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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Slice of SciFi favorite Mila Jovovich will join actress Brittany Snow in the upcoming big-screen adapation of the horror-survival video-game "Clocktower."  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 [...]

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.  According to reports, NBC engaged in a fierce bidding competition with Fox for [...]

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 car's ratings [...]

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 Marvel Shop [...]

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 negotiated [...]

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 [...]

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 platform, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Fiction CON [...]