Knives Out Posed An Unusual Challenge For Director Rian Johnson After Star Wars
Some of Rian Johnson's closest friends raised an eyebrow when he said he was going from the expansive Star Wars franchise to a much smaller murder mystery.
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A 1995 Sci-Fi Box Office Hit Featured An Unexpected Cameo From Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett had both a fan and a friend in Frank Marshall, which explains why he briefly showed up in this 1995 sci-fi box office hit directed by Marshall.
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Avatar Nearly Starred Another Big Actor As Jake Sully (And It's Not Matt Damon)
Most film fans know that Matt Damon turned down the chance to star in Avatar, but another actor also almost landed the main role in James Cameron's mega-hit.
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Shirley Henderson Landed Her Star Wars Role In One Of The Franchise's Most Unusual Auditions
Shirley Henderson's audition to voice Babu Frik in Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker was pretty unconventional, to say the least.
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Why Patrick Stewart Agreed To Star In X-Men After Turning Down The Movie At First
Patrick Stewart initially turned down one of his most famous roles. Here's how the director of X-Men convinced him to play Professor X.
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James Cameron Knows How To End The Avatar Franchise If Fire & Ash Isn't Profitable
On the off chance that Avatar: Fire and Ash is a disaster that puts an end to the Avatar film franchise, James Cameron knows a way to tell the end of the story.
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A Game Of Thrones Co-Creator Helped Write An Ambitious Will Smith Sci-Fi Flop
David Benioff, one of the co-creators of HBO's Game of Thrones, was one of several writers who worked on Ang Lee's Will Smith-led sci-fi film, Gemini Man.
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The Real Reason Sigourney Weaver Joined The Star Wars Movie Mandalorian & Grogu
Sigourney Weaver will join the Star Wars franchise with her role in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a movie the actor was excited to work on for one simple reason.
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Joaquin Phoenix's Bizarre 2000s Sci-Fi Movie Might Deserve Another Look
This strange 2000s Joaquin Phoenix sci-fi film was excoriated upon its release, and while it is a bit of a mess, it's only grown more relevant over time.
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How Avengers: Age Of Ultron Worked To Avoid A Big 'Green Goblin Mistake'
Avengers: Age of Ultron may have had a robot villain, but director Joss Whedon wanted to avoid giving Ultron an expressionless mask like Green Goblin.
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Uma Thurman's 2003 Sci-Fi Thriller Is One Of Hollywood's Worst Philip K. Dick Adaptations
The 2003 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, has largely been forgotten by sci-fi fans.
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Ray Liotta's Forgotten '90s Thriller On Prime Video Will Scratch Your Dystopian Sci-Fi Itch
Prime Video is currently streaming this '90s Ray Liotta dystopian sci-fi thriller, which is reminiscent of movies like Escape from New York (in a good way).
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Quentin Tarantino Thinks That The Hunger Games Ripped Off A Wild 2000 Movie
Quentin Tarantino is among those who feel The Hunger Games ripped this film off (despite Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins' claims to the contrary).
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The Sci-Fi Movie Steve McQueen Didn't Want To Talk About
Steve McQueen was rarely hesitant to talk about his career, although there was one sci-fi film on his resume that he refused to discuss in interviews.
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Chris Evans Dodged A Bullet By Dropping Out Of Mark Wahlberg's 2021 Sci-Fi Failure
Chris Evans lucked out when he left this much-hyped sci-fi flick, which replaced him with Mark Wahlberg before becoming a straight-to-streaming critical bust.
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Let's Try To Explain Every Marvel Symbiote In Venom 3 (The Movie Doesn't Make It Easy)
Venom: The Last Dance introduces more new symbiotes than you might have anticipated, but it's hard to determine if they're familiar from Marvel Comics or not.
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Fox Thought H.R. Giger Was Too 'Obscene' To Work On Alien
And yet, the Alien is only the best movie creature ever.
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/Film Holiday Gift Guide 2025: The Best Movies & TV Shows Worth Buying On Physical Media
If you really want to own your movies and TV shows, physical media is the way to go, and our holiday gift guide is packed with tons of cool titles to buy now.
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The 12 Scariest Scenes In A Nightmare On Elm Street Movies
Focusing on the original film series, we combed through the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise's scariest scenes.
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The 14 Greatest Science Fiction Movies Of The 21st Century
The 21st century has been a watershed period for smart, genre-defying science fiction. Here are the 14 best movies of the century — so far.
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The Entire Predator Timeline Explained
Get to the choppa! Let's dig into the entire Predator timeline, stretching far from long before Dutch's deadly encounter with a Yautja to battles in the future.
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Marvel Was Responsible For One Of The Earliest Stephen King Adaptations
Stephen King is a master of horror, but one of his first adaptations was a sci-fi heavy comic book adaptation of one of his short stories.
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James Cameron Has One Pet Peeve About The Way People Talk About The Avatar Movies
James Cameron has admitted there's one particular recurring discussion point regarding the Avatar movies that sticks in his craw, and it's easy to see why.
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What Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Thought About The Matrix
The Matrix was heavily inspired by William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. Here's what the author had to say after seeing the movie.
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How To Watch Tron: Ares At Home
If you missed Tron: Ares in theaters, here's when you can watch it at home. For the collectors out there, we also have the street date for the physical release.
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12 Movies That Almost Ended An A-List Actor's Career
Every movie is a risk in show business, and this collection of questionable films came close to ending the careers of these A-list stars.
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Star Wars' Design For Chewbacca Combined Real Animals With A Creature From Another Sci-Fi Classic
Chewbacca's design for the original Star Wars trilogy combines elements of not just a dog and a cat but also creatures from an earlier classic sci-fi film.
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