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- Vin Diesel and David Twohy have been working so hard on the next The Chronicles of Riddick game that they forgot to mention the new Riddick film. Diesel says that around the release of the game they’ll have more information. All he could say currently was Twohy is finishing up the script.
- Ira Glass’ “This American Life” will be simulcast live to 400 screens for one night in April in a program that will include “a special musical performance” by Joss Whedon. The April 23 broadcast will originate from New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. “This American Life – Live!” will be sent live via satellite at 8 pm EDT to more than 400 movie theaters and performing arts centers nationwide. The two-hour show, with the theme “Return to the Scene of the Crime,” will also include performances by Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, Mike Birbiglia, David Rakoff and Dave Hill, plus a cartoon by Chris Ware. Tickets and a list of participating theaters are available at Fathom Events.
- Morena Baccarin, aka Inara from Firefly, will play a lead in the ABC re-imaging of the “V” mini-series. Baccarin will play Anna, the leader of the Visitors who is remarkably knowledgeable about human culture and media manipulation. Nina Dobrev has landed the lead in the CW’s drama pilot “Vampire Diaries.” and Eliza Coupe has been tapped for a lead in ABC’s comedy “No Heroics.” “Heroics” revolves around four B-list superheroes living among us. Coupe will play a bad girl who can turn invisible.
- There’s a rumor circulating that Warner Bros. is looking to replace Christian Bale in the next Dark Knight picture, with his Terminator co-star Sam Worthington. Highly doubtful.
- The Illinois State Senate has resolved that not only was Pluto’s 2006 downgrading to a dwarf planet unfair, but that they’re revoking it, and it will regain “full planetary status,” as awarded by the state. And that’s not all; March 13th has been officially designated “Pluto Day” in the state, to celebrate the date of the (dwarf) planet’s discovery in 1930.
- Director George Miller is returning to his most popular creation, Mad Max… but without star Mel Gibson. Or, for that matter, any live action actors at all; Miller’s new future vision is entirely animated.
- Hollywood production company 1492 has acquired the rights to blood-soaked comic Welcome to Hoxford, by renowned horror madman Ben “30 Days of Night” Templesmith. Welcome to Hoxford is about an asylum where all the most violent inmates wind up, but never leave. When a psychiatrist investigates, she discovers the asylum has been privatized by a mysterious corporation and won’t give up any information about its wards – even to their former doctors. Gradually, we discover that the asylum is being run by a pack of werewolves, whose lust for carnage matches the inmates’.
- Long-lost Doctor Who episodes thought to be hidden away in Zimbabwe may never be recovered because despot Robert Mugabe hates the UK. Zimbabwe is understood to have bought the first season of the show when it was still a British colony known as Rhodesia. Despite years of searching, the BBC is missing 108 of 752 episodes of the television classic.
- With Daredevil already getting the once over and Planet of the Apes also in the running for a new start with a prequel in the works, Fantastic Four is joining the reboot gang.
- The long running action/adventure franchise Power Rangers, which rose to unprecedented heights in the 1990s, will be coming to an end in it’s present live-action format. The decision will leave several New Zealand film, stunt, and effect crews out of work.
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