MESA, Ariz. - July 22, 2008 - FireSky, the new video game publisher that is publishing the online game Stargate Worlds, is teaming up with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) to bring fans at Comic-Con (July 24-27, San Diego) the ultimate Stargate experience.

Stargate Worlds is the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) based on MGM's award-winning Stargate franchise and will be officially launched in 2009.

At this year's Comic-Con, the Firesky-Stargate franchise initiatives include the following:...

IDW Publishing is proud to present unexpected happenings and exciting news at this year’s Comic-Con.  The Con runs from Thursday July 24 to Sunday July 27th, and throughout the show, IDW (booth #1705) will be offering a number of Con exclusive comic books and other items listed below that are only available during the show. IDW’s two panels will run down upcoming projects and feature special guests and surprise announcements.

Among the guests signing at IDW’s booth will be Comic-Con Guest of Honor Joe Hill, who will be signing copies of Locke & Key ...

Entertainment mega-site IGN.com has the exclusive debut trailer for the new X-Files movie, I Want To Belive.

There have been few details leaked, other than set photographs and casting news, but Chris Carter himself has said that the movie will be more stand-alone and less mythic, as opposed to the first X-Files outing, Fight The Future.

Trailer is here

The Battlestar: Galatica prequel, Caprica, has been picking up cast members right and left.

The latest addition is Eric Stoltz, who will play opposite Esai Morales in the two-hour telemovie which could also serve as a "backdoor pilot" for Caprica to be spun off into its own series on Sci-Fi, following Galactica's exit. ...

Popular video game Bioshock is getting new life as a video game.

Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski will be helming the movie.  No release date has been targeted yet, although Verbinski--who will be doing double duty as both producer and director--hopes to get preproduction started as soon as possible. 

John Logan, who penned The Aviator, is the top candidate to pen the script based on the video game.  ...

Barely a week after losing series star Michael Rosenbaum, Smallville is set to suffer another killing blow.

Original cast member Allison Mack is balking hardcore at signing on for Season 8, and she isn't the only one.  Not only has Rosenbaum departed, but so has Kristin Kreuk, who will be filming Street Fighter overseas.  John Glover has departed as well, his character having been killed off by Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor.  John Schneider and Annette O'Toole have been long gone, and Sam Jones III, who played Pete Ross, was out before the end of the second season.  Series creators and executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar have also departed the show, leaving four of the show's writers to step up and take the helm....

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are setting themselves up for another kick to the head. 

Tuesday brought around a complete severance by the AMPTP of the negotiation talks between them and the Screen Actors Guild.  Exhibiting the same recklessness that they did in the WGA talks, Nick Counter called the recently scaled-back list of SAG demands "unreasonable," and further agitated the situation with the comment, "Well, I guess you'd better prepare for a strike."

No new date has been set for the resumption of SAG-AMPTP negotations, and Counter's organization is turning their attention towards AFTRA, who decided to negotiate separately from SAG instead of the usual joint negotiations.

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Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest installment in the Rockstar Studio serial, scored an impressive debut as it pulled in over $500 million dollars in game sales.  This debut blows away the previous record of $400 million, held by Microsoft's highly-anticipated Halo 3 release....

Proving that you can't keep a good ghoul down, Universal Studios has picked up The Knights Templar, a spec script written by the team of Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley.  ...