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With awards season approaching, my thoughts wander to the great many talented actors in comic book movies these days. Just look at the casting for the upcoming adaptation of the spy thriller comic Red , which features everyone from Richard Dreyfuss to the great Helen Mirren -- proof that the ...
Action
Faye Dunaway
The Ten
Martin Sheen
John Malkovich
Naomi Watts
Sean Connery
• Gamespot has an extensive preview to the sequel to Bioshock (my favorite scifi game of 2007), and it looks even better than I thought.
• And while we're talking about video games, the fantastic early '80s game of space colonization, M.U.L.E. , has been updated and is available to play for ...
Sci-Fi
McG
Terminator
Kenneth Branagh
The Surrogates
Terminator Salvation
This week, in lieu of a regularly-scheduled interview, I'd like to take a moment to engage in a bit of shameless self-promotion. Not for myself, mind you -- that would be madness -- but for an AMCtv.com columnist you might not know: Horror Hacker's Scott Sigler. The bestselling author of ...
Sci-Fi
Star Trek
• Even after a month's hiatus and the constant hustling of the community, Dollhouse's ratings hit an all-time low last week. This one's toast, guys. Move on.
• The ruthless misogyny of the Marvel Universe is explained . I think this is more a result of the fact that mainstream comics ...
Sci-Fi
Terminator
Batman
You've no doubt heard of Frank Oz , and depending on when you first became aware of him, you'll either think of him as the man with his hand up Jim Henson's Muppets, or as a quirky and inventive fantasy director. Either way, he's had a strong influence on the genre, having started his career ...
Action
Mary Harron
Frank Oz
The Empire Strikes Back
• Peter Jackson says that the earliest we'll all see The Hobbit is in 2012 . Take your time and get it right, just don't let any of the older actors die on you in the meantime.
• Want to own a piece of the Terminator franchise? Even a piece of part of the worst movie in the Terminator ...
Sci-Fi
The Hobbit
Terminator
Peter Jackson
2012
Terminator Salvation
Hey, look, it's December -- and not only are we coming to the end of another year, but we're also coming to the end of another decade. Oh, sure, the nitpickers will tell you the current decade doesn't actually turn over until 2011, but those people are no fun and we're ignoring them, so ...
Action
The Ten
Star Trek
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Charlize Theron
• I've been skeptical of Hasbro's plans to do movies based on their board games, but Battleship -- featuring a fleet of battleships versus overhead alien saucers -- is such a smart adaptation of the game's rules to fit a movie narrative. And it's scifi!
• James Cawley of the unknown Cawley ...
Action
The Road
Jeff Bridges
Jon Favreau
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
It's New Comics Wednesday again, and you know what that means: Chapter Four of AMCtv.com's original online graphic novel, The Prisoner: Book One: Like the Air, Invulnerable , is online for your perusal. In Chapter Three you learned how Rebecca brought herself to The Village. In Chapter Four ...
Action
Wednesday
Rebecca Hall
While fans eagerly await the Iron Man 2 trailer (will it really play before Sherlock Holmes on Christmas Day?), engineers at Michigan's U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) are testing smart armor that could make the movie suit a reality . You ...
Action
Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr.
Up
• Disney's not going to stop at remaking just one of its '80s scifi classics: the Tron: Legacy team is also working on a remake of Black Hole .
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will be adapted into a six-part miniseries , possibly on the BBC.
• Iron Man 2 gets a teaser poster , with ...
Sci-Fi
Tron Legacy
Pride and Prejudice
Iron Man
Star Trek
J.J. Abrams
Quickly: Name the most critically acclaimed video game movie of all time. If you thought of a movie based on an existing game like Hitman or Mortal Kombat , then you're you're wrong. The real winner is actually a documentary about two middle-aged dudes playing Donkey Kong . Video game docs ...
Other
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Second Skin
• Stephen King is getting another television miniseries, in the form of an adaptation of his Colorado Kid , which involves the supernaturally exiled living in Maine.
• Smallville's Justice Society gets a sneak peak , and Hawkman, Doctor Fate and Stargirl all look great.
• The first set ...
Sci-Fi
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Star Trek
Our solar system is a wondrous and frightful venue, and from the magmatic center of the sun to the ghost ships orbiting Neptune, Hollywood has explored it all. Join us for a cinematic voyage through the scifi solar system, which features if not the most well-known movies about our sister ...
Sci-Fi
Sunshine
Earth
• SciFI Wire ranks eighteen post-apocalyptic survivors from best to worst . My vote: Mad Max takes the cake.
• It's a few days late, but never too early to start planning for next year: io9 suggests ways to make Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade more scifi friendly .
• If you just can't wait ...
Action
Pixar
Darth Vader
In America, nothing matches the archetype of "Feast" like the Thanksgiving dinner, which conjures images of tables groaning with food. But all that bounty comes with a price: leftovers. Sure, with that first turkey sandwich you're living the good life. But how long before the dread sets in? ...
Comedy
Mary Harron
The Ten
Coraline
Billy Crystal
Harry Dean Stanton
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• 13 video featurettes exhaustively cover the design of James Cameron's Avatar .
• SF Signal hosts yet another Mind Meld, this time about the future of science fiction in e-book form .
• Details Magazine profiles Zoe Saldana , who was first Uhura and next will be a blue-skinned space ...
Action
Avatar
Joss Whedon
Terminator
James Cameron
The Signal
Zoe Saldana
Dude, why are you here? It's, like, Thanksgiving. You should be rupturing your intestines with various meats and mashed vegetables and pies and then collapsing onto the couch in a food coma. Heck, I'm feeling logy just thinking about it. And because I'm feeling logy rather than ambitious, ...
Drama
The Road
Avatar
• Family Guy 's latest Star Wars spoof episode, titled "Something Something Something Dark Side," gets a trailer .
• Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are teaming back up for a direct-to-DVD sequel to the ever-classic Universal Soldier .
• A fantastic informational poster on how to ...
Action
Universal
Star Wars
Another week, another New Comic Wednesday. And if you've been dying to find out what fate befalls Rebecca in AMCtv.com's exclusive online graphic novel, The Prisoner: Book One: As the Air, Invulnerable , you're in luck: Chapter Three is now available for your motion viewing pleasure . In it, ...
