JULY 31: UPN Name Change: UPN will change their name on January 1st, 2k1 to just 'the Paramount Network'.

JULY 31: Black Knight: Gil Junger, '10 things I Hate About You', has been signed to direct Martin Lawrence in his new time-traveling comedy, 'Black Knight'.

JULY 31: Space Art: Now available for free download is some awesome space art. Great pieces of artwork for printing or use as computer background images. Check them out and pick one. Feel free to email the artist with your comments. CLICK HERE to view them. 

JULY 31: Crusade Dead: Paul Verhoeven told the crowd at the San Diego Comic Con that Arnold Swartzenegger still held the crusade property rights and the project was dead as far as he was concerned. (chud) If Arnold doesn't start selecting some better roles his career could be the same. 

JULY 31: Klumps of Dough: Eddie Murphy's latest feature, 'The Klumps' has reap the rewards of a great weekend eating up $42.7M.  What Lies Beneath fell to #2 with $22M and the X-Men #3 with $11M ( A dismal drop of funds on this one).

JULY 31: Deluise gets pilot: Seaquest's Michael Deluise  has signed on for the CBS comedy pilot 'Kiss Me Guido', based on the feature film with the same name.

JULY 31: Misc News: Cable Rates: The Government accounting office released July 20, that "Cable rates have been rising faster than the rate of inflation in recent years." says Fetngold. "This baseline study will decrease now that congress has allowed competition that provide direct broadcast satellite service to include local network broadcast stations as part of their package." Something needs to happen now, to get prices down.

JULY 31: Swordfish: The John Travolta feature is scheduled to begin production in Sept. 2000. Also starring will be Ben Affleck and Vinnie Jones (british actor) who will play the computer hacker. Travolta will play the worlds most dangerous spy. Travolta would be an awesome nemesis for Tom Cruise in a 'Mission Impossible 3' feature.

JULY 31: Starship: Marvel's Stan Lee is working on the animated version of Gene Roddenberry's 'Starship'. It was last reported dead, since they had no one to do the animation. 

JULY 31: New Site Banners: I have added some new banners to the links page if you've linked to this site or are considering it. Click Here to check out the links page.

JULY 30: Forbidden Planet: Looks like New Line has put this remake on the back burner for now due to available funds. New Line has already committed a ton of cash for scifi genre films like 'the Cell', 'Lord of the Rings trilogy', and 'Jason X' and doesn't have the funds for another extravagant big budget Sci-Fi remake.

JULY 30:  Napster Huts Industry: Michael Kahn reports, a failure to negotiate with Napster may come back to haunt the Industry because working with the Silicon Valley firm may be the best way to grab a piece of the online music pie. The lawsuit has only helped Napster swell it user base to 20+ million in the past year. 

JULY 30: Bond DVD 3: The next boxed set is due out Oct. 17, 2000 with only 6 features with a SRP of $134.96. Amazon.com is pre-selling them for $94.48. The six Bond films are... Diamonds are forever,  From Russia With Love, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights and You Only Live Twice.

JULY 30: Sting is OUT: The former 'Police' lead singer, Sting has lost his cybersquatting case over the website 'www.sting.com because it is not his real name. Michael Vruan can continue to use the web address he has owned for the last 8 years. The artist known as Sting failed to prove that he Mr. Vruan tried to sell the domain name. 

JULY 30: TV Online: You do realize that someone could open a Napster like site for sharing TV shows and movies, based on the currently video copyright laws stating that you can record videos for non-commercial use. Sure you would be under the same gun as Napster quickly, but that outcome would be essentially the same for a video sharing website. Hhhhmmmmmmm...

JULY 30: Misc News: John Stamos, Full House, has signed a one year talent and development deal with Warner Brothers Television. He will be available to the WB for its 2k1 & 2k2 pilots. The WB will also have the first look option on all product development from Stamos' 'St. Amos Productions', which is currently developing shows for Disney and Fox Family.

JULY 29: Family Guy: Fox has renewed the animated series 'Family Guy'. They have ordered 13 more episodes that will be broadcast in the summer of 2k1.

JULY 29: Crow Boxed Set: The 2k1 Boxed set of the three films will also include everything from artwork, original scripts, to conceptual designs according to producer Jeff Most.

JULY 29: New TV Themes: Have added some Television Themes to the site. Alien Nation, Bewitched, Baseball Tonight, Dr. Who (variation 2 not the most famous), Dick Van Dyke, Remington Steele, Robocop the series, Rockford Files, and I have repaired the screwed up 'Walker, Texas Rangers'.

JULY 29: Spiderman:   According to Dark Horizon we may hear the words officially that Tobey McGuire will star as the webslinger in Sam Raimi's  live action feature 'Spiderman'. I still think 'Chris O'donnell' should have been Spiderman. Much better actor and built for the role.

JULY 29: Anderson Extends: Despite all the whining  about not wanting to do this season and how tired she was, wanting to move on to something else, Gillian Anderson has extended her contract for one more year beyond this season. Chris Carter is even confident of the shows long-term prospects with Robert Patrick now in the fold.

JULY 29: Apes News: Tom Roth and 'the Green Miles' Michael Duncan have signed on to Tim Burton's next nightmare 'Planet of the Apes'. Roth will play the head Ape warrior with Duncan playing his 2nd in command. Yunno the apes will look incredible with creature master 'Rick Baker' designing the Apes. 

JULY 28: Crow-less?: There still is no release date for the 'The Crow: Salvation'. Whether it gets released or not, we will see it in early 2k1 in 'The Crow Boxed Set'. Pressman  is hoping for at least a partial release before the boxed set comes out.

JULY 28: Dark Angel: Fox's new series will be set at a running time of 41 minutes. That's only one minute longer than the syndicated series time. Generally today one hour series on the networks are running 42 minutes. UPN is already ediiting Voyager down to 40 minutes. 

JULY 28: Indiana Jones 4: Harrison Ford says if they make the movie soon, is in shape and can still do his own stunts.

JULY 28: Voyager Premiere: Star Trek Voyager 'Unimatrix Part 2' will air Oct. 4 @ 9pm on UPN. The first part (season cliff-hanger) will air @8pm to kick off the start of Voyagers final season. Hopefully we haven't spent seven seasons watching this show for them NOT to get home. If we are lucky it will be before the end of the season so we can see all the story arcs come to an end.

JULY 28: X-Mars: Looks like X-Men's Femke Janssen (deep rising) may be taking on Courtney Love's recently departed role in John Carpenters 'Ghosts of Mars'. 

JULY 28: Godzilla 2000: Saw some previews for this. Yow! Talk about a true low-budget 'B' Movie, this is it. Even the short scenes in the previews couldn't hide the cheap budget on this flick. Save your money and wait for the video. 

JULY 28: Scooby Doo: Well, sites around the web are reporting a rumor that Raja Gosnell (Big Momma's House) may be directing the live action (box office flop) Scooby Doo. Couldn't we just have a new Scooby Doo cartoon feature? Live action? Rocky and Bullwinkle all over again...

JULY 28: Sabrina: Punky Brewster, Soleil Moon Frye, will be joining the cast of 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch' on the WB this fall. Frye will play Sabrina's streetwise roommate.

JULY 28: Sub-Mariner: Marvel still has some quality properties still available and is offering up 'Sub-Mariner' to the studios. Likely for a big budget film. Sub-Mariner is Marvel's version of the more famous DC comics hero, 'Aquaman'.

JULY 27: Sci-Fi FONTS: I would like to welcome a link exchange with Jaap Verhorst's 'Sci-Fi Fonts' site. Looking for some great fonts, this is the place. Great design, and there are samples of each fonts so you know what it looks like. take a visit by CLICKING HERE.

JULY 27: Cold Shoulder for Scully: Everyone knows Terminator 2's Robert Patrick will be Scully's new partner will Moulder walks away for half the season. But did you know that to take the part Patrick walked away from his own series with Gary Basaraba titled 'Cold Shoulder' on CBS.

JULY 27: Sega Crushes Pirates: Sega announces it has crushed over 60 illegal web sites and 125 auction sites flogging pirated versions of its Dreamcast games. It was once one of the most secure digital entertainment systems on the market. Sega calls pirates 'Parasites'  and they will not be tolerated.

JULY 27: UPN Movies: While no longer 'Blockbuster Cinema' the UPN movie night will continue. It moves to Tuesday this fall with genre and non-genre movies. Genre movies this fall include these titles... 'Border Patrol', 'Code Red: the Rubicon Conspiracy', 'Future Swat', 'and 'Cube of the Talisman'. UPN is the only channel giving the genre fans constant movies to enjoy, even though they are low budget movies.

JULY 27: Spam Busters: House Bill 3113, the unsolicited commercial electronic email act of 1999 passed by a 427 -1 vote. This is a national law that BANS unsolicited junk email.

JULY 27: All Souls: UPN's mid-season series 'All Souls' from Aaron Spelling has added 'Another Worlds' Grayson McCouch. The series revolves around a haunted hospital.

JULY 27: VHS to DVD Unit: Spruce Technologies has introduced the worlds first stand-alone system for automatically transferring video directly to DVD. The turn-key package debuts at the DVDPro 2000 Conference & Expo in Burlingame, California. It's designed to do... film & video dailies to DVD, client copies of commercials to DVD, video archiving and transfer of home movies and videos to DVD. Of course the price is not yet known. Expect in the $1000+ range to start out. Image transferring all those VHS collections to DVD. Hooo Hooo!!

JULY 26: BBC Cuts: The BBC will be cutting an additional 900 jobs, bringing the total to 1100 over the next three years in order to free up money for programming. Most cuts will be middle management, finance, and marketing. Every company is top heavy. Most forget that your 'HOURLY' personnel do the bulk of the work, and are the backbone of a company. And yet! They are the most unappreciated of the company.

JULY 26: Black Knight: Martin Lawrence, coming off 'Momma's House' has signed to star in 'Black Knight'. He will receive at whopping $16.5M for the role. Darryl Quarles, who wrote Momma's House, will provide the script for the feature. This will be a fantasy/comedy. (cinescape) Use to take a run of big hits to get that kind of money. Not anymore.  

JULY 26: What Lies Beneath: Even though the feature had some slightly less than stellar reviews, the film was number one at the box office with $30.1M. The X-Men was number 2 with $23.7M but, that was a huge drop off from its opening week.

JULY 26: Misc News: Barbara Streisand is calling it quits on her live music career with four final concerts, two in LA and two in NY. I am so glad she didn't come back here to Las Vegas. See ya... finally.

JULY 25: Santa Clause 2: Tim Allen and Disney are moving forward in their development of a sequel to 'The Santa Clause'. The expected release date is November 2k1.

JULY 25: King  on the Web 2: Stephen King has put the first two installments of his new book 'The Plant' for sale on his web site, www.stephenking.com. 

JULY 25: Kissing Sable: Kiss basist Gene Simmons and Pacifica Entertainment are developing the comic hero 'Jon Sable, Freelance' for the big screen. Steven E. de Souza (Die Hard I & II) will write the script about the war veteran & former Olympian, created by Mike Grell.

JULY 24: Koontz on Fox: Fox will air Dean Koontz 'Sole Survivor'. The action/suspense thriller mini-series will air Sept 13 & 14. Billy Zane stars with Gloria Reuben & John McGinley.

JULY 24: Gladiator Still #1: World Wide Gladiator is still the number one picture of the summer raking in over $360M while Mission Impossible 2 'Cruises' at its heels with over $316M. That amount puts both films onto the top 50 most grossing films of all time.

JULY 24: Misc. News: With sagging sales Taco Bell has changed their advertising agency, and dumped the talking Chihuahua. I am sure it is the dogs fault sales are sagging, and not the quality and quantity of food. I am wonder if anyone really bought the food, because some... dog, told you too? Well, maybe?

JULY 24: Low Budget Flicks: Doing low budget films has turned Dimension Films into a feature film powerhouse. Some low budget films they have coming include, 'Spy Kids', 'Dracula 2000', and 'Imposter' (a futuristic thriller). These types of films don't have to be blockbusters at the box office to be blockbusters. And they often become franchise films, like... 'From Dust Til Dawn', and 'the Faculty'. (variety)

JULY 24: Spy Kids: Dimension Films enjoys the low budget flicks like 'Scary Movie' that make huge dollars. Robert Rodriguez is doing the low budget flick 'Spy Kids' with quite a few familiar faces, for Dimension. Spy Kids has 350 special effects. These will be done by Rodriquez's own FX Shop. The kicker is, that his effects shop is in his garage. That is impressive, and a HUGE budget saver. (variety)

JULY 24: Simpsons: The voices joining the Simpsons during this season include... Stephen King, Edward Norton, Michael Keaton, and Drew Barrymore.

JULY 24: Disney Gets Some Bruck: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, (Pearl Harbor) has signed on with Disney for an additional three years. Bruck is Disney's most successful supplier of feature films. His resume of films include... The Rock, Con Air, Crimson Tide,  Days of Thunder, and the Beverly Hills Cop series. 

JULY 24: King of the Hill: The series enters it fifth season this fall with the voices of Brendan Frasier, Kathy Bates, Carl Reiner, Snoop Dogg and Lisa Crow.

JULY 24: No Emmy?: There is an Emmy for ever category, except our genre. Piss on the effects and bullshit awards like that. Why not, 'Best Sci-Fi Series'.  Best actor and actor in a genre based series. Best performance as an Alien. Why not? the WB, Fox and UPN are making a living off of genre series.

JULY 24: No Love on Mars: Variety is reports that 'Ghost of Mars' co-star Courtney Love has injured her ankle and forced to drop out of the John Carpenter feature 'Ghosts of Mars' starring Ice Cube. The schedule is tight and must start filming on August 8. No word on her replacement yet. The bitch of it is, she injured the ankle training for the role in the film.

JULY 24: Opie Does Thriller: Ron Howard, Opie Taylor, and 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' director will be directing a thriller titled 'The Chechnya'. Species 2 scribe Chris Brancato will pen the project. Howard will begin the film once he finishes directing Universal's 'A Beautiful Mind'.

JULY 24: Show Me The Money: By starring and producing Mission Impossible 2, Tom Cruise has so far made $70M from the film. Domestically the film has grossed over $207M. ($319M+ World Wide) That is a nice payday.

JULY 23: Campbell Movie: Bruce Campbell has a new genre movie coming out titled 'Nobody Knows'. A time traveller comes back to the past and prevents J.F.K.'s assassination. Campbell, (jack of all trades, Brisco County Jr.) plays William Roberts, a famous filmaker. Other cast members include... Victor Slezak, Vince Strant, Capreice Benedtetti, Larry Drake, Barry Corbin, and Ralph White as the time traveler.

JULY 23: Images Needed: Come On People!!! I am looking for 5X7 or 8X10 high quality images of older and newer Television Shows. Frasier, Home Improvement, the Invaders 60's, Time Tunnel, The Flash, Any old scifi/horror/fantasy series, and popular new shows. Scanned at 150 dpi would be best at least at 100% of image size. Contact me and I'll give you an email address that can handle that size email.  Any help is appreciated.

JULY 23: Black Scorpion: The new series from Roger Corman, premieres on the SFC the first quarter of next year. The series will star Michelle Lintel (a former miss Kansas). She plays a cop by day, and a 'Superman/Spiderman/Batman like creature by night. Scott Valentine will costar with Adam West in the series, which will feature 17 Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets. (TCA Press) (this a follow-up to previously reported material)

JULY 23: Pretending on TNT: According to the TV Guide Insider, plans for a two hour movie as a conclusion for The Pretender have been scrapped in favor of a series of Pretender TV movies on TNT.

JULY 23: Time Traveler: The rarely shown Television Series Pilot, from Irwin Allen, shown on ABC in 1976, is airing on Encore's Action Channel July 25 (twice) and once on July 26. Check your listing fro exact times. Time Travelers stars Richard Basehart, Tom Hallick, Same Groom and Trish Stewart. 

JULY 23: Fox Marvels: With the success of X-Men FOX is looking forward to a sequel, they continue to move forward with their other big name Marvel projects that they have in the... Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Silver Surfer.

JULY 23: Black Panther: Looks like Wesley Snipes is still attached to the 'Black Panther' project through Amen Ra Films. Amen Ra's Prez. Kimiko Fox told Cinescape's Gina McIntyre, "This is something Snipes has been trying to put together for a long, long time. We've actually been talking to Blade scribe David Goyer.

JULY 23: Planet of the Apes: The short lived Television Series lasted a mere 14 episodes on CBS in 1974, and ten episodes were turned into five television movies to make money off the series. Download the series cover sheet from the VHS Cover Sheet area.

JULY 23: Scary Money: In just 14 days the feature film, 'Scary Movie', from Keenan Ivory Wayans, has scared up over $100M. Awesome return for a Dimension Film low budget project of just $19M. This is great.

JULY 23: X-Men 100: The new Brian Singer feature 'X-Men' will mutate onto the $100M list by the end of this weekend. 

JULY 22: Fantasy Sci-Fi: With the Sci-Fi Channel airing the short lived series, remake, Fantasy Island it makes you wonder why the SFC hasn't bought the rights to ABC's original 'Fantasy Island' starring Richardo Montelbaun (sp). There was 7 seasons at 157 episodes. Hell of a lot better than a run of just 13 episodes of an... average series.

JULY 22: Super Force: The Ken Olandt series lasted two seasons, 48 episodes and aired from Oct. 1990 to May 1992. The series is hardly ever talked about, and I don't think it has even aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. If you do have the series, here is a cover sheet for the series.

JULY 22: NBC New Season: With NBC out of the genre business this season I guess it really doesn't matter that much that they will NOT begin the 2000 fall season until mid to late October, after they finish airing the summer Olympics.

JULY 22: Scooby Snacking: By airing a four hour double feature of 'Scooby Doo' movies on July 2, the Cartoon Network found itself tied at #2 in the weekly ratings with TBS at 2.0, for the week of June 26 to July 2. USA Network was number 1 with a 2.1 rating. Scooby itself brought in a rating of 2.3, proving the 20+ year old cartoon still has some serious fans, young and old.

JULY 22: Misc News: Starksy & Hutch (I need some quality images of this one) will make its twice a day summer run on TNN later this summer. Starsky and Hutch was an ABC series from 75 - 79, airing 94 episode in that span. (pilot counting as 2 episodes.)

JULY 22: Braga $$$$: Brannon Braga's new 3 year deal with Paramount is in the high seven figures. The deal includes developing the new Star Trek series for UPN. He'll also produce & develop other series for the studio.

JULY 22: Terminator 3: Ridley Scott may take a crack at Terminator 3 after he finishes up 'Hannibal', according to Reel.com's Jeffrey Wells. For two seperate places Wells hears the same thing. Nothing is official or firm yet. But it does seem likely.

JULY 21: Robocop USA: There are rumors afloat that Julian Grant's and Fireworks 'Robocop: Prime Directives' will air in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel or HBO.  If the SFC gets their hands on it, they'll commercial the hell out of it, but will show it a few times. If HBO gets it, many will miss it. But it will be shown commercial free and in digital for those with that option. I would think TNT or USA networks would be more likely. More money to spend in that direction. And we know USA Net. doesn't spend a lot on SFC first run movies. I'm hoping for HBO.

JULY 21: LEXX Webbing It: On July 24, the Sci-Fi Channel will stream an episode of LEXX titled, 'the Web' directly to their site, SciFi.com, in a one time only broadcast. Be patient, the new site from mothership is now 'flash' designed and loads slowly on a 56k modem.

JULY 21: Misc. News: CBS wants Rosie O'Donnell out as the Tony Awards host. The ratings were dismal in her last effort as the shows host in 1998. She bowed out in 1999, but was asked back again in 2000. CBS is just looking out for their ratings. (but remember, ratings don't matter. If it makes money for the network, it is OK.)

JULY 21: Dune, MS: If the Dune, Mini-Series is successful, as predicted, then you can plan on seeing a sequel.

JULY 20: More Voyager 7: On a continuing note of Voyagers 7th and final season. Ken Biller, reports we will see Reginald Barclay at least twice, and Counselor Troi at least once this season. Barclay will appear early in the season and possibly in the final episode.  The two-hour Nov. TV Movie will be titled 'Flesh and Blood'. When asked AGAIN, if the crew would get home, Biller replied, "And if we don't take the ship home, we have to ask ourselves exactly this question-- have we disappointed people that have invested emotionally for years in seeing the crew succeed with that objective." (norris & vleet of cinescape magazine) But knowing Paramount, do THEY care.

JULY 20: Disney Whining Again: Disney continues to lobby against the merger of AOL and Time Warner, trying to set merging policies for the FCC. Disney whines and sues over everything they are involved in. What a pain in the ass.

JULY 20: Misc News: Toilets are no longer safe from ads. ABC has announced plans for a radical marketing campaign for 'NORM', by putting talking billboads over urinals in more than 1000 restrooms throughout LA and N.Y. Hey, if you don't like it... piss on it. ;-)

JULY 20: Prey Ad: Despite the fact that two of the lead characters in the series 'Prey' from ABC have moved on to other successful series, Prey fans took out an ad in the JUNE 22 Variety. This,in an effort to save the short-lived television series. Another good series cut down before being given a chance to find an audience.

JULY 19: Voyager 7: Say new executive producer of ST: Voyager, Ben Stiller, "We are working hard to wrap up some series long arcs" There will be a season long arc wrapping up the Paris/Torres romance. Even the maguis/federation tensions will arise again as they get closer to home. Seven will deal with her humanity still, and Kim will deal with being an ensign on Voyager forever. Still nothing about when or if the crew will Voyage home. Perhaps during the two-hour special in November the crew will finally make the final leap... home. I'm sure most of the stories will base around 'Janeway' or 'Seven' as they have the last two years.

JULY 18: Queen of Swords: Mercury Entertainment Prez, who's distributing Paramount's 'Queen of Swords' says, "This year, we have something really extraordinary to show you." This new series is not a female Zorro. Something different. Look out Xena.

JULY 18: LEXX on Web: July 24 on 'SciFi.com' they will be streaming the LEXX episode 'the Web' to the internet, in a one-time online broadcast. The web episode will be different than the episode broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel.

JULY 18: Indiana Jones 4: Harrison Ford told the 'Calgary Sun' that M. Night Shyalaman doing the script for Indy 4 was nothing more than industry rumor. But he is looking forward to doing another Indy film. And hopes that Sean Connery will be in the film as well.

JULY 18: Freddy & Jason a go, go: Dark Horizon is reporting that New Line Cinema has finally given the green light on the long anticipated 'Freddy vs Jason' project. Production is set to begin lensing Dec. 16, 2000, with a release date of October 2k1. I wonder still if they are planning to film the two different endings and rotating them at the theatres.

JULY 18: Misc News: Echostar has launched its sixth satellite successfully on a Lockheed Martin 'Atlas' rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will expand coverage to Alaska and Hawaii.

JULY 18: Sci-Fi FONTS: I would like to welcome a link exchange with Jaap Verhorst's 'Sci-Fi Fonts' site. Looking for some great fonts, this is the place. Great design, and there are samples of each fonts so you know what it looks like. take a visit by CLICKING HERE.

JULY 18: More Covers: Just added three more VHS Cover Sheets to the site. Added... 'Spiderman the series', 'Spiderman, the animated series' and 'Time Trax'.

JULY 18: Galactica Sciography: I was disappointed that they left out the characters Boomer, and Athena (maren jensen) Hey, where are they now? What is up with the Sci-Fi Channel negotiating with Universal on a new Battlestar Galactica series? For a 40 minute special, a lot was left out. Enjoyed the show, but needed more. Was nice to let everyone know the show was number 20 when it was cancelled. Ratings mean nothing, even today. ie... Now and Again, Pretender, Early Edition, the Others, and Profiler can contest to that.

JULY 18: X-Men $$$$: The new X-Men film collected $21.3M on its opening night, Friday. A Three day total of $57.2M. The highest grossing movie ever for JULY. Excellent quality picture, and the best Comic character adaption yet. Blade wasn't bad either, though.

JULY 18: The Kid: I haven't seen it, but this past Sunday, the theatre it was playing in here in Vegas, one of many, was sold out. Despite crappy reviews people are flocking to the picture.

JULY 18: Time Machine Remake: Simon Wells, grandson of H.G. Wells, is in final negotiations to direct Dreamworks remake of H. G. Wells, 'The Time Machine'.

JULY 18: Mummy III: The Mummy 3 sequel will be penned by Jonathan Hales. He is currently working with George Lucas on the Episode 2 script.

JULY 17: More Cover Sheets: Got done sheets for 'the Bionic Woman' and this years surprising syndicated hit series, 'the Beastmaster' starring Daniel Goddard. All free downloads for your personal collections. CLICK HERE for the Cover Sheet area.

JULY 17: Diesel Motors On: Pitch Black star Vin Diesel has a new action project to work on titled, 'Diablo'. New Line Cinema has paid $750K against $1M  for the Diesel project.

JULY 17: Fugitive only OK:  The Broadcast Research for OMD USA has rated the CBS Series 'Fugitive' only OK, and not a hit. That means the show be a good performer, but not a hit series this year. Actually none of the new shows for the fall were rated to be hits by the research firm. Only problem is the 'Fugitive' pilot cost $6M to make. Can a good series maintain that quality on a TV series budget.

JULY 17: Other Ratings: All the other genre shows rated from the Broadcast Research Firm came in as 'borderline' shows. That includes Fox's 'Fearsum' getting a 2.5 and UPN's 'Freedom' and 'Level 9' along  with Fox's 'Dark Angel' coming in with 2's. This is where most of the shows for the fall came in.

JULY 17: Apes Casting: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, 'Estrella Warren' is in final negotiations to play Mark Wahlbergs love interest in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes' remake.  Wonder if she'll get a speaking role in this version being scripted by 'William Broyles'. Filming is due to begin lensing this fall.

JULY 17: Episode 2 news: Looks like Christopher Walken may be joining the cast of Episode 2. Possibly playing the role of a Sith Lord. And remember, there can only be '2' sith lords at the same time.

JULY 17: XFL in VEGAS: It's official. Along with Los Angeles, Las Vegas will get a charter team of the new XFL Football League, beginning play in February 2k1. Already announced are Chicago, Memphis Tenn, Orlando, and San Jose Calif. The new Vegas franchise will play at 'Sam Boyd' Stadium.

JULY 17: They Nest: Just another reminder that the USA Network will air they're original movie, 'They Nest' on USA July 25 at 5pm pst. Wonder why the 'SCIFI' Channel didn't get this picture? It is their kind of movie, right? Oh, I know, the budget for the picture was to high to air on the that channel. Got it.

JULY 16: New Cover Sheets: Have added Robocop: 'Prime Directives' Cover Sheet along with 'Logan's Run' and 'the Beverly Hillbillies'. CLICK HERE for the complete listing.

JULY 16: Captain Cruise: Marvel Comics Avi Arad wants Tom Cruise as Marvel Superhero 'Captain America'. Say Arad, "First, we have to do a script, and then send it to him. We don't want to go with an unknown. Captain America is too visible a character. It's definitely going to be someone high profile." (cinescape)

JULY 16: Plissken Series: Snake Plissken will return in 2k1. Except this time, it will be in a weekly syndicated series titled, 'Escape From New York'. Tribune entertainment is doing the series. Kurt Russell is involved in the series, but will not be in the role of 'Snake'.  Howard Chaykin (viper) will be the head writer of the series. (hollywood reporter)

JULY 16: Radical Trek: Trek producer 'Brannon Braga' has announced that the new Star Trek series debuting in the fall of 2k1 will be Star Trek at its core, but the concept will change to a radical degree.

JULY 16: Secret Agent Man: Broadcasts of the remaining, previously un-aired, UPN Series 'Secret Agent Man' are hitting about 1.3 in the ratings. Better than Roswell when it was moved to a different day. Roswell was renewed with a rating of 1.5 & 1.8.

JULY 16: The Immortal: The new Lorenzo Lamas series 'The Immortal' has begun production in Vancouver (where else).  The series has already been sold to stations representing more than 80% of the US television market. The show should be a dark humorous show.

JULY 16: Invisible Man: The Sci-Fi Channel has ordered another 9 episodes of the new series that is doing better than Farscape, Lexx or First Wave (which the SFC is dogging in my opinion.) (aint it cool)

JULY 15: Daredevil: New Regency Productions is now in control of the rights to Daredevil now and Mark Steven Johnson (grumpy old men) will script the project. The deal with New Regency and Marvel includes the use of the characters, Kingpin and Electra. (variety)

JULY 15: B5 Widescreen: The Sci-Fi Channel, in its best decision yet, will be showing 'Babylon 5' in its original format of 'WIDESCREEN' beginning Sept. 25th at 4pm (pst). First Time the series has EVER been broadcast in widescreen. Nice job SFC!!! Get those VCRs hot. B5 was a syndicated series, so it should be broadcast in its entirety. No editing. Yes! Why wasn't this format released on video instead of the pan and scan version? Maybe DVD?

JULY 15: T3 update: Producers being considered for the film include Ridley Scott, Roland Emmerich, and David Fincher. Being directors as well, are likely to produce and direct the film. However, Swartzenegger gets final approval of the director. In this installment Arnold will once again be the old model terminator battling an even more advanced terminator, who will be in female form.

JULY 15: Episode 2: As everyone is reporting, Jimmy Smits (tommyknockers) has officially joined the cast of Star Wars: Episode 2. 

JULY 14: Black Scorpion: The Roger Corman Produced series, 'Black Scorpion' (based on the 'B' movie of the same name) has been picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel. It will premiere in the first quarter of 2k1. Batman's Adam West is a series regular, while the villains will include... Scott Valentine, Frank Gorshin (riddler), Lou Ferrigno (the hulk), Soupy Sales, and David Landers. Corman self produced the show, paying for the entire first season filming, hoping the series would be picked up. The first season is already in the can and ready to go. Probably would find a larger audience in syndication.

JULY 14: Sum of all Fears: Paramount wants Ben Affleck to take on the role of Jack Ryan in 'The Sum of all Fears' that Harrison Ford backed out on. With Affleck in the role of Ryan, Paramount feels it could spawn more movies and bring in a younger audience to the character.

JULY 14: The Others: Glen Morgan says to forget a revival of his series on the Sci-Fi Channel. "It isn't going to happen. They're dead" he says. You might see the reruns on the channel, and that's all.

JULY 14: UPN Mid-Season 2000: While UPN is already adding two genre series for the fall, they have two more ready to go and a third being considered. The two mid-season shows will be 'All Souls' (haunted hospital) and 'Special Unit 2' (MIB/ ghostbuster style show). The series being considered is 'Chameleon' with Bobbie Phillips.

JULY 14: Land of the Lost: Coming to DVD soon, for $19.98 from Rhino, is a 110 minute 'Land of the Lost'. A compilation of four episodes from the series.

JULY 14: Episode 2 News: Christopher Lee has officially joined the cast of Episode 2, which is already in production in Australia.

JULY 14: Rat Rights: Stainless Steel Rat series author Harry Harrison, told the SFX website he has given up creative control to producer Bill McCutcheon. Said Harrison, "That's one reason it took 16 years to sell. Studios always want control, always." Hey, only Hollywood knows how to ruin a great concept.

JULY 14: T3 update: James Cameron has again told Entertainment Weekly, despite Arnold talking with him, that he will NOT be onboard for 'Terminator 3'. He would prefer to develop the sequel to 'True Lies'.

JULY 13: Star Flop: The Jonathan Frakes & Fox TV pilot, 'Star Patrol', did not get picked up. Project is dead.

JULY 13: Day One: Warner Bros. pilot that was to have cost a bundle to film is now dead too.

JULY 13: MIB 2: Sony does intend to do a 'Men In Black' sequel despite the budget busting price tag. Robert Gordon is currently scripting the sequel.

JULY 13: Misc News: Dreamworks is stripping (selling re-run rights) ABC's hit series 'Spin City'. They are getting a whopping $2.5M per episode. Whoa!

JULY 13: Babylon 5 is Alive: Jerry Doyle, Girabaldi, has told 11th Hour that he's been making phone calls and working on getting a new version of Babylon 5 back on the small screen. Warner Bros and other studios are interested in the project. And should it come to pass, J. Michael Straczynski will be involved, as will other un-named cast members. Doyle refused to give away in pertinent information on the story, just mentioning there are lots of stories to do.

JULY 12: Lefemme Nakita: Though the show has been cancelled by the USA network, it may not be completely dead. Says Peta Wilson, Nakita, "There's talk of me doing a Nakita TV Movie. They haven't destroyed the sets yet, so I don't really know." (calgary sun) 

JULY 12: Sorbo Bulks Down: For his new series Kevin Sorbo has lost 20lbs and is now much leaner than his Hercules bulk. Sorbo is now 6'5" 265'lbs with an extremely low 2% body fat. He is still huge and can do one arm pull ups. He is glad to be closer to home as the show is filming, where else, in Vancouver Canada. Sure beats the six hears he spent filming Hercules in New Zealand. (reuters limited)

JULY 12: TV Themes: There are over 135 television themes in mp3 format in the TV Themes area. Genre and non-genre shows. MASH, Miami Vice, Roswell, Battlestar Galactica, First Wave, Prey, and more...

JULY 12: TNT Changes: TNT is changing their schedule for the fall with the NBA moving from Fridays to Wed & Thur. Tues nights will be TNT's original series, with Friday's being devoted to weekend status of just Movies, movies, movies. Saturday nights will continue with 'the New Classics'. They want to develop TNT into the commercial brand on television. Don't have to worry about that. Syndicated stations smother shows with commercials by even editing 44 minutes one hour series down to 42 minutes for an extra 2 minutes of commercial space.

JULY 12: VHS Labels: There is a ton of VHS side and top labels for download. Check them out for your personal collection.

JULY 12: Chekotay Talks: Robert Beltran is finally speaking out over changes in the shows format since 7 of  9 joined the show, and most of the cast moved into standby roles. At a recent UK Convention, says Beltran, "The writers don't care about the actors, particularly since 7 of 9 came to the show. They seem to writer better for non-humans. But I think if reflects on the them, they're missing the boat on a very talented cast." Beltran would just like a few scenes per episode where he could speak like a human being and just making a report to advance the story along. Read the whole interview on Robert Beltran's Fan page. This is exactly what I have been saying since Jeri Ryan, Braga's girlfriend, joined the cast. Great character, but it has turned most of the cast into fill in characters.

JULY 12: Queen of Swords: The new syndicated TV Series will be previewed at the Television Press Tour, as the networks introduce critics to cast and producers. Reviews of the show should be coming soon.

JULY 11: New Themes: Some new Television Themes have been added for your listening pleasure. Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, Adam 12, Dragnet, Bob Newhart, Rosanne and LA Heat. CLICK HERE for the themes page browser.

JULY 11: ER Cover Sheet: A Cover Sheet for the hit series 'ER' has been added to the site. CLICK HERE for the Cover Sheet page.

JULY 11: Video Dubbing: The Video Dubbing section of the website has been cleaned up, and updated. If you want you home recording to look professional this is the place to check out. Video Dubbing Zone.

JULY 11: New Galactica Series: The Sci-Fi Channel has finally put it on their site that they are considering remaking the 1977 series 'Battlestar Galactica' in a new updated tv series. You can cast your vote for the new series at scifi.com in the Sci-Fi Wire section. 81% of the voters want a new series.

JULY 11: Sorbo Talks: Kevin Sorbo, Hercules, revealed that he had been in negotiations to star in a CBS TV Series when was offered a two-year guarantee of episodes with Andromeda. That made his decision.

JULY 11: Damme Probation: Action/Sci-Fi star 'Jean-Claude Van Damme', 39, received three years probation and a $1200 fine from his Sept 99 arrest for Drunk driving without his license after pleading no contest. The actor was also sentenced to a 90 day anti-drunk driving course and had his license suspended for 90 days. 

JULY 11: Scary $$$$: Over the weekend 'Scary Movie' from Keenan Ivory Wayans set a box office record for an 'R' rated picture scaring up $42.5M. A weekend total that is already more than twice the films budget. Scary Movie is a parady about horror films like scream and I know what you do last whenever.

JULY 10: Misc. News: This weeks TV Guide rated the top 25 greatest detectives. Of my favorites, Jim Rockford was #1. #2 was Columbo, Magnum PI came in at #5. Baretta at #11, and my all time fav 'Miami Vice' was #15. Starsky and Hutch cruised in at #20 with Robert Urich's Spencer For Hire at #21.  Hey, where the hell is Dan Tana? Las Vegas' number one detective. That was a great show!

JULY 10: Misc News: Stupid me, I just read that the Laker's Rick Fox is married to star 'Vanessa Williams' (true lies). Lucky guy. 

JULY 10: They Nest: USA Network will air an original picture about nesting cockroaches, 'They Nest', on July 25.  How come they spend more money for horror/scifi movies on USA than the low budget scifi/horror pictures for the scifi channel? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it?

JULY 10: Misc News: Gene Simmons (rock group Kiss, runaway, wanted dead or alive) is planning a dive back into the movies when kiss wraps it up at the end of this year. He is also planning to do a book, and get into the internet.

JULY 10: Jaws DVD: The Special Edition DVD of JAWS from the Spielberg collection will hit shelves July 11. 

JULY 10: Scream 3: This third, and hopefully last, installment from Dimension Films is out on VHS and DVD. Still watchable but less so than the other ones.

JULY 9: Cover Sheet: Just added a 'Gilligan's Island' Cover Sheet to the site. CLICK HERE for the Cover Sheet Area.

JULY 9: Werewolf TV:  I would like to welcome webmaster Lone Wolf to the website as his 'WEREWOLF' website has been linked from our site in various areas. Click the Werewolf link to enter the Sci-Fi Television fan page area where you can select the show of your choice.

JULY 9: SFC no repeats: The Sci-Fi Channel has been promising a summer of no repeats. And so far it has been true. The don't air reruns they just don't show the series. July 4 weekend, Farscape, First Wave, Lexx, and the Invisible Man were not shown. The excuse being that they don't want to air their first run shows during a holiday, or sweeps, etc. Just show the damn television shows. We have been subjected to over two months of friggin' re-runs and after one week of new shows we get pre-empted movies. Give me a break. The fans deserve better.

JULY 9: Deathrace 3000: Things are proceeding so slow on this film being produced by Tom Cruise, Paul Anderson, and Jeremy Bolt. Anderson is to direct the film from Paramount. Seems to still be on the schedule.

JULY 9: Long Time Dead: Mars Attacks' Lukas Haas is signed to star in the horror thriller 'Long Time Dead' for Universal. (variety)

JULY 9: Manimal: Get the VCR's ready as beginning July 18, Thursdays, the SF Channel will be airing 6hr blocks of the short lived series 'Manimal' from 4am to 10am pst. 

JULY 9: Back to Back: The Sci-Fi Channel will also beginning airing 'the Crow: Stairway to Heaven' and 'Highlander: the Raven' back to back beginning July 23 at 5pm pst. Both series lasted just 22 episodes each. There is still life for The Crow beginning in the fall of 2k1. These were syndicated shows and should be shown in their entirety 

JULY 9: Fantasy Island: Malcolm McDowell's short lived series 'Fantasy Island' will begin its showing on the Sci-Fi Channel beginning July 11 @ 4pm pst in a four hour Tuesday block. These WILL be edited likely from approx 44/45 minutes down to 42 syndicated minutes.

JULY 8: Thanks: To all the extra visitors over the last two days, thank you. Welcome to the site.

JULY 8: Chameleon: While watching a commercial for the UPN's fall line-up, they did not mention Chameleon, but there was a two second scene of her during the commercial. (backed up the commercial to make sure. it was her.) So perhaps we will get 'Chameleon' as a mid-season replacement. Fingers crossed for Bobbie Phillips.

JULY 8: Solomon 13: D&D's Courtney Solomon says he's producing a live action version of the comic, 'GEN 13'. Disney will distribute and is due to green light the project soon. (chud).

JULY 8: Connery Knighted: On July 5th Sean Connery was Knighted in Edinburgh, where he grew up. Sean Connery is 69 and has done over 70  films during his career. (chud)

JULY 8: Spiner Spun: Brett Spiner, known as Data, of the Next Generation wanted his character killed off in ST9: Resurrection. This time in ST10 he is rumored to be getting his wish in the new storyline. This also appears to be the final Star Trek picture with the Next Generation crew. So, kill one, kill them all. It isn't like Spiner's career has taken off since Trek.

JULY 8: Exorcist Re-release: A blockbuster in 1973 and nominated for 10 Oscars will again hit the big screen in a limited re-release. The new release has been cleaned up and had an additional 12 minutes of footage added to the movie.

JULY 8: Perfect Money: The Perfect Storm decimated the competition at the box office with over $64M. It beat out Mel Gibson's epic story 'Patriot' by over a two to one margin. 

JULY 8: Misc. News: the XFL: Orlando, Florida has gotten one of the new Franchises for the NBC/WWF football league beginning play in February 2k1. It is still to be name. 'The Orlando Sungodz' has a nice ring to it, do ya think?

JULY 8: Logan Running: Paramount has officially announced that scribe John Logan (Gladiator & RKO 281) will script the new Star Trek 10 picture. He is to bring in new blood to the name. (cinescape)

JULY 8: No Chick 2: Dreamworks contends it has projects that will keep them busy for the next five years and will not have time to consider a Chicken Run 2. For awhile at least.

JULY 5: Cover Sheets: Just added, Swamp Thing, 2 Magnum PI, Sex in the City, Quantum Leap, and Six Million Dollar Man. CLICK HERE to view them all.

JULY 5: Shatner Directing: The Star Trek V director, William Shatner, is taking another swing at the directors chair in a dark comedy titled, 'Shiva Club'. David Freed has scripted. Shatner got the idea from his wife's drowning. I don't think he'll be searching for God this time.

JULY 5: Battlefield 2: Roger Corman told Dragoncon goers that plans for the sequel to the box office flop, 'Battlefield Earth' is still being considered. The sequel would complete the L. Ron Hubbard novel of the same name. Though a flop, a computer game and animated series are expected in 2k1.

JULY 5: Stewart in for 10: Patrick Stewart has confirmed his character, Jon Luc Picard, will be is in the new 'Star Trek 10' story being considered by Paramount. Stewart says he doesn't know who the director will be. Buffy's Joss Whedon is rumored to be the scribe. That is rumor only.

JULY 5: Invisible Tops: Yeah, don't we wish. But the Sci-Fi Channel's new series 'The Invisible Man' has squeaked by 'Farscape' in the ratings with a 1.6 to 1.5. Invisible is a lead in to Farscape on Friday beginning at 5pm PST.

JULY 5: Cube Sequel: Looks there still might be a sequel to the dismal ending, made for TV Movie 'Cube', which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.

JULY 4: Fletch Returns: Miramax Films has purchased the rights to the Fletch franchise and will put Kevin Smith in the role of 'Fletch' to re-introduce the character to fans. Seems a done deal.

JULY 4: Li Team: Luc Besson will write, produce and finance a film to star Jet Li. As yet thereis no title, but begins in the fall. This could change with Li signing on to Matrix 2 and Matrix 3.

JULY 4: Pretending TNT: Turner Network Television is still considering an interest to acquiring first run rights to complete the show. I sure hope they get off their asses and do something. Sure hope they are Pretending. :)

JULY 4: Ultraviolet Complete: Fox has completed the sexy vampire pilot, 'Ultraviolet'. A new Forever Knight type series. But they say it will not be as heavy as FK. Kindred the Embraced was also a short lived FOX series that was awesome. Why not just try bring that one back.

JULY 4: On Hostile Ground: From Alliance Atlantis on TBS was the highest rated movie of the week, it aired, on basic cable. I was a terrible movie. No major highlights in action, story, or acting. What a dud!

JULY 3: Galactica Marathon: The Sci-Fi Channel will be airing its annual 'Battlestar Galactica Marathon' Monday July 3 from 9am to 3am EST. (18 hrs) Can't we get something other than 'Twilight Zone' and 'Battlestar Galactica'? Same ones every year.

JULY 2: Grayheart & Gellar: Scream 2 & Earth 2's Rebecca Grayheart will co-star with Buffy's Michelle Gellar in the non-genre movie, 'Harvard'.

JULY 3: The Others on SFC: The SciFi Channel (SFC) is negotiating with Dreamworks on an affordable way to continue 'the Others' on the SFC. It is a very expensive show. Why not go for the less expensive in 'the Pretender' or 'Now and Again'. Both had better ratings too.

JULY 3: Locke & Bull: 'Sliders' Tembi Locke & 'Outerlimits' Andrea Roth have scored recurring role on the new TNT hour-long series 'BULL'.

JULY 3: Fearsum: Fox's new series 'FEARSUM' has changed its name to 'Freakylinks'. From good name to shit name. This title change will hurt the show for sure. God, that sounds stupid.

JULY 3: New Trek Series: The new series is set to focus on seven major characters. According to Berman, look for the new series in the fall of 2k1. But nothing is in stone.

JULY 3: Blade 2 update: The Wesley Snipes sequel is moving forward as the film has been budgeted. Pre-production begins in August. There is still a small chance they will start by the end of the year.

JULY 3: Trek 10: The complete story has been submitted to Paramount for approval prior to scripting. They have a writer who has never done Trek to bring in a fresh approach. And it does involve the Next Generation cast. There will be a great Villain and an extreme space action designed story. Expect a possible 2k1 release along with the new series.

JULY 2: USA-Viacom: USA lost its case against Viacom over the WWF. 'Raw is War' was USA Networks #1 rated show. Says Viacom Chairman, Summer Redstone, to Variety "TNN will now become the most important network in all of cable." USA couldn't match Viacom's bigger and broader offer for the rights. TNN will now get 'Raw is War', 'Livewire', and 'Superstars'. Raw will begin airing on TNN later this year. Under the five year deal UPN will get an extension of its 'WWF Smackdown' and the new XFL extreme football, on Sunday nights beginning in February.

JULY 1: Robocop Continues?: According to Julian Grant, if the Robocop: Prime Directives mini-series is successful it could possibly spawn some sequel movies as well as a new TV series. Says Grant, "My Robocorps treatment would be a lot of fun to shoot. I'd need more money and time." 

JULY 1: New Galactica Series?: The Sci-Fi Channel General Manager, Bonnie Hammer, has confirmed that something is up with Universal over Battlestar Galactica. They have had some preliminary conversations. Nothing is firm but they are talking. Hopefully it's Richard Hatch's version turned TV Series. (cinescape)