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Ron Moore, the writer-producer who brought us the revamped Battlestar Galactica on Syfy, is set to explore the fantasy realm with an NBC show “described as an adult Harry Potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic.”
Little else is known about the project.  The studio behind the series is Sony Pictures Television.
Source: http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/nbc-nabs-magic-drama-from-ron-moore/

Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic, The Sandman, may become a television series through Warner Brothers Television and DC Entertainment.  Supernatural showrunner Eric Kripke is said to be the top choice for running the series.
The series would follow Morpheus, or Dream, and his family of the Endless, who consist of Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire, and Delirium. [...]

Jonathan Liebesman, director of the upcoming sci-fi action film Battle: Los Angeles, has been tapped to replace Louis Leterrier as the director for the next Clash of the Titans.  Sam Worthington and Gemma Arterton are set to return as Perseus and Io, respectively.  The film is meant to be the second in a trilogy covering Perseus’s [...]

Former Doctor Who star, Sylvester McCoy, was rumored to be up for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, but a recent scoop on BleedingCool.com reveals that McCoy is actually up for a supporting role  instead and may be playing Radagast The Brown.
Who?  The site goes further, “For a bit of context, Radagast is [...]

Pride and Prejudice got zombies, Sense and Sensibility got sea monsters, Abraham Lincoln’s biography got vampires, and now Herman Melville’s Moby Dick gets dragons in director Ryan Little’s Age of Dragons.
The official synopsis is below:
“Age of the Dragons is an adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick. Set in a medieval realm where Captain [...]

The Wizard World of Harry Potter might be in Orlando, Florida, but Harry’s home country may have a theme park of its own.
Actor Rupert Grint announced recently that the movie sets on Leavesden studios will become a museum and attraction, now that filming for the last Potter movies has wrapped.
While details have been scarce, one [...]

While Marvel may be set to do The Avengers in 2012, but the studio is adding more to the plate by hiring xXx screenwriter Rich Wilkes to write the script for Iron Fist. The hero is Danny Rand, a martial artist who defeats a dragon and gains the power of the Iron Fist, a magical [...]

Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is set for next year and comic book readers unfamiliar with the character are in luck.  On September 15th, a new comic series will go through Thor’s origin story and help newcomers learn more about the world of the Norse God.
Bryan J. Glass will write and Tan Eng Huat will do the [...]

Some lucky fans in Chicago got to see a test screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I on Saturday and have posted their opinions online.  Although the two and a half hour cut still had a temp soundtrack and unfinished effects, the fans seemed to enjoy the film.
One MuggleNet reader, Gaby, called [...]

Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, recently told the Daily Record that the films may have boosted his fame, but did nothing for his income.  ”I don’t have any money.  We were unknown actors - we did it for peanuts and for food.”
He went on to comment that he [...]