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blogs.amctv.com - 15 hours ago
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Fantasy has a lot of monsters. Sure, they
turn up in science fiction from time to time,
but nuclear mutations aside, enormous beasties are typically the result of imagination -- and fantasy has the lock-down on sheer ferocity. Monsters make a ...
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Mary Robinette Kowal - The Ten Deadliest Monsters in Fantasy
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• Rebecca Mader, who played Charlotte on Lost , will be back for the show's final season . Looks like they're bringing everyone back, though my guess is that it's going to happen in another timeline that runs parallel to the main one.
• Brad Pitt is now attached to a movie based on the video ...
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Lost
John W. Campbell
Rebecca Mader
blogs.amctv.com - 46 hours ago
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Here's an interesting question, sent along in e-mail,
which I've trimmed down to the bare bones: "Do
you think science in science fiction movies would be better if science education were better in the United States?" This is of particular ...
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John Scalzi - Education Is Not the Answer for Star ...
• Jupiter's moon Io may have 100 times the oxygen previously thought, which means that there may be aquatic life swimming beneath its ice crust . Just like in 2010 !
• Yeesh. V continues to slide precipitously in ratings just one week before it goes on hiatus for a couple months. ABC must ...
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It's New Comic Book Wednesday again, and AMCtv.com is pleased to provide you with the second free installment of our exclusive online motion comic, The Prisoner : Book One: As the Air, Invulnerable . Last week you met Rebecca Meadows, an investigative journalist who throws herself into the ...
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The Prisoner
blogs.amctv.com - 3 days ago
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Roland Emmerich's latest doomsday flick, 2012, hasn't just
been good for the box office; it's given conspiracy
theorists a new pseudoscience to call their own. Will planetary alignment, solar flares and neutrinos destroy the Earth on December 21, 2012 (thus fulfilling the Mayan "prophecy")?
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Science's Prediction? Life Goes on After 2012 (Sorry ...
• That'll do, pig: Disney lets McG go from the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea , Captain Nemo prequel.
• io9 lists the dumbest superhero retcons of all time . Hello, Phoenix! And that's one of the less stupid ones.
• SciFi Wire lists ten great scifi oddities from Google's new digital time ...
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Terminator
Today we'll be looking at the concept of "synergy" -- you know, that word corporate bigwigs adore and regular folk despise? -- and how it applies to Hollywood's relationship with the video game industry. You see, it may have taken Hollywood a few decades to respect the raw, monetary power of ...
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Avatar
Dead Space
The Matrix
• Roland Emmerich and his fellow 2012 cast members fess up: this latest flick is really an animated movie .
• Brian Cox is rumored to be in heavy consideration for a role in The Hobbit . He would make an excellent dwarf.
• British scifi maestro Michael Moorcock responds to skepticism ...
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Roland Emmerich
2012
Michael Moorcock
Doctor Who
blogs.amctv.com - 5 days ago
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The Internet entrepreneur and author of the bestselling
Little Brother discusses his latest novel, Makers, and what
distinguishes his work from the cyberpunk of William Gibson.
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Makers Author Cory Doctorow on Disney's SciFi Allure
blogs.amctv.com - 4 days ago
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The ultimate in scifi cyberpunk, The Matrix trilogy
explores questions of reality, religion and philosophy. Do you
belong on the Zion Council of philosophers, or in the ignorant bliss of the Matrix? Swallow a pill, follow the white rabbit ...
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Enter The Matrix Trilogy With AMC's Ultimate Fan Quiz
• Computer and Video Games previews Bioshock 2 -- the upcoming sequel to 2007's sub-aqueous dystopian classic -- and it's sounding surprisingly deep... no pun intended.
• MGM Studios is up for sale , which means that a few million can land you such scifi classics as Forbidden Planet, 2001: ...
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Avatar
Ray Bradbury
BioShock
Forbidden Planet
Westworld
There's a scene early in Roland Emmerich 's 2012 where John Cusack, his estranged wife, their two adorable children,and the smarmy new boyfriend have to escape Los Angeles, which is collapsing into the Earth. (It turns out the Mayans were right about the end of the world, which is brought ...
Film
2012
Roland Emmerich
blogs.amctv.com - 7 days ago
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A few weeks ago I wrote about children's
books that would make great movies , after which
I received a flurry of e-mails from people expressing their horror at some of the current adaptations of their favorite childhood tales. I understand -- I've ...
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Mary Robinette Kowal - The Five Most Common Mistakes ...
• The special effects team of Zack Snyder's execrable (but pretty) 300 has joined the Conan crew . As a huge Robert E. Howard fan, I can only hope the latter movie is exponentially better than the former.
• Whether we like it or not, Ridley Scott is directing a Monopoly movie . But ...
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Dollhouse
Robert E. Howard
Ridley Scott
I was forwarded this New York Times article on James Cameron 's scifi flick Avatar , and how the production and marketing of the movie will likely cost a staggering half-billion dollars. The friend who forwarded it to me wrote, "is this film ever going to make its money back?" Sure, it ...
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Avatar
John Scalzi
James Bond
• Although it was rumored strongly that J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof -- the two guys behind Lost -- would adapt Stephen King's The Dark Tower for television, Abrams himself says he's now out of the picture .
• It now looks very, very likely that the Black Cat will play a significant part ...
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Damon Lindelof
Lost
Stephen King
Isaac Asimov
Richard Kelly
Every comic book geek knows that Wednesday is the most important day of the week because that's when the new issues hit the stores. Well, this Wednesday, AMCtv.com is is in sync with that venerable day. We hereby announce the launch of The Prisoner online graphic novel , an exclusive story ...
TV
The Prisoner
What would happen if we really could record what a person sees? Would dealers sell mind's eye memories like Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) does in Strange Days , or would editors make them into movie memorials like in The Final Cut ? Thanks to a breakthrough by neurologists at the University of ...
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• Sam Rockwell says his character in Iron Man 2 is part Lex Luthor, and that he builds War Machine's armor .
• Guillermo del Toro says that in The Hobbit , we will follow Gandalf to the den of the Necromancer (otherwise known as Sauron), and see his epic fight.
• One of science fiction's ...
