Here's your very first look at Mystique from X-Men: Days of Future Past!

On the last movie it took Lawrence 7 hours in the makeup chair to transform into Mystique. Even though it's only been a few years, Mystique does look a little older (even under all of that makeup). Can't wait to see how our favorite mutant has changed — and if she'll pull out the skull belt in this movie.

[via Bryan Singer's twitter.]

Ernie the Junkie? Finn the shark-toothed monstrosity? Artist Dan LuVisi has imagined a whole new backstory for your favorite heroes and playful puppets. What would Wreck-It-Ralph look like if he fell off the bad-guy wagon? What would Buzz Lightyear look like as a real space bad ass?

You may remember LuVisi's work from his book Last Man Standing, but now he's working on Popped Culture a series which he describes as, "A pop-culture series based off characters from famous videogames, film, and movies—-but in an alternate and wildly disturbing universe." Which means Bert gets sent to the Vietnam War and comes back to save Ernie from his smack habit. Fun!

What's the POV of the Jaeger pilots in Guillermo del Toro's new giant monsters vs. giant robots movie Pacific Rim? We gleaned a collection of images ripped from the new trailer that show off what's happening inside the head of the giant mecha machine.

Clamp on!

Spine shot.

Memory sync.

This is what memories look like when the pilots are synced.

The pilots are loaded into the head, and then the robotic noggin is dropped down a chute and onto the shoulders of the giant Jaeger body.

Memory sync from the Boss' perspective.

Via Scified.

The Russians.

Photo by WENN.com

behold every single made-up website featured on Doctor Who, with an added bonus of a collection of actors nonsensically mashing their fingers onto keypads. Oh, Doctor, if only real life was as simple as hacking into the Royal Navy from your bedroom.

[via Geekologie]

First, that is one awesome-looking Guillermo del Toro monster. Second, it has been TOO DAMN LONG sense we've seen a new GDT monster with this eyeless esthetic and we've missed it. Pacific Rim, get here now.

[via ComingSoon]

Karl Urban is back as Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the curmudgeonly doctor with a heart of gold and a crap-load of sass, in Star Trek Into Darkness. How does one man spout so many outlandish metaphors without getting kicked off the deck of the Enterprise? We asked Karl Urban, and he told us about delivering a classic "Dammit, Jim" line.

It seemed like this movie spent more time with the crew in smaller, off-ship missions. Was that hard to shoot, and were you ever all together on the bridge?

Karl Urban: Yes, we were; the very first stuff we shot was on the Enterprise. Which was fantastic because that was a great plea to start. We really were like a family at the start on the deck, with everybody together again before we went off on our individual missions. And it really was a wonderful way to start.

How many metaphors did you get to say in this movie?

A few, it's interesting. I was talking to J.J. [Abrams] as we were going through some of the scenes on the bridge, and I sort of noticed that a lot of my lines were metaphors. So I went up to him and said, "Look, there's a lot of metaphors here, like three in a row. Can we take one of these out so I'm not some metaphor man?" And his response to that was to give a line to Captain Kirk pointing out that I was speaking in metaphors. It was quite hilarious.

What was your favorite metaphor?

I think probably, "Don't rob a gas station with a flat tire."

McCoy tends to be remembered for his quippiness more than anything else. Do you think Star Trek Into Darkness will show McCoy in a new light?

What I liked about what I get to contribute in this film is underneath the surface there's a warmth and a friendship and a love that McCoy has for all of these characters. And I think we enjoy seeing Bones work to the best of his ability in order to save lives. That was a wonderful element to have.

Where do you think McCoy feels about the idea of militarizing Starfleet [a theme in the new movie]?

Oh no, he's absolutely of the line that Starfleet is supposed to be a body about space and exploration. McCoy would be totally anti-military in regards to militarizing Starfleet. That's one of the themes in this movie — it's called Into Darkness. The film explores not only darkness on a character level, as the characters delve into the darker side of their nature and give into their baser impulses, but it also explores the reaction to what happens in the first film within Starfleet. And how there are some elements in Starfleet that they decided to militarize. And that's part of the bite of this movie.

There are a lot of classic Trek lines in Darkness. What's the pressure like recreating DeForest Kelley's "Dammit, Jim" line?

I don't think about that when I'm on set. When I'm on set, I'm just focusing on my energy and being in the moment and delivering a performance that can tell the story. I'm a fan of Star Trek and there are some surreal moments.

Do you ever call Kirk "Captain"?

That's a good question. In the original series McCoy definitely did. I'm trying to think if he did in this movie... I don't believe so, not in this movie. Interestingly enough, in this film Scotty also calls Captain Kirk "Jim" and in the entire history of Star Trek I believe that only happens on one other occasion. But thematically, I think that this film is about family, it's about friends. It's about characters that really love each other and care for each other. And would do anything to the point of laying down their lives for each other.

Most of your non-Starfleet outfits are fairly restricting. What do think it says about the future that all of the outfits are tight, monochrome suits?

We had a lot of laughs working in the wetsuits. They were very revealing. I mean they were incredible to wear, not the most comfortable costume, but they look great on screen. Michael Kaplan is so good at designing costumes that look good on screen. And if you look at his pedigree, it starts with Blade Runner and just goes up from there.

Usually Star Trek costumes pay more attention to the short skirts. Do you think the guys are the new eye candy now?

Star Trek was always sexy, so I think it's good. J.J.'s got his eye on that ball, so there's a bit more risky bits in this film. I think that's fantastic.

When are we going to see what Bones does in his private time off Enterprise?

I don't know! That's a question for the writers. I think he does along the same line of what Scotty does. If you look through the history of Star Trek you can often find them in clubs and bars, slamming shots and having a good time.

Watch Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston breathe into each others mouths as sexy vampire rock gods. If vampires really were alive, we have no doubt they would look just like this.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, Hiddleston and Swinton play "two vampires who have been in love for centuries" in Only Lovers Left Alive. Hiddleston is the melancholy vampire/musician Adam, his lover is Eve (Swinton). At some point their vampire love fest is interrupted by Eve's wild little sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska), who is in the second clip — check out the wild child sister and the super unamused Hiddleston below.

Only Lovers Left Alive will debut at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Wait... we're about to get to my favorite part..." But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters! "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. *Sigh* Anyway, back to Spock."

Now it's your turn — caption this.

Get a big gorgeous look at the new Star Trek movie in this massive collection of 25 high-res stills. The future is stunning, and full of lens flare! Say what you will about this rebooted franchise, J.J. Abrams will always churn out a gorgeous movie.

Get ready for the real life My Little High School Girls. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will mutate its main characters into real people, in a direct-to-DVD movie, called Equestria Girls. Behold horses acting like people.

The New York Times is reporting that the Equestria Girls movie is the first big move from Hasbro to expand the pony brand, into terrifying people. Thankfully the trailer has strayed from this horrifying concept art, where the pony people have ears and wings (I mean would would the bottom of the wings even be made out of? Human flesh and feathers... uuuh).

Instead, now the ponies just look like regular old girls who LOVE apples. All the same talent behind the original show is behind this movie — which will also air on The Hub — so we expect it to be cute and smart and thankfully free of horrifying mutants.

What does the "Darkness" refer to in the Star Trek Into Darkness title, and why is it all Kirk's fault? In our exclusive interview, Simon Pegg reveals why Starfleet should never become a military organization, along with what the hell he's wearing (and drinking) when he's off ship. Spoilers ahead...

When you were off the Enterprise (in this clip in the bar) what exactly were you wearing?

Simon Pegg: I was wearing a fantastic ensemble that Michael Kaplan (our costume designer) had me wear. Which was this appalling shirt, but this rather cool jacket. It's difficult when you're dealing with fashion when it comes to the future. Because you don't really want to anchor anything too much in the present, you have to kind of be a little be out there. To give it some future modernity. But yeah, it was a disgusting shirt.

It kind of felt like a futuristic leisure suit.

I guess it was. It was casual wear, it was drinking, drinking… frock.

You were drinking a brown liquid, I assume that was whisky? Was that deliberate, and did you ever try and make a "it's green" joke or yell WHISKY?

In the first film I was drinking Romulan Ale, I think, because I had some in Delta Vega, where I was. I probably smuggled a couple of bottles. But I think when he's out and about on Earth he just drinks good scotch?

You didn't slip in a classic Scotty line?

The trouble is that scene, the film moves at such a pace that any kind of digression sometimes slows things down. You kind of have to hit the ground running. There's plenty of room for little call backs. I love that the ship the guys take down to Kronos belonged to Harry Mudd, which is a really nice little callback to the series. But we've still got some films to make, so you might hear me complaining about the Galactic Whisky in another one.

Scotty is the only character who has a problem with the mission and protests his orders. Why do you think that's in Scotty? He really believes in Starfleet, and yet he was the only character who protests.

Because I don't think he expects Kirk to follow up with his threat [to let Scotty go]. Scotty and Kirk have an understanding they respect each other enormously. Scotty is totally in the right there, and what he stands up for he totally believes in. And Kirk is so blinded by his sense of vengeance, that Scotty calls his bluff and Kirk calls it back. Scotty has no choice but to leave the ship because he's a man of principles and honor. But I'm sure that the reason he goes off and gets drunk with Keenser is because he's completely lost. But thank goodness that he does. It was a really fun thing to play that because it was a great example of a Captain in his infancy, and Kirk making the wrong decision. Kirk was awarded the Enterprise very young, and I think this film is all about the fact that he's not ready for it.

So you think Kirk got promoted too fast?

I think he did, yeah, I think absolutely he did. I think the "Darkness" in the film's title is all to do with Kirk's uncertainty. I think it's confusion, because there's a point where no one knows what to do. The Darkness in the movie is his lack of experience. It's not the type of Dark Knight sense of darkness, or even in Benedict [Cumberbatch's] character, it's more like, "What the fuck do I do now?" It's a real life Kobayashi Maru and he fails it. If it wasn't for the intervention of someone on the outside, then everybody on that ship would be dead. It's sheer dumb luck that he gets through, I think he learns a valuable lesson.

You have a lot of important lines that speak loudly about the Trek world, specifically when you ask, "I thought we were explorers?" How important is exploring to Scotty?

I think that Scotty feels that everything that is happening is so besides the point, so besides what they're supposed to be for. Kirk really gets caught up in the attempt to sort of militarize Starfleet. To turn it into gigantic militia, rather than this sort of force of goodness and discovery. It's almost, in a way if Starfleet was militarized then we could have become the mirror universe. This could have been how we all became evil.

What do you think about Starfleet itself, something so huge and so expensive and with so many people that's basically on a mission of exploration and goodwill?

I think that's what makes Star Trek such an aspirational idea. Not only is it a place where everyone is accepted and there are multi ethnicities working together, different groups from all of the Galaxy are working together. We might actually evolve to a point where this is what we want to do, rather than concur or fight. It's a nice idea that the human race can evolve beyond these marshall instincts that we seem to have. That's one of the things about Star Trek, this utopian idea, that I think a lot of people latch on to. Isn't it a lovely thought that we could do that and not destroy ourselves.

What's the benefit of adding a little sidekick to Scotty?

I think he's just a friend. The true story of this is when Scotty when he was marooned on Delta Vega he has Keenser as his companion there and when we were making the film, the relationship between Keenser and Scotty seemed quite attractive. When Scotty beamed off and left Keenser on his own, it was quite a poignant moment. And me and J.J. were off set one day thinking, "wouldn't it be nice if he got out of there too, and maybe came on board the Enterprise?" We then called Michael Kaplan and asked if he could make a little Starfleet uniform? We called Deep Roy back and put him back in the make up and had him come aboard the ship, he's obviously a very talented engineer. He kind of operates as Scotty's conscience sometimes, because Scotty is often talking to himself. But it's not like he's Scrappy-Doo, he's just a non-human friend of Scotty.

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and the rest of his Enterprise crew and cast are setting up a live chat with astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station.

This Thursday, May 16th, from 9:00 to 9:45 AM PST Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Chris Pine, John Cho and Alice Eve will live video chat with Cassidy from the ISS and astronauts Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It will be hosted in the NASA Google+ Hangout.

You can submit questions to be asked dring this space chat; just use the hashtag #askNASA on Google+, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram, or leave a comment on the Star Trek Into Darkness Facebook page. The deadline for video questions is 12:00pm PST on Wednesday, May 15th (questions will be taken throughout the event).

Whoever stumps grand marshal of Trekfest 2012 and astronaut Chris Cassidy wins.

Fox's new Sleepy Hollow series upgrades Ichabod Crane into a time-traveling Robert Langdon-type character who must save us all from the reincarnation of the Headless Horseman and make Starbucks jokes.

WOOF. Ichabod Crane has transformed from the nebbish cartoon characterinto a secret soldier in George Washington's army. Tasked with killing one of the four horseman of the apocalypse, Crane creates the Headless Horseman by slicing its head off. And then falls asleep(?) only to awaken 250 years later in THE FUTURE. This show is either the best or the very worst thing ever. And being created by Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman seems to only strengthen that statistic. On the other hand, I do like that society has embraced absurd supernatural antics to the point where a show can just jettison a character 250 years into the future because they wanted to. Here's the official synopsis:

Ichabod Crane wakes up from the throes of death 250 years in the future to find the world on the brink of destruction and learn he is humanity’s only hope. From co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the “Star Trek” and “Transformers” franchises, “Fringe”) comes the adventure thriller SLEEPY HOLLOW. In this modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic, ICHABOD CRANE (Tom Mison, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity’s last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie, “Shame,” “American Violet”) to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.

Sleepy Hollow will premiere this fall.

Did not expect this.... very happy.