Mar 11: RIP Robert Pastorelli: Another character actor, Robert Pastorelli was found dead from a drug-related episode. The 49 year old actor gained recognition as Murphy Brown's painter in Murphy Brown. He also appeared big name films suchs as Striking Distance and Eraser. What a waste of talent.

Mar 11: THX-1138: George Lucas' crappy feature THX-1138 is heading to dvd with new visual and such from ILM. This isn't going to make a horrible film any better. Why not spend the money to redo the effects for something like Willow. 

Mar 11: Star Trek: The original is finally getting dusted off and readied for seasonal boxed sets from Paramount. Fans should be able to pick up the overpriced season one boxed set sometime between September and Christmas.

Mar 11: Harsh Realm: The short-lived Chris Carter series Harsh Realm:The Complete Series is heading to DVD May 26th.  Where the HELL is SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND??? (the digitalbits.com)

Mar 11: Troopers 2: The direct to video sequel "Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation" will blast its way to shelves on June 8th, 2004. 

Mar 11: Pitch Black: The film is heading to dvd again. This time with four different versions. You'll have the rated and unrated, as well as letterbox and pan and suck. Be careful which versions you pick up. 

Mar 11: The Dukes Are Back: The Dukes of Hazzard are heading to dvd in their seasonal boxed sets. The first season jumps into retailers on June 1st. Does that mean, "Enos", "The Adventures of Sheriff Lobo", and "BJ & the Bear" are close behind? Nah... "Enos, you dip stick!" 

Mar 11: Howard The Duck: Nope, this one isn't heading to DVD. Just thought I would throw the name out there. The picture flopped, but I actually enjoyed the film a bit. It wasn't great, but I have seen worse. 

Mar 11: Seven Days Directs: Jonathan LaPaglia who starred in Seven Days on UPN and is currently taking down bad guys on the District directed the episode titled "The Black Widow Maker", which airs April 2nd. Jerry Van Dyke (Coach) will star in the episode.

Mar 11: Empire: The ABC limited series will star Vince Regan as Marc Anthony, Jonathan Cake (Viper & Space Rangers) as Teranus and Santiago Cabrera as Gaius Octavious. This is one expensive series. 

Mar 11: MONK: 5.51 million viewers tuned in for the season finale of MONK on the USA Network Friday night. Monk is sure to be renewed for a third season. Crap, I missed most of the episodes this season. 

Mar 11: Dempsey Turns to TV: Film actor Patrick Dempsey is joining the numbers of feature film actors turning to television for that regular paycheck. After an eventful youth in features his career had pretty much petered out with nothing more than a few bit parts here and there. Dempsey will turn to television playing a doctor in the series pilot "Surgeons" for ABC. He'll play Derek, a surgeon and attending physician supervising the shows interns. 

Mar 11: Touching Evil: USA Network will be slamming fans with another off the wall series very soon. On Friday, March 12th fans will be able to catch Touching Evil from Cheyenne Enterprises, owned by Bruce Willis - who loved the British version. Jeffrey Donovan will star as Dave Creegan with Vera Farmiga as his skeptical partner Susan Branca

Mar 9: Anger Reborn?: There is a rumor over at the City of Angels forum that the WB has signed Angel up for a sixth season providing that the ratings continue to increase. The near 2 million signatures from the online petition may also have something to do with the complete turn-a-round at the network. Rumor or Fact? Time will tell... 

Mar 9: Enterprise Move: Don't forget that beginning this Wednesday night, March 10th, will have Enterprise in its new 9pm timeslot. The next six weeks will be repeats.

Mar 9: The Dead Zone: Sarah Wynter from the series 24, will guest star in a six-episode arc of the hit series The Dead Zone. The new season will launch in June 2004. Filming begins in Vancouver this week. 

Mar 9: C.S.I. New York: CBS and Bruckheimer continue to pull movie actors to television for their hit series. C.S.I. landed William Peterson and C.S.I. Miami took on David Caruso as their leads. C.S.I. New York will follow the same formula using Gary Sinise as their lead actor in CBS' new series. 

Mar 9: Daredevil 2: Now Ben Affleck may be ready to done the cowl again as Daredevil, BUT - only if this film is much darker than the original. On the directing side of things, MOVIEHOLE.NET is reporting that Hellboy helmer Guillermo del Toro may be interested in taking the reins of the film. The story will only present about 10% of the film with Affleck actually wearing the costume. He would be fighting evil in civilian clothes. How exciting is that? 

Mar 9: What Are They?: Some comic book characters are really missing from the mix of feature film projects. Where the hell is Aquaman, the Green Lantern, Hawkeye, The Flash, the Avengers, The Invaders, The Inhumans, The Justice League of America (what a chance for DC Comics to take on the X-Men), Teen Titans, and others? The DC characters are just being squated on by Warner Bros, who owns the comic book, while they pound Batman and Superman down our throats.  

Mar 9: Simpson Roles: Jessica Simpson tells MTV that she is up for the roles of Daisy Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard, and Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie. Man, that would be screwed up either way.

Mar 9: Furious 3: Vin Diesel is now telling producers that if they want him on the film, Director Rob Cohen has to helm the project. 

Mar 9: Spiderman 3: Sam Raimi appears to be on board for the third film along with the main actors. Apparently all the stars are signed for three films. 

Mar 9: Logan's Run: Matt Damon may be the top actor for the lead in Logan's Run, which is being helm by Bryan Singer. 

Mar 7: JAG Soars: Despite being nine years old, and nearing its 200th episode J.A.G. continues to do extremely well in the ratings. After its first season NBC canceled the series, but CBS quickly picked up the series. Once CBS recast the female lead with Catherine Bell, the rest is history. JAG airs on Friday nights - a night difficult to get viewers. Fans of the series would love to see seasonal boxed sets, but CBS seems to have little interest in it. 

Mar 7: Firefly Dough: Universal has set the budget for the new feature film at just $35 million. 

Mar 7: Harry Potter: Author J.K. Rowlings had intended for the Harry Potter novels to end at seven, when he graduates from School. After a fan asked about novels covering the period following Harry's graduation, Rowlings said she didn't think so, but it could happen. What else in her life will she ever write that will be as popular or well received as this character. What are the chances of her creating another cash cow like this one? Slim and none. You don't walk away from what makes you rich and keeps you famous. Of course, if the cast of Friends can walk away from $1 million per episode ($24 million each per year) anything is possible.

Mar 6: Logan's Run: Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Bryan Singer to helm a remake of the classic sci-fi film Logan's Run with producer Joel Silver. Singer will do this project before helming the the third X-Men feature. He is already working with his X2 production designer, Guy Dyas, to create some new visual world. The project is being fast tracked by Warner Bros. so that production will begin this year. Singer is currently writing the script with the help of Paul Todisco and Ethan Gross. 

Mar 6: Anonymous Rex: The Sci-Fi Channel has signed Daniel Baldwin and Sam Trammell to star in their telefilm Anonymous Rex, which is of course a back door pilot for a potential series. Joe Menosky (the Dead Zone) wrote the films script based on the novel Casual Rex from author Eric Garcia. Production begins March 22 in Toronto with director Julian Jerrold at the helm. This project floated around the network in development for over a year.

Mar 6: Tru Calling: Eliza Dushku's new series "Tru Calling" is also on the bubble of cancellation this season along with Enterprise. Angel has already gotten the stake. 

Mar 6: Man-Thing: Lion's Gate doesn't appear to excited with the completed feature Man-Thing. The production company has pulled the feature film from it scheduled release date.  This could mean a direct to video release, or simply a rescheduling of the film for more receptive date. 

Mar 6: Sword of Dracula: There just isn't enough blood suckers to go around these days. Image Comics has sold the feature rights to their comic "Sword of Dracula" to Daybreak Productions and Prime Universe Productions. A video game is also in the works from Critical Mass Interactive, which just purchased the video-game rights.

Mar 5: Angel Done: UPN made official what everyone already knew. They have passed on picking up the WB Canceled series Angel. UPN's decision comes from the cost of producing the episodes, which was deemed excessive. Angel's latest episode narrowly beat Enterprises ratings. UPN has had trouble picking up a follow-up series to Enterprise, and Angel would have been a great fit. UPN is asking fans to stop sending in messages. It will not change their position. They never really considered picking up the show. 

Mar 5: Azati Prime: Enterprises final sweeps episode before six weeks of reruns in a new timeslot was outstanding. Why would it be?  Well, it was written by Odyssey 5 creator Manny Coto. If more episodes where this far off the Star Trek franchise scale of normalcy the series wouldn't be wondering about cancellation. My only problem with the story was more friggin' time travel. 

Mar 5: Kingdom Hospital Needs Surgery: Despite the strong ratings for ABC, The two-hour premiere of the supernatural series was boring and the characters so weird you can't find anything interesting to care about in them. It will be interesting to see how the series does over the next few episodes. 

Mar 5: UPN Sweeps: UPN is learning that Sci-Fi Sucks, and comedies win. The network had a great February sweeps beating the WB. Ratings for UPN were up 13% overall while the WB were down 4%, giving UPN a 17% growth on them. From the same time last year UPN is up by just a .3 rating share, while the WB is actually down by a rating of .45. This season the networks finished up the sweep with .01 of each other. UPN's key to success has been its comedy line-up and dwindling genre shows. 

Mar 5: Moogie Passes: Cecily Adams played Quarks mother Moogie in a few episodes of Deep Space Nine. The actress has lost her battle with cancer on March 3rd. RIP Ms. Adams. 

Mar 5: Final Countdown on DVD: It's finally coming to DVD. The B-Movie action flick starring Kirk Douglas, and right wing asshole Martin Sheen is an awesome piece of military work. Unlike Top Gun, the fight scenes were real. The scene with the Japanese Zeros and the F15 were done using the real thing. It's a very cool scene and the movie is excellent. This is a must have for genre fans as well as military fans too. The DVD only gets a B rating for quality and sound, but that's still better than any cut on VHS. Fans will love the disc. And yes, it will be letterbox widescreen. 

Mar 3: Kingdom Hospital Tonight: Don't forget to tune in to ABC's premiere of Kingdom Hospital at 9pm. The series stars Andrew McCarthy, who was part of the 80's rat pack. Other stars include Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elswhere, Battlestar Galactica), and Bruce Davison. 

Mar 3: Enterprise Season 4: Rick Berman is talking about Enterprise again. He was nice enough to say that if season 4 happens the series will continue with story arcs, and not merely stand alone episodes.  We'll even get some more Xindi crap. Season 3 will not end in a cliffhanger episode. Expectations of cancellation loom. The series has no better than a 50/50 chance.

Mar 3: Enterprise & Time Travel: God you get sick of Rick Berman and his constant rehashing of old stuff. Once again we see time travel in the episode E squared. Enterprise comes in contact with another Enterprise three generations into the future who's doing some time travel stuff of their own. 

Mar 3: Last New Enterprise: It appears that tonight's action packed episode, Azati Prime will be the shows last new episode for about six weeks. New Episodes are slated to return April 21st with the episode Damage. From there the remaining six episodes should air.

Mar 3: Power Man: Director John Singleton is negotiating with Columbia Pictures to develop and helm Marvel's Luck Cage, Hero For Hire. Looks like another role for Michael Clarke Duncan, who recently played the Kingpin in Daredevil. 

Mar 3: Firefly In 2005: The series which couldn't find an audience has been given the greenlight by Universal Pictures for a big screen run. The feature title Serenity, will reunite the crew of Firefly on a script from series creator Joss Whedon. (variety) Whedon will also helm the project. 

Mar 3: Mortal Kombat: Fans hoping for a third Mortal Kombat feature are likely disappointed at the news the proposed film will not be happening. New Line Cinema, which produced the first two films no longer has the feature rights to the franchise. At one time it was a priority for Threshold Entertainment, but has recently drifted off the radar. Screenwriter McWeeny says the project still may happen, but it could be a bit down the road and would likely be based on the game MK:DA. (darkhorizons.com)

Mar 3: Warlord of Mars: Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez has signed on with Paramount to helm a live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs awesome novel series John Carter: The Warlord of Mars. Rodriguez will do the first novel in the series titled John Carter of Mars. Disney gave up the rights to the novels in 2002, which allowed Paramount to pick them up. Production will begin when Rodriguez wraps on his new Sin City project. One of the best series of novels I have ever read. 

Mar 3: Stargate: Atlantis: The crew for the new series has been hired and here they are... 
Torri Higginson  - Dr. Elizabeth Weir
Joe Flanagan  -  Major John Sheppard
Rainbow Sun Francks  -  Lt. Aiden Ford 
David Hewitt  -  Dr. Rodney McKay 
Rachel Luttrell  - (Teyla) 
(Gateworld.net)  NOTE: X-Files star Robert Patrick will co-star in the 2 hour premiere. The 45 year old actor will play Colonel Marshall Sumner. 

Mar 3: Alias Gets TNT: The Superstation TNT has gotten a hold on the rights to the syndication run of ABC's semi-hit series "ALIAS". The cable network purchased the rights to daytime broadcast for just $200,000 per episode. It will joined their daytime line-up which includes Angel, NYPD Blue, and Law & Order in 2005. They have already secured the rights to Without a Trace.  The reason for the cheaper price on Alias is likely due to the fact that the series are not self contained episodes. Alias has a continuous story arc, which the others do not. 

Mar 3: Campbell and Ash: Bruce Campbell may be returning in two new features as his Evil Dead character Ash. New Line Cinema is negotiating with Sam Raimi to borrow the Ash character for a Freddy vs Jason vs Ash feature film. In return Raimi wants a fourth solo Ash film - and he will likely get it. 

Mar 3: Dr. Vegas: Las Vegas, at least the name, appears to be a hot commodity for television recently. First we had CSI, the Las Vegas and now Dr. Vegas. Rob Lowe has signed on to the pilot about a house doctor at a Las Vegas casino for CBS. Wonder if this one will actually be filmed here? Doubtful.

Mar 2: 11 For 11: Lord of the Rings scored last night taking 11 awards for their 11 nominations, including Best Picture. Again director Peter Jackson looked like shit. You would think the guy could clean up for the awards shows. That's not asking or expecting to much.  

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