While the chances of Pete Carroll even agreeing to meet with the Atlanta Falcons about their head coach vacancy remain a long shot at best, dialogue between the USC coach and team officials still was ongoing.
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Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating with the estate of legendary SF author E.E. “Doc” Smith for film rights to Smith’s seminal Lensman novels, Al Trestrail, Smith’s grandson and manager of his estate, told SCI FI Wire.
James Marsters joins BBC America’s Torchwood in its second-season premiere Jan. 26, fighting and “snogging” Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). The new season of the Doctor Who spinoff kicks off at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the BBC announced.
Jake Weber, who stars as the husband of psychic Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) on NBC’s Medium, told reporters that the currently airing nine new episodes were not intended to be a complete season, but that creator and executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron was forced to wrap up the story arc because of the ongoing writers’ strike.
Fox has given the green light for casting to begin on the one-hour SF project Inseparable, from Invasion creator Shaun Cassidy and ABC Studios, but the ongoing writers’ strike has prevented the project from getting the go-ahead as a pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Nu Image/Millennium Films has made a North American distribution rights deal with Lionsgate for a new film series based on the Robert E. Howard-created character Conan the Barbarian, Variety reported.
Salma Hayek has signed on to star opposite John C. Reilly in Universal Pictures’ supernatural horror film Cirque du Freak, which will mark her first acting role since her maternity leave, Variety reported. Production begins next month.
>a href=”http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/08/rumor-bioshock-movie-murmurs-in-hollywood/” target=”outside”>Joystiq.com reported a rumor that a major film production company is mulling a movie adaptation of 2K’s hit first-person shooter Bioshock.
Fans of NBC’s struggling time-travel series Journeyman are taking a page from the successful campaign to save CBS’ Jericho, but with a different food item: Rice-A-Roni.
Director Kimberly Peirce told >a href=”http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/01/08/kimberly-peirce-looks-towards-space-for-arthur-c-clarkes-childhood/” target=”outside”>MTV.com that she’s eager to bring Arthur C. Clarke’s classic SF novel Childhood’s End to the big screen.