• The first teaser poster for Batman: The Dark Knight leaked onto the net, and... it's boring. Oh well.[IESB]
• Flatliners may be getting a spin-off TV series, says writer Stephen Susco. The cool-but-dated thriller doesn't seem to lend itself to an episodic format on the face of it. Would a different person have a near-death experience every week? [Bloody Disgusting]
• KITT, the smooth-talking smart car from the original Knight Rider, may have a cameo in the new version. There's a photo, and... it looks like an old car. Maybe the two cars can team up for a mission that no one car can handle alone, like... umm... transporting six people without having anyone sit in someone's lap? [Spoiler TV]
• Still more Heroes gossip: Niki's naughty alter ego Jessica will definitely be back whenever the show returns. But the show's writers and producers are still "up in the air" about whether Nathan Petrelli will survive. Also, there's widespread speculation that HRG (Claire's dad) shot Nathan, as part of his deal with the Company. [Watch With Kristin]

• New production photos of Reposession Mambo tell us absolutely nothing about the more serious of the two organ-repo movies coming next year. You can see allegedly "futuristic" cars and some buildings. Yawn. [ShockTillYouDrop.com]
• The new Justice League movie is being "cast as cheaply as possible," says New York Magazine. It's semi-official that total unknown Armie Hammer will play Batman in the League. That's in addition to the previously leaked cast: Scott Porter as Superman, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Common as Green Lantern and Adam Brody as Flash. "In other words, a D-list cast is set to portray the world's oldest, most iconic superhero team," Matthew Perpetua kvetches. [NYMag]
• Newly released clips from I Am Legend reveal no spoilers, but prove the film will live or die depending on how much you enjoy Will Smith talking to himself. [IESB]

• Battlestar Galactica co-creator Ronald D. Moore has two new TV series in development: one that he's developing for NBC/Universal, and one that he's supervising for Fox Broadcasting. He's also writing a sequel to iRobot, and a new version of The Thing for Universal. The new Thing will be linked to the 1982 version somehow. [Eclipse Magazine]
• Fans who want to see more of George Takei's Sulu as a starship captain in his own right had better not blink during the new Star Trek movie. The older Captain Sulu will appear in a brief scene with Leonard Nimoy's Spock. [TrekWeb]
• Brian Aldiss spent ten years trying to convince Stanley Kubrick not to turn AI into a dumb PInnochio story. "But you might as well try to persuade this table to be a chair as persuade Stanley of anything," he complains. In the end, Kubrick died and Spielberg turned AI into non-sensical "crap," says Aldiss. [London Times]

• Fanwankers, unclench: The Enterprise won't look much different in the new Star Trek movie, except for a "grittier metal texture." And J.J. Abrams has been shooting desert scenes that could be the birth of Spock. [IESB]
• Sean Connery's son will direct an action-thriller about an elite army team who must rescue a scientist from the monster he unleashed. In "Untitled Gehenna Project," Cuba Gooding Jr. leads the group of soldiers that must rescue a scientist played by Ron Perlman from his underground lab. A priest played by Henry "Black Flag" Rollins warns them that an ancient evil has been unleashed. And their former leader, Ray Winstone, helps them uncover the truth about Perlman's compromised research. Jason Connery, who used to play Robin Hood on TV, made his directorial debut with Pandemic. [Hollywood Reporter]

• Before Southland Tales has even had a chance to recharge her career, star Sarah Michelle Gellar is thinking of bailing out of movies. She's disenchanted with the movie scripts she's been seeing, so she's looking at TV scripts. [E! Online]
• The Wayans Brothers are producing and writing the movie version of The Munsters, but they won't star in it. "We're going to get some white people and paint them green," says Shawn Wayans. It can't be as scary as White Chicks was.
• Spider-Man 3 and Resident Evil 3 helped boost Sony Japan to its strongest box office ever. They must really love three-quels in Japan. [Variety Asia]

• Christian Bale hasn't committed to starring in the new Terminator movie, but he is in serious talks, sources say. Here's hoping he comes to his senses and does a smarter film instead. [MSN via Cinemblend]
• Heroes is one of the most family-friendly shows on television, according to the Family Friendly Programming Forum. Heroes took home the drama award in the Forum's annual awards night. Have these people been watching the same show as I have? The whole second season has been one big creepiest-dad contest. [Hollywood Reporter]

• Bionic Woman star Michelle Ryan is dating Owen Wilson, who's still recovering from that suicide attempt a while back. They've gone to dinner and the beach. She entertains him by delivering her famous "you don't own my body" speech. [Hollyscoop]
• Don't count Journeyman out yet, insists creator Kevin Falls. NBC has decided to air the final three episodes that Falls already filmed, in mid-December. We'll get some answers to our nagging questions, like: WTF is up with all the cross-temporal stalking anyway? And there's still a slim hope that the show could come back at some point after that. "Don't rest yet," he urges fans. But if Journeyman does die for good, Falls has only his own defeatist talk to blame. [AICN]

• An Sci-Fi Channel original movie, now filming, has all the key elements for schlockitude. Fire Down Below stars Kevin (Andromeda) Sorbo as a seismologist who discovers a strain of pure lithium underground. When a greedy industrialist mixes that lithium with water, affectless calm and binge-eating — I mean, fiery destruction — results. [Tahlequah Daily Press]
• John August will probably be writing a live-action movie for Tim Burton to direct after the strike ends. But it won't be the Frankenweenie remake, he says. [Slashfilm]
• The complete cast for Repossession Mambo, the Repo Man rip-off, has been announced. Besides Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, stars include Alice Braga and Carice Van Houten. [Bloody Disgusting]

• The aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind may make a cameo appearance in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Steven Spielberg is avoiding CGI in favor of puppets, and he decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Encounters. There's retro, and then there's crazy retro. [MovieHole]
• The Hollywood writers' strike could be settled by Christmas, says Nikki Finke, a blogger who claims to have inside sources. That could allow stalled TV shows to get back on track, and let movies do some desperately needed rewrites. [Deadline Hollywood]

• One Journeyman producer already landed a new gig, after the show's apparent cancellation. Alex Graves will direct the pilot for Fringe, the new J.J. Abrams X-files clone, as soon as he's done with Journeyman in December.
• Chuck spoilers: in an upcoming episode, Chuck finally gets his cover blown. He has to leave town and live under permanent security. Anything to get rid of those horrid short-sleeved nerd shirts. [E!Online]
• Star Trek IV and Soylent Green both appear in Environmental Graffiti's list of the top five environmental films of all time. [via SFSignal]
• Tom Cruise could star in a Doctor Who TV movie in 2009, say unnamed (and probably completely bogus) sources at the BBC. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Madonna are also being approached, the source says. [Stuff]

• The Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie backgrounds will be all greenscreen like 300, says star Emile Hirsch. All except for Chim Chim the monkey, which is real. And presumably flung its poop at the pristine green walls. [Empire]
• Dave "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" Eggers collaborated with director Spike Jonze on the script to Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze's next movie. Wild Things will mix live puppeteering and computer animation. [Hollywood Reporter]
• The Mist took ninth place in the holiday weekend box office, behind more obvious holiday movies Enchanted, This Christmas, Bee Movie and Fred Claus. But Beowulf, American Gangster and Hitman also blew The Mist away.

• Jack Black is bummed that he didn't get to star in a Green Lantern movie. Black was set to star in a comedy, involving an ordinary schlub who joins the corps of space cops with wishing rings. He would have attacked his enemies with green boxing gloves, cages... and condoms. Suddenly, the upcoming Justice League movie (which includes Green Lantern) doesn't sound so bad. [MTV Movies Blog]
• But Black's getting his revenge, by creating a fake trailer for Robocop. It's one of the viral videos posted on the Web site for Be Kind Rewind, his January 2008 film about a guy who erases a video store's stock and decides to remake every movie himself. [Slashfilm]
• When Michelle Forbes return to play Admiral Cain one last time, she chased the other Battlestar actors around the set demanding if they knew who the final Cylon was. And she got nothing. Come to think of it, maybe Cain's the last Cylon? [TV Guide]
• The fans are all right. Southwest Airlines' Spirit in-flight magazine randomly decided to feature an article about fan-fiction. Want to see a version of Heroes where the physics actually makes sense? Leave it to the fans. [Spirit]

Those stories suggested that the new Terminator film will feature a character who is the Ben Hur to John Connor's Jesus. Whoever he plays, Bale could lend some desperately needed gravitas to yet another stop-Skynet movie. Image by Dara Kushner/Goff Photos. [CHUD]

• Maggie Q may play Silver Fox, Wolverine's CIA operative girlfriend, in the new Wolverine movie. The Irish-Vietnamese actress has appeared in a lot of Asian films, plus Mission Impossible III and Live Free Or Die Hard. [IESB]
• NBC's Journeyman could be canceled if the ratings for its next couple of episodes don't soar. NBC might not even bother to air all of the episodes that have been filmed. Part of the problem? NBC isn't interested in ratings from viewers who tape the show on their digital recorders, or watch the show online. NBC may have sabotaged the show by advertising widely that you can watch episodes online, and then refusing to count those viewers. [Zap2It, Via Slice of SciFi]
• You won't be seeing Teeth any time soon, in spite of the cool trailer that came out last week. The acclaimed vagina dentata movie has been pushed back to late 2008 by a skittish distributor. [Bloody Disgusting]