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How Serenity Slashed Its Budget from $100 Million to $39 Million
[ad_1] When the sci-fi series Firefly was axed before its first season had even finished airing, the creative team went into desperation mode to try and find a way to wrap up the space cowboy adventure in a satisfying way for fans. That scramble ended with the sequel film Serenity — but the journey to…
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Lost City Discovered in the Amazon Dates Back to 500 B.C.
[ad_1] Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C. (streaming now on SYFY) imagines one potential past, but has little if any archaeological evidence backing up its narrative. The story takes place 12,000 years ago among a small society of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl. They spend their days hunting mammoths and dreaming of a better future, but their relatively…
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The Wild Ending of ALF, Explained
[ad_1] The 1980s was an absolute golden age for scripted comedy, which probably explains how a show as offbeat and distinctive as ALF (streaming now on Peacock!) ever managed to crash-land its way to a weekly time slot on mainstream network TV. After all, there are only so many Earthly places where you can set…
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When Will Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Stream on Peacock?
[ad_1] Peacock will become the exclusive streaming home of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer starting Friday, February 16, the NBCUniversal platform announced today. Six Nolan classics — Memento (2000), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Dunkirk (2017) — are set to join the service Thursday, February 1. If you can’t wait for its streaming debut, the…
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The Best Animated Shows on Peacock
[ad_1] “There’s nothing to watch!” If that’s a familiar refrain from kids in your house, we get it. It’s easy to understand how kids can get overwhelmed looking for great shows to watch. But as it turns out, Peacock always has a huge selection of animated kids originals that will appeal to even the pickiest viewers.…
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Stream Ted and Chucky, Two Talking Toys, on Peacock
[ad_1] Is Peacock a streaming service or a toybox? It’s getting harder to tell because there are now two different shows on the platform about talking toys. One of them is a Teddy bear with a tendency for raunchy humor. The other is a doll who also has a tendency for raunchy humor — and…
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See Neptune’s Real True Colors, Like Never Before
[ad_1] In SYFY’s The Ark (streaming now on Peacock), the passengers of humanity’s most crucial lifeboat, Ark One, embark upon the most important deep space mission in the history of our species. An interstellar ship filled with stasis pods will carry them from Earth to the Proxima centauri system 4.2 light-years away. A journey of…
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Kristen Stewart Revisits Twilight as a Queer Allegory
[ad_1] Nearly two decades after the release of Twilight, Kristen Stewart has reevaluated the hit vampire film (now streaming on Peacock alongside its four sequels) as a subtle, queer allegory. Why Kristen Stewart Considers Twilight a “Gay Movie” “I can only see it now,” the 33-year-old actress, who played the character of Bella Swan, said during a recent chat…
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NASA Wants Ideas for a Mission to the Asteroid Apophis
[ad_1] In a fictional future roughly a century from now, humanity is struggling to survive on a dying planet and readying for the greatest adventure in the history of our species: our first journey to another star. With any luck, our actual introduction to interstellar travel won’t be quite as stressful as The Ark (streaming…
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Celebrating Megalosaurus, the Very First Dinosaur
[ad_1] It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a kid in possession of curiosity and wonder, must be in want of some dope dinosaurs. It’s the reason The Land Before Time and Jurassic Park hold so much cultural currency. Little else could trick a child into learning Latin and liking it, yet toddlers everywhere happily…