Sci Fi News Daily Digest: ABC's The River Gets Premiere Date, Michael Fassbender Talks Prometheus Role, and More

News and Updates November 21st:


Hollywood Reporter: ABC's The River Gets Its Mid-Season Premiere Date - from the creators of Paranormal Activity, will launch on Tuesday at 9 p.m. starting Feb. 7.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Grimm Stays Steady, Person of Interest Fading - It looks like NBC’s Grimm has leveled off after two straight weeks of declining ratings. That show pulled a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic this past Friday with 5.4 million total viewers.

Blastr.com: Michael Fassbender's Prometheus role: Less Alien, more Blade Runner - While promoting his latest film, Shame, Fassbender spoke with MTV about how he prepared for the highly anticipated Prometheus.

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Hollywood Reporter: Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Nabs Role of King Arthur in Arthur & Lancelot

Deadline Hollywood: Dwayne Johnson To Star In Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide

EW.com: The Walking Dead: Writer Robert Kirkman talks about tonight's episode and teases next week's 'shocking' finale

Deadline Hollywood: SyFy Developing Paranormal Procedural Comedy Spoof Ghost Ghirls Produced By Jack Black

Sci Fi Mafia: Akira: Ezra Miller Has Passed On the Role of Tetsuo; More Actors Line Up

Deadline Hollywood: HBO's True Blood Gets Two New Recurring Characters

Wired: The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)

Deadline Hollywood: American Horror Story Two-Hour Finale Will Be Trimmed To 90 Minutes

Deadline Hollywood: Steven Soderbergh Drops Out of Man From UNCLE Movie

Commentaries, Reviews, and Other Interesting Bits from the Web:

TrekNews.com: Could Today’s Television Climate Support a New Star Trek Series?

ScienceFiction.com: Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Sci Fi Tifles: American Television Considered Anime Strictly for Kids Early On

Warner Bros. Moving Ahead With Live Action Akira Movie

ScienceFiction.com: When we last got any word on the live-action remake of the classic anime Akira, the budget had been lowered to $90-million, yet another director had walked away from the project, and it had been handed over to Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra. Read

The CW has Posted Two Episodes of the Supernatural Anime Online for Free Viewing.

You can watch the episodes online at this link.  And the DVD with the full first season of the Anime is available at Amazon.com.

Relativity to Turn Anime Classic Voltron Into Live-Action Movie

Hollywood Reporter: Relativity Media has option the feature film rights to Voltron from World Event Prods. and is planning a live-action, big-screen version of the 1984 animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Read

Warner Bros. taps 'Unknown' director for Akira

Variety: Warner Bros. is moving ahead with its remake of "Akira" in a fiscally sensible way, tapping reliable Spanish helmer Jaume Collet-Serra ("Orphan," "Unknown") to direct Read