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A spaceship gives you the freedom to roam the galaxy, the strength to face down implacable foes and the courage to visit brave new worlds. But before she can do any of that, she's gotta have a name. Can you remember what Mal Reynolds named his Firefly, or the ship Han Solo uses to zip ...
Movies
Star Wars
• The Crow is coming back to theaters courtesy of a remake, and io9 has an exclusive about their casting .
• The New Moon director previously directed The Golden Compass , which should have been a new speculative fiction cinematic masterpiece. Instead it was a dud, and the director tells us ...
Celebrities
New Moon
The Golden Compass
Forbidden Planet
Variety
Stephen King
Steven Spielberg
The Austrailian director of The Proposition explains how his long-awaited adaptation turns the Mad Max post-apocalyptic genre on its head and addresses why it took so long to bring Cormac McCarthy's novel to the big screen.
Q: You were originally against the idea of doing a ...
Movies
• io9 wonders how traditional science fiction magazines can stave off extinction . The answer, of course, is selling out, although I too am curious: Why isn't there a scifi McSweeney's ?
• James Cameron's Avatar comes out on December 18th, but apparently thirty minutes of footage still ...
Movies
Avatar
James Cameron
Fantasy has a lot of monsters. Sure, they turn up in science fiction from time to time, but nuclear mutations aside, enormous beasties are typically the result of imagination -- and fantasy has the lock-down on sheer ferocity. Monsters make a ready conflict for the hero, and raise the ...
Celebrities
Beowulf
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Ten
Dragonball
• Rebecca Mader, who played Charlotte on Lost , will be back for the show's final season . Looks like they're bringing everyone back, though my guess is that it's going to happen in another timeline that runs parallel to the main one.
• Brad Pitt is now attached to a movie based on the video ...
Movies
Brad Pitt
Spider-Man 4
Anne Hathaway
Star Trek
Here's an interesting question, sent along in e-mail, which I've trimmed down to the bare bones:
"Do you think science in science fiction movies would be better if science education were better in the United States?"
This is of particular relevance to me since the home video release of ...
Movies
Star Trek
• Jupiter's moon Io may have 100 times the oxygen previously thought, which means that there may be aquatic life swimming beneath its ice crust . Just like in 2010 !
• Yeesh. V continues to slide precipitously in ratings just one week before it goes on hiatus for a couple months. ABC must ...
Movies
Spider-Man 4
Tim Burton
Superman
Julia Stiles
It's New Comic Book Wednesday again, and AMCtv.com is pleased to provide you with the second free installment of our exclusive online motion comic, The Prisoner : Book One: As the Air, Invulnerable . Last week you met Rebecca Meadows, an investigative journalist who throws herself into the ...
Movies
Marvel Comics
Roland Emmerich's latest doomsday flick, 2012 , hasn't just been good for the box office; it's given conspiracy theorists a new pseudoscience to call their own. Despite a lack of evidence, more and more people are preparing for the end of the world. Will planetary alignment, solar flares and ...
Movies
Roland Emmerich
• That'll do, pig: Disney lets McG go from the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea , Captain Nemo prequel.
• io9 lists the dumbest superhero retcons of all time . Hello, Phoenix! And that's one of the less stupid ones.
• SciFi Wire lists ten great scifi oddities from Google's new digital time ...
Celebrities
McG
Joss Whedon
Disney Studios
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leonard Nimoy
Today we'll be looking at the concept of "synergy" -- you know, that word corporate bigwigs adore and regular folk despise? -- and how it applies to Hollywood's relationship with the video game industry. You see, it may have taken Hollywood a few decades to respect the raw, monetary power of ...
Movies
Avatar
• Roland Emmerich and his fellow 2012 cast members fess up: this latest flick is really an animated movie .
• Brian Cox is rumored to be in heavy consideration for a role in The Hobbit . He would make an excellent dwarf.
• British scifi maestro Michael Moorcock responds to skepticism ...
Celebrities
The Hobbit
Star Trek
Courteney Cox
Roland Emmerich
Brian Cox
Doctor Who
The Internet entrepreneur and author of the bestselling Little Brother discusses his latest novel , Makers, a nd what distinguishes his work from the cyberpunk of William Gibson.
Q: Where did you come up with the idea for Makers ?
A: It's funny, I started off thinking I was writing a ...
Movies
Disney Studios
The ultimate in scifi cyberpunk, The Matrix trilogy explores questions of reality, religion and philosophy. Do you belong on the Zion Council of philosophers, or in the ignorant bliss of the Matrix? Swallow a pill, follow the white rabbit (aka, our Ultimate Fan Quiz) and find out. Just ...
Movies
• Computer and Video Games previews Bioshock 2 -- the upcoming sequel to 2007's sub-aqueous dystopian classic -- and it's sounding surprisingly deep... no pun intended.
• MGM Studios is up for sale , which means that a few million can land you such scifi classics as Forbidden Planet, 2001: ...
Movies
Avatar
Forbidden Planet
Roland Emmerich
James Cameron
There's a scene early in Roland Emmerich 's 2012 where John Cusack, his estranged wife, their two adorable children,and the smarmy new boyfriend have to escape Los Angeles, which is collapsing into the Earth. (It turns out the Mayans were right about the end of the world, which is brought ...
Movies
Roland Emmerich
John Cusack
Independence Day
A few weeks ago I wrote about children's books that would make great movies , after which I received a flurry of e-mails from people expressing their horror at some of the current adaptations of their favorite childhood tales. I understand -- I've spent twenty years working in children's ...
Harry Potter
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Harry Potter
The Golden Compass
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Express
• The special effects team of Zack Snyder's execrable (but pretty) 300 has joined the Conan crew . As a huge Robert E. Howard fan, I can only hope the latter movie is exponentially better than the former.
• Whether we like it or not, Ridley Scott is directing a Monopoly movie . But ...
Celebrities
Dollhouse
Joss Whedon
Zack Snyder
300
Conan O'Brien
Robert Englund
blogs.amctv.com - 11 days ago
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I was forwarded this New York Times article
on James Cameron 's scifi flick Avatar , and
how the production and marketing of the movie will likely cost a staggering half-billion dollars. The friend who forwarded it to me wrote, "is this film ever ...
John Scalzi - Four Reasons Why Avatar Is Too Big to Fail
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