JAN 31: the Lost World: A second season of 22 episodes has been ordered. The siries ratings have jumped in recent weeks from 1.9 to 2.3 in syndication. It is shown in 92% fo the stations that New Line sells to.  Lost World is seen in the top 74 of 75 markets. The series website, www.thelostworldtv.com, gets 25000 hits per day.

JAN 31: Under Seige 3: Steven Segal is ready to jump start his career with a third sequel. If Warner Bros., who financed and distributed the first two, passes on the project, it will be offered to 20th Century Fox.

JAN 31: the Mummy 2: John Hannah will also be returning as the comedy relief role he played in the first film as Racheal Weisz' characters brother.

JAN 31: Bonded for 007:  There are rumors that Pierce Brosnan is in negotiations to sign on for four more 007 films. This would bring his total bond films to 7. The same number as Roger Moore. Connery had 6. Seven is you could 'Never Say Never'.

JAN 30: ST Voyager: Troi and Barclay will return again this season in the episode 'I, Zimmerman'. The story is from Robert Beltran (Chekotay). The doctor is sent back using 'Pathfinder Project' to help save his creator who is dying.

JAN 30: Sheena: This long anticipated series from the comic book of the same name has been sold to 92% of the US market in syndication.

JAN 30: Queen of Swords: The near Xena clone, which will be in syndcation as well, has been picked up by 55% fot he major markets including S.F., LA, and Minneapolis. The series will star Tessie Santiago, and be produced by Relic Hunter producer Ira Bernstein.

JAN 30: GvsE:  gets a new name as it gets the new station, th Sci-Fi channel. It's new name is 'Good vs Evil'. It will follow Farscape and be part of the Friday night prime line-up. Screw First Wave I guess.

JAN 30: Harsh Realm Kickin': If the ratings are strong on FX for Harsh Realm the show could be brought back into production. Premieres March 24th on FX. visit the fox page to learn more. Click Here

JAN 29: Witchblade: Begins filming in Toronto mid Feb. on a 2hr pilot movie with an extreme possibility of becoming a weekly series. It is being directed by Ralph Hemecker (kindred, x-files, millenium and roar). Casting is not yet complete.

JAN 29: Invincible: TBS has purchased the 2-hour pilot 'Invincible' starring martial arts star Jet Li. It is being co-produced by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions. If the pilot is successful it would launch a weekly series.

JAN 29: Batman Rumor  The London Daily has reported that director Richard Donner will helm the next BATMAN feature for Warner Bros.  They also report that after deciding not to pursue Kurt Russel, Mel Gibson has agreed to don the mask. Filming will be done in Mel's backyard, Australia this time. Jack Nicholson is said to be returning as the... Joker in the fifth installment.  Interesting rumor.

JAN 29: Beastmaster: The new series has been ordered for the full 22 episodes to complete the first season.

JAN 29: Sliders Movie: Co-creator Robert Weiss thinks pre-production might begin by the end of 2K.

JAN 28: Site Update:  Science Fiction 2000 is finishing up it first month with  scifi2k.com and our sixth month online in this format. My thanks to the visitors. This month we have added the voting area, game zone, link page, DVD store and book review page.  Contact Us if there is some area you would like to see on this site.

JAN 28: Hercules Again: There some talk now about 'Hercules, the Legendary Journeys' returning if the producers of the show, SHOW Sorbo the money. The producers must put the money into the show and make it huge. Better effects, and stories. If long term, Kevin Sorbo has said he would be interested in returning. But NOT for some movie of the week type stuff.

JAN 28: Invisible Go ahead: the SFC finally gave the green light on its long awaited 'Invisible Man' series. A 2 hr pilot & 12 episodes have been ordered. Filming commences in Feb. with a premiere in June scheduled. Vincent Ventresca will star.

JAN 28: Pretender: Michael T. Weiss, slides behind the cameras for the first time to direct an episode of his show. The episode will be about white supremecy.

JAN 28: Pretender: The series will hit the qualifying number of episodes for rerun sales. There is a possibility that this will be the last season of the show. The show just hasn't found enough followers it appears.

JAN 28: Snoops dupped: Snoops became the first show cancelled due to one of the new gameshows. ABC cancelled the series after 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' soared to the top of the ratings, like 8 out of 10 spots. That is the final answer.

JAN 28: Sony says NO:  Even though Sony will not produce a Ghostbusters III like Akroyd wants, they refuse to sell the rights to someone who would. Way to go Sony.

JAN 27: The Others:  The premiere is near on this heavily backed Speilberg production for NBC concerning the paranormal. Series is produced by James Wong (Space:Above and Beyond) Generally, Speilberg television projects have not done well. Luckily when Speilberg has done a TV project has gotten a 3 yr guaranteed committment. Hopefully this one will fair better.

JAN 27: Shatner $ Man: William Shatner is now the highest-paid actor in the world. The partner/actor of Priceline.com is set to receive stock options worth $125M. That is more than he has made from all of his Star Trek works.

JAN 27: Flintstones 2: This is has totally new cast with Stephen Baldwin as Barney, Kristen Johnston (3rd Rock) as Wilma, Jane Krakowski (ally mcbeal) as Betty, and Mark Addy (full monty) as Fred Flintstone in 'Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'. The tentative release date is May 20, 2K.

JAN 26: No news updates today.

JAN 25: Well's Series: The Odyssey channel, owned by Hensen Studios and Hallmark , have ordered 13 episodes of an, as yet un-named series based on some classic stories by H.G. Wells. Series producer will be Robert Halmi Sr.  They will use stories written from 1894 & 1897. Odyssey is currently airing Beauty and the Beast, an Alf. (hollywood reporter)

JAN 25: LT on Shaft: Ex-football hall of famer Lawrence Taylor has joined the cast fo John Singleton's 'Shaft Returns'. He was also in 'Any Given Sunday' and there is talk of him co-starring with Snoop Dogg in 'Bones', which is currently in Limbo Hell.

JAN 24: the Lost Girls:  An idea from Joel Schumaker that will compliment the 1987 feature film 'the Lost Boys', is in development. Schumaker will produce. No director or writer has been selected yet. Storyline is even fimiliar to the original. Hmmmmm.

JAN 24: Site Update: I have added a Book Review area, and a Game Zone (miniature scenery construction all that is there with pictures right now.)

JAN 24: Top Genre:   Now and Again 7.0 passed the X-Files 6.6 for the top spot. 3rd Rock 6.1, Angel 2.3, Buffy 2.6 and Roswell swills around the cellar with a dismal 1.7 rating.

JAN 24: Jedi Master Scully:  The rumor surfaced again that Gillian Anderson will be in the Star Wars Sequel as a Jedi Master. She neither denies or confirms the rumor simply stating with a smile that she will be filming a movie outside the US when SWII is filming. Rumor has it she will be a pivotal role in the new movie (dark horizons)

JAN 23: X-Files:  Just added X-File Custom VHS labels to the  site.

JAN 23: Alien Nation:     Jan 30th, the Sci-Fi Channel will air 2 Alien Nation Movies.  1pm EST Dark Horizon (1994), and at 3pm EST will be Body and Soul (1995)

JAN 23: TV Themes: Recently added some themes for Roswell, Now and Again, Brimstone, PREY and others. Check them out in the Televison Themes area.

JAN 23: Release Dates: Just added some speculative dates for some movies this year in the Movie Dates section.

JAN 23: X-Ray TV: Screenwriter Micheal Casslitt (seven days) and director Joe Dante are developing what they hope will be an Anthology series or series of movies that will allow viewers to, "Experience the future, the way it should be." Production design should reflect a 1950's Kelly Freas painting. Classic, old style science fiction.

JAN 23: Tomorrow: The Lee/Shultz, Stan Lee and Larry Shultz, Entertainment is developing the series 'Tomorrow'. A version of Planet of the Apes, using robots instead of monkeys.

JAN 22: The Immortal: Lorenzo Lamas is back with another syndicated series, about the battles of one man against evil. Series is distributed by Western International Syndication. Created by Micheal Grais & Mark Victor who gave us Poltergeist II: the Other Side.

JAN 22: Mummy 2: Brandon Frazer will get approx. $12.5M for the sequel. The Mummy made over $400M worldwide and only $155M of that from the US. This one will have Frazer and Weisz's character married with a nine year old son who has the adventure of his father in him. A 2k1 (2001) release is planned.

JAN 22: The Kid: Bruce Willis' new feature film for Disney, 'The Kid' will have Willis as a man who is visited by himself at 8 yrs old complaining that he turned out wrong.  ST Voyagers Jeri Ryan will be in this one too.

JAN 22: Jurrassic Park 3:  With a summer of 2k1 released scheduled this feature has an $83M budget. The film will have many flying reptiles in this one.

JAN 22: Wimbleton:   NBC & Turner sports have agreed to a 3-year contrace for the US TV rights for Wimbleton. A contract worth more than $90M.  Not scifi but new worthly.

JAN 22: Autolycus on Xena:  Bruce Campbell, with his new series 'Jack of all Trades' in production, due to premiere last week and this week, doesn't  think it likely that he will return to Xena anytime soon. He doesn't want to say never, but no one is talking about it anymore.

JAN 21:   : Hey people. Judging by how much this picture made you haven't seen it. Well, don't miss out now. This is a great movie. A fun movie. Nothing technical, or fact based. Just a movie that stars a wonderful cast, and is fun to watch. Rent it or better, buy it today. DVD srp is $24.95.

JAN 21: X-File News:   Rumors are floating around that if Duchovny were to get his salary per episode doubled (that would be $400K per) that he might return, and providing that his lawsuit is settled against FOX, in his favor of course, that he might return for another season. Gee at $8.8M for one season I might come back for another year.

JAN 21: FAKK2 live action: Heavy Metal is working with Threshold Entertainment to develop an hour long, live-action television series. The series could premiere as soon as the fall. Rena Mero (sable) is being associated with the project. An animated series is possible as well.

JAN 21: The Prisoner: Simon West (conair) may direct this remake of series into feature film. Mel Gibson may star.

JAN 21:Time Machine:   Dreamworks & Warner Brothers are  doing the remake of this one. Casper's Brad Siberling is rumored to direct it. ( think this was reported already)

JAN 21: Out Foxed:   Micheal J. Fox has announced he will be leaving his hit series "Spin City" at the end of this season. The stress of filming a weekly series is just to much for him now. He is not retiring though. Hey, 'Back to the Future 4' is in development Micheal.

JAN 21: Jason X: James Isaac will direct the new horror movie which begins filming in Toronto come March. Scripted by Todd Farmer, the tenth installment takes place in 2455 on an abandoned earth. A professor and his students on a field trip discover a cryo-frozen woman and the hockey mask. Kan Hodder who portrayed Jason in the  last three films has signed on for this one. All hell breaks loose when the group gets back to the spaceship and head home.

JAN 21: Freddy vs Jason: This long awaited movie will be a bit longer in coming to the big screen. The script is undergoing some revisions. Mark Verheiden of Dark Horse is doing the rewrite. It appears the film probably won't hit the screen until the end of 2001 at this point.

JAN 20: SCIFI2K.com is nearly finishing up it six month online, first with this .com FTP. Thanks to all of you who visit the site. Hope you enjoy the site as much as I do keeping it up for the fans.

JAN 20: American Psycho: Lions Gate's new movie starring 'Leo DeCaprio', at $20M, has been given an NC-17 rating. Not for the blood and gore, but for one sex scene that is crucial to the picture. Lions Gate is planning to appeal. (e-online)

JAN 20: Fire in the Amazon: Sandra Bullock's new movie has also received an NC-17 rating, for a single sex scene. The filmmakers are appealing the rating also. (e-online)

JAN 19: Double Billing:  Arnold Swartzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are talking about teaming up in a feature film.   Each has their own idea about the story. Stallone's pits the two of them against each other, while the Swartz has them as an ensemble cast. Go with Stallone's idea. They get $45M between them. What a budget on this one. Could be a huge hit with the right script.

JAN 19: Vegas Trek:   Paramount is reporting that the Las Vegas Hilton 'Star Trek' ride will remain open dispite rumors it would close in March. They report the ride is exceeding money expectations. Universal is still suing Paramount over copyright infringement concerning the ride. At almost $15 for the ride and $10 for a burger at Quarks, it won't stay busy for to long.

JAN 19: King signs on: Stephen King has signed an extention with his present publisher for another three works of fiction. He is with Simon & Schuster.

JAN 18: Tri-TREK:   Paramount Studios is testing ideas for 3 concept trek series. And yes, one of them is the Starfleet Academy theme. The other two involve an Elite Strike Force, and a pre-original Trek setting. Paramount of course denies any of this. Like who cares if they are checking out new ideas or not. It is what they are suppose to do, right?

JAN 18: Harry Potter Books to WB: Warner Bros. has paid a seven figure advance for the rights on Joanne Rowings best selling children fantasy series.

JAN 18: Doomsday:   This will be a UPN animated series. It is produced by Howard Stern. No time slot is set, but UPN is committed to at least 13 episodes.

JAN 17: Elfquest: An animated Elfquest film is in pre-production.

JAN 17: Batman Musical:  Warner Bros. has plans to stage Batman: the Musical sometime in 2001. This should be good.

JAN 17: Fascape Movie:  Discussions are underway for a movie based on Farscape. This idea is influencing the series storylines. An upcoming two parter will play into the movie storyline.

JAN 17: Farscape Novel: A Farscape novel is due out soon. Be ready.

JAN 17: 10th Kingdom: The website for the television mini-series is up. You can check it out at... http://www.t10k.com

JAN 16: WILLIE!!!:   Max Wright who portrayed Alf's Willie Tanner, the centre director in 'Misfits of Science', and currently on 'Norm', was arrested after an auto accident on an LA freeway. He was charged with suspicion of drunk driving.

JAN 16: Ros-swill:  Warner Brothers new series Roswell is swilling around in the cellar with the worst rating of the genre series.  A whopping 1.8 rating. This one is almost done. Early Edition was shelved this week after posting a 6.2 rating.

JAN 16: Pern Confirmed: Alliance Atlantis Entertianment has officially announced the syndicated television show for Anne McCaffery's book 'Dragon Riders of Pern'. Extensive CGI will be utilized to bring the dragons to life. Production is set for later this year with a possible 2001 release. McCaffery's website you ask... Click Here

JAN 16: THEM remake: Mark Montgomery is re-scripting the giant ant flick 'THEM'. Joe Johnston is tentavely attached to direct this one too.

JAN 16: Teenage Werewolf: Hellraiser 3 director, Anthony Hickox has signed to direct a $25M version of... 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf'. The original B&W version starred Micheal Landon.  Another remake. No new stuff.

JAN 15: New Television Themes: Just added a few new television themes to the site. Prey, The Strip, Hunter opening 2, Hunter closing credit music, Roswell, Brimstone, Airwolf, Strange World, Beastmaster, and V: the series.

JAN 15: New VHS labels coming tonight: Brimstone, Prey, Matlock, Man From Atlantis, The Strip, Probe, Mann and Machine, and Roswell.

JAN 15: All the Young Dudes: TV series in development for MTV. Everyone over 30 disappears from Earth.

JAN 15:Freddy vs Jason: Script is undergoing some revisions. Mark Verheiden of Dark Horse is the rewrite. It appears the film probably won't hit the screen until the end of 2001.

JAN 15: Shatner of an Idea: William Shatner is working on a sitcom about wrestling called, 'Down For The Count'.

JAN 15: Dune mini-series:  The SciFi channel mini-series will star William Hurt, Giancarlo Giannini & Alec Newman as Paul Atreides.

JAN 15: The Incredibles: A TV show about a family of superheroes is being developed by Brad Bird (Iron Giant) for Warner Bro. He will write and direct it.

JAN 15: Sliders final 4: The SFC aired the first of the final four Slider episodes. The timer is broke on this slide. They need an expensive gem to repair it.

JAN 14: Isle of the Dead: Burt Reynolds will direct a remake of Boris Karloff's 1945 Movie, 'The Isle of the Dead'. the RKO remake begins filming by the end of 2000 with a $10M budget.

Jan 14: Reeves at 15%: Keanu Reeves will get $30M and 15%, from the combined gross of the two Matrix sequels.

JAN 14: Phantom Menace:  This will be the first movie to be released world wide on the same date. SORRY, no DVD on this one for many years.

JAN 14: Ghostbusters 3: Even though Sony has said no on a third installment of Ghostbusters, Dan Aykroyd now has a finished first draft of the film.

JAN 13: There were no updates for today.

JAN 12: Battlefield 2: John Travolta has already committed to the sequel to Battlefield Earth, as had Barry Pepper. Negotiations are underway with Forest Whitaker & director Roger Christian. The sequel is targeted for a 2002 release. (hollywood reporter)

JAN 12: Roswell Next?: With the ratings on FOX's new series slumping to syndication levels, Roswell might be cancelled soon. FOX is sometimes quick to pull the plug. Remember Brimstone and Harsh Realm? Harsh Realm had much twice the ratings when it got the axe.

JAN 12: Scully gets the chair: Gillian Anderson will direct her first episode of X-Files this season. Duchovney directed his first episode last season, along with coming up with ideas for some of the episodes.

JAN 11: Early Edition, no paper:  CBS has shelved Early Edition for a new game show were players can win big.  CBS is promising the show will return in March. However, I think we all know that if the game show is successful in the ratings EE is gone. If not, the show will return.

JAN 11: Spiderman Rumors:   With the development phase in work on Sony's new feature film, Spiderman, the rumors are beginning to spread. IGN news is now confirming that Fincher and Sam Raimi are in the running to direct along with others. Raimi's style of directing could really hurt this project.

JAN 11: Renewed Shows:   Peter Benchley's Amazon and Earth: Final Conflict have been renewed for next season.  EFC had already been given the green light before this season even premiered.

JAN 10: Red Sonja: This one is still in development as a television series by Threshold Entertainment. Still rumored to star Rena Mero, aka Sable.

JAN 10: Metropolis:  Series scripted by Jason Hightman & produced by Spike Jonz. This being done for the SFC. Cops vs the Paranormal. However, with GvsE coming to the SFC in March it might be changed to this title and the new series scraped. Won't work with two shows with the same premise on the same channel.

JAN 10: To Die Hard 4: Bruce Willis has indicated a fourth sequel to the seccessful trilogy Die Hard is not likely anytime soon. Well, that stinks.

JAN 10: Indiana Jones 4: George Lucas says he is ready to do the Fourth installment as soon as Speilberg and Ford have time in their schedule. That may be awhile as Ford's Patriot Games third segment 'The Sum of all Fears' nears production.

JAN 9: GvsE to SFC:    the SciFi Channel has announce that it will pick up the series GvsE from it parent station, USA network in March of this year. Under the agreement the name of the show may be changing. It will be part of the Friday night prime line-up with the episodes already shown and at least nine new episodes, one feature Nichelle Nichols. (uhura)

JAN 9: Mummy Sequel: Production could begin as early as May. This may have something to do with Brendan Frasier backing out of his next picture.

JAN 9: SciFi helps DVD: Science Fiction and Fantasy genre films helped secure record sales in DVD players at the end of 1999. Three films sold over one million copies each. Martix, the Mummy and Austin Powers 2.

JAN 9: Buffy Big Screen:   Joss Whedon revealed recently that he would like to do a Buffy, the Vampire Slayer feature film. But it wouldn't happen while the series was still in production.

JAN 9: Sheena: Queen of the Jungle: by Columbia TV is to star Gina Lee Nolan. Will launch in the Fall of this year.

JAN 9: Captain Proton: Voyager holo-series enjoyed by Kim and Paris comes to paperback by Dean Wesley Smith by Pocket Books. Price to retail at $14.95.

JAN 9: Matrix DVD:   Mega-hit Matrix has reach sales of over 1.8M copies. That would mean roughly that about 50% of the DVD owner have a copy of this movie.

JAN 9: Ford Awardless: Other than the best actor nomination, Harrison Ford has never won an award. This hollywood icon and moneymaker has played Indiana Jones, Han Solo, been the president fot United States. A business, lawyer, FBI agent and more. But on February 17 Ford will be honored with a lifetime acheivement award. ('bout time don't ya think)

JAN 9: Saving PREY: The short lived series with only 13 episodes, PREY, begins its run of the SciFi channel with the second season premiere of First Wave beginning at 4pm.  To learn more about PREY and help save the show visit this ling today.  www.start.at/prey

JAN 8: New Star Wars Novels:  There is a new rush coming of Star Wars Novels. Greg Bear is writing a novel set 3 years after the Phantom Menace. Micheal Stackpole (who will be a dragoncon this year) is writing a new X-wing novel. Also writing novels are James Luceno, Kathy Tyers, and Micheal Friedman who is doing a new trilogy.

JAN 8: New Disney Tune:   Disney, in its infinite wisdom, has changed their position of limited DVD releases. All 10 titles plus those being released in the future will ALWAYS be available. But Hey! By throwing it out there initially it sure did help sales of their first ten releases, didn't it. We have got sucker written all over our faces. Well, some do...

JAN 8: Super Update: Comic Book characters are the hot commodity in 2000. More than 1999. In work so far... Ironman from Newline. Dr. Strange from Sony. Inredible Hulk , Prime, Green Hornet and Hellboy with Universal.  Warner Bros. has Vandetta and Plastic Man. Silver Pictures is doing Wonder Woman. Sony is also doing the Silver Surfer and the long awaited Spiderman.  Daredevil is now in the works too.

JAN 8: Blade 2:   This one should be in post production by now with a scheduled summer release. Rumor are that each aspect of the picture is better the first movie. Wesley Snipes will be back in 2K.

JAN 8: Time Machine:     Dreamworks and Warner Bros. are teaming to remake this classic. Brad Silberling (casper) is rumored to direct. Any original stuff out there Mr. Speilberg?

JAN 7: New Blade Runner DVD Cut: Ridley Scott is doing a redigitized version of Blade Runner with about 8 minutes of new footage inserted into the movie.  The studio requested the new version with dwindling reserve copies and they were past the 10 year storage mark, and beginning to deteriorate.

JAN 7: Blade Runner on Stage: Frank Wildhorn, broadway composer, is supposedly working on a musical version of Blade Runner.

JAN 7: New Q:  John Cleese who starred in the lastest James Bond movie as Q's assistant, has signed on for three more Bond Movies. It is likely he will take over for the late Q.

JAN 7: New Series in JAN.:   Jack of all Trades & Cleopatra 2525 both premiere on January 17 in Syndication. These are the replacement series for Hercules.

JAN 7: Beat It Poe: Micheal Jackson, King of Pop,   will play the legendary horror writer 'Edgar Allan Poe' on the big screen in 'The Nightmare of Edgar Allan Poe'. Jackson will producer the feature. Gary Pudney will be the Executive Producer. The independent picture is being paid for by investors from Canada and Germany. Go Micheal!

Jan 7: Bond DVD set sold out: The Initial run of   75000 boxed sets has sold out within the first four weeks of release. MGM is extremely pleased and has put the set back into production.

JAN 5: Buckaroo TV:   After the revisions to Earl Mac Rauch's TV pilot script, FOX execs are considering a pilot for a TV series based on the 1984 cult film, 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai'. The project is being done by TABB's original director, W.D. Richter.

JAN 5: Queen of Swords:  A near Xena action fantasy television series will shopped around to the TV Stations this month. This series will be from Rysher Entertainment for its Canada Producer, Canwest Entertainment, who also does 'Relic Hunter'. (hollywood performer)

JAN 5: The FUTURE 4: Rumor has it that Universal may be gearing up for the 4th installment of 'Back To The Future'. Bob Gale is scripting as he did the first three pictures. Joe Johnston's name is being thrown around as the top director for the project. His name is being associated with alot of possible pictures these days.  No one from the original three movies has been signed to anything.

JAN 5: Weiss is Sliding:   Rober Weiss, the co-creator of the TV series Sliders is working on a movie based on the first two season of the show. He hasn't signed anyone to the picture from the original cast, which is who he wants. Nor has he convinced Universal of the idea, and they own the rights to "SLIDERS"

JAN 5: Metropolis:   The SciFi Channel's series scripted by Jason Hightman & produced by Spike Jones is still in development for the station. It is a cops, Cops vs the Paranormal series. This is original for the last couple of years, huh.

JAN 4: Relic Hunter blasts to #1: Amoung 1st run action/drama TV series in syndication RH has over-thrown the Beastmaster after its 8 week stint at the #1 spot.

JAN 4: MASK 2:  This one is in development with a $20M budget. Jim Carrey is out, since he gets $20M per picture now. Carrey has also stated he is not interested in reprising the role. He wants meatier roles now.

JAN 4: SF channel: New seasons of First Wave and Farscape begin this week. Hope your ready. LEXX is coming too.

JAN 3: Harsh Realm Revisited: FX will show the entire 8 episodes that were completed in March of 2K. Get the VCRs ready for this short lived show. Or wait for the scifi channel to get it in 2001.

JAN 3: Crypt Master Cometh:  The scifi channel will be airing the entire 93 episodes of Tales of the Crypt this year beginning in January.

JAN 3:First Wave:   Season Two has a new night. Sundays at 7pm EST beginning on January 9.

JAN 3: $$$ at the Box Office:   Box office numbers for 1999 are... Star Wars PM: $429.9M, Sixth Sense: $275.4M, Austin Powers: $205.4M, Toy Story after only 4 weeks this year with $179.7M, Matrix: $171.4M, Tarzan: $170.9M, the Mummy: $155.3M, and the Blair Witch Project: $140.5M.

JAN 2: Indiana Jones on DVD: According to digital bits website there is a rumor that Lucas and Fox have been working on a DVD set of the trilogy with a possible release around March 2K or earlier. We can only hope that this rumor is ture and will come to pass.

JAN 2: More DVDs for 2K: Coming this year on DVD are... Independence Day:SE, the Abyss:SE with both versions,  Addams Family 1 & 2, Stargate SG-1 pilot and two episodes, Escape From New York, Spaceballs, Meteor, Princess Bride:SE, Cliffhanger:SE, Terminator 2:SE, Men In Black, Bact to the Future Trilogy set, JAWS, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jurassic Park. Even more listed here are coming too.

JAN 2: Indiana on LASER: the Indiana Jones Trilogy   THX/AC3 special editions planned for Laserdisc have been CANCELLED. This could lead true to the rumor about a DVD release this year.

JAN 2: No on Batman: Ben Afleck has openly denied any rumors linking him to the caped crusader saying "There is no Batman script, no movie planned, they have not called me or my agent & gwyneth is more the Electra type."

JAN 2: Lone Ranger Dead:  Clayton Moore the legendary masked ranger has died at the age of 85.  Rest in peace Kemo Sabe.   Moore won back the right to wear the mask in 1984. Heigh Ho Silver... Away!

JAN 2: Bond DVD set 2: Yep, it's coming in May of 2K folks. The next bond set on DVD. Rumor has it that it will be released May and be available in the October time frame. Price possibly the same as the first set.

JAN 1: Happy New Year to everyone!!!  Science Fiction 2000 is starting it sixth month as a news eZine. Hope you have enjoyed the site.

JAN 1: Blockbuster Cinema/UPN:   Fridays at 8pm will be airing these movies first run this year... Year of the Phoenix on 1/18, Operation Sandman or Mindfield on 2/11,  Ultra Kill on 2/18, and Max Knight on 2/18.

JAN 1: King of the Hill: the animated show half way through its second season has been renewed for another 22 episodes for the 2k/2k1 season.

JAN 1: Prey: Airing on SciFi Ch. beginning Jan 9 has some fans trying to save the show that was killed before finding an audience, has a website you can go to to show your support. PREY at... http://start.at/prey

JAN 1:Mars Is Hot: There are 3 movies in production right now with Mars as the backdrop. Brian DePalma's 'Mission To Mars' by Disney. Val Kilmers 'Red Planet'. and John Carpenter's 'Ghosts of Mars'. The will hit the theatres in that order.

JAN 1: ROSWELL UK: Both Sky and the BBC have purchased rebroadcast rights to the New WB series for the year 2K.

JAN 1: CUPID Returns: Well, the reruns of the short lived series Cupid have been purchased by the UK's Channel 5 for the year 2K.

JAN 1: Ultraviolet USA:  The UK much-praised vampire drama is coming to the US. Fox is slightly tweeking the show for the US audience. Fox is heavily in search of it X-Files replacement. A 2k or 2K1 release is being reported at this time.

JAN 1: Anakin Opening: George Lucas has an open casting call for the part of 19 yr. old Anikin Skywalker. Lucas is considering a relative unknown for the role. However, applicants must have some professional acting credits to their resume. Joe Bumkin from nowhere america need not apply.