Kong Wins Special Award
he title character of Peter Jackson's King Kong will receive a special award at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards of the Broadcast Film Critics Association on Jan. 9, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Kong will receive the Distinguished Achievement in Performing Arts Award, created to recognize what the association called "the singular achievement in creating this character, representing a revolutionary leap forward in synthesizing visual effects with an actor's performance," the trade paper reported.
The award will be accepted by Andy Serkis, the actor who provided the movements and facial performance for the computer-generated Kong. Jackson and his crew are creating new footage for the event. The Critics' Choice Awards, hosted by Dennis Miller, will take place in Santa Monica, Calif., and will be broadcast live on The WB.
Kong Can Live In Game
veryone knows that the giant ape meets an untimely end in King Kong, right? Guess again. Game publisher Ubisoft revealed that the current video game based on Peter Jackson's King Kong movie features an alternate ending in which Kong lives, created with Jackson's blessing.
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie features an unlockable, exclusive alternate ending in which players can save the giant ape from death, pilot an airplane and discover Kong back home on his native Skull Island.
"I wanted the game to be able to take the audience a bit further than what the film could," Jackson said in a statement. "And the final climax of the game gave us an opportunity to do something that the film could not do, which was to have an alternate ending. Obviously everybody pretty much knows how King Kong ends."
To unlock the alternate ending, players must complete the entire game and then go back and play through various maps and earn a total of 250,000 points. Other unlockable features include several Weta Digital concept art galleries, interviews with both Jackson and Academy Award winner and co-writer Phillipa Boyens, an "old movie" filter, a King Kong theatrical trailer and more, Ubisoft announced.
SF Films Make Cut For F/X Oscar
bat, an ape, a Jedi knight and a candy mogul made the short list for the visual-effects Oscar nominations to be announced next month, but Sin City failed to make the cut. The short list for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' F/X Oscar includes Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds.
All will face off in the next annual "bakeoff" on Jan. 25, 2006, where 15-minute clip reels from each film will be screened for the visual-effects award nominating committee. The final three nominees will be announced Jan. 31, and the Oscar will be presented in ceremonies broadcast live on ABC on March 5.
Sin City wasn't the only contender cut from the short list: Others included the SF movies Stealth, The Island and Zathura.
Warner Picks Up Watchmen
arner Brothers has picked up Watchmen, the proposed superhero movie based on Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel, from Paramount, which had put the project into turnaround, Variety reported.
Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin are producing the movie, which has been without a home since spring. Paramount had been aiming for a summer shoot in London with British director Paul Greengrass, but budgetary concerns halted it. Watchmen was previously set up at Universal, where David Hayter signed a seven-figure deal in 2001 to adapt it, with an eye toward directing.
Warner is seeking a new writer and director for Watchmen. Once those slots are set, Paramount will have the option to co-finance the project.
Watchmen, by Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, took a postmodern look at superheroes and is counted as a major influence on the current generation of genre filmmakers.
Blalock Trekking To Lost?
ark Horizons, citing E! Online's Watch With Kristin column, reported a rumor that Jolene Blalock of Star Trek: Enterprise will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC's hit Lost.
Blalock was supposed to guest in the second episode of the current season, which was originally Sawyer's (Josh Holloway) backstory. But the episode was swapped for a Michael (Harold Perrineau Jr.) flashback.
Blalock will appear as a woman from Sawyer's past. The monster is also coming back very soon, Dark Horizons reported. Lost returns with new episodes in January.
In related news, TV Guide Online reported that Lost star Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) had a lot to say when she was arrested in Hawaii earlier this month for drunk driving. According to documents obtained by KITV-TV, Rodriguez was "very argumentative" during her arrest, at one point telling a cop: "Why don't you just put a gun to my head and shoot me? You've already taken my freedom, you might as well take my life, too!"
G4 To Rerun Trek TOS And TNG
able channel G4, the Comcast-owned network, is close to acquiring the syndication rights to the original Star Trek and one of its spinoffs, Star Trek: The Next Generation, from Paramount Domestic Television, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.
Trek has been a syndication fixture since the first edition blossomed there after its brief network run in the late '60s. Sources also suggested to the trade paper that Trek will be part of a Comcast effort next year to reposition the channel brand of G4, which struggled to establish itself as the TV home for video gamers, in a broader play for young male viewers. A name change also is being considered.
Galactica's Moore Develops More SF
BC Universal Television Studio has signed a two-year development deal with Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, to create and develop series, with an emphasis on SF projects. Moore has already set up the fantasy series Pen and the Sword for NBC and the supernatural series Warehouse 13 for SCI FI. Moore will continue to oversee Galactica, which returns with new episodes on Jan. 6.
Pen and the Sword centers on a young man who works in a building that is a portal to a medieval alternate universe.
Warehouse 13, from writer Brent Mote, is about a pair of government officials who are banished to a storage facility in North Dakota in which every item has a supernatural or fantastical backstory.
Moore is a veteran of the Star Trek spinoff series The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager and wrote the screenplay for the movie Star Trek: First Contact. He also produced Roswell and HBO's Carnivale and received a story credit on the movie Mission: Impossible II.
NBC Universal TV, NBC and SCI FI Channel are all owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
AFI Cites Worlds, Galactica
teven Spielberg's War of the Worlds and SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica were cited by the American Film Institute in its list of Moments of Significance, Variety reported. Worlds and Galactica were among the movies and TV shows cited as being "artistic reactions to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks," one of six issues or events the AFI picked as having the greatest effect on the world of the moving image in 2005.
The Moments of Significance were chosen by a 13-person jury consisting of scholars, artists, critics and AFI trustees, the trade paper reported.
Other Moments of Significance:
•The growing trend of media consolidation, including the sale of MGM and DreamWorks to larger corporations.
•The industrywide box-office slump, which signals that the theatrical experience may be in danger.
•TV content, such as ABC's Lost and SCI FI 's Galactica, migrated to multiple-screen platforms, including video iPods and cell phones.
•The effect of the televised images of Hurricane Katrina.
•America Online's coverage of the multi-city Live 8 concert proved a seismic moment in global access to live events.
AFI will honor the creative ensembles for each of the honorees at a luncheon Jan. 13 at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ghost Rider Revealed
ony has unveiled its first glimpse of the title character of its upcoming Ghost Rider movie in a teaser trailer on the film's updated new Web site.
The teaser shows the live-action version of the Marvel Comics character, a vengeful demon with a flaming skull astride an otherworldly motorcycle.
Ghost Rider, which stars Nicolas Cage, has been pushed back to President's Day weekend 2007 from its original July 14, 2006, release date.
Miller Returns To Sin City
rank Miller, who co-directed Sin City with Robert Rodriguez, told Empire Online that his upcoming sequel will be one of five such movies he envisions, based on his Sin City graphic novels.
"I'm finishing the script right now for Sin City 2," Miller told the site. "I can't wait to get back behind the camera. If I have my way, there's going to be five [films]. But that's if I have my way! Five would take care of all the graphic novels. But there's new material that I'm writing for the second one. There'll probably also be a separate graphic novel that I'll do. It's a Nancy Callahan story that I've been wanting to do."
Sin City 2 is slated for an Aug. 18, 2006, release.
Rabe Wraps Norton's D&D Sequel
F and fantasy author Jean Rabe told SCI FI Wire that she recently collaborated with the late Grand Master Andre Norton on The Return to Quag Keep, the sequel to Norton's 1979 Quag Keep, the first novel based on the Dungeons & Dragons gaming franchise. "Andre told me her agent approached her about doing a sequel to Quag Keep and gave her several authors' names to consider for a collaboration," Rabe said in an interview. "I don't know if I was on that list, but Andre said she told him she wanted me. [We] were pen pals. She'd been in one of my anthologies, and she knew I was an avid D&D player. [Andre] figured I'd know about the game and the worlds and wanted me to work on the book with her, ... [which] was an ongoing project while she was alive."
Dungeons & Dragons novels line the bookshelves today, but it was Norton's idea to write the first one. "Andre had been interested in the game and asked [Dungeons & Dragons creator] Gary Gygax if she could write a book about it. He ... stopped by her house and ran a game for her so she could get a better feel for it," Rabe said. "I had a great deal of fun working on this book, and kibitzing with Andre about villains and crystals and plants. She was an amazing woman and an amazing writer, and I am so very, very fortunate to have been able to work with her on projects. She taught me a lot about characters and words. More than that, though, she was just an engaging person to chat with about books, history and our cats and dogs."
Early next year, Rabe will start work on a sequel to Norton's Dragon Magic. "She and I plotted the book in the fall of 2004, going back and forth about story elements and which dragon to use," Rabe said. "I really enjoyed her Dragon Magic, and so I am pleased to finish the sequel that she and I schemed on."
One of the other projects Rabe worked on with Norton was her final manuscript, Taste of Magic, which she left unfinished at the time of her death. "I just handed in the first draft," Rabe said. "In the last few weeks of Andre's life she and I chatted about the book, as she wanted to make sure I got the ending just right."
BioWare Contest Offers A Real Prize
ame producer BioWare told SCI FI Wire that it is sponsoring a writing contest for its fantasy role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, with the top prize something more than simply a mug or a T-shirt: A job with BioWare. "We thought that running a contest where the winners would get their work reviewed by BioWare staff directly responsible for hiring might get people fired up and writing," BioWare spokesman Erik Einsiedel said in an interview.
The contest is open to all writers, professional or otherwise. But it's not as simple as putting words to paper: Participants should have some basic computer knowledge. "Submissions are to be created using BioWare's Aurora toolset, so a better familiarity with the toolset will obviously be advantageous," Einsiedel said. A tutorial is available online.
The goal is to create a module for Neverwinter Nights; that is, a mini-adventure or expansion in less than 3,500 words. The top eight winners will receive a shot at a job. They will also receive a BioWare logo coffee mug and wool cap, a Jade Empire soundtrack and T-shirt and copies of all premium Neverwinter Nights modules.
Einsiedel recommended that entrants have a familiarity with BioWare's games, which include the Baldur's Gate series, to better understand what sort of writing the company is seeking. "A game writer does not have pages and pages to spend on exposition, but must convey the elements of the story and character in a clear and readable fashion," he said. Story elements include stopping a plague unleashed on the city of Neverwinter, battling orcs and zombies and questing for artifacts.
Neverwinter Nights and its two expansion packs have sold close to 3 million copies worldwide; the online version of the game has more than 2.8 million registered users. The Neverwinter Nights player community has created 5,000 modules, all available for download, since the release of the Aurora toolset. "We have had a great response from both BioWare fans and gaming press," Einsiedel said. "We are pretty excited to see what writers can come up with."
Winston Wins Tesla Award
pecial-effects master Stan Winston received an award for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology from the International Press Academy on Dec. 17, but told SCI FI Wire that it was perhaps for the wrong thing. Winston received the Tesla Award—named after inventor, physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla—from the group of international entertainment journalists, but said: "This award is for technical innovation, and it's interesting that I'm getting this award, because I really don't know much about technology, and, in fact, I'm techno-ignorant. I am an artist. ... Any technology I created for special effects I was forced to develop in order to do the things I love. ... I created it for the characters in the movies."
Winston is best known for creating the creatures and effects for such SF films as the Terminator movies, Aliens and the Jurassic Park movies. At ceremonies Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Winston watched a series of film clips from such movies as Jurassic Park III, Edward Scissorhands, Predator and Batman Returns. Accepting the award, Winston—who was nursing a bad sore throat—could barely croak out a speech before heading out the door immediately after. "I'm hopping right into bed," Winston told the audience.
Winston's special effects company is expected to be called in for a proposed fourth Terminator film, as well as the long-anticipated Me and My Monster and another Jurassic Park sequel. But Winston told SCI FI Wire that no scripts are ready, so there is no movement yet on any of the high-profile projects. For now, Winston said that his company is working on post-production of a werewolf movie called Skinwalkers, which, he said, "will have werewolves like you've never seen before. They're very different."
Past Tesla recipients included James Cameron, George Lucas and Jerry Lewis, who won last year's award for his innovation in camerawork.
Pokemon Doesn't Cause Cancer?
okemon USA, publisher of the popular game and trading card series, has threatened legal action against the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York to stop it from using the term "Pokemon" to refer to a cancer-causing gene, the GameSpot Web site reported.
One of the center's scientists, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, used the word Pokemon to refer to the cancer-causing POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene in a January issue of the science journal Nature, leading to a rush of headlines proclaiming "Pokemon causes cancer."
The center has complied with Pokemon USA's demands and now refers to the gene by the name Zbtb7, Nature reported.
The name "Pokemon" is a contraction of "pocket monster."
This is not the first time researchers have dipped into the world of gaming for a research nickname, the GameSpot site reported. The Sonic hedgehog gene was named after Sega's speedy mascot in 1993. Sega has never sued over the matter, even though mutations in the developmental gene can lead to a number of brain and facial defects, including cyclopia.
U.K. SF Author Bulmer Is Dead
ritish SF writer Kenneth Bulmer, who published scores of books under at least 22 pseudonyms, died on Dec. 16 following an extended illness, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Web site reported. He was 84.
Bulmer was one of science fiction's most prolific writers, having published 165 novels and many short stories. His best-known work is the Dray Prescott series, written as Alan Burt Akers, which comprised 52 novels, 15 of which were published only in German, the site reported.
Bulmer was also active in U.K. science fiction fandom. He published the fanzines Star Pride, Parade, Juggernaut, Steam (with Pam Bulmer) and others and was president of British fandom's first amateur press association. In 1955 he was the first person selected by the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund to travel to North America.
In 1974 Bulmer was made a Life Member of the British Science Fiction Association.
Warcraft Hits 5 Million Mark
lizzard Entertainment announced that World of Warcraft, its hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game, has surpassed 5 million customers worldwide. The subscription-based MMORPG launched about a year ago in North America, Australia and New Zealand and has since been released in Europe and Asia. The game was launched in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong on Nov. 8.
Blizzard's announcement coincided with word of its next Warcraft expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, set for release in 2006. The expansion will add new lands, quests, monsters, magic items, spells and abilities, two new player races, a new player profession, 10 new levels of power for players to achieve and more.
Fishburne To Helm Alchemist?
aurence Fishburne (The Matrix) will adapt, direct and star in an adaptation of Paulo Coelho's supernatural novel The Alchemist, Production Weekly reported. Shooting takes place in Dubai and Jordan starting next year, according to a report on the Dark Horizons Web site.
Fishburne will play the part of Santiago, a well-educated man who had intended to be a priest. A desire for travel prompts him to become a shepherd instead. When he dreams twice about hidden treasure, a seer tells him to go to Egypt's pyramids, where he will find a treasure.
Roswell 'Saucer' Man Dies
rmy Lt. Walter Haut, who issued a news release in 1947 that said a flying saucer landed in Roswell, N.M., died there on Dec. 15, his daughter, Julie Shuster, told the Associated Press. He was 83.
Haut's release and the news coverage it generated were the beginning of the mythology surrounding the tiny New Mexico town and its supposed link to the UFO phenomenon, which persists to this day.
Haut, a former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air Field, took dictation on July 8, 1947, as base commander Col. William Blanchard dictated a news release about a recovered flying saucer and ordered Haut to issue it.
The Roswell Daily Record newspaper ran a bold headline on July 9, 1947: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region."
The same day, a statement was released saying it was only a weather balloon.
Subsequently, Haut and two other men founded the International UFO Museum in Roswell.
Books Revive Wolf Man, Dracula
H Press announced that it will issue a new series of novels based on Universal Pictures' classic movie monsters, with stories featuring such iconic creatures as the Wolf Man and Dracula.
The first wave of books coming in 2006 will feature Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In January 2006, DH will release Dracula: Asylum and Wolf Man: Hunter's Moon, each retailing for $6.99.
Dracula: Asylum, by Paul Witcover (Waking Beauty), is set in Dr. Seward's sanitarium and takes place in the days directly following the end of World War I.
Wolf Man: Hunter's Moon, by Michael Jan Friedman, centers on lycanthrope Lawrence Talbot, who is chased by a heretical cult dedicated to destroying all marked by the sign of the wolf.
DH Press is an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. Universal Pictures is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
Phony Publisher Pleads Guilty
iterary agent/publisher Martha Ivery (aka Kelly O'Donnell) pleaded guilty on Dec. 5 to federal fraud charges in connection with a scheme in which she ran a vanity publishing company called Press-TIGE Publishing, which rarely published the books it had been paid to publish and instead offered authors only a litany of excuses.
Ivery admitted guilt to 15 counts of mail fraud, for which she faces up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Ivery also pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in connection with an access device and one count of bankruptcy fraud; for these crimes she faces an additional 10 years and five years, respectively. Ivery may also be ordered to pay restitution to her defrauded victims and could be assessed a $250,000 fine. Ivery is scheduled to be sentenced on April 28, 2006, in federal court in Albany, N.Y.
Ivery admitted that from May 1995 through September 2002, she ran the fraudulent publishing company. She also admitted that she used the pseudonym "Kelly O'Donnell" to pose as a literary agent to steer clients to Press-TIGE Publishing, charging her clients both agenting and publishing fees without revealing the fact that both businesses were owned by the same person.
Ivery's fraud came to light in part through the efforts of Writer Beware, a committee of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which looks into writer scams. It began investigating Ivery in 1998 and documented author losses in excess of $50,000. The committee then submitted its case to the FBI for further investigation. The FBI executed a search warrant and seized Ivery's computers, records and other business-related assets, an FBI spokesperson said. At this point, hundreds more victims were uncovered.
A.C. Crispin, an SF author and chairperson of Writer Beware, told SCI FI Wire that protecting writers from agents and publishers such as Ivery is the reason Writer Beware was founded. Crispin said that she first discovered Ivery online, claiming to be a high-powered agent. Crispin did some research and suspected that the claims were false. Crispin spread the word that Ivery was not who she purported to be. A few months later, Crispin and fantasy author Victoria Strauss (The Burning Land) created Writer Beware. "We know how the publishing industry ought to function, so it's easy for us to spot scammers, when aspiring writers don't have the experience or the knowledge base to do so," Crispin said.
Ivery's attorney did not return repeated calls from SCI FI Wire, and Ivery could not be found to comment on this story.
Theron Says No To 007
scar winner Charlize Theron (Aeon Flux) has turned down the female role in the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, opposite new 007 Daniel Craig (Munich), the British tabloid Sun newspaper reported.
Theron is only the latest big-name actress to decline the role of Bond girl Vesper Lynd, following Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson, the paper reported.
Producers have just a month to find an actress to star in the movie, based on Ian Fleming's classic Bond novel, before filming is set to commence.
White Noise 2 Gears Up
hite Noise 2: The Light, a sequel to the 2004 supernatural thriller, will begin shooting in Vancouver, Canada, in early 2006 under director Patrick Lussier, the Hollywood North Report Web site said.
White Noise 2: The Light centers on a man who is brought back to life after his family is murdered. After his own personal near-death experience, he undergoes a transformation that allows him to see people who are on the verge of death.
Matt Venne wrote the script for the sequel, which will again be produced by Brightlight Pictures and Gold Circle Films. No cast has been announced.
Rogue Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights, with Mandate Pictures handling foreign distribution. (Rogue is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
The original White Noise starred Michael Keaton and had a worldwide theatrical box-office gross of more than $100 million, the site reported.
Conan Still Lives?
arner Brothers production president Jeff Robinov told the Hollywood North Report Web site that a third Conan the Barbarian live-action movie is in the works and that the studio "is committed to producing the film within the next year."
Warner intends to produce Conan with a big budget, the site reported.
Robinov is reportedly going back to the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories for inspiration. "I love the character," he said. "You have to get to the core of who the Conan character was."
A different sequel, King Conan: Crown of Iron, was in development for years under original Conan the Barbarian writer and director John Milius, but never came together.
Context Finds Its Way Stateside
ritish SF author John Meaney, whose 2002 novel Context has just been released in the United States, told SCI FI Wire that the genre lends itself to showing ancient, medieval and modern concepts of aristocracy in the distant future. "I fear that aristocracy is a recurrent pattern in societies, only to be swept away when its rigidity fails to dam the tides of progress," Meaney said in an interview. "Yet revolutions—which are the dramatic times for a storyteller to focus on—occur just after a tyrannical system has loosened up a little. When oppressed people get a glimpse of freedom, they want it more."
Context, the middle book in Meaney's Nulapeiron Sequence, is full of lords, ladies and oracles, as well as common folk rising up against their rulers. Meaney recalled a trip to the then-Soviet Union 20 years ago, in which he was welcomed in the shops that sold luxuries, while the average citizen was fortunate if he or she could find bread, eggs or other staples in government-owned stores after standing in long lines.
Meaney said that he realizes there is something crazy when a story includes seers alongside discussions of quantum indeterminacy and chaos theory. "Yet I found a way to make it hang together, which is why Context is hard SF," he said. "Realizing I could do this was one of the driving factors behind the Nulapeiron Sequence. What fun! And I get to explore the nature of time, which is still a mystery at the heart of physics."
It was Lou Anders at Pyr who brought Meaney's trilogy to the United States. "I read it shortly after it came out, and was blown away," Anders said. "I felt I had found the first worthy successor to Frank Herbert's Dune: a new science fiction space opera of colossal imagination, and I was stunned to learn that no U.S. publisher had plans to release it over here. For at least two years, I exhorted U.S. editors that I knew on the convention circuit to publish John Meaney, this before Pyr was even a notion. Then, when Prometheus Books hired me to build for them and run an SF&F imprint, Meaney was the very first author I called. I can honestly say I feel that his Nulapeiron Sequence is one of the most important works in the last decade, since I held that opinion before I ever dreamed I would be his U.S. editor or had any means to publish him here."
The final book in the sequence, Resolution, will be released in the United States in March. It was first published Jan. 3.
Unreal 2007 Heads For PS3
ame publisher Midway and developer Epic announced that Unreal Tournament 2007, the latest installment in the first-person-shooter franchise, will be developed for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 console system, the GameSpot Web site reported.
Unreal Tournament 2007 will be developed with the Unreal Engine 3 and is a sequel to the popular PC shooter Unreal Tournament 2004.
According to a story in the January 2006 issue of PlayStation Magazine, Unreal Tournament 2007 will be a launch title for the PlayStation 3, which is tentatively slated for a spring 2006 debut.
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The San Diego Film Critics have given their top prize for best picture of the year to Peter Jackson's King Kong, Zap2It reported.
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British distributor Momentum has picked up U.K. and Spanish rights to the upcoming Beatrix Potter biographical movie Miss Potter, starring Renee Zellweger as the Victorian writer of children's books, Variety reported.
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Fox Home Entertainment will release the complete first season of the cult science fiction television show Alien Nation on DVD Jan. 3, 2006, with all 21 episodes of the 1989 series, plus the two-part TV movie that launched it.
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Sony unveiled the first glimpses of the title character in its upcoming Ghost Rider movie, at noon PT Dec. 20 on the updated teaser Web site; the movie opens in March.
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Gold Circle Films has tapped Eric Poppen (Borderland) to write a pair of supernatural thrillers, The Puritan and The Healer, Variety reported.
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