DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown‘s first novel, ANGELS AND DEMONS, might be coming to the big screen. Da Vinci Code screenwriter Akiva Goldsman is working on a script. Angels and Demons also features the character Professor Robert Langdon. Tom Hanks, who plays the character in the current film, hasn’t said if he’ll return in [...]

IGN reports that moviegoers viewing X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND should NOT leave the theater til after the end credits. There’s a coda you won’t want to miss (no spoilers included). [Link] Veronica Mars cutie Kristen Bell was voted the 2006 “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian,” with Natalie Portman as one of the runners up. Check out [...]

MOVIES: Bloodrayne (unrated) Cheaper By the Dozen 2 Hollow Man 2 London TELEVISION: X-Men: Evolution (S3) The 4400 (S2) Boston Legal (S1) Deadwood (S2) Jim Henson’s the Storyteller M*A*S*H (S10) Wings (S1 & S2) Samurai Jack (S1-3)

Star Wars Weekends has begun at Disney World at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park.

SMALLVILLE and VERONICA MARS make the cut for the new CW network line-up; AQUAMAN still a contender.

Aquaman TV show gets the axe.

You’ll be able to own a piece of STAR TREK history, as more than 4,000 pieces of memorabila from all five Trek series and the 10 movies go on the auction block at New York’s Christie’s in October. Items include Capt. Kirk and Capt. Picard’s uniforms, models of the USS Enterprise, phasers and prosthetics. It [...]

George Lucas celebrated in wine and hall of fame.

THE DA VINCI CODE After a curator at the Louvre is murdered, a plot to keep a centuries old secret is revealed. Robert Langdon (Hanks) and the victim�s granddaughter are the only ones who can piece the clues together and get to the truth. Based on the blockbuster novel by Dan Brown. Starring Tom Hanks, [...]

SMALLVILLE, VERONICA MARS, SUPERNATURAL, and GILMORE GIRLS are among the shows that will return to TV this fall on the newly created CW Network (which resulted from a merger between the WB and UPN networks. [Link]

Starwars.com has a first look at the cover art for the upcoming limited-edition original Star Wars trilogy DVDs, to be released September 12.

A first look at the new theatrical one-sheet for Superman Returns. Filmmaker Harold Ramis wants Ben Stiller to star in the third installment of Ghostbusters, which is currently in development with a script by Ghostbusters alum Dan Ackroyd. [Link] MARVEL COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR AUGUST 2006 here and here. HULK star Eric Bana would like to [...]

MOVIES: Napoleon Dynamite (SE) The Ringer The Producers The White Countess Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story TELEVISION: Hill Street Blues (S2) Grounded for Life (S2) Home Movies (S4)

I’m not sure how legit this is, but regardless, it’s cool as frak! Check it out! CGI footage of Optimus Prime transforming. [via blackfilm]