The trailer includes rapper/actor Xzibit ordering what appears to be a search party over a snowy terrain and Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben from BSG) giving you the old shifty eyes. Between the little girls trapped under the ice, crazy Bill Connolly's blood-hued eyes and the predictable emotional tension between Mulder and Scully it could turn out to be a solid X Files. [Movies Online and IGN]

And here are those viral videos:

Fox Mulder on Dana Scully:

Dana Scully on Fox Mulder:

Speed Racer:

Here's a featurette that IGN Movies posted, showcasing Matthew Fox's Racer X character from Speed Racer, including a few snippets of footage we haven't seen before. It looks as demented as everything else I've seen from the film. [IGN Movies]

X-Files 2:

There's a rumor whooshing around the web that Mulder and Scully are still a couple in X-Files 2... but Scully "has someone on the side." After searching all over, I tracked the rumor to the movie's IMDB FAQs, which cited co-writer Frank Spotnitz as a source. (The item has since been removed, but here's the Google cache.) [IMDB]

Iron Man:

Iron Man comes out today, which means this may be the absolute final chance to obsess about whether Samuel L. Jackson has a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. Now MovieHole is claiming there definitely is a moment of Jackson as pirate-eyed spymaster Nick Fury after the credits of the theatrical release (but not the version screened for critics). Says MovieHole:

At the end of the credits, Stark comes home and finds Nick Fury in his living room -staring towards the window. He then turns to tell Stark he's the not the only superhero in the world. Stark asks who he is, and Fury turns and says he's "Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D, and I'm here to talk to you about The Avengers Initiative".

Incredible Hulk:

Here are some new Incredible Hulk stills that came out on the heels of that new trailer. I have to admit, the more I see of the CGI in this movie, the more it feels like it belongs in a 1990s haunted house movie. [MovieHole again]

Doctor Who:

One viewer has an absolutely airtight theory about what's going to happen on this Saturday's Doctor Who:

I think that the gas isn't actually gas, but really it is a teleporter device where 1 particle of gas teleports 50 sontarans. Then they will shoot the humans and afterwards, get out a shotgun. Then they will shoot the humans heads off, take their heads and put them on their feet. Then they will go ice-skating and fall in love with the doctor. They get married and have a child; hence 'the doctors daughter'

Also, some guy who knows someone says that David Tennant's Doctor will make a cameo appearance in the second season of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. [TenMartha4Ever]

And Alex Kingston (ER)'s character in the upcoming Steven Moffat super-library two-parter "Silence In The Library"/"Forest Of The Dead" is named Professor River Song and may have her own sonic screwdriver. And "Turn Left," this season's Doctor-lite episode, may take place in an alternate universe where military rule is in force and everyone has a strange insect-like creature on his/her back. (Is this the alternate universe where Rose lives, or another one?) In the final two-parter, Dalek creator Davros may do a "Borg Queen" style entrance. And there will be tons of different Daleks, including some fitted with claws. [Death Ray, via Keith]

In this Saturday's episode (really) the Doctor shepherds Donna into the TARDIS for safety, but then the Sontarans teleport the TARDIS aboard their ship. With the world's sky turning poisonous, the nations of the world unite to launch a nuclear strike against the Sontarans, in spite of the Doctor's warnings that it'll do no good. After the adventure is over, Martha's ready to go home to her fiance, but she's physically restrained from doing so. And here's some dialogue from the episode, plus a new clip:
Donna: God, the air's disgusting.
Doctor: Its not so bad for me - go on, get inside the TARDIS —
(holds out key)
Oh. Never given you a key. Keep that, go on. That's yours. Quite a big moment really.
Donna: Yeah, maybe we can get sentimental after the world's finished choking to death. [Planet Gallifrey]

DC Universe 0:

The 50-cent DC Universe 0 comic which goes on sale today (possibly by the time you read this) ends with Barry Allen, the fast-running superhero known as The Flash, coming back from the dead. Which means almost everyone who's ever died in DC Comics is now alive again. Good for Marvel Comics leaving Spider-Man's Uncle Ben dead — except for that alternate universe version a couple years ago, but that hardly counts. I think. [Superhero Times]

io9's intrepid intern Nivair H. Gabriel was one of the first to jump up and into the question line. When she asked Carter and Spotnitz whether Mulder and Scully had been communicating with one another during the six years that elapse between the series and the movie. Carter's good-natured, ever-elusive response? "Well," he answered coyly, "they've been texting."

Other random movie details:

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• They showed the same trailer we already featured at io9 a couple of weeks ago.
• As we've heard before, it's a stand-alone story, without the government conspiracy/UFO mythos that made up a large bulk of the show's plot arc.
• The movie also provided a chance to get personal with the characters of Mulder and Sculy in a way the series never could, Spotnitz and Carter said.
• They're hoping this will only help move X-Files into the future and didn't rule out additional projects.
• One sort-of straight answer, at least: no, Scully's family, an emotionally wrought subject for her on TV, won't be appearing in the film. Carter was squirrelly, though: that doesn't mean we'll never see "references" to them again.
• Carter says that the X-Files is, and has been, not about aliens, but about other people.
• Spotnitz is happy to hand over full credit to Carter for the movie's title, "I Want To Believe"
• No word on extra or cut footage, but we're promised that a future Blu-Ray will be "very cool"
• A question comes about the political climate today. Mysteriously, we're told that while the X-Files movie isn't political, it feels like it's taking place "right now." "We live in scary times," Carter adds, tracing his own initiation into paranoia to the Watergate era and suggesting that we look to what our own government is up to more often.
• What should we take away from the movie? Spotnitz: Hope. Carter: The trash from under your seat.
• A question is fielded as to whether the movie has an underlying theology. Spotnitz says there's no theology, but that there's meaning and value in the world (always a critical element of the X-Files, he says.)
• Carter and Spotnitz have generously extended the Q&A several times to accomodate a long line of fan questions. Any actual information about the film's plot or the characters included are mostly skirted, though Amanda Peet and Xzibit are reconfirmed as playing FBI agents, and Billy Connolly, noted as an excellent comedian, will be very much "not funny" in "I Want to Believe." Carter neglected to mention sci fi favorite Callum Keith Rennie's inclusion, which likely would have brought cheers from some of the gathered fangirls/boys.
• A Q comes about whether the men have seen fan efforts online. Carter congenially responds that while it's appreciated, "that stuff is waaaay too racy" but he appreciates that "people are living much more hot and racy lives than I am" and using his characters for a medium. While Iappreciate Carter saying so, that's quite a change in tune from from the years when 20th Century Fox lawyers used to hound the websites of small X-Files fanfic websites with cease-and-desist letters.
• A fan asks: was Carter inspired at all by the late Arthur C. Clarke? Yes, Carter answers, without having to think about it: he was inspired by Clarke's uncanny way of predicting the future.
• Some old series issues wrapped up: by the 7th season Mulder has accepted that his sister Samantha is dead, and Mulder is, indeed, the father of Scully's baby, which I'm sure I wrote a story about once.
• No love for Mitch Pileggi as FBI boss Skinner? Carter joked that Skinner was surely a part of the excised steamy love scene Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny had talked about shooting together in order to mess with our fragile fan brains.

Here's the blurb for the movie novelization, which is written by Max Allen Collins (creator of Miss Tree, the greatest comic book character ever):

When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest's questionable "visions" send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women's disappearance. It's a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere...and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!

X-Files: I Want To Believe:

Mulder has been living for the past six years in a house on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. at the start of X-Files: I Want To Believe. The house includes an office that's a loving recreation of Mulder's FBI basement space, including a poster with the words "I Want To Believe" on it. The office also includes some other touches from the TV show: a bowl of sunflower seeds, a board with newspaper clippings, a drawing of the creature from "Post-Modern Prometheus," pencils stuck in the ceiling, a photo of Samantha, and a basketball. Another room has a fishtank in it. There's a scene where Scully shows up at the house in a long camel coat, while Mulder is clipping something from a newspaper. He turns to face her, and that poster comes into focus in the frame. [Sci Fi Wire]

Splice:

Splice, the genetic experiment movie starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, includes a very "lax" laboratory that looks as though the couple is doing DNA experiments in a slapdash manner, very much under the radar. Their "child," Dren, ages rapidly but her room in a nearby farmhouse still looks like a child's room, including a teddy bear. Delphine Chanéac, who plays Dren, had to shave her head and also wear weird clothes that allow the VFX crew to superimpose effects on her body, especially her legs below the knees. Dren develops into a deadly winged half-human creature. (And here's an early design of what Dren is supposed to look like. You can see more photos here, but some of them are NSFW.) [Bloody Disgusting]

Iron Man:

There's a new featurette showing Iron Man director Jon Favreau on the set, which reveals that Tony Stark has a very nice house. [IESB]

Wolverine:

A high-res version has appeared of a Wolverine promo pic that you may have seen before. It confirms that, yes, his claws do keep getting longer and longer. [IESB again]

Doctor Who:

Here's a photo from this Saturday's Doctor Who, which also includes the following dialog:
The Doctor: You've been shot.
Ood: The circle...
Donna: No, don't try to move -
Ood: The circle...must be broken.
The Doctor: What Circle? What d'you mean? Delta Fifty, what circle? [Spoiler TV]

Lost:

The upcoming Lost episode focusing on Locke (airing May 1 or May 8) will include a return appearance by Nestor Carbonell, as we'd previously speculated. Also, we'll see Ben in "a few different places" over the next few episodes, and Ben will seem like less of a bad guy compared to the violent and dangerous characters we'll be meeting in upcoming episodes. The final batch of episodes will move backwards, forwards and "sideways" in time. [Spoilers Lost]

Also, celeb gossip sites caught Josh Holloway, who plays Sawyer, in Los Angeles. Apparently he's doing some filming there, and it's not for a flashback. [Lyly Ford]

And here are some stills from episode 10, "Something Nice Back Home." Jack is injured, and meanwhile it looks like Sawyer and Locke may have a bit of a falling out. [Doc Arzt]

Smallville:

Some details about the Smallville season finale, "Arctic," have leaked out. Unfortunately, they're only in Spanish (that I've seen.) Here's what I've been able to glean: Clark is freaking out at the farm, when Kara comes crashing to Earth, with no memory of the past few weeks. She has no clue how to find Brainiac, but keeps urging Clark to go to the Fortress and seek Jor-El's help. Clark says he's tried that, but Kara keeps insisting that they should go to the Fortress, with a weird urgency.

Meanwhile, Lex has Jimmy firmly under his thumb thanks to the deal Jimmy made to protect Chloe. And there are some scenes with Edward Teague where they talk about the death of Virgil Swann, and how to use the device Lex found in Zurich. And then Lex tracks down some weird power sources in the North Pole, using government sources.

Clark goes to warn Lois not to underestimate what Lex is capable of. Lois says it's cute when Clark acts all concerned about her. Then Lois stumbles upon Jimmy's bloody body in the street. Jimmy says Lex has Chloe. And indeed, Lex has Chloe tied up in a vat of Kryptonite, connected to a computer via electrodes on her head. Lex is performing some kind of experiment on Chloe, having to do with tissue regeneration (I think.) [Smallville-Krypton]

Meanwhile, some clips from tonight's Smallville have turned up online, and they pretty much confirm what you already thought: Lex kills his dad. And then argues a lot with his inner child. If I may interject a personal opinion, the "Lex kills his dad" part seemed sort of promising. But then you add the "Lex argues with his inner child part, and I'm suddenly less thrilled. Here they are. [The TV Addict]

Even more spoilers for tonight's episode, from someone who's seen it: if Lex gets both of the Veritas keys, Clark will have to "do his bidding" and Lex will have complete control over Clark. Lex tells Clark, "I did try, Clark. In fact, when I first met you, you inspired me." Lex forbids anyone from going to Lionel's funeral, but Clark goes anyway. [Tasabian]

X-Files 2:

Here are some new promo stills from July's X-Files sequel. You can just glimpse a clipping behind Mulder that says something about a Frankenstein doctor.

Iron Man:

Professor Yin Sen, the Vietnamese scientist who helps Iron Man create his armor, is now played by Shaun Tolb, who also appears in The Kite Runner. Tolb says he appears in about 30 minutes of the movie, saves Iron Man's life and sends him on his journey. [Superhero Flix]

Batman: The Dark Knight.

That scene showing Heath Ledger in a body-bag won't be cut from the theatrical release of Batman: The Dark Knight, as some had speculated. [MovieHole]

Heroes

Here are the titles of the first four episodes of Heroes season three: "The Butterfly Effect," "Dreamtime," "One Of Us, One Of Them," and "The Year Of Our Lord." So, just reading between the lines here, we'll see some philosophizing about how you can't step on a butterfly without changing the course of history. And that wise Aborigine storyteller we're told is joining the cast will take us on a spiritual journey in the second episode. Or maybe I'm reading too much into those titles. In any case, the first two episodes are written by Tim Kring. [Heroes Television]

Lost:

In the first Lost episode back, we'll quickly learn the identity of the Rousseau and Karl snipers. The body that washes ashore in the episode is that of Doc Ray, from the freighter, and the body itself isn't as significant as what it implies. Meanwhile, we'll soon discover more about how the Island has a "pull" on people, even after they leave it. And there are more hints that Claire may not have much longer to live. [Spoilers Lost]

The second episode of Lost after the break involves Kate and Juliet teaming up to save Jack, whose "health is severely compromised." Meanwhile, Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles head back to the beach, and then "something goes wrong." It appears this episode may be a Jack-centric flash-forward after all, since they were filming those scenes of FutureJack visiting Hurley in the mental hospital. [Fan Forum]

In upcoming episodes of Lost, Desmond stays on the freighter, where there are more shenanigans, says actor Henry Ian Cusick. And the actor has a strong feeling that Desmond is not going to make it out of the show alive. [Doc Arzt]

And here's a promo for the next episode:

Doctor Who:

Remember Friday's spoiler about the Doctor Who Christmas special featuring Cybermen in a Victorian graveyard? Here are a couple more pictures of the shooting. [South Argus and AltNation] And here's the synopsis for the upcoming "Planet of the Ood": "The Doctor takes Donna far into the future, to her first alien world. But on the planet Ood-Sphere, they discover terrible truths about the Human Race. As the enslaved Ood struggle for survival, a secret buried for 200 years threatens to rise up and engulf them all." [Bad Wolf PR]

Star Trek:

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot has been filming in Bakersfield, in a farm that's supposed to look like Iowa — presumably where Kirk grew up. And here's some video of the filming, which shows a 1960s Corvette, which seems to have a woman and a boy (young Kirk?) driving. [TrekMovie]

Hancock:

Here's a new promo still from July 2's Hancock, which shows Will Smith's superhero doing "more harm than good." [USA Today]

Wolverine:

A German fan hiking in New Zealand got to watch some of the filming for the Wolverine solo movie, and took pictures of a barn being blown up, and Wolverine on a motorcycle. You can view the pictures here. [Goliath]

Also, British actor and martial artist Scott Adkins will play Weapon 11 — the next most advanced military experiment after Wolverine's Weapon X — and will fight Wolverine in a spectacular end-sequence in the X-men spin-off, due in 2009. [IGN]

X-Files 2:

The new X-Files movie includes a good priest (Billy Connoly) and a bad priest, plus genetic engineering and organ harvesting. It also includes a "horrific disease" and a warped cult. One major character is an eleven-year-old in a wheelchair, and someone's head gets cut off, according to rumors from semi-reliable sources. [Westender]

Doctor Who:

In Doctor Who season four episode four, "The Sontaran Strategem," Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to Earth (using her cell phone?) The ATMOS devices are spreading all over the world, and even Martha's own family may not be safe. It may already be too late to save the Joneses. [SpoilerTV]

Meanwhile, the Doctor Who Christmas special is already filming, and as you've heard, it takes place in Victorian London. One scene today in a snowy graveyard involved a woman in red, a vicar and a bunch of other Victorians running from a pyre. And then some Cybermen attack the Victorians and "delete" a whole bunch of them by grabbing their necks. They look exactly like the "Cybus Industries" Cybermen from season two. Plus, there are some other weird-looking "Wraith Cybermen," who have feathery cloaks and weird-looking cyber-heads that are more like rust or bronze, with the handles in a diamond shape. The "Wraith Cybermen" appear to be working with the regular Cybermen. [Planet Gallifrey]

And here's a new preview clip from Saturday's episode:

Lost:

The latest Entertainment Weekly includes tons of info on the final five (or six, possibly) episodes of Lost season four.

The show was shooting its next episode, "The Shape Of Things To Come," in a rock quarry, and Michael Emerson (Ben) says he's in an "all-Ben extravaganza" that includes "combat, riding horses, foreign languages. And piano playing!" The episode is a flash-forward focusing on Ben's war with Charles Widmore, and as we've reported it includes the funeral of Sayid's old flame Nadia. And we learn something new about the smoke monster. It'll also start a major turning-point storyline for Claire that carries on for the remaining four episodes.

As for the rest of the season, in addition to learning how the Oceanic Six got off the island, we'll find out who was in that coffin, what happened to those left behind, and why future Sayid is Ben's hit-bitch. The only flash-back will be "mythically significant" and (probably) feature Locke. (We already reported on the filming of what seemed to be Locke's birth.) We'll see a new Dharma station called the Orchid, with three lvels — and it sheds some more light on the island's time-warping properties. Penelope, Matthew Abaddon and Nestor Carbonell will turn up. But we won't learn more about Farraday and Miles until next year, thanks to the writers' strike.

That "spectacular" kiss we keep hearing about in the season finale? Will complicate the Jake-Kate-Saywer triangle. And the finale's revelations will underscore just how hard it will be for future Jack to get back to the island. The season-ending plot twist, code-named "Frozen Donkey Wheel," will set up another reinvention of the show's premise. And at some point, we may no longer have flashbacks or flashforwards. [Entertainment Weekly]

Battlestar Galactica:

To nobody's surprise, TV Guide posted the following description for next week's Battlestar Galactica episode: "Cally learns the truth about Tyrol." Just a reminder that you probably shouldn't be getting to attached to Cally.

The Dark Knight:

At one point in the new Batman movie, the Joker gets up in Christian Bale's face and quotes that Brokeback Mountain line about "You complete me," but in a really stalkery, unnerving way. (I thought that was a line from Jerry Maguire?) Also, there's a scene where the Joker gets inside a body bag and pretends to be dead, which freaked out everyone in the audience of an early preview screening — and it may have to be edited out. The movie's soundtrack includes a Jaws-esque tension-inducing heartbeat sound. Eric Roberts plays an icky mobster. Everyone in the movie, not just Harvey/Two-Face, has some kind of duality. [Batman on Film]

X-Files 2:

UGO has one of its spoiler roundups about X-Files 2, and doesn't really add much new information. Except supposedly the movie starts with scrolling introductory text, like Star Wars, to bring new viewers up to speed. And it does reference old episodes of the show. And Mitch Pileggi may be back as Skinner. And Mulder and Scully may encounter creatures they first met on the TV show. [UGO]

Dragonball:

James Masters, who plays Piccolo in Dragonball, will have the silliest fake latex muscles you've ever seen. At least, they look pretty stunning in this picture from make-up artist Edward French's home page. French won't reveal the prosthetic makeup he spent four hours applying to Marsters, but he did show off everything below the neck. [Edward French, via I Watch Stuff]

Heroes:

Season three of Heroes will introduce two new characters, because the show isn't overcrowded enough already: Joy, who's in her early twenties and good at getting herself into, and out of, trouble. And Senator Robert Malden, a "political straight shooter" in his fifties. [TV Guide]

Doctor Who:

Towards the end of Doctor Who season four, rumor has it we'll hear more references to the Medusa Cascade, which the Master mentioned at the end of season three. Also, still more rumors that Davros is showing up. And the final episode is supposedly extra long, which means it'll be extra-butchered for American viewers.

And the new Doctor Who Magazine includes key quotes from some upcoming episodes. In the Pompeii episode, the Doctor tells Donna, "Some things are fixed, some things are in flux, and Pompeii is fixed...That's how I see the universe. All the time, every waking second: what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That's the burden of a Time Lord, Donna."

In the Ood episode, the Doctor says, "The Ood aren't born like this, can't be - a species born to serve could never evolve in the first place. What does the company do, to make them obey?"

In the Sontaran two-parter, the Doctor says, "Whatever you do, Colonel Mace, do not engage the Sontarans in battle. There's nothing they like better than war! Leave this to me..." [Doctor Who Forum]

Smallville:

The 150th Smallville episode, airing May 1, will resolve the Clark/Brainiac story once and for all. That's the episode where Clark visits a world where he never crash-landed on Earth. (Think the Buffy storyline where Buffy never came to Sunnydale.) And in the alternate reality, Chloe is engaged to be married, while Alt-Lex will have a fancy job with an even fancier office. [Ask Ausiello]

Lost:

That "spectacular kiss" in the Lost season finale happens between a boy and a girl, and it doesn't take place on the island [E! Online]

The season finale involves a "big scene" involving the rescue of the Oceanic Six from the island, soon to be filmed. But the freighter crew aren't the ones who rescue the Six, and the cliffhanger will "leave you ballistic." Also, in the last five episodes of the season, we learn a lot more about Kate's love-life, both in the present and in flash-forwards. [Spoilers Lost]

Ben 10

The new Ben 10 series, Ben 10: Alien Force, takes place five years after the original series, with a more mature Ben. Ben goes to visit his grandfather, but aliens attack and his grandpa goes missing. So Ben teams up with Gwen, plus Max's old partner, an alien plumber, and they bust a weapons deal that turns out to be the work of Kevin Eleven, now back in human form. Despite being pissed about his deal going south, Kevin agrees to help Ben's team, and they use a "spiffy piece of alien tech" to infiltrate an alien base. The mission is mostly successful, but they the plumber dies, and they still need to find and rescue Grandpa Max. Meanwhile, Ben's watch has transformed and gives him access to a whole new set of aliens. The show launches April 18 on Cartoon Network. [Toonzone]

Wanted:

A new one-sheet for super-assassin movie Wanted gives a pretty detailed plot synopsis, which makes the film sound a bit... well, stupid. Here's what it says:

25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut.

Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie).

After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself.

With wickedly brilliant tutors—including the Fraternity's enigmatic leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman)—Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny.

Speed Racer:

Here are some new promo pics from May's Speed Racer.

Superman

If Superman Returns does get a sequel, chances are Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor will be back. At least, Spacey says he's already signed to appear in it. [Cinemablend]

Doctor Who:

The first episode of Doctor Who season four, "Partners In Crime," is a "comedy episode" and features 15 minutes during which the Doctor and Donna are both investigating the same thing, but keep managing to miss each other. At one point, they're in the same office, but whenever the Doctor stands up, Donna looks down, and so on. Sarah Lancashire's evil diet pill scheme involves the fact that she controls what happens to your fat after it leaves your body.

And then in the second episode, "Fires of Pompeii," the Doctor and Donna lose the TARDIS in Pompeii, just a few hours before the eruption. Donna befriends a family that she wants to save, but the Doctor doesn't want to save them. And there are scary soothsayers in addition to those rock monsters, the Pyrovillians. [TV Scoop]

Meanwhile, here are some rumors and rank speculation about the end of season four and the specials that follow. Donna turns evil, and in fact is in league with the Master (an evil Time Lord) all along. Rose dies at the end of the season, giving the Doctor a new reason to be sad. The Doctor reprograms the Cybermen to help him defeat an army of evil Time Lords. (This one has been debunked already.) And the Rani, another evil Time Lord, appears in this year's Christmas special. [Doctor Who Forum]

Battlestar Galactica

Here are some stills from the third new Battlestar Galactica episode, "The Ties That Bind," which is rumored to be the one where Cally kills herself. [Dryope]

Smallville:

The rest of Smallville season seven is all about Lex's fall to the dark side. And Lex finds what he's always been searching for, says executive producer Brian Peterson. The season finale sets up all the storylines in season eight, which he hinted may answer some of fans' longstanding questions about when various elements of the Superman mythos will show up. [Sci Fi Wire]

Heroes

Kristen Bell thinks she'll back on Heroes as Elle the zappy psycho girl this fall. [Superhero Hype]

Lost:

"Leaked" script pages for the end of the Lost season finale have a mystery woman (probably Kate) dying in Jack's arms. And then it turns out Jack's dad is the evil mastermind behind everything bad in the world. Too bad these awesome pages also contain the words "April Fools" in a not-too-subtle code. [Doc Arzt's Lost Blog]

X-Files 2

And another piece of info that we're assuming is an April Fools thing. Supposedly Fox wanted to call the X-Files sequel X-Files: Curse of the Werepeople, but Chris Carter insisted on calling it X-Files: Full Moon Rising. And the film is Cat People meets American Werewolf In London. Ohhhkay then. [IESB]

X-Files 2

Mulder and Scully's baby William "will not go unconsidered" in X-Files 2, says director Chris Carter. [IF Magazine]

World War Z

Ain't It Cool News has a review of J. Michael Straczynski's movie script adapting Max Brooks' book zombie-battle book World War Z. It's a Children of Men-esque look at the ruined post-zombie world, as Gerry takes an assignment to travel around and document what went wrong in the zombie outbreaks. We see how difficult travel has become, including strip-searches and blood tests, and Gerry travels to China to talk to Dr. Tsai about an encounter with zombies at New Dachang. We learn that a mixture of bureaucracy and flawed military strategy made the situation worse. As Gerry interviews more survivors, we realize that people are starting to question whether just having survived is any kind of victory. There's also a brutal subplot about black-market organs. [Ain't It Cool]

Dollhouse

Here's a ton of leaked spoilers/rumors about Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse, starring Eliza Dushku: The Dollhouse, home of the amnesiac "dolls" who can be anyone or anything, is in Los Angeles. There are two types of "dolls," Actives and Inactives. Dushku's character, Echo, is an Inactive.

In one scene, Adelle, the "ice queen" who runs the Dollhouse, meets with a Senator who's considering "buying" an Active doll to use as an "escort." She convinces the Senator the Active will be better than any human escort, because the emotions will be real to the "doll" and she'll be programmed to want it as much as he does.

The geek who programs the dolls, Topher, calls Echo's "handler" Boyd, because he's noticed that a group of the mind-wiped dolls has sat together at lunch at the same table for the third time within a week. Dushku's character, Echo, seems to be initiating this clique, which means she may be evolving beyond her mind wipes. There is definitely something unusual about Echo, compared to the other "dolls." If Adelle the boss finds out, she'll have Echo killed.

Topher the geek and Boyd the handler have differing opinions about their work. Topher believes it's purely programming and sort of morally wrong (even though he enjoys doing it.) But Boyd thinks it's healthy for the "dolls" to get to experience every possible human emotion through their programmed personalities. [Blank_Dolls community]

Doctor Who

Some new bits of info have leaked out about Doctor Who season four. The Agatha Christie episode attempts to explore the real-life mystery of Christie's two-week disappearance.

Meanwhile, Steven Moffat's two-parter set in the giant deserted library features "data ghosts," plus a menacing entity called the Suit Creature, which may be sort of like Moffat's "Empty Child" from back in season one. Also, the library's air swarms with flesh-melting piranha called the Vashta Nerada, and the library is full of dead bodies. ER's Alex Kingston plays an Indiana Jones-esque archeologist.

And there are more rumors that Dalek creator Davros will be back. Also, completely iffy rumors that the prehistoric Sea Devils, the Axons and jolly rogue Sabalom Glitz will put in appearances. [TeleWatcher]

Meanwhile, in "Planet of the Ood," we learn what drove the Ood to become a servant race. And in "The Sontaran Strategem," the cloned warrior Sontarans show up on Earth looking for their longtime enemies the Rutans. And then, supposedly, the Sontarans use mind-control on some soldiers from the alien-fighting organization UNIT, and they take the Doctor's friend Martha Jones away to be cloned. But then more UNIT soldiers show up to rescue her. [DoctorWhoForum]

Here's a source claiming that Davros doesn't show up at all. Instead, we get John Simm's version of the Master back again, in a "botched regeneration. [Stuff On TV]

And remember the Adipose? Those weird aliens in the season opener, who use diet pills to turn fat people into alien babies? Well, here are early special effects shots of them. (Not entirely sure what's happening to the woman whose cleavage we see in one shot.) Stephen Regelous, who developed the Massive FX technology used to create crowd scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies, used it to create these swarms of Adipose. [SFX]

Lost

Lost is filming some scenes at the "Santa Rosa Mental Institute" where Future Hurley is a patient, and Matthew Fox and Jorge Garcia were both there, along with Jack's truck. Since we recently had a casting call for a doctor appearing in episode 10, these scenes could be from that episode... but it was rumored to be a Kate-centric outing. So it's possible this episode will feature all of the Oceanic 6. [Spoilers Lost]

Once again we see the footage of Billy Connolly leading a small army of FBI agents on some sort of manhunt across the snow, and then digging the snow with his hands. Mulder tells Scully he needs her on this case, and Scully says, "That's what scares me." There's also a very romantic moment with Mulder's hand on Scully's face, as if he's about to kiss her. Oh, and some kind of weird autopsy-looking thing. The video probably won't cause epilepsy, but we make no promises. [X-Files News]

• In X-Files 2, Billy Connolly plays a good priest, Father Joe, and Adam Godley plays Father Ybarra, a bad priest, according to a recent call sheet. Meanwhile, Mulder is very interested in one of the patients Scully is treating at the local hospital. Also, that kiss between Mulder and Scully? Was staged to confuse the fans. [XFilesNews]
• The villain in Speed Racer puts a $1 million bounty on Speed's head for any racer who can take him out. At one point, Racer X punches another driver in the face while both their are cars are spinning in mid-air. [IESB]
• In the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated movie/pilot, Anakin and his apprentice Ahsoka lead a platoon of clonetroopers to assault a mountain fortress, with vehicles that climb the sheer rock face while the Jedi follow on ropes. And Count Dooku sends assassin Asajj Ventress to try and win the favor of Jabba the Hutt's son. [IESB again]
• A fan got to watch some of the location filming for the tail end of Doctor Who season four, featuring new companion Donna's parents. One fan thought he heard them mention Daleks. In this video snippet, though, they say something about the "filthy swine" aliens being gone, and Donna's father warns her mother that "they always want the women." And then Donna's mom looks up at the skies. [Thanks Tim!]
• And look here for a video showing every single pic of Billie Piper from the new season, including a bunch at a police barricade. And some very silly faces. [Next VDO]
• And here's another fan's set pic, which seems to indicate the Judoon (those stompy aliens who transported a hospital to the moon last year) will be back. (But it's also possible they've already started filming 2009's three one-hour specials.)[StuffonTV]
• Here are a couple of preview clips of next week's Lost. We were right about who Ben's spy on the freighter was, and here he is now! [SpoilersLost]

Note: I left out some smaller movies and some films that we know will probably bomb, like Eddie Murphy's Starship Dave. I also left out M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, which seems likely to bomb, even though I don't want to diss the Wahlberg. I wanted to avoid including any movie that was such an obvious choice, it would get a landslide vote. Plus, I'm not sure either Starship Dave or The Happening is really intended to be a summer blockbuster, or if they're more like counter-programming hoping to score a niche audience.

Also, this seems to be as good a place as any to ask: Is Get Smart science fiction? Should we be covering it?

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• Random X-Files 2 spoiler/rumor: Scully works as a doctor in a hospital, and has to deal with a "crazy man" who chops off a woman's head in a gory (but still PG-13) scene. [ScreenRant]
• Here's a new pic from The Incredible Hulk, of William Hurt as General "Thunderbolt" Ross. [Cinemablend]
• Batman: The Dark Knight will use all of today's technology to portray Two-Face's scarred face. But the reasons for Two-Face's killing spree will remain sort of a mystery, says actor Aaron Eckhart. [Wizard]
• Also, The Dark Knight begins with Batman's theatrical heroics actually having attracted more criminals to Gotham, so now Batman feels as though he has an obligation to keep using his awesome power for good. [ReelMovieNews]
• Heroes doesn't come back until next fall — hopefully, in way better shape — but already spoilers are starting to trickle out. Kristen Bell says her character, Elle, should be back despite contract issues, and is evil and broken, but "actually redeems herself over the next couple of episodes." Also, in upcoming episodes, a Japanese woman comes into Ando's life, and Niki comes back from the dead (as one of her alter-egos.) Plus that New Orleans cop we mentioned, Officer Warren, may turn into a love interest for Monica. And there's that new criminal character in New Orleans, named Knox. Bear in mind, though, that any Heroes spoilers you hear may relate to scripts that were partly completed before the writers' strike, and they may end up drastically rewritten. [Heroes Fanatic]
• And in case you haven't seen the blurry cameraphone copy of the Heroes season three "trailer" that's been online for a couple months, here it is.
• And even more Heroes spoilers: Remember Taeko, the nice Japanese woman that both Hiro and Adam were in love with, back in the 17th century? She was due to be transported to the present in an upcoming Heroes episode that wasn't completed due to the strike. And actress Eriko Tamura still expects to return to the show next season. Says one fan named Tessykins: "WHY, WRITERS, WHY?! That story arc is dead. D-E-D. What another stupid fucking thing to slow down the plot." [Sci Fi Wire]
• In next week's Lost, we find out that Michael, Desmond and that Tunisian polar bear have been bounced around in time and space. And time-travel is also the reason Walt is so tall, and why he keeps turning up on the island. And it turns out Michael is Ben's spy on the boat, because Ben sent him there on a mission. [SpoilersLost]
• In the March 27 Smallville, Clark's cousin Kara teaches him to fly to improve his chances against Brainiac. But some of Clark's loved ones get caught in the crossfire. This is the episode where everything changes! [TurkeyWhisperer]
• In the first episode of Stargate: Atlantis season five, Sheppard returns from the future only to find that a team has been trapped in an off-world compound that exploded. Carter leads a search and rescue team, including new crewmember Alicia Vega, and manages to rescue McKay and Lorne. But the S&R team is attacked by twenty Wraith darts, who are also after the two remaining trapped crewmembers. The Wraith activate the Stargate, preventing Carter's people from escaping. The Jumpers are cloaked but can't fight twenty Wraith darts, so they decide to wait for the Daedalus to arrive. [StargateWiki]
• And here are four cute new pictures from the new Indiana Jones, from a French magazine. [Slashfilm]

The formerly comics-focused Wondercon was much more about movies and TV this year, especially with DC being tight-lipped, Marvel skipping it and Image canceling at the last minute. And many of the most popular narratives had to do with war and political upheaval.

Conspiracy theories: Anti-establishment paranoia is back, and X-Files 2 is its harbinger. We still don't have a clear sense of what the new X-Files movie will be about, but writer/director Chris Carter said the show's conspiracy-mania had gone out of fashion after 9/11, but now it was making a comeback. We already know the movie won't be about the show's overarching "mythos," but that doesn't mean it won't feature government cover-ups and conspiracies. After all, it'll be competing with the new Indiana Jones movie, which apparently is about Area 51 and Roswell. Cover-ups are cool!
And then there was the Jericho panel, where producer Carol Barbee said the show's writers "don't talk politics" — and then proceeded to talk about politics for an hour. Besides the way Jericho's evil government contractor Ravenwood was a direct metaphor for Halliburton and Blackwater in Iraq, Barbee also talked about the ripped-from-the-headlines terrorism plots and Homeland Security paranoia on her show.
The war machine: And meanwhile, the direct-to-DVD Starship Troopers 3 turned out to be a satirical war movie, in which weird government propaganda for super-bombs jostled with Fleet recruiting ads, in a war that's gone on too long and lost public support. (Sound like anything in real life to you?) And speaking of war movies, the new Iron Man film keeps the comics' backstory about Tony Stark being a high-tech weapons merchant who has a crisis of conscience after he's taken prisoner. And Iron Man is serving as a metaphor for the military-industrial complex in the comics as well, according to Douglas Wolk, author of Reading Comics. Wolk dropped some science about how World War Hulk and Civil War are metaphors for the backlash against the government crackdown after 9/11.

So where were the right-wing narratives, about evil terrorists, weak left-wing governments and cultural elites repressing everybody else? We didn't run across them as much. My guess is, wait until year two or three of an Obama or Clinton presidency, and suddenly you'll have all the conservative space fantasies that you could ever want, from the likes of Frank Miller. We can't wait!

Here's a complete list of titles of the first ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica season four, which is probably all we'll see this year:

• "He That Believeth in Me" by David Weddle and Bradley Thompson
• "Six of One" by Michael Angeli
• "The Ties That Bind" by Michael Taylor
• "Escape Velocity" by Jane Espenson
• "The Road Less Travelled " by Mark Verheiden
• "Faith" by Seamus Kevin Fahey
• "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" by Michael Angeli
• "Sine Qua Non" by Michael Taylor
• "The Hub" by Jane Espenson
• "Revelations" by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle

Also, the "Boomer" version of Sharon Valerii is "back in a big way" this season. And besides Cally, at least one other longstanding character dies during season four. And we'll see much more of "a place that we're going to call Earth," says co-creator Ron Moore. And yes, Lucy Lawless' cylon D'Anna comes back, because other cylons "unbox" her to find out what she knows. It's a pivotal moment in the season. We won't find out who the final cylon is until late in the season (so maybe not until 2009), but meanwhile there will be tons of space battles. [Chicago Tribune]

But writer Mark Verheiden cautions that even if these spoilers were true before, they may no longer true because the writers had a chance to re-assess some stuff during the long writers' strike. Also, here's a roundup of some stuff that's already come out about the new BSG season.

More spoilers:

There's a pervasive rumor that Tom Cruise will have a cameo in the new Star Trek movie, especially since he spent hours on the set the other day. He'd come in handy if the Enterprise has to fight Xenu. [TrekToday]
• Hey, here are some blurry photos of a toy that sort of gives a clue about what Racer X's car looks like in Speed Racer! [Latino Review]
• X-Files 2 probably won't be about werewolves, given the fact that the production team leaked yet another fake werewolf pic. Or maybe it's a double fake-out, and the movie really is about werewolves? [CinemaBlend]
• Cloverfield 2 may not repeat the first movie's handheld camera trick, and may have a new and different monster, J.J. Abrams hinted. [Bloody Disgusting]
• We'll meet some new freighter people on this week's Lost, including George Minkowski (Fisher Stevens), who may just be pretending to experience what Desmond experiences. Plus a guy known only as the Doctor (yes, I know), and two heavies. [DocArzt]
• And episode seven of this Lost season features Jin and Sun getting off the island. And Juliet has to reveal some shocking news to Jin, when Sun threatens to defect to Locke's camp. (Probably the fact that the only way Sun will survive her pregnancy is to escape the island.) Also, Zoe Bell from Grindhouse does some stunts! And Sayid and Desmond meet the freighter's captain. [Wired]
• And the kid named Aaron that Kate is mothering in last week's flash-forwards? Yes, it is Claire's kid Aaron, actress Evangeline Lilly confirms. [Lost Spoilers]
• And here's a new trailer for the upcoming episodes of Smallville, which start in mid-March:

• Leonard Nimoy will be the only O.G. Star Trek actor in the new movie, confirms Chekov actor Anton Yelchin. There will be "lots of alien ethnicities" on board the Enterprise, including distinctive-looking non-human creatures helping to run the ship. Chekov doesn't get captured or tortured for once. The film ends with an iconic shot of Kirk, (young) Spock, Chekov and the others on the Enterprise bridge, in their classic yellow, blue and red pajamas. [MTV Movies]
• A new toy has raised speculation that the fast-healing assassin Deathstroke will make an appearance in Batman: The Dark Knight. (But, probably, it's just a random action figure.) [Slashfilm]
• Here's an incredibly boring video of the filming of X-Files 2, featuring Mulder and Scully. Warning: incredibly boring! [Flynet]
• Here's a preview of the first seven pages of next week's issue of Captain America. [ComicBookResources]
• Lost spoilers from this week's Entertainment Weekly: We'll know all six of the Oceanic Six within a few weeks. We'll learn how the Six got off the island, and what happened to everyone else, by the end of this season. We'll also learn the identity of Jack's coffin-corpse from the season three finale. But we won't learn the secrets of Jacob this season, nor will we fully unpack that polar bear skeleton that Charlotte found in Tunisia. We will see the inside of the freighter and meet more freighter people. And the last five episodes of season four will emphasize characters who have been there since season one — including the returning Michael. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Crazy Lost theories abound, including the idea that the island is actually millions of years in the past, before humans evolved. [Jackson Citizen Patriot]
• In Torchwood, we'll see more of that romantic tension between Captain Jack and Gwen (that you could cut with a yawn) even though Gwen is marrying Rhys. Jack and Rhys will definitely clash over "what is best" for Gwen. [AfterElton]
• And here are some new Iron Man pics, showing some babes, Tony Stark as a captive, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts and Iron Man's mentor-turned-nemesis Obadiah Stane. [ScreenRant]

A new rumor has surfaced about J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie: it doesn't deal with time travel at all, but rather with visiting different alternate realities. (Actually, I thought it featured time travel, which created alternate realities.) In one alternate timeline, we'll get to see a very different version of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in which it's a warship. (And will Spock have a cool goatee again?) Some of the movie will also take place in the Next Generation era, which makes sense since Leonard Nimoy is playing Old Spock.

Meanwhile, Anton Yelchin, who plays Chekhov in the new movie, appears to have confirmed the movie will feature Klingons. Or else he was just talking metaphorically when he said he has to look at a greenscreen scanner and pretend he's looking at Klingon warships. Rumor has it the Klingons will be somewhat redesigned. [Screenrant]

More spoilers:

• Here are some new pics of the filming of The Incredible Hulk, which show that it'll be another bad movie for helicopters. [MoviesOnline]
• Torchwood spoilers: A memory-altering creep named Adam joins the team and makes everyone believe he's always been there. He also makes Tosh think she's a cleavage-flashing bimbo who's dating him. Also, Gwen forgets Rhys, and Owen believes he's a dork. (So, not much change there.) When Ianto realizes his paper diary doesn't mention Adam, the psycho gives Ianto false memories of being a serial killer. Jack finally figures it out and stops Adam, and everybody gets their real memories back. We glimpse a super-cheesy vision of Jack's childhood. Gwen remembers Rhys, but declares she doesn't love him as much as she loves Jack. (WTF?)

  Also, some Torchwood rumors: Gwen and Ianto sleep together (probably not). Bilis, the creepy old guy from the end of season one, turns up again and sleeps with Ianto. And Bilis and Gwen die. All of these rumors seem highly dubious, but there you go. [TWoP forums]

• Speaking of "highly dubious," here's a site that claims there will be "hot sex scenes" in X-Files 2. [Telefanatic]
• In upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles episodes, Summer Glau is forced to attend grief counseling (ha), John gets separated from his mom and Summer and confronts how awful the future will be, and Sarah Connor meets a psychiatrist working for the FBI who's a "doomsday convert." Also, Brian Austin Green from 90210 shows up as a mysterious stranger dealing with his trauma from fighting the machines in 2027. [About.com]
• In an upcoming Stargate: Atlantis episode, Christopher Judge will have hair! Grow it! Show it! [Gateworld]
• More details about this week's Smallville: Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance, starts working with the Daily Planet, but she and Lois don't get along. Lex convinces Dinah that Green Arrow is a terrorist, so Dinah attacks Green Arrow's new colleague, Chloe. And Lois discovers Green Arrow's secret identity. [About.com]
• And here are 17 new promo pics from Lost episode three, and a couple of screenshots from episode two, which show the "other" Oceanic 815 being recovered. [SpoilersLost]

]]> http://io9.com/351995/crazy-new-star-trek-movie-rumors http://io9.com/351995/crazy-new-star-trek-movie-rumors Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:00:34 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351995&view=rss&microfeed=true In today's Morning Spoilers, we've got tons of new details about the Hellboy sequel, including a crucial scene that could set up a possible Hellboy III. We've also got new set pics from X-Files 2 and a first look at Garrett Dillahunt in Sarah Connor Chronicles. Plus spoilage on Lost and Star Trek. Click through to ruin all the surprises!

Hellboy 2 takes place four years after Hellboy, when Liz has moved in with Hellboy in the BPRD headquarters. A struggle emerges between two elf factions, led by Princess Nuala (Anna Walton) and Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) respectively. Everybody's trying to get hold of the missing piece of the crown of the Troll Kingdom, split into three pieces after an epic battle. Whoever puts all the pieces together can lead the unstoppable Golden Army.

The third piece of the crown is being sold off in an auction house in the surface world, and Prince Nuada's attempt to grab it puts him in conflict with Hellboy and the BPRD. SuperheroHype visited the sets of Hellboy 2 and saw the Troll King's chamber, actually a Hungarian church dressed up with six fake boilers from Antal & Co. Guillermo Del Toro & crew also built a huge Brooklyn street set, where Hellboy battles invading trolls and a giant creature. Hellboy and Liz face the Angel of Death, played by Doug Jones, who brought many of the weird creatures in Pan's Labyrinth to life. The Angel's wings open to show a series of eyes. Liz makes some kind of deal with the Angel of Death to save Hellboy's life. The Angel asks her to choose "the world or him," and she chooses him. The Angel tells her that when the time comes, she'll suffer "more than than anyone," and she says she'll deal with it. This may set up a conflict for Hellboy III, if it happens. [SuperheroHype]

More spoilers:


• Here are a couple of pics of Garrett Dillahunt (No Country For Old Men) in his new role as Cromartie (probably the evil Terminator) in Sarah Connor Chronicles. [The4400Guide]
• Weirdly, Whoopi Goldberg confirmed that another crashed Oceanic Flight 815 will be recovered from the ocean (with people on it) in an upcoming Lost episode. Is it a fake plane? Or an alternate universe version? Whoopi's not saying. [SpoilersLost]
• Here's a complete roundup of Star Trek spoilers and rumors that have already come out, with nothing particularly new. Time-traveling Romulans, Nero (Eric Bana), Nimoy traveling back, birth of Kirk, etc. etc. [UGO]
• X-Files 2 will be all about swimsuits. Or maybe not, but apparently there's a key scene where someone, maybe David Duchovny, finds a swimsuit and a bracelet. Also, here are some new pics of the filming in Newfoundland, posted by co-star Xzibit. [XFilesNews]

]]> http://io9.com/351236/tons-of-spoilers-for-hellboy-2-plus-terminator-x+files-pics http://io9.com/351236/tons-of-spoilers-for-hellboy-2-plus-terminator-x+files-pics Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:00:23 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351236&view=rss&microfeed=true A couple of new pics from Will Smith's Hancock have turned up, showing off his superhero outfit. (Which we featured months ago.) We also have some major new hints about X-Files 2, and more incredibly, massively detailed Lost spoilers.

Here are those new Will Smith pics, courtesy of Rope of Silicon:
SpoilersLost has tons of spoilers for the first new Lost ep. We start out with Jack watching Hurley in a car chase with the cops on TV. The cops catch Hurley, and he's all, "Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic Six!" Turns out Hurley is shoplifting because he's seeing weird visions. The cops want to know about fellow Oceanic passenger Ana Lucia, and Hurley lies about her. Later, Hurley gets a weird visitor in his mental institution, who wants to upgrade Hurley to a fancy private facility. But Hurley says no, and then fakes a seizure.

Meanwhile, in the past, Naomi goes missing, and there's a creepy moment between Ben and Rousseau. Jack starts to wonder if Naomi is ebil, and then discovers Kate stole his sat-phone when they split up. Hurley finds out that Charley is dead and it's not Penny's boat. Hurley sees something spooky by Jacob's cabin, and Locke tries to manipulate Hurley into backing his power play. Then Naomi steals the sat-phone and contacts George, then dies.

Everybody gets reunited on the beach, and Jack and Locke have a big fight. Jack tries to shoot Locke, but his gun is out of bullets. Then Locke accuses Juliet of being a traitor. [SpoilersLost]


• And an extra from the eighth Lost episode confirms that it's a Michael-centric episode, where MIchael meets Tom in New York after escaping the island. [TheMediaCritic]
• Meanwhile, the "werewolf" rumors about X-Files 2 gained more credence when someone remembered a conversation with Chris Carter about making a monster movie featuring Mulder and Scully as Van Helsing(s). Carter also remarked they'd never had a werewolf on the show. Also, a leaked cast list includes two hijackers, and the movie includes a pool scene with people in bathing suits. And a list of scenes includes Father Joe (Billy Connolly) in a snowbound landscape, digging up a human arm and running to his friend Monica (Xantha Radley). Someone tells Monica to take Father Joe to the wrong house, but then Monica gets abducted. [XFiles2ndMovie]
• On the first new Smallville of the year, Bizarro (pretending to be Clark) helps Lana track down a serial killer who removes trace minerals from his victims. They suspect the killer is Brainiac, but Bizarro may decide to team up with Brainiac instead of defeating him. Meanwhile, Lex has a suprising reaction to learning Grant is a clone of Lex's dad. [About.com]
• The upcoming Doctor Who two-parter by Steven Moffat (Blink) will feature the Doctor investigating an abandoned library, accompanied by the mysterious River Song (Alex Kingston from ER). Also guest-starring in the story: Colin Salmon from the James Bond films. [BBC Release]
]]> http://io9.com/349469/new-pics-from-will-smiths-hancock http://io9.com/349469/new-pics-from-will-smiths-hancock Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:00:17 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349469&view=rss&microfeed=true Some new behind-the-scenes photos from X-Files 2 have emerged, and they either give away a major plot element... or show the lengths Chris Carter will go to in spreading red herrings. You be the judge. Also, there are a ton of new spoilers from Lost, and some new deets about Smallville, Jericho Chuck and Heroes. It's all part of starting your day spoiled.
• TV Guide has some new Lost spoilers: there's a helicopter taking people off the island, and Desmond demands a seat on it. You'll see Charlie again, even though he's dead. The freighter crew are Jeff (Lawnmower Man) Fahey, Jeremy Davies, Rebecca Mader and Ken Leung. We'll learn where Michael has been all this time, and he'll play a crucial role in episode eight. [SpoilersLost]
• More Lost spoilers: One of the freighter people has a connection to Oceanic Airlines, and they know something about Penny. [LostSpoilers]
• Someone who appeared to die in the Lost season finale will turn up alive and well in the first new episode. [Ask Ausiello]
• Adam/Kensei will definitely get dug up by another villain in Heroes, and it sounds like he is related to Nikki/Jessica somehow. [SuperHiro]
• In Smallville episode 7.12, Lois plays a role in finding Clark's missing cousin. And Clark has to probe Lex's mind telepathically to save Lex's life. [TheMediaCritic]
• The final Chuck episode on Thursday introduces two new recurring characters: a female enemy agent who works at the Pita Pit near BuyMore... and a hunky male CIA agent who wants to "take Chuck into custody." [BuddyTV]
• The catty mom on Jericho didn't have her contract renewed for season two (yay!) but she will make an appearance in one episode (bah). [E! Online]
• A spy for JoBlo.com snapped these set photos from X-Files 2, which seem to indicate Mulder and Scully will face a crazed wolf-man. Or maybe someone put on a cheesy costume for Chris Carter's birthday? [JoBlo]
]]> http://io9.com/347853/shocking-new-pics-from-x+files-2 http://io9.com/347853/shocking-new-pics-from-x+files-2 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:00:23 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=347853&view=rss&microfeed=true Gearfuse has somebody's camera-phone recording of the Cloverfield monster in action, which they posted as an animated gif. It sort of looks like a zany monster dance, partly thanks to the choppiness of the animation. This will be someone's LJ icon with a silly caption half an hour from now. Click through to see it and read spoilers for Star Trek and Battlestar, plus new Lost and X-Files pics. Spoilers follow, so be warned!

I'm not even going to make the obvious joke about a cameraphone recording of a handheld video cam recording. Meanwhile, there's also a new clip that doesn't show the monster.

• The giant time-travel donut thingy from the original Star Trek? The one that sends Captain Kirk back in time to smooch Liz Taylor? Turns out it's not appearing in the new Trek movie after all, says screenwriter Roberto Orci. Any time travel in the movie will be "totally original" and yet will reward fans who know all about the canon. Make of that what you will. [TrekWeb]
• We'll get to know Abe Sapien a lot better in Hellboy 2, and he'll have more action scenes using a gun as well as Capoeira. And he'll have a love interest. [IF Magazine]
• Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes won't appear in X-Files 2, but will be in the third film if it happens. [X-Files community]
• And here are three more new pics of Mulder and Scully. [UGO]

• In Battlestar season four, Starbuck will learn of the Cylon god's prediction that she's the herald of the apocalypse (from Battlestar Galactica: Razor.) Lee and Baltar will definitely make it to Earth. Lee and Anders take part in the big space battle in the first episode, and some of the Cylon raiders refuse to fire on Anders because they somehow realize he's a Cylon. Tigh is in denial about the whole "Cylon" thing, but Tory is stoked about it. Cally kills herself early on this season. We'll learn who the final Cylon is sometime in this spring's episodes, and it'll be "emotionally resonant" and make sense of a lot of things. [Pop Media Cult]
• Jack and the other Lost castaways who make it off the island agree to lie about what happened. They don't see each other much afterwards, and when they do it's incredibly uncomfortable. [WildBluffMedia]
• And here are three new promo photos from Lost: [SpoilersLost]

]]> http://io9.com/346159/watch-the-cloverfield-monster-do-the-funky-chicken http://io9.com/346159/watch-the-cloverfield-monster-do-the-funky-chicken Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:00:07 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346159&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's the first picture of Mulder and Scully in the long-awaited second X-Files movie. (Click through for the full image.) Director/creator Chris Carter confirmed in a new interview that the movie is missing all of the long-running "mythology" and conspiracy elements from the original show. But he also seemed to hint there would be no aliens, would-be colonists or otherwise, in the film. No clue what the actual plot will be, but we're hoping it's still hardcore science fiction.



]]> http://io9.com/346089/no-aliens-in-x+files-2 http://io9.com/346089/no-aliens-in-x+files-2 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:07:34 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346089&view=rss&microfeed=true Want to see what Edward Norton will look like as Bruce Banner in Incredible Hulk? Or how intensely Jason Statham will stare at the windshield of his makeshift jalopy in Death Race? The studios have released a ton of new promo pics. Click through for pics from Possession with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and X-Files 2.




]]> http://io9.com/338380/new-pics-from-hulk-possession-x+files-and-more http://io9.com/338380/new-pics-from-hulk-possession-x+files-and-more Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:00:23 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338380&view=rss&microfeed=true Sides for the X-Files movie sequel surfaced on the web today, and they're casting for the part of a gynecologist who likes to stick alien fetuses into women. While we're all for more Mulder and Scully finally getting it on, we sure hope Scully doesn't end up with one of these things in her uterus.
]]> http://io9.com/328807/x+files-2-seeks-alien-gynecologist http://io9.com/328807/x+files-2-seeks-alien-gynecologist Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:51:46 PST Kevin Kelly http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=328807&view=rss&microfeed=true