This week The CW begins its season with two big premieres, the new season of The Vampire Diaries and the debut of Nikita. Also, HBO's True Blood finishes up a bloody good year with its season-three finale.
Gemma Arterton told the Sunday Times that she's scheduled to talk to director Ridley Scott about starring in the two Alien prequels he's working on. (You may know Gemma from her role as "Strawberry Fields" in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.)
The dark side of the Force is certainly something to be feared ... and what do we do to things that scare us? Turn them into harmless, laughable, nonthreatening objects (that make gobs of money for George Lucas). Here are 37 things that the Dark Lord of the Sith himself has been reduced to.
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At Dragon*Con this weekend Aaron Douglas, who played beloved Chief Galen Tyrol on Battlestar Galactica, discussed how the show's producers lied to him about his role for three months and also revealed that Tyrol wasn't the part he wanted to play.
In what could be an attempt to distance the new Judge Dredd film from the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version -- something the producers and everyone else have been trying really hard to do since the beginning of this project -- the movie's name has been shortened to simply DREDD.
Another promo for The Walking Dead just trickled out of AMC via Bloody Disgusting, and it gives us a glimpse of the opening hospital scene. In our opinion this show just keeps looking better and better, and we can't wait for the Halloween debut.
The 2010 Hugo Awards were handed out this morning (well, last night, for them) in Australia and included a rare tie in the Best Novel category. The double honor went to China Miéville for The City & The City and Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl, while Doctor Who and Moon also picked up rocket trophies.
What's the secret recipe for this week's hottest stories and best comments? Add a little bit of science fact to your science fiction, dip Rose McGowan in some Red Sonja, season with a couple of NSFW Conan and Star Trek pics, and top it off with a mega-preview of this fall's biggest movies. Bon appetit!
Duncan Jones won himself a lot of fans with his independent sci-fi movie Moon, and those fans are really curious to see what his next movie, Source Code, is going to look like. Well, here's your first grainy glimpse of the film, courtesy of a scanned image from an upcoming issue of Empire magazine that's making its way around the Internet.
Whoa! Coming Soon unearthed a trove of concept art by comic artist Jock and Andy Diggle for Peter Berg's Dune movie that will never be. Pierre Morel took over as director after Berg left the project, and Morel's going to do his own thing, so sadly this gorgeous art will go unused.
It's pretty clear that one Doctor Who fan has got a lot of time on his hands, and we've got to say he's putting it to good use. JUSTJON has designed a TARDIS made completely out of LEGO Bricks that not only lights up and has an electric door, but also plays the Doctor Who theme!
Smallville has been on the air since 2001, making it the longest-running comic-book series in television history. And now there's just one season left, which debuts Sept. 24 at 8/7c on The CW. To get viewers primed for the fateful and final 10th season, CW just released this (very) long recap of what's happened up to this point and, more importantly, what's going to happen when the show returns.
