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AMCâs update of The Prisoner makes a game effort at putting a modern face on Patrick McGoohanâs original mind-melting exercise in paranoia. The flashy mini-series, which debuts Sunday at 8 p.m. ES...
Foes of President Barack Obama and his policies can vent their frustrations by engaging in fictional warfare, thanks to a new online strategy game with a heavy political component. The satirical g...
> When we beamed our lists of favorite science fiction movies onto the pages of Wired.com, we knew some of our readers would think we were goofier than Jar Jar Bink...
Real-World Horrors Photo: toonbobo/Flickr Scientifically Haunted House Suggests Youâre a Sucker Scientists build a haunted house using natural phenomena suspected of eliciting paranormal activity....
Some Star Trek fans were upset that J.J. Abrams made crucial edits to his reboot movie. There was no William Shatner. No birth of Spock. And, no hyperkinetic rap songs sung in Klingon. Fortunately...
This weekâs Storyboard Podcast takes a behind-the-scenes look at two features in the September issue of Wired magazine: âThe Placebo Problem,â by contributing editor Steve Silberman, and âThe Good...
Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge has built a successful film career on his uncanny ability to draw humor from the most mundane topics. The brutally funny Office Space, Judgeâs first live-ac...
Viral videos have given once-anonymous and rarely talented netizens their requisite 15 minutes of Andy Warhol fame. But more often than not, theyâve given us splitting headaches. Thanks to âViral ...
The 21st century update of Osamu Tezukaâs classic anime series Astro Boy, sneak-peeked Thursday at Comic-Con International, stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as the rocket...
An indie success story, Robert Venditti has come a long way from thinking comics were childâs play. And from packing boxes at a comic book publisher to selling his first sci-fi comic The Surrogate...
The mysterious ninth Cylon turned out to be a kitchen appliance capable of making deadly Pop Tarts in a rejected script for BSG. Apparently, sci-fi fandom merchandisers became obsessed with kitchen...
A television show is going to make Twitter a little more permanent than an ephemeral tweet: Tattoo Highway host Thomas Pendelton plans to ink one Twitter userâs handle on their body. Pendleton (pi...
Avant-garde Japanese band Boredoms is taking its electronically enhanced drum circle shtick to the middle of the ocean, where it will provide a live soundtrack to a total solar eclipse. Organizer...
As every sci-fi buff knows, fantasy auteur Tim Burton brings an eye like no other to his visually sumptuous movies. Art lovers in New York will get a chance to view the filmmakerâs non-cinematic w...
A little bit of X-Files intrigue, a little bit of Indiana Jones-style supernatural archaeology and a whole lot of steampunk gadgetry fires up the pilot episode of Warehouse 13. A clever drama debu...
The Morning Benders have played Washington's Sasquatch Festival and toured with The Kooks and Death Cab for Cutie. If it took you a while to correctly pronounce Sigur RĂłs, you may very well be in ...
Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff is joining 24 for the showâs eighth season on Fox. Trading in Kara âStarbuckâ Thraceâs high-flying BSG angst for life behind a computer console, Sackhoff w...
A remake of Heavy Metal, the 80s hair rock animated movie, seems a step closer now that a list of the directors involved surfaced. Reports say the David Fincher and James Cameron project will incl...
When heâs not portraying time-traveling âHiroâ on TVâs Heroes, Masi Oka digs online role-playing games so much that heâs hatched a movie about the world of avatars called The Defenders. The premis...
Being Human will premiere on BBC America HD. BBC America is riding an old sci-fi classic, a new sci-fi hit and an up-and-coming premiere to highlight the unveiling of the networkâs HD channel. The ...
Were the generic-looking catastrophe shots in the trailer for The Road spliced on in a misguided attempt to sell the movie to a wider audience? Letâs hope so. The intro imagery, which looks lik...
Legendary rocker and gearhead Neil Young is prepping to release the first volume of his archives on CD, DVD and Blu-ray on June 2. But if you ask him, Blu-ray is the way to go. âThe sound and pict...
During their annual âUpfrontâ sessions this month, TV networks are flinging several dozen new shows against the wall in order to see what sticks to the 2009-2010 prime-time wall. Given corporate...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button just arrived on DVD. But it's possible those buying and renting don't realize what they're witnessing in its F. Scott Fitzgerald-inspired story. See also: The C...
Tom Hanks returns as code-cracking scientist, pictured here with Ayelet Zurer, Thure Lindhart and Ewan McGregor in Angels & Demons. Photo courtesy Sony / Columbia Pictures. Secret society The Illum...
The Rifftrax team of Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy will perform their first live online riff of a feature film this Friday with Planet of the Dinosaurs. At 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Easte...
There are few better ways to celebrate Earth Day than a screening of Earth, the sprawling, stunning documentary released Wednesday in America from Disneyâs newest production house, DisneyNature. A...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the scatalogical satirists of South Park, have skewered celebrities as minor as Sally Struthers and as major as Tom Cruise over the years. But can the duo pop the bloate...
Neo-jazz collective El Michels Affair channels the Wu-Tang Clan on Enter the 37th Chamber.Photo courtesy Fat Beats Records The digital age has globalized distribution lines and taste patterns. That...
The Beatles have mostly avoided the digital age so far. But that stance ends Sept. 9 when the Fab Four's entire digitally remastered catalog and Beatles: Rock Band will be released for the first t...
With J.J. Abrams' Star Trek about a month away, we knew there would be a constant flow of merchandising tie-ins before and after the film's release. It's safe to say few fans could have predicte...
Long before Robot Chicken goofed on superheroes and sci-fi, Marvel Comics parodied its own all-star roster in comic book series like Not Brand Echh and What the-?! in the '60s and '90s, respectivel...
An East London street was evacuated over the weekend when engineers discovered what they thought was an explosive device under a fire hydrant.After calling in bomb experts (and perhaps a squad of T...
Josh Modell, managing editor of the A.V. Club, surveys the scene outside the party. Photo: Keith Axline/Wired.com AUSTIN, Texas -- The Onion's A.V. Club is where the smart kids go to get their medi...
"The power of The Force is insignificant next to the power of beating back cancer." And, that just what David Prowse -- the imposing, talented and physical actor inside Darth Vader's original ar...
Welcome back to Wired.com's weekly playlist, especially you hardy adventurers joining the madding crowds at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, next week. Our latest install...
When Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' canonical comic Watchmen raked in $55 million after its domestic opening and over $26 million in its international debut, ...
Touch and Go Records, the Chicago company that served as a manufacturing and distribution umbrella for a variety of indie labels, is downsizing. Launched as a zine in 1979, the company had evolve...
When Alan Moore took charge of DC Comics' failing Swamp Thing in the early '80s, the writer revitalized several of the monster series' moribund characters while flipping the bird to the Comics Cod...
Bits of Christian Bale's F-bombing rant have been mashed together with the wildly popular online video of a drugged-out 7-year-old after a trip to the dentist. The mashup was probably inevitable:...
Spinal Tap, the British heavy metal band featured in one of the funniest "mockumentary" films of all time, is going back into the studio for the first time in nearly two decades. "We'll do...
As a writer for Conan O'Brien and a trend-spotting nerd for The Daily Show, comedian Demetri Martin has come off like a cute John Hodgman. But now he's getting a chance to stretch out and show off ...
British writer Neil Gaiman says Neil Jordan possesses the proper dark sensibility to bring his award-winning children's novel The Graveyard Book to the big screen. "[Jordan] understands darkness a...
El Zombo is getting ready to fling his body off the page and onto the silver screen.In a deal announced this week between Death Ray Films and Maya Entertainment, the supernatural masked wrestler, i...
Maybe some savvy Hollywood adviser got to Mickey Rourke, but somebody talked the star of The Wrestler out of appearing at WrestleMania 25 in Houston.Rourke told multiple media outlets that he agre...
Spammers, haters and time-wasters -- that's the kind of crap that can make the internet a drag. Those are just some of the answers the folks at Urlesque got last weekend at the ROFLThing-N...
Wired.com gets more music than it knows what to do with, much of it excellent. So why not blast out a weekly heads-up on the cream of the sonic crop filling up the ol' inbox? Great Wired.com! Yo...
The new Japanese trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince reveals more of Harry's relationship with Dumbledore and the first glimpses of the wizard war taking a toll on the outside wor...
Did you know germs come from Germany? Or that mathematicians have yet to come up with a number larger than 45 million?If not, tune into Adult Swim's Look Around You starting Sunday at 1 a.m. and ge...
Enduring a total meltdown is bad enough if you muddle through the madness in humble solitude, but what if your life fell apart live on the internet? That's what happened to web video visionary Jo...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 was always a smart show, but who knew brainiacs would want to examine it at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?TV's Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu are bringing ...
The Dark Knight took the Favorite Movie prize Wednesday night at the 35th Annual People's Choice Awards. 2008's box office superhero also swept the rest of the categories for which it had been nom...
Critically reviled box office bomb The Spirit gets the switcheroo treatment in a faux "For Your Consideration" trailer championing the movie as 2008's worst film. Compiling actual blurbs from...
Watchmen ExclusiveAs most fans know, Fox is moving full-speed ahead to block Warner Bros.' Watchmen from being released. This reporter spent the post-Christmas period seeking a lawyer willing to p...
Will 2009 be the year that 3-D movies finally come of age and captivate audiences? Will old-school characters like Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes bury comic book characters at the cineplex, or will...
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Star Wars will storm London's O2 arena next year for a two-hour symphonic show set to scenes from the six films. Lucasfilm and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have teamed up for the rousing show, ...
Here's what's inside Amazon.com's limited-edition book of Harry Potter tales. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling's latest companion to the Potter series, hit stores Thursday. Online re...
Stephen Colbert sings up a storm on an iTunes exclusive featuring songs from his holiday special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. The telecast snagged top ratings in the 18-34 male d...
Xbox is not content doing battle for videogame platform supremacy with PS3 and Wii. It wants to carve out a chunk of the online TV world, so on Monday, Microsoft launched "Horror Meets Comedy," a...
Following the release of the four DVD set marking Mystery Science Theater 3000's 20th Anniversary, Shout Factory has tentatively announced the MST3K titles in its next release. According to TVsho...
When Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II debuts Sunday night, the stop-motion special will once again skewer sci-fi's greatest pantheon with extreme comedy that doesn't shed a tear, even as its sla...
Science-y crime dramas Life on Mars and Eleventh Hour are duking it out to dominate TV's plum 10 p.m. Thursday time slot. The shows have a lot in common: Both are based on U.K. miniseries; both ...
Obsessed with your genitals? Addicted to pornography and pizza? Happy to be wrecked by misfortune at the hands of Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake? Has Adult Swim got a job for you!Adult Swim's...
Disney and Pixar have unveiled their next animated adventure, Up, with a preview trailer highlighting the studios' past achievements before introducing audiences to new faces. Directed by Pete ...
Soup is good food, and "The Soup" was a good place for Seth Green to premiere a clip from his upcoming special, Robot Chicken Star Wars: Episode II. You can ignore all the stupefying nonsense a...
Cinematic Titanic's final DVD release of 2008 will be a holiday-themed episode that doubles as a call-back to the days of Mystery Science Theater 3000.Wired.com reported weeks ago that Joel Hodgson...
Behind-the-scenes clips on YouTube show how a creative mix of monster suits and CGI effects gave birth to the magnificent creatures in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In the videos, longer versions of...
As BBC America's time-traveling dinosaur show Primeval prepares for its season finale Saturday night, two of its young stars sat down to talk about what they would do if they actually ran into one ...
Halloween wouldn't be complete without a good old-fashioned scream fest. But why worry about battling crowds at video stores when plenty of horror flicks are available for free online viewing? Fro...
Star Wars' clones used to be servants of evil who also served nicely as blockbuster cannon fodder. But ever since George Lucas unwound their back stories with the help of Genndy Tartakovksy, the cl...
Rumors are the lifeblood of the entertainment industry. But they can also be bloodsuckers, and the rumor going around that Watchmen's 2009 cinematic adaptation might end with a bang that's diff...
Opening This Weekend Max PayneSynopsis: Videogame-based revenge tale stars Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne, a ticked-off maverick cop with a dead family who butts bloody heads with a shadowy ros...
It's not particularly funny, but Hayden Panettiere's new rant on Funny or Die offers fans a chance to hear the actress use language she'd never get away with on Heroes.The actress introduces hersel...
In a stumble that looks all too much like a brilliant PR stunt, billboards and commercials for the upcoming movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno are being rejected everywhere from Los Angeles Dodgers g...
Neal Hefti, the composer who wrote the groovy theme for '60s television show Batman, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. Hefti's theme for the campy superhero series became a Top...
There's yet another name said to be vying for the coveted lead role in Doctor Who before David Tennant has had the courtesy of quitting.Paterson Joseph is the new hot name linked to the show. The t...
Sunday was a big day for Doctor Who news -- or at least for a fierce rumor fans hope is genuine Who news. November's BBC Children in Need telethon made it a tradition in recent years to feature s...
A Japanese monkey that waits tables and practices karate is getting his 15 minutes of fame thanks to YouTube. Videos of the 12-year-old macaque, named Yat-chan, show him delivering bottles...
The time is right for a sequel to Tron, according to actor Jeff Bridges, who played Kevin Flynn in the 1982 sci-fi "When we made Tron there was no internet, no cellphones," Bridges told The Guard...
A leaked clip from an upcoming episode of The Simpsons has been blazing through the interwebs. The one-minute short (embedded) features Homer Simpson attempting to cast a vote for presidential ...
"Now, Russell Crowe has been most everywhere -- from a New York jail to Meg Ryan's hair." "But Russell also likes to fight. Too much to drink, and he'll punch out your lights. What a crazy pair!...
Think you have what it takes to survive a zombie outbreak? Try your hand at The Outbreak, a choose-your-own-adventure game that lets users select which course of action the main character should ta...
Paul Newman, the legendary actor who also became a race car driver and a charitable organic foods seller, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 83.Newman died at his farmhouse near W...
The New York Times has finally admitted its bias toward Barack Obama -- at least when it comes to crossword puzzles. The presidential hopeful's last name has appeared as an answer repeatedly in th...
Television shows in this fall's prime-time lineup will include twice as many gay and lesbian characters as appeared on-screen last year, according to a study released Monday by The Gay & Lesbian Al...
Hey, nothing else seems to be working -- why not draft up some brightly colored, high-pitched furballs on Sesame Street to help prepare for the War on Terror? That's just what Homeland Security chi...
Comics writer Ed Brubaker has penned iconic titles like Batman, Daredevil, Catwoman, X-Men and more for Marvel and DC Comics alike. Hell, he even tried to kill off Captain America.He's also mashed ...
Orson Scott Card's seminal 1985 epic, Ender's Game, won the Nebula and Hugo, was the first novel pre-released online and has since been used as a psychology text for the Marines. But the pop cultur...
Opening This Weekend Burn After ReadingSynopsis: The Coen brothers' screwball spy spoof follows Washington, D.C. bumblers as they cross paths in antic pursuit of infidelity, liposuction and...
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