By Krystal Clark, Source: Blastr; Don’t let War Horse fool you—Steven Spielberg hasn’t forgotten his sci-fi roots. Once he wraps production on his Lincoln biopic, his sights are set on Robopocalypse! Robopocalypse will be a sci-fi flick based on the best-selling novel by Daniel H. Wilson. Like most futuristic films,
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com We never really need an excuse to walk outside, look at the sky and hope to see something extraterrestrial drifting by, but 2012 seems to be giving an extra boost to the UFO business. We’re not even a month into the year, and we’re already
By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com The search is finally over, and the Holy Grail has been found! Well, not exactly the Holy Grail, but it comes pretty darn close in our geeky book of awesome! J.J. Abrams has finally found the man who’ll play his Star Trek 2 villain, and
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr, The final frontier got a bit more crowded today with NASA’s cosmic discovery of two Earth-size planets. Astronomers monitoring the Kepler spacecraft found the twin orbs, one as big as Earth, the other smaller than Venus, 950 light years away from our solar system. But
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com In 2003, LucasArts released a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO) called Star Wars Galaxies … and last night, the controversial MMO ended. Cleverly, Sony Online Entertainment let the players decide who would win the game. And the rulers of the galaxy are … The
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com We love Doctor Who. He’s a time-traveling, happy-go-lucky man-about-town. And it seems that U.S. iTunes users love him too. According to Apple’s famed digital distribution service, Doctor Who was the most popular television show in 2011. That’s not all. In what is yet more proof
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blatr.com Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are at it again: cracking wise, frowning intently and giving the Earth-based alien community a run for their money. So, how do our favorite government employees acquit themselves in this third Men in Black outing, almost 10 years after
By: Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Christopher Nolan is playing some Dark Knight Rises secrets so close to the vest that we’re not even sure who some members of the cast are actually playing. But thanks to a story in a small British newspaper, we now have confirmation that at least
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com; We made peace a while ago with the fact that James Cameron’s Avatar doesn’t exactly have the most original plot. (Remember FernGully?) But we weren’t planning on taking him to court over it. Now a guy who used to work for Cameron is suing for
By Krystal Clark, Source: Blastr.com She’s outta there! Marvel’s highly anticipated Thor sequel has lost its director. Patty Jenkins (The Killing, Monster) has officially jumped ship, leaving Thor 2 in pre-production limbo. According to Deadline, Jenkins left the film due to “creative differences,” but she’s still on good terms with
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com We know that Tron’s Garret Hedlund is playing Kaneda in Warner’s Americanized remake of the manga and anime classic Akira—and that names like Kristen Stewart and Ken Watanabe are being floated for other roles—but we’ve only just now got a real sense of how the
By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com We knew Torchwood’s Captain Jack Harkness was a self-sacrificing, heroic man (he’s immortal in the series, after all) but it also seems that the man portraying him, actor John Barrowman, is as much 100% hero as is his TV counterpart (minus the immortality, of course).
