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We enjoyed Steven Spielberg's 3D Tintin movie, but plenty of people were vehemently opposed to any Tintin work that abandons Hergé's ligne claire style. So what would a 2D Tintin movie look like with Spielberg's cast? More »
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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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We really liked The Adventures of Tintin, but we've heard lots of people saying it's not Steven Spielberg's best movie. And this started us wondering: What was Spielberg's last truly great genre film? Was it Tintin? Minority Report? God forbid, was it Indiana Jones 4? Now's your chance to vote! More »
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It's that time of year when you wind up watching a lot of DVDs with your loved ones. And you rediscover the grand art of compromise. It's hard to find movies that everybody wants to watch — especially if you want to watch something science fictional. More »
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Here it is — the final contest of wits and heart. Hundreds of you submitted your captions for our exclusive photo of Falling Skies season two. And now we've picked the ten best entries. More »
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You could watch the pilot of Terra Nova and last night's season finale back to back, and you'd come away thinking this was a pretty fun show. Not a masterpiece, not a deep character study, but a fun piece of television. More »
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We're eagerly awaiting a second season of Falling Skies, TNT's post-apocalyptic TV show about humans struggling to survive after an alien invasion. The good news is, Falling Skies is filming more episodes right now — and we've got your first exclusive photo of season two! More »
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This video has been around since 2009, so maybe you've already seen it — but it's a pretty great, thought-provoking discussion nonetheless. Terry Gilliam, interviewed by TCM, explains the major difference between movies like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the mega-successful but more comforting works by Steven Spielberg. Even if you don't agree with Gilliam, it's still pretty thought-provoking stuff. [via Javier Grillo-Marxuach on Twitter] More »
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Science fiction is overrun with Martians, from monstrous invaders to shapeshifting superheroes to Santa-kidnapping buffoons. To make sense of over a century's worth of Martians, we present this grid ranking scifi Martians on their goodness and just how alien they are (click to expand). More »
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The exceptionally talented "filmumentary" maker Jamie Benning has released the first 17 minutes of his next behind the scenes movie making opus all about Indiana Jones. Officially titled Raiding the Lost Ark, the documentary compiles conference notes, script snippets, behind-the-scenes footage, production memos, and interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and to create one ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the making of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Watch, it's really spectacular. More »
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The computer generated effects on Fox's Terra Nova are some of the most ambitious ever created — especially for a weekly TV show. But you probably didn't realize quite how much of the sets and backdrops on the show were created using CG. More »
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The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn is one of the most ambitious movie adaptations ever created — director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have gone to insane lengths to craft a CG, motion-capture recreation of Herge's ambitious art vistas. More »
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So you think you know what's going on in the new dinosaur drama Terra Nova? Think again. Some casting calls have come down the pike for a couple of major characters who are going to shake up the prehistoric world. More »
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The last hope for the future of the human race depends on a handful of settlers traveling back into the distant past and building a brand new world. And from what we've seen so far in Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova, the human race is doomed. More »
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This has been a big year for Steven Spielberg — he's launched two TV shows, including last night's Terra Nova, and produced countless movies. The Spielberg tribute Super-8 was a surprise hit, and it's become fashionable for other film-makers to claim they're paying tribute to early Spielberg. Still ahead this year: the huge motion-capture reinvention of Tintin, the Belgian adventure comic. More »
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Tonight, Steven Spielberg takes us back to the land of dinosaurs. How crazy will Terra Nova be? We'll find out over the next few weeks. But it can't possibly go as bonkers as some of television's other dinosaur shows. Here are our picks for the most demented dinosaur-centric TV shows in history. More »
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The big promise of Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies was that we'd get to see people trying to rebuild society after an alien invasion. How would you start over, and what would you do differently? Those questions go to the heart of the larger issue of what makes a good society — which is sort of the ultimate political question. More »
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Sure, Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova has dinosaurs and a harsh prehistoric environment — but just how nasty will it get? And will we actually be seeing dinosaurs every week, or will there be episodes where people just hang out and process their feelings? More »
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Chances are, you spent the weekend rediscovering the magic of Star Wars (with a few unwelcome tweaks.) The original Star Wars was a miracle of seat-of-the-pants film-making that captured the world's imagination and boosted science fiction to new popularity. More »
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There's just one week left before Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova has to pony up and give us some freaking dinosaur action. And finally, the trailers are showing us more than just the same two dinosaur shots we've been seeing over and over. More »
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The fate of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's robot-uprising novel Robopocalypse has been up in the air for a while, but now it seems to be settled. Spielberg has secured financing from not one, but two studios to make the huge-budget feature. More »
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That's what the Guardian claims in a new article today. Steven Spielberg's seminal 1977 film eschewed the rationality that had been science fiction's hallmark, in favor of an unexplained brush with the transcendent, which mostly takes place in suburbia. Instead of figuring stuff out, Richard Dreyfuss' character starts creating weird modern art, out of materials in his home. And Close Encounters "does not offer any sense of history or progress or any theory as to what the alien encounter means." More »
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Check out the gorgeous Jurassic Park print released by Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo celebrating the Blu-ray release of everyone's favorite dinosaur movie. But wait — this is only the first of many glorious Jurassic Park posters. More »
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Check out this behind the scenes video from Steven Spielberg's time-traveling adventure show Terra Nova, which shows off how the crew basically constructed the entire Jurassic Park-channeling camp bit by bit. It also inclues a few new glimpses of our horribly destroyed future world! More »
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Steven Spielberg announced a fourth Jurassic Park movie yesterday — but he already has a huge dinosaur epic in the works. Terra Nova is a hugely ambitious time-traveling dinosaur TV show — and we've seen the first episode! More »
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One of the most exciting announcements at Comic-Con today? Steven Spielberg said that a fourth chapter of his famous dinosaur epic Jurassic Park is finally in the works. More »
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The first footage to come out of today's Tintin panel was actually not from the movie itself, but the first test footage Spielberg requested from Peter Jackson's special effects production company, Weta. Spielberg had asked Jackon's workshop to show him an animated Snowy next to a live person. On the screen, against the backdrop of a docked ship, none other than Peter Jackson himself appeared dressed as Tintin's Captain Haddock — and holding a handle of dark rum. "I know that we're just supposed to be doing a test," Jackson says. "But I wanted to take this opportunity to put myself on screen in the role of Captain Haddock." More »
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Falling Skies has shown tons of potential, and some fascinating story threads, ever since the post-apocalyptic alien occupation show started. But last night's intense "Sanctuary Part 1" was the first time this show really felt like it delivered. More »
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Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have finally released a trailer that showcases the heart of Tintin: laughs, friendship and Snowy the dog! Watch as Thompson and Thomson share a laugh, meet Captain Haddock, and be mystified by the glowing computer-animated world they've created. More »
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Steven Spielberg's new show Falling Skies launched last night on TNT, and the good news is, it got gangbuster ratings for a basic cable show: 5.9 million viewers, more than The Walking Dead's first episode on AMC. More »
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We've had a lot of unscrupulous aliens coming to our planet on television lately, but Falling Skies isn't just another mystery-alien show along the lines of V or The Event. Instead, Steven Spielberg's new show is a whole different phenomenon. More »
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Looking as gorgeous as Drew Struzan's Super 8 poster, this new batch of concept art images shows J.J. Abrams' early vision for his creature feature (and reveals a few things that changed along the way). More »
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We chatted with J.J. Abrams about Super 8, his monster action homage to Steven Spielberg's friendly alien films like E.T. and Close Encounters. He talked about recreating 1979, the challenges of making a movie about kids, and why his alien is kind of a bastard. More »
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Steven Spielberg's time-traveling dinosaur drama Terra Nova has just cranked back into production, making the first episode after the pilot. We found a casting call for episode two, which introduces a new character who'll cause lots of trouble. More »
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We've seen the first seven hours of Steven Spielberg's new alien-occupation show Falling Skies, airing this summer. And the good news is, this could be one of the most thought-provoking and intense stories about alien invasion you've ever seen. More »
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Here's the longest look we've had so far at Steven Spielberg's time-travel-and-dinosaurs show Terra Nova, after the 30-second teaser we saw at the Superbowl. Most of all, this new trailer gives a better look at the show's dystopian future. More »
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Could this be the biggest movie summer of all time? It's sure looking like it. Almost every weekend features at least one, and maybe two or three, movies with a science fiction, fantasy or comics pedigree. More »
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Time-traveling dinosaur drama Terra Nova just can't seem to get off the ground. It's already been delayed twice, supposedly due to laborious special effects work. But digitizing dinosaurs isn't the real reason this series is stuck in production purgatory. More »
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In the 1996 children's PC game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, Jeff Goldblum played an inappropriately sultry Lord of the Vampires. Watch as the one and only Brundlefly seduces the game's pre-teen protagonist with a sensual dance. More »
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