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Blasting through the skies to Nine Inch Nails "We're In This Together," the Avengers have finally fully assembled in their brand-new trailer. Watch Captain America fight with Iron Man, get your first look at the new mean green Hulk, and hear your first Whedonism. More »
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The first extended look at The Avengers just premiered at Disney's D23 Expo. Here's the spoiler-free version: everything we saw looked like an awesome mix of epic, funny, and badass. And now, for the spoilers... More »
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Behold the awesome schlocky madness that is Arena — it's like Death Race minus the cars, set in virtual reality! More »
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Nick Fury will be getting an awesome new female sidekick in The Avengers, according to Samuel L. Jackson. But who? And what cool female character from Avengers lore could director Joss Whedon be drawing on? More »
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Seeking to prove Edwin Starr wrong, Samuel L. Jackson and his Afro Samurai co-creator Eric Calderon think that war might be good for a few things after all with their new comic series, Cold Space. "Huh!" indeed. More »
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Hoping to see Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury in action in next year's Iron Man 2? Jackson is hinting that it may be time to lower your expectations, or else prepare for some major disappointment. More »
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Whatever Tony Stark gets up to in Iron Man 2, he's going to be doing it beside Nick Fury. Marvel announced yesterday that Samuel L. Jackson has signed a "long-term" deal to play the character. More »
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I'd be willing to bet that a third of people who join ascetic orders do it because it's easier than moving. That said, while packing, I uncovered the following gem of a decade-old diary entry. More »
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With the cast list seemingly falling apart in public and the studio apparently forcing actors out due to low pay, is Iron Man 2 becoming the movie that'll end Marvel's run of movie successes? More »
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You may remember Samuel L. Jackson's super fantastic cameo at the end of Iron Man as the one and only Nick Fury. Rumors are circulating that someone else may play the ex-Howling Commando next time. More »
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Director Frank Miller rewrote the Spirit script to accommodate ScarJo and let Samuel Jackson improvise — and even reinvent his character's look. We met the director and cast, and learned just how much they collaborated. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5112849&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, it was Gabriel Macht, today, it's Samuel Jackson trying to convince us that Frank Miller's The Spirit movie is really some kind of wacky comedy instead of Sin City 2. Talking to MTV, Jackson said that the movie is "sort of Wile E. Coyote with real people. We hit each other with big things [and] we’re both kind of indestructible, so it’s funny in that way. We get shot up, we get stabbed up, we just don’t die." He also tried to clarify the difference between The Dark Knight and The Spirit: "['The Spirit'] is a comic book. You can call ‘The Dark Knight’ a comic book, but no, it’s a graphic novel. There’s a difference between a comic book and a graphic novel." Yeah, but that difference normally has to do with format and length... [Splash Page] More »
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They've been called the comic industry's version of the Oscars, and this year's Eisner Awards definitely did their best to live up to the comparison, offering those that attended emotional acceptance speeches, awkward celebrity appearances, meandering speeches and even sad memorials to recently-departed industry figures. Oh, and Jane Weidlin leading a troop of Stormtroopers to the stage while the Imperial March played over the PA system. More »
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Frank Miller is banking pretty hard on the whole "sex sells" idea in this new trailer for his movie of Will Eisner's classic comic book The Spirit. The black, white and red motif looks like a page torn right out of Miller's Sin City, despite the director's protests that he's not copying his first movie. What follows is a parade of "OMG, look at the celebrity hotties in my movie," dotted with some strange acid-hit moments. One thing that does fit in this crazy trailer is eye-linered Samuel L. Jackson as arch-villain The Octopus. I don't know if I agree with the casting, but Jackson's nutso attitude fits in well with this "vision." More »
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Samuel L. Jackson graces the cover of Comic-Con Magazine as The Spirit's Octopus. Good to see he's sporting the signature gloves, we'll have to let director Frank Miller do the explaining for the fur coat. Jackson, a self proclaimed comic fan, actually brought books for Frank Miller to sign while filming The Spirit according to the cast at New York City's Comic-Con. Full picture, plus all of the Octopus' weirdest secrets (with minor spoilers), after the jump. More »
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People have already uploaded crappy cameraphone copies of Samuel L. Jackson's notorious cameo in Iron Man, and we wouldn't be able to call ourselves spoiler maniacs if we didn't post a copy here. Our spoiler pride also drove us to dig up some new X-Files 2 details and pore over some pretty spoilery new Indiana Jones photos. We've also found out which enemy Batman fights at the end of the direct-to-DVD animated Gotham Knight, and the identity of Spider-Man's latest enemy. We're all about the spoiler pride. 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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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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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 »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=347770&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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