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That $500K Adjustment lawsuit brought by the Dick estate is done

By Krystal Clark, Source: Blastr.com The estate of author Philip K. Dick is throwing in the towel. It’s decided to drop the suit against the producers of the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau. Last fall, Media Rights Capital and director George Nolfi were sued by Dick’s estate when they refused

Scientists figure out how we can (really!) climb like Spider-Man

By Trent Moore, Souce: Blastr.com We’ve all probably had the thought at some point in our lives, whether watching the movies or reading an old comic: I want to climb a building, Spider-Man style. Just grab ahold of the brick and shoot right up a 90-degree angle. Well, thanks to

Israeli scientists develop prototype of Geordi’s Star Trek VISOR

By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com You may not have to wait until the 24th century to see a working version of that sweet VISOR worn by the blind character Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. A team of Israeli scientists has developed a prototype device that can

Will we see Cyclops and Jean Grey in that X-Men: 1st Class sequel?

By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com Ever since we heard the exciting news that X-Men: First Class was officially getting its sequel—and that Matthew Vaughn would be back in the director’s chair—we’ve been psyched thinking about the many, many possibilities the sequel will without a doubt bring. Those include (among others)

Fans hope plastic dinosaurs can save Fox’s Terra Nova

By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com Knowing that new Fox shows Alcatraz and Touch have debuted to some fairly solid numbers, Terra Nova fans aren’t just going to sit back and wait for the asteroid-I-mean axe to fall on the B.C. time-travel series. So, with rallying cries from series star Jason

The Incredibles director + giant sea monsters? Yes, please!

By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com On the heels of his global hit, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Brad Bird has become a hot commodity in live action, as well as animation. And for his next film, he’s zeroing in on a historical mashup that Back the the Future’s Robert Zemeckis walked

That X-Men: First Class sequel we’ve been waiting for is on!

By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com The massive commercial and critical success of X-Men: First Class meant we were almost guaranteed to see a sequel sooner or later, we just didn’t know when or (perhaps more importantly) if director Matthew Vaughn would come back to helm the project. Well, we still

Crazed Alcatraz fans force prison to announce the series is fake

By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com With his latest mysterious island drama Alcatraz, Lost creator J.J. Abrams opted to build the story around a real island, telling the fictional tale of more than 300 inmates and guards who disappeared in 1963. Apparently some fans of the Fox show missed the part

It’s your turn to be a Time Lord in villain-packed Who videogame

By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr.com Check out the first manic glimpse of the good Doctor and River Song dodging the Silence, Cybermen, Silurians and Daleks in this time-twisting teaser for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Developed as a totally new Who adventure, the Guildford-based designers at Supermassive Games worked directly

So who’s the latest star angling to be a big-screen Wonder Woman?

By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com For more than a few actresses, Wonder Woman is a dream role, so it’s no surprise that the list of ladies lining up to play her keeps getting longer. Now another star is adding her name to that hypothetical casting sheet, and she’s already got

Lost Charles Darwin fossils discovered in a drawer after 165 years

By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com You find all sorts of strange things in drawers. Broken pencils. Bits of string. Charles Darwin’s slides. An even more broken pencil sharpener. Wait … what was that third thing? That was likely the thought process of Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a palaeontologist at Royal Holloway,

Total Recall’s official (and Mars-less!) synopsis revealed

By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr.com News from the Colin Farrell-led, mega-budget Total Recall remake camp has been kinda quiet lately, with barely a peep from the Mars-less marvel. But don’t worry—Kuato still lives! And Sony is stirring its summer beast from its slumber with an official synopsis. Wake up and

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