The cast for “V” is growing. We told you that Scott Wolf had joined the cast of the upcoming remake for ABC. Now comes news that actor Morris Chestnut has been tapped for a leading role in the series.
The new “V” will follow a Homeland Security Agent battling the Visitors. Chestnut will play her boyfriend, [...]
Actor Michael Chicklis (”The Shield,” “Fantastic Four”) has signed a deal with IDW Publishing to develop a new graphic novel, “Olympus.” Based on an idea by Anny Simon Beck, the series will tell the story of ancient Greek gods who return to a ravaged, chaotic present-day Earth where they battle for the future of mankind [...]
Captain Picard and the crew of the starship Enterprise are returning…to syndication that is. Eight years after signing an exclusive deal to air repeats of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” on Spike TV, the crew of the NCC-1701 D are returning to broadcast stations later this year. The series will be part of Paramount’s push [...]
The first two season of “Lost” are coming to Blu-Ray according to TV Shows on DVD. Disney announced that the first two seasons will hit the high-defintion format on Feburary 17 at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Â
In addition, Disney said that it will begin offering combo packs of DVD and Blu-Rays for [...]
I know Monday nights at 8 p.m. EST are crowded when it comes to quality, genre-related shows. It’s enough to make me envy Sam and her three DVRs sometimes.
Especially nights like tonight. On NBC, we get the last new episode of “Chuck” of the season. It goes up against the mid-season finale of “Sarah Connor” [...]
Jason Bourne is going back to his roots for the next installment of Universal’s Bourne series. After the last two movies used the titles and little else from the original Robert Ludlum novels, producer Frank Marshall told Coming Soon the fourth Bourne movie will use a plot by Ludlum as its inspiration.
“We now have access [...]
George Lucas is planning to tinker with “Star Wars” again.  This time he’s going to upgrade the movies and make them 3-D.
“Oh yeah,” Lucas told ComingSoon.net when asked about the potential for 3-D versions of the films. “The technology is very difficult. It exists - it’s just extremely expensive, and so what we’re trying to [...]
The long-awaited “He-Man” movie has a director. According to Latino Review, “Kung Fu Panda” co-director John Stevenson has landed the job.
According to their sources, the former Muppet Show character designer and animation artist pitched a new take on the Mattel and cartoon character which got him the job. Stevenson has an extensive background in art [...]
“The Dark Knight” is closing in on $1 billion in world-wide box-office receipts. Monday’s ticket sales pushed the summer blockbuster to $528,535,317 domestically (just $72,252,871 below “Titanic”’s record) and $469,000,000 overseas.
Warner Brothers is planning another push of the film in theaters after the first of the year with the hopes of generating some Oscar attention [...]
Sunday evening’s nineteenth “Treehouse of Horror” episode helped “The Simpsons” to its best ratings in five years according to Variety. The annual event for the long-running animated series garnered a 6.5 rating, equating out to 12.5 million viewers. The series did extremely well in key demographics and against solid competition from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” [...]
The Simpsons’ producer Producer Al Jean predicts there will be least three more seasons of the animated series.
“The cast is signed for three more years, so I would now say it’s about a 90 percent chance we’ll come back for at least one of those three,” Jean said. Â
“I actually think it’s better than a 50 [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for October 29, 2008
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Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle have signed on to do more Marvel. Both actors will play their respective roles of Tony Stark and Col. Jim Rhodes for the upcoming “Avengers” movie, as well as “Iron Man 2.”
“Quarantine” director is set to direct a story written by M. Night Shyamalan called “Devil.” Shyamalan [...]
Crispin Glover will play the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Alice in Wonderland” adaptation.
Glover joins Mia Wasikowska as Alice and a cast that includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Burton is using a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story.
Columbia pictures has acquired the [...]
Actress Teri Polo has signed on for the lead role in director Joe Dante’s upcoming “Hole,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Polo will play Susan, a mother who moves with her teen sons to a rural house where the three are forced to face their fears after discovering a bottomless hole in the basement.
Polo has also [...]
While it has yet to deliver the stellar ratings its two-hour pilot movie did for NBC, apparently “Knight Rider” is doing well enough to warrant a full season pick-up. Variety reports the Peacock network gave a green light for nine more episodes of the freshman drama, bringing the season order to 22 episodes.
Visitors to Universal [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for October 16, 2008
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Set to debut next spring on SPIKE TV, “Deadliest Warrior” will feature computer-rendered imaginary bouts between historical tough guys, pitting for example, Genghis Khan’s Mongols against Nordic Vikings. Spike has ordered nine one-hour episodes of the series, which is produced by Morningstar Entertainment with Gary Tarpanian and Paninee Theeranuntawat serving as exec producers.
NBC is developing [...]
Slice of SciFi favorite Mila Jovovich will join actress Brittany Snow in the upcoming big-screen adapation of the horror-survival video-game “Clocktower.”Â
According to Bloody Disguisting, Jovovich will play “a woman in a psych ward who befriends the lead character, played by Snow, when they discover a shared family history. Meanwhile a psychotic madman dubbed Scissorman is [...]
Variety reports that NBC has won a bidding war to acquire “Jason and the Argonauts” for its primetime schedule. The series, produced by Media Rights Capital, is being billed as the first series show completely filmed on a green-screen for primetime television.Â
According to reports, NBC engaged in a fierce bidding competition with Fox for the [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for October 13, 2008
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Well slap me silly and call me confused! NBC has ordered up at least 4 new scripts for their new remake of the “Knight Rider” series. It appears that NBC execs are happy with the tracking the show is getting with the young, testosterone-driven male demographic, even though across the board the talking [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for October 1, 2008
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SyFy Portal is reporting that Fox is seriously considering pulling the plug on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” due to poor ratings. While it’s possible (we are talking about Fox) - with 10 un-aired episodes already in the can and nothing ready to fill the slot, it doesn’t seem likely — YET!
Official [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 26, 2008
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The International Space Station (ISS) was mainly financed by the United States, built by NASA and maintained primarily due to U.S. financing, however, NASA was in the sad position of possibly being locked-out of the very station it spear-headed. American astronauts were spared the embarrasement of being kept away by a last minute deal [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 23, 2008
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Director Timur Bekmambetov (”Wanted,” Night Watch,” “Day Watch”) will next tackle a reimagining of the Herman Melville’s classic “Moby Dick” for Universal Pictures. The famed Russian director is currently in production with the third film in the “Watch” franchise — “Twilight Watch.”
Los Angeles-based Harbor Light Entertainment and Tokyo-based Lotus have assembled an international consortium [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 19, 2008
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Actors in SAG who are in favor of moving forward with contract talks with the organization representing studio and network producers (AMPTP) have moved one step closer to gaining control over the board of the actor’s union. After recent elections to seat new board members those under the banner of the Unite for Strength [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 15, 2008
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Electronic Arts’ (EA) bid to take over Take-Two Interactive, the creators of “Grand Theft Auto,” has failed and EA closed out its $2 billion (USA) offer on Sunday.
“They [EA] made their tender offer numerous times while we have continued to beat our guidance and put out hit games, so you can draw your own conclusions,” [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 11, 2008
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The Will Ferrell starring film based on the Sid and Marty Krofft creation, “Land of the Lost” has been moved up from its July 17, 2009 date and will now be released on June 5. Universal has moved “The Fast and the Furious 4″ from June 5 to a week later - June 12.
Josh [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 8, 2009
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HBOlab, an experimental offshoot of the cable powerhouse focused on online programming, is launching a Web video series featuring a cast of the Internet’s most popular entertainers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Kevin Smith figures there’s one thing wrong with bringing a movie to the Toronto Film Fest: The audiences are way too polite. “In [...]
Slice of SciFi News Briefs for September 5, 2008
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Dead Space launched the second episode at NoKnownSurvivors.com this week. The episode takes players further into the shattered life of George Greggs. There are also a couple of really cool interactive elements to this story, including a staff guide to all the attractions onboard the Ishimura.
The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science [...]
A security flaw in Apple iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way, according to Gizmodo. The techi-blog said that it only took them three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which [...]
“Chuck” fans will be happy to hear that NBC has ordered up a full season of episodes for the SF dramedy about an IT geek who gets the entire United States security database downloaded into his brain and becomes a secret agent while still working at the electronics store. The series stars Zachary Levi [...]
At the recent FanExpo in Toronto, “Smallville” co-star Laura Vandervoot revealed that at one time, producers contemplated a spin-off featuring her character of Supergirl.    The spin-off didn’t happen and while the show is taking a new direction this fall, Vandervoot revealed she will be back for one episode to wrap up the Kara/Supergirl storyline.
When asked about [...]
