HOSTEL’s Eli Roth is set to direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s newest book CELL, about a mysterious cell phone pulse that turns people into murderous zombies (are there any other kind?).
Q and Miss Moneypenny didn’t make the cut for the new James Bond movie, CASINO ROYALE. The movie, starring Daniel Craig, opens November 17.
The Weinstein Company has plans for a CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Broadway show as well as a series of films based on the CRANE – IRON PENTALOGY, which included CROUCHING TIGER.
John Cusack will star as a paranormal debunker in 1408, based on Stephen King’s short story.
New Line is taking liberties with the Peter Pan story. The movie company is producing PAN, a supernatural thriller about a bad guy on the run from a policeman named Hook.
Brad Pitt is producing a movie based on Mary Doria Russell’s sci-fi novel THE SPARROW, about a Jesuit priest on a foreign planet.
The cast has been lined up for the next RESIDENT EVIL movie, EXTINCTION. Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, and Iain Glen will reprise their roles from the first film.
The TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURLES are heading back to movie theaters. This time in computer-animated form, on March 30, 2007.
Stan Lee is getting into reality TV. WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO, which is coming to the Sci Fi Channel this summer, pits a group of costumed contestants in a series of challenges. Every week, Lee will appear, a la Donald Trump, and boot one of the superhero wannabes off the show. Pow! Entertainment will immortalize the winning ‘character’ in a comic book.
G4′s STAR TREK 2.0 is adding a bit of technology to the old series. Classic Star Trek episodes will air on the cable channel within an on-screen frame that will display such things as Trek Facts, Trek Stats, and comments from a real-time chat room on the G4 website. STAR TREK 2.0 will air Mondays through Fridays at 11 p.m. starting April 10.
According to KissKollector.com, guitarist Ace Frehley reviews STARGATE ATLANTIS in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly and hints that he’ll appear in a future episode of the Sci Fi channel series.
More casting news for the C-B-S superhero drama ULTRA. Richard Coyle has been hired to play ‘Cryptic Man.’ He joins Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey in the pilot.
Nickelodeon is producing two new cartoon series — TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU and the flash-animated project EL TIGRE.
I want to know what psychos’ are going to be on WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO and if they have any more spots open!
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I’d love to read that Ace Frehley review in ET of Stargate: Atlantis. I wonder if he’s done scifi reviews like this before. Also, it looks like a lot is happening in the Stephen King world (not sure if that’s good or bad!!!)!
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