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It's pretty much impossible to make a movie about robots that I don't want to see. Well, aside from Surrogates, maybe. But that atrocity isn't playing at this year's Robot Film Festival! Giz and io9 are giving away tickets to the event to the best robot rhymers. More »
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What happens if you're making a movie about steampunk vixens who enslave men, but you can't get any steampunk costumes or props? You get creative. And add a fire-breathing mechanical dragon. More »
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Harry Potter is almost over, so what will the next big family-friendly blockbuster movie series be? Disney hopes that Lost writer Damon Lindelof has the next big science fiction idea. And it's called 1952. More »
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The Chupacabra, a legendary blood-sucking cryptid, appeared on The X-Files, had its own series called Chupacabra: Dark Seas, and enjoys near-mascot status in Texas. Now it seems it may have its origins in the movie Species. More »
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This is a demo reel for a future IMAX film called Outside In, which recreates a journey through the solar system using only images taken from actual spaceflights - made by satellites visiting our neighboring planets. Effects artist and cinematographer Stephen Van Vuuren animated thousands of still shots from Cassini spacecraft's Saturn flyby, knitting them together to create a seamless journey toward the gas giant, past one of its moons and through its awe-inspiring rings. It's one of the most mind-blowing, beautiful space movies I've ever seen - especially when you consider that the entire thing was shot on location by a satellite zooming around Saturn. More »
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A lot of twentieth century history and culture is preserved on film. But in fifty years, this history could be lost. And it's all because of pernicious microbes that eat away at film, according to a new study. More »
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If you're looking for post-apocalyptic warfare between vampires and super-strong priest in a dark world of walled cities and space trains, then we present to you Priest, the latest supernatural action spectacular from the director and star of Legion. More »
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The author of this oral history of the zombie apocalypse, Max Brooks, confirms that the film adaptation is still very much alive — or very much undead. More »
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30 Days of Night artist Ben Templesmith is developing what he's calling an "illustrated film" that'll combine his twin loves of human drama and all things tentacular. More »
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It's not Nathan Fillion, nor is it Summer Glau or Morena Baccarin. No, it's the kid who played young Simon Tam for mere minutes in one episode: Zac Efron. More »
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Angel Fight! The winged, prissy Gabriel goes up against humanity's only hope, a single fallen angel with a gun. Can you even shoot an Angel? Apparently yes — check out the latest ultra-violent clip from Legion. More »
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Chris Jones spent eight years animating his moody and quirky short The Passenger, and now it's available online. It's a dark and stormy night, and a nervous chap rides a bus with only a spooky goldfish for company. More »
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In this completely decontextualized scene from bizarrely bad mutant insect incest movie Red Cockroaches, you discover the horrifying future of real-time photo streams. This guy's friend busts in on him hooking up, photographs it with his glasses, and uploads! More »
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Science fiction cinema turns 107 today with George Méliès A Trip to the Moon, which debuted in France on September 2, 1902. Watch as silent astronauts construct a rocket ship, put out the moon's eye, and fend off irate aliens. More »
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I am confused but intrigued. Thanks, Andrew Liptak! More »
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Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen will attempt to simulate the look and detailed feel of the graphic novel, but where did that look and feel originate? The multilayered original comic book by Alan Moore and collaborator Dave Gibbons is packed with references to everything from British scifi TV to Mayan death gods. And Snyder threw in some new references of his own when he made the film. We've put together the most important ones so you won't need footnotes when you dig into Watchmen. More »
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Winners of reality shows like American Idol may go home with a ticket to fame and fortune, or risk disappointment, heartbreak, and public humiliation. But could any prize convince contestants to risk death? In upcoming movie Fortuna, members of a desperate future underclass play a mysterious game where the winner gets to join the wealthy elite, and the losers don’t go home at all. More »
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Do you remember when Jaw Lennon, Pall IcKartney, Gorge Harryson, and Dingo Scarr appeared on the Dead Sullivan Show and took the US by storm? Together this quartet forms the Zombeatles, four undead heartthrobs looking to share their music with the world. And, thanks to zombie comedian Angus MacAbre, they're getting their chance, in a mockumentary chronicling their rise to fame. More »
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Welcome to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Fight scenes featuring beautiful Asian women with machine guns are sexy, scary, and fetishistic. If you're in San Francisco in June, you're in luck—you can get a double dose of ass-busting Asian women at the Another Hole in the Head horror movie fest, where two crazy, ruthless Oriental beauties battle evil in a cumulative three hours of gory revenge and fantastical sci-fi crime-fighting. The Gene Generation and The Machine Girl are two completely different kinds of movies—one is American sci-fi, one is a low-budget Japanese gory B-movie. But when stripped of their decor, there are a lot of common themes and subtexts. More »
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You can finally take a gander at photos of "Darth Maul/The Toad" Ray Park in his full Snake-Eyes costume from the upcoming G.I. Joe film, and we grudgingly have to admit that he looks fairly badass. Even though his visor looks a bit like Geordi's from Star Trek: The Next Generation, we'd never tell him that to his face. If we did, he'd either gut us with his sword, pop a cap in our ass with his gun, or possibly do both. Check out another Snake-tastic picture after the jump. More »
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Gerard Butler confirmed that he's voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film. But then Warners later nixed the idea, probably to keep the length down. More »
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Michael Bay promises loads of new robots in his Transformers 2 sequel, promising us they'll be "really unique." You mean more unique than a Xbox 360, a soda vending machine, and a steering wheel transmorgrifying into lame-o- boticons? Just so you don't forget, this movie franchise has already included "unique" robots that piss on people's heads. [ComicBookMovie] More »
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]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338517&view=rss&microfeed=true There's a sneak peek of the stop-motion animated movie of Neil Gaiman's cute-goth comic Coraline out today, and it's delightfully freaky. Title character Coraline explores her new home and finds a portal that leads into another dimension, with bizarro versions of her mom and dad inside. Of course, she has to battle the baddies in order to get things back to normal. More »
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Like a mutant virus that wipes out most of humanity, the holidays are upon us once again. If you've been slipping into the Grinch-like ease of just picking up gift cards for everyone at your local supermarket instead of putting real thought into your gift giving, then you need to buck up and give some quality items this year. In fact, we'll make it easy for you. Whether you're picking something up for the scifi fan in your life, or you're spreading your own geeky love, these brand-new DVDs are well worth getting, or giving. More »
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The Sundance Film Festival enters its 27th year in January, and the organizers just announced the lineup of films for this year. They include only two vaguely science fictional films: The Broken and Timecrimes. This is part of a trend: Sundance tends to shun science fiction films in general, despite the fact that Sundance declared itself "scifi friendly" in 2004. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=328222&view=rss&microfeed=true A new Spanish film features four rival scientists struggling to solve logic puzzles before the walls of the room they're trapped in squish them into jelly. Fermat's Room combines elements of Pi (brilliant new untried math theorems) with Cube (deadly rooms that'll kill you unless you figure out the puzzle) in this new movie that'll have you wishing you paid attention back in algebra class. If the classroom was about to kill us, you can bet we would have. Fermat's Room [Variety] More »
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