Christopher Nolan's Interstellar has a release date

We still don't know much about Christopher Nolan's wormhole traveling film Interstellar, but the movie already has a release date. According to a press releas from Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, which are co-producing and jointly distributing the film, Interstellar will hit theaters and IMAX on November…

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An Alternate History of Doctor Who, in which the Doctor has always…

We've wondered if one of the Doctor's future incarnations might be female, but what would Doctor Who have been like if the Doctor had always been played by a woman? Alasdair Stuart of SciFind has cooked up an alternate history of Doctor Who, positing which actresses might be a match for each of the eleven Doctors, the…

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Benedict Cumberbatch's next big role might be as Alan Turing

This falls within the realm of strong rumor, but it's an exciting rumor all the same. Deadline is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch is "in deep conversations" to play cryptanalyst and computer scientist Alan Turing in the biopic The Imitation Game, a script from the 2011 Black List. Will Cumberbatch make the jump from…

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The First Doctor returns to Doctor Who, courtesy of... Harry Potter?!

Well, now we know one previous Doctor that's going to make an appearance during Doctor Who's 50th anniversary. Although William Hartnell, the actor who originated the role in 1963, passed away in 1975, David Bradley has been cast ias the Doctor — Bradley being better known as Argus Filch, the surly Hogwarts custodian…

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China arrests 500 people for believing in tomorrow's Mayan Apocalypse

Here in the United States, we're mostly treating tomorrow's scheduled End of Days as a bit of a joke — but in China, it's deadly serious. At least, serious enough for the Chinese government to round up and detain 500 members of the Church of Almighty God, a Chinese religious sect, for spreading the notion that the…

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R.I.P. Sir Patrick Moore, who brought the mysteries of space into the…

For many astronomers, their love of space began with a man on their television set. Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore began hosting the BBC's The Sky at Night in 1957, and for the next 55 years, he unraveled the mysteries of the cosmos for his viewers and helped them understand what they were seeing when they looked toward…

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Space Shuttle Endeavour takes its final trip through the streets of…

The retired space shuttle Endeavour rolled into its final home this morning, the California Science Center at Exposition Park. But before being put out to pasture, Endeavour got one final ride this weekend, through the streets of Los Angeles, treating locals to the surreal sight of a space shuttle in their midst.

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How cheesy will Michael Bay's post-apocalyptic show The Last Ship be?

TNT is going into production on The Last Ship, a TV show based on William Brinkley's 1989 novel about a U.S. Navy vessel that survives a global catastrophe. (In the book, it's a nuclear war. But in the TV show, it's something more complicated. Scroll all the way to the bottom to find out what.)

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Alfonso Cuarón is teaming up with J.J. Abrams for a supernatural NBC…

What happens when you pair Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón with J.J. Abrams? We don't know yet, but NBC has just ordered it as a supernatural pilot.

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