Feb 28: Aeon Flux in Flux Again: Once locked in development hell, and then forgotten, Aeon Flux makes a fantastic return to a possible major motion picture. Apparent the project could move into production by June of this year, with gorgeous actress Charlize Theron in the lead role. Aeon Flux was created by Peter Cheung, which premiered on MTV. 

Feb 28: A Waste of Talent: Talk about wasting some serious talent. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy comic books, and even better seeing them come to the big screen. But when talent like Joss Whedon and Bryan Singer decide to write X-Men comic books and take time from their television and feature endeavors, something is really wrong. At least the comic X-Men will take off in huge sales with these two working on it.

Feb 28: Punisher II: How good will the Punisher be when it hits theaters this spring? Only the dollar signs will tell. The early reviews have been good and Lions Gate Entertainment seems to be so happy with the film that they are already in negotiations with Marvel comics for a sequel.  

Feb 28: Batman Stupid: That might as well be the title for the fifth film. The real title is just as exciting. Batman Begins is what Warner Bros. has decided to call the new film. Nice. Doesn't that title just make you see action, adventure and continued boredom? Stupid, Stupid, and yes... Stupid. 

Feb 28: Shatner Gets Some Practice: William Shatner, legendary starship captain, will join the cast of The Practice for four episodes near the end of the season. He'll be taking on the role of a lawyer named Danny Crane. If loses the case I hope he pulls out a phaser and zaps the judge a time or two. 

Feb 28: xXx: Vin Diesel's popularity has obviously gone to his head. I was wondering why Diesel was not doing the sequel to a character he made his own. When an actor asks for $25 million dollars to do a film, I can see why a studio balks. Greed cost the actor a cool franchise that could have produced a slew of new action films for the actor. Now we get Vin Diesel returning to the third Fast and the Furious feature, where he'll be upstaged by the cars. Nice choice, dick head.

Feb 28: Will & Grace Growing Old: We've seen Friends walk away along with Frasier and Sex in the City. Three hit series this year alone. Ray Romano is ready to walk away from his hit series "Everybody Love Raymond" despite the rest of the cast wanting to return. With his box office flop at theaters right now, the actor might rethink his stupid decision. Also on the brink of extinction might be Will & Grace. After a sub-standard season, the court battle over rights to the show, and now the shows creators getting booted by NBC. 

Feb 26: Underworld II: The sequel to the very cool feature Underworld has been give a production schedule. Screen Gems & Lakeshore Entertainment will begin production in the fall of 2004. Kate Beckinsdale will reprise her role, as the heroine vampire, who fell in love with a werewolf played by Scott Speedman - who is also expected to return. Len Wiseman will return to helm the project on a script from Danny McBride. The script should be ready by early April. 

Feb 26: Blackwater Mini: The Sci-Fi Channel, king of mini-series, and horribly cheap made two-hour telefilms has greenlit Backwater. A four-hour supernatural mini-series based on the six novels from the deceased novelist Michael McDowell. Sony Pictures Television is teaming up with Mandalay Television and the Orphanage are producing the project. (scifi.com)

Feb 26: Passion For Dollars: The new Mel Gibson flick, The Passions of the Christ opened to nearly $20 million, and should make close to $60 million for the five day total providing the lines remain strong. A 50 year-old healthy woman suffered a heart attack, and expired, during a matinee showing of the film.

Feb 26: Sin City: The black and white graphic novels from Frank Miller (who also did the classic Daredevil comics) are being turned into a feature film. At the helm of this project is director Robert Rodriquez (Spy Kids, The Faculty, From Dusk Till Dawn). Josh Harnet will be starring in Sin City along with Marley Shelton. (cinescape.com)

Feb 26: Blade III: David Goyer is using scenes that were cut from the first two films in the third installment. The scenes were recreated and expanded on. Goyer is in the process of editing the film at Henson Studios in Hollywood. A scene left from the first film was to show the human farm bank being used by the Vampires. The original scene, that was filmed but not used had maybe four humans in it. Goyers version has thousands and thousands of bodies in it. Another scene is now the films opening scene of Blade in a 1968 Charger fighting with the vampires in cars and on motorcycles. 

Feb 25: Batman: David Goyer, who wrote the three Blade scripts and is directing the third film, also wrote the Batman script fans will be seeing starring Christian Bale. Goyer tells the scifi wire that this script is more realistic than any of the previous films. Goyer is a comic book freak, and excited about the new film. 

Feb 25: From Rings to King: Director Peter Jackson told the Hollywood Reporter that he will be bringing over some of his veteran crew from Lord of the Rings to work on his new King Kong. Jackson is still scripting, and doesn't know if any of the cast from Rings will be coming over to take on some roles in the film. 

Feb 25: Billion Dollar King: The third Rings film, Return of the King, has become only the second film ever to break the $1 billion dollar mark. Titanic is number one with $1.8 billion total, but King has broken the billion dollar mark a week earlier than Titanic had. Imagine a $300 million investment returning a gross figure of $2.8 billion world-wide. 

Feb 25: Poseidon Remake: Wolfgang Peterson and Mike Fleiss are planning to team up to remake the classic Poseidon Adventure, which starred Gene Hackman. 

Feb 25: Johnny Quest: Fans of the animated series can begin picking up their copies of the cartoon on May 11th. Unfortunately the Johnny Quest boxed set (26 episodes on four discs) will street with an SRP of $64.92. A bit high for animated adventure, despite how good it was. 

Feb 25: Robocop: The series isn't coming to DVD, but the three films are coming in a boxed set for $36.96 on June 8th. The first two films are very good, and the third film is quite humorous. (digitalbits.com)

Feb 25: Voyager Art Crappy: Paramount dropped the ball again on cover art for Star Trek: Voyager, just as they did with Deep Space Nine. It's just plain ugly. Fans have designed much better art for their own personal collections. 

Feb 24: MI 3: What's the hold-up for Mission Impossible 3? Well, it must be the friggin' script. A completed script has FINALLY been handed in to Paramount for consideration. (darkhorizons.com) 

Feb 24: Enterprise: There is so much talk these days about the possible cancellation of UPN's Enterprise.  There has been more advertising with this than Paramount and UPN combined has spent to advertise Enterprise over the last two seasons.  Everyone can point fingers at who is responsible and decided what changes need to be made. But it comes down to the idiot suits are CBS who actually run Enterprise to get behind the series. The second decision MUST be to walk Rick Berman and Brannon Braga out the front and toss them into the street. Rather than deal with the franchise they let Berman/Braga do whatever they wished without thought. The franchise needs changes and new leadership. Not a cancellation of the best running franchise in television history. 

Feb 24: Runelords: I was never fascinated with the fantasy novels "The Runelords", but they look to be headed back to the big screen by Franchise Pictures. Warner Bros. will distribute the film. The first film is budgeted for $80 million in a potential trilogy franchise. Look for the ensemble casting names to begin appearing in March. 

Feb 24: Sword of Dracula: Universal has optioned the rights to the comic book series "Sword of Dracula", from comic Jason Henderson. Daybreak Productions and Prime Universe Productions inked the deal with Henderson to bring his creation to the big screen in a live-action feature. Henderson will also get to act as an executive producer on his material, which a bad day. They picture the film to be like and Raiders of the Lost Ark style film, except no nazi's. 

Feb 24: Lost In Space: The Robinson's have picked up a few new cast members. Brad Johnson, scifi's Riverworld, has picked up along with Ryan Malgarini of Freaky Friday to play the roles of John and Will Robinson. Mike Erwin has picked slated to play Don West. The series pilot is budgeted at $2 million dollars an episode. (futon critic.com) 

Feb 24: Starsky & Hutch: Anyone seen the horrible previews for the upcoming Starsky and Hutch turned comedy feature starring Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. The feature is absolutely and abomination of the what the series was. The previews aren't even funny. What a box office flop in what could have been the next Lethal Weapon duo, given the right actors and not idiots. 

Feb 24: Quantum Leap Return: While on the canceled Wayne Brady show, Enterprise captain Scott Bakula told fans that he went to Universal Marketing with his Quantum Leap costar Dean Stockwell concerning a return of the series and was told that Quantum Leap was NOT a marketable name. What is up with that? The DVD sets are coming soon, and there were rumors of two Quantum Leap movie projects in development. 

Feb 20: Cable or the Dish: Decisions, decisions. Should you go for the dish, or settle for cable. It's not an easy decision and it comes down to need more than anything, but you might as well have some good information before making such a huge decision. I have had both and CLICK HERE to read my take on both systems.

Feb 20: More Time Machine: Warner Bros. and Arnold Leibovit Entertainment might be considering a new Time Machine mini-series to continue from where the feature left off. It successful the mini could become a weekly series. (dreamworksfansite.com) The feature from the same people was not that successful at the box office. Time Tunnel would be a much better project.

Feb 19: Elektra On The Move: Rob Bowman (X-Files & Reign of Fire) is currently negotiating with Fox & Regency Enterprises to helm Elektra. The feature stars Jennifer Garner, who played the character in the Daredevil film. Mark Steven Johnson, Gary Foster, and Marvel's Avi Arad are producing the film. 

Feb 19: Dark Shadows: Speaking of director Rob Bowman, he will helm the pilot Dark Shadows for the WB. Bowman seems to enjoy the genre directing episodes of VR5, MANTIS, and the Lone Gunmen.

Feb 19: From Top to Nada: Hard to imagine the quick transition from hot commodity to see ya around dude. That is what happened to TV Vets Chris Carter with Fox, and Joss Whedon at the WB. Chris Carter ruled with the X-Files and went on to create Millennium, Harsh Realm, and the Lone Gunmen. Now the creator/ writer and director has nada on Fox. For Joss Whedon at the WB he had Buffy and Angel which ruled the network for years, later creating the short lived series Firefly. Now for Whedon he has no programs airing. It must be a hard jolt starting over, hoping to come up with something fresh the network will take on. 

Feb 19: UPN Unlikely for Angel: As I told fans at another website a few days ago, UPN picking up Angel is unlikely. A long shot at best according to series creator Joss Whedon. 20th Century Fox is currently putting a package together in an attempt to get UPN interested. If it does happen it could be for the 2005 season, and not this year. 

Feb 19: The Batman: There are trying to get some really big names to increase the buzz on the new Batman film starring Christian Bale as the Bat. Joining the cast, which already includes Michael Caine and Katie Holmes, have signed both Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. 

Feb 18: Green Hornet: Miramax will be bringing a Green Hornet feature film to a theater near you. They have hired Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl - hacker) to write and direct the new movie. Miramax expects to begin lensing by late summer. Smith claims he'll have the script done and ready to go in time. It's to early to predict the actors, but Jackie Chan or Jet Li could could be the for the front runner as Kato, played by Bruce Lee in the television series. 

Feb 18: More Enterprising Gossip: A source for Cinescape online, that broke the news about the shortened season, has again been in contact with their site. The news still is not very good, and could be great news too. A decision on the shows fate likely will not be determined until the end of April. Febuary sweeps will likely have little to do with the shows fate. After all, they have no special guests for sweeps or two hour telefilms to highlight the show. After sweeps the decision will be made to either kill the show, and likely dump Berman and Braga... OR give Enterprise one more season and still show Rick Berman and Brannon Braga the door - sideways I hope. It would be bad for the fans and franchise to cancel the show, it would be great putting the franchise in new hands. Gimmee the keys, I'll drive! Oh, Scott Bakula has been in secret meetings with Gary Hart, President of Paramount, minus Rick Berman. They are rumored to be putting together a new production staff to save the series. If Enterprise is saved fans could expect a likely shake-up from the way the series stands.  First up is to get the series renewed for the 2004 season. (cinescapeonline)

Feb 18: The Thing II: Everyone knows that both features of "The Thing" were left open for the creature to return again. Counting Down.com has a report that director John Carpenter may have a sequel script ready to go. In August of 2002 Universal contacted Carpenter about such a project. The hold up then was contract negotiations between the two.  At least he doesn't have to worry about bringing anyone back. There were only two survivors and they could have frozen to death - one of them being... The Thing. 

Feb 18: Quantum Leap Cofirmed: Fans of the series can show their happy face. Universal home video has decided to bring Sam Beckett and his holographic side-kick Al to DVD in seasonal boxed sets. Looks like the early planning stages for a couple of Quantum Leap movies has Universal hot and heavy to release the DVDs. Look for the first set on June 8th at a pricey $69.99. The price is a bit high considering is just the nine hours of programming, that includes the pilot and Genesis episode.  (tv shows on dvd) 

Feb 18: Genre Stars Return to TV: What do ex-genre stars do when there is no scifi work? They head to whatever comes their way of course. Lois and Clark's Teri Hatcher landed a co-star role in an ABC drama pilot titled "Desperate Housewives". Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd heads to the CBS drama pilot "Clubhouse". Meanwhile Jeff Goldbloom of Jurassic Park, ID4 moves from feature to tv in a new Paul Reiser comedy pilot "My 11:30" and Hellboy's Selma Blair comes to television in the new David E. Kelly pilot for ABC titled "DeMarco Affairs". 

Feb 18: More Tomb Raider: Just can't keep a mediocre franchise down. Despite poor box office returns in the United States, both Tomb Raider films has done very well overseas along with the DVD sales. So much so, that there is now talk of a third and final Tomb Raider feature. According to actor Chris Barnie, who plays Lara butler Hilary there is a third film on the slate. Producer Lloyd Levin says that the international returns on the film more than warrant a final film. (darkhorizons.com)

Feb 18: SuperDoomed: What a screwed up feature project. The fifth Superman film shouldn't be that hard to come up with something exciting for a storyline. Yet once again comes rumors that the project has shut down again. Warner Bros. wants some major rewrites on the script. Hell, these bozos can't even decide on who they want for Clark Kent and the supporting cast. Superman 5 has been screwed up since they started working on it. What a mess.

Feb 18: Goonies II: What is up with Goonies 2? Well, according to Corey Feldman, Richard Donner has the fans petition in his hands, Steven Spielberg is ready to go, as is the ensemble cast. However... despite having five or six scripts to choose from, none of them live up to the original. The WB is even willing to do the film. Script writers have been brought in to hash out some story lines. Feldman tells fans, if you haven't signed the petition get off your ass and sign it. (moviehole.net) 

Feb 18: Episode III: Dreamwatch magazine was told by fight coordinator Nick Gillard that Episode III is action packed with about 60% to 70% of the movie involves fighting. He also tells Dreamwatch that the final prequel will tie in well with the original films. 

Feb 18: Space Above & Beyond: Fox is actually considering the release of the series in a DVD boxed set. It could still be awhile before it happens. The Chris Carter series will likely come first. This one I'll purchase. 

Feb 18: Millennium DVD: Fox is looking to bring Harsh Realm and Millennium to DVD after the X-Files DVD boxed sets wrap up in November.  Fans of the Lone Gunmen should hope Realm and Millennium do well. There success or failure will determine if the series hits DVD. 

Feb 18: Lucas Screws Indy: As everyone knows, Frank Darabont has completed the Indiana Jones 4 script, but it was rejected by George Lucas, who is producing. Funny thing about all this is that Steven Spielberg loved it and was ready to do it. Lucas had issues with the script and deferred the rework to himself. Based on Lucas' previous script work, the project could be doomed. If Darabont wrote it, and Spielberg enjoyed it, just do the damned thing and leave it the hell alone. 

Feb 16: Enterprise Again: Star Trek: Enterprise may not even make it to it's new 9pm timeslot before cancellation comes looking for the series. Without so much as a day and timeslot change Paramount may pull the plug on the franchise. The ratings have not improved and UPN/Paramount has spent $2 in promoting the shows episodes each week. There is a good chance UPN will cancel the series in the near future, and Paramount will can Rick Berman, along with Brannon Braga. Fan response and save the series petitions will have NO effect on the studio and stations decision.  Thanks guys, for your hard work destroying a potential cash cow. Paramount, you stink. 

Feb 16: Blade: The Series: David Goyer has plans to spin off Blade: Trinity into a weekly series. The new series would be set when Blade is just twenty years old with Whistler in his forties. Yunno, gotta have the twenty-something thing going on. (moviehole.net)  Goyer and friends may find there are no spots available for the new series if it syndicated. 

Feb 16: Mutant X, End Coming?: There is a good chance next season of Mutant X, its fourth, will be the shows final season. Lion's Gate had considered canceling the series at the end of this season despite Mutant X being one of the top three syndicated sci-fi series behind only Stargate SG-1 and sister series Andromeda. 

Feb 15: Angel Buried at WB: Late Friday afternoon, the WB officially gave Angel it' burial plot. It is unknown if Angel will be allowed to complete the seasons run, but the WB looks to be allowing Josh Whedon to rewrite his scripts to complete the series with the remaining episodes. Wow... The ratings had really turned around for the series this year after an early season decline. Makes one wonder if the Sci-Fi Channel would be willing to pick up the rights - if they have the money after greenlighting Battlestar Galactica. (Thanks to Mark Egan for turning me on to the story.)

Feb 15: Brosnan Still Rules: MGM has issued a statement that they would like Pierce Brosnan to star in the 21st Bond film due in theaters on November 2005. Brosnan has said he would like to do the next one, and maybe one more after that. Brosnan is a great Bond. Hopefully the next one will be young enough to do about ten before looking for another guy.

Feb 13: Lost In Space: The character of Maureen Robinson will be played by actress Jane Brook. The original Maureen was played by June Lockhart in the 60's series on CBS. She joins Adrianne Palicki, earlier signed on to play Judy. 

Feb 13: Batman: Liam Neeson has signed on to play a part in the upcoming Batman film. Neeson got his start in the genre with Krull, and starred in Darkman. After co-starring in Episode One the actor was put off with genre features and even bitched a bit about it. He will reportedly star opposite of Christian Bale, who plays Batman. 

Feb 13: Doctor Who Returns: The BBC has finally let everyone in on their plans for Dr. Who to return to the airwaves in a new series. The BBC plans a 13 episode first season run. The man behind the Who revival, Russell T. Davies, will write seven of the 13 episodes. They will be contacting other writers in the near future. 

Feb 13: Angel: The season three box set of the WB's Angel has jumped to the number one selling spot. Something else to make sure that the WB greenlights another season of Angel, eh. The only other boxed sets in the top ten DVD sci-fi sellers... Red Dwarf, season three and four along with Stargate's season five. 

Feb 13: Lethal Weapon IV: Not going to happen, but during an interview with Paul Fischer Mel Gibson was asked about a possible fourth Lethal Weapon film. His reply was that he is surprised how much money gets thrown at him to do another film. However, Gibson believes he is to old and can't deal with the action stuff any more. He uses the same argument about Mad Max 4. 

Feb 11: Galactica: It's finally official that a new Battlestar Galactica series will be coming to the Sci-Fi Channel. The first season, of 13 episodes, will take up where the mini-series left off building of the shows characters and situations. Ron Moore will quickly assembling his writing staff, which should include some of his old pals from Star Trek and even Carnivale. Moore would also enjoy finding some roles for many of the original series cast if they are interested. 

Feb 11: Wonder Woman Ruined?: Would you really be interested in attending a feature film with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Wonder Woman? I sure wouldn't. Besides not looking the part, she really isn't a very good actress. Gellar is currently being rumored as the leading candidate for the role. Wonder Woman has been in development for over three years now. If Gellar is up for the lead, maybe the feature should stay in development hell. 

Feb 11: Las Vegas Spin-off: Could a first year series actually be getting a spin-off? Maybe. Las Vegas, on NBC, has already gotten a 22 episode second season commitment. Feb 16's episode has some of the series main characters heading to the Montecito New Orleans to find a gambler owing the Montecito $5 million. This episode could be pilot for a new NBC series, likely titled New Orleans. The episode will star Dennis Hopper. 

Feb 11: Wolverine 007: The rumors are out that Hugh Jackman is still in the running for the role of James Bond. The producers of the James Bond films apparently believe he could be the man for the tuxedo. Imagine Wolverine decked out in a tux, or James Bond in a pinch sliding his claws out from under his skin to handle the bad guys. Hugh Jackman could be a man with two hit franchises of his own in the near future. He could be doing the Wolverine Franchise and then stepping into the famous role of James Bond... hey, what about Van Helsing? This guys could be the thrice blessed man! WooHoo! (main story from moviehole.net)

Feb 11: What About Brosnan: Is Brosnan done already as James Bond? is being in his mid-forties mean he's done? The box office is saying different as Brosnan's latest exploits in Die Another Day garnered over $600 million worldwide. Why isn't another film already in pre-production with that kind of success. Why wait until Brosnan is to old for the role. Use the man while you can, before looking for someone else to take on the role. 

Feb 11: Star Wars Coming: As long expected the first three Star Wars films are finally coming to DVD on Sept 21st. These will be the special editions and NOT the theatrical releases. The set will be sold only as a boxed set and will include a fourth disc with never before seen making of footage. 

Feb 8: Khitomer Up Again: The Khitomer.net website is finally back online and should be updating regularly again soon. If your dubbing your own series, or have a nack for creating custom DVD or VCD clamshells/labels check out there site. 

Feb 7: Raven: Anyone remember the 20 episode series Raven? It starred Jeffrey Meek and one Lee Majors. Encore is actually airing the pilot right now on their Action Channel. The pilot, Raven: Return of the Black Dragons also starred a very young Tamlyn Tomita and TV/Movie supporting actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Space Rangers, The Phantom, Walker: Texas Ranger).

Feb 7: Paris Sues: Yeah, Paris Hilton is a real piece of work. First she does a sex tape with her boyfriend, and has the ignorance to believe that if she makes it big, no one else will ever see the tape. Now the internet porn star (even if by accident) is actually filing a $30 million suit against Kahatani Ltd. for distributing the tape. Gee, after all this time and getting all that publicity - now it's time to sue. Here's a girl who very little acting ability and while good looking is no beauty queen. Loooooooser...

Feb 7: Medium: Here's a new winner. Patricia Arquette will star in a new NBC pilot titled Medium. It's about a girl who must learn to balance her psychic abilities and family life. This one is a small clone similar to NBC's previous series "The Profiler". It is a Paramount based series. 

Feb 7: Enterprise Ad: Fans of the Star Trek franchise are already attempting to save the Enterprise series before UPN makes any decisions. This is a great thing, but these fans should be petitioning Paramount to dump the franchises real problems in Rick Berman and Brannon Braga - who have run the franchise into the ground with Voyager and Enterprise. Enterprise is actually a nice series, but B&B have destroyed any chances of getting back the fans who left after season one. Paramount has ground the series on a horrible night where the competition is just to tough on Enterprise, while our boys have dumped poor storylines on the fans. Change people, change before saving the franchise. 

Feb 6: George Says No Indiana: George Lucas has put Indiana Jones IV on hold after rejecting the completed script from Frank Darabont. He has commissioned a new script. Lucas has done some lousy scripting on Episode 1 & 2, so it's probably a good thing that he isn't scripting the fourth film himself. 

Feb 6: Bewitched: Nicole has agreed to star in the upcoming Bewitched film as Samantha Stevens opposite Will Ferrell, who takes on the role of her mortal husband Darrin. 

Feb 6: Lost In Space: The new WB pilot has picked up its first cast member. Newcomer Adrianne Palicki will take on the role of Judy Robinson. (Cinescape Online) The actual title for the series seems to be "The Robinsons: Lost In Space". This one is loaded with executive producers... John Woo, Doug Petrie, Jon Jashni, Terrance Change, Suzanne Zizzi, and Kevin Burns.  

Feb 5: Club Dread: Bill Paxton's new film Club Dread  has a new trailer, and official website you can check out. Click MOVIE TRAILER or OFFICIAL WEBSITE to check the features latest updates. Club Dread opens in theaters on Feb 27th. Broken Lizard is back and surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), a rock star has-been. But the non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up faster than you could drink a rum punch. But Coconut Pete wouldn't dream of bumming out his guests. So, while the resort-goers tan, guzzle and get their groove on, the staff frantically attempts to figure out who is stalking them.

Feb 5: The Lighter Side of Sci-Fi: You've seen the satire cartoon work of Tye Bourdony in Starlog and Sci-Fi Magazines, and you'll be seeing his work here as well each week. Click on the image for a larger picture. Visit his official website for more. 

Feb 5: MONK Returns: How popular is MONK? I know I watch it. The ratings for Monk's return were outstanding as the season premiere as 6.3 million viewers tuned in. In the key 18 to 49 demographic the series earned a 2.3 rating and a cool 3.0 rating in the 25 to 54 demo. It was Monk's most watch episode to date. 

Feb 5: City of Dreams: Jimmy Smits makes his return to television in a new action drama series for NBC, from Jerry Bruckheimer (C.S.I.), titled "City of Dreams". Smits will star as a slick L.A. PI who specializes in fixing the problems of rich clients. They are waiting for NBC to greenlight the pilot. (FutonCritic.com)

Feb 5: Perlman Injured: Ron Perlman (Beauty & the Beast) who stars in Hellboy broke a rib attempting to jump onto a train during the filming of an elaborate stunt for the film. The train was coming toward Perlman at 45mph during the stunt. Hellboy hits theaters April 2nd from director Guillermo del Toro. 

Feb 5: Alien Lockdown: The next Sci-Fi original film premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel this Saturday at 8pm. It's theme isn't original as a scientist uses alien DNA to create a weapon that can wipe out humanity. A covert military force is brought it to contain the creature after it escapes and begins killing people inside the lab. 

Feb 5: Playmakers: ESPN's quality drama football series has been put on waivers thanks to pressure from the NFL. The series hit to close to home for the NFL, and they used the pressure of renewal against ESPN. 

Feb 5: The Dead Zone: 24 actress Sarah Wynter will join the cast of USA Network's hit series The Dead Zone in a recurring role. (hollywood reporter) Season three begins in June. 

Feb 5: Mutant X: John Shea, who was reduced to a part-time role this past season, is set to return full-time in season 4. 

Feb 5: Blade III Wraps: Principle photography has wrapped on the final Blade film. David Goyer, most known for his writing, is taking his first directing gig into post production. Blade: Trinity is expected to hit theaters August 13th. 

Feb 5: Alien Quadrilogy Gets Serious Head: The Japanese are getting the most awesome DVD ever created for their Alien Quadrilogy nine disc set. The 20th Century Fox Home Video boxed set will come in a replica Alien Head overseas for $282.oo. It's got to be the most impressive DVD set ever with this new addition. The alien head doesn't look to be coming anywhere near the United States. (thedigitalbits.com) 

Feb 5: Underworld: The feature film didn't set any box office records, and I thought the film was outstanding. The DVD however is the number one selling DVD right now, and the third most rented video. Hopefully there will be a sequel to this film. 

Feb 5: X-Men 2005: Patrick Stewart told the Bradenton Herald, during a red carpet event,  that fans should expect X-Men 3 in 2005. 

Feb 5: Daredevil Uncut Delayed: The directors cut of Daredevil was slated for this year, but will now be delayed until next year sometime. The new version is to be uncut and feature the deleted Coolio scene, plus new commentary from writer/director Mark Steven Johnson. Fox gave no reason for the delay. (superherohype.com)

Feb 3: Galactica In April: The Sci-Fi Channel is only planning to shot the first six of a thirteen episode commitment in Vancouver beginning in April. If the ratings are strong enough, the remaining seven would be shot. 

Feb 3: New A-Team: The A-Team feature film looks to finally be moving forward. Stephen J. Cannell tells IEB.com that this feature version will be more towards a Die Hard type film rather than a television comedy. The A-Team will also have better aim as people will die in the feature film. Rather than be Vietnam vets on the run, they will be from Desert Storm. 

Feb 3: 21Jump Street: This feature version from Cannell will bring in young blood as expected, but fans can expect appearances from many of the original cast. 

Feb 3: Highlander Won't Die: Despite three horrible sequels, and a failed Highlander: The Raven series - another feature and series are in the works. A four-hour mini-series is in the works, but won't star a MacCleod. It will be a MacKensie instead. The new Highlander mini will be titled Archangel. The mini should be going into production some time in April, with the feature entering production in 2004 as well. 

Feb 2: Karen Sisco Takes It In The Ass!:  Carla Gugino is really taking it up the ass by ABC as her television series Karen Sisco gets canned. The network shot all kinds of sunshine of the cast and crews ass for months telling them filming of the first season would be completed and the show would get a second chance over the summer, along with a new timeslot. On the cusp of starting production on the remaining episodes ABC backed out taking the low road... again. It is unlikely the remaining unaired episodes will see broadcast time. 

Feb 2: Las Vegas to Return: CBS has given their first year series Las Vegas a passing grade, renewing the series for the fall 2004 season. It ain't no Dan Tana, but the series has been averaging over 12.3 million viewers per week. For the 18-49 demographic the series has highest ratings of any new series this season. 

Feb 2: Pixar Dumps Disney: Steve Jobs must be singing from the highest mountain, as his animation company has completed their deal with Disney. Jobs will NOT renew his contract with the greedy, backstabbing company. They will now have complete ownership of its productions. Deals will be made with other studios soon to distribute its films in 2006. Disney has the distribution rights to Pixars first 7 features per their current contract. 

Feb 2: Galactica 13: Aaron Douglas, who plays Chief Petty Officer Tyrol in the mini-series told Cinescape Online that the series is a go, and his contract calls for him to appear in all 13 episodes. There is still no official word on the series renewal from the Sci-Fi Channel.