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First Pics Of Starship Troopers’ Armor And Heroes’ Gun-Toting Ex-Blonde
There are a whole weekend’s worth of spoilers to catch up on this morning, including some new pics of the filming of Heroes season three that include that gunshot we’ve heard so much about. And some new Starship Troopers 3 pics include a gun-waving Jolene Blalock and some awesome new hardware. Two new Doctor Who … Continued
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The Circus Apes Of Science Are Mighty Healers Indeed
Forget Frankenstein — the weirdest monster movie ever to star Boris Karloff has got to be 1940’s The Ape, as proved by this clip. Karloff plays Dr. Bernard Adrian, a mad scientist who’s trying to create a serum to cure sweet young Frances Clifford’s polio — but to do that, he needs lots of human … Continued
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Easy To See Why The American Life On Mars Needs A Total Reshoot
We already had an American version of British time-travel show Life On Mars — it was called Journeyman, and it ruled for the half season it was on the air. Sadly, someone decided we needed a literal cover version of Life On Mars, and we wound up with a shadow of the Brit version, as … Continued
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Dollhouse Is The Story Of Every Woman Today
Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse is a perfect metaphor for the lives of every woman nowadays, claims Niecy Nash from Do Not Disturb in this video from E! Online. Just like the mind-wiped puppets in Dollhouse, who can be “imprinted” with different personalities, women have to inhabit lots of different personas. Meeting Whedon and star … Continued
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Massachusetts Can Double As The Lunar Surface
“Harwich is more fun than Brooklyn,” Brooklyn filmmaker Jay Weisman told the local government of Harwich, MA as he sought permission to film his feature-length science fiction movie Shockwave, Darkside there. The movie takes place in the distant future, on Earth’s moon, and covers the war between the Unlights, who stayed behind on Earth, and … Continued
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The Hulk Almost Trashed Times Square, Designer Tells io9
Click to viewThe designers of The Incredible Hulk spent six months before the movie started shooting, just coming up with cool visions of the Hulk and all the environments they could show him smashing. Along the way, they created some cool sequences that never made it to film, including the Hulk smashing Times Square and … Continued
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Incredible Detailed Spoilers For Wanted
It’s a bumper crop of spoilers — including some spoilery photos and a giant plot synopsis from the tail end of season four of time-travel yarn Doctor Who. (Guess who’s in chains.) Someone posted an mega-in-depth synopsis for super-assassin movie Wanted, and there’s a new trailer for X-Files 2 that includes some interesting spookiness. There’s … Continued
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Doctor Who Was Never About Showing Mercy
The latest hero of the time-travel adventure series Doctor Who, David Tennant, claims at one point that he “used to have so much mercy.” Which started us wondering: When was that exactly? When he condemned his former best friend to a fiery death while the friend (the Master) begged to be saved? Or was it … Continued
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Shroomin’ At The Center Of The Earth
Check out the lush details of these huge mushrooms at the center of the earth, from the new Journey To The Center Of The Earth movie, which comes out July 11. I’m actually quite curious to see how this will look in 3-D, along with the giant flying piranhas, man-eating plants, “glow birds” and dinosaurs. … Continued
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Keeping The Spirit On The Analog Tip
Add The Spirit to the list of new and recent movies keeping CGI in its place. In his latest blog entry, The Spirit director Frank Miller says CGI master Stu Maschwitz taught him that CGI can’t substitute for human actors and dramatic realism. “CGI people aren’t people. They’re constructs,” Miller insists. “Even when I wanted … Continued
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Punk’d! Charlie Jade Moves To Graveyard Shift
First detective Charlie Jade got sucked into an alternate universe, and now he’s getting stuck in the deadliest timeslot of them all. The Sci Fi Channel has decided its airings of the South African/Canadian Charlie Jade have been underperforming in the Friday 8 PM slot, before Doctor Who. So they’re moving him to the Monday … Continued
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The Explosive “Wanted” Shootout You Will Never Get To See
Today’s spoilers include a scene from Wanted that destroyed James McAvoy’s crotch, but ended up cut from the film — and it won’t even be on the DVDs. (The scene’s description also gives away the movie’s big plot twist.) We also have our second batch of rumors about the villain(s) of the Avengers movie. And … Continued
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Which Alternate Universe Has The Best Science Fiction?
Nobody knows better than science fiction fans that a few minor changes to the timeline can alter everything. And science fiction istelf could have turned out totally differently if just a few things had changed. Which alternate versions of science fiction history would have resulted in a more interesting SF landscape today? Gawker Media polls … Continued
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Why Did We Never See Neal Stephenson’s Future-Batman Movie?
Batman Beyond, the darkest and most futuristic animated Batman series, came close to becoming a live-action movie before Warners decided to go with Bat-origin story Batman Begins instead. The story of a teenager who becomes the new Batman in the dystopian future of 2040, thanks to a cybernetic Batsuit, Batman Beyond could have been the … Continued
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Awesome Free Stuff On The Internet
In The Garden Of Iden, Kage Baker’s fantastic novel about time-traveling cyborgs who work for the 24th century Company, is available as a free download. Five-year-old Mendoza is about to be tortured to death as a Jew in the Spanish Inquisition, when she’s rescued by the Company and turned into a time-traveling operative – but … Continued
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Doctor Who’s Robot Dog Finally Hitting The Big Time
K-9, the robot dog from time traveling action-comedy Doctor Who, is finally getting his own TV show. Bob Baker, who created K-9 in 1977 and also co-wrote the Wallace And Gromit films, is in Australia working on 26 scripts for K-9 Adventures, which starts production next month. And as you can see from the concept … Continued
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Meet The New Science Heroes
With the anti-science Bush Administration finally groaning to a halt, we may finally be willing to admire scientists. There are three new TV shows with scientist heroes coming this fall, creating a genre that hardly existed until now. We’ve always had lots of shows about doctors, lawyers and other highly paid professionals, but the science-hero … Continued
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Get Ready For Knight Rider’s Full-Throttle Dementia
Here’s your spoiler warning. The first details are starting to leak out about the Knight Rider TV show, which follows up last winter’s TV movie, and it sounds just as demented as you could possibly expect. There’s also another batch of Transformers 2 set reports and spoilers. And a ton of official info about the … Continued
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Superheroes Who Get Laid All The Time
Click to viewWe didn’t mean to give the wrong impression with last week’s examination of superheroes who can’t get any — there are plenty of superheroes whose utility belts are covered with notches. From “hairy-chested love god Batman” to the swinging Spider-man to the sensuous She Hulk, the superhero genre offers plenty of playas. Here’s … Continued