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io9Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?
Tim Burton has confirmed that his next project will be remaking ABC’s vampire soap Dark Shadows, whose rights are rumored to belong to Johnny Depp. This could mean we’ll finally see our Johnny Depp vampire dreams come true. At the Alice In Wonderland press conference, people cornered Burton about his next rumored movie project Dark … Continued
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Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook
Fans feeling as if you have to buy every book that Marvel publishes in order to follow their favorite characters can take one piece of good news from the Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon: No more crossovers. Well, for awhile. Asked whether or not Marvel’s current Dark Reign branding and cross-continuity will lead into another … Continued
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What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?
With scenes from Avatar and New Moon screening today, it’s no surprise that the line to get into SDCC’s screening room was littered with tents and sleeping bags. We learned the secrets of extreme line-waiting from the folks in front. Twilighters, Tim Burton fans, and people looking to get a glimpse of James Cameron’s latest … Continued
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Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year
Wondering why the Superman comics seem to be very superhero-ish, for an alien rocketed to Earth from a dying planet? DC’s creators apparently agree with you, and they’re promising some more sci-fi for the character’s world in the next year. The next year of DC’s Superman family of comics will call back to some classic … Continued
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Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level
We finally saw some new footage from Tron Legacy, the new Tron movie. And it was totally worth waiting a year for: Kinetic, delirious and full of light-cycle brilliance. Spoilery descriptions below. It’s been a full year since Disney surprised us and blew our minds with a surprise glimpse of the Tron sequel we didn’t … Continued
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See The Best Fight Scene from Dollhouse, According to Joss Whedon
The Dollhouse season 1 DVDs hit stores soon, complete with the show’s brilliant unaired pilot and season finale. We’ve got an exclusive clip – with special io9 intro from Joss Whedon – of a terrific fight scene. One of the things you’ll learn when you get the DVDs is that this scene would have played … Continued
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The Middleman Returned, And Our Heads Exploded!
The Middleman, one of the greatest and craziest shows ever to bludgeon television with awesomeness, finally got the finale it deserves. The cast read the unaired finale script, and it was like the greatest rock concert ever. Oh man, it is so great to see the Middleman cast all together talking glibly and to hear … Continued
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Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters
The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz Media. Now Viz is publishing translations of two prose novels, about alien invasion, time travel and power-armor smackdowns. “Haikasoru” translates as “High Castle” and is meant as a riff on Philip K. Dick’s classic allohistory … Continued
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Scientists Create Families of Mutant, Drug-Producing Rats
An entire industry is now devoted to producing pharmaceuticals from carefully-mutated animals. Now a biotech company has invented a way to create families of mutant rats who produce antibodies that could sold as medicine. The researchers, who worked with biotech firm Open Monoclonal Technology (OMT), wanted to create what are called “monoclonal antibodies,” useful in … Continued
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Torchwood Day Three: Aliens Reach Out And Touch Someone
That Captain Jack, he’s so good with children. Such a good role model, so ready to take the young ones under his wing. Last night, we encountered the 456, and learned why Captain Jack was marked for death. Spoilers ahead… After two almost completely solid episodes, part three of “Children Of Earth” got off to … Continued
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201 Star Wars T-Shirts (And One Hoodie) To Fill You With Glee
Over at the tee-obsessed blog Hide Your Arms, we have learned that we could spend over half the year wearing nothing but Star Wars t-shirts. A different one every day, not the same one for 202 days in a row. These tees (and this awesome trooper hoodie) run the gamut from artistic renderings of Darth … Continued
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Get Face To Face With Avatar’s Commandos And Lush Native Life
We stuck our lens up close and personal, with the fanged beasties from planet Pandora at SDCC. Plus there’s a first look at the human team sent to stir things up for the Na’vi people, including Sigourney Weaver. It looks like what we have here are the same weirdly fanged faces, with a bit more … Continued
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Your Exclusive First Look At Paul Pope’s Pop Cult Print
We told you about Paul Pope‘s limited edition print for Saturday’s Pop Cult party at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, and now, here’s your exclusive look at the print itself. The print will be available only to the first 300 people to arrive at the party, sponsored by Coke Zero, at Onyx/Thin (852 5th Avenue) in … Continued
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GI Joe Movie Battles, Destuction And Torture Renacted In Toy Form
The massive Hasbro booth at Comic Con has multiple toy dioramas, showing off scenes from the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. See what the real American heroes are up to, in a spoilery gallery summing up the movie’s many action scenes. Things of note: first off, check out the torture chamber, with the two doctors (some … Continued
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Only Superheroes Can Save Us From Financial Ruin
Wondering just how bad the current financial situation is? Apparently so bad that it’ll take superhuman resources to fix it. And, more worryingly, the people who’re saying that are the self-styled financial experts. Translation: We’re all screwed. Admittedly, that’s probably not the reaction that LendingTree, the online lending company, hoped that their new advertising campaign … Continued
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Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?
Click to viewHollywood has taken everything, from your childhood toys to the novels that haunted your dreams, and turned them into splashy vehicles for young Scientologists to gallop through. Are there any books that Hollywood absolutely can’t turn into movies? Or shouldn’t? Standing here, in the middle of San Diego Comic Con, it’s easy to … Continued
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Where The Wild Over-Commercializations Of Beloved Children’s Books Are
It was one thing when Warners announced that they’d be releasing a Watchmen video game, but a video game based on the movie based on the classic Maurice Sendak book is really taking things to far. For shame, merchandise gods. Even the PR for the game – to be released in November, to accompany the … Continued
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io9A New Look Inside Iron Man 2, Tron, Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus And District 9
Tron’s producer explains how it’s “darker” than the original. A new photo shows Tony Stark’s racetrack fantasy in flames. A District 9 TV-spot explains the backstory. And there are three Dr. Parnassus clips. Plus Doctor Who, Torchwood, Heroes and Fringe. Iron Man 2: A few new pics of Tony Stark on a trashed, flaming race … Continued