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A new batch of TV pilots have leaked, and it looks like the studio is relentlessly cribbing what's hot. What do we have to look forward to? Another Grimm and The Hunger Games-lite. If there aren't more than two supernatural cop shows on the air at the same time, Atlas will let the Earth tumble into the abyss. More »
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During Hollywood's golden era, it was common for a picture (they called 'em pictures back then) to be based on a popular stage play. It still happens, but rarely. The biggest and most visible movies are based on comic books these days (they called 'em graphic novels back then, they'll say of us) but maybe we're about to witness a paradigm shift. More »
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Looks like Syfy has added one more show to their rapidly depleting list of scripted series. Their latest purchase is Rewind, a show about a time-traveling anti-terrorist unit who tries to change the past to alter their terrible future. It's written by Justin Marks from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. More »
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In 1995, The Face magazine asked Stephen Hawking if he knew the formula for time travel. The magazine received this pithy fax back from the physicist. More »
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For the last several decades, boot-headed performance artist Vermin Supreme has been running for political office on the platforms of zombie awareness and mandatory dentifrice for all Americans. More »
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The Sound of My Voice rocked Sundance. It wowed South By Southwest. The story of a beautiful cult leader (Another Earth's Brit Marling) who claims to be a time traveler from the future, this film had everybody including it on their list of 2011's best indie movies. Fox Searchlight picked up the distribution rights. And then... nothing. More »
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What if someone from the future popped up in our timeline and started answering questions from people on internet message boards? That's exactly what John Titor did in the late 1990s. Claiming he was sent from the future on a mission to retrieve an antique computer, he talked with thousands of people online and told stories of futuristic life in 2036. Many of his tales warned of imminent disaster for the world, but he said he couldn't help. More »
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The most recent era of Doctor Who has been full of time warps. The show about an alien in a time machine has been delving into the weird ramifications of time travel more than ever before, including the Doctor's time-crossed relationship with River Song. More »
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You know that as soon as we invent a time machine, the first thing we're going to use it for is to destroy our enemies retroactively. (Well, maybe the second thing.) More »
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This weekend sees the first performances of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a one-man show based on Charles Yu's acclaimed novel. Last night was the opening night, and according to the Columbus Dispatch it was a huge hit.

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There hasn't been a truly great time travel movie in quite some time, maybe since Primer. But we've got high hopes for Rian Johnson, the director of Brick, to create a cool new spin on the genre with his new film, Looper. More »
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Stephen King's new novel 11/22/63 involves a tunnel to the past, and a guy who tries to tamper with the Kennedy assassination. Talking to Wired, King explains something about the rules of time travel as he sees them: More »
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Pitching movie ideas in Hollywood can be hard, if you don't have an agent or any connections. Or you could just post your idea on Reddit.com. A posting on the popular social-networking site has been optioned as a movie by Warner Bros. More »
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Fringe has always been full of riddles and mysteries, but now our favorite weird-science show is one giant paradox. How did Peter change history, and what are the repercussions? We may find out more in tonight's episode — but for now, here's a brilliant explanation of what we know about time travel in the real world, and how Fringe plays with the space-time continuum. Stephen Cass, senior editor with the Technology Review, takes us inside Fringe's time paradoxes, in an excerpt from the new book Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, edited by Kevin R. Grazier. More »
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Refined ladies, old-fashioned palm-dancing, picnics, gossip and time travel! Are you ready for Nora Ephron's Jane Austen movie? More »
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There's been a lot of hubbub about the possibility of FTL neutrinos. But would breaking the light barrier really be such a big deal? Hell, yes, it would! In this week's "Ask a Physicist," we'll find out why. More »
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Still confused by the twists and turns inside Shane Carruth's time traveling indie Primer? Never fear, someone has finally made the ultimate guide to Abe's wild time-traveling ride. Behold the world's most complicated time travel movie, solved. (Sort of.) More »
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In Louis Morneau's 1997 time travel road thriller, Retroactive, Frank Whaley plays Brian, a physicist studying time travel. And James Belushi portrays the character Frank, a computer chip thief...and sociopathic Elvis impersonator. 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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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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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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Nowadays, we take for granted the idea that if you go travel back in time and interact with your own past, you can create a huge crazy time paradox. But who first came up with this idea? More »
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Courtesy of the folks from the Upright Citizens Brigade's Midnight Show, we give you the best recent PSA we've seen in years. Drive safe... or not. 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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Fringe returns for a miraculous fourth season next month, and we'll finally get to discover just what kind of world(s) our characters are living in now. More »
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Most of us regard Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five as a masterpiece of thought-provoking science fiction, but the School Board of Republic High School in Missouri felt differently. They decided to ban the novel. More »
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A recent experiment stomps on the dreams of many theoretical physicists, hopeful children, and Star Trek IV fans. After a series of tests that suggested we might discover a theoretical form of time travel, scientists hit a brick wall. Or they had hit a brick wall. Or perhaps they will. Tough to get time travel grammar right. More »
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Sad news for those folks who like dinosaur dramas like Fox's new Terra Nova. The studio will only be airing 13 episode of the first season. Same goes for Alcatraz, and NBC's new double life drama Awake. More »
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People have ascribed all sorts of paranormal abilities to Steve Jobs... but could he have spurred Apple to create a time machine? That's what an anonymous poster at Quora hinted, and the post was picked up by Forbes' Brian Caulfield. More »
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Pop quiz time! An evil botanist from 1760 has time-traveled to the present and conspires to take over modernity with an army of mutant carrots. Who are you going to call? Benjamin "Poor Richard" Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte, duh! More »
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Having recently been stranded in Denver Airport for 24 hours, I can tell you anecdotally that the place is hellish. Exit arrows point at each other instead of outside; corridors lead to nowhere; and security checkpoints seem to disappear mysteriously as you approach them. As you drive into the airport, you're greeted by a giant horse with glowing red eyes, and one of the terminals is decorated with a massive statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death. More »
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Timecop is one of those movies that doesn't get the respect it deserves. Everybody talks about a Robocop remake, but not a Timecop remake. But maybe Timecop is an idea whose time has come. More »
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For a terrifically long-term video project, Sam Klemke filmed himself every year for 35 years. He then ran these clips in reverse order to simulate himself traveling backwards in time. Watch him de-age three decades in less than 10 minutes. More »
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On a given day in Subnormality, you might have a perfectly normal conversation with a particularly interesting stranger, or perhaps chat with a Sphinx, date one of Hell's sexy minions, or spend an afternoon at the Museum of the Theoretical. More »
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You might think it'd be difficult to sum up all the greatness of Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision in one article. But we're going to try. Prepare to enter a vortex of time paradoxes, kickboxing and shirtless Jason Scott Lee. More »
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Anyone else a little weirded out that the original Star Trek timeline was wiped out by J.J. Abrams' time-traveling movie? This awesome video from the makers of the Star Trek: Phase Two fan series puts the timeline back in order. More »
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We haven't heard from Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Theodore "Ted" Logan since 1991. But actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have promised their fans a third installment of Bill and Ted — and now the script is finally done! More »
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Do you feel as if Doctor Who's ageless time traveler, the Doctor, has been getting too invulnerable of late? Too unstoppable? Too difficult to confront with a credible threat? Well, the show addressed those complaints head on. And then some. More »
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Last night, the Beastie Boys premiered the full-length 30-minute version of their short film, Fight for Your Right Revisited, in which basically every famous person ever guest stars and the Beastie Boys meet their future selves. More »
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