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This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood's propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You've got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there's Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to "improve" upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. More »
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Painted movie posters rules, particularly when they take gonzo creative liberties with the films' plots, as Ghanaian and Thai posters sometimes do. More »
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In space, nobody can hear you freestyle. But that hasn't stopped some of hip-hop's greatest legends from appearing in some classic science fiction and fantasy movies. From battling killer sharks to fighting off ghosts on Mars, some of our favorite rappers have also become some of our favorite SF heroes. More »
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Kick-Ass wasn't a box-office sensation, but it may have helped superhero films break out of their same old boring mold, the Guardian suggests. Here are eight other superhero films that Hollywood can study, which helped avoid the same old cliches. More »
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Pierre Morel (Taken) has reportedly quit as director of Frank Herbert's Dune, which Peter Berg was also on board to direct at one point. And unless Paramount can get the film up and running by spring, they'll lose the rights. More »
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The summer of 2010 was a bit underwhelming as far as movies went — but summer 2011's looking like the craziest of them all, with the densest concentration of nerd-candy ever. At least, Jon Favreau is calling it a "bloodbath." More »
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James Bond saves the world sometimes. So does Captain Kirk. But at least in the movies, superheroes don't - they're too busy fighting personal spats. Here's why superheroes on the big screen should save the damn world now and then. More »
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Hancock 2 may be missing a key castmember. Plus Deadpool's producers make big promises! There are spoilery Dollhouse clips, and telltale pics from Lost, 2012, The Box and Planet 51. Also: FlashForward, Warehouse 13, Smallville, Chuck and True Blood spoilers! More »
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The next Hancock, presumably called Hancock 2: We're Sorry, is moving forward with the announcement that Charlize Theron is coming along for the ride. This most likely means director Peter Berg's Dune will be pushed back another two years. [MTV] More »
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Hancock 2 has writers: Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara worked together on The Shield, and Fiero also wrote for Dexter and 24. So fingers crossed. [THR] More »
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New pictures reveal Jamie Bamber's role in Dollhouse, and Thor may have a female Asgardian. Plus: explosive images from Gamer and Supernatural, visits to the sets of Stargate Universe and The Vampire's Assistant. Also? Hancock 2, Fringe, Eclipse, and Lost. More »
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Ronald D. Moore's TV movie Virtuality is a deep-space odyssey, a fake reality TV show, and, yes, a virtual-reality nightmare. But it's also an intense theater piece, full of improv. We talked to stars Siena Guillory and Clea DuVall. Spoilers! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302149&view=rss&microfeed=true It looks like Will Smith is attempting to ruin his own career with some ill-considered sequels. As if I Am Legend 2 wasn't bad enough, the former Fresh Prince is promising that we'll definitely see a second installment of this summer's Hancock. Apparently we were all very bad in a previous life or something. [JoBlo] More »
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Will Smith's deadbeat superhero comedy Hancock is out on DVD this week, and that means one thing - you can finally watch the infamous ballistic sperm scene. Find out for yourself why Hancock belongs on our list of sexually frustrated superheroes, by watching the clip below. More »
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While Will Smith's Hancock may have failed to kill the superhero trend in movies this summer, we think we've identified the actor who stands the most chance of being the unwelcome nail in this genre coffin - Seth Rogen. It's not enough for him to be writing and starring in the upcoming Green Hornet movie. Now he's being prepped to appear in a future Kevin Smith scifi superhero movie. When will the madness end? More »
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Two superhero paparazzi stumble onto the truth: everybody's favorite superhero is nothing more than a villain in disguise. That's the plot of Rob Liefeld's graphic novel Capeshooters, soon to be a movie produced by Bryan Singer. It sounds timely and cute, and I'm excited by any fresh superhero characters, but let's hope this isn't another Hancock. Unfortunately the scribes behind this movie (J.P. Lavin and Chad Damian) don't instill a ton of confidence, as their last jobs were on American Idol. [The Hollywood Reporter] More »
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With the continued, somewhat inexplicable, success of Hancock, it seems that the only constant in Hollywood math is "(Will Smith) + (4th of July Weekend) x (Genre Movie) = $$$." Bearing that in mind, we thought that it's be kind of us to demonstrate to some stalled SF movie projects just to how to use the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (and, let's face it, wherever else he wants to be the Prince of, these days) to get their movies up and running again. More »
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Won't somebody think of the bullied kids? They're everywhere, including several of this summer's biggest movies. Everywhere you look, kids are roughed up, getting robbed of their lunch money, having their car keys tossed in a sewer (in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem). Even Shia got hassled by jocks in last summer's Transformers. Luckily, there's almost always a superhuman being who befriends this poor downtrodden kid. Put yourself in the flying shoes of this alien/mutant demigod for a moment. How would you help this underdeveloped child best these bigger, meaner tormentors? More »
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Click to viewNow that Hancock is a hit, people may be tempted to describe it as the first example of a whole new genre: the superhero who's a walking (or flying) disaster. But don't believe the hype: there have been caped catastrophes for nearly as long as there have been superheroes at all. Click through for our roundup of the most disastrous and least can-do of our spandex-wearing protectors. With minor spoilers for old comics and TV shows, probably. More »
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Remember that alleged giant robot that we mentioned, which turns up in drunken superhero epic Hancock for a couple of seconds? The mystery has been solved! Comic Book Movie has tracked down the man everyone is calling "the Hancock monster." It turns out he's a guy on stilts covered with seaweed, who roams Hollywood Blvd. and will pose for pictures for a few bucks. He was bragging last winter that he'd be in a big summer movie, but nobody believed him. Too bad his cameo was so brief and blurry, he got mistaken for Megatron. [Comic Book Movie] More »
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Will Smith's skid-row superhero movie Hancock was fairly bursting with wasted potential, but you should thank your lucky stars the original script, Tonight He Comes, never reached the screen. At least, if the version that's turned up online recently is real, we all dodged a bullet of awfulness. In a nutshell: it's not a comedy at all, it's an overwrought melodrama about a nihilistic superhero who helps a schlubby man and his son stand up for themselves. Click through for spoilers for a movie you'll never see. More »
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First a certain Avenger's shield turned up on Tony Stark's workbench, and now some kind of robot may have reared its metallic head in the middle of a fight scene in Will Smith's drunken superhero movie Hancock. Look at that figure, towering over the crowd in this slightly blurry clip. Is it a Transformer? A generic giant-ish robot? Or just a freakishly tall homeless person? The internet has been wondering. Very minor spoilers ahead. More »
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More signs that the end of days is nigh: the bendy-bullet, killing-machine movie Wanted is rumored to become a full-fledged trilogy. And boozy has-been superhero Hancock may get yet another chance to sully the screen with some terrible plot devices. Click through to find out who's back, and who's still dead, in the next pointless installments. With spoilers. More »
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Hancock uses all the tricks in Sony Pictures' bag to get people to believe it's not terrible. But all of it's slick rick Hollywood actions will not let it prosper. I am well aware that almost every big studio "opens" its major movies the night before in hopes of lumping in the midnight and late hour screenings into the overall opening-day numbers. But Hancock's brazen 7:00 pm opening on the Tuesday before its actual July 3rd release is a desperate attempt to grab every little ticket purchase it can. Click for more on the tawdry deceptions of Hancock. More »
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Click to viewWill Smith's drunk-and-disorderly superhero movie, Hancock, hits theaters today, a full three days early. You can't help but wonder if Warner Bros. is trying to get the movie out there before all the bad buzz, and horrendous reviews, take effect. The sad thing is, there are a bunch of ways that Hancock could have turned into a pretty decent film. Our review, with spoilers and a list of where Hancock went wrong, below. More »
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You might have noticed a distinct lack of female heroes at the movies this summer, Sex And The City aside. It's almost as if the studios decided women couldn't carry a big movie — but nah, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Luckily, the summer's big movies have a wealth of female supporting leads, and almost any one of them could carry a movie of their own. (Let's just pretend Catwoman and Elektra never existed, 'kay?) Which one of these sidekicks deserves to kick up her heels in her own film? More »
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Spoiler alert: A new Hancock clip reveals the movie's final big twist, and a ton of new Hulk clips show exactly what Liv Tyler is doing in this movie. A new Dark Knight TV spot reveals that... ummm, the Joker is weird, I guess. And a new Doctor Who clip is just plain intriguing. There are also new details about M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Chuck, and Smallville. Jorge Garcia shares his wild-and-crazy vision for Lost season five, and it sounds jam-packed with awesome. New pics from Clone Wars, Sarah Connor Chronicles and Spectacular Spider-Man give us new glimpses of new Jedi, monsters and punk-rock software execs. But weirdest, and most alarming of all, is the news of where Optimus Prime hangs out in Transformers 2. Spoiler whores, assemble! More »
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Click to viewTwo of this summer's biggest movies star superheroes who can't get laid — or terrible things will happen. (We won't reveal which movies here, since it's a minor spoiler.) But in any case, these heroes aren't alone — a vow of chastity has been part of the "great responsibility" that has come with superheroes' great power for years now. Here's a list of great superheroes who can never get any. Ever. (Spoilers ahead!) More »
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It's a video-heavy edition of Morning Spoilers, including an R-rated Wanted trailer (that gives away a big plot twist), a revealing clip from Friday's Battlestar Galactica, a cute new Hancock clip, and a new Middle Man trailer. And the last dribs and drabs of Incredible Hulk spoilers are still popping up. But we're most excited about news of a long-awaited reunion on Heroes, and tons of new details about Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. The reign of spoilers begins here! More »
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A random thought: Many narratives are spoiler-proof. You pretty much know the main story beats of any superhero movie before you watch it. All that happens when you read spoilers is that you consume extra bits of the narrative out of sequence (which may make the story actually feel more intriguing, and add an extra layer of meaning when you watch the complete work and see how those pieces fit). In other words, we're doing Hollywood a favor by sharing spoilers — including new clips from Incredible Hulk and Hancock and set reports from Transformers 2 and Watchmen. It's also totally healthy to look at a super-spoilery picture from the Doctor Who season finale, and to soak up the new info about Chuck, Lost, The Middleman and Heroes. More »
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As we lurch into the slow-motion hysteria of the summer election season, movies aren't serving up the pure escapist crack we depend on them for. Instead, almost every movie stars a tormented Gen-X or Baby Boomer white guy, who's trying to atone for using his power to make the world a worse place. Welcome to the summer of guilt. More »
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The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is full of hand-wringing about spoilers, and how they're ruining things like the Lost season finale for everybody. According to our critics, spoiler whores are really just attention whores — which isn't necessarily true. We just love finding things out early. Like the secrets of how Incredible Hulk sets up a new villain for its possible sequel. Or exactly how things work in Joss Whedon's new amnesiacs-for-hire show Dollhouse. Not to mention our glee when we get new clips from Will Smith's Hancock or this Friday's Battlestar Galactica. We're also excited by new hints about Lost, Iron Man 2, Spectacular Spider-Man, and Jason Statham's new film Death Race. We're spoiler-happy, and we're happy to share. More »
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Drunken superhero Hancock (Will Smith) gives a young bully a taste of his own medicine, in this new clip from Hancock. Hancock looks like your standard summer movie, where the hero goes through a comical and life-changing journey and ends up a better person. But with reports of projectile-sperm jokes, you have to wonder: who's the audience for Hancock? Will it be a summer afternoon flick for tweens or a raunchy comedy for the 20-something pothead demographic? And either way, how will people react when they learn what Hancock is really about? Spoilers below. More »
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Last-minute problems may be plaguing the drunken superhero comedy Hancock. This Saturday Will Smith was seen in full Hancock gear filming last-minute reshoots in Times Square. How is this possible for a movie set to release on July 2? Sadly, it's not a good sign for our leather-clad hero. More details on the reshoot, set pictures and more Hancock troubles after the jump. More »
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There are just three batches of spoilers this morning, but they're all pretty heavy duty. The first set of full reviews of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have come out, and they explain way more about the reasons for that movie's title. Also, there was another test screening for Will Smith's slovenly superhero movie Hancock, and it confirms some of the awful reports we've already heard. (Including one Larry Niven-inspired moment.) And then there's another set of pics and spoilers for the animated Batman: Gotham Knight DVD. It's all spoilers below the fold. More »
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Spoiler fiends are the truest afficionados of media SF. We're endlessly curious about everything: we actually care about drunken superhero Hancock's sex life, and exactly what Mulder and Scully's status is in X-Files 2. We pore over toy announcements to decipher the secret of Doctor Who's season finale, and read between the lines to dope out Smallville's next female villain. We scan every bit of new Speed Racer footage, and comb through hints about Heroes season three. We spy on Lost's finale shooting. We even pay attention to the reports about Eureka's next season and news about Star Wars books, that's how omnivorous we are. If it's a spoiler, we're interested. More »
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We have a whole weekend's worth of spoilers to digest, in one extremely massive spoiler-blast. A ton of new reviews of Iron Man came out, including loads of ironclad plot details and a couple dozen photos. There are also pics and video which reveal a new villain in the next Doctor Who Christmas special, now being filmed. We also learned a ton of new info about the storylines of Heroes season three, and a few snippets about the tail end of Lost season four. Plus there are new stills from The Dark Knight, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Hancock, and a few details about Wanted. We've gone spoiler crazy, and we're taking you with us. More »
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The first trailer for Will Smith's drunken-superhero movie Hancock was mostly a litany of scenes where Smith crashes into stuff and causes mayhem, and it looked like a less likeable version of Greatest American Hero. But this new trailer, which aired during last night's American Idol, shows a more rounded version of Hancock, including some of the upside of his heroic career. The new trailer also shows more of the film's overall story arc, which seems a bit less one-note, and throws in more of Smith's trademark charm. It still doesn't look like a great movie, but it looks like it might actually be sort of fun. [MovieWeb] More »
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Who's the real mastermind behind the terrorists who capture Tony Stark in the Iron Man movie, coming May 2? We have the first clues below, along with a new clip. Another new video gives some hints about what could be coming next on Lost, and a new trailer shows off a lot more of the story in Speed Racer. And we reveal even more secrets of Doctor Who's Christmas special. All this, plus new hints about Hancock, Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible and Battlestar. This morning, we spoiler in Hell! More »
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Everything changes at the end of Lost season four, and the first hints are below. Also, learn the identity of the man Wolverine fights his last desperate battle against, in his new solo movie. And eyewitness testimony reveals which enemy shows up in this year's Doctor Who Christmas speical, plus there's a promo clip from an upcoming episode. There's also a new fan video of the filming of Star Trek and a new image from Will Smith's superhero comedy Hancock. All this, plus new hints for X-Files 2, Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica. Just remember, when you stare into the spoilers, the spoilers also stare into you. More »
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