Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 5/10/04 - 5/16/04. Fewer than 10 entries appear this week, because fewer than 10 original SF&F; programs aired during the week on broadcast networks.

M:I 3 Can Film Reichstag

Tom Cruise has won permission to shoot Mission: Impossible 3 at Berlin's historic Reichstag building, Agence France-Presse reported. More...

Duchovny: X-Files 2 On The Way

David Duchovny told the British Teletext Web site that a second X-Files movie is in the works. More...

Doom Movie Rights Bought

Universal Pictures has optioned the film rights to the Doom SF video-game franchise for producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and John Wells, Variety reported. More...

Steig's Zazaba Optioned

Shrek producer John H. Williams has optioned film rights to The Zazaba Jungle, a second title from William Steig, the children's author who wrote the original Shrek book, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More...

Web Heads For Screen

Paramount and producer Jordan Kerner have tapped Gary Winick (13 Going on 30) to direct the live-action/computer-animated film adaptation of E.B. White's beloved children's book Charlotte's Web, Variety reported. More...

Azkaban Opens Really Wide

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third film in the hit franchise, will open on 3,855 screens, the second-highest premiere of all time, following Shrek 2's 4,163, Variety reported. More...

Tartakovsky Helms Astroboy

Sony Pictures Entertainment has struck a deal with animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) to write and direct its long-in-development film version of the classic Japanese animated series Astroboy, Variety reported. More...

Bradbury Slams Moore

Legendary SF author Ray Bradbury has ripped into filmmaker Michael Moore for using the title Fahrenheit 9/11 for his new Bush-bashing movie, an obvious takeoff on the 84-year-old's science-fiction classic Fahrenheit 451, the WorldNetDaily.com Web site reported. More...

EA Releases Azkaban

Electronic Arts announced the North American release of a video game based on the third Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, across five different platforms, the GameSpot Web site reported. More...

Raimi Mulled Many Spidey 2 Villains

Sam Raimi, who directed the upcoming sequel film Spider-Man 2, told SCI FI Wire that he contemplated pitting more than one adversary against Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) before settling on just one: Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina). More...

Diesel Fueled Riddick Game

Vin Diesel, who reprises the role of antihero Richard Riddick in the upcoming film The Chronicles of Riddick, told SCI FI Wire that he was also intimately involved in the creation of a prequel video game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay. More...

Carrey, Helmer Juiced Up Lemony

Brad Silberling, who is directing the upcoming fantasy movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, told SCI FI Wire that he and star Jim Carrey instantly clicked on adapting Daniel Handler's quirky series of children's books, about the Baudelaire orphans and their scheming relative, Count Olaf (Carrey), who conspires to steal their inheritance. More...

Lohan Conjures Up Jeannie?

Empire magazine is reporting a rumor that Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday) has been signed to play the lead in a film version of I Dream of Jeannie, the 1960s fantasy TV series, according to a report on the Moviehole Web site. More...

The Psycho In The Works

Universal Pictures has bought screen rights to the DC SF graphic novel The Psycho and has set writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow) to draft the script, Variety reported. More...

Steinberg Rewrites Wishes

David Steinberg has been hired to rewrite Other People's Wishes, a fantasy film for Warner Brothers Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More...