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What Watchmen’s mistakes taught Whedon about making The Avengers

By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com As the old saying goes, we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants. You’d be a fool to not learn from the errors of those that came before. So when Joss Whedon got involved with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, he looked at the mistakes of earlier

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Next week, the Earth Station One crew packs up our favorite pointy stakes, crossbows, and Holy Water as we head back to the Hellmouth for a look back at Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 2. What are your favorite Sunnydale moments from season 2? Tell us at www.esonetwork.com, at the

DC’s alien bounty hunter Lobo is finally getting the big-screen greenlight

By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com It’s been a couple of years since we’ve heard any news about Warner Bros.’ attempt to bring intergalactic badass Lobo to the silver screen—and the last update, which involved then-director Guy Ritchie bailing so he could shoot the Sherlock Holmes sequel, wasn’t great. But with

Scientists just invented a REAL Doctor Who sonic screwdriver

By Trent Moore, source: Blastr.com Seeing as he’s a man of little violence, the Doctor’s trusty sonic screwdriver has been his tool of choice on the BBC series for decades. Now, it seems scientists have actually created a real one. Researchers at the Dundee University have built a device that

DC Comics writer quits, blasts company’s ethics

By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com DC Comics writer Chris Roberson, who has worked on recent projects such as Fables and Superman, has announced via Twitter he is leaving the company. Why? Because he doesn’t like the way DC treats writers. “Having an afternoon cocktail to celebrate the end of my

‘American Horror Story’ scoop: Season 2’s setting revealed

by Hillary Busis, Source: EW.com Back in February, scaremaster Ryan Murphy teased that the second season of American Horror Story would involve a “horror institution” on the East Coast. Now the series’ co-creator has revealed what that institution is — as well as which familiar face will be running the

Don’t expect any Star Trek TV until after big-screen sequel opens

By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com We’ve been waiting ever since Enterprise went off the air in 2005 for another Star Trek TV series, and it looks like we could get it courtesy of Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller and X-Men director Bryan Singer. Not so fast, though. Fuller warns that

Joss Whedon says that Giles-centric Buffy spinoff ain’t dead yet

By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com There’s been so much Avengers this and Cabin in the Woods that lately that it’s easy to forget how many other potential projects Joss Whedon is still juggling. There’s that cool web series he wants to do with Warren Ellis, the inevitable return of Dr.

Steven Moffat : Why Doctor Who without a companion would depress me

By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com Doctor Who has always been about the companions. Yes, it’s also about that old man from Gallifrey travelling through Time and Space on many an adventure in his beloved TARDIS, but the audience always saw the storylines through the eyes of the men and women

Earth Station One Episode 107: It’s About Damn Time, and Time Machines Too

This week, Mike & Mike dust off the Delorean, Bobby warms up the Time Tunnel, Anthony Taylor powers up the Sphere, and award-winning artist Mark Maddox plots a slingshot trajectory around the sun as the ESO crew explores our favorite movies and TV shows dealing with time travel. And we

Homeland Security wants to deploy Minority Report pre-crime tech

By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com Lifting a page from Philip K. Dick’s book, the Department of Homeland Security is in the early stages of developing something called FAST that, when it’s installed at an airport near you, will attempt to catch terrorists before they strike. Maybe. FAST stands for Future

The Gorillaz’ Pete Candeland To Direct Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride Movie

by Brendon Connelly, source: Bleeding Cool I took a trip on the Disney theme park attraction Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride once. It involved a lot of keeping my eyes shut and covering my ears. It’s a trip straight to hell, don’t you know. Very, very creepy. The ride was based

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