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Jamie Bell, co-star of the upcoming SF-action film Jumper, told SCI FI Wire that the film puts a very different, reverse Spider-Man spin on the comic-book concept of ordinary humans gaining superhuman powers.

Freddie Highmore, the young British actor who stars in the family fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles, told SCI FI Wire that the story is set in America, but it has a universal appeal.

SCI FI Channel’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series Battlestar Galactica kicks off its fourth and final season on March 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with two back-to-back half-hour specials, with the first new episode premiering the following week, April 4, at 10 p.m.

Ellen Page (Juno) is set to star in Drag Me to Hell, a horror film that Sam Raimi will direct as his next film, Variety reported.

Kristen Bell will star in the fantasy-tinged romantic comedy When in Rome, a film that Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider) will direct from his own script for Disney, Variety reported.

Transformers and Industrial Light & Magic were the big winners at the sixth annual Visual Effects Society awards Feb. 10 in Hollywood, Variety reported.

Ratatouille won 10 Annie Awards, which recognize achievements in feature-film and television animation, in ceremonies on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported.

A sunflower seed company says it has shipped nearly 6,000 bags of its salty snacks to USA Network to try to save the canceled SF series The 4400, the Associated Press reported.

Bo Zenga is making his directorial debut on the horror spoof Stan Helsing for Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jere Hausfater’s Essential Entertainment has signed on to handle worldwide sales on the new film.

Disney Interactive Studios announced Discs of Tron, a new arcade game inspired by the groundbreaking 1982 SF movie Tron, which will drop on Feb. 13 for Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360.

British newspaper The Guardian claims that ministers are set to introduce a legally backed rating system.