Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Poster for Ridley Scott's Prometheus Released, Find Out Which Theaters Will Show the Dark Knight Prologue, and More

News and Updates December 15th:

Ridley Scott's Prometheus, which may or may not have ties to the Alien franchise of films, hits theaters on March 9, 2012. Here is the poster for the film (click to see larger). Stay tuned to the Sci Fi Scroll site for our 2012 science fiction and fantasy movie preview.

EW.com: The Dark Knight Rises IMAX prologue: Here's where you can see it - Only 42 IMAX theaters in North America will be playing Christopher Nolan’s eye-popping introduction of Tom Hardy’s masked villain Bane.

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Hollywood Reporter: Thor 2 Star Natalie Portman Furious Over Director Patty Jenkins' Firing

Sci Fi Mafia: IDW and ComiXology Expand Digital Partnership

Deadline Hollywood: Arthur & Lancelot In Warner Bros Budget Crisis: Projected $130M Cost Too High

Blastr.com: Incredibles director blames lack of a sequel on The Avengers

Hollywood Reporter: American Horror Story: 5 Things Learned From 'Birth'

Blaster.com: Moffat says those 2-part episodes have been hurting Doctor Who

Reviews:

Vulture: Movie Review: The Maximum Clutter of Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

Hollywood Reporter: Mission Impossible delivers wall-to-wall action in a spectacular, if repetitive, fourth series entry.

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Carnage USA #1

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Avengers: X-Sanction #1

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: 8-Minute Dark Knight Rises Preview to Hit IMAX, Ben Kingsly May Join Ender's Game, and More

News and Updates December 9th:

Hollywood Reporter: Christopher Nolan Debuts 8-Minute Dark Knight Rises Preview - Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan showed off about eight minutes of footage from The Dark Knight Rises on Thursday night, a preview that will be seen later this month in select IMAX theatres before Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol. Also See What the Media Is Saying

Hollywood Reporter: Ben Kingsly in Talks to Join the Cast of Ender's Game - Ben Kingsley is in talks to join the cast of Ender’s Game, Odd Lot’s sci-fi film adaptation of the novel by Orson Scott Card.

Hollywood Reporter: Former James Cameron Employee Sues Claiming Avatar Was His Idea - Filmmaker James Cameron and his Lightstorm Entertainment were sued Thursday by a former employee who claims he spent two years developing a movie that became the basis for Avatar.

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Deadline Hollywood: Are These The Most Anticipated 2012 Films?

TrekNews.net: Edgar Ramirez & Jordi Molla Possibilities for Star Trek Sequel Villain

TrekWeb.com: John Billingsley Blames Enterprise Cancellation on Studio Greed

Deadline Hollywood: Dan Gilroy Signs On To Pen Stan Lee’s Chinese Superhero Pic The Annihilator

Blastr.com: Mark Strong wants Green Lantern 2 to chronicle Sinestro's fall

Hollywood Reporter: Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram in Talks to Make Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Sci Fi Mafia: Comedy Central is Developing Robots

Hollywood Reporter: Hot Sci-Fi Movie Project Rosa Lands at Fox

io9.com: H.P. Lovecraft’s leading scholar prepares his ultimate look at the master’s weird life

Hollywood Reporter: Redbox to Team With Verizon on Internet-Streaming Business

Geeks of Doom: Evil Dead Remake Gets An Official Release Date; Plot Details Surface

Hollywood Reporter: Grimm EPs Reveal 4 Things That Make a Fairy Tale Ripe for Adaptation

Reviews:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: The Dollhouse Epitaphs Comic is the Way That Joss Whedon Should Have Gone With This Story from the Start

Hollywood Reporter: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Cybermage: Book review: K55 Lögnernas Valv [English:K55 Vault of Lies] by Erika Oscarius

Sci FI News Daily Digest: Russell T. Davies Puts Career (and Torchwood) on Hold, NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Mars, and More

News and Updates December 9th:

ScienceFiction.com: Doctor Who’s Russell T. Davies Puts Career On Hold, Is This The End Of Torchwood? Sometimes things happen that make you take stock of what’s important in your life, and recently Russell T. Davies was faced with that predicament.

NASA.gov: NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.

Deadline Hollywood: Alan Moore & David Lloyd Part Of Occupy Comics Push - Alan Moore has joined the roster of Occupy Comics, a group of comic book and graphic novel artists and writers joining to support the Occupy protests nationwide.

See the Latest Deals on Science Fiction and Fantasy DVDs and Blu-rays from Amazon.com.

Hollywood Reporter: American Horror Story: Did You See Violet's Reveal Coming?

EW.com: Full season of Once Upon A Time to be made available for stream

Sci Fi Mafia: R.I.P. Jerry Robinson, creator of The Joker, Robin and Alfred

io9.com: How the new Detective Comics will depict Batman’s rookie days

Cybermage: Forthcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Books December 2011-2014

Reviews:

Hollywood Reporter: It may not be The Incredibles, but there is some fairly incredible stuff to be found in Mission: Impossible —Ghost Protocol

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Voltron #1

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: The Defenders #1

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Flash Gordon Zeitgeist #1

ScienceFiction.com: The Vampire Diaries Mid-Season Review

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?

See the Latest Deals on Science Fiction and Fantasy DVDs and Blu-rays from Amazon.com.

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: Star Trek 2 Gets Release Date, Abrams Says the Sequel Will 'Start Over', More

News and Updates November 26th:

Hollywood Reporter: Paramount's Star Trek Sequel to Open May 17, 2013 - The release date slots the sci-fi franchise into a very busy tentpole-filled May 2013, coming right after Marvel/Disney's Iron Man 3 and Warner Bros.' Guillermo del Toro-directed Pacific Rim.

TrekMovie.com: JJ Abrams: Star Trek Sequel Will 'Start Over’ - A new comment from producer/director JJ Abrams indicates that the sequel will stand on its own.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

EW.com: American Horror Story: Rubber Man revealed! We talk to [SPOILER] about the major plot twist!

Hollywood Reporter: Why Harry Potter Might End Its Long Streak of Oscar Snubs

EW.com: Walking Dead producer responds to abortion outcry

Hollywood Reporter: James Bond Skyfall's Gadget Maestro Q to Be Played By Ben Whishaw

ScienceFiction.com: Epileptic Seizures Reported During Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Reviews and Other Points of Interest from the Web:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Sci Fi Trifles: Doctor Who Transforms to Save a Show

io9.com: Movie Review: Our future robot overlords will be obsessed with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Pilot Season: Seraph #1

io9.com: Movie Review: The New Muppet Movie is The Real Thing

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

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Ender's Game Movie Gets Its Lead Actor, FX Retools Powers Pilot, SFWA Guide to Small Presses, and More

Deadline Hollywood: Hugo Star Asa Butterfield Chosen For Title Role In Ender’s Game - Asa Butterfield, the 14-year old title star of Martin Scorsese’s 3D film Hugo, has been offered the title role in Ender’s Game

Hollywood Reporter: Paranormal Activity and Paranormal State Producers Option Supernatural Mag - Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions and Picture Shack Entertainment's George Plamondon and Betsy Schechter plan to mine Fate magazine for spooky stories.

Deadline Hollywood: FX Retools its Superhero Pilot Power - Powers, based on the comic book of the same name, will undergo retooling and reshoots.

SFWA: Writers Guidelines for Evaluating Small Presses and What to be Wary Of - SFWA offers an overview of issues to consider if you're thinking of submitting to a small press.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Movie Talk: Joss Whedon Discusses His Upcoming Avengers Movie

BookSumo.com: New Science Fiction Book Releases for December 2011

Blastr.com: New Marvel TV series Hulk and AKA Jessica Jones to take place in Avengers universe

Geeks of Doom: Marvel Cancels X-23 and Ghost Rider, Black Panther and PunisherMax To End

Hollywood Reporter: Chuck Star Yvonne Strahovski to Play Scientist in I, Frankenstein

io9.com: Robin Williams explains the totally random origin of Mork and Mindy

Deadline Hollywood: David Fincher’s Se7en Scribe Andrew Kevin Walker Joins 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Geeks of Doom: Frank Miller Rages Against The Occupy Wall Street Movement

Reviews:

Hollywood Reporter: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1 Delivers An eventful but bloodless first half of the smash series' finale

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: The New Fairy Tale Based TV Shows Once Upon A Time and Grimm are a Mixed Bag

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Are Bryan Singer and Leonardo DiCaprio Rebooting The Six Million Dollar Man? Plus, the Search for Lost Doctor Who Episodes Continues, and More

News and Updates November 16th:

BleedingCool.com: Does Bryan Singer Have The Technology To Make DiCaprio His Six Billion Dollar Man? Bryan Singer is in the frame to direct the film for the Weinsteins and Universal, and he’s had meetings with Leonardo DiCaprio to take the lead role.

Deadline Hollywood: It’s Official: NBC Picks Up Bryan Fuller’s Reboot Of The Munsters To Pilot - Less than 2 weeks after receiving Bryan Fuller’s script for The Munsters, NBC has given a pilot order to the Pushing Daisies creator’s reboot of the 1960s comedy.

Wired: The Search for Lost Doctor Who Episodes Continues - Some calamities are so great that even a Time Lord can’t resolve them. Like the way the BBC thoughtlessly erased more than 200 episodes of Doctor Who to make room in the British broadcaster’s archives.

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TrekNews.com: Star Trek Sequel Begins Shooting on January 15th

Deadline Hollywood: NBC’s Grimm Gets Order For 2 Scripts

Geeks of Doom: Ron Perlman Confirmed For Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim

Hollywood Reporter: Woody Woodpecker Movie in Development at Universal, Illumination

Blastr.com: Director reveals details on the Black Widow film that didn't happen

Deadline Hollywood: Lionsgate Courts Slumdog Millionaire Writer Simon Beaufoy To Script The Hunger Games Sequel

Sci Fi Mafia: Warner Bros. Hires Robot Chicken Director to Helm Lego: The Movie

Hollywood Reporter: American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare Answers Burning Questions About Larry

Blog Posts and Commentaries:

Blue Yonder: Are Fairy Tales the New Vampires?

Geeks of Doom: How An Odd KISS Album Influenced The Matrix

Reviews:

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Captain Victory #1

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Geeks of Doom: Book Review: Grant Morrison’s Supergods

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: AMC Buys New Sci Fi Project from David Eick, George Miller Talks Mad Max 4, and More

News and Updates November 14th:

Deadline Hollywood: AMC Buys Sci-Fi, UFO-Oriented Drama From Paul Boardman, Scott Derrickson & David Eick - After hitting gold with horror series The Walking Dead, AMC is looking to expand its genre portfolio with a sci-fi drama.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Grimm is Fading, Fringe Hits a Series Low - NBC’s dark fairy tale series Grimm started out a few weeks ago with surprisingly strong ratings for a Friday night, but its numbers have dropped notably for a third week in a row meaning that its prospects now seem pretty . . . well, you know.

IndieWire.com: George Miller Says New Mad Max 4 Movie Essentially Same Story As Aborted Max Film In 2003 - For the better part of the past two decades, George Miller has made films that veered sharply away from his earliest triumphs, opting for decidedly more family-friendly fare like “Babe: Pig in the City” and “Happy Feet” than the unforgiving adventures of the “Mad Max” series.

io9.com: Will there be more Stargate? Dr. Rodney McKay answers! Is Stargate gone forever? We asked beloved Stargate actor David Hewlett, aka Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay, what the chances are for more Stargate.

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TrekNews.com: Carrie Fisher Responds to William Shatner’s Star Wars vs. Star Trek Video

ScienceFiction.com: BBC Announces Official Doctor Who Convention

Blastr.com: Russell Tovey leaves BBC Being Human!

Sci Fi Mafia: MAN OF STEEL: Supernatural’s Julian Richings Joins the Cast

EW.com: The Walking Dead Writer Robert Kirkman talks about the latest episode, 'Chupacabra'

Sci Fi Mafia: The Evil Dead: Bruce Campbell Explains Why There Is No Ash Character In the Remake


Blog Posts and Other Interesting Tidbits from Around the Web:

io9.com: What are the absolutely essential episodes of Farscape?

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Sci Fi Trifles: The Outer Limits Was Almost Called Please Stand By and More Sci Fi TV Tidbits

Reviews:

Hollywood Reporter: Movie Review: The horror pic 11-11-11 offers nothing intriguing

Geeks of Doom: Movie Review: Melancholia

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Axe Cop Bad Guy Earth

Sci Fi News Daily Digest, Ghosts, Trans-Humans and KGB Agents on SyFy Development Slate, Stan Lee To Receive Producers Guild of America Vanguard Award, and More

News and Updates November 9th:

Hollywood Reporter: Ghosts, Trans-Humans and KGB Agents on SyFy Development Slate - Coming off its most-watched third quarter ever, the NBCUniversal cable net delves into drama.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch Update: Terra Nova Rebounds, Once Upon A Time Stays Strong - This past Monday, FOX’s Terra Nova regained its audience after taking a significant slide in the ratings on Halloween night.

Deadline Hollywood: Stan Lee To Receive Producers Guild of America Vanguard Award - The Producers Guild of America will bestow its 2012 Vanguard Award on comic book icon Stan Lee when the group holds its 23rd annual PGA Awards ceremony January 21 at the Beverly Hilton.

Hollywood Reporter: Julie Taymor Sues Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway Production for Infringing Her Creative Input - The most expensive production in Broadway history gets hit with a big lawsuit from the famed director, who left the production in March. See Also: Producers Fire Back

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Hollywood Reporter: Man of Steel Star Henry Cavill Talks About Superman's Updated Costume

ScienceFiction.com: Henry Cavill Was Almost Edward Cullen?

Hollywood Reporter: Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse to Shoot in Montreal

Sci Fi Mafia: 7500: CBS Films Announces Premiere Date for Supernatural Thriller From Lost Writer

Deadline Hollywood: MGM Ordering Up Monster-Hunting Flick Killer Pizza

Blastr.com: Star Trek: Voyager star Garrett Wang reveals: 'I cannot stand William Shatner'

Hollywood Reporter: Lost Star Emilie De Ravin Visits Once Upon a Time in Guest Role

Deadline Hollywood: Jake Abel Is Frontrunner For Male Lead In Twilight Author Stephenie Meyer’s Sci Fi Film The Host

Reviews:

Cybermage: The Iron Jackal (Tale of the Ketty Jay 3) by Chris Wooding [Book Review]

Geeks of Doom: Blu-ray Review: Jurassic Park Trilogy

New on DVD:

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: New Blade Runner Film Will Be Sequel, But w/o Original Cast, John Barrowman Wants to do Doctor Who Movie, But w/o Matt Smith, and More

News and Updates November 7th:

ScienceFiction.com: Ridley Scott Reveals New Details For Blade Runner Movie - It looks like this project is moving farther along than first thought as Scott has now given more details about the movie that may be his next project after ‘Prometheus.’

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Terra Nova Gets a Halloween Trick, Takes a Slide in the Ratings - Trick or Treat brought the former to FOX’s Terra Nova last Monday as the show saw a significant drop in its numbers slipping to a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and just over six and a half million viewers.

Blastr.com: John Barrowman wants to do a Who movie (but not with Matt Smith) and Tells Us What's Happening with Torchwood - Poor Matt Smith. Seems that Torchwood's John Barrowman—who is, as always, more than willing to reprise his character of immortal Captain Jack Harkness in anything Who-related—is ready to do a Doctor Who movie ... IF it's done with David Tennant as the Doctor.

Geeks of Doom: Benicio Del Toro Joining Star Trek 2 as the Villain? If there was ever a way to make the impending Star Trek 2 any more interesting than it already is, JJ Abrams and his crew may have just done it.

Deadline Hollywood: Is Martin Scorsese’s Quasi-Steam Punk film Hugo a Best Picture Contender? Another piece of this year’s Oscar movie puzzle was unveiled in a big way this weekend when Paramount rolled out Martin Scorsese’s 99.9%-finished version of Hugo, an ode to the early days of cinema and the eye-popping possibilities of movies.

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.

Deadline Hollywood: Fantasy Novel Tailchasers Song by Tad Williams Headed For Animated Feature

BleedingCool.com: Marvel Cancels Destroyers Series From Fred Van Lente And Kyle Hotz

Deadline Hollywood: Robert Zemeckis Sets Writers For Garden Gnome Attack Film

EW.com: The Walking Dead: Writer Robert Kirkman talks about the latest episode, 'Cherokee Rose'

Deadline Hollywood: Relativity Titles Its Snow White Film Mirror Mirror

BleedingCool.com: Nook Tablet Announced – And It Has Marvel Comics On It

Reviews:

Cybermage: Book Review: Daring (Kris Longknife 9) by Mike Shepherd

BleedingCool.com: Comic Book Reveiw: Uncannily Fascistic – Uncanny X-Men #1

Interesting Fact of the Day:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Sci Fi Trifles: Dark Shadows Wasn’t Always About Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Supernatural Beings

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: 2011 World Fantasy Award Winners, Be a Star Trek Red Shirt, Anne Rice Disses Sparkly Vampires,and More

News and Updates November 2nd:

2011 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees Among the winners from this year's awards are Nnedi Okorafor for Best Novel Who Fears Death and Peter S. Beagle for Life Achievement.

StarTrek.com: Be A Redshirt in a Star Trek Comic - Come on, admit it, you've always wanted to be a Redshirt for a day. Well, now you've got your chance.

io9.com: Anne Rice picks a fight with Stephenie Meyer: "Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle" - Vampire Fight! Seems that everyone's favorite author of the original fey vampires is throwing stones at this generation's foppish vampire gang.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: How Do this Season’s New Genre Shows Stack Up According to the Critics? - The last of this season’s genre shows, Grimm, debuted this past Friday, so we thought we would take a look at how all of these shows stack up so far according to the Metacritic website.

Blastr.com: Karen Gillan wants Doctor Who's Amy Pond to die ... permanently! In sci-fi, death is merely a temporary inconvenience, where characters reappear after some kind of resurrection/alternate-reality version/time-travel event. Not every actor cares for that.

io9.com: China moves closer to having the world’s only space station - When China was denied membership in the multinational partnership that operates the International Space Station, the country decided to build a manned space station of its own.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

io9.com: The Ultimate Survival Guide to November’s Science Fiction and Fantasy

Blastr.com: Splat! David Cronenberg squashes those Fly sequel rumors flat

Sci Fi Mafia: Win Farscape The Complete Series Blu-ray Edition from SciFi Mafia and A+E Networks Home Entertainment

ScienceFiction.com: Is The Smallville Cast Returning For Metropolis?

BleedingCool.com: Steve Ditko’s Birthday Original Art Gallery

ScienceFiction.com: Shane Black Speaks On Iron Man 3 And Possible Doc Savage Film Adaption

Hollywood Reporter: Harry Potter Creative Team to Receive ADG's Cinematic Imagery Award

Reviews:

Geeks of Doom: Blu-Ray Review: Green Lantern

Cybermage: Some Short Book Reviews

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Dark Shadows #1

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Josh Whedon's Next Movie, Werewolf Revival to Go Straight to DVD, and More

News and Updates November 1st:

Deadline Hollywood: Avengers Director Joss Whedon Launches Next Film Under Bellwether Pictures Banner - After wrapping their first film Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon and Kai Cole’s micro-studio Bellwether Pictures has set a follow-up. It’s the supernatural romance In Your Eyes.

Geeks of Doom: Universal’s Untitled Werewolf Thriller Heading Straight To DVD In 2012 - As the negativity surrounding Universal’s attempt at bringing back the story of The Wolf Man into theaters with last year’s clunker still exists, the studio has not been quiet about their next attempt to revive the franchise.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: American Horror Story Gets a Second Season and Once Upon A Time Holds Up in Its Second Week - It comes as no big surprise, but FX has announced that they will renew their new supernatural series The American Horror Story for a second season.

Deadline Hollywood: Fox And DirecTV Reach New Carriage Agreement For Cable Networks Like FX (Which Airs American Horror Story) - Following marathon negotiations, and with only a few hours to spare before the midnight deadline tonight, Fox and DirecTV have reached a new carriage agreement.

Blastr.com: Set visit reveals what Elijah Wood's Frodo is up to in The Hobbit - We've known for a while that Elijah Wood was headed back to Hobbiton to don the wig, ears and feet of Frodo Baggins once again for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. What we didn't know was exactly why

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.

Cybermage: New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books November 2011

Sci Fi Mafia: Chuck Co-Creator Bringing U.S. Remake of Superpowered U.K. Series Misfits

Deadline Hollywood: AFM: Focus Features Intl. Shops Ruairi Robinson-Directed Last Days On Mars

BleedingCool.com: Golden Age Batman And Detective Comics Collection Surfaces In Ohio

Deadline Hollywood: AFM: Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli, FilmNation Team On Fright Film

Deadline Hollywood: Paramount Hires John Glenn For Sci-Fi Thriller Abducted

Reviews:

Geeks of Doom: The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book - The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book is, as the title would indicate, the official behind-the-scenes book for The Walking Dead.

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Avengers Solo #1

New on DVD:

This Fall’s Returning Genre Shows Have Been Decent So Far

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Despite the disappointments of some of the new entries, this season’s returning shows have delivered some enjoyable genre viewing at this early point in the season. Read

Movie Review: A provocative premise and beautiful cast can't entirely conceal In Time's shortcomings

Hollywood Reporter: Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in Andrew Niccol's dystopian film, giving new currency to Benjamin Franklin's infamous quote, "Time is Money." Read

Early Review of NBC's Grimm From The Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood Reporter: NBC tackles the darker side of fairy-tale fare with violence, special effects and an easy-to-follow concept. Read

The New Fall Genre Shows Are Not Impressing Too Much

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Last week, I took a look at FOX’s Terra Nova and asked if it just might be the worst science fiction show in recent years. And unfortunately, the other new shows from the current season have not done much to help get out the bad taste left in my mouth by Terra Nova. Read

Audiobook Reviews: Fahrenheit 451 is Essential Science Fiction as well as an Essential Dystopian Novel

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi reviews the audiobook version of Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 which is read by the author himself.  Read

Book Review: Rogue (A Freehold novel) by Michael Z. Williamson

Cybermage: Mikael Z. Williamson has a flair for military science fiction. Rogue is a standalone sequel to The Weapon. Read

Is William Shatner's Seeking Major Tom a Bad Record? Does That Question Really Apply in this Case?

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Um . . . What can you possibly say about this? Is it a bad record? Does that question even count in this case? Read