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eldavojohn writes “Symantec has announced that they will be creating a massive security package called Genesis. Semantec has set their goal to ‘Security 2.0′ which is proposed to be ‘a new age of trust on the Internet.’ From the article: ‘Symantec plans a one-stop software service tying together anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall and a host of other PC optimization technologies…’ This is certainly something the common computer user could buy instead of having to fork over cash for every component. I don’t think I’ll be purchasing it though.”

Reuters - The “Miss America
Pageant” won’t be the last we’ll see of beautiful women on CMT.

James Wong, director of the upcoming horror sequel Final Destination 3, told SCI FI Wire that they had to shoot a new ending featuring a subway crash after the original one tested poorly?and that they had hoped to bring back characters from Final Destination 2 in the new coda.

Warner Brothers announced the start of production on the fifth Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and also revealed additional casting for the movie, including 14-year-old newcomer Evanna Lynch, who beat more than 15,000 hopefuls at an open casting call to play Luna Lovegood.

Jay Lake, winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that he just signed a two-book deal with Tor.

Multiple-award-winning SF author John Varley told SCI FI Wire that Red Lightning, the sequel to Red Thunder, is probably the only prophetic book he’s ever written.

The curtain rises Feb. 4 on the multimillion-dollar stage musical version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in Toronto, the Reuters news service reported.

Anthony Hopkins told SCI FI Wire that he recently completed work on Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming computer-animated version of Beowulf, based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, and added that he found the entire process fascinating.

Universal Pictures has slated Evan Almighty, the Bruce Almighty sequel starring Steve Carell, for Dec. 22, the Friday before Christmas, Variety reported.

Oscar-nominated writer-director Frank Darabont has been tapped to direct NBC’s supernatural drama pilot Seeing Red, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

CBS has struck a deal with Aardman Animations for a half-hour TV series based on the Oscar-winning short Creature Comforts, Variety reported.

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align="right" alt="" src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/02/Tomb_Raider_legjoy.jpg" />Eidos has announced that
Tomb Raider: Legend will be released for the PS2, Xbox, and PC on April 11.
Lucky UK blokes get the game four days earlier on April 7 though. And if you were hoping for the PSP or Xbox 360
version, you’ll have to wait until what the publisher calls "shortly after."

After a downward
spiral in sales for that past several game iterations, Legend hopes to take
the series back to its roots. What do you think of its chances?

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