Skyline

Another Trailer for Beyond Skyline Makes the Movie Look Totally Badass

Whoever is cutting the trailers for Beyond Skyline deserves a raise. Here we’ve got the sequel to a super bad movie—a sequel that probably shouldn’t exist. But it’s got a cast that includes Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais, and the first trailer was really good. Now, the second trailer makes us want to forget the…

Trailers Germain Lussier Oct 9

Terrible Movie Skyline Is Getting a Sequel and Its Trailer Is… Actually Kind of Awesome?

You probably don’t even remember that the 2010 movie Skyline exists. It’s one of those scifi movies that came and went very quickly because it was just so, so bad. Today, though, we have a trailer for Beyond Skyline, which seems like a spin-off sequel, and the trailer is surprisingly awesome. Directed by Liam O’Donnell,…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 16

I wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life

Light pollution. It really screws up the view. It would be so great if the stars in the sky could still be seen over big metropolitan areas. But it doesn’t work like that. You have to go far away from civilization into deserts and nature to see the stars and cosmos the way they are…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 25

The Highest Tightrope Walk in The Southern Hemisphere Looks Terrifying

This fearless daredevil is Kane Petersen, who has successfully walked a tightrope 984 feet (300 metres) above the ground at the Skydeck of the Eureka Tower on September 16th 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. The walk was the highest tightrope walk ever attempted in the Southern Hemisphere, and marked the arrival of ‘The Walk’ to Australian…

Tech News Attila Nagy Sep 17

Stunning elevator ride up One World Trade Center shows 515 years of NYC

Beautiful. Breathtaking. Tragic. Saddening. Historic. The new One World Trade Center’s observatory has elevators that display a 515-year visual timeline of New York City’s skyline and it’s an incredible view. Like if you were in a glass elevator and watching history unfold right before your eyes. As the elevator climbs the 102 stories, you get…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 20

A Skyscraper Shelf Turns Your Books Into a Picturesque Skyline

If you haven’t yet embraced e-reading and donated all of your printed books to your local library, you’re probably also the type who likes to put your various tomes on display. So to guarantee that your carefully-curated collection gets noticed by visitors, store them on this Skyline shelf that makes them look like buildings in…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski Mar 20

This Cyberpunk Landscape is Actually The Skyline of Las Vegas

This futuristic night view of Las Vegas was captured from a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Super Hercules when it was landing after a training mission, during Red Flag 15-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, on February 9th 2015. [Senior Airman Thomas Spangler/U.S. Air Force]

Tech News Attila Nagy Feb 19

Good night, Toronto

Canada. Hockey. Poutine. Maple Syrup. All such truly wonderful things! Also wonderful? Toronto. Here’s a hyperlapse from Ryan Emond that shows the sparkling skyline of the lovely city to our north. Emond writes: Toronto Skyline Porn is what its title implies — a full frontal visual journey through Toronto’s growing skyline. The scenes were shot…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 13

Downtown L.A.’s Skyline from the Air: 1940s vs. 2014

Is L.A. flat? With mountains ringing the Southland on three sides—and even bisecting the city of Los Angeles along the Hollywood Hills—”flat” has never been an entirely fair description. But for decades the city’s architecture betrayed a commitment to horizontality. While Manhattan and Chicago strained toward the stratosphere, Los Angeles imposed a strict 150-foot height…

Tech News Nathan Masters Apr 14

This is what London’s skyline could look like in 20 years

With more than 200 towers of heights 20 stories or greater planned to be built in London over the next 20 years, the UK’s capital city is in for some big visual changes. Architectural visualization firm Hayes Davidson places those planned towers over a current image of London to imagine the future shape of London’s…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 4

Battleship proves alien invasion movies are just as contrived as romantic comedies

Battleship is superficially based on an old board game, but really it’s the latest in a long line of movies about alien forces coming to our planet and trashing the place. And this movie proves what we’ve suspected for a long time: the Hollywood alien invasion picture relies on a whole series of ridiculous contrivances…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 18

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Are More Pointless than Ghost Rider 2

This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood’s propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You’ve got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there’s Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to “improve” upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. But it gets worse. There are plenty of sequels in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 10

Why We Can’t Have Great Movies

Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer caused a splash late last week, when he admitted that “we do make a lot of shitty movies,” and listed Land of the Lost, The Wolfman and Cowboys & Aliens among the studio’s clunkers. But the really fascinating thing about Meyer’s presentation at the Savannah Film Festival was the insight…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 7

Get your naughty bits sucked inside a world of alien horror, with the Skyline sex toy

Remember Skyline? The horrible alien action flick that started with a wing and a prayer, filming in the condo of owned by the directors Strause? We all thought it would be good, but sadly it wasn’t. https://gizmodo.com/skyline-is-the-most-pointless-movie-of-the-year-5688875 But Japan thought it was so good, people would want to have sex with it. So they made…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 1

Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry

This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us? 1. Ruling Comic Con doesn’t guarantee a winning box office. The writing’s been on the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 29

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

The box office has spoken — no longer will the public fork over their wages for derivative movies like The Wolfman or Gulliver’s Travels. But does that mean better movies in 2011? Perhaps. The New York Times has an interesting round up of this year’s best performing films, paired next to the worst. It’s pretty…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 28

Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2010

This year’s best movies played with genres in ways that changed their audiences’ perceptions. Video-game movies, action movies, heist movies and superhero movies — they all had dazzling reinventions. Here are the 10 best and worst SF/fantasy movies of 2010. Best: 10. The Last Exorcism The “found footage” horror/disaster movie is fast becoming a cliche,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 27

The Walking Disaster!

Well friends, let’s do it to it, shall we? ON TO DISASTER!!! As always click to enlarge. THE WALKING DEAD: Well, AMC has an honest to god hit on their hands. They’ve gotten the attention of the critics since Mad Men first graced the air, but now they’re getting people, and people means money, and…

io9 GarrisonDean Nov 14

Skyline is the most pointless movie of the year

There’s a crowded field when it comes to pointlessness in movies, but alien invasion flick Skyline broke from the pack with its unfunny vacuity. Do not despair, though. It was just awful enough to have so-bad-it’s-good potential. Spoilers! Skyline was like a Syfy Original Movie, but with a kind of pernicious, humorless stupidity at its…

Movies Annalee Newitz Nov 12

The Star Trek 2 script is almost done, but will J.J. Abrams direct it?

As the script for the Star Trek sequel nears completion, the question becomes who will direct it. Disney’s adaptation of its Magic Kingdom theme park attracts Jon Favreau and Ron Moore. Star Trek 2: The screenplay, written by the first movie team of Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzmann, and Damon Lindelof, is reportedly nearing completion and…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Nov 12

Skyline

Another Trailer for Beyond Skyline Makes the Movie Look Totally Badass

Terrible Movie Skyline Is Getting a Sequel and Its Trailer Is… Actually Kind of Awesome?

I wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life

The Highest Tightrope Walk in The Southern Hemisphere Looks Terrifying

Stunning elevator ride up One World Trade Center shows 515 years of NYC

A Skyscraper Shelf Turns Your Books Into a Picturesque Skyline

This Cyberpunk Landscape is Actually The Skyline of Las Vegas

Good night, Toronto

Downtown L.A.’s Skyline from the Air: 1940s vs. 2014

This is what London’s skyline could look like in 20 years

Battleship proves alien invasion movies are just as contrived as romantic comedies

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Are More Pointless than Ghost Rider 2

Why We Can’t Have Great Movies

Get your naughty bits sucked inside a world of alien horror, with the Skyline sex toy

Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2010

The Walking Disaster!

Skyline is the most pointless movie of the year

The Star Trek 2 script is almost done, but will J.J. Abrams direct it?

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