A new version of the 1982 film Blade Runner is to be released on DVD later this year. Apparently Ridley Scott was never happy with the 1992 director’s cut, saying that he was rushed and not able to spend the time on it he wanted. After a few years of wrangling with Warner over rights, Blade Runner: Final Cut will have a limited 25th anniversary run in 2007. Following that, a special edition DVD will be released with all three versions.

The spin-off of the new Doctor Who series, Torchwood, began filming in Cardiff, Wales, early this month, after a few delays. It stars John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, a character introduced in the first season of Doctor Who, as well as Eve Myles, Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori.

The TV show's producers have been trying to get a Stargate SG-1 movie off the ground for a while now, and it finally looks like it will be happening. It will not necessarily signal the end of the SG-1 series, although the economics of having a show go for so long make it unlikely it will continue for much longer without further major cast changes. The movie will also introduce a new spin-off series, although there's no details available yet on that.

A second X-Files movie is still a possibility, with Frank Spotnitz signed on for the screenplay. He was a producer and writer on the TV series. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter all have deals in place, with 20th Century Fox the sticking point on legal issues. The script hasn't been written, but the story is set. It will be along the lines of one of the stand-alone episodes rather than alien conspiracy.