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Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness starts filming in June [UPDATED]

Guillermo del Toro’s journey into the heart of H.P. Lovecraft’s eldritch horror is really happening, a producer tells io9. At the Mountains of Madness begins filming in June? Could this be the Lovecraftian film that actually destroys your mind? We spoke with producer Don Murphy (Transformers) who’s producing Mountains of Madness along with James Cameron,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Best Exclusives of the Year

These are the stories you couldn’t find anywhere else. From Apple’s security slips to Facebook’s prolific profile breach, check out Gizmodo’s best Exclusives from 2010. 1. This Is Apple’s Next iPhone – April 19th You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like…

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Why Is Tom Cruise Sitting On Top of the World’s Tallest Building?

We got photographs and video of Tom Cruise jumping off the mid-section of the tallest skyscraper in the world. But this is him on the very top of the Burj Khalifa, filmed by an helicopter, taken around 1AM New York time. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-tom-cruise-jumping-off-the-tallest-skyscraper-i-5684038 The photographer—Gerald Donovan—told us all the details: He was up there for about…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Video of Tom Cruise Jumping Off the World’s Tallest Skyscraper

What’s better than a photo of Tom Cruise jumping off the Burj Khalifa during the filming of Mission Impossible 4 in Dubai? A 35-frame stop-motion video of the whole event, obviously. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-tom-cruise-jumping-off-the-tallest-skyscraper-i-5684038 And for those who didn’t see the first article, yes, that’s Tom Cruise and his 542 white teeth in action. Nuts. [Thanks Gerald!]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The inside story of how ILM changed movies

Many of your favorite movie scenes feature the technical brilliance of Industrial Light & Magic. So we’re dying to see the new documentary about ILM’s history, airing Friday on Encore. Glimpse the behind-the-scenes wonder in a new trailer. According to the press release: “Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible” is directed by Academy Award®…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

This Is Tom Cruise Jumping Off the Tallest Skyscraper In the World

They are filming Mission Impossible 4 in Dubai right now. Our friend and local Dubai photographer Gerald Donovan took this photo of none other than Tom Cruise jumping off the Burj Khalifa, formerly known as the Burj Dubai: https://gizmodo.com/dubai-skyline-sunset-time-lapse-provokes-inevitable-ooo-5434624 They’ve been busy filming stuff for Mission Impossible 4 on the Burj Khalifa for the last…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sawyer’s back! First look at Josh Holloway filming Mission Impossible 4

Sawyer himself, Josh Holloway, pauses in the middle of saying something snarky, while filming a scene from Mission Impossible 4. With Brad Bird directing and Holloway co-starring along with Simon Pegg, could this film exceed all our expectations? Also pictured on set with Holloway: Lea Saydoux, who’s also listed on IMDB as “rumored” to be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What do you think Tom Cruise is saying in this Mission Impossible IV set pic?

Mission Impossible IV, directed by The Incredibles’ Brad Bird, is filming in Prague right now — and here’s your first look at Tom Cruise, hanging out in the middle of doing a dangerous stunt. What do you think he’s saying? Here are a couple more photos, if that helps you with your captioning tasks. Photos…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists?

NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. To the geeks, freaks and hackers of the net the Church of Scientology subverts the idea of…

Tech News Quinn Norton

Don’t Press That Strange Button In Tom Cruise’s House!

Click to viewWhen actress Kyra Sedgwick visited Tom Cruise’s house, she couldn’t help but notice a strange, unmarked button on a mantle in his library. For whatever reason, she also couldn’t resist pushing it. As a result, she soon heard police sirens. It turns that it was a panic button and caused officers from the…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Incredibles’ Brad Bird Could Save Mission Impossible 4

Rumor has it Brad Bird is being courted to take over Mission Impossible 4, possibly elevating the series to something greater than explosions and excuses for Tom Cruise to don funny wigs. JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise have been looking for some new blood to direct the next Mission Impossible movie, and while they’ve been…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Mission Impossible IV Is Go

Paramount has confirmed that JJ Abrams is reteaming with Tom Cruise to make Mission Impossible IV for summer 2011 release. (Abrams won’t direct, just produce.) Cruise will star, and Alias writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec will write the script.

Movies Graeme McMillan

Red Dawn Remake’s Anti-American Propaganda Posters

The Red Dawn reboot rallies to re-educate the workers of Pontiac, MI to fight corporate corruption. Check out some new set pics and video, which show the anti-captalism propaganda plastered across the streets after the Chinese and Russians have invaded. A fantastic Red Dawn 2010 fansite has posted a mass of set pics and set…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Cruise To Become First Scientologist Superhero?

Is there a Himalayan air crash in Tom Cruise’s future? If rumors about the movie version of The Champions being retooled for the actor are true, then the answer would seem to be yes. Variety is reporting that The Champions – a movie version of the 1960s TV show about three members of an international…

Movies Graeme McMillan

G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

Un-frickin-believable: there’ve been a few pretenders, but it looks like this new G-Speak system is really the Minority Report UI made into science-faction;it’s made by one of the guys who actually worked on advising the Minority Report movie. It even has gloves something akin to Tom Cruise’s natty controllers from the film, and it lets…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Raimi And Cruise Team To Make Sleeper Hit?

Will Tom Cruise discover that the only way he can be truly hurt is emotionally? Possibly, if rumors that he’ll be starring in Sam Raimi’s adaptation of the comic Sleeper are to be believed. More about the story of alien artifacts, moral conundrums and Raimi and Cruise’s involvement in both, under the jump.Sleeper, created by…

io9 Graeme McMillan

10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

Click to view It’s happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn’t expect. Our eyebrows…

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Aliens From Close Encounters Plot Come-Back

The aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind may make a cameo appearance in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Steven Spielberg is avoiding CGI in favor of puppets, and he decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Encounters. There’s retro, and then there’s crazy retro. [MovieHole] The Hollywood writers’ strike could be…

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The Tom Cruise, Helio Connection

Tom Cruise, the Myspace user? You better believe it. Cruise, king of all thing Scientologific, is also a pretty big Helio fan. He was the first user of the Helio Myspace phone. He was also involved with the shooting of the first two Helio commercial and rumor has it that he had some odd demands…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness starts filming in June [UPDATED]

The Best Exclusives of the Year

Why Is Tom Cruise Sitting On Top of the World’s Tallest Building?

Video of Tom Cruise Jumping Off the World’s Tallest Skyscraper

The inside story of how ILM changed movies

This Is Tom Cruise Jumping Off the Tallest Skyscraper In the World

Sawyer’s back! First look at Josh Holloway filming Mission Impossible 4

What do you think Tom Cruise is saying in this Mission Impossible IV set pic?

Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists?

Don’t Press That Strange Button In Tom Cruise’s House!

The Incredibles’ Brad Bird Could Save Mission Impossible 4

Mission Impossible IV Is Go

Red Dawn Remake’s Anti-American Propaganda Posters

Cruise To Become First Scientologist Superhero?

G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

Raimi And Cruise Team To Make Sleeper Hit?

10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

Aliens From Close Encounters Plot Come-Back

The Tom Cruise, Helio Connection

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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