Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles looks like it’s going to renewed for a second season writes the Hollywood Reporter.

Apparently executives at Fox were impressed with the show and thought the finale’s performance last week was solid. The network also spent a considerable amount marketing the show, giving Season 2 some cost benefit. Also: The fourth Terminator movie comes out in 2009, and as The Simpsons Movie proved, there are promotional advantages to film-TV synergy.
 
The Knight Rider TV movie also performed well for NBC and sources say that the network is in talks with a showrunner who is familiar with NBC primetime, which suggests a regular series order is likely.

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In conversation with SCI FI Wire,  Farscape star Ben Browder has been talking about the cult series living on through a planned 10 part web series. 

The Farscape webisodes, which first became news in July 2007 are being produced by Executive producer Brian Henson and creator Rockne O’Bannon.
 
‘At the moment, that’s Rockne and Brian’s job, and I’m aware that they’re figuring out what they’re going to do with it, but I don’t know how far along in the process they are,’ said Browder.

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As production ended yesterday in Canada on the long-awaited X-Files movie sequel,  writer-director Chris Carter that recent photos showing Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) locked in a kiss had been little more than a stunt.

‘We’ve had lots of paparazzi,’ explained Carter at the post-wrap news conference. ‘In Langley [British Columbia] a couple of days ago, a black SUV pulled up on the side of the road and there was a long lens pointed at us.’

‘We staged that,’ added David Duchovny.

The movie sees Duchovny and Anderson reprising the role made famous in the popular mystery series that ran from 1993 to 2002.  A first cinematic outing, directed by Rob Bowman, premiered in theaters in June 1998.  Fox will release the Chris Carter-directed sequel this July.

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George Lucas made a surprise visit to ShoWest in Las Vegas on Thursday to sell theater owners on his upcoming animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which Warner Bros. will release on August 15th.

Lucas — flanked by six stormtroopers — was perfectly at ease in the large theater at the Paris Hotel that studios use to tout their product to theater owners attending ShoWest.

“I think it can live up to the live-action movies,” Lucas said before rolling a clip of Clone Wars, based on an animated series Lucas is producing for Warners sister cable net Cartoon Network.

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Following on from his role in The Pursuit of Happyness, Jaden Smith will team up with his sister Willow in an upcoming adaption of Flight and Copper illustrator Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet.

The graphic novel centers on a brother and sister who move into their late great-grandfather’s home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world. Five books are planned in the Scholastic series, with the second installment due for release this year.

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Paramount Studios are set to make an animated film based on ’70s sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Fight Club director David Fincher will be in the driver’s seat. Variety says it “… will be stamped by the erotic and violent storylines and images that remain the trademark of a magazine that debuted in the U.S. in 1977. The mag introduced the works of American artists and writers such as Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H.R. Giger.”

The film will consist of eight or nine individual animated segments with their own director.

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