These days, it seems like every member of young Hollywood is involved in a YA series adaptation of some sort. While speaking with Emma Roberts about her new film Adult World at the Tribeca Film Festival, Tor.com got her to spill a little bit about Delirium, the TV pilot she recently wrapped. She spoke about where on the YA spectrum the show falls—gritty realism or ethereal metaphor—and what draws her to characters like Lena Haloway.

Lauren Oliver’s novel Delirium envisions a dystopian United States where every citizen is afflicted with amor deliria nervosa, or the love disease. Lena (Roberts) longs for her 18th birthday when she can finally get the surgical cure... that is, until she meets Alex Sheathes (Daren Kagasoff).

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The first trailer for supernatural cop movie R.I.P.D. has dropped, and you have the right to pass judgment on this unexpected blend of Men in Black and Left 4 Dead. Ryan Reynolds is his usual straight guy yanked along with the crazy plan and snarking about it every step of the way. Jeff Bridges has basically resurrected his True Grit character Rooster Cogburn. Cheesy or brilliant? Your call.

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Tor.com has already touched upon 30 Rock’s geekiest moments, but who knew that Parks and Recreation could give its fellow sitcom such a run for its money? Uber-nerd Patton Oswalt guest-stars on this Thursday’s episode and this deleted scene proves why he’s so beloved among his fellow geeks. Listen to him launch into an eight-minute filibuster speech detailing his dream plotline for Star Wars: Episode VII.

Not only is it a really solid pitch for the prequels, but it’s 100% improvised.

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Since we left the movie theater happy-sobbing at Disney•Pixar’s Up in 2009, we’ve wondered what writer-director Pete Docter would do for his follow-up. The studio has had him slotted in for “Untitled Disney•Pixar ‏Inside The Mind Film” for years now, but finally they’ve confirmed that Docter’s movie Inside Out is indeed happening.

And as you might have guessed from this rad concept art, Inside Out is going where no Disney•Pixar film has yet explored... the human mind. But there’s even more to this project!

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In addition to the Catching Fire teaser trailer, the MTV Movie Awards also brought us this piece of viral marketing for Man of Steel! Our first look at General Zod (Michael Shannon) is an eerie one, as he issues an ultimatum to the citizens of Earth and the Kryptonian hidden in their midst.

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It’s here—the first teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire! Our first glimpse at the second film in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian trilogy aired during the MTV Movie Awards, and it looks pretty damn fantastic. It’s exciting to see Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen again, especially because we get such a keen sense of how much emotional torture she’s going to go through even before the major plot-driving twist of the second book is revealed...

[Watch the trailer! Spoilers for those who haven’t read the books...]

Ever since the first teaser images and trailer featuring a blood-drenched Chloe Moretz were released, we knew that the Carrie remake would match the original in terms of creepiness. But it wasn’t until we saw the first full-length trailer that we realized just how dark Moretz—and her religious nut of a mother played by Julianne Moore—are playing this. It all comes down to Carrie’s burgeoning psychic abilities, which take center stage in this trailer.

[Read on to find out how Carrie is like Harry Potter]

Stephenie Meyer released her sci-fi novel The Host in 2008, right as soccer moms were waiting in line for the latest Twilight book and Kristen Stewart was biting her lip for the first time on the big screen. Though Twihards eagerly devoured this new work from their favorite author, the rest of us likely knew little about her literary detour until the release of the movie adaptation, written and directed by Andrew Niccol.

Unfortunately, The Host still possesses all the earmarks of a Meyer novel—a heroine you can’t quite root for, an even weirder love triangle—without the self-referential snark of the movies. It’s so painfully earnest, yet will never rank on the list of definitive sci-fi.

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There have been plenty of articles detailing which Doctor Who actors have shown up in the Harry Potter films and vice versa, but have you ever thought about what would happen if these two beloved worlds actually merged?

Accio the “Doctor Potter” meme! This brilliant Tumblr mash-up makes the perfectly reasonable case for the Doctor and his latest companion to drop the TARDIS into the wizarding world. The GIFs and photo manips are so expertly done that you can almost giddily imagine that this is a lost episode.

[“Yer a paradox, Harry!”]

How does the old adage go? “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Then consider lovers Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) certifiable, because they spend all of sci-fi indie Upside Down trying to fight the respective gravities that shackle each of them to their inverted planets. And frankly, watching them make the same attempt even after they’re derailed by amnesia, class culture, and Border Patrol is more exhausting than inspiring.

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As swiftly as it came to our TV screens, TBS’ reality show King of the Nerds is over, with a second season already in the works. When we saw the trailer we were enraged, watching the pilot felt like a near-180, and now that the first season has concluded with one victor crowned King of the Nerds... we can finally say, “Yeah, it was OK.”

Our final analysis is a tepid one because the finale really drove home where King of the Nerds falls short. Here a reality show took eleven unique—if socially awkward—personalities, got us to root for them, and then knocked them off one by one, ultimately claiming that ten of the eleven weren’t “ideal” nerds. What a rollercoaster of feels, guys.

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It’s here it’s here it’s here! MTV Geek just released the first red-band trailer for Kick-Ass 2, which sees masked crimefighters Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) a few years older, wiser, and better equipped to bring the smackdown on shady criminals. It’s a good thing that in addition to dealing with high school drama they’ve been training hard, because now they have to face off against Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who’s renamed himself The Motherfucker.

Not to mention a nearly-unrecognizable Jim Carrey as new masked hero Captain Stars and Stripes! This looks so good, you guys.

[Probably best to watch this with your headphones in]

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s two leading ladies Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson finally meet! And New York City doesn’t combust! But what’s got us talking even more than MJ and Gwen possibly getting along is how devoted this sequel seems to be to transforming the characters from what we remember in the comics and the original movie trilogy.

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The revolution in Panem is coming up roses! In every piece of Catching Fire promotional material so far, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been seen gripping white roses. Now, with the release of five more “Capitol Portraits,” it’s clear that the roses are a symbol of rebellion—and Katniss isn’t the only one holding them.

When we left off, the portrait of Katniss in her incredible wedding dress had just been released. We were just as wowed by her fierce mockingjay-themed gown as by her staring straight into the camera when every other character had averted their gaze. Matching her virginal dress was a snowy rose, usually President Snow’s calling card. But here it’s been subverted into yet another sign of the unrest in Panem.

[Check out five new portraits from the Victory Tour!]

Early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs’ (James Franco) hot air balloon is being shredded by a tornado, he screams into the winds, “I’m not ready to die! Give me a chance!” While this prequel to The Wizard of Oz isn’t begging for your approval in the same fashion, the best way to fully appreciate what it sets out to tell us about witches, con artists, and magic is to give it a decent chance.

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Coming up on almost two years of promoting The Hunger Games movies, Lionsgate has really gotten comfortable with the world of Suzanne Collins’ series: Nearly all of the studio’s promotional materials for Catching Fire have been incredibly, engagingly in-character.

A few weeks ago we glimpsed Katniss and Peeta’s Victory Tour poster/engagement announcement, in the style of a dystopian propaganda poster. But while Panem’s favorite couple visits their fellow tributes’ districts after the 74th Hunger Games, the Capitol citizens have been busy posing for formal portraits, likely at President Snow’s behest. And they don’t look at all happy about it.

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Without a doubt, the release of Iron Man in 2008 reinvigorated both the superhero genre and Robert Downey Jr.’s nosediving career. But something that the older, wiser Downey Jr. has learned is when it’s time to leave the party. In a recent interview with Empire magazine, the actor confessed that he might not play Tony Stark forever.

Say it ain’t so, RDJ!

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Game of Thrones returns for a third season on March 31st, with the new trailer already getting fans revved up for death, revenge, and dragons. But rather than rest on its laurels, HBO consistently ups the ante on its advertising campaign, topping itself each season with simple but brilliant transmedia executions that invite fans to engage in ways we never would’ve fathomed.

With the latest bit of season 3 advertising literally making us search the sky for dragons, let’s look back over the past two years of real-life thrones, food trucks, and free tattoos making us wish that never again will we live in a world without Game of Thrones.

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Like Superman and other original comic book superheroes, Wonder Woman’s introduction in the 1940s cast her as a female champion who could bring the smackdown on Nazi Germany. It makes sense, then, that this new fan trailer for a Wonder Woman movie has Diana squaring off against the Third Reich.

But what makes this concept trailer especially impressive is that it’s directed by stuntman Jesse V. Johnson and stars Nina Bergman as perhaps the most convincing Diana we’ve seen on-screen since Lynda Carter.

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