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Matt Damon is open to playing Star Trek’s Capt. James T. Kirk in a proposed 11th movie. But he denies persistent rumors that he has already been cast in the role, which was originated by William Shatner. J.J. Abrams is producing Star Trek XI.

Angelina Jolie says she’s interested in joining the cast of Sin City 2 and confirmed that directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have approached her. “We’ve talked about it,” Jolie said in an interview while promoting her latest film, The Good Shepherd.

Fans who a special edition of John Scalzi’s next book may find themselves in it. “The Sagan Diary” isn’t a novel, but a novelette set in the Old Man’s War milieu. It will be published in February as a limited-edition hardcover chapbook.

Steven Spielberg is developing a World War II time-travel drama for Fox, one of two television shows he’s working on. Scott Gemmill will write the show, an hourlong drama from 20th Century Fox TV and Spielberg’s DreamWorks TV company. DreamWorks TV chiefs Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank are executive-produce as well.

Sam Raimi knows what evil lurks in the heart of The Shadow, and he’ll be producing a new movie based on the classic radio serial. Columbia Pictures has acquired the screen rights, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The next Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, will shoot near London, not New Zealand, where the first movie was filmed, The Times of London reported. Andy Bird, the president of Walt Disney International, told an audience of television executives last week that shooting would begin in February and that post-production would also take place in Great Britain, the newspaper reported.

Sega will produce next-generation games set in the universe of the Alien movies. The publisher is developing multiple next-generation and PC video games set in the Alien universe, including a first-person shooter and a role-playing game, with the first product to ship in 2008.

Fox has licensed Firefly for development as an MMORPG. Multiverse will hire a developer to make the game. It hopes to get input from series creator Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), as well as likeness rights and voice work from some of the actors who were in the show.

Gordon from Seattle writes to mention a CNN article about a new way to hang out. A British aerospace team is working on a super-sticky substance they’re calling “Synthetic Gecko”. It mimics the hairs on a gecko’s foot, and may eventually be developed as a reusable adhesive. From the article: “Each of the microscopic setae on a gecko’s foot has a mushroom shaped cap on the end, less than one-thousandth of a millimeter across. This ensures that the gecko’s foot is in very close contact with the surface beneath. The cumulative attractive force, called van der Waals force, of these setae allows the lizard to scurry up walls and ceilings, and even hang from polished glass surfaces. In 2003 scientists at the University of Manchester produced a one centimeter patch of ‘gecko tape,’ but neither the University of Manchester nor University of California teams managed to produce the material in a greater quantity, unlike Haq and Sargent, who have already tested areas larger than 10 centimeters-squared.”

Apocalypto eked out a victory over The Holiday during a modest weekend…