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The history of genre movies is littered with massive, lavish failures — movies that took hundreds of millions of dollars and tossed the money down a sinkhole. But some of the movies that everybody "knows" were box office disasters actually did really well, when you look at the numbers. 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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Despite bombing with the critics, Jumper, the 2007 movie about a teleporting asshole, was a modest success financially, and may get a sequel. Steven Gould, author of the original novel, has some ideas. Spoilers follow... More »
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Click to viewThis wasn't just the year that science fiction dominated the movies - it also featured an amazing diversity of SF stories. Here's our list of the greatest - and most horrendous - films of 2008. More »
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It's the book that defeated Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise, but that isn't stopping another studio from trying to make a blockbuster out of Isaac Asimov's The End Of Eternity. But is New Regency, the studio that brought us Jumper and The Fountain and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, really the studio to turn Asimov's time-travel tale into something we'd pay money to see in theaters? More »
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Your next favorite angsty teen superpower movie, Push, features more weird powers than you might have realized. Sci Fi Wire got to see a batch of new scenes from the movie about superkids on the run, starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning, and they include new signs of just how freakrageous this movie will be. The good news? Push, which opens next February, on almost the same date as this year's superpower movie Jumper, may be a lot more fun. More »
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Wonderful news, scifi lovers - Lisa Bonet (Life On Mars) and Jason Momoa (Ronon from Stargate Atlantis) are expecting another little bundle of joy. This will be the second child for the couple (Bonet's third), and we send those two nothing but interstellar good wishes. Their happy news got me thinking that this is a mighty small universe. So many science fiction stars are pair-bonding with their crewmates and companions, and we've put together the power list of scifi's greatest couples, past and present. More »
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You may have thought Meet Dave bombed because it's the latest in a long string of unfunny Eddie Murphy movies... but it turns out there's another reason. The movie bombed, at least in part, because Fox refused to market it as science fiction, believing that nobody likes SF, and especially not SF comedies. Whether or not you care what happens to the bland Dave, the explanation of why Fox buried it, in the L.A. Times, should concern you. More »
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There's actually talk of a sequel to the underwhelming teleporting-mutants-vs-fundies movie Jumper, according to star Hayden Christensen. The studio is "having those conversations, I hear about them," Christensen explains. But would he reprise his role as David Rice? Most likely, he says: "It was set up to become that — a trilogy — if it did well. And I think they're happy with how it did so they want to make another one. But I don't think they're rushing to get into production." [Winnipeg Sun] More »
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Over at his website, artist Chuck Anderson is showcasing unused promotional posters from recent "Anakin Skywalker can teleport! And, like, steal shit!" movie Jumper. According to Anderson, the posters were "unused as the client changed direction." That change in direction, apparently, was "No longer wanting to look like a 2008 remake of Xanadu". More posters after the jump. 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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Why is science fiction so much hotter at the movies than on television? People have wondered for a while. Recently, the universally panned Jumper and the blah I Am Legend and Cloverfield have hit big. But the well-received Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on the brink of cancellation. We explain this strange phenomenon, after the jump. More »
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Doug Liman proved that he's got a nanotech hide, even though the negative reviews of his two latest projects keep teleporting in. Both Jumper and Knight Rider were panned across the board, but the movie hauled in more than $30 million over the weekend, while the television show raked in huge ratings. More than 8 million people tuned in to watch the show, including the 18 to 49 bracket that advertisers drool for. So chances are high that we'll see both a Jumper sequel, and a Knight Rider series in the months ahead (a replacement for NBC's ailing Bionic Woman?). We just hope they'll stay closer to the source material in a Jumper sequel, and give Knight Rider a tuneup. Either way, we're sure both projects got a huge thumbs up from The Hoff. 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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I know how much all of you wanted to believe that the teleportation effects in Jumper were based on real science, but it turns out tragically not to be true. Popular Mechanics has roped an actual physicist, Dr. Max Tegmark of MIT, into explaining the difference between what Hayden Christensen and Jamie Bell do in Jumper, and what would happen in the real world. 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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Welcome back to Morning Spoilers, where we dumpster-dive the Internet looking for the secrets of upcoming science fiction. And once again, we're fixating on toys, because a toy fair gave some hints about the uniforms and sets of the new Star Trek, and a new toy gives away the look of a major character in the Incredible Hulk movie. And we have a couple new clips from Jumper. We also give away tons of info about the next episode of Lost. All this, plus Star Wars, Torchwood and Stargate: Atlantis. 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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The first reviews of Jumper are starting to pop up online, and they're not good news for the people who thought Hayden Christensen might be likable (or even tolerable) this time around. The movie features a lot of scenes of people jumping off tall buildings and cliffs, and may leave you wanting to do the same. But fear not: We also have exciting Dragonball info, a new Hulk-related toy spoiler, a Sarah Connor preview, and info on Smallville and X-Factor. 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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Welcome to our crazy TMI wake-up call of spoilers. We have some new info about whom Captain Kirk hangs out with in the new Star Trek movie, plus hints about the plot of Doctor Who season four. Plus some new stills from the teleporting-mutants movie Jumper, below the fold. More »
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Bored of Cloverfield and looking to jump into the next big sci-fi movie a bit early? Then head over to Oni Press's website and look at the 23-page preview of Jumper: Jumpscars, a 96-page prologue comic to Doug Liman's teleportation movie Jumper (released in the US on February 14th) and get the backstory on the movie before anyone else. A couple more images below the fold. 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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Why do so many adventure movies seem to have the same story? A lot of the blame goes to the Hero's Journey, a cookie-cutter spiritual-ish adventure recipe concocted by Joseph Campbell in 1949. Star Wars and many fantasy sagas famously follow this treasure map step by step, but how do other science fiction stories measure up? We score scifi stories on our "Hero's Journey" checklist, after the jump. 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 »
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Those rumors about aliens in the new Indiana Jones movie? Appear to be true, judging from new images of the Lego playset. Click through for a picture of skeletons in alien helmets, plus Terminator TV and movie spoilers. It's all part of Morning Spoilers, where we reveal the plot twists of tomorrow. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338945&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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