Headlines for March, 2008
Is it 2009 yet? While the next feature film is 408 days away, Trek fans can get ready to start checking off those days with the new 2009 Star Trek Wall Calendars which are now available for pre-order. Just like 2008, there will be a Kirk era calendar and another in the popular CGI art [...]
There are some new shots available at Aint it Cool from yesterday’s Star Trek location shooting Lebec, CA. They have pictures of a shuttle and a uniform …
It has already been reported that members of the new Star Trek crew have had a chance to meet their predecessors (Quinto and Nimoy, Saldana and Nichols, Yelchin and Koenig, plus Pegg has met James Doohan’s son, Chris). Now, finally, William Shatner reveals on a new ShatnerVision video that he has met the new Kirk, [...]
Today is Leonard Nimoy’s 77th birthday. Words cannot express the admiration and respect that we have for the the man and the artist. So instead we offer only this tribute…in black and white
Simon Pegg attended the premiere of his new movie, Run, Fat Boy, Run, in Los Angeles last night and the actor continued to discuss his role as the new Scotty with a variety of news outlets. He describes the difficulty he had in accepting of the role of Scotty, Trek fandom, fan reaction to his [...]

Amanda Tapping, star and executive producer of SCI FI Channel's upcoming new series Sanctuary, told SCI FI Wire that the show will differ significantly from the Web series on which it is based.

Colin Ferguson, who stars as Sheriff Jack Carter on the SCI FI Channel original series Eureka, told SCI FI Wire that fans are in for some major surprises when the show returns for its third season.

Mary McDonnell, who plays President Laura Roslin on the SCI FI Channel series Battlestar Galactica, offered SCI FI Wire a spoiler for the upcoming fourth and final season: that her character will have to deal with a recurrence of the cancer she thought was cured.

Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf the wizard in the three Lord of the Rings movies, posted on his personal blog that he is interested in reprising the role in the Peter Jackson-produced Hobbit movies now in development.

Jodie Foster, the Oscar winner who stars in the upcoming fantasy film Nim's Island, told reporters that she had to fight for the role in her first family movie since the original Freaky Friday in 1976.

Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) will go bad once and for when The CW's Smallville returns with new episodes later this month, executive producer Brian Peterson and co-executive producer Kelly Souders told SCI FI Wire.
David Eick is a busy man. The executive producer of "Battlestar Galactica" and the recently cancelled "Bionic Woman" is writing a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on the P.D. James novels and subsequent movie "Children of Men."
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