own deluxe in-home movie theater. Here are some of the most amazing in the world, inspired by everything from Star Wars and Star Trek, to Paris and…