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- Eoin Coller, author of the Artemis Foul series, has been asked to write the next chapter in the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. And Another Thing… will be published in October of next year.
- Anonymous may have broken into Sarah Palin’s yahoo mail account. The offending posts, screenshots, and unseen family photos and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan and the account itself has since been deleted.
- Stephanie Jacobsen, who played Kendra Shaw in the Battlestar Galactica TV movie “Razor,” is coming to Sarah Connor as another resistance fighter from the future to hunt down Terminators.
- David Tennant vetoed the idea of an episode with J.K. Rowling, where the author drags the Doctor into the Harry Potter universe.
- Paris Hilton will be making her horror musical debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera, as surgery-addicted Amber Sweet. Fortunately, her character isn’t in the movie a lot, but when she’s there, she looks great.
- Sony is in talks to bring back xXx with original director Rob Cohen, under the title xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
- Ricky Gervais agreed to star in Ghost Town with three firm rules: no accent, no wigs, and no kissing. He plays a grumpy dentist in New York who can suddenly see and hear ghosts after a near-death experience.
- The Whedonopolis fansite will sponsor a Halloween night screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Felicia Day’s web series The Guld, to benefit charity. The screening will take place in los angeles and proceeds will benefit Path Ventures, an affordable-housing community group.
- SCI Fi Channel has cast its upcoming Children of the Corn remake with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey, and Daniel Newman.
- George Takei married his longtime boyfriend on September 14th in a Los Angeles ceremony that paid homage to the actor’s Japanese heritage.
- Kevin Smith’s QuickStop Entertainment site posted a teaser trailer for director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was the last movie that late actor Heath Ledger was working on. (The trailer has since been removed.)
- Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D may begin shooting as soon as next spring, hopefully with the cast that has performed more than 300 times in Toronto. The bloody comedy has songs such as, “What the F—K Was That?”, “I’m Not a Killer”, and “Look Who’s Evil Now.”
- The latest in the Dune series has been released.
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