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Nicolas Cage's research for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance prominently involved insects and ancient Egyptian dance. Benedict Cumberbatch discusses his involvement in the Star Trek sequel. Plus director Rian Johnson addresses the biggest challenge of his time travel epic Looper! More »
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There's nothing better than a fully fledged time machine. And we expect big things from the super-cerebral-time-traveling-mobster-shoot-em-up flick Looper. The early reviews for Rian Johnson's picture have been resoundingly positive, but there's still very little informatoin about the film in particular — until now. Take a look at the awesome-looking time device from Looper. More »
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There hasn't been a truly great time travel movie in quite some time, maybe since Primer. But we've got high hopes for Rian Johnson, the director of Brick, to create a cool new spin on the genre with his new film, Looper. More »
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Neil Blomkamp adds another awesome actor to Elysium. How big a role does David Tennant have in Fright Night? Plus we may now know precisely when the second half of Doctor Who's current season will air. More »
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X-Men: First Class's Caleb Landry Jones explains how his portrayal of Banshee includes lots of nods to the original comics. New Amazing Spider-Man set photos reveal an iconic moment. Plus new trailers for Super 8, Harry Potter, and more! More »
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Bruce Willis means business, in the first image from Looper, the time-traveling noir adventure from Brick director Rian Johnson. You can see the full-size image over at Empire, along with a brief description of some footage they saw at Cannes. More »
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Four new Green Lantern promos remind us that there are some actual humans in the movie. Plus casting updates for the Fantastic Voyage remake, the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's non-Twilight book The Host, and Oz the Great and Powerful! More »
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Writer Zak Penn explains why The Avengers is like no other superhero movie, while Roberto Orci and Simon Pegg explain where Star Trek is headed next. Plus new Hunger Games cast members, tons of Games of Thrones interviews, and more! More »
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The best Spider-Man reboot photos yet show our hero webslinging through the streets. An even bigger star than Viggo Mortensen and Javier Bardem might take on the lead in The Dark Tower. The new Magneto joins Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Spoiler-ha! More »
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New set photos confirm Spider-Man is going back to his mechanical web-shooters. Christian Bale is up for a fourth Christopher Nolan Batman movie. Chris Hemsworth addresses the "Hawkeye in Thor" rumors. Plus The Hobbit, Looper, Prometheus, and so much more! More »
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Get a sneak peek at Rian (Brick) Johnson's time-traveling assassin film, Looper, from a few new prop photos. Plus learn how the movie's Chinese financial backers are helping to turn it into a vision of a future of Chinese supremacy. More »
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The director of one of the best time-travel films of all time is doing visual effects work on Rian Johnson's time-travel-and-hit-men movie Looper, according to Looper's Twitter feed. Primer's Shane Carruth is helping with (what else?) time-travel sequences. [BadAss Digest] More »
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There will be three kinds of Vin Diesel in the next Riddick movie. Emily Blunt drops some hints for Brick director Rian Johnson's time-travel movie Looper. The Spider-Man reboot will transform L.A. Summer Glau talks about being a crime-fighting blogger. More »
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Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski is proud of his movie, but there's one major special effect that he's not happy with. Christopher Nolan is handing Superman over to Zack Snyder, and he won't say no to another Inception. Spoilers forever! More »
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Rian Johnson's Brick made the unlikely fusion of noir and high-school drama into one of the decade's most compelling films. So we were excited to read some script pages from his next movie, the futuristic Looper. Which is even better. More »
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New X-Men: First Class photos show Professor X, Moira MacTaggert and Mystique. A Nickelodeon star might be the first Runaways cast member. Plus Captain America set photos, casting for Rian Johnson's Looper, and major Doctor Who hints! More »
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It seems like every low-budget science fiction movie is about time travel. There's Rian Johnson's Looper, Duncan Jones' Source Code and the Timecrimes remake. And now there's Repeaters, a Groundhog Day-esque thriller that just put out its first trailer. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5627118&view=rss&microfeed=true Great news! Production Weekly tweeted that Looper, the time travel thriller from Brick director Rian Johnson, starts filming in January. This movie takes place in a dark near future, when time travel hasn't been invented yet but soon will be. And criminals send people back in time from 20 or 30 years in the future, hogtied and ready to be murdered — with the victims easy to dispose of, because technically they don't exist yet. We interviewed Johnson about this film a while back, and we're dying to see it! [via QuietEarth] More »
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We've been waiting anxiously for the next project from Shane Carruth, writer/director of the mind-bending time-travel story Primer. And now a website has gone up for his second film, A Topiary, bearing a cryptic message. What does it mean? More »
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Bruce Willis has joined Brick director Rian Johnson's time-travel film Looper, and new plot details make it sound a bit like 12 Monkeys 2. More »
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We're all very excited about Brick director Rian Johnson's science fiction movie Looper, but we had no idea it was going to be this delightfully violent. New plot details crank our anticipation up to 11. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Raise your spirits with more spoilers for Iron Man 2, including other armored characters in the film. Plus there are new videos for Transformers 2 and Land Of The Lost. And new Doctor Who finale set pics. Plus Looper, Moon, Hot-Tub Time Machine, Lost, Fringe, Virtuality and Warehouse 13. More »
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We survived three whole spoiler-free days! To make it up to you, there are Transformers 2 videos, plus Dan Aykroyd explains about Ghostbusters 3. Doctor Who's David Tennant may attend a shocking ceremony. There's a Land Of The Lost clip. Plus: Looper, Gamer, Lost, V, Twilight, Heroes and True Blood. More »
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Today's spoiler-blast includes new Terminator Salvation TV spots. Also, Rian "Brick" Johnson explains his future epic Looper. Someone reviewed the Flash Forward pilot. Heroes spoilers make you long for oblivion. Plus Lost, Fringe and Smallville. More »
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Brothers Bloom and Brick director Rian Johnson has revealed very few details about his futuristic scifi project, Looper. Until now. More »
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Brick, Rian Johnson's high-school noir movie, was one of my favorite films of the past few years. He was in town promoting his new con-man romance, The Brothers Bloom, and we got the chance to ask him about his planned third movie, a time-travel thriller called Looper. And he explained why you are probably trapped in a genre. More »
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Greetings and spoiler felicitations! A huge batch of Life On Mars pics show way more of the gritty new look of the British time-travel show's American remake. Plus some new set pics show Josh Duhamel in action in Transformers 2 and hint at a secret villain in Heroes. Someone has posted iron-clad proof of the identity of the final cylon on Battlestar Galactica. (Not really.) We've got the inside dirt on two cool indie movies: Looper and Moon. Not only that, but there are spoilers for Smallville, Lost, Kyle XY and Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Sorry, no Knight Rider today. Can you survive?) Be prepared, with spoilers! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5052101&view=rss&microfeed=true The director of the wonderfully dark Brick, Rian Johnson, is trying his hand at scifi. This new project will also be dark and draw influences from Phillip K Dick (but not the Hollywood bastardized Dick adaptations). But more importantly, it's got time travel. The film will be called Looper. [IGN] More »
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