Jan 31: Invisible Man: CHAT! Got an email from Shari Hill, who is part of the 'Save I-Man Campaign'. This Friday (Feb. 1) will be the series finale of "The Invisible Man" on the SciFi Channel. In a show of support for the cast and crew, all I-Man fans who attend the chat is being asked to tack "SaveI-Man" to the front of their usual nicknames. For the final new episode of the Invisible Man, scifi.com will host a chat with stars Vincent Ventresca (Darien Fawkes) and Paul Ben-Victor (Bobby Hobbes) @ 9pm Tomorrow. Also... a new VHS Cover Sheet for the series has replaced the old cover sheet.

Jan 31: Alien vs Predator: This is a film idea about eight years old and has never come to fruition. Well there is a script, believe it or not. However. Word comes that the script from James DeMonaco & Kevin Fox was horrible and new writers will be brought it. Movieheadlines.net reports that if Alien 5 happens this one will be pushed back even further. Let's face it, this one is likely never to happen regardless of Alien 5. 20th Century Fox has never been hot for this idea.

Jan 31: Xena & Invisible Man: The shows may be gone, but far from forgotten by their fans. I have completed new VHS Cover Sheets for Xena and Invisible Man tonight to replace the previous very basic looking covers. There are over 120 VHS TV Series Cover Sheets on site now for download, with more on the way. 

Jan 31: Killer D-VHS System: I don't mean this as a great system to purchase. Brian Pesti shot an article in USA Today over the comp today. Here is some of that article... Universal, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks and Artisan Entertainment plan as early as summer to release movies on a new generation of VHS videos — high-definition and digitally recorded. So-called D-VHS tapes promise to look twice as good as DVD on new high-definition TVs — though they're not compatible with today's VCRs. To play them, you'll need a new machine such as JVC's current D-VHS model (for about $1,500), the only VCR so far that's "D-Theater" compatible. OK, here is the really bad news for videophiles... The D-Theater system blocks copying of tapes as well as Napster-like sharing of their digital signal via the Net, an acute fear of Hollywood recently and one reason so few movies have been digitally broadcast to date. Oh, blank tapes cost about $20 each. Movies in this format will cost $30 to $40. Hey, what a great deal! NOT! CLICK HERE to visit USA Today and read the entire article.

Jan 31: Jason X: New Line Cinema will let Jason slash his way onto the big screen come April 26th against four other small budget films. READ the Jason X review and see some images from the film. It is the best Jason film in the Franchise.

Jan 31: UPN Cuts Jobs: UPN will cut about 20% of its staff as they continue to consolidate with 'CBS' network operations. 

Jan 31: Goonies 2: AICN has scored a tidbit of news to make Goonie fans happy. Steven Spielberg informed a film group at USC, that Goonies 2 is indeed in work. So much so that the film is already in pre-production. The entire original cast will be back dabbling in adventure with their kids. 

Jan 30: Lost World: For the final four episodes this season, Jennifer O'Dell's character's long presumed dead parents will return. O'Dell told the sci-fi wire, she understands that fans enjoy the dinosaurs, but they come back for the characters and the character driven stories. Lost World is finishing up its third season and has already been given the thumbs up for number four.

Jan 30: Time Tunnel: The new telefilm pilot for Fox will is of course based on the Irwin Allen series, but will follow a group that travel back and forth through time rather than just the two men, who get lost and drift through time. The pilot is written by Rand Ravich and Emmy winner Todd Holland will direct. There has been no word on casting the roles just yet. Fox is hopeful the project will develop into a new series as the replacement for the departing X-Files.

Jan 30: Caesar: TNT is spending a mere $23M of its four-hour Caesar mini-series. (Dune on the Sci-Fi Channel was done for $20M) Starring in the new series will be Jeremy Sisto (six feet under), Christopher Walken, Richard Harris, Velaria Golino, and Chris North (sex in the City). The series is to be directed by Uli Edel and slated to air sometime in 2003. Production of the mini-series begins in February. (zap2it)

Jan 30: the King to Retire: Stephen King has told the L.A. Times that he is planning to retire from writing in the near future. King is planning to publish five more books and work on a mini-series for ABC before calling it quits. 

Jan 30: True Lies 2: Arnold told columnist Cindy Pearlman that a good script has been turned in for James Cameron's 'True Lies 2', but needs some rewrites. Arnold however, only wants to do one big budget film a year and Terminator 3 is this years picture. So True Lies 2 would shoot next year (2003). Yeah, at $30M for T3 there is no need to do two films in one year - just think of the taxes. Whew!

Jan 30: Cancelled Series: Check out the 'Channel News' for the latest series to bite the dust and those renewed for 2002.

Jan 30: Predator 3: Fans at the comingattractions message boards are posting their wants for the third film, and that is wanting Arnold Swartenegger and Danny Glover to team up in 'Predator 3'. That would cost more than the budget for the film.

Jan 30: Scifi2k.com to condense: Some areas of the site will be... disappearing as it is just impossible for one person, me, to keep all the areas updated regularly. Over the next week or so.. the game zone, fan opinion, movie dates, movies in work, and movie news (possibly the virtual library as well) will be doing the vanishing act. Thank you.

Jan 30: Robocop 4: Paul Verhoeven is interested in a fourth film, and Peter Weller is ready to reprise the role as Robocop. Ed Neumeier is even ready to write the script. Unfortunately it comes down to whether Fireworks, who own the rights, is ready, willing and financially able to do it. Fireworks has already spent $15M on the franchise when they did the four telefilm mini-series 'Robocop: Prime Directives' - which did air on the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. It has yet to make its way to DVD.

Jan 29: B5 Rangers Ratings Not So Good?: JMS talks about the Ratings... We heard what we initially thought were disappointing figures, that we'd done a 1.7 when SFC was hoping for a 2.6 or better. It kind of puzzled everybody because the B5 audience is generally pretty reliable. It became even *more* puzzling when the more detailed figures came in, showing that by quarter-hours, the show *gained viewers* and did not lose them. Meaning folks who came on the show by accident, stayed to watch. It should have been much higher than it was. Then the final market-by-marked figures came in from the studio, and we had our mystery resolved. The east coast ratings got hammered by the football game, which was the highest rated such game in something like 5 years. The B5 male demos are pretty much the same as for sports, and we lost heavily to football. So there we did not do well. By contrast, on the west coast, where the show aired *after* the game had finished, we not only met but *exceeded* SFC's expectations, getting a 3.2 or 3.6 in many markets, which is actually pretty unheard of for a basic cable network.The problem is that the average, 1.7, is still what's used for advertising. So we have to see if SFC will look past the show getting hammered by a big football event on the East Coast to look at the West Coast figures and see that there is, indeed, a market. (ron wolfe)

Jan 29: Derailed: The big action flick starring Jean Claude Van-Damme and Laura Elena Harring in 'Derailed' will now be sent directly to video by Nu Image once production wraps. Van Damme's previous direct to video feature 'Replicant' was well received. Van Damme may have found his niche in the industry as a 'B' movie star such as 'Bruce Campbell', 'Mark Dacascos', and 20 year 'B' star Eric Roberts. 

Jan 29: Strange World: Fans who enjoyed the three episodes that aired on ABC for Strange World, get a treat on Feb. 8th @ 8pm when the Sci-Fi Channel begins airing the shortlived series. The treat is the remaining 10 episodes that never aired on the network. 

Jan 29: Matt Helm: Dreamworks has optioned 27 novels by Donald Hamilton about spy icon 'Matt Helm'. The first feature in the proposed franchise will be helmed by 'Legally Blonde' director Robert Luketic. The new films will not be in the vein of the previous Helm features in the 60's starring Dean Martin. (moviehole.net)

Jan 29: Roswell: It is very apparent that Roswell is done at the end of this season. As for this season and its ordered 20 episodes, several separate (and reliable) sources are reporting that UPN has cut the order down to 18 eps from 20. It doesn't really matter since no one is watching.

Jan 29: Rollerball: Just a reminder that the severely cut and re-edited remake of 'Rollerball' will debut at theatres on Feb. 8th. The picture was cut down to the ninety minute mark, to get the picture from an R rating to PG-13. It has flop written all over it.

Jan 28: Terminator 3: Shooting on the third film begins April 15th. Apparently Linda Hamilton will return in the third film, but only to do flashback scenes.

Jan 28: Garner Official: IGN Filmforce has announced the official signing of Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner to play Elektra and Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin. Garner is the star undercover agent on the series 'Alias'. 

Jan 28: Sheena: As mentioned here only last week Sony releases official word that the Gina Lee Nolan series 'Sheena' is canceled, due to lackluster ratings and very little interest in season 3. You heard it hear first.

Jan 28: Conan In Work: The 168 King Conan script is being cut down to 120 pages by writer/director John Milius. The Wachowski brothers have told Milius his present script would take to long to do and be three and a half hours. 

Jan 27: C.S.I on top: With all the series flopping around the ratings C.S.I. continues to score in them. The double airing of episodes finished the series #2  & 3 behind an episode of Friends. 

Jan 27: Invisible Finale: The SFC original series 'the Invisible Man' will air its series finale Friday, February 1.

Jan 27: Enterprise: News has come down from Trektoday.com that the cost cutting merger at UPN/CBS (viacom)  could indeed affect the Enterprise network staff.    *Any chance Rick Berman could be replaced? :)

Jan 27: Actors Bickering: Now we have two actors reaching beyond the Hollywood sign into the media about Terrorists. First James Wood with his slaying of heads comments and now Arnold Swartzenegger's comments about that. These people are actors - actors whose careers are on the way down side. Maybe, just maybe they should worry about that instead of thinking we might care what they think about terrorism. Unless their going to take up a gun and join the real men and woman of this country defend it it against terrorism, keep your ass out of the media about it. Who wants to hear a bunch of Hollywood millionaires talk about terrorism? Arnold is the only person I know who has a U.S. Citizenship and still has his Austria citizenship. What is up with that?!!!

Jan 26: Babylon 5 DVD: Warner Brothers is making fans of Babylon 5 extremely happy with news that a season one boxed set of Babylon 5 this spring. There isn't word yet, but they'll likely be in letterbox format. Wooo Hooo. Another important question - HOW MUCH? Seasonal boxed sets are still over priced.

Jan 26: So Much For Indiana Jones 4: Variety is reporting that Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise are hot to do another movie together, titled Ghost Soldiers. A non-fiction account of the Bataan Death March. There is already a draft in hand. What this means for Indy? Another delay of course. So much for the sunshine up the ass comments at the Globes by Spielberg and Ford. 

Jan 26: Charlie's Angels 2: McG will helm the sequel and he is working on the project already. Our three beauties, Diaz, Lui, and Barrymore will return to their roles. The best news comes that comedy actor 'Bill Murray' will NOT be returning as Bosley in the sequel. Apparently Cameron Diaz's $20M salary has pushed Bill Murray from the film. He was horrible in the role of John Bosley and Murray is pretty much the same character in everything he does. 

Jan 26: Fox & ABC Fight for Time Tunnel: ABC and Fox are battling it out for the rights to 'the Time Tunnel'. ABC has optioned the book 'The Time Tunnel' by William Jenkins, and FOX says theirs is based on the story by Irwin Allen. Fox needs this project more than ABC as the network has fallen off in the ratings and needs a new quality series to replace the X-Files. 

Jan 25: Hulk Due For Region 2: Two of the Incredible Hulk TV Telefilms will be making their way to DVD in March 11th of this year. The DVD will contain 'The Incredible Hulk Returns' from 1988 (which includes the character of Thor) and 'Trial of the Incredible Hulk' (which includes Rex Smith as Daredevil and John Rhys-Davies as the Kingpin). Naturally there will not be a release in the U.S. anytime soon, if at all. Crap!

Jan 25: Jason X Images: March is the release date of the tenth installment in the Jason Franchise... I've seen the movie and now I have attached some images to the review. Hopefully more images from the film will be coming soon. JASON X Review

Jan 25: Rocky 6: MGM has told Sylvester Stallone there will be no money for a Rocky 6 film until Stallone proves himself once again with a hit movie. (dark horizons)  Looks like there won't be a Rocky film in that case. At his age, like Arnold, young fans aren't going to give the actor a chance.

Jan 25: ABC Genre: the ABC network has greenlit two genre pilot films. One is 'That Was Then'. An hour long drama about a 30-year-old man who longs to go back in time to relive a week in high school. The other is still an as yet untitled hour long drama about a family that fights for justice using martial arts skills. (ron wolfe)

Jan 25: Futurama: The only real female action star... Sigourney Weaver will make a guest voice appearance on 'Futurama' in the Valentine episode, as the voice of the new Planet Express Spaceship. Also voicing in the episode will be Charlie's Angel's 'Lucy Lui'.

Jan 25: Enterprise: Even though we never heard or saw the Ferengi in the original series, they will be making their first appearance on Enterprise in the upcoming episode 'Acquisition'. To fit into the continuity of the show the crew will not know the identity of the intruders. (trektoday)

Jan 25: Quantum Leap: With the success of Scott Bakula in Enterprise, Universal is mulling the possibility of bringing him back to star in a 'Quantum Leap' reunion two-hour telefilm - most likely for NBC. (syfyportal) We reported two months ago that producer Donald P. Bellasario has been working on a re-union move but Universal had never shown an interest... until now. 

Jan 25: Bad Boys 2: WENN is reporting that Bad Boys 2 is on the way. Both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are preparing to work on the film even though the film will has no script. Jerry Bruckheimer has met with both stars and discussed several ideas. It is now a matter of getting it down on paper. The action will take place in Miami.

Jan 25: Exorcist Prequel: Production begins next Summer and will star Liam Neeson, Billy Crawford, and Ryan Phillippe. 

Jan 25: Episode II Trailer: TheForce.net is reporting that the full trailer for Episode II will be attached to the CG animated comedy, 'Ice Age'. 

Jan 25: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: The second annual 'Sci-Fi London' film festival begins February 2nd. Here is a blurp from an email I received today... "We have a packed programme of classic, rare and new features films including THX 1138, Soylent Green, Stalker and Tron. We also have the World Premiere of Ken Russell's new feature "The Fall of the Louse of Usher" and the European Premiere of Mark Pellington's "The Mothman Prophecies". The film festival will be loaded with other great stuff to see and witness. You can check out their site at Sci-Fi-London.com. 

Jan 24: UPN Trouble: Genre series and the male market (UPN's Bread & Butter this year) could be in deep trouble on UPN with the hiring of Dawn Tarnofsky - Ornoff as UPN's Entertainment President. She brought us the crappy great shows like 'Any Day Now', 'Strong Medicine', and 'the Division'. Just what we need... a mini CBS. 

Jan 24: Roswell Goes on HIATUS: UPN has put the already doomed Roswell on Hiatus (nasty word) for March, when it would have been on in repeats, to air two new series, ala the WB and Felicity. Neither show however is a genre series.

Jan 24: Mutant X now Official: As announced a few days ago here, Mutant X has been picked up officially for another season making the Tribune Broadcasting Group very happy. (hollywood reporter)

Jan 24: Prey Campaign Continues: Got an email letting me know how the campaign effort is going getting the SFC know that fans want the PREY film from William Schmidt's script. Here's the email... "The Sci-Fi Channel has been deluged with hundreds of postcards and almost 2,000 emails in the last three months in hopes that the cabler will produce William Schmidt's television movie script entitled "Tom's Story". The script is a follow up movie to the highly popular 1998 series, PREY, and although it may solve the series' cliffhanger ending it may not necessarily wrap up the story in one neat package. Fans of Prey feel that the Sci-Fi Channel would be the best bet in producing Tom's Story" since the channel is already familiar with the Prey audience, as well as Vincent Ventresca and Adam Storke, two of the original three leads." (thanks Joan)

Jan 24: VHS Sheet Area Updated: The VHS Cover Sheet area has been broken down in an effort to help out the slower internet connections in the 28.8 & 56K range. I hope it is better for everyone.

Jan 24: Pfeiffer Wanted Catwoman Role: Actress Michelle Pfeiffer wanted to return in the role of Catwoman in a feature film. She was actually looking forward to it, until she found out that 'Tim Burton' would not be involved. the once feline whip master had no desire to return to the role. (countingdown.com)

Jan 24: Enterprise: Wednesday nights episode of Enterprise on UPN was an outstanding storyline and character driven episode. This is the kind of story we were promised before the series premiered. Excellent!

Jan 24: Blade 2 Rating: the new Blade film will be an R rated feature due to "strong pervasive violence, language, some drug use and sexual content." Now this is what an action genre flick is all about! Woooo Hoooo. (official blade site)

Jan 23: The Chronicle: One of the writer/producers of the series wrote a comment in the scifi.com bbs for the series concerning the comments here that the show was cancelled. He wanted everyone to know that the show is not canceled, but on hiatus. The Sci-Fi Channel ordered the back issues to decide if the series was to be renewed. And that under the contract, the SFC doesn't have to make a decision to cancel or renew the series yet. Well, the ratings for the series are less than LEXX and the Invisible Man which were both canceled by the SFC infinite wisdom. Just because the SFC doesn't have to cancel or renew the series yet, doesn't mean the decision hasn't already been made. It's a neat series, but so was Special Unit 2 with decent ratings... and it's gone too. 

Jan 23: Angel/Buffy Crossover: Joss Whedon will attempt to have a crossover next season with Angel and Buffy, even though both series are on different networks. He says most of it, depends on how things have cooled off between the WB and UPN. (cinescape)

Jan 23: Goldmember: Seth Green told Cinescape online that he will be returning in the Austin Powers sequel as Dr. Evil's son, Scott. 

Jan 23: Birds of Prey on WB: Looks like the WB will air its 'Birds of Prey' series this coming fall. the news series is based on the comic book of the same name. It tells the story of three women who dish out justice on the street and worldwide level. 

Jan 23: Special Unit 2: The script for 'The Fly', which would have been episode 14 this season, has been posted at a fan site. You can CLICK HERE to be transported to there in a new browser. If you are interested in signing a petition to save the series you can CLICK HERE for the that site. It was about ratings though. SU2 average 3.7 following Enterprise. UPN was unhappy that ratings for SU2 fell off more than 45% from that of Enterprise. 

Jan 23: VHS Covers to be Revamped: In the coming days the VHS Cover Sheet area will be redone to break up the number of covers appearing on the main page. With a 28.8 to 56K modem the page tends to stop downloading and you have to hit refresh to continue the download. This is being done for you guys. Easier for viewers. 

Jan 23: Bulletproof Monk: Filming has been moved and begins shooting in Toronto March 2nd, 2002. 

Jan 23: Odyssey 5: Showtime has greenlit a new sci-fi thriller series 'Odyssey 5', which will star Robocop actor Peter Weller, Tamara Craig, Chris Gorman, Sebastian Roche, and Leslie Silva. There will be a two-hour pilot and 18 episodes in the first season. The stories will follow a space shuttle crew who witness a catastrophic even on Earth. Using an alien device they are able to return to Earth and their families five years before the event takes place, with the knowledge of what will happen. During the series they will try to determine the mysterious force that will destroy the earth and try to stop it. They are also given the chance to change their own lives. (dark horizons)

Jan 23: Witchblade: Season two of the Yancy Butler series has begun production in Canada and will continue through June.

Jan 23: Jeremiah Premiere: Showtime's other sci-fi series 'Jeremiah', from J. Michael Straczynski (B5), premieres March 3rd @ 8pm. 

Jan 23: Moulder Returns: ABC news confirms that David Duchovny will return for the X-Files season finale to set up the proposed 'X-Files feature sequel'. 

Jan 22: Indy 4 Again: While at the Golden Globe Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg told Roger Friedman of Foxnews.com that Indiana Jones is their priority. They even have a title and no, they aren't ready to announce it. Spielberg did announce that his wife 'Kate Capshaw', who played in the second film, will be in the fourth film. (moviehole.net) 

Jan 22: More Alien 5: Black Hawk Down director Ridley Scott (alien, gladiator, bladerunner, etc) is talking again about Alien 5 again. "I'm seriously mulling 'Alien 5' over," Scott told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cindy Pearlman. "I think it would be a lot of fun, but the most important thing is to get the story right. Earth would be interesting, and there is talk about it," he explained. "I say we should go back to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created. No one has ever explained why. I always figured that a battleship carrying bio-mechanical organisms that could be weapons was sent into space with some space jockey who didn't last long. There's like four or five subjects spinning, which means they're being written which are all important to me, so sooner or later at some point they'll get made." (zap2it.com)

Jan 22: Great Superbowl Show: Commercials for the Superbowl will see previews for 'Men In Black 2', 'Spiderman', 'Collateral Damage' and 'Scorpion King'. 

Jan 22: Mission Impossible 3: It could be fast tracked depending on a number of things with Tom Cruise. The earliest we could hope to see the third film is August 2003, or Spring of 2004. Cruise wants the third film more James Bond like with more gadgets like the first Impossible film. He also wants more action than any Bond film has ever had. (movieheadlines.net)

Jan 22: Predator 3: The third installment of the Predator series is a go. The story will follow a group of marines (ala Aliens) who are going to a planet where Predators are staging an invasion of earth. (coming attractions from darkhorizons.com)

Jan 21: Legend of the Rangers: Catch the telefilm broadcast for B5: Legend of the Rangers Saturday or Sunday? I enjoyed the movie. Thought the alien spaceships were a bit on the cheesy side, but the acting more than made up for that. I had no problems with the script as so many others seem to. Overall I thought the telefilm very good and enjoyed the overall experience of the film, and well as the glimpse of Babylon 5 at the end. I did miss not see Lanier, who is a Ranger, or Marcus who died in one of the telefilms. Will the telefilm evolve into a new series. Doubtful knowing the Sci-Fi Channel as it is. If it should... the SFC will cancel it within two seasons likely based on the budget alone. JMS would do better to take the project syndicated. IF, if the SFC should make it into a weekly series they inherit a huge fan base from the original series. A series of TV Telefilms would be an excellent way to go. The turn-out was so good that the B5LR.com website went down Saturday from excessive traffic. It is back up.

Jan 21: Nemesis: Paramount has set a tentative release date November 22nd, This puts the film out for Christmas and one week after the release of the Harry Potter sequel. 

Jan 21: Blade TV: Avi Arad told Cinescape that the talked about weekly TV series based on Blade, could emerge on the small screen shortly after the third film.

Jan 20: Relic Killed: Relic Hunter and the Beastmaster have joined the dearly departed for 2002 as both series will not be returning next year. (ron wolfe)

Jan 20: VCD vs DVD Recording: Added an article comparing recording your favorite series to DVD vs VCD in today's market. You can check out the small article by CLICKING HERE.

Jan 20: Mutant X Renewed: As expected with being the number 2 syndicated series for most of the season, Mutant X will return next year for 22 more episodes.

Jan 20: Tracker Doomed: The new series Tracker will likely join the gone list as well. The fledgling series has the lowest ratings of the syndicated series thanks to the worst time slots available.

Jan 20: Charmed Dumps Again: Spelling & Charmed Productions will once again crap on another actor in the series. This time its actor Julian McMahon, who plays Cole Turner. Nothing new for Spelling, and yes there is a writing campaign. Interested? Visit mcmahoniacs.com and join the campaign today.   

I wonder if this is some Alyssa Milano flashback. Isn't McMahon dating Shannon Doherty? 

Jan 20: Dark Angel: Another series in serious trouble this season is Fox's 'Dark Angel'. Ratings for the second season have fallen off 35% from last year after moving to Friday nights. (ron wolfe)

Jan 19: Duchovny Returns: It looks like David Duchovny will be returning for the two-hour finale in May. Why? To prepare fans for the now defunct series heading back to the big screen. According to the report, many of the... loose ends will be tied up. 

Jan 19: NBC steers clear of Space: NBC has placed orders for six new drama pilots and an additional three scripts for drama pilots. While they have no room for the six dramas much less the nine, there isn't any room for a genre based series on NBC in the fall. 

Jan 19: Young Arthur: NBC has decided to capitalize on the Smallville idea and ordered a drama script about young King Arthur. (variety) It is being eyed for the fall 2002 season.

Jan 19: Blade TV: If the sequel is as successful as they believe, New Line is hoping to create a TV spin-off series out of the franchise. (dark horizons)

Jan 19: Stargate: Atlantis: MGM will be taking its Stargate spin-off series, 'Stargate Atlantis' directly to syndication in the fall of 2003.

Jan 19: Buffy Gets Darker: the Sci-Fi Wire reports that the series BUFFY on UPN will be getting darker as it heads into the home stretch of season six. Season seven, which Gellar is signed through, may likely be the final season of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. Gellar has mentioned movie on, beyond Buffy.

Jan 19: Daredevil: Jennifer Garner isn't signed just yet, but the deal is close to being completed. As for the 'Kingpin', well Michael Clarke Duncan (green mile) looks likely for the part. (ign filmforce)

Jan 18: ONE DAY!!!: LEGEND of the RANGERS premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel Tomorrow, Saturday Jan. 19th, at 9pm ET/PT. Get the VCR's hot fans. This is the telefilm pilot Babylon 5 fans have been waiting for. 

Jan 18: Dawson's Creek: A VHS Cover Sheet for the WB series 'Dawson's Creek' has made its way onto the site for download. CLICK HERE for the VHS Cover Sheet area. 

Jan 18: Rangers Ship Creation: B5LR has a great article on 'Creating the Ships of Legend of the Rangers' Click the link and zip over to their site and read the article.

Jan 18: Enterprise Figures: Trekweb.com has issued news that Enterprise Action Figures will be hitting stores soon from Art Asylum. AA has acquired the worldwide license to make toys based on various Trek series. TREK X figures will be released in time for the release of the new feature film.

Jan 18: Buffy Re-edit: Sky One has proven itself to be... STUPID with its re-editing of Buffy. Fans of BUFFY in the United Kingdom are pissed off with Sky One for cutting parts of Buffy that are crucial to the characters' development and overall story arc for the season. (zap2it)  Hey, if you gotta cut it, then don't show it. Network Television should learn this big time.

Jan 18: Glory Days... Eh: The new mystery series 'Glory Days' premiered on the 16th with ratings barely better than the series it replaced, Felicity. Glory Days hit a 3.5 rating, while Felicity the week before scored a 3.3 rating share. Felicity has been dropped by the WB. 

Jan 18: X-File Replacements: Fox has two new sci-fi series in development that could replacements for the X-Files next season. One is Joss Whedon's new 'Firefly' series with a 13 episode commitment - plus another 13 ep. commitment to the remake of the 60's series 'the Time Tunnel'. 

Jan 17: X-Files to End: Series creator Chris Carter told the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, "I'd rather go out now and celebrate than have to make an announcement in the summer." Carter also told fans to watch for Scully and Moulder's return in the near future with a new X-Files feature. (from Moviehole.net) The season final new episode debuts in May.

Jan 17: Mindhunters: Johnny Lee Miller (hackers) and Kathryn Morris have joined Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Clifton Collins and Patricia Velasquez in Rinny Harlins feature 'Mindhunters'. Lensing begins January 30th in Holland. 

Jan 17: Enterprise/SU2: Enterprise scored a whopping 5.6 overnight rating for 1/16 (that's last night).  The canceled UPN series 'Special Unit 2' aired a repeat following Enterprise and still scored a 2.8 rating. Enterprise has yet to get the season two renewal.

Jan 17: Blade Runner DVD: The new 'Blade Runner' DVD set will be incredible and may include several versions of the film along with deleted scenes and more.

Jan 17: Garfield Big Screen: the Legendary smart-ass, lasagna lovin' cat, 'Garfield', will be getting the feature film treatment in a live action/animated film. Fox has optioned the feature film rights to the comic book character. Toy Story writers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow will script. Garfield was hit the newspapers in 1978 from Jim Davis.

Jan 17: A Hulk of a Game: Universal Interactive has bought the rights to Marvel comics 'the Hulk' franchise and will create video games based on the character.

Jan 17: Dreamkeeper: ABC has greenlighted a four-hour mini-series based on the myth and legends of the Native American Indians. Robert Halmi Sr. (dinotopia) and Hallmark will produce and the nearly the entire cast will be true Native American Indians. (variety)

Jan 17: Lost World go for 4: Season four that is. A lost world fans sent an article by Marc Berman for Media Week. New Line's 'the Lost World' has been given the green light for season four in over 70% of the market. In addition, the series has been re-up by the WB's 100+ station group and affiliates which include Cox, Hubbard, and Hearst. (al pike)

Jan 16: Constantine Derailed: Looks like Nicolas Cage may be out of his third attempt to play a comic book superhero. The director of 'Constantine' has opted out of the project due to budgetary constraints. Production was to have begin in March 2002. It is now unclear if Nicolas Cage is still involved with the project now. 

Jan 16: Spiderman 2: A sequel as to the yet unreleased Spiderman will go into production in 2003. Tobey Maguire will appear as Spiderman in the sequel. He is contractually signed for two sequels.

Jan 16: Smallville Renewed: the WB has given 'Smallville' the go for a full 22 episode order for season two. Smallville has decimated Roswell this season, and kept pace with UPN's Enterprise series this year. 

Jan 16: The Void: The straight to video fillm, 'The Void' stars Adrian Paul (highlander, tracker), Amanda Tapping (stargate sg-1) and Malcolm McDowell. The film is helmed by genre veteran television director Gilbert M. Shilton and hits video stores March 19th. 

Jan 16: Lost World, Lost Ratings: The Lost World ratings have dipped over the last few weeks dropping below the 2.0 ratings to a low 1.7 for the week of 12/10/01. The ratings put the shows way down on the syndicated ratings list. It will be an interesting off season to see what shows are picked up for another season. Shows already on the bubble include Tracker, Lost World, Sheena, Beastmaster, and Relic Hunter. 

Jan 16: Alien 5... Again?: Yep. This time Ridley Scott told LatinoReview that one of his upcoming movies may be the fifth chapter in the Alien franchise. "I will decide in the next five weeks. I am looking at Alien 5 sure, why not, maybe. There hasn't been a good pirate movie either, so I haven't decided yet. It's in the works." (dark horizons)

Jan 16: scifi2k Joins Gorilla Nation: That's right! My site will now become an affiliate with the great internet advertising company 'Gorilla Nation'. Scifi2k was lucky enough to be selected to join sites like 'Section 31', 'moviehole', 'Darkhorizons', and the 'b5lr' site dedicated to the 'Legend of the Rangers' possible series. 

Jan 16: Tron 2.0: Coming Attractions reports that Buena Vista/Disney is ready to start moving forward on its TRON sequel now that the Tron DVD has been released. The new film will move forward with or without Jeff Bridges on board. 

Jan 16: Lord of Money: While I might not think 'Lord of the Rings' is one of the best films I have seen, others worldwide believe it is. Lord of the Rings is King of the Dollar as the film has broken the $500M mark putting the film in the top 19 all-time money makers. And just think... you only have to wait till next Christmas to see the sequel. That - is my biggest gripe. Still the film is about $300M behind Harry Potter. 

Jan 16: Scooby Goes New: Scooby is getting some new episodes for the WB in the fall of 2002. The new series brings Scooby into the 21st Century and they will still be battling scary ghosts, menacing curses, and spooky villains. There is no word how many episodes in the new series. (zap2it.com)

Jan 15: UPN Blasts pecial Unit 2: In a totally expected, but standard UPN move - has pulled the plug on the wonderful series 'Special Unit 2' and stopped production on the back nine episodes. There may be efforts to save the show, but for now the shops are shut down. It appears the shows audience growth was not fast enough for the network. SU2 is first casualty of the merger of UPN with CBS. President of UPN, Dean Valentine has been fired. 

Jan 15: Tick & Perversions: Just added new cover sheets for 'the Tick' and the HBO series 'Perversions of Science'. CLICK HERE for the cover sheet area. 

Jan 15: Roswell: Moviehole.net reports that UPN's Roswell has a bleak future and is pre-empting the series again this week to show back to back Buffy episodes. On the other side of the street is the Sci-Fi Wire, which is reporting that UPN has picked up the struggling series for seven more episodes this season, for a full years compliment. As for season four happening... I won't place a bet on it. Right now, UPN has nothing ready to fill in, if they did cancel the show.

Jan 15: Legend of the Rangers: Only four more days until the sci-fi channel telefilm premiere of 'Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers' on this Saturday, January 19th.

Jan 15: Miracles: ABC has green lit a pilot telefilm for 'Miracles'. The proposed series would be an hour long suspense drama about a Vatican investigator of the paranormal. (variety) Mothman Prophecies writer, Richard Hatem, will write the pilot script and serve as an executive producer.  

Jan 14: Alias Renewed: Title about says it all. Jennifer Garner's new series 'Alias' has been renewed for a full second season by ABC for the 2002/2003 season. Alias is the second highest rated new drama this season.

Jan 14: Andromeda: Veteran writer-producer Robert Engels will run the Andromeda writing staff next season. He will replace the series co-creator 'Robert Wolfe'. Engels has worked on Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Twin Peaks, and was the co-executive producer for SeaQuest. (Andromeda website)

Jan 14: Crow Return Unlikely: Edward Pressman has pretty much abandoned the idea of bringing back the the series 'the Crow: Stairway to Heaven'. He hasn't contact the cast in a long time or the fans about it for that matter. Mark Dacascos, who played the lead in the series, 'Eric Draven' told the Sci-Fi Wire that there is a 99% chance that he would not return to the series now if it came back. Dacascos had heard at one time of a telefilm to tie up loose ends but he hasn't heard anything or talked to Pressman in a long time.

Jan 14: Brotherhood of the Wolf: Mark Dacascos also spoke with the Sci-Fi Wire during his interview that he co-stars in the upcoming 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. Says Mark, " Many of the fight scenes were abbreviated for the movie. Even the opening fight scene is only one-third of what was filmed. (look for that on DVD). Dacascos plays an Iroquois warrior  companion of an 18th century scientist investigating a series of hideous murders in rural Frances. Wolf opens everywhere in the United States on January 18th. 

Jan 14: Daredevil: Variety confirms that Jennifer Garner has not be signed to play Daredevil's lover turned assassin 'Elektra', but she is the frontrunner for the role. 

Jan 14: Fathom: Jessica Alba's second season series 'Dark Angel' could be doomed but the young butt kicking actress might be making her move to the big screen in Lightstorm's upcoming project 'Fathom'. There are others up for the part, including 'That 70's Show's 'Mila Kunis'. But Alba is the frontrunner.

Jan 14: Arac Attack: Kari Wuhrer of Sliders & Anaconda is appearing in the two upcoming films 'The Hitcher 2' and 'Arac Attack'. She just completed film 'The Hitcher 2' with C. Thomas Howell and Jake Busey (starship troopers) (This one is likely a direct to video film) and she begins promoting Arac Attack very soon. Wuhrer says the title of the film will likely change and there is no set new one, but she hopes people will laugh and be afraid when it comes out. (kariwuhrer.com)

Jan 14: Sabertooth Signed: We just don't know how long the X-Men franchise will run, but Tyler Mane, who plays Sabertooth, is signed for two more films. Mane will also be playing mutant in the upcoming 'Black Mask 2'. He grows purple arms and appendages in the film. Hey stop messing with my DNA. (moviehole.net)

Jan 13: Alias: New VCD Cover Sheet back and CDR label have been added to complete the set.

Jan 13: Back to the Theater: Fans have been waiting for years for the Back to the Future trilogy boxed set on DVD. And... the wait could be until after the summer now. Why? Chud.com is reporting that while every other country will be getting the DVD's, America will have to suffer through the films being released to theaters over the summer before the DVD's can hit the shelves. 

Jan 13: Tick Cover: Tick might have gotten the axe from FOX, but Tim Freeman dropped a beautiful cover sheet for the series to me today. It will uploaded in the next couple of days. Watch for it.

Jan 12: Weaverworld: AICN has news that Clive Barker's book 'Weaverworld' is being turned into an 11 hour mini-series for pay cable station 'Showtime', and is due out in 2003. 

Jan 12: Combs Times 3: VeteranTrek character actor 'Jeffrey Combs' will be making his third appearance as the Andorian 'Shran' before the end of the season in an episode titled... 'Equilibrium'. (Section31.com)

Jan 12: Buffy 2 in June: The second season of 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer' will be coming to shelves in June 2002. The boxed set with be six discs.

Jan 12: Hellraiser 6: Filming has wrapped on the sixth Hellraiser installment being done in Vancouver, Canada. The title for the sixth film is 'Hellraiser 666: Beyond the Realms of Hell'. I mentioned several months ago that two films were greenlit, so the seventh film isn't far behind.

Jan 11: Bond 21: Pierce Brosnan will play 007 one more time after extending his contract. This will likely be his last film in the role of James Bond. 

Jan 11: Next Gen DVD Sets: Well, the sets do look different than the cool Region 2 units. In the US the seven seasonal boxed sets will be released one per month over the next year. each set (with the exception of season two, a shortened season) is a seven disc set. (dark horizons)

Jan 11: Terminator 3: George Lucas' 'ILM'- Industrial Light & Magic has scored the contract for the Special Effects in the new film. Not a surprise, really. Colin Ferrell has been signed to play the lead Villain. 

Jan 11: Five-O Feature: Coming Attractions has word that screenwriter Roger Towne has already written a treatment for a 'Hawaii Five-O' feature film. The series theme will make the transition to the big screen.

Jan 11: Elektra: It has yet to be announced who will play the female lead to Ben Affleck in Daredevil. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting there are four in the running for the part. Jennifer Garner (TV-Alias), Jolene Blalock (TV-Enterprise), Mia Maestro and Rhona Mitra.

Jan 11: Bullock Is A Woman: A source for MovieHeadlines.net reports that Sandra Bullock appeared on E' News January 10th and announced she has officially signed on to star as 'Wonder Woman'.  

Jan 11: Fans Rule, N'Sync Dropped: After a most negative response by fans about the group N'Sync getting a cameo in Episode II, George Lucas has decided to not include the group in the film. 

Jan 11: Rambo Out, Rocky In: MovieHole.com scored an interesting scoop in the Sylvester Stallone telling them that he will be stepping in the role of Rocky one more time in Rocky 6, but under no circumstances will he play Rambo again. 

Jan 11: More Animation: Ron Wolfe dropped some news that Michelle Gellar (buffy), her fiancé Freddie Prince Jr., and Sigourney Weaver (alien saga) have all signed on to voice the animated feature... 'Happily N'Ever' for Vanguard Films. The story revolves around the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of what happens when the balance of Good vs Evil goes out of whack. The animated feature is slated for a summer 2003. 

Jan 11: New Vegas Series?: The Hollywood Reporter let loose with some news that the hit CBS Series 'CSI' might be doing a spin-off series (in work) that might be done in Las Vegas. 

Jan 11: Jason X: Dark Horizons is reporting that the Tenth installment of the Jason franchise will hit theaters April 12th. Read my Review of the Film.

Jan 11: Cube 2 Hypercube: The sequel to the SFC original film 'Cube' in 'Cube 2: Hypercube' will be going Direct to Video June 22 of this year. 

Jan 11: Ranger Legends: According to B5LR.com CHUM does not have the Canadian broadcast rights to the Sci-Fi Channel's pilot telefilm... at least not yet, though they are working on it.

Jan 11: Batman DVD's: Jeff Bowring, who works for an online retailer in Toronto, dropped a list of upcoming DVD releases for Batman material. Thanks Jeff...
- Justice League (Animated Series) - Apr 23
- Batman Animated Series Vol 1 - Has conversation with Director Bruce Timm, Animation Test, How To Draw features - Apr 23
- Batman & Superman: The Movie - Conversation with Bruce Timm, Art of the movie, How To Draw Features - Apr 23
- Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero - Same Features as above - Apr 23
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (Original Cut) word from the creators, animatronics, beyond documentary, character bios, confidential bat footage, deleted scenes - Apr 23

Jan 11: NYPD Blue Covers: Hi everyone. Four new cover sheets for NYPD Blue have been added to the site for download. Check them out... VHS AREA 

Jan 10: Outer Limits: It was to big for Showtime, and now it's to big for the Sci-Fi Channel. MGM & Trilogy Entertainment are taking the series to the big screen in a new treatment. The film will be produced by Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Pen Densham, Mark Stern, Guy Elwaine, and John Watson. Mark Skelly will executive produce (ron wolfe)

Jan 10: Lost In Space (reloaded): Previously reported new... NBC & 20th are teaming to recreate a TV movie based on the old series that will update the concept while referencing the past. They are looking at some very interesting ways to incorporate references to the original series to satisfy fans of that show. (were there any?). (ron wolfe)

Jan 10: Tick Licked: Sources for AICN have reported that Fox has axed, canceled, cut, and deleted 'The Tick'. January 24th will see the final episode air on the network, which is having severe ratings trouble. The Tick, X-Files, and 24 doing poorly. 

Jan 10: Invisible Star Unsure as Well: Vincent Vintresca, star of the Invisible Man, told KISS96 radio in an interview not to long ago that, "... as heartbroken as we were, as cast members and as fans, there were a lot of guys in suits- and women in suits- who feel the same way. So it's not just 'us' versus 'them', they were as frustrated as we are... I think the fan base is being heard, but I think it's something that isn't going to happen anytime soon."

Jan 10: Angel Trouble?: the WB will be testing the strength of its last remaining Vampire series 'Angel' by airing repeats of last season at 8pm on Thursdays beginning January 10th. If people tune in to the repeats Angel will likely make a permanent move to that time slot. Is Angel in trouble again? If so... the WB stands ready to pick up the series to likely replace the dismal performing 'Roswell' series.

Jan 10: Witchblade: Production begins sometime this month on the second season of Witchblade. It will of course be shot in Toronto, Canada. President of production at Top Cow, Spike Seldon tells Comics2Film that everyone is back for the second season and TNT is ready to go. 

Jan 10: Richard Gets Here Sheen On: Starship Troopers 'Denise Richards' and the Arrival's 'Charlie Sheen' who have been dating for months are now engaged. 

Jan 10: Land of the Giants: I have added a new Land of the Giants VHS Cover Sheet for download in the VHS Cover Sheet Area.  

Jan 10: Dark Angel: There hasn't been much to report about the Jessica Alba series this season. However, Fox is moving the series again, back to Fridays at 9pm, once held by repeats of Keifer Sutherlands flop TV series '24'.  First runs of the series 24 will air on its regular Tuesday night at 8pm time slot. Another reality show, The Chamber, will air in Dark Angel's vacant Friday at 8pm slot. 

Jan 10: Andromeda Cover: The Andromeda VHS Cover Sheet on site has been updated using the new Andromeda font. VHS Cover Sheets 

Jan 10: Bleethe Probation: Babewatch star and Cocain addict Jasmine Bleethe (nash bridges too) plea bargained her way to probation, that most normal Americans would have ended up in prison for. The actress turned junky gets 100 hours of community service and regular drug testing. 

Jan 10: Next Gen Boxed Set: TrekToday.com has some beautiful photos of the Region 2 boxed set due out soon. You know the U.S. region 1 set will be nothing as nice as that. Amazon however, is reporting we will get the same packaging. Sure hope so. (trektoday.com)

Jan 10: Batman Sighting: Michael Keaton, who played Batman in the first two film & was the best batman, will be making an appearance on Frasier after the Olympics. (TV Guide)

Jan 10: DVD Take-Over: For the first time ever DVD sales surpassed VHS in the United States. 

Jan 10: Digital Bits Changes: I just checked the Digital Bits website and got a new website called home theater forum. Not a nice site at all. Wonder what is up with this change. Flash over substance... doesn't cut it. 

Jan 10: Prey Movie Unlikely: At least on the Sci-Fi Channel for now. With the netling getting a new owner last month, and the future genre of the station uncertain, it seems unlikely that many new series will be green lit by the network for a while. Prey wasn't on the main list and it could be longer before seeing anything positive from all the fans hard work to bring the series back. There has been no further rumors concerning UPN looking at the defunct series either. 

Jan 9: Hulk: As talked about all along Lou Ferringo has been promised a role in the upcoming Incredible Hulk film starring Eric Bana. (moviehole)

Jan 9: Pearl Harbor: This film may not be on anyones best picture list for the year, but the DVD cut of the film with almost 30 minutes added has was incredible and the DVD sales have shown it. Pearl Harbor has sold over 8.5M copies. Second only to Shrek and second all time. 

Jan 9: Quantum Leap: Creator Donald P. Bellasario is interested in getting the cast together for a Reunion movie and actually setting things right, getting Sam back home. Many fans were disappointed in the last episode where Same gets stuck in a 1953 bar with God as the bartender. I know I was. Unfortunately for fans, Universal is the one who owns the rights to the series and have shown zero interest in a telefilm. (moviehole.com from coming soon)

Jan 9: Carrie Series: Beside greenlighting a new 'Lost in Space telefilm pilot, ABC has also given the go ahead to create a new Carrie telefilm pilot as well. The film will closely follow the original 76' film, but be updated.

Jan 8: Argonauts Goes Sommers: Universal & Dreamworks are fast-tracking 'the Argonauts' from Mummy director Stephen Sommers. The story takes place just prior to WWII after a group of treasure hunters believes they've pinpointed the location of the storied sunken ship of Jason and the Argonauts, which is believed to contain the mythical golden fleece. The adventurers then find themselves back in time in the land of Greek mythology where they have to battle a minotaur and Cyclops. (zap2it.com)

Jan 8: John of the Opera: John Travolta appears headed to star in the remake of 'Phantom of the Opera' after Antonio Banderas last five starring films have flopped. Andrew Lloyd Webber wants theatre star Michael Crawford in the lead, but backers want a big name to star. (moviehole)

Jan 7: Alias Turns Daredevil: AICN appears to have the scoop on the next Elektra cast. while we all knew an actress had been selected, AICN reports that Alias series star Jennifer Garner has scored the role of Elektra in the upcoming Ben Affleck feature DAREDEVIL, based on the Marvel comic book character.

Jan 7: Deathwatch: Warner Bros. has scored the horror pitch, 'Deathwatch'. The film was picked up for Bob Zemekis and Joel Silver's 'Dark Castle Production'. Story - A group of kids come across what might be a haunted website that predicts the future for its viewers. 

Jan 7: Babylon 5 in Canada: The new Sci-Fi telefilm 'Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers' will be seen in Canada. CHUM ltd. has purchased the rights to broadcast the new telefilm. Rangers likely will air later this year on Space. (b5lr.com)

Jan 6: Jason X: Check out my Review of the film. Jason Hadley was nice enough to forward me a copy of the un-released film Saturdy afternoon. Couldn't wait to take a view or two of the new film from New Line Cinema and director Jim Isaac. I enjoyed it immensely. This is the best film in the franchise fans. READ MY REVIEW hopefully I can put some captured images up soon from the film. No guarantees though. Check out Josh's site at Josh Hadley.

Jan 6: Lord of the Rings: The American Film Institute has name 'Lord of the Rings' the best film of year. Give me a break. It is a good movie. I didn't find anything incredible about them except for the acting. Special effects were standard and the story already known. It is a three hour movie with no ending. Yes, I know the film is part of a trilogy that tells a story... but leaving fans hanging for a year is ridiculous and unfair to the fans when the second film would be in the can before the summer. Even the DVD won't be out until just before the second film is released. It's Stupid. At least the two Matrix sequel will be release six months apart.

Jan 6: Networks Worry: With the fad interest in Game shows and survivor series dwindling networks are worried and scrambling for new material. Now they appear to be looking to court TV style material. Amazing after decent rating series like, the Pretender, the Profiler, the Others, Now and Again, and Early Edition were canceled with ratings in the mid 6's. Networks refuse to give up on reality shows thinking a change of venue will help rather than coming up with some quality TV shows.

Jan 6: Next Gen DVDs: Star Trek: the Next Generation season one DVD boxed set will hit stores March 19th. Big question is... with all these season one boxed sets of series coming out, what can the fan afford? Most seasonal sets are in the $100+ range. Not a bad price for 22 or so episodes for sure. But how many more would be sold at $60 per season?

Jan 5: Green Hornet/ Time Tunnel: VHS Cover Sheets for the Green Hornet and Irwin Allen's 'The Time Tunnel have been added the VHS Cover Sheet area for download. Both covers have been generisized for the site from Mike @ Neolase... The quality of the covers isn't as good, but they are wonderful covers.

Jan 5: Elektra Cast: The Daredevil babe 'Elektra' has finally been cast, and the announcement of who it is should come shortly. They are planning to spin the character off into her own franchise of films, and it needed to be someone who can carry a film.

Jan 5: XXX Raps: Vin Diesel is getting Rapper Eve to star opposite him in XXX. She joins the cast of Samuel L. Jackson & Asia Argento for Rob Cohen's spy thriller. Production began back in Dec in L.A. but has since moved to Prague (the new filming haven). hollywood reporter

Jan 5: Dracula Resurrection: Castle Studios has announced that the first sequel to Dracula 2000 wrapped production the week before Christmas. The film stars Rutger Hauer, Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, & Roy Scheider. 

Jan 5: Paranormal Show: Ron Wolfe checked in yesterday with news that Ghostbuster Dan Akroyd will be hosting a new Paranormal late night talk show called 'Dan Akroyd's, Out There'. The half-hour show will air five days a week. This one sounds like a real winner... not.

Jan 5: Spiderman: Dr. Pepper, Hardees/Carls Jr. and Hershey have become promotional  partners and will contribute a total of about $18M in advertising.

Jan 5: Santa Clause 2: Elizabeth Mitchell has joined the cast of Tim Allen's 'Santa Clause 2'. She will play teacher at Allen's sons school who will eventually become Mrs. Clause. 

Jan 5: Sci-Fi Fans Fickle: It is so amazing that shows like NYPD Blue & ER can rotate stars through the series and remain on top in the ratings. Sci-Fi fans don't seem to be as forgiving or understanding with the changing of cast members in a series. X-Files is a perfect example... sure it could the series final season. But if the ratings are there - there would be another season. Now, very unlikely. SF fans seem to lock in on people and are unwilling to accept casting changes. Changes which will allow fresh storylines and new material.

Jan 4: Dead Zone Lives: The proposed UPN series 'Dead Zone' starring Anthony Michael Hall and DS9-er Nicole deBoer will NOT be appearing on UPN as hoped but will now take its chances on the USA Network as they have ordered a full 22 episode season as well as picking up the pilot telefilm. The Hollywood Reporter has released information that USA is paying nearly one million dollars per episode and will be the networks most expensive series ever. UPN was unable to make room for the series, making it available to the USA network who really wanted it. Production on the series starts in March up in Vancouver. Possibly debuting as early as this summer. The telefilm was the highest rated film among test audience that UPN has had. The Dead Zone is from ex-ds9 & Voyager creator Ron Pillar, son Shawn Pillar and Lloyd Segan from Lion's Gate & Paramount. (trek.com) Lion's Gate Production also produces 'Tracker' and is responsible for the crappy time slot the series has been stuck with. 

Jan 4: Alias & Smallville Join: Per request by email... New VideoCD covers have been added to the site for download in Alias & Smallville. Smallville also has a new CDR Label as well. VCD Cover Sheet Area. 

Jan 4: Lost In Space: Dark Horizons is reporting that creator Kevin Burns is negotiating with Brent Maddock & Scott Wilson to write the new 'Lost In Space' mini-series. They are already in search of a director and have a meeting with Fox Home Entertainment to discuss a marketing strategy for the DVD.

Jan 4: Terminator 3: Warner Bros. has announced they will release T3: Rise of the Machines over the July 4th weekend 2003 around the world on the same day, and have first refusal rights for Terminator 4. Arnold will make $30M to reprise his role as the T800 model. Principal photography begins in April with a record budget of $170M. (some of this has already been reported earlier.) Columbia/Tri-Star has scored the international distribution rights for the film. 

Jan 4: Star Wars Card Game: Fans who can't get enough Star Wars will soon be able to play a new card game... Wizards of the Coast has scored exclusive rights to license a create a trading card game based on the feature film series. 

Jan 4: Professional 2: First it was just Bruce Willis' name , and now comes word that X-Men 'Wolverine', Hugh Jackman is also up for the part of the villain in the film. (variety)

Jan 4: X-Files Tanked: The new season of the X-Files has finally flopped dropping to an amazing 3.3 rating. While some if it may have to do with Duchovny's permanent departure it likely still has to do with the fact this is likely the finally season, which does poorly in the ratings, and the fact that Gillian Anderson has beat a dead horse to death letting everyone know she is as sick of doing the series as Duchovny was. Who wants to watch a series the stars don't even enjoy doing while they get paid for it.

Jan 4: Rush Hour 3: The FilmJerk website is reporting that the project is being fast tracked and ideas farmed out to various writers. Next up... finding a time in both Chris Tucker's, Jackie Chan's and Brett Ratners schedule to do the film.

Jan 3: UPN & Invisibility?: Heard an interesting rumor for the second time in about a week. I have heard the interesting rumor that UPN just might, MIGHT, actually be sniffing around 'the Invisible Man' TV series that the SFC cancelled despite the series being its second highest rated series - citing poor syndication ratings. Syndication sales, which USA studios did a poor job with. Hell, the series didn't even air on the USA Network. What is up with that?

Jan 3: Enterprise/Smallville: One is UPN's best new series and the other the best new WB series. While both series are neck and neck in the season ratings, both series could benefit in a most awesome way with over 17 million new viewers able to tune in week in and week out. Buffy, Smallville, Enterprise, Special Unit 2, and Angel could see ratings jumps that could double before the end of the regular season. This single move could put the Netlings on a better footing with the big four. Fox TV, which appears to be struggling as it is, had better start looking over their should.

Jan 3: Legend of the Rangers: Only 16 more days until the premiere of the telefilm pilot 'Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers' on the commercial heavy Sci-Fi Channel at 9pm. Get the VCR HOT! Previews look pretty good. 

Jan 3: Dec & yearly stats: Thank you everyone. I had the best month ever, and wonderful year with over a 500% increase from 2000. For December Sci-Fi 2000 had over 193gb of transferred date, and over 78,000 pageviews. For 2001 the site ended up with nearly 600,000 pageviews, and  over 8,000,000 raw hits. Thanks to all of you, this has been a most amazing year, and I have met some wonderful people. Hooohoooo!!!

Jan 3: Hurd Morns T3: Producer Gale Anne Hurd produced T1 & T2 with James Cameron. She told Cinescape's Scott Collura that when she & Jim realized they weren't going to be involved in the third film they morned for a while but they're over it.   Jeez these two, especially Cameron - said he was NOT interested in directing the third film. He wanted to work on his True Lies 2 project. So... work on it.

Jan 3: N' Sync Goes Star Wars: That's right fans... the music group N' Sync will be appearing in the background of the film as Jedi Knights in cameo rolls. Reportedly at Hollywood.com the group will only be in a split second background scene getting blown up by droids in the arena on Geonosis. Might even be a blurry background shot... but hey, they're getting blown up... sounds like a plan.

Jan 3: Ren & Stimpy Return: It isn't with new episodes but fans can see them uncut on VH-1 weeknights at 11:30pm. It won't be the edited crap once shown on Nickelodeon. 

Jan 2: Jason vs Freddy: AICN has a scoop on the proposed script for the horror film fans have been rooting for... 'Freddy vs Jason'. You can check it out, if your interested, over at their site.

Jan 2: Andromeda Font: Folks looking for the Andromeda font will now find it in the fonts area in A-3. Sci-Fi Fonts.

Jan 2: Netlings to Score Big: UPN & WB series ratings may be looking towards a nice increase over the next several months with satellite giants 'Echostar' and 'Direct TV' adding the Networks to their packages. This is a monstrous step for both networks to earn more advertising money, which leads to larger names starring in their upcoming series. It will be interesting to see how things change now with UPN & the WB able to hit more than 17,000,000 viewers every day. 

Jan 2: Red Dwarf: There are fans who are really looking for this film to happen, and they may be upset with unconfirmed news that Danny John-Jules has quit after problems with his character. News also comes that Chris Barrie may be upset with the constant rewriting of the final script. (moviehole)

Jan 2: Nemesis Trailer: SyFy Portal is reporting a rumor that the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Nemesis feature may hit theaters as early as May. It may even feature some dialogue and use stock special-effect footage.

Jan 2: Andromeda #1: Andromeda remains the number one syndicated genre series for the week of Dec. 3rd. scoring a 3.1 rating. Its sister series 'Mutant X' from the same production company was number two. 

Jan 2: No Romance for Picard: Patrick Stewart told Conan O'Brien the new film will not feature a romantic interest for Captain Picard, but will feature some high-energy action for the fans. (trek5.com)

Jan 2: ABC Family Stays: Echostar has been forced by the US District Court of L.A. to keep the channel on the Satellite company at least until January 10th when the Disney & Echostar take their beefs to the courtroom. The courtorder expires @6pm on Jan 10th. 

Jan 2: Visitor Engage: Deepspace Nine star Nana Visitor, who played Kira Neyrs is engaged to Chicago Manager 'Mathew Rimmer' Last name may be spelt incorrectly. I thought she was married to Alexander Saddig, the doctor on DS9, and they had a kid together. Guess she moved on... 

Jan 2: Big Money: Everyone knows that sci-fi series budgets are small and the actors don't make what other series do. To prove it... Jane Leeves, who plays Daphne on Frasier, just signed a 3 year deal to remain with the show for a mere $30M - $365K per episode. This is for a supporting role in a half-hour series. That per episode is more than the star of Sci-Fi series might make over a 66 episode, three season run. 

Jan 2: Scooby 2?: Mathew Lillard and Freddie Prince Jr. are both up for doing a sequel to as yet unreleased live action Scooby Doo movie. They had so much fun doing the film, they're ready for another one. Unfortunately it won't come down to fun, but dollars. And this film isn't likely to be a money maker. It could end up a crappy doo or stinky-poo.

Jan 1: NEW YEARS DAY: There is definitely no big news today. But, I have added a new 'the Crow: Stairway to Heaven' VHS cover sheet to the site for download. Enjoy.

Jan 1: Fireworks: The firework display here in Las Vegas was incredible. I saw the impressive show from the new Green Valley Resort (Station) Casino which overlooks the city. You can see the strip as well as downtown. The show lasted ten minutes, and largely displayed the Red, White, and Blue colors of the United States. It was enough to take your breathe away. Whew! Times Square couldn't touch the outside party on the strip that took place from Mandalay Bay to the Stratosphere that lasted into the early morning hours.