Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Two Characters Will be Leaving Doctor Who, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones Among Golden Globe Nominees, and More

News and Updates December 16th:

ScienceFiction.com: Steven Moffat Confirms Karen Gillian And Arthur Darvill Are Leaving Doctor Who - Executive producer Steven Moffat made it official: Amy and Rory Pond will be exiting the series next season and the Doctor will have a new companion.

Geeks of Doom: American Horror Story and Game of Thrones Among Golden Globes Best TV Series Nominees, Hugo Gets Best Motion Picture Nod - Nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards have been officially announced.

Deadline Hollywood: R.I.P. Joe Simon - Captain America co-creator Joe Simon has died. The legendary Simon, who collaborated with Jack Kirby on other characters as well, died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. He was 98.

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Deadline Hollywood: B-Movie King Roger Corman At Age 85 Busy As Ever On Eve Of Documentary About Him

EW.com: The Avengers movie to get four-issue comic book prelude

Hollywood Reporter: Box Office in Free Fall: Why December Numbers Are Tanking and How 2012 Could Improve

Sci Fi Mafia: January Premiere Set for G4′s New Anime Series BLADE

ScienceFiction.com: The Amazing Spider-Man Website Opens With New Hi-Res Photos, Character Descriptions And Official Sypnosis

Blastr.com: Could Michael Chabon's Kavalier & Clay become an HBO series?

BleedingCool.com: Dynamite To Publish The Bionic Woman Comic In March

Observations and Commentaries from Around the Web:

Geeks of Doom: Could Netflix Be The Savior Firefly Fans Have Been Waiting For?

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Netflix Developing Its First Genre Series, but a Firefly Revival Seems Like a Stretch

io9.com: Why Person of Interest is a Superhero Show Done Right

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Sci FI News Daily Digest: Syfy's X-Mas Episodes Air Tonight (See the Animated Eureka Sneak Peek), Del Tor Drops Out of Star Trek 2, but Kahn Will be the Villain, and More

The Christmas episodes of three of Syfy's Summer shows air tonight. The Holiday mini-marathon kicks off at 8 PM EST with Eureka, followed by Warehouse 13 at 9 PM and Haven at 10 PM. Here's a hilarious sneak peek at the Eureka inspired by well-known animated Christmas specials:



News and Updates for December 6th:

Blastr.com: Khan is IN (but Benicio Del Toro is OUT) as Star Trek 2's villain - Bad news is: Benicio Del Toro (The Wolfman) is out of the running as Star Trek's next villain. Good news is: Khan Noonien Singh will be the Big Baddie.

Vulture: A Starship Troopers Remake Is in the Works - Break out the bug spray! Sony Pictures Über-producer Neal Moritz has decided that the time has come to reboot Paul Verhoeven's 1997 fascist classic Starship Troopers.

Cancellation Watch from Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Tracking the weekly ratings and the cancellation prospects of the science fiction and fantasy shows currently airing on broadcast and cable networks.

BleedingCool.com: Andrew Stanton Has Already Started Prepping For John Carter 2 And 3

Deadline Hollywood: Sienna Miller Is Tippi Hedren, Toby Jones Is Hitchcock In BBC2 Drama About The Birds

Hollywood Reporter: Glee's Christmas Episode Guest Star: Chewbacca

io9.com: Nichelle Nichols reveals that the original Spock was a woman

Deadline Hollywood: Star Wars Camera Fetches Record $625K At Auction

AOL TV: Castiel Will Return to Supernatural

Hollywood Reporter: Larry King Shocks Guests With Cryogenics Revelation: 'I Wanna Be Frozen When I Die'

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Premiere Dates for Alcatraz and Touch, Any Doctor Who Movie Would Not Be a Reboot, and More

News and Updates December 2nd:

Hollywood Reporter: FOX Gives Premiere Dates for Alcatraz and Touch - Touch will have a preview on January 25th at 9 PM EST then continue in its scheduled Monday 9 PM timeslot beginning March 10th. Alcatraz will have a two-hour premiere January 16th at 8 PM EST then take up its scheduled Monday 9 PM timeslot the following week

BleedingCool.com: Any Doctor Who Movie Would Star The TV Doctor And Not Be A Reboot - Steven Moffat just tweeted: To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.

The Guardian: Can science fiction lead us away from economic collapse? - Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?

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Hollywood Reporter: 10 Hot Visual Effects Teams Reveal How They Made Movie Magic on Harry Potter, Captain America, Transformers

Deadline Hollywood: 70mm Imax Theaters Set For Dec. 16 Bow Of 6-Minute Prologue Of Dark Knight Rises

ScienceFiction.com: Paramount In Talks To Acquire Daughter Of Smoke And Bones

Blastr.com: Tom Cruise + Groundhog Day + aliens = All You Need Is Kill

Hollywood Reporter: Hailee Steinfeld Joins Cast of Summit's Ender's Game

Deadline Hollywood: Comic Book Author Sues Over Cowboys & Aliens Movie

Sci Fi Mafia: Interview with the Cast and Creator of Syfy’s Neverland

Hollywood Reporter: Teen Wolf Adds Michael Hogan and Two More to Cast for Season 2

Reviews:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Looking Back, This Season Has Delivered a Mostly Mixed Bag of Genre Shows Thus Far

TrekNews.net: Trek Nation: A Star Trek Documentary Like No Other

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Avengers Origins: Thor #1

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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

Ender's Game eyes 2013 release date

EW.com: Summit Entertainment has slated the big-screen adaptation of sci-fi classic Ender’s Game for release on March 15, 2013. Read

FOX Sets Finale Date for Terra Nova

FOX's Steven Spielberg produced time travel/dinosaur epic will conclude its first season right before Christmas on Monday December 19th.  And that finale will be in the form of a two-hour episode.  The first season of Terra Nova was capped by FOX at thirteen episodes (ruling out an option of a back nine eps) because of the cost of the production.  Whether the show will return for a second season next year depends on its ratings performance between now and then.  It has thus far delivered decent, but not spectacular numbers, and probably underwhelming for FOX considering the cost of the show.  You can keep track of the show's cancellation prospects with the Axiom's Edge Cancellation Watch column.

Syfy Announces Premiere Dates for Being Human Season 2, Lost Girl and Christmas Episodes

Sci Fi Mafia: Syfy held its Digital Press Tour yesterday, and made some great premiere announcements. Read

NBC Pushes Chuck and Grimm Premieres Back for Halloween

Hollywood Reporter: The two series will debut during NBC's two nights of programming for the holiday on Oct. 27-28. Read

CONFIRMED: Doctor Who season 7 pushed back to autumn 2012

Blastr.com: The trouble with Time Lords is they're always jumping around the calendar, but we probably can't blame the Doctor for this. We've seen it coming for a while, and now it's confirmed: Doctor Who season seven won't premiere until autumn 2012. Read

No New Genre Films in the Theaters this Weekend, But Check Out What's Coming on the Schedule

This weekend has no new science fiction and fantasy related films hitting theaters, but there's still plenty of genre action on the schedule in the coming months including the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, the robot smash-em-up Real Steel with Hugh Jackman, as well as the hilarious Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (see the trailer for that below) which comes our later this month. Check out the full slate of Fall/Winter 2011 movies at our Sci Fi Movie page.

Here's the Finale Dates for Syfy's Summer Shows

The finales for Syfy's Summer shows are as follows:

Eureka: September 19, 8 PM EST
Warehouse 13: October 3, 9 PM EST (Two Hour Finale)
Alphas: September 26, 10 PM
Haven: September 30, 10 PM

And to prepare for this, Syfy will run marathons for Warehouse 13, Alphas, and Haven on the days of their finales. Followings are the times for the marathons:

Warehouse 13: 11 AM - 9 PM
Alphas: 11:30 AM - 10 PM
Haven: 8 AM - 6 PM

Paramount Sets World War Z For December 21, 2012 Release

Deadline Hollywood: Paramount Pictures has set Dec. 21, 2012 as the release date for World War Z, the Marc Forster-directed adaptation of the Max Brooks zombie-infestation novel. Read