Get Smart Full Of Cameos, Homages

Get Smart Full Of Cameos, Homages

Peter Segal, director of the upcoming Get Smart feature film, told SCI FI Wire that sharp-eyed--and eared--viewers will catch several cameos, homages to and easter eggs from the classic 1960s TV series on which the movie is based. More...

Roberts Is Knight Crime Boss

Roberts Is Knight Crime Boss

Eric Roberts, who plays a crime boss in the Batman sequel The Dark Knight, told reporters that he will offer his own take on the character, which was previously played in 1995's Batman Forever by Dennis Paladino. More...

Smart Mixes Yucks, Action

Smart Mixes Yucks, Action

Peter Segal, who directed the new film version of the classic 1960s spy spoof series Get Smart, told reporters that his goal was to mix comedy with real action. More...

Black Talks Panda's Hoffman

Black Talks Panda's Hoffman

Jack Black, who voices the title character in DreamWorks' upcoming animated martial-arts movie Kung Fu Panda, told reporters that he recorded his role with co-star Dustin Hoffman (Master Shifu), which enhanced their interplay. More...

Another Trek Vet Beams Up

Another Trek Vet Beams Up

Robert H. Justman, a producer who was one of the creative forces behind the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s as well as the 1980s-era Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 81. More...

Orbit Blasts Off In Film

Orbit Blasts Off In Film

Platinum Studios has teamed with Valhalla Motion Pictures to turn the SF comic book Final Orbit into a feature film, Variety reported. Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man) will write the script. More...

Wanted Alters Novel

Wanted Alters Novel

The upcoming Angelina Jolie film Wanted tells a story that differs from Mark Millar's graphic novel of the same name because it is based on an original concept that was subsequently changed during the writing, Mel Caylo, a spokeman for Top Cow Productions, told fans at Wizard World Philadelphia over the weekend. More...

Shazam Based On Original Comic

Shazam Based On Original Comic

Director Peter Segal, who is developing Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, told SCI FI Wire that writer John August is back working on the script in the wake of the writers' strike and that the film will go back to the original DC comics for its version of Captain Marvel's origin story. More...

Glover, Others Eye 2012

Glover, Others Eye 2012

Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt are in discussions to join 2012, Columbia's epic disaster project, which Roland Emmerich is directing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More...

Universal Fire Damages Future Set

Universal Fire Damages Future Set

A fire at Universal Studios in Los Angeles has destroyed a set from Back to the Future, the King Kong exhibit and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels, the Associated Press reported. More...