Source: Variety Written By: Dave McNary Soros is sweet on library deal Paramount is in exclusive negotiations to sell the DreamWorks film library to George Soros' private equity fund. Par[amount] is looking to earn fees for distribution of the DreamWorks titles, and seeks to retain the right to buy back the library within five years.

Source: Coming Soon Submitted by: Kyle Nin Hostel Brutalizes and BloodRayne Gets Brutalized The first weekend of the New Year followed last year's tradition of a new horror movie bringing in the most business with Eli Roth's gory thriller Hostel taking a definite place in the box office's top slot with an estimated $20.1 million [...]

Source: Yahoo UK News Stewart still wanted back on the Enterprise Hollywood bosses are still trying to entice Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart to return to the Starship Enterprise - but he fears he will be too old by the time they come up with the goods. The 65-year-old star, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard [...]

Source: Variety Written By: Rachel Wimberly Production designers create worlds that auds can relate to Narnia's snowy forests, Batman's Gotham City, Willy Wonka's chocolate river and the far, far away "Star Wars" galaxy may have started as figments of imagination, but production designers have to transform them into believable settings. "You are trying to convince [...]

Imagine yourself a guest at an Inn for a night or two. You go to the drawer of the bedside table expecting to see a Gideon's Bible or phone book only to find letters from previous guests of the hotel. Everyone of the letters talk about the occupant's encounters with ghostly apparitions that visited them [...]

Source: Variety Written By: Nicole LaPorte Blunt, Holmes go with 'Wind' Ashton Holmes and Emily Blunt have been cast as the leads in Revolution Studios' horror pic "Wind Chill," being produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section Eight shingle and Blue Print Pictures. Greg Jacobs is directing a script by Joe Gangemi and Steven [...]

Source: SciFi Wire Gugino Mulls Museum Night Carla Gugino is in final negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in the fantasy movie Night at the Museum for 20th Century Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Shawn Levy is directing the live-action/computer-animated comedy, which centers on a goodhearted but bumbling security guard (Stiller) who works at [...]

Source: SciFi Wire Submitted by: Kyle Nin Smallville's Lois Lane, Canadian actress Erica Durance, will star in New Line's upcoming direct-to-video sequel to The Butterfly Effect. Durance and an as-yet-unannounced male lead will be report to the film's Vancouver, Canada, set from Jan. 9 to Feb. 7. Cinematographer John Leonetti (Star Trek : Insurrection) will [...]

Dec. 30 - Jan. 2, 2006 1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (BV) 3,853 $32.8 2. King Kong (UNIV) 3,627 $31.6 3. Fun With Dick and Jane (SONY) 3,056 $21.0 4. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (FOX) 3,211 $19.3 5. Rumor Has It (WB) 2,815 $11.6 6. The Family [...]

Sci-Fi Heaven has dropped a real bombshell on scifi fans. According to an unnamed source to their site, Tom Hanks is rumored to be seriously considering a role in Erik Jendresen’s scripted STAR TREK XI: The Beginning. While I have serious doubts of the authenticity of this information, if it does prove to be true [...]

Source: BBC Submitted by: Cougar Perched on top of the heap we call 2005, Serenity. It was far from the biggest hit of the year but the rabid fanbase which helped get Joss Whedon's cancelled sci-fi series onto the big screen has now handed it the biggest accolade in modern cinema: the title of 2005 [...]

Source: SciFi Wire Submitted by: Kyle Nin As 2005 winds down and enters the history books 2006 is already looking like another big year for science fiction, fantasy and horror pics as studios unveil their 2006 slate of big screen features.