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Voltron and RoBeast tear New York to shreds, in awesome new concept art from the apparently-not-dead Voltron movie. Check out another image below. More »
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Last week, we told you about the movies reaching theaters this fall, but it has to be said: Sometimes, even just going to the theater seems like too much hassle. Here's what you can watch at home, instead. More »
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This week, we're gearing up for 9, Shane Acker's film about nine animated rag dolls, each known only by their number. With that in mind, we list 16 other characters who have numerical monikers. More »
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It had to happen: Voltron is getting a live-action big-budget remake, courtesy of the producers who brought you Get Smart, Wanted and The Dark Knight — with a focus on being Transformers, but with added human spirit. Be very afraid. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5319509&view=rss&microfeed=true After the good-not-great performance that Get Smart did at the box office — combined with it being one of the only comedies without Seth Rogen in it — it was only a matter of time until the WB locked down Steve Carell for another Smart movie. According to the trades: "The studio is mobilizing a sequel for Carell to return as Maxwell Smart." Plus Carell has a development deal, so he may have more wacky films in the pipeline. As long as they're more like Smart and less like Evan Almighty. [Variety] More »
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Despite her ongoing reinvention as a serious actress (see this week's Entertainment Weekly with the weird cover) Anne Hathaway is dying to do another Get Smart movie. Since the first one did respectably ($129 million domestically, $223 million worldwide) she may get her chance. Unfortunately, her idea for what would happen in a sequel is a little ooky. More »
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The silliest science fiction comedy of all time is finally coming to DVD. The short-lived 1970s show Quark bounced between parodying Star Wars and Star Trek, and just making up its own demented jokes about Ficus the plant guy. We were pleased to discover we weren't the only ones who loved this show, when we posted a clip from it in February. The DVD release seems to be linked to Get Smart-mania, since Smart co-creator Buck Henry created Quark. [TV Shows On DVD] More »
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Maxwell Smart chases a one-eyed killer... straight into a Cylon battlezone out of Battlestar Galactica, in this clip from the 1980 Get Smart movie The Nude Bomb. Sadly, it turns out Cylons don't stand up to primitive gunfire as well as you'd think. Nude Bomb just came out on DVD, and I pretty much bought it just for this weird universes-collide moment. More »
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Not content with owning last weekend's box office at theaters, the makers of Get Smart want all your DVD dollars as well. That's why July 1st sees the release of Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control, a feature-length DVD spin-off starring Control's top tech guys as they try to save the world so that Steve Carrell's Maxwell Smart can... save the world. Again. We spoke to the stars of the spin-off, Masi Oka and Nate Torrence, about gadgets, franchises and unexpected appearances in other movies. Oh, alright, and we asked a question about Heroes as well. More »
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Remember how we said Incredible Hulk had to pull in an impressive second weekend box office to be considered a hit? And how the Hulk movie really had to beat Get Smart? Well, get in the lotus position and stare at a metronome — we've got some upsetting news. Get Smart pulverized TIH at the box-office, taking in $39 million to Hulk's $21 million. And preliminary estimates show Hulk scoring a roughly 62 percent drop-off from its first weekend, nearly as bad as Ang Lee's Hulk. The movie is close to making $100 million, and it'll probably do well on DVD. But the prospects of a second Incredible helping are dimming. Update: Now people are speculating Incredible Hulk's performance may actually hurt Marvel's stock. More »
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Get Smart is essentially the comedy equivalent of one of William Gibson's recent novels. It's present-day science fiction, filled with superspies and high-tech gadgets that just might exist in real life if you squint. Looked at from that perspective, you'd think the film would be a slam-dunk. Steve Carell plays the nerdy klutz Maxwell Smart who saves the world, Heroes' Masi Oka has a bit part as the cute engineer who makes a buggy cone of silence, and kicky Anne Hathaway plays Maxwell's sidekick Agent 99. And the tone of the flick is generally true to Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's original schmendrick-as-hero tone. So what made this fun little movie movie fall short? I think it's because the old-school Catskills Jewish humor of the original clashes so intensely with what is ultimately a zany, futuristic tale. (Spoilers ahead.) More »
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Let's all rejoice that the new Get Smart movie starts over from scratch instead of trying to be a sequel to the TV show and its various follow-ups. Or else it would have had to deal with the short-lived 1995 Get Smart revival that shows what happened after Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 got married and had twins — one of the kiddies grew up to become Andy Dick. In this future, Max is the Chief at CONTROL, and Andy Dick is working in research because he's a klutz who broke his pelvis and two legs in spy training. Not surprisingly this show was canceled after two months and 7 episodes. More »
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The first seven minutes of Get Smart are available as a free iTunes download, and they include some new footage of Heroes' Masi Oka and Nate Torrance as the two techies, Bruce and Lloyd. Soon, you'll also be able to download an exclusive clip from the direct-to-DVD spin-off starring Oka and Torrance, Bruce And Lloyd Out Of Control. The spin-off, about the techies getting into crazy scrapes, comes out July 1, to coincide with Get Smart's theatrical release. Will there be nerdy hijinks? We can hardly wait to find out. [iTunes and Heroes The Series] More »
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Reading spoilers is a powerful celebration of our faith that tomorrow's media can be better than today's. Renew your faith in the future by watching new videos from Get Smart, Incredible Hulk, Fringe and Doctor Who. (And then have your faith shattered totally by awful set pics from Heroes season three. Oh well.) Speaking of keeping the faith, some guy named Chaingun wandered around Bethlehem, PA at four in the morning, just so you could have a few snippets of Transformers 2 info, including some truly bizarre new Transformers. There's also new info on The Middleman, and a ton of reports about Smallville season eight. Light a candle, and read some spoilers below. More »
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shares a behind the scene look into how he crafted Agent 23 for the comedy Get Smart — or, as he calls him, "Uncle Handsome." Watch in a special clip as Agent 23 throws people against walls, staples a mans head, and gets into random bouts of silliness with Agent 86 (Steve Carell). Johnson was expertly cast in this role as the handsome devil 23 and it's cute to watch him get his feathers ruffled when this massive field agent is forced to sit at a desk and do paperwork at Control. But I'm much happier knowing the brunt of the comedy work will be left in Carell's hands. More »
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Find out how bumbling super-spy Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) and his right-hand lady Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) meet in a bunch of new clips from the Get Smart movie adaptation. I was skeptical when I first heard about the remake of this classic 1960s spy comedy TV series, but watching Max and 99 bicker over his three-dollar snack bar is pretty hilarious. IESB got a load of new clips from the flick and you can watch Carell's spin on some of Max's catch phrases (including "Sorry about that, chief") after the jump. Hard to say how the movie is going to fare when it hits theaters June 20, but Carell — who brings sublime comic dorkitude to The 40 Year Old Virgin and the US version of The Office — was certainly an inspired casting choice. More »
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A ton of new production stills from July's Get Smart just came out, and they show the gleaming futuristic interior of Control's headquarters. What is that weird globe-like thing behind Steve Carrell? For a moment, I hoped it might be the Cone of Silence, but I don't think so, sadly. Click through for a gallery, plus more details about how Get Smart is based on Batman Begins, after the jump. More »
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This morning, we're celebrating the return of our previously dead mascot, The Spoiler — a superhero whose only superpower is spoiling other people's plots. She revealed her true identity in yesterday's Robin #174, and we won't give it away here. But yay. To celebrate, we're posting another batch of spoilers from Ron Moore's new virtual-reality-addicted astronauts program Virtuality — including the pilot's big twist ending. Plus there are new photos from City Of Ember and the new Tekken movie. Also, minor spoilers for Get Smart and X-Files 2. And a few tidbits about Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis, plus some Heroes rumors. We'll keep spreading spoilers in The Spoiler's glorious name. More »
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We don't talk much about the cloak-and-dagger genre here at io9. We haven't touched on the new James Bond movie, despite the scifi-sounding title (Quantum Of Solace.) We've barely even talked about Get Smart. (We did celebrate the history of James Bond's scifi plots, including Moonraker's fantastic space battle. But we're up in the air about how much of the spy genre belongs within the geodesic dome of science fiction.) Maybe you can help us settle the question. More »
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This summer movie season will be like a traffic jam of Transformers wannabes, with more sequels and potential franchises coming out than ever before. And it's just barely possible that every single one of these films will be a mega-smash hit. It just doesn't seem very likely somehow. Click through to vote for the biggest box-office disappointment of summer 2008. More »
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