Paradox Entertainment, the company behind Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian reboot, is set to launch Buck Rogers 3-D. Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the project from a script by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

"Don't freak out, Erin, but there's a robot with a dutchboy haircut onboard."

Anderson tells Variety:

Buck has already been such a huge influence on action-adventure franchises like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones,’ so for me it is a thrilling opportunity to be allowed to return to the source, and relaunch such an epic character.

The plot for the new Rogers film is being kept under wraps for now. But, like its source material, the story will center on a modern day pilot who awakens to find himself in the future.

The “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” comic strip ran from 1929 through 1967. In 1979, NBC adapted Rogers into a prime-time television serial starring Gil Gerard, Erin Grey, and Erin Grey’s camel-toe in a painted-on jumpsuit. The series ran for two years, but Grey provided boys with masturbation fodder up until the emergence of Slave Leia in 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

I fondly remember fondling myself at 6-years old while watching the episode where a bunch of sex-starved midgets attempted to strip Grey’s Col. Wilma Deering’s clothes off with their telepathic powers. Despite the fact that my baby-penis could only ejaculate rainbows at the time, I still knew it was a hot scene:

(Correct me if I’m wrong, beloved readers, but isn’t that the black midget from Bad Santa?)

I don’t care if Anderson casts a monkey’s turd to play Buck, but I am totally beside myself in anticipation to see who will play the new Wilma Deering. I can picture Natalie Portman in the part, but Anderson’s genre-director standing would most likely turn her away. Megan Fox would be good. Or, maybe, Rachel Nichols and her huge breasts (she’s already starring in Paradox’s Conan the Barbarian). Feel free to drop some names.

Anderson’s horror/sci-fi creds include Resident Evil, Death Race, AVP: Alien Vs. Predator, Soldier, Event Horizon, and the upcoming Resident Evil: Afterlife 3-D.

The Hollywood Blvd. Cinema in Chicago, IL hosted a 25th anniversary screening of Robert Zemeckis’ beloved 1985 classic Back to the Future.

The event included a Q&A and meet-and-greet with stars Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown), Lea Thompson (Lorraine McFly), Claudia Wells (Jennifer Parker), and James Tolkan (Principal Strickland).

After the screening, the actors all reportedly piled into the prop DoLorean DMC-12 parked outside the theater and attempted to head back to the ’80s to fire their agents—except for Llyod who simply went back to 2008 to buy better fire insurance for his home in Montecito, CA.

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“Lost” executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof  want fans to know that the upcoming sixth and final season of the Emmy award-winning show will be gratifying and “cliffhanger-free,” with the focus set firmly on resolving character arcs.

Lindelof tells The Hollywood Reporter:

It really boils down to: Is it satisfying? Have you given the audience an emotional ride that makes them feel they’re satisfied, that’s a good meal? The only question that’s ever mattered to us is what is going to happen to these people. What is the character resolution? That the audience feels like the characters had an arc — a beginning, middle and end. And I’m satisfied with that. All the crazy island mythology stuff, we love it, but it’s like terrorists attacking Jack Bauer — it’s stuff that happens in order to tell cool character stories.

Cuse adds:

Tonally it’s most similar to the first season of the show. We’re employing a different narrative device, which we feel is creating some emotional and heartfelt stories, and we want the audience to have a chance in the final season to remember the entire history of the show. So we have actors coming back like Dominic [Monaghan] and Ian [Sommerhalder]. We’re hoping to achieve a circularity of the entire journey so the ending is reminiscent of the beginning.

On whether there will be any “Lost” projects in the future, Cuse says:

The Walt Disney Co. owns “Lost.” It’s a franchise that’s conservatively worth billions of dollars. It’s hard to imagine “Lost” will rest on the shelves and nothing will ever be made with “Lost.” Eventually somebody will make something under the moniker of “Lost” — whether we do it or not. We just made a commitment to this group of characters whose stories are coming to a conclusion this May.

Lindelof echoes Cuse’s sentiment, stating that:

Sometimes the franchise transcends the storyteller. The definitive edition of “Lost” ends this May on ABC, and that is the story that we have to tell. It has a beginning, middle and end. That ending will not have cliffhangers, or be set up in such a way that people will be saying, “Clearly they’re going to make more of these.” We don’t have any connection to another TV series or movie, but there’s a new “A-Team” movie coming out, for god’s sake. This is a business that thrives on known commodities. “Tron” is the most buzzed-about Disney movie for next year, and it has been gathering dust for 20 years. I cannot imagine there will not be something with “Lost” on it involving smoke monsters and polar bears and time travel.

Personally, I would love to see a spinoff based on the DHARMA Initiative. There is just so much to that part of the “Lost” mythos that needs to be explored.

“Lost” begins its final season on Feb. 2. To see new posters and a series recap, click here.

We’re still a few weeks away from going back to the island, but ABC is tossing us “Lost” fans a couple of lifelines to get us through the wait. Here you see two new promotional posters for the Emmy award-winning show’’s sixth and final season. The cast was shot in a recreation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper painting.

ABC has also released an eight-minute-plus recap of seasons 1-thru-5. I’m not sure if the clip is really meant to aid johnny-come-latelies (aka: poseurs) or to simply amuse die-hard fans with its quirky narration. Either way, kudos to the folks who put it together. Check it out:

“Lost” final season kicks off on Feb. 2 with a two-hour episode airing at 9 p.m. A one-hour refresher-clip show will precede the broadcast. And, don’t forget … ABC has moved “Lost” from its previous Wednesday night slot to Tuesdays.

It’s the beginning of the end.

So says the latest one-minute promo for the sixth and final season of ABC’s innovative sci-fi drama “Lost.” As with previous TV spots, new footage is  not revealed in the latest promo. Regardless, the spot will definitely push “Lost” fan’s buttons (get it? push buttons? Ah, never mind).

Check it out:

“Lost” returns on Feb. 2, 2010.

ABC will air a one-minute promo spot for “Lost: Season 6″ during tonight’s episode of “The Forgotten.” Set to a haunting rendition of “Amazing Grace” by country icon Willie Nelson, the clip culls footage from the Emmy award-winning series’ previous five seasons.

Because I know no one is watching “The Forgotten,” I have posted the promo here:

According to executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, ABC promos for the beloved sci-fi series will not feature any new footage so creative little mash-up spots like this are the most we can expect. Spain’s Cuatro network got the ball rolling last month with their own promo set to Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place.” To see that clip, click here.

“Lost’s” sixth and final season begins on Feb. 2, 2010.

“Lost” actors Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austin) and Emilie de Ravin (Claire Littleton) were in Los Angeles today re-shooting a scene for the season premiere episode of the Emmy award-winning sci-fi series.

E! Online’s Kristin Dos Santos reports:

The scene was originally taped in Hawaii but had to be reshot, and because Evangeline, Emilie and director Jack Bender all happened to be in Los Angeles (the cast is on hiatus), they decided to shoot it at ABC Studios. According to a source on set, the scene involved a gun, a cab driver and a…wait for it, certain female actress sporting a baby bump.

Well, Mrs. Muertos and I won’t be getting any sleep tonight trying to figure out what this could mean. We’re fairly certain Claire will be the pregnant character, but will it be a flashback episode or have things gone back to square one since Juliette set off the bomb at the Black Swan? One thing is for certain: I need to stake out ABC Studios. Maybe, even Evangeline’s bedroom.

Lost returns on Feb. 2.

“Lost” begins its sixth and final season on Feb. 2, 2010. According to executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, ABC promos for the beloved sci-fi series will not feature any new footage of what’s to come.

I have searched high and low all month for some kind of tease, but have come up short … until now! I have smuggled a TV spot from Spain, where the show is called “Perdidos,” via mule (what? they swim) to the U.S. Okay … the clip doesn’t contain any new scenes from the upcoming season, but it is creative and features narration from some dude who kinda sounds like Antonio Banderas. Check it out:

WE HAVE TO GO BACK!

And, back to the island we will go on Feb. 2, 2010 when “Lost” returns for its sixth and final season to ABC. The Emmy award-winning series will premiere with a two-hour episode airing at 9 p.m. A one-hour refresher-clip show will precede the broadcast. ABC has also moved “Lost” from its previous Wednesday night slot to Tuesdays.

As you can see by the above TV promo, “Lost” producers aren’t revealing much about the upcoming season. According to E! Online’s Kristen, they have convinced ABC to not show any footage from the new season. She says:

I’m hearing from Lost sources that every single shot of the first few episodes are so revealing that the producers have convinced ABC to NOT SHOW A SINGLE FRAME before the new season airs. No promo scenes, no photos, no nada! So you will be completely in the dark, but it is for good reason: The twists they’re planning are so good, you will WANT to be surprised.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t look for clues in the newly released poster for season six.

From left-to-right, those in the picture are: Daniel Faraday, Boone Carlyle, Miles Straume, Michael Dawson, Ana Lucia, Charlotte Lewis, Frank Lapidus, Shannon Rutherford, Desmond Hume, Mr. Eko, Kate Austin, Jack Shepard, James “Sawyer” Ford, John Locke, Benjamin Linus, Sayid Jarrah, Libby, Sun Kwon, Jin Kwon, Claire Littleton, Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, Juliet Burke, Charlie Pace, Richard Alpert, Bernard Nadler, Rose Nadler and Walt’s dog Vincent.

I don’t see WALT!!! And, where is Charles Widmore? I’m happy to see Claire (Emilie de Ravin) and know that she will be featured in various episodes throughout the season. Executive producer Carlton Cuse also confirmed Charlotte’s (Rebecca Mader) return via Twitter. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the actor who plays Mr. Eko, lobbied earlier this year to be brought back for the final curtain. Let’s hope the island granted him his wish.

On the poster, John Locke has got his back turned to us (most likely because he is no longer John Locke) and Ben stands right next to him, staring at us dead-on. The two men of faith are the most prominent figures in the poster, taking center stage away from Jack, Kate, Said, Desmond, Hurley, Sun, and Jin. As things stand, Locke is back from the dead and Ben has murdered his personal jesus, Jacob. I see one crazy metaphysical battle brewing.

And, then there’s Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell). The romantic side to my usually rotten personality was hoping that somehow she survived season five’s finale and ended up with Sawyer (Josh Holloway). I was thrilled to hear executive producers Cuse and Damon Lindelof announce that Juliet will indeed be back.

(Spoiler Alert! Don’t continue reading if you don’t want to know a major plot point)

Unfortunately, she’s dead (Aren’t you sorry you know now?).

Carlton Cuse tells EW.com:

As the story is now nearing its conclusion, some characters just aren’t going to make it all the way to the end. Even beloved characters aren’t going to make it all the way to the end. And sometimes we have to do things that are really painful, like killing Juliet, because that’s what makes the story feel like the stakes are genuine, and people feel invested that characters who are beloved can actually perish on our show. It was an enormously powerful story that concluded the entire season of the show. So she was sacrificed in service of the story, and I think was hugely responsible for the season being viewed as successful because that was how it ended.

Daniel Lindelof adds:

Juliet basically birthed season 6 by the actions that she takes in the final seconds of season 5. She is completely responsible for the endgame of the show. So the character is going to be seen in a slightly different light this year. We gave her that action for a reason, and that’s because she’s so important to the fabric of the story.

Man, at this point, I’m just hoping Sawyer makes it out alive. Love this show.