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There have been teases for months and months about DC’s cinematic take on the Justice League and how they might be involved in Batman v Superman. But a new image that’s hit social media might just be our first official look at the Justice League standing tall. The image comes from an as-yet-unverified Facebook page…
Netflix is having quite a day. After announcing it’ll be doing a series based on Altered Carbon, the streaming service also revealed they’re producing an original time-travel film from one of the minds behind Orphan Black, starring actors from The Flash and Jessica Jones. The film will be called Arq and will star Robbie Amell…
Add another entry to the long list of amazing things Netflix is doing with their original programming. They’ve just picked up the rights to Altered Carbon, a 10-episode-series based on the brilliant award-winning 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Morgan. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5542862/cyberp… Altered Carbon is set in the 25th century, where humans live all…
Suicide Squad has been on a bit of a media blitz lately, ahead of tonight’s new trailer airing as part of a DC Cinematic Universe special on the CW—including a new poster. It’s nothing like the sort of we’ve seen from a DC movie before: It’s vivid. Colorful. Garish, even. And it’s fantastic. Yesterday, the…
Marvel may have brought together all their best superheroes in The Avengers, but DC is bringing together their very own team of super villains in Suicide Squad. Hitting theaters in August, the dark comic book adaptation just released a crazy new trailer. Expertly edited to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” director David Ayer’s love letter to the…
In November 2014, the team behind Disney’s Zootopia had a very bad day. After years of development and production, they realized a huge aspect of their movie didn’t work. There were two main characters, one primary and one secondary— and they had to be flipped for the film to make sense. In Zootopia, which hits…
Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown are junior computer science majors at Rice University. Last weekend, they participated in HackRice, a hackathon. Sam and Chris, together with Dan Korn and Cannon Lewis, spent the first day brainstorming, their first evening drunk-brainstorming, and then coded for a total of 20 hours. The end result? TrumpScript, a version…
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE Inspired by Billy Joel and re-imagining Al Pacino as a space-travelling vampire, electro-pop wizard GRIMES became a ‘‘total f**king weirdo’‘ for her fourth album. When Grimes recorded her breakthrough album Visions in 2011, she was going through a chapter of emotional turmoil. The LA-based singer.-songwriter, born Claire Boucher, had emerged from a…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest idea for how to make America great again? Force Apple to build its products in the US. Trump, in a Monday speech at Liberty University in Virginia, said he’d “get” Apple to build its “damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.” Now, Trump didn’t…