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Patrick Stewart confirms his return as Professor X!

Patrick Stewart will be returning as Professor X! Fantastic, but what of James McAvoy? Last we heard Matthew Vaughn would be filming a sequel to X-Men First Class that would be titled X-Men: Days of Future Past — but we had no idea it could include the faces of mutants past (or rather future, if…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 26

Brand new Dredd concept art includes a very different psychic showdown [Maybe NSFW]

One of the most shocking parts of Dredd was the psychic battle between Judge Anderson and a particularly loathsome drug dealer, who tried to give her the same treatment the Reman Viceroy gave Deanna Troi — and she fights back, basically pwning him. Now the movie’s VFX Art Director, Neil Miller, has posted some concept…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 26

Sometimes the best coma treatment is a series of surreal shared sex dreams [NSFW]

Check out the weird trailer for Vanishing Waves, a Lithuanian erotic science fiction film that just got U.S. distribution. In this film, a neuroscientist volunteers to test a new treatment that allows him to go inside the thoughts of a coma patient, resulting in trippy and sexual imagery. It’s NSFW! The film-makers say they’re influenced…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 26

Fan recreates Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man test footage in storyboard form

Did you miss Edgar Wright’s test footage for his Ant-Man movie at this years Comic-Con? Don’t worry — one clever fan has recreated the entire thing with animated storyboards. Sadly there’s no sound or music, but now you at least get the overall gist of what Wright is gunning for in his Marvel movie. Plus,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 26

10 Visual Motifs that American Science Fiction Borrowed from Anime

We owe so much to Japanese animation and comics. Anime and manga have given us some of the most unforgettable characters and stories in the universe — but also, the visual style of anime has had a huge impact on Western science fiction and fantasy. American movies and television have gotten a much-needed injection of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Amanda Yesilbas Sep 26

Rian Johnson shares the gritty details you should be looking for in Looper’s dystopian future

Before Joseph Gordon-Levitt starts blasting time-traveling marks with his giant gun in Looper, there was a Vagrant War that turned most of the citizens into street urchins who would kill each other over a solar panel. We sat down with Looper director Rian Johnson and delved into the details of his futuristic dystopia. (And pushed…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 26

The Princess Bride cast reunites, and we melt into puddles

I’m not sure how we’re going to hold it together during this heartstring-yanking 25th anniversary of The Princess Bride. On October 2, Fox will be releasing a special Blu-ray with tales from cast members about such topics as André the Giant snoozing in hotel lobbies. Just the theme music from this movie makes me want…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 26

Cheap Goodies on Google Play for the Next Five Days

Google just crossed the rather staggering 25 billion apps downloaded mark, and to celebrate it’s offering some heavy discounts. For the next five days you can download apps from top developers (Game Loft, EA, Rovio, and others) for just 25 cents a pop. And that’s just the app side. There’s also going to be steep…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 26

Andy Serkis goes full-on Gollum while reading The Hobbit out loud

In celebration The Hobbit’s75 anniversary, Peter Jackson’s Gollum (and The Hobbit’s Second Unit Director) Andy Serkis popped by to terrify a bunch of children while reading from J.R.R.Tolkien’s works. It’s adorable and horrifying — but mostly super sweet to see such a massive actor commit 100% to such a crazy character for a bunch of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 25

Set photo reveals the Ark in Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH is filled with snakes

Time to rename Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH to Nightmare Boat. The first ever image from inside Noah’s Ark on Aronofsky’s movie about the time God said, “Fuck it, let’s flood the Earth and put two of every animal in a wooden ship,” is out. So what’s in Noah’s Ark? Just a crap load of snakes. So…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 25

This Honest Movie Trailer for The Avengers is hysterical

Next in the line of honest movies trailer from the team over at Screen Junkies is The Avengers. And dear God, it’s near perfect in its absurd honesty and fannish praise. We agree with it completely, from the “witness the excitement of Iron Man repairing a space ship for 20 minutes” dig to the line…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 25

Alien facehugger bong will make you paranoid, even if you’re stone sober

I have no idea who’s responsible for this work of art, but I’m now of the theory that this is a lost costume design from Prometheus, which was originally filmed as a $130-million remake of Reefer Madness. Remember, if an android slips THC in your wine, you’ll grow a cephalopod in your bloodshot eyes that…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 25

Star Wars Infographics charts out the entire Skywalker story

We love a good infographic, and it’s even better when it’s a sleek Star Wars infographic with tiny Admiral Ackbars and precious lightsaber-wielding Jedi isotypes. Marc Morera has designed an entire collection of Star Wars infographics, each of which maps out the characters’ journeys, battles, deaths, and mating rituals. It even includes some quality mapping…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 25

8 Epic Heroes Who Committed Mass Murder

We know heroes by their deeds. And the greatest heroes are the ones whose legacies are as big as space and as enduring as the stars. Unfortunately, sometimes great deeds also include terrible actions. Here are eight of your favorite epic heroes who have committed mass murder, or even genocide. Out-of-date spoilers ahead… 8. The…

io9 Gordon Jackson Sep 25

New Life of Pi trailer shows the fantastic floating islands of madness

Finally! A trailer for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi that takes us outside of the relationship between the boy and his tiger. The latest look at this creative film shows how a the main character ends up stranded on a wild island a host of wild fantasy creatures (and meerkats)! Bringing Yann Martel‘s novel to…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 24

Animated Looper trailer shoots paint bullets at you

The time traveling gangster movie Looper has a really visually stunning new trailer, that throws all of the events into a whole new light. Watch as an animated Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis fight each other in a beautiful, bloody animated version of Rian Johnson’s trailer.

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 24

First official image of Wolverine shows off Hugh Jackman’s new claws

Wolverine and his veins are pissed. Here’s the very first official look at director James Mangold‘s The Wolverine, which follows the X-Man to Japan. The flick is supposed to take place some time after X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but thankfully, the adamantium claws in this shot don’t look like they were pulled out of Who Framed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 24

How insane does the sequel to John Dies at the End get? See for yourself!

The gonzo horror novel John Dies at the End, by Cracked.com’s David Wong, was a huge internet sensation a few years ago, and has spawned a feature film starring Paul Giamatti. Now at last, the sequel is coming out early next month — and we’ve got an exclusive excerpt from This Book Is Full of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 24

There’ll probably never be another Judge Dredd movie

He may be the law, but Judge Dredd has been overruled at the box office. Dredd didn’t even meet the studio’s lowball estimates of $9 million to $10 million in its first weekend in the United States, pulling in an estimated $6.3 million instead. And it hasn’t even done well enough in the U.K. and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 24

Jim Carrey dons the Colonel Stars camo on the set of Kick-Ass 2

We loved Nic Cage’s turn as the brutal superhero Big Daddy in the first Kick-Ass film, but can Jim Carrey bring a similar punch to his role as Colonel Stars in the sequel? This video from the set gives us our first look at the Justice Forever leader, his dog Sofia, his colleague Night Bitch…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 23

Patrick Stewart confirms his return as Professor X!

Brand new Dredd concept art includes a very different psychic showdown [Maybe NSFW]

Sometimes the best coma treatment is a series of surreal shared sex dreams [NSFW]

Fan recreates Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man test footage in storyboard form

10 Visual Motifs that American Science Fiction Borrowed from Anime

Rian Johnson shares the gritty details you should be looking for in Looper’s dystopian future

The Princess Bride cast reunites, and we melt into puddles

Cheap Goodies on Google Play for the Next Five Days

Andy Serkis goes full-on Gollum while reading The Hobbit out loud

Set photo reveals the Ark in Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH is filled with snakes

This Honest Movie Trailer for The Avengers is hysterical

Alien facehugger bong will make you paranoid, even if you’re stone sober

Star Wars Infographics charts out the entire Skywalker story

8 Epic Heroes Who Committed Mass Murder

New Life of Pi trailer shows the fantastic floating islands of madness

Animated Looper trailer shoots paint bullets at you

First official image of Wolverine shows off Hugh Jackman’s new claws

How insane does the sequel to John Dies at the End get? See for yourself!

There’ll probably never be another Judge Dredd movie

Jim Carrey dons the Colonel Stars camo on the set of Kick-Ass 2

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