• Iron Man 2 gets a couple of new cast members: Mickey Rourke as the Crimson Dynamo, and Scarlett Johanssen as the Black Widow.
• Michael Bay says Frank Welker will reprise his voiceover role as Soundwave in Transformers 2.
• Will British television actress Hannah Murray join Matt Smith on Doctor Who's new Tardis?
• Marvel delays the release of Thor, Captain America and The Avengers to "maximize the visibility of its single-character superhero films." In other words, they're planning to milk this one, folks.
• SF Signal looks at the scifi video games to look forward to in 2009. No Bioshock 2?
• Calling all sketchers: Beacon press is looking for an artist to adapt Octavia Butler's magnificent Kindred into a graphic novel.
• Vin Diesel spills even more details on Riddick 3, which will start by focusing on a Riddick beleaguered by flesh-eating aliens.
