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Hayden Christensen huddles in a shrinking pool of light while a mysterious darkness swallows up the entire human race. Vanishing on 7th. Street, in select theaters today, starts out spooky, but fails to make you care about its characters. More »
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We've got an exclusive clip from Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo's new movie The Vanishing on 7th Street. The rules are: Stay in the light or these creepy shrieking beasts will grab you in the dark. Watch! More »
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A new trailer for the strange apocalypse film Vanishing On 7th Street is out, in which a collection of folks wake up in the morning to find everyone gone. And the shadow people are hungry to pull them into darkness. More »
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Ready to watch Hayden Christensen brood and teleport and fight Paladins once again? Christensen says he's down for Jumper 2, and it sounds as though he's got a plan for how the sequel would play out. More »
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Sounds like both cockroaches and Hayden Christensen will both be around during the end of days. The trailer for Vanishing on 7th Street, by Brad Anderson, erases humankind from the face of the Earth. And yet Christensen remains. Why? More »
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You can stop hunting for Kryptonite. That rumor that Hayden "Annie" Christensen is playing Superman in the troubled new Justice League movie... is just a rumor. Christensen's reps denied the report, which had been based on what Justice League: Mortal actor Adam Brody supposedly told a woman in a bar. The really shocking news, though, is that the embattled JLA movie is still moving forward. [Cinemablend] More »
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A new poster for Star Wars: Clone Wars just came out, and it gives a good look at how Obi-Wan and Anakin will bring their game faces to that long stretch of battles between the second and third Star Wars prequels. Click through to see the full poster — and to find out why Hayden Christensen no longer considers Star Wars the pinnacle of his acting career. More »
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Jumper may have made $30 million at the box office this past weekend, but the original book has been out for more than 16 years, and they don't bear much resemblance to each other except for the main character's name and the teleporting. In fact, once the book was optioned and turned into a movie, author Steven Gould wrote a third Jumper novel (the second was Reflex) called Jumper: Griffin's Story, and it's meant to be much closer to the movie. Interestingly, on the publication page inside this third book, you'll find the words: "The character of Griffin O'Conner copyright 2007 by New Regency Films." Ah the tangled web of copyright. We decided to read the original book and compare it to the movie, and you can check out the differences in our spoiler-laden list below. Here's one spoiler we don't mind sharing with the world: The original book is better than the movie. More »
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This weekend pits the teleporting deadpannisms of Hayden Christensen in the movie Jumper vs. Val Kilmer's monotone as KITT in Sunday's Knight Rider TV movie. So which one will be less sucky? We've already weighed in with our Jumper review, and we've given you a look at some clips from Knight Rider. Will you be watching both, one or the other, or neither? Sound off in the poll below. More »
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If you charted Doug Liman's directing career, you'd see a big spike in popularity when he jumped from indie films like Swingers and Go right into the Bourne trilogy. He's hoping to continue in the mainstream, high-concept Hollywood vein with his new film Jumper, opening in select theaters today. The movie follows young "jumper" David Rice (Hayden Christensen) as he uses his "jumping" powers to teleport all over the world. The flick took Liman on his own journey to exotic international locations, only this time without superspy Jason Bourne in tow. Read on to get his thoughts on Jumper, as well as details about his next film, about colonizing the moon. He also tells us why Superman's flying is destroying the environment. More »
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I'm going to lay it on the line for you: I can't resist a movie with Paladins in it. So as soon as I discovered that the bad guys in the movie Jumper were Paladins? Led by a white-haired, god-talking Samuel L. Jackson? Well, I forgave the flick for a lot of things I probably wouldn't have if the bad guys had been from the NSA or a group of supervillains. But you, dear reader, may not have a soft spot for Paladins — even ones with cool energy weapons and worm-hole expanders. And therefore you might be disappointed by lead Hayden Christensen's squint-acting methods, or by the fact that Jumper's plot moves exactly like its hero does: quickly, in random directions, for little discernible reason. More »
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Sadly, Jumper, the teleportation movie coming Valentine's Day, isn't based on Jumpers, Tom Stoppard's 1972 play about murder on the moon. But it seems as though the movie may ask the same questions as one of Stoppard's craziest plays: Do our laws apply to someone who can escape from any human jurisdiction? Is morality local or universal? Deep philosophical questions, without Hayden Christensen's pouty acting, after the jump. More »
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Here's the first taser/teleporter fight between Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christensen in teleporting-mutant movie Jumper, coming out in a couple of weeks. Other new clips from the Doug Liman (Bourne Identity)-helmed film include a domestic spat between Christensen and Rachel Bilson that turns into a hostage situation. We also learn more about the history of the war between teleporting Jumpers and the Paladins that want to crush them. And we find out that Christensen's fellow Jumper, Griffin, is a bit of a dick. Click through for five more new clips, and a gallery of stills. More »
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Jumper won't be in theaters for three weeks, but you can do the viral marketing dance and comb through its website for clues about the movie. In fact, if you hit the "jump" button and take yourself to Tokyo, you might spot a reference to a certain scifi blog in the background, right next to a strutting Samuel L. Jackson. More »
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The Hayden Christensen teleportation movie Jumper comes out in a month, and of course there's a video game to go with it. You'll play the Jamie Bell jumper character Griffin from the movie, who has a particular bone to pick with the anti-Jumper Paladins who are trying to track him down: they killed his parents. Of course, when you have the ability to hop dimensionally through space, it makes fighting a lot more fun. You can teleport your enemy next to a hungry polar bear, or into the path of a shark in an aquarium. In fact, why not just teleport them into a brick wall? You could even be extremely sneaky like Hiro from Heroes and teleport them into your dead father's grave. The possibilities are endless. More »
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Advertising has gone so meta that only teleportation can explain it. In this ad, Jumper star Hayden Christensen uses his teleporting gift to throw himself into Serena Williams' computer ad. So basically he's leaping out of a commercial for the film, which is about teleporting mutants, and into an old ad for Hewlett Packard, starring Williams. It's a new mutant kind of advertising synergy, more like cross-cannibalism than cross-promotion. Be very scared. 'Jumper' ad leaps between products [Variety] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=341954&view=rss&microfeed=true The new trailer for February's Jumper reveals more about the teleporting-mutants-vs-secret-society movie. We'll get to see how Hayden Christensen's character discovers his teleporting ability as a teenager, and how it's isolated him from everybody, including his cute girlfriend (Rachel Bilson). It also shows why Jumper could rise above the usual cute-young-person-with-superpowers tropes. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331768&view=rss&microfeed=true Our basic human right to teleport around the world on a whim is at stake in Jumper, coming out next February. The trailer, released today, showcases the jarring "scar" special effect which rips holes in reality to let Hayden Christensen bop all over the place. And a secret war between free-thinking teleporters and the repressive anti-teleportation Paladins (led by Samuel L. Jackson) looks like the perfect way to ease into an election year. Secret conspiracies, zapper-batons and double-decker bus attacks add to the paranoid-action-movie feel. More »
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