David Cronenberg’s 1981 SF horror movie Scanners is going to be remade by Dimension Films. The original Scanners told the story of a weapons corporation trying to use people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (Scanners) as weapons. Still don’t know what film I’m talking about? It’s the one with the exploding-head finale.

The film will be directed by Saw II director Darren Lynn Bousman. The film will be written by David Goyer who also wrote Blade and Batman Begins.

Dimension hopes to start production in early 2008 and release it later the same year.

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Heroes is going digital. The hit American TV series on the the NBC network is relaunching its Web site with new interactive features coinciding with a batch of new original on-air episodes. NBC hopes the multiplatform strategy will deepen the “Heroes” mythos with additional content for Internet and mobile applications.

Some of these new digital offerings include a real-time, two-screen application that plays out on the PC along with each episode, commentary from cast members set to streamed episodes, and mobile content.

NBC is even making special viral clips to help promote Heroes on video sharing sites like Vmix and YouTube. The latest Heroes clip is a parody called “Zeroes“ about ordinary people with relatively pointless abilities. Check it out on Vmix or YouTube. If you are a fan of the show you’ll really enjoy it.

Jeff Gaspin, president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Digital Content had this to say about the new online presence for Heroes in The Hollywood Reporter: “Heroes has proven itself a hit on-air and online, and these extensions of rich, original content will allow our audience unprecedented access to new levels of the show as they dig deeper.”

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J.J. Abrams the guy behind Lost and Alias and director of Mission Impossible 3 is going to direct the next Star Trek movie. For months there has been countless speculation over who will direct with Abrams’ name cropping up only for another rumor to say that he won’t. Now sources have told The Hollywood Reporter Abrams has signed on to direct.

It is rumored that the film will revolve around a young James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, chronicling their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first space mission, however this has not yet been confirmed.

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Spock’s space suit from the original Star Trek Movie has been sold on ebay for $10,100, roughly £5,000 and quite of a lot of money though not as much as you would expect for the suit.

The suit was worn by Spock as he drifted through space to mind-meld with the V’Ger Probe in the first film and its unsurprising that the suit is so highly valued by trek fans. $10,100 is a bargain.

This piece of movie memorabilia had only had 10 bidders and bids stayed below the $5,000. Towards the end of the auction the big trek fans had finally found their way to the party and within 4 bids the price had doubled.

Some trek fan must be quite chuffed with the bargain they’ve got.

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Warner Bros. is planning a live-action feature film version of the Justice League of America. JLA is a society of DC comic book’s most popular heroes who come together to thwart evil. The League has included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and the Green Lantern.

The screenplay will be written by Kiernan and Michele Mulroney who are currently writing the Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV pilot.

Warner Bros. had been developing a Batman vs. Superman film before deciding to do the Batman Begins and Superman Returns movies instead. The studio now thinks that it can make a lot of money from developing their own superhero team franchise.

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Martin Scorsese could be directing to the best-selling Brian Selznick children’s fantasy novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The book’s story centres around a young orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot.

Variety reported that Warner Brothers and Graham King’s Initial Entertainment Group have acquired the screen rights to the book as a potential directing vehicle for Martin Scorsese.

The director, who’s recent credits include The Aviator and The Departed, recently signed a lucrative first-look deal with Paramount. Under the terms of the pact, Par has the right to own half of any project Scorsese directs or produces elsewhere.

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Contributions to Wikipedia claim that the Welsh Roswell, a UFO incident in which aliens are said to have crash-landed into a remote Welsh mountain range in 1974 was actually a combination of an earthquake, a meteor shower and poachers carrying lanterns.

The Berwyn Mountains Incident which is often referred to as the Welsh Roswell has been one of Britain’s most famous UFO sightings. Reports of the incident involve people seeing “fairy lights” floating over the mountains, an orange ball on the mountainside and others have claimed to have seen “non-human beings” being handled by military personnel. All very suspicious activity.

Understandably those who have strongly believed in the incident have hit back at the “debunking” which is a bizarre set of coincidences but some would say that its far more likely to have an earthquake, meteor shower and poachers gracing the mountains together on one night than aliens.

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Frank Miller, who wrote and co-directed Sin City and executive-produced 300 both films based on his graphic novels, is now ready to start shooting the sequel to Sin City according to SCI FI Wire. He hopes to start shooting the film in late spring in Texas.

The sequel will be based on A Dame to Kill for, the second Sin City story and a prequel to The Hard Goodbye, which was the basis of one of the first film’s storylines. Sin City 2 will also flesh out some of the back stories of the first film’s characters such as ‘The Old Town Girls’ and Nancy Callahan played by Jessica Alba.

Miller will be once again sharing directing duties with Robert Rodriguez. They are still casting and if the first Sin City is anything to go from then you can expect a whole host of Hollywood stars.

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NASA has teamed up with Virgin Galactic to develop space tourism. The agreement which will last for two years will feature NASA astronauts taking Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on test flights 62 miles above the earth next year.

There are a number of possibilities for NASA and Virgin Galactic to collaborate on such as the development of hybrid rocket motors, space suits and even creating hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling more than 5 times the speed of sound. These projects could find themselves into SpaceShipThree.

SpaceShipTwo should be ready for commercial use in 2009.

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With the longest running sci fi show coming to an end there has been much talk about what will happen to the stars of Stargate SG-1.

One cast member has been confirmed to move onto a familiar show. Amanda Tapping who plays astrophysicist Samantha Carter will be moving to the show’s spin off, Stargate Atlantis.

Tapping has guest starred a number of times on the show as the two shows have crossed over but this time it seems that she may join the regular cast for good.

After the tenth and final season has ended, Tapping’s character will join Atlantis for 14 of Atlantis season four’s 20 episodes.

MGM has decided to continue the story of SG-1 with two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. If these first two are successful, MGM will produce an ongoing series of movies.

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