Serena Williams powered her way to her third Wimbledon title on Saturday, beating her older sister Venus in the women's singles final. But the tennis-playing twosome nearly had another set of abilities altogether when they were in line for a...

ACTOR Brendan Fraser has told how he was offered the role of Superman in an earlier movie project - which he says was far superior to Bryan Singer's 2006 film.

PRODUCER Jerry Bruckheimer has said Disney is moving forward with its planned movie based on The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp cast as native American sidekick Tonto. He said they were now aiming for a 2012 release. Mike Newell, whose credits...

IAN MCKELLEN says he now has his hands on the screenplay for The Hobbit, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson. Sir Ian told Sci-Fi Wire: "As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf because they knew who they were...

BATMAN scribe and FlashForward showrunner David Goyer recently revealed that Sony studio chiefs were dusting off a Ghost Rider screenplay he wrote nine years ago to make it into a film. The first Ghost Rider movie in 2007, with Nicolas Cage as a...

FANS of ITV's cult sci-fi show Primeval had two shocks this year. First, the head of the monster-fighting team Professor Nick Cutter, played by Douglas Henshall, was killed off in the third series, and then the popular show was cancelled. But...

WHO and what will feature in the next Star Trek movie? That seems to be a popular topic for debate as director JJ Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman explore story possibilities amid huge pressure to repeat the success of the first...