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The BBC will soon announce the release of a brand new video game based on the current popular “Doctor Who” series.
“Open Season” helmer Jill Culton has been tapped to direct Sony Pictures Animation’s “Hotel Transylvania.” Story centers on Simon Van Helsing, the youngest in a long line of monster hunters. Van Helsing falls in love with Dracula¹s Daughter, Mavis. Because of their relationship the couple attempts to bring peace between monsters and humans.
Noah Wyle (“ER”) is set to return as Flynn Carsen in the third installment of TNT’s Librarian franchise, “The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice,” producer Electric Entertainment announced. Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin will also reprise their roles, with Bruce Davison (“X-Men”) and Stana Katic (“Feast of Love”) joining the cast. Jonathan Frakes (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”), who directed the second Librarian installment, “The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines,” will once again take the helm.
“The Librarian: The Curse Of The Judas Chalice” opens with a restless Flynn attempting to assimilate back into his career as a librarian at the New York Metropolitan Library after many adventures abroad. Led to New Orleans by strange dreams, he finds himself in the midst of uncovering a conspiracy that involves the notorious vampire, Prince Vlad Dracul. Once again, Flynn must overcome his fears and protect one of the world’s most sacred artifacts, the Judas Chalice, or face the consequences of it falling into the wrong hands.
Patrick Swayze’s doctor is optimistic about his prognosis for battling pancreatic cancer, and fans are looking forward to his upcoming A&E cable pilot titled “The Beast,” which is still in the running to become a weekly series, depending on Swayze’s availability. In the show Swayze stars as an FBI agent who doesn’t always do things “by the book” to catch the bad guys. Shooting on the pilot episode was wrapped in Dec. 2007.
It should be stated that on a realistic note only five percent of patients with pancreatic cancer live more than five years after being diagnosed. What Patrick has going for him is that, apart from this cancer, he has kept himself in excellent physical condition. A habit the Golden Globe nominee has acquired through 5 decades of dancing.
Warner Bros. has picked up the film rights to South Korea’s hit movie “The Chaser.†William Monahan, Academy Award winner for “The Departed,” is in negotiations to write the script for this thriller about a real-life serial killer. Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star.
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The mysterious properties of black holes can be recreated on a tabletop, scientists now reveal. Solving mysteries concerning black holes could yield key clues toward a “theory of everything” that unites how we conceive of all the natural forces. Black holes rank among the greatest enigmas of the universe. Scientists theorize black holes have gravitational pulls so powerful that nothing, including light, can escape after falling past a border known as the event horizon.
YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is set to challenge established TV broadcasters by offering its own LIVE channels. The plans would enable YouTube’s millions of users to chat from their bedrooms, perform music or report on a breaking news story to a worldwide audience in real time.
After its strong start in Japan last week, “The Golden Compass” is on course to make box office history as the first film to gross $300 million in foreign while failing to reach $100 million in North America.
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