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Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media are moving ahead with a sequel to their hit The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Fox on Feb. 1 gave a green light to the SF drama pilot Beyond, from writer David Self (Road To Perdition), Variety reported.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a movie set in the universe of one of Square Enix’s popular Final Fantasy video games, may be released on DVD before the end of the year, according to a post on the Digital Bits Web site.

SF author Paul Levinson, whose new book The Plot to Save Socrates deals with time travel, told SCI FI Wire that he doesn’t believe time travel is possible, nor would he want it to exist.

British SF author Keith Brooke told SCI FI Wire that the advanced word for his upcoming novel Genetopia has surprised even him.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the stop-motion-animated film that was just nominated for an Oscar, will hit DVD and VHS on Feb. 7, DreamWorks Home Entertainment announced.

The Weinstein Co. has picked up North American rights to Exodus Film Group’s upcoming computer-animated monster comedy Igor, Variety reported.

The young stars of the upcoming supernatural horror sequel Final Destination 3 told SCI FI Wire that they rode a real roller coaster dozens of times to film the movie’s opening disaster scene.

An anonymous reader writes “Linux powers a new autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that learns routes by following along behind foot-soldiers, after which it can retrace the route solo, avoiding obstacles. iRobot’s “R-Gator” UGV is based on John Deere’s 658cc, diesel-powered M-Gator military utility vehicle platform, with control, navigation, and object-avoidance systems based on BlueCat Linux from LynuxWorks. I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?”

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer: The wounded survivor of an ex-postal worker’s shooting rampage died Wednesday, bringing the total death toll to seven, and authorities were trying to determine if a one-time neighbor also was a victim. Charlotte Colton, 44, died at 7:30 a.m., said… [San Francisco Chronicle]

I wrote a very critical post about Ning two weeks ago that generated a lot of discussion (Rob Hof at Business Week followed my story, then retracted).
The main thing that I took away from the discussion was that Ning employees responded professionally to my admittedly inflamatory post title (Ning - R.I.P.). And they […]

Reuters - Pop star Britney Spears will give
her first public performance since giving birth last fall when
she appears in an upcoming episode of the NBC sitcom "Will &
Grace."