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Physicists Move One Step Closer to Discovering The Anti-You [Cosmology]
Published March 12, 2010, 6:30 pm in io9 Tags:
Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was a soup of matter and antimatter. But today, everything around us is matter. So what and where is the antimatter? Last week, scientists came one step closer to finding out. More »



Fox Pushes The Shadow And Sam Raimi Off On Another Studio [The Shadow]
Published March 12, 2010, 6:27 pm in io9 Tags:
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of studio execs? Sony let the movie rights lapse on Sam Raimi's dream pulp project The Shadow. Undaunted, Raimi's shopping around the rights to other studios, and possibly recruiting a Twilight director. More »



Coheed And Cambria Singer Writes Novel Version Of New Album, With Peter David [Prog Rock]
Published March 12, 2010, 5:49 pm in io9 Tags:
Prog rock and science fiction have always gone hand in hand, but Coheed and Cambria has taken it further, creating elaborate narratives with each album. And now singer/guitarist Claudio Sanchez has teamed up with Peter David to write a novel. More »



Comic-Book Costumes That Actually Look Good In Movies [Costume Calamaties]
Published March 12, 2010, 5:00 pm in io9 Tags:
The biggest miracle about Iron Man 2 so far is that Black Widow's skintight jumpsuit looks decent. Often, superhero costumes from comics are just ridiculous on the big screen. Here are 10 other comic-to-movie costume translations that actually work. More »



Genetically-Modified "Terminator" Trout Have 20% More Muscle [Monsters Among Us]
Published March 12, 2010, 4:15 pm in io9 Tags:
A new transgenic trout has been designed to have so much muscle that its body has developed a bulging hump on its back. What turns a trout into the Terminator? More »



Avatar To Return To Cinemas In The Fall? [Avatar]
Published March 12, 2010, 3:06 pm in io9 Tags:
Missed Avatar in theaters and feel like visiting Pandora won't be the same on non-IMAX screens? You're in luck; director James Cameron is teasing a re-release for the movie in the fall — possibly with 20 minutes of unseen footage. More »



First Glimpse Of Felicia Day Fighting Werewolves In Syfy's "Red" [Red]
Published March 12, 2010, 2:30 pm in io9 Tags:
Felicia Day has started filming her Syfy movie, Red. Syfy's Karen O'Hara tweeted this amazing picture. She also clarified that Red is "the story of the descendants of the original [Little Red Riding Hood] who are now werewolf hunters." Awesome. More »



Spielberg Considers New Robot Overlords [Robopocalypse]
Published March 12, 2010, 1:30 pm in io9 Tags:
Color us a lot more excited about the "robot World War Z" movie, as Robopocalypse has not only picked up Cloverfield, Buffy and Lost screenwriter Drew Goddard to script, but may be about to lure Steven Spielberg as director. More »



Ugly American Propaganda Promises To Kick Your Murder Habit [Exclusive]
Published March 12, 2010, 1:00 pm in io9 Tags:
Spend all day mutilating baby bunnies because someone didn't refill the coffee, again? Perhaps you should check out the television series Ugly Americans' propaganda posters and clips, wherein social workers help demons, werewolves and the undead solve their anger issues. More »



Who's The Better Crime-Fighter: Batman, Or The Terminator? Ask Janet Reno [Pranks]
Published March 12, 2010, 12:30 pm in io9 Tags:
William Geerhart, a Los Angeles record producer, started writing prank letters to famous people years ago, as a fictitious third-grader named Little Billy, and now the results are collected in a book. Among other things, Little Billy wrote to then-Attorney General Janet Reno to ask who's the better crime-fighter, Batman or the Terminator? Replies Reno, "I read Batman comics when I was your age so I know of his efforts to fight crime better than I know of the Terminator's work." Also, "Little Billy" wrote to feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem to ask, "If the Six Million Dollar Man hit the Bionic Woman in a fight, would that be wrong?" Replied Steinem's aide: "The short answer to your question is yes. As Gloria explained to me, it would only be fair if it was done in self-defense." [Salt Lake Tribune] More »



British Newcomer To Create Ape Supremacy [Planet Of The Apes]
Published March 12, 2010, 12:00 pm in io9 Tags:
The prequel to Planet Of The Apes has found its director. Brit Rupert Wyatt, whose last movie was 2008's prison-break caper The Escapist, has taken the spot, according to a report on Deadline Hollywood. No start date has been announced. More »



Cheryl Morgan Refused Entry to US
Published March 12, 2010, 11:52 am in Locus Online News Tags:
SF critic, editor, and convention organizer Cheryl Morgan, a British citizen, landed at San Francisco International Airport on March 11, only to be put on a plane back to the UK. She will not be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts as originally planned. See her blog for further details.


io9 RSS Feeds Have Changed! [Internal Affairs]
Published March 12, 2010, 11:30 am in io9 Tags:
If you are looking at this via an RSS reader, you may have noticed things have changed around here. Instead of defaulting to the full view feed, io9 now defaults to a snippet view. This is a technical change that has affected all Gawker Media blogs. If you want to continue to see the full view, you'll need to subscribe to a new feed: io9.com/vip.xml More »



Will Marvel's Avengers Continuity Be Its Undoing? [Iron Man 2]
Published March 12, 2010, 11:00 am in io9 Tags:
While Marvel's Avengers-related movies share a continuity similar to their source comics, is that tangled storyline going to end up being too complex for mainstream movie audiences? More »



Agent Smith Is Captain America's Nemesis, The Red Skull [Red Skull]
Published March 12, 2010, 10:30 am in io9 Tags:
Professional villain Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull. Captain America is screwed. More »