So it had been rumored for some time that Kristen Bell, star of Veronica Mars would be joining the cast of Lost. This turns out is not the case. Instead she will appear in a number of Heroes episodes according to Variety.

Bell will play the role of Elle who is involved in Claire’s future and is also connected to Peter and H.R.G. Her character will start to appear in the show in October.

“This was not easy to pull off,” show creator Tim Kring told Variety. “But since we’re an ensemble show, with many arcs playing out through the year, we found a way to jump into a small window in her schedule.”

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A proposed Justice League of America movie may be entirely computer generated if a rumor reported by IESB.net proves true. The JLA movie would be based on the DC comic series which sees a coalition of super heroes such as superman and batman brought together to defend earth.

An anonymous source told the site that there are three visual-effects companies in the running for the job; Rhythm & Hues, Imageworks and possibly Weta.

If this rumor is in fact true then it could add a couple of years to the films production as the CG takes time to render.

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More Star Trek news. It seems that everyone is talking about the rumors that James McAvoy (Last King of Scotland) could be up for the role of Montgomery Scott in the upcoming Star Trek film.

The Sunday Mirror reported that the actor would play a young version of the famous Star Trek engineer in the film which is to be directed by Lost creator, J. J. Abrams.

The 11th film in the sci-fi series will focus on the earliest adventures of humans and aliens who serve in Starfleet. The film is expected to be released on Sept 7, 2008.

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Shooting will start next month on Push which will be released next year. The Film is about a group of young Americans with telekinetic and clairvoyant powers who have gone to Hong Kong to escape from a U.S. government agency.

The film is being shot in Hong Kong and stars Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou. The movie will be directed by Paul McGuigan who recently directed Lucky Number Slevin. The film is written by David Bourla.

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Scarlett Johansson is in negotiations to play a femme fatale in an adaptation of Will Eisner’s noir comic series, The Spirit alongside Samuel L. Jackson. The film is to be directed by Frank Miller for Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Johansson will play Silk N. Floss, a sexy and intelligent secretary with a vindictive instinct. She is seen to be the perfect partner for Jackson’s character, Octopus, an evil mastermind.

The Spirit is the story of a detective who fakes his own death in order to fight crime in Central City as the masked man known as the Spirit. In the film the character Spirit will be played by Gabriel Macht.

Production is scheduled to start in October, with the film scheduled to be released in 2009.

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UK fans of Stargate Atlantis will not have to wait much longer. The fourth season of the sci fi hit will start on Tuesday, October 9 at 8 pm on Sky One and Sky One HD.

The new season will see a couple of familiar faces from the tenth and final season of Stargate SG1. Samantha Carter (played by Amanda Tapping) will be joining the other Stargate team as a regular cast member.

The season will pick off from the cliffhanger at the end of season 3 where the city of Atlantis has taken flight to flee a deadly Replicator satellite weapon.

New episodes will air every Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Sky One and Sky One HD.

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The British government has warned citizens to not visit the Caribbean due to the approaching Hurricane Dean and now the space shuttle Endeavour could be moved forward by 24 hours due to the hurricane growing in strength in the Caribbean, a NASA official said.

Storms are categorized on a scale of 1 – 5 and Dean has intensified to a 4. It’s winds are now flying at 215 kilometres per hour.

US space officials are concerned that if the hurricane veers toward the Texas coast, where the Johnson Space Center is located, it could affect the spacecraft’s landing.

The shuttle is currently scheduled to return to earth on Wednesday.

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Matthew Vaughn, who recently helmed the Stardust movie, is to direct Thor for Marvel Studios. Thor is yet another comic book creation that’s been given the OK for the big screen treatment. It revolves around a blond hammer-wielding Norse god named Thor who is sent by his father, Odin, to protect mankind.

The adaptation has been written by Mark Protosevich and Marvel is hoping for a production start this winter.

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Ramayan 3392, the Science Fiction comic franchise is going to be turned into a massively multiplayer online game.

Sony Online Entertainment will develop and publish the game and Virgin Comics will serve as a creative consultant on the project. The game will be initially made for the PC.

Ramayan 3392 A.D. started in 2006 and reimagines one of India’s greatest epic myths as a futuristic story. The comic is based on a story by Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur.

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Even if you’re not a Harry Potter fan, you have to admire J.K Rowling. Not just as a writer with a world-class imagination, but also as a businesswoman and entrepreneur. She seemed to come out of nowhere to create one of the biggest entertainment franchises ever.

It’s hard to believe that she used to be unemployed, surviving on U.K. state benefits. That was 1995. Now it’s 12 years (and hundreds of millions of dollars) later, and she’s just finished her seventh and final Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

iTunes Link: J.K. Rowling Interview

Rowling recently did an interview with Meredith Viera for the American news programs The Today Show and Dateline NBC. I only caught part of her Dateline NBC interview, so I was pretty happy to see that they posted the whole thing on iTunes. The interview is an interesting glimpse inside the world of Harry Potter, and it offers some real insight into the woman who created a billion dollar world of magic.

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