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As Dan Aykroyd continues his insane quest to make a third Ghostbusters movie, he's hit on the crackpottiest idea yet — recasting the role of Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray in the first two movies. More »
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This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood's propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You've got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there's Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to "improve" upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. More »
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It's been a fairly depressing morning, what with all that incurable gonorrhea and feline mind control. Here's some more toe-tapping news. This spring, Smallville will take a cue from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and resurrect itself as a comic by former story editor and Batgirl scribe Bryan Q. Miller. More »
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These eight clips from the mangled Dr. Seuss Lorax translation fill us with so many emotions. On one hand, it's gorgeous. The Truffula Tree forrest is simply stunning, and the Humming Fish are supremely adorable. But that is where it stops. More »
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The Star Wars movies are all getting re-released in theaters in 3D, starting with Phantom Menace. It's your perfect chance to relive the agony of the prequels, only more in your face this time. More »
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Yesterday, we saw hundreds of skittering spiders and one very adorable bat. Today is Sunday, which we all know is just Bizarro Saturday, so we'll naturally be observing several hundred of these buggers losing their guano. More »
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is coming back to theaters, in a brand eye-spanking-new 3-D conversion. Yes, it's a horrendous movie, in the worst possible format. So we've been wondering: How do you even write about something like this? More »
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We recently mentioned J. Scott Campbell's, uh, idiosyncratic comic book remixes of the Disney princesses, which more or less recast the Magic Kingdom's sovereigns as extras in a commercial for fermented hops. More »
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Marvel has announced that its crowning superhero film, The Avengers, will be available in 3-D as well as 2-D next May. But the exciting part is that they've invented time travel, so they can go back in time and give Joss Whedon 3-D cameras to shoot the whole thing in. More »
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Or more to the point, what is Michael Caine about to say to his agent once he gets home from doing this fiasco? Some new character posters for Journey 2, the sequel that absolutely nobody demanded, have come out. And they're like the posters from the waiting room to Photoshop Hell. I especially like the look on The Rock's face as he contemplates what has become of his non-Fast and Furious career. More »
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DC Comics is really going forward with the Watchmen tie-in project that everybody's calling Watchmen 2, as we warned a while back. Bleeding Cool's inside sources tell them that Andy Kubert will draw one of four prequel miniseries, each of which tells a story about a different character from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' masterpiece. And Andy "may not be the only Kubert getting involved with this," writes Rich Johnston. More »
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You can't really be a fully fledged sexist prat without also being kind of a bad scientist. The science supporting the idea that women are less rational than men is looking flimsier all the time. So it's probably not a surprise that the outrageously sexist science fiction story that blew up the Internet, "Womanspace", is bad science as well as bad gender politics. More »
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Having sworn off family-friendly comedies for now, Eddie Murphy has returned to making terrible science fiction movies instead. His next project: an alien abduction side-slapper. More »
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I'm not sure what compels amateur Geppettos to construct infantilized incarnations of say, Lord Voldemort, but hey, the world is a weird place. Right now, somebody is eagerly filling their entire Netflix queue with every episode of Home Improvement. It's happening, trust me. More »
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Looks like Akira has been ripped out of development purgatory and dropped into production hell. Warner Bros. has reportedly greenlit director Jaume Collet-Serra's remake of the anime classic. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5851610&view=rss&microfeed=true The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Hasbro is in "active discussions" with Paramount, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg about a potential fourth Transformers movie. Well, at least it can't be as bad as Transformers 2, right... RIGHT? More »
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The director behind classics such as Total Recall and Starship Troopers thinks all science fiction movies should be converted into 3D. More »
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At London's Fashion Week, designer Rachel Friere unveiled a dress made of 3,000 cow nipples lovingly stitched together into evening wear. Unsurprisingly, this dress went over as well as you could expect a dress made out of 3,000 cow nipples to go over. More »
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Behold one of the many ludicrous moments from Unforgettable, the new CBS show about a detective whose superpower is perfect recall — she can remember not just facts and dates, but everything she's ever seen, with photographic clarity. Amazingly, 14 million people tuned in to watch this utter drek — although we can't help wondering how many of them will be back. More »
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Disneyland's It's A Small World ride was never the paragon of normal, what with its chirpy dead-eyed puppets and hypnotically communitarian mantra. But Chinese theme parks take the sing-songy boat ride to new frontiers of uncomfortable. More »
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What the hell is going on with Johnny Depp's makeup in these new set photos from Tim Burton's movie version of the classic horror soap Dark Shadows? He looks sort of Michael Jackson-esque, in a not-good way. More »
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Walter Potter (no relation to the Peter Rabbit author) was an eccentric eighteenth century taxidermist who condemned small mammals to an eternity of indignities. Here's a news reel from the 1960s depicting a visit to Potter's museum. According to the YouTube description from British Pathe: More »
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Yesterday, we shared with you some of the um... controversial changes that are happening in the Star Wars Original Trilogy Blu-ray discs. Like Darth Vader shouting "Noooooooooooo" as he tosses the Emperor. And Obi-Wan's baffling new attack cry. More »
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Hollywood sells us quick hits of entertainment, and counts on our attention-deficit disorder to keep us distractible. But Hollywood also has its own case of ADD, chasing fads and cool ideas, and then running them into the ground. That can be a very good thing, because some fads are so dumb you can't wait for Hollywood to lose interest in them. More »
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Hasbro's Battleship movie may be an early contender for the silliest movie of 2012 — and the first trailer seems to have provoked near-universal hilarity — but everybody involved seems to be taking it pretty seriously, at least. More »
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For every Freaky Friday, there are a hundred Hot Chicks. Hollywood loves to bombard us with terrible comedies about contrived magical mix-ups, in which somebody learns something meaningful about life and stuff. More »
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The Smurfs is a seemingly endless nightmare in which leering blue monsters shill toys, and help Neil Patrick Harris become a better marketer. It's a film about how marketing is awesome, and how people can eventually get used to even the most annoying jingle. More »
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If things had turned out differently, one of America's most famous superheroes could have been racing across our screens this fall. But the gods were against Wonder Woman, NBC's superhero show. And it's easy to see why. More »
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There's advertising — and then there's badvertising, promotions so awful they make you cringe. We saw a lot of the latter at Comic-Con 2011. We've rounded up the best of the worst advertisements, for your enjoyment. More »
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This new batch of clips from The Smurfs movie have us very confused. Do the characters know that this movie is horrific? Because Hank Azaria and Neil Patrick Harris are lighting the Smurfs up in these movie clips. More »
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Everybody knows that talking-animal movies are really about the human condition. Marmaduke, Cats & Dogs, Yogi Bear... they all reflect human personalities filtered through the lens of silly animal stereotypes. They're like a kind of heightened reality. Or maybe they just celebrate our all-too-human masochism. More »
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Vampire Hitler attacks Rayne, the sexy young half-vampire heroine, in a crazy-pants dream sequence from Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Yes, Uwe Boll's World War II epic is out on DVD, and it's chock full of crazy. More »
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Ryan Reynolds keeps comparing Green Lantern, out today, to the original Star Wars. As if it's the same kind of fun thrill-ride, with the same relatable heroic arc, swashbuckling and Han Solo-esque swagger. More »
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The town of Juzcar, Andalucia has an infestation of Smurfs. Family homes, shops, local businesses — even the center church — were all repainted in honor of the premiere of The Smurfs movie. Goodbye beautiful original facade, hello Smurf village. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5812822&view=rss&microfeed=true Rumors are leaking out that the producers of the The Event are in talks with Syfy to revive the canceled show as a miniseries. According to Deadline Hollywood, "the show's creator Nick Wauters and executive producer Steve Stark told fans that there was a possibility for the sci-fi drama to continue elsewhere." Apparently, the "elsewhere" is Syfy. More »
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Perennial GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney caused a stir in 2007 when he said he really loved L. Ron Hubbard's notoriously awful Battlefield Earth. (The book, not the movie.) So this time around, he came up with a better choice. More »
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Back in May of 2010, Transformers director Michael Bay wrote that the offensive creatures Skids and Mudflaps would not be in Transformers 3. Then why were they on the T3 set? Now updated with an answer! More »
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At least Playmate of the Apes is better than the Tim Burton Apes movie. (Not that that's saying much.) This movie is obscene in every sense of the word — although don't worry, there's no actual bestiality. More »
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Researchers at Japan's Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications are developing a device that allows the user to engage in some telepresence smooching by furiously tonguing an apparatus that resembles an electric toothbrush or talk box. Sexy futurism? More »
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Do you want to imagine Superman going Super-pantsless? If not, then don't do a search on the Twitter hashtag: #Supermanrenouncespants. Started by DC Comics writer Gail Simone, it already includes such gems as: More »
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