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There's no shortage of praise for Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and the rest of Hollywood's science fiction and fantasy titans. But who are the next generation of myth-makers? Who should you be keeping an eye on? Who will make the genre-defining movies that everyone else will feverishly race to copy? More »
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Daniel Thomsen, a television writer who has worked on staff at Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Melrose Place, explains just what goes into the "staffing season" for television writers. More »
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If you really liked a particular movie, and you're hoping it made enough money to warrant a sequel, then the wealth of box-office news can be confusing. How can you tell when a movie's a hit? We asked the experts. More »
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Several weeks ago, we reported that Tron Legacy would have to gross $50 million in its opening weekend to recoup its $200 million budget. This weekend wasn't much help, as it's on track to gross $20.1 million. More »
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You'd think Wolverine, Batman, Superman, Catwoman and Iron Man would collectively hold enough superpower to keep the cops at bay. More »
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Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing has gone from an April 29, 2011 release date to no release date at all. Universal claims the film's not ready. Sorry, alien head-spider fans. More »
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Over at The LA Times there's a clip of the Megamind star being asked whether he thinks he's contributing to the demise of the superhero film. He replies with a weirdly reasonable and intelligent answer. More »
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Inception has grossed $60.4 million since Friday, whereas Disney's magical Nick Cage flick flickered with $24.5 million over five days (on a $150,000,000 budget). Meanwhile, Damon Lindelof dug Inception, thereby inadvertently exposing himself to Lost-jaded snarkhounds. More »
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Does filming a movie being filmed violate copyright? A man who passed by the set of Transformers 3 found his Youtube footage of the shoot removed for copyright violation after Paramount Studios complained. More »
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The Tony and Rhodey roadshow blasted through multiplexes, scoring $133.6 million over Friday and Saturday. With another $194 million coming in from overseas, IM2's worldwide gross stands at $327.6 million. [via LA Times] More »
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Nightmare on Elm Street pulled in $32.2 million thus far and will recoup its $35 million budget. The dream-slasher dropped 33% between Friday and Saturday. It's unlikely to see an uptick with Iron Man 2 opening next weekend. [L.A. Times] More »
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We now know that Olivia Munn didn't nab Wasp or Scarlet Witch for Iron Man 2, but what role was the Attack of the Show! host initially slated to play? Director Jon Favreau has the answer. Spoilers on! More »
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Hugh Hefner just donated a boatload of cash to secure the famous Hollywood sign's future — maybe he should've taken a Danish architecture firm's lead and turned it into a 300-room hotel. More »
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Re-release the Kraken! A Louis Leterrier-less Clash sequel may be out by Spring 2012, to nab Sam Worthington before he starts Avatar 2. A Journey sequel is also in the works for Fall 2011, without director Eric Brevig. [Deadline] More »
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This ain't the weekend for comic-book movies. The Losers pulled in a paltry $9.6 million, and Kick-Ass garnered $9.5 million, a 52% drop from last weekend. The big winner? How To Train Your Dragon, with $15 million [L.A. Times]. More »
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We've already noted that Stan Lee would like to see a Doctor Strange movie. But at Wizard World Anaheim, Smiling Stan hinted that the Sorcerer Supreme was next on the docket. More »
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How to Train Your Dragon is tied with Kick-Ass for the #1 box office haul this weekend. Hey, with a name like Kick-Ass you won't see any confused parents dragging their tots to "that jazzy new superhero flick." [LA Times] More »
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Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman has long been rumored to be the next Peter Parker in Marc Webb's Spidey reboot. Today it was announced that Lerman's got the part "almost 100% locked." Damn, and we were pulling for Bruce Campbell. More »
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The Oscar-nominated director behind Coraline and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is joining the Pixar fold — what has Henry Selick gotten himself into? More »
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We all know that James Cameron has been accused of cribbing movies such as Dances With Wolves and Fern Gully for Avatar. But in this spurious sequel, Cameron has set his sights on far bigger, more profitable game. More »
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High School Musical dreamboat Zac Efron is rumored to play spacefaring hero/Freddie Mercury muse Flash Gordon. Could this all be just a disinformation campaign by Ming the Merciless? More »
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Green Hornet director Michel Gondry is teaming up with Ghost World scribe Daniel Clowes to create a time-travel drama starring Ellen "Juno Pryde" Page. Looks like Gondry's trying to sweep both the Saturn and Independent Spirit Awards with this one. More »
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Some days Hollywood casting news just reads like drunken chimpanzees playing Mad Libs. Dane Cook confirmed that he tried out for Captain America via Twitter, and two of the Jonas Brothers are (groundlessly) rumored to be in the running. More »
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Despite a rollicking introduction from Dr. Horrible himself, the Oscars seemed a smidge muted tonight. Was this because Avatar got trounced? Or was it because the show was so damn long I had to zahelu with a bottle of Glenlivet? More »
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Physicist Sidney Perkowitz has one simple request for scifi filmmakers: please break the laws of physics only once per movie. He insists this for Tinseltown's own good, as audiences' disbelief can be only be suspended so far. More »
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"Umbrella" chanteuse Rihanna has reportedly nabbed the role as a roundhouse-kicking dominatrix, in the upcoming remake of the 1985 R&B martial arts fantasy The Last Dragon. More »
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Dean Koontz's best-selling Frankenstein series, which features androids, an evil biotechnology firm, and an inked-up iteration of Mary Shelley's monster, will become a huge movie set in 21st century New Orleans. More »
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Critically-acclaimed actor Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to play evil, giant-head Hector Hammond opposite Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern. More »
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Robert Downey Jr. won't be starring in Iron Man director Jon Favreau's scifi Western Cowboys and Aliens. But why? Looks like RDJ has a schedule conflict with the fast-tracked Sherlock Holmes 2. More »
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We know that James Cameron's Avatar has raked in a record-breaking $1.34 billion internationally. But where exactly did Cameron make the most greenbacks off his epic of 10-foot-tall cerulean cat people who make love with their hairdos? More »
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Now that Avatar is on track to be the second biggest film of all time, pundits are starting to wonder if there's more to its success than Art Nouveau pterodactyls in 3-D. Here are five explanations they've come up with. More »
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When District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes his next film, he won't have a $100 million budget. Instead, he'll keep making films on the (relative) cheap, because it's the only way to make science fiction movies with creative freedom. More »
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After the success of Paranormal Activity, Paramount Studios plans to launch a division specifically for $100,000-or-less movie projects. Unfortunately, rather than getting innovative horror films to theaters, the movie house will use the department as an expensive focus group. More »
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Though Hollywood excels in making plotless movies, the sale of Asteroids to Universal breaks new ground. The people who are bringing you GI Joe this month are about to make a movie about a triangle shooting a bunch of blobs. More »
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SciFi Channel sent out screeners of tonight's Battlestar Galactica premiere to critics, minus the episode's most important scene. Needless to say, reviewers were not pleased. Has anti-spoiler mania gone too far? More »
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A man discovers a handbook on stopping an alien invasion. Another man learns his blog is a future religion. Just two of the unproduced movie ideas Hollywood execs pronounced among the world's best. More »
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Here we go again. After last year's 14-week struggle between the Writers Guilds of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — one that ultimately caused the untimely death of Pushing Daisies and the unravelling of Heroes, among other disasters — it looks like Hollywood is still far from happy. Yesterday, the Screen Actors Guild announced its intention to "launch a full-scale education campaign in support of a strike authorization referendum." What that means is, well, nothing good. More »
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Pop culture may be obsessed with science, but it's rare to find a scifi story that gets it right. That's why a group of Hollywood mucky mucks have hooked up with a bunch of scientists to create the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The group holds regular symposia where they bring together Hollywood creators with people like Rodney Brooks from MIT's artificial intelligence lab, in an effort to make pop science more realistic. More »
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It took a crew of 200 technicians to build a miniature model of a futuristic New York City for "Just Imagine, a motion picture fantasy" released in November, 1930. According to Modern Mechanix, the city of the future was built in an old blimp hangar, and the model covered a ground area of 75x225. Its tallest tower soared 40 feet high. In all, the not-so-tiny model city required more than five tons of plaster to construct. And there's more. More »
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Why is Hollywood trying to poison everybody against posthumans? Whenever you see someone going beyond standard-issue humanity in movies or TV, it's portrayed as monstrous and evil. Whether it's cyborgs, mutants or humans hacking their bodies, Hollywood exercises its anti-posthuman agenda. Meanwhile, novels have been celebrating the customizers and reinventers for years now. What can we do to derail Hollywood's insidious campaign against our posthuman brothers and sisters? The first step is understanding where it comes from. More »
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