A new "Pacific Rim" featurette has been posted online in which director Guillermo Del Toro and members of the cast lay out the meaning of what the movie calls "The Drift."

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Basically, the towering robots known as Jaegers, constructed to defend the Earth against the equally gigantic kaiju monsters from another dimension, are driven by human pilots whose minds and bodies are linked directly to the machines. But because the sheer size and power of the Jaegers can essentially burn out someone's brain, each robot requires two pilots.

Those two pilots, however, must also be mentally linked as well. The space in which their two minds meld -- where one cannot hide anything from the other, including memories -- is called "The Drift."

We'll let Del Toro and his cast elaborate further in the video below, which also contains plenty of epic footage from this jumbo-sized sci-fi epic. 

"Pacific Rim" is out in theaters Friday, July 12.

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"Fast & Furious 6" promises to be the most spectacular and insane of the bunch, so we'd like to offer up a little tribute with this list of horror and sci-fi movies on wheels (and let's be honest, we'd like some of that "Fast and Furious" Web traffic, too). Hop on board and come with us for the ride ...

"Duel" (1971): This early Steven Spielberg thriller was made for television but was later expanded for theatrical release in Europe. Dennis Weaver plays a traveling salesman who is caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a massive tanker and its unseen driver, who seems intent on running Weaver to his death. Based on a story by Richard Matheson, this gripping and lean shocker will keep you watching the rear view mirror the next time you're on a lonely road.

"Horror Express" (1972): We're going to jump briefly from cars and trucks to trains for this Spanish-British production that put Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas on the Trans-Siberian Express with an ancient frozen ape creature that is actually the hiding place of an alien entity from another galaxy. By the time it starts turning everyone on the speeding locomotive into zombies, you'll be hooked by this wild, over-the-top horror/sci-fi/runawa​y train mashup.

"Death Race 2000" (1975): Roger Corman produced this now-classic sci-fi satire, set in a future fascist America where the annual Transcontinental Road Race provides the ultimate in violent reality TV to keep the masses distracted. The more pedestrians you kill, the more points you acquire. Crashes and chases ensue -- and all of it seems eerily plausible these days.

"Race With the Devil" (1975): Two couples accidentally stumble upon a satanic ritual and are pursued in their RV across Texas by the cult. Peter Fonda and Warren Oates are the menfolk, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker are the ladies, and the movie builds a decent amount of tension while also delivering some knockout chase scenes.

"The Car" (1977): Notice how a lot of these movies are from the '70s, when films based around autos were very popular? "The Car" is as simple as it gets: A black Lincoln Continental begins laying waste to the citizens of a small Utah town. Why? It's possessed by a demon, silly. James Brolin plays the lawman tasked with stopping the infernal machine. Look for future "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" sisters Kyle and Kim Richards as his daughters.

"Damnation Alley" (1977): This cheesy post-apocalyptic film was based loosely on a novel by sci-fi great Roger Zelazny and follows four men as they travel in 12-wheeled Landmasters across "Damnation Alley," the devastated heartland of what was once America that is now populated by freakish weather and giant mutated insects. The Landmasters almost outshine the actors -- Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Paul Winfield and others -- in one of two sci-fi films released in 1977 by 20th Century Fox. This one was supposed to be the hit. The other? "Star Wars."

"Mad Max" (1979) and "The Road Warrior" (1981): Australian director George Miller delivered some of the finest action sequences of their time in these brilliant first two entries in the "Mad Max" trilogy, starring a young Mel Gibson as a cop who lives through the collapse of society to become a near-mythic hero. The slamming automobile action in "Mad Max" paved the way for the climactic extended chase in the second film, surely one of the greatest in modern cinema.

"Maximum Overdrive" (1986): When the director -- who happened to be Stephen King -- calls his own picture a "moron movie," you know you're in for either a painful sit or an enjoyably bad time. Sadly, "Maximum Overdrive," which first-time (and only-time) director King based on his short story "Trucks," leans closer to the former. The idea of trucks, cars and other vehicles and machines coming to life and coming for us is a fun one, but King just sends it all into the ditch.

"Drive Angry" (2011): Car-chase movies with a supernatural or sci-fi slant dropped off the pop culture radar for a long time, but director Patrick Lussier and star Nicolas Cage tried to bring them back with this 3-D exercise, which does feature some well-staged automobile action but an ultimately dull story. Cage does the same loony schtick he's been doing for the past decade, while William Fichtner races off with the picture as the demonic Accountant.

Following this past Saturday's (May 18) Season 7 finale, the BBC has announced -- to no one's great surprise -- that the modern incarnation of "Doctor Who" will be back for an eighth set of shows in 2014.

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Although the British press loves to speculate endlessly over whether the current season is the last for whoever is playing the Doctor at the moment, Matt Smith will be back for Season 8 as the Doctor, with showrunner and head writer Steven Moffat also returning as well.

Of course, the current season isn't truly over, especially since the finale, "The Name of the Doctor," raised some potentially universe-rattling questions. November 23rd will see the premiere of the "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary special, which will bring Smith's Doctor and current companion Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) together with previous Doctor David Tennant and his first, beloved companion Rose (Billie Piper). John Hurt as a much-theorized-about​ mystery guest and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart (from the episode "The Power of Three") are also on board for the special.

Airing around the same period will be "An Adventure in Space and Time," an original BBC movie about the launch of "Doctor Who" back in 1963, and then in December we'll get the usual Christmas special.

So if you're already jonesing for more of the Doctor after this season came to its close, don't worry -- there's more on the way six months from now, and then a whole new set of Smith/Moffat shows next year. 

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Well, Marvel Studios' Phase Two is off to a gargantuan start: "Iron Man 3" has just passed the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales after less than a month in theaters, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Coming off the $1.5 billion haul for last year's "The Avengers," that's one hell of an impressive start for the next round of movies set in the universe created by the comic book juggernaut.

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We already know what lies ahead for the rest of Phase Two: "Thor: The Dark World" arrives in November, followed next April by "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and in August 2014 by the weirdest, most cosmic new addition, "Guardians of the Galaxy." Those, of course, will all lead up to "The Avengers 2" in May 2015, for which writer-director Joss Whedon has already confirmed the addition of mutant brother-sister act Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to the roster. But what happens after that presumably takes in its billion-plus box-office earnings?

Next comes Phase Three, and plans for that have been, until now, mostly murky. But Marvel president Kevin Feige, the public face of the studio, just gave an extensive interview to EW.com in which he discussed a number of potential candidates for Phase Three movies and gave some better chances of making the schedule than others. So let's take a look at the possibilities and lay our own odds on which heroes, villains and otherworldly beings could be blasting onto movie screens in 2015, 2016 and 2017:

Ant-Man: Not only is this a done deal, but it's even got a release date of Nov. 6, 2015. Good thing too, since an "Ant-Man" movie has been in the works for seven years. Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead") will direct and has been revising the script, which centers on a scientist who can shrink himself down to the size of the titular insect. In comics canon, Ant-Man was Dr. Hank Pym, who along with wife Janet (aka The Wasp) was a founding member of the Avengers. Is it possible we'll meet Pym first in "The Avengers 2"? Neither Feige nor Whedon has said anything to that effect, but we bet the option is there. Odds: none. The movie's on.

Doctor Strange: This fan favorite (and on our personal wish list as well) also seems to be a high priority for Feige, who told EW that he "would love Strange" to be part of Phase Three. A recent script does sit in Marvel's vault, but there's no word yet on whether that screenplay will be used or who, if anyone, the studio has in mind to either star or direct. For the uninitiated, Dr. Stephen Strange -- created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1963 -- is a former neurosurgeon who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme, protector of Earth from all threats of a magical or mystical nature. The Ditko-drawn comics at their peak were truly psychedelic and surreal, a characteristic we'd love to see in a movie that could be one of Marvel's trippiest. Odds: 2 to 1

Black Panther: Introduced in 1966, the leader of the African nation of Wakanda (and no relation to the militant group of the same name) was the world's first black superhero -- yet T'Challa has been unable to find his way to the big screen. There have been persistent rumors that we'll either see him in his own movie at some point, or perhaps introduced in "The Avengers 2" (the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV series is also a possibility), but the character has such a loyal following that we're fairly certain he'll show up sooner or later. And he should: All the black characters we've seen so far in the Marvel Studios movies -- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes and Idris Elba as Heimdall -- have been supporting ones. The time is right for a superhero of color to step up front and center. Odds: 7 to 1

The Inhumans: As EW points out, this family of space-faring heroes was at one point competing with the Guardians of the Galaxy for a Phase Two slot. We know how that turned out, but there's still a chance that the Inhumans could find their place in Phase Three, especially since Feige is apparently a huge fan. Who are they? Created in 1965 by Lee and the legendary Jack Kirby, the Inhuman Royal Family (their best-known iteration) actually started life eons ago as primitive humans -- until alien experimentation changed them dramatically and exposure to the mutating Terrigen Mists altered them even further, bestowing many of them with superpowers. Led by Black Bolt, who can level cities with his voice, they've interacted with many Earthbound and galactic heroes and villains -- including, not coincidentally, the Avengers. Odds: 12 to 1

Namor the Sub-Mariner: OK, Feige didn't actually talk with EW about this character, one of Marvel's oldest (he debuted in 1939, before the company actually existed) and most complex anti-heroes. Namor is the son of a human seaman and an Atlantean princess, and he eventually becomes king of the underwater kingdom, alternately finding himself opposing or aligned with the human race on the surface at various points in his long history. Namor has been part of the Avengers, the Defenders, the Invaders and even the X-Men at one time or another -- and has often fought against all of them as well. A movie was once underway through Universal in 2006, but the rights have since reverted to Marvel and nothing else has been heard. Odds: 40 to 1

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