io9: Major Matt Mason

Do we know the fates of two characters in Ridley Scott's Prometheus?

Alasdair Wilkins — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:00 PST

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Two British thespians join Chris Evans on board a post-apocalyptic train in Snow Piercer. Ti West's low-budget space movie The Side Effect finds its star. Plus tons of hints for Supernatural, True Blood, The Walking Dead Chuck, Grimm, and more! More »

Tom Hanks Wants To Be Your Space Doll

Graeme McMillan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:30:00 PDT

The craze for turning toys into movies may have reached some strange new peak, with the news that Universal plans to turn Major Matt Mason into a movie starring Tom Hanks. More »

Moon Party with Major Matt Mason and Buddies, 1968

Lynn Peril — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:27:03 PDT

Cool outer space toys, rhyming copy ("He lives on the moon, we'll all be there soon ..."), and a slightly homoerotic subtext (that Sgt. Storm in his red uniform is a charmer, I tell you)—they're all part of this 1968 commercial for the Major Matt Mason product line. Major Matt's got his jet pack ... um, wish I had a rhyming dictionary. More »