Great news!  The Hollywood Reporter says that New Line Cinema is bringing MacGyver to the big screen.

Raffaella De Laurentiis, daughter of Dino De Laurentiis, is producing through her Raffaella Productions along with Martha De Laurentiis and series creator Lee Zlotoff. Dino De Laurentiis is executive producing.

“MacGyver” ran on ABC from 1985-92. Richard Dean Anderson, later of “Stargate: Atlantis” and “SG-1” fame, starred as an incredibly resourceful secret agent for the Phoenix Foundation who frequently would escape from dangerous situations with ingenious and lightning-quick engineering trickery.

No writer is attached, but the studio hopes to find a script that can acknowledge how the concept has staked a place into pop culture yet still makes for a serious and fun adventure movie.

“We think we’re a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise,” said New Line’s Richard Brener.

The annual Toy Fair event was last week in New York.  Many new products were shown including some cute stuff from “Star Wars” and Trek.  It looks like it’s going to be another great year to be a collector of geeky things.  Click HERE to see many more pictures of all the great ‘swag’ coming our way this year.

On 2/21. the MTV show “Spoilers” will be covering both the new “Watchmen” film and “Star Trek.”  Wil Wheaton joined them for a screening of “Watchmen” and some new footage from Trek.  Wil really loved “Watchmen” and had some fun things to say about everything he saw.  Again, the show will be airing on Saturday, Feb. 21st at 8pm EST.  Check HERE to learn more.

The long awaited new TV series “Dollhouse” from creator Joss Whedon will be premiering on FOX, tomorrow night (2-13-09).  Eliza Dushku (“Faith” from Buffy & Angel), plays Echo, a woman that lives in the “Dollhouse” that can be programmed with a specific personality and set of skills to accomplish various secret missions.  This series looks very cool, stylish and fun.  Joss has never let me down before and I know he won’t be this time.  So set your TIVO’s for FOX on Friday nights.  This show will follow the moved series, “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” which now airs at 8pm Friday’s on FOX.  For more info on “Dollhouse” go HERE.

We finally get a trailer for this coming summer’s “Transformers 2” movie.  The sequel to the 2007 blockbuster hit.  Looks like all of the main cast & bots are back.  Michael Bay again is directing.  Really looking forward to this one.  See the trailer below:

For my recent Western Sci-Fi podcast, two friends of the show, Jen & Angela sung their version of the theme song to “Firefly.”  I liked it so much that I added a little background guitar music and edited into the opening credits of the show.  Make sure to visit the both of them over at their own show at the Anomaly Podcast.   Sit back, watch and enjoy their version of “The Ballad of Serenity.”

The annual “Star Wars” fan film winners from 2008 are all now showing over at Atom.com.  There are some terrific entries this year as well as a lot of other cool SW Fan films to view from past years and other times too.  I really like the one called “Padme” from this year’s set of winners.  Check them all out HERE or click the picture above.

What looks to be a fun film coming out this March, “Race to Witch Mountain” remakes a classic Disney film from the 70’s.  Starring The Rock and also some cameo’s from the original actors, this looks to be a great deal of fun for all.  Learn more and see high quality trailers HERE or watch it below in the YouTube version.