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It looks like the Ender's Game movie is really moving forward, with Gavin Hood (Wolverine) as director. The film put out a ton of casting calls a couple weeks ago, including all the major characters. More »
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Halloween is almost upon us, but you haven't had time to make a costume. What does the prefab costume industry have for you this year? Lots of superheroes, Predators, skanky robots... and Lady Gaga. Prepare to bleach your eyes. More »
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Why do so many bad movies have one good scene each? All of a sudden, the awfulness goes away, and the movie starts living up to its potential. The performances click, the action is exciting. Here are 20-odd examples. More »
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When superhero/supervillain costumes succeed on the big screen, it's a miracle. But it's also rare. The movie superhero outfits are a multiverse of fail, and here are 40-odd examples of total costume catastrophe. Brace yourself, this won't be pretty. More »
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In the past decade, the superhero has strode across our screens like a spandex-clad collossus, beating most other genres. The rise of superhero flicks has brought with it a flood of cinematic sewage, and here are the absolute worst. More »
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This was a year of extremes: huge CG-heavy spectacles and low-budget gems. Most of all, 2009 made us feel the boundaries of cinema were stretched... for good and ill. Here are the 10 best and 10 worst films of 2009. More »
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Cold hard justice showed up at the door of the man who leaked the Wolverine movie onto the internet this year. He was arrested. Meanwhile, a New Moon bootlegger walks free. More »
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Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about? More »
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Hello friends. Over the past few months I've been telling you what was a disaster, now the time has come for you to pick your own. More »
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It may be time to have a science fiction intervention for Hugh Jackman. Fresh from the moderate success of this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he's considering taking on the lead role in the upcoming robotic boxing movie Real Steel. More »
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Hancock 2 may be missing a key castmember. Plus Deadpool's producers make big promises! There are spoilery Dollhouse clips, and telltale pics from Lost, 2012, The Box and Planet 51. Also: FlashForward, Warehouse 13, Smallville, Chuck and True Blood spoilers! More »
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Is X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Kid Cyclops twitter-teasing us, or are we closer to the prospect of the X-Men movie reboot than we'd previously thought? Click through for speculations and potential spoilers. More »
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Last week, we told you about the movies reaching theaters this fall, but it has to be said: Sometimes, even just going to the theater seems like too much hassle. Here's what you can watch at home, instead. More »
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Talking about the future of Fox's Wolverine movie franchise, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner revealed some thoughts about what could happen following the second movie's ninja-filled trip to Japan... including an adaptation of a comic fans wouldn't expect. More »
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It's been over a year since The Dark Knight made a billion dollars and revolutionized genre cinema. At the time, everyone said we'd be seeing a spate of Dark Knight-influenced "dark" superhero films. So are any of them still happening? More »
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With District 9 a bona fide hit and GI Joe amazing all by not crashing and burning, the summer movie season of 2009 has ended just as it began: Surprising a lot of people. What lessons can we learn? More »
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Even if X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn't leave you breathlessly waiting for a sequel, there's one sign that the follow-up will be better than the original: Usual Suspects and X-Men screenwriter Chris McQuarrie has signed on to write it. More »
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With weeks to go before Watchmen: The Director's Cut hits DVD and Blu-Ray (as well as a few cinema screens), it's leaked onto torrent sites across the internet. But unlike the similar Wolverine leak earlier this year, does anyone care? More »
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Still feeling sad about how weak Deadpool was in the Wolverine movie? You'll feel sadder after perusing the original concept art, from artist Phillip Boutte. More »
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Rumor has it that Fox may have tracked down the person responsible for breaking the production cone of silence and allowing X-Men Origins: Wolverine to leak online... and it's none other than 20th Century Fox owner Rupert Murdoch. Who'dathunk? More »
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Two supporting leads from Wolverine have signed up to star in John Carter Of Mars. Taylor Kitsch will play Carter, a civil war vet who travels to Mars. Lynn Collins will play Dejah Thoris, heir to Mars' helium kingdom. [THR] More »
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Ignore Terminator Salvation's US box office and look to Britain, where it's just had the best opening weekend of 2009 so far... replacing the previous holder of that title, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Why is Britain more accepting of shoddy sci-fi? More »
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It's a bumper crop of Monday spoilers. Michael Bay showed off new Transformers footage. Zoe Saldana talks Star Trek 2 and Ryan Reynolds talks Deadpool. A Book Of Eli action scene described. We uncover crazy Doctor Who rumors and Lost finale details. Plus Thor, Dollhouse, V, Stargate, Heroes and Smallville! More »
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As if it wasn't enough for X-Men Origins: Wolverine to flop with audiences, now it's being held up as a movie that corrupts America's youth. The reason? Not the killing, the affirmation of the sideburn lifestyle or even Liev Schreiber's bad acting. No, it's all about Wolvie's cigar habit. More »
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Check out this Star Trek TV spot — notice something that wasn't in the movie? That's right: around 0:15, there's baby Spock, complete with teeny Vulcan ears! Why do studios throw cool scenes into trailers, then cut them out of the final movies? Here's a list. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5272895&view=rss&microfeed=true "Despite that financial success, the critics are growing restless. The New York Times' A.O. Scott declared that X-Men Origins: Wolverine is "the latest evidence that the superhero movie is suffering from serious imaginative fatigue." Slate's Dana Stevens announced that "I'll be holding comic-book-based blockbusters to a more robust standard" this summer. And Anthony Lane, a film critic for The New Yorker, took a nasty shot at comic book enthusiasts in his review of Watchmen earlier in the year, saying the film "should meet the needs of any leering nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the military-industrial complex. More »
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Box office estimates place Star Trek somewhere in the region of a $70 million domestic take for its opening weekend, roughly half of the JJ Abrams movie's estimated budget. But what does that actually mean? More »
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With the release of Star Trek, last week's X-Men Origins: Wolverine is already old news. In this ever-changing fast-moving movie landscape, where can you turn for some appreciation of the now? Apparently not 7-Eleven. More »
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He helped create Snakes On A Plane, get X-Men Origins: Wolverine made and write Booster Gold's comic for a year, but can Jeff Katz' nerd cred overcome doubts about his new production company, American Original? More »
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine's success means the sequel has already been greenlit, and it's looking like the story we've been waiting for all along: the one with the ninjas. But that's not the only Wolverine sequel. More »
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By this point, the idea of anyone other than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine seems like box office suicide, but he wasn't the first choice to play X-Men's breakout star. Learn about the also-rans and almost-weres. More »
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If there's one thing that Wolverine's successful opening weekend means, it's that Fox will likely want more X-Men movies. But who's going to be in them? Apparently, not who you might be expecting... More »
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Box office estimates are suggesting that X-Men Origins: Wolverine will (slightly) top studio expectations for its opening weekend, grossing somewhere in the region of $90million. What does that say about the success of the leak? More »
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Two of the secret after-the-credits endings to X-Men Origins: Wolverine have turned up online already. One of them stars Deadpool, aka Wade Wilson. And click through for another one, involving Logan himself. More »
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The X-Men movies have finally descended from "epic saga" to "farce," with a Wolverine prequel that sees him struggling against the banality of banality. Spoilers ahead. More »
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