Sept 30: Babylon 5 project: JMS told fans in a newsgroup the following... "To the many questions that have arisen here of late...yes, as I mentioned before, there is the possibility of something Babylon 5 related on the horizon,
but again I don't want anyone getting excited until we know if either one of these two projects is going to actually come to fruition.  We should know where this lands in the next few weeks.  The only thing I will say is that they're not print projects, so if you were to assume it's for TV or film you wouldn't be too far off...but that neither of them are series.  And that's all I'm going to say about them for now.

Sept 30: Dr. Who: Never been a fan of Dr. Who but he's head back to television. In a surprise announcement on September 26, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) announced that Doctor Who will soon return to UK television as an all-new series commissioned by BBC-1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, written by Russell T. Davies ("Queer as Folk") and produced by Julie Gardner and Mal Young. The new television series, which has been confirmed in official BBC press releases and covered by most major news services in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is a production of BBC Wales and will debut in 2005 on the BBC-1 network in Britain. Get more by CLICKING HERE. 

Sept 30: Captain America: Things are set for Marvel Entertainment to move forward on its Captain America feature film, as the comic book company has settled suit with creator Joe Simon over the comic book rights. 

Sept 30: Underworld: The new vampire/werewolf feature has fallen to third place at the box office in its second week, and taken in a total of just over $37 million. 

Sept 30: Marvel Gets Smart: There's  a possibility that Marvel might be getting smart and produce its own copyrights into feature films. The company is looking into producing it's own mid-budget and direct to video films. They have over 4,700 characters to work from. 

Sept 30: Henrickson Gets Alien Again: Lance Henrickson, who played an android in Aliens, has signed on to play a role in the upcoming Alien vs Predator feature. 

Sept 30: Wonder Woman: The film is getting another rewrite. Birds of Prey's Laeta Kalogridis has been hired to pen another script. Joel Silver and Warner Brothers are still planning to produce the film if it ever does happen. As long as it has taken, why not accept scripts from amateurs and see what you get. 

Sept 30: Wolverine: the Dark Horizons website is reporting that Wolverine star Hugh Jackman has signed a two picture deal with 20th Century Fox. Right now he is the only original X-Men cast member to have been offered the contract. Also being mentioned to return is Kelly Hu, and Tyler Mane for the spin-off. Right now there is nothing developing for X3. 

Sept 30: Jake 2.0 vs the O.C.: Fox is moving its summer hit series the O.C. to Wednesday after the baseball playoffs. The O.C. will be taking on UPN's new series Jake 2.0 which has done decent in the ratings since its premiere.  The O.C. also will compete with the West Wing, King of Queens & Becker, along with the WB's Angel. What a full night of television. Me, I'll be watching Jake 2.0. 

Sept 30: Batman vs Jones: That's Indiana Jones. Warner Brothers has set a July 4th 2005 release date for the long in development Batman 5 feature - which puts it head to head with the fourth and final Indiana Jones feature. 

Sept 30: Forever Knight Update: The new Part One set coming out is indeed the first full season. Look for it October 21st instead of the 23rd. 

Sept 30: Spy Hunter: The video game turned feature film, is slated for a summer of 2005 release. Spy Hunter will be the next film on The Rocks schedule. (Variety)

Sept 29: Pirate Ship Sold: Remember the Pirate show at Treasure Island in Las Vegas? Did you ever get to see it? Well, it's gone and Treasure Island is now just T.I. (Terrible Idea if you ask me.) They have auctioned off everything pirate - even the ship which sailed around the bend and was sunk by the pirates. A local brain surgeon and movie prop collector, named Loni Hammigren has purchased the ex-Pirate ship for a mere $500,000. He is in the process of remodeling his home already to house the huge ship. Already in the drive-way of his monstrous home is a space shuttle the size of a fifth-wheel. 

Sept 29: Do Your Bloodiest in 13: Blood will be spilled this month in preparation for the "Fangoria Blood Drive" as aspiring horror movie directors can submit movies of less than 13 minutes. The burgeoning filmmakers will get the chance to have their work showcased in the Koch Vision DVD in conjunction with Fangoria Magazine's Starlog Group. This first-ever search for best mini horror film allows filmmakers of all ages to submit a moive. The DVD release of the winners will be hosted by "House of 1000 Corpses" director Rob Zombie, and include featurettes from special effects wizard Stan Winston and legendary director Clive Barker. The DVD will be compiled and the features produced by the noted independent video company, Longview Entertainment.  Submissions for the Fangoria Blood Drive will be accepted until Nov. 30, with the winners announced Dec. 31. Visit www.fangoriablooddrive.com for more information.  (Zap2it.com website)

Sept 29: Forever Knight on DVD: You can expect to see the Forever Knight trilogy DVD box set on October 23st. I'm not sure anyone should spend the money for it at a whopping SRP $79.95. I can't information if this is the first season listed as part one or not. For a season the price is decent (Amazon is pre-selling it for... $59.95). 

Sept 24: Lost in Space: Lost in reruns forever, Lost in Space looks headed back to mainstream television in a new series from director John Woo and writer Doug Petrie along with Synthesis Entertainment. Regency and 20th Century Fox are producing. The new series will be family based and take place about 100 years into the future. Several networks have expressed interest in the project. (variety)

Sept 24: Magnum PI: Universal and producer Brian Grazer are developing Magnum PI for the big screen. A deal with co-creator Donald Bellisario and Grazer's Imagine Entertainment is already in place. Austin Powers co-scribe Michael McCullers has been hired to pen the script. No, we won't see the 60 year old Tom Selleck as Magnum. The project would be completely recast. 

Sept 24: Enterprise: On tonight's episode we get to see Enterprise become Star Trek Enterprise, which means Braga and Berman will likely do the same boring shit to the show that they did with Voyager. Gee, thanks guys. Heaven for bid something be different in Star Trek. Let's make everything the same. Shit!

Sept 24: Horror Channel: There is a proposed Horror Channel being developed with the likes of Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper who were added to the advisory board by developers Nick Psaltos and Kim Bangash. For years Horror has been part of the Sci-Fi thing along with the fantasy genre.  The Sci-Fi Channel is already digging into the Horror genre for much of their material. They need $3 million to get started in the next four months and have about $750,000 right now. 

Sept 24: Mad Max IV: The project has been put on hold due to events taking place in Irag. Shit, film somewhere else if you want to make the film. 

Sept 24: King Kong: Why are we making this? Anyone? Anyone? Director Peter Jackson is looking at Naomi Watts to star in the film. Watts last starred in "The Ring". 

Sept 24: Animation Closing: Disney is closing down its Japan based Walt Disney Animation unit. This portion of the Disney company never put out in amazing work for Disney. 

Sept 24: Last Pirates: Disney has reported that Pirates of the Caribbean and any sequels will be the last feature based on one of their park rides. So?

Sept 24: Goonies 2: Scouting has apparently begun for the sequel in the same area where the first film took place. That would be around the Astoria area in the Oregon State Park. 

Sept 24: Babyon 5: Fans can look for the fourth season DVD boxed set on January 6th. Hopefully we'll be able to give away a boxed set again. Keep your fingers crossed. 

Sept 24: Firefly DVD: Fans of the series... about 100 people based on the ratings, can pick up the DVD boxed set on December 9th for about a $49.99 suggested retail price. 

Sept 24: Matrix Revolutions: Check out the official website for some cool stuff on the third and final picture. CLICK HERE for the site. Lots of new pictures and information on the site. 

Sept 20: Wetworks Working: The movie company that has the Matt Helm franchise rights in development has picked up several new genre properties to play with. They have picked up the rights to Arthur C. Clark's Venus Prime Novels, the video game Freaky Flyers, and Joseph Badal's new novel The Pythagorean Solution. All are likely to be developed with Dreamworks Pictures. 

Sept 20: Episode III: Production on the sixth and hopefully final Star Wars feature has wrapped production five days ahead of schedule. Episode III goes into post-production immediately. There will be re-shoots scheduled for March to fill in gaps and re-shoot scenes that looked like crap. Episode III has about 18 months of Special Effects to be completed before it's summer 2005 release. 

Sept 20: Alien vs Predator: The creature effects shop, Amalgamated Dynamics has been hired to create the creatures for the Alien vs Predator feature due to begin lensing in Prague sometime in October. Amalgamated did the creature effects for Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. (variety)

Sept 20: Supergirl: The WB has put the good graces back on Alicia Silverstone after her apparently good job in Scooby Doo II. She is now the front runner for Supergirl. There isn't much movement, but it is creeping. 

Sept 20: Alien 3: While being the weakest of the four films, the new directors cut of the film could be almost 30 minutes longer than the theatrical version we all saw... well, some of us went to see. 

Sept 20: Underworld 2: The Dark Horizons website reports the Screen Gems already has a sequel to Underworld in the works. 

Sept 18: Catwoman: Even though the production is up in the air due to financing problems, they have signed Benjamin Bratt to play the male lead. 

Sept 18: More Witches to TV: The merger between CBS and Warner Bros. have an idea to bring the Sandra Bullock/ Nicole Kidman flick Practical Magic to television in a dramatic hour-long series. It will deal with the two sisters dealing with their magic abilities. (Variety)

Sept 18: Star Wars DVDs: The original (special editions) trilogy could be heading to DVD in late 2004 according to reports from the digital bits website. Lucas is planning to use the same format with 

Sept 18: More Chucky: Why anyone would want more is beyond me, but Chucky is coming back for another go around. The new movie if it happen will be titled "Seed of Chucky". Producer Don Mancini is hot to do another film and wants Cabin Fever director Eli Roth to helm the project. 

Sept 18: Enterprise: Wednesday's episode of Enterprise was actually very good. That is the type of story that should have opened the season. This is the type of creative writing and acting that should be maintained for the entire season.  That being said Braga and Berman may have already doomed the series to extinction at the end of this season. The ratings have been average at best the past two weeks earning a 4.4 and 4.2 respectively. Going up against Smallville is going to kill Enterprise over the long haul. Enterprise may be able to maintain the audience it has, but gaining fans or viewers could be impossible at this point in the series status. 

Sept 18: Carnivale: The first episode on HBO was great. A series to watch for sure. This is one that I will follow on pay cable, along with Jeremiah.

Sept 18: Jake 2.0: The first two episodes have been rather plain and simple. The series seems unlikely to maintain the ratings from Enterprise. I think by week three to five people will start changing the channels unless things improve. 

Sept 18: Alien Quadrilogy: Don't forget fans, this is a must have for alien fans. All four films will be extended versions, in the nine disc dvd boxed set. It's due in the fall of this year. 

Sept 18: Go Joe!: Hasbro has hired Lorenzo di Bonaventura to make a movie deal for their action figure company. 

Sept 18: Predator 3: The Rock has confirmed that he has no connection with the Predator 3 possibility. 

Sept 18: Transylvania: NBC and Universal are hammering out an idea to bring Transylvania to television. The series will be based on new Stephen Sommers flick Van Helsing. The show will only be connect by the spirit of the film. There will be no monster hunter, rather a young Texas cowboy who becomes sheriff in a town full of strange incidents and creatures.

Sept 18: Dead Like Me: The Showtime series is cheap to produce and has decent ratings. Showtime has renewed the series for a 15 episode second season. 

Sept 16: Teen Titans Soon: New Line has purchased the feature film rights to DC's Teen Titans. Unfortunately they have hired Hulk scribe Michael France to pin the Titans script. (Variety)

Sept 16: Questor Returns: The remake of Gene Roddenberry's pilot telefilm "The Questor Tapes" has found some financing and is moving forward. They still have to decided if the movie will go network or cable. The movie originally done in 1974 never made it to a weekly series. Look for the pilot telefilm to hit the airwaves in the 2004/2005 season. 

Sept 16: More Flash, Less Color: DC Comics and the WB are teaming up (DC is owned by Warner Bros.) to bring back the Flash as weekly television series again. Unfortunately the Flash will follow the Smallville deal and we won't see The Flash in red tights during the series. I wonder if the series is from Rick Berman though as the Flash will have a time-travel element in it. The Flash can move so fast that he can move backwards in time. 

Sept 16: Police Academy 9: Not genre or even action but when you can do nine features I guess it should be mentioned. Police Academy will be going into production on its ninth film. Sure to be a direct to video, as the last few have been. Still amazing to be putting out that many sequels. 

Sept 16: Catwoman In Jeopardy: No she won't be on the game show, but fans waiting for the feature film might be waiting longer as Village Roadshow is in financial poop after several huge losses. They had committed $100 million to the feature but might be pulling out. They are also considering pulling out of Oceans 12 ($100 million committed) and Troy, which is in production. (dark horizons)

Sept 16: Batman Selected: The latest and greatest is that actor Christian Bale has landed the role of Batman in the long, long, long anticipated fifth film. Also being mention for the role of Commissioner Gordon is one 40+ actor Dennis Quaid. 

Sept 10: Rick Baker Quits: Special Monster creator Rick Baker has reportedly retired. His shop has closed down. No official word on what's up with Baker. 

Sept 10: Craven Goes Downhill: Wes Craven, once a horror hero can't catch a break anymore. His latest flop being filmed, Cursed, is schedule for some major reshoots and possible recasting when production restarts in November. The film was so bad that Dimension Films halted production in June after 11 weeks of filming. They wanted a complete re-write of the script. Rick Baker was working on the film doing the creature effects when he suddenly retired. 

Sept 10: Phantom of the Opera: The remake of the Phantom of the Opera feature has been busy casting lately. Joining the production now are Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciaran Hinds, Simon Callow, James Fleet, Victor McGuire and Jennifer Ellison. Already on the project were Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson and Emmy Rossum. Production will last 16 weeks, in the United Kingdom beginning Sept. 15th. 

Sept 10: Tarzan Gets Lawless: The new WB series has added Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless to the cast. She'll play the aunt of Tarzan.  Tarzan debuts on the WB October 5th at 9pm. 

Sept 10: Jake 2.0: The WB reportedly isn't expecting that much from Jake 2.0 this season in order to stick around for a full season. All the UPN series has to do is out perform last seasons ratings for The Twilight Zone. The series among audiences seems to be one of the most anticipated this season. Why in the hell did they ever cancel SEVEN DAYS. It's been the second best rated series in that time slot, and UPN never considered bringing the series back on line. Same with Special Unit 2 which garnered decent ratings and was the timeslots best rated series averaging about 3.44. Even a repeat of Wolf Lake on UPN beat the ratings of the Twilight Zone. Jake 2.0 should prosper and earn at least a full season commitment from the network. 

Sept 10: Doe Joins Blade: John Doe star Dominic Purcell has joined the cast of Blade: Trinity as the lead villain. Production is slated to begin this month in Vancouver, Canada. 

Sept 10: King Solomon Returns: Remember the horrible King Solomon's Mines feature co-starring Sharon Stone? Well HBO has remade the Henry Rider Haggard's novel into a new mini-series. Filming was completed earlier this summer in South Africa and stars Patrick Swayze (Ghost) and Alison Doody (Indiania Jones III). 

Sept 10: To Many Remakes: Hollywood isn't fresh with ideas anymore as we all know. Even more so with the news of another friggin remake. In work are remakes of The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatcher, and Dawn of the Dead. Joining the remake list now includes Amityville Horror as well. Man... 

Sept 10: Willie Wonka: Looks like Johnny "Fuck America" Depp has won the starring role in Time Burton's remake of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Yet another feature film that I will boycott. I wish all Americans would boycot any project done involving one Johnny Depp. 

Sept 4: More Bat Crap: With Warner working on Batman and Superman projects you wonder who's spitting out more crap. Warner Bros. and director Christopher Nolan are planning to test several hot NEW actors for the lead role for the "proposed" fifth Batman feature. All this bull-shit is one way to keep projects in the news that could be years down the road. 

Sept 4: Boomtown: What do you do when a series is struggling in the ratings? Why some girl on girl action of course. On the September 26th season premiere fans can expect a STEAMY SHOWER scene between fems Rebecca DeMornay (Three Muskateers) and Kelly Hu (X-Men II/ Scorpion King)  (TV Guide)  Time for some clam chowder. :)

Sept 4: Firefly: Fox is indeed planning a feature film based around the flopped series Firefly. Whedon is penning the script and production looks set for February o 2004. 

Sept 3: Predator 3: The Rock is being pursued to take on the role of Dutch in a proposed Predator three film titled... The Deadlier the Species. The script is presently being pitched to 20th Century Fox. (Filmforce.com & Luckey316)  This seems unlikely to happen anytime soon with a Predator vs Aliens feature currently in development. Any further Alien or Predator features would like hinge on the success of this film this one. 

Sept 3: Buffy Joins Angel: More proof that Angel is turning into Buffy comes with word that Sarah Michelle Gellar is negotiating to return to Angel as Buffy for two episodes next season. 

Sept 3: Jeepers Creepers II: The sequel opened to a record Labor Day weekend earning the top spot at the box office with $18.5 million over the 4 day weekend. 

Sept 3: Dragonball Z: Roland Emmerich is considering doing a live-action adaptation of Dragonball Z. 

Sept 3: Episode III: TheForce.net has several spoilers on their website. But how many real spoilers can there be? Skywalker becomes Vader. Wow! 

Sept 3: Stargate & ID: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin have no plans right now to do the two proposed Stargate features or ID4-2. A script was turned in for ID4-2 and received positive feedback. But it was not as good as the first film, so they aren't going to go forward with it. (dark horizons.com)

Sept 3: Xena's Back!: The second season of Xena is at your local retailers for a SRP of $69.99 from Anchor Bay. 

Sept 3: Charlie Chan: The Asians are bitching about the films and the Charlie Chan Festival was canceled. Asswipes. Charlie Chan were wonderfully done horror films that I never took to be demeaning to the Asians. They are great films. Beginning September 13th look for four of these restored films on Fox's Movie Channel. They will be Murder Over New York; Charlie Chan at the Opera; Charlie Chan in Honolulu; and Castle in the Desert. (Hollywood Reporter)  Fox's license agreement to air the 1930's films runs out at the end of September, and they have opted to air some of the films.  The Charlie Chan films did not STEREOTYPE Asians. What a load of shit when this happens. Crap like this is why the classic "Song of the South" animated Disney movie will never be release on DVD or Video again.  It's cheesey shit for activist groups just looking for shit to bitch and moan about. 

Sept 2: The Lost Flux: Fans waiting for the Aeon Flux live action feature based on the MTV character will be disappointed to learn that plans for the film have been scrapped by MTV films and Paramount. 

Sept 2: Superman 5: There is more gossip about the fifth film again. But I'm tired of all the bullshit going on and nothing happening with this project. 

Sept 2: RIP Charles Bronson: 81 year old Charles Bronson has passed away of Pneumonia. Only Robert Vaughn is left from the Magnificent Seven feature. Charles Bronson, Yul Brenner and James Colburn are gone. (dark horizons)