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A New Sci-Fi Movie Had 2 Minutes to Capture a Solar Eclipse, Here’s What Happened
It’s one thing to write some huge celestial event into your movie. It’s another to actually get it on film in the movie. A big Hollywood production might just create it in post-production, but the team behind new sci-fi movie Nomad went the other way. They set out to film a real solar eclipse, giving … Continued
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A Small Update on the New RoboCop Movie, Which Is Apparently Still Happening
Last year, we got news that Neil Blomkamp, possibly as penance from the universe for not getting to make that Alien movie he was really hype for, was working on RoboCop Returns, a direct followup to the original 1987 film. Now, we’ve got an update that confirms that the movie, while moving slowly, is definitely … Continued
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Tell Us Who You Would Cast in a New Version of The Matrix
So there’s this bonkers rumor going around. You might’ve heard it. It says that the Wachowski Sisters are jacking back into The Matrix, directing a reboot of the film that will star Michael B. Jordan. Is this rumor true? I mean, we live in a wacky world where a Final Fantasy VII remake is happening … Continued
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Remember 1998, When the World (Almost) Ended Twice?
Disaster movie fans were living their best lives in 1998, specifically the two-month span of 1998 that delivered two earnest epics about what might happen if a rogue celestial object suddenly threatened our planet: Deep Impact and Armageddon. Despite the déjà vu, both films were massive box-office hits. But how do they hold up 21 … Continued
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Open Channel: What ‘Normal’ Franchise Would You Like to See Go Full Sci-Fi?
The Fast & the Furious franchise has fully embraced science fiction with the upcoming Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which features Idris Elba as a genetically altered super-soldier who actually refers to himself as “Black Superman.” Now I have to know: What other non-genre movies and TV shows could do with a healthy … Continued
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Bill & Ted Face The Music Just Added Its Princesses and Some Other Familiar Faces
“Sure, Missy. I mean Mom.” Actors Amy Stoch and Hal Landon Jr. have just signed to reprise their roles as Bill’s “mom” Missy and Ted’s strict father in Bill & Ted Face the Music, according to Variety. Beck Bennett of Saturday Night Live is also joining the cast, playing Ted’s younger brother, Deacon. But that’s … Continued
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The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in July
You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Below you’ll find what we deem to be the best sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV coming to Netflix, … Continued
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Myst Is Being Developed for Film and TV…Again
The popular puzzle game Myst once again has a shot to become a major multimedia universe. Village Roadshow just acquired the rights to the game and plans on developing it for both scripted and unscripted television and film. If that sounds familiar, you’re right. Legendary TV had the rights five years ago and Hulu was … Continued
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In Sci-Fi Short The Replacement, a Man Faces a Future Filled With Too Many Clones (Including His Own)
In the near future, clones are common—but none have been so successful as all the new versions of Abe (Mike McNamara), especially the one that just became America’s first clone president. Though most of Sean Miller’s The Replacement frames the situation as Abe’s personal hell, the story eventually reveals that all the remaining “originals” are … Continued
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When Being Attacked By Giant Monsters Becomes Everyday Life
If you lived in an episode of a tokusatsu show or a Godzilla movie, at some point you’d probably be as used to the sight of size-changing superheroes doing battle with towering kaiju just like the citizens in this charming little short. Created by a group of second-year students at the Gobelins, the famed Parisian … Continued
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A Medievalist’s Guide to Decoding the Creatures in Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The recent release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the introduction of a whole new “monsterverse” has got this medievalist thinking a lot about the creatures that are coming to define our time, and their origins both as kaiju monsters developed in the 1950s and ‘60s by Japan’s Toho Studio and their far older … Continued
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Your Favorite Co-Star on Barry Has Joined Bill & Ted Face the Music
We’re talking, of course, of NoHo Hank, played by Anthony Carrigan. Carrigan is one of the breakout stars of Bill Hader’s HBO series Barry and now he’s joining Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan in Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third Bill & Ted movie, which is now filming for an August … Continued
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Robert Rodriguez Breaks Down How Much the Manga Inspired Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel was a film over a decade in the making, with director Robert Rodriguez eventually stepping in for James Cameron to complete his dream project. Both Cameron and Rodriguez had big plans for how the film would pay tribute to Yukito Kishiro’s manga, and in this latest behind the scenes featurette we get … Continued
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Learn More About Fast Color‘s Family of Creative Superheroines in This Exclusive Clip
Julia Hart’s Fast Color is unique amongst the vast majority of recent superhero movies because it tells the story of three generations of black women who all share metahuman abilities which allow them to create strange and powerful things. While most cape films focus on spectacles of destruction, Fast Color instead leads with the idea … Continued
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Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer Subverts the ‘Lost Girl’ Trope in a New Sci-Fi Short Film
One of the common tropes in fiction is the “lost girl,” where a young woman goes missing and the majority of the film or series is spent trying to find out what happened. This can make for suspenseful viewing, but it also forces the female character to be more of a plot device than a … Continued
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The 10 Best Moments in Jurassic Park, Ranked
Jurassic Park was a once-in-a-generation movie: a blockbuster that made tons of money, changed filmmaking itself, and remains beloved by fans to this day. It got to that level of success by being chock full of iconic, memorable moments—so we decided to rank our personal favorites in celebration of the 26th anniversary of the movie’s … Continued
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Jason Reitman Continues to Tease the Return of Classic Ghostbusters Stars in the Upcoming Reboot
Recently, actress Sigourney Weaver, who played Dana Barrett in the original Ghostbusters, suggested to Parade Magazine that she might be returning for the new film, helmed by Jason Reitman. This weekend, at the Ghostbusters Fan Fest event in Los Angeles, Reitman addressed that revelation, though he did so, well, obliquely. According to Entertainment Weekly and … Continued
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The Wild World Set Up By King of the Monsters‘ Ending Is the Stuff of Michael Dougherty’s Dreams
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is very often a bonkers movie, in ways that are both good and not-so-good. I mean, it is about giant monsters smashing each other’s faces in, so that’s to be expected—but the intriguing status quo it leaves in the wake of that mad carnage has some great potential. It’s also … Continued
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Sigourney Weaver May Be Heading Back to Ghostbusters With a Few More Original Cast Members [Updated]
By his own declaration, Jason Reitman’s upcoming Ghostbusters movie is for the fans. Yes, it will star mostly new characters, but “this is the next chapter in the original franchise,” he said earlier this year. “It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the … Continued
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This Short Documentary Digs Deep Into Some of Total Recall‘s Most Memorable Visual Effects
When Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 film Total Recall was released, some of the people who worked on the film’s visual effects didn’t even get their names in the credits. That’s how little even the people making the movie knew about an industry that was still in its infancy. However, when the film went on to win … Continued