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SCI FI Wire News Updated 12:00 AM on 01-JANUARY -2009 Wire Takes Holiday; All New In '09! Because of the New Year's holiday, SCI FI Wire won't be updated again until Jan. 5. The good news is SCI FI Wire will be all new in 2009: a stand-alone Web site with a new look, new features and a new attitude. Check us out next week at SCIFIWire.com. More... Wire's Midseason TV Preview, Part 1 Forget the disappointments of My Own Worst Enemy and The Ex List. That's so last season. It's time to look into our television crystal ball for midseason, starting in January. Today: broadcast networks. More... New Watchmen Featurette! MySpace.com has posted a new behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen movie. In the new featurette, Snyder talks about Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' original graphic novel and its cultural importance, as well as the casting of the movie. More... We Have New Fringe Info Fringe Spoilers has posted spoilery credits for the upcoming new episodes of Fox's SF series Fringe, which returns on Jan. 20. More... Terminator Added To Film Registry Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on Dec. 30 added 25 more movies to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, including the genre classics The Invisible Man (1933), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and James Cameron's original The Terminator (1984). More... New Unborn Sites Now Live Rogue Pictures has just launched a new YouTube channel and MySpace profile for the supernatural thriller The Unborn, including a feature that will allow users to freak out their friends by including them in a terrifying demonic possession video, Rogue announced. More... Webber Conjures Phantom Sequel Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says the long-awaited sequel to Phantom of the Opera should be ready at the end of 2009, with a possible simultaneous opening on three continents, the Associated Press reported. More... Strike Centers On Dragons Fantasy author E.E. Knight told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Dragon Strike, continues his Age of Fire series, which is his take on the fantastic animal stories he loved so much as a kid. More... Watch Coraline Featurettes! A bunch of behind-the-scenes featurettes have gone live for Coraline, Henry Selick's upcoming stop-motion-animated movie, based on Neil Gaiman's book, and you can watch them all here! More... Knight Topped Good SF Year The Dark Knight, which took in about $531 million domestically, topped the 2008 box office rankings, whose total will fall short of 2007's records, the wire services reported. More... |