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The newest TV Guide announced that they will be moderating a special 20th anniversary panel commemorating X-Files. Believers out there, faith has been restored.

The Thursday July 18th panel will feature creator Chris Carter and as well as writer-producers David Amann, Vince Gilligan, Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan, John Shiban and Jim Wong. Everyone wants to know if Mulder and Scully will be there, and we have an answer on some of that front. EW reports that Gillian Anderson will be in attendance (perhaps she’ll visit the Hannibal panel as well?), so now we’re just waiting on David Duchovny.

It’s here! One of the busiest times of the year for those of us who follow news about TV, if not TV news. It’s the annual Upfronts, when networks announce who is staying, who is going, and when we’ll be seeing what. First up, NBC, home of Grimm and Revolution, and now home as well to Dracula and J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron‘s Believe.

We have the new NBC synopsis for Dracula today, along with the first, quite lovely, trailer. We also have the new synopsis for Believe, which features just a few little tweaks compared to the version we posted last week, And the schedule for our four favorite NBC shows. Ready?

Trailer: Dracula

“Dracula”

Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”) stars in this provocative new drama as one of the world’s most iconic characters. It’s the late 19th century and...

The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the first announced today. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on NBC.

The Peacock did not have a good year. Only one of its new shows, "Revolution," was a true hit. Another, "Chicago Fire," got renewed by the skin of its teeth whilst the fate of a third, "Hannibal," remains uncertain.

None of last year's new comedies survived, neither did two mid-season dramas, which leaves the network with some big holes to fill. Three dramas and three comedies will debut in the Fall ahead of three more dramas and two comedies mid-season. Two further dramas and a comedy are presently unscheduled.

Several other pilots didn't make the final cut and won't become series including the high-profile Charlize Theron-produced drama about the Hatfields and McCoys, the Bruckheimer-produced...

The new fall season is closer than you think, and NBC has released their full schedule. Apart from reality favorites The Biggest Loser and The Voice, they are mixing things up quite a bit.

Take a look at a complete preview of the shows coming your way, and mark your calendars. It looks good for NBC this year, and while I’m not sure all of these look like winners, I think you’ll find at least a couple that you’re really going to like.

Blacklist – Fall

The Blacklist — (Photo by: NBC)

For decades, ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) has been one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. Brokering shadowy deals for criminals across the globe, Red was known by many as “The Concierge of Crime.”

Now, he’s mysteriously surrendered to the FBI with an explosive offer: he will help catch a long-thought-dead terrorist, Ranko Zamani,...

Every since we saw Elijah Wood in Sin City, we knew this cat had a love of horror films in him, and the very good news is that he's taken said love to an entirely new level with his new shingle, The Woodshed.

Deadline reports that Wood has partnered with Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller to form The Woodshed, an indie company that will focus on genre fare. Not surprisingly, Wood is a horror fanatic. “I’ve been a fan of horror and genre cinema in general since I was a child and have become increasingly passionate about the idea of there being a space in which horror films that take their subject matter and characters seriously could be produced,” he said. “What was born out of a conversation of our mutual love for the genre and what we felt was lacking in a broad sense, especially from the U.

Exclusive: The Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood has partnered with Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller to form The Woodshed, an indie company that will focus on genre fare. While I tend to associate Wood with the wholesome hobbit he reprises in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films, he played a pretty awful cannibal in Sin City, and he plays a full-on serial killer in the Franck Khalfoun-directed remake Maniac, which IFC Midnight acquired after it premiered at Cannes. Not surprisingly, Wood is a horror fanatic. “I’ve been a fan of horror and genre cinema in general since I was a child and have become increasingly passionate about the idea of there being a space in which horror films that take their subject matter and characters seriously could be produced,” he said. “What was born out of a conversation of our mutual love for the genre and...

Things are moving quite swiftly for the new Bleiberg Entertainment action drama McCanick, seeing as we’ve just got word on the director, writer and stars of the project. According to Variety, David Morse, Brandon Routh and Glee star Cory Monteith will serve as the acting talent, with Josh C. Waller (Raze) directing from a script by Believers‘ Daniel Noah.

Morse will play narcotics detective Eugene “Mack” McCanick, “who gets caught up in a firestorm of paranoia and violence upon learning that a seemingly harmless young criminal (Monteith) has been released from prison. Over the course of one long, hot day, Mack and his partner (Routh) mercilessly hunt down the perp, who holds the secret to a truth from Mack’s past.” Bleiberg Entertainment CEO Ehud Bleiberg will produce alongside Waller and Morse, with Nicholas Donnermeyer executive producing with Noah. Bleiberg stating the following on the project and its stars,...

• Further cementing his career second act as an action star, Denzel Washington is closing a deal to star in The Equalizer, a loose adaptation of the 1980s CBS series about a onetime military covert ops agent who helps civilians in need. No director is attached, but the current script was penned by Richard Wenk (The Mechanic, 16 Blocks). [Deadline]

• Jon Favreau has joined director Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the high-stakes stock market memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, playing a securities lawyer. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Kyle Chandler, and Rob Reiner costar. [Deadline]

• Jay Baruchel is close to signing up for the remake of Robocop,...

Update: We've just received the front and back package art. See below! Tim McCann's tale of revenge, The Poker Club , was picked up by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and will debut on DVD April 21st. Here Johnathan Schaech ( Quarantine ) and Richard Chizmar adapt the Ed Gorman novel of the same name; Schaech also leads the cast which includes Johnny Messner ( Believers ), Loren Dean ("Bones") and Lori Heuring ( Prom Night ). Synopsis: For years, Aaron Tyler has been getting together with his three best friends Monday nights to play poker. But tonight, everything is about to change forever when the men accidentally kill a burglar who's broken into Aaron's house. Fearing the consequences, Aaron and his friends dispose of the corpse and agree to take the secret to...

IFC Films announced today it has acquired U.S. rights to Daniel Myrick's supernatural thriller The Objective . It's the latest film to come from the co-creator and co-director of The Blair Witch Project . Since that 1999 pop culture hit, he has helmed Solstice and Believers . The Objective premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and will be released on February 4th through IFC In Theaters, the video on demand platform, and will also have exclusive theatrical midnight engagements at the IFC Center in NY on February 6th and 7th. IFC In Theaters makes independent films available to a national audience by releasing them simultaneously in theaters as well as on cable's On Demand platform and through Pay-Per-View, reaching 50 million homes. The Objective locates the...

DVD Releases: First of ’08! Start your new year out with these new Horror DVDs Tuesday, January 1st, 2008...

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Mila Jovovich is back as the genetically altered zombie ass-kicker Alice in a story that gets about as far from the games upon which it’s based as is possible. Still, I didn’t hear anything too terrible about it, and it certainly couldn’t have been worse than the second film in the series, right? Lots of features come on this one, as is Sony’s way. If you’re living ahead of everyone else, it’s out on Blu-Ray the same day, as well, as is the entire trilogy. Buy it here!

Solstice (2007)

Directed by Daniel Myrick

The first film Myrick did solo after Blair Witch Project is actually the second to be released (the first was the Raw Feed film Believers). Strange how...

DVD Releases: First of ’08! Start your new year out with these new Horror DVDs Tuesday, January 1st, 2008...

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Mila Jovovich is back as the genetically altered zombie ass-kicker Alice in a story that gets about as far from the games upon which it’s based as is possible. Still, I didn’t hear anything too terrible about it, and it certainly couldn’t have been worse than the second film in the series, right? Lots of features come on this one, as is Sony’s way. If you’re living ahead of everyone else, it’s out on Blu-Ray the same day, as well, as is the entire trilogy. Buy it here!

Solstice (2007)

Directed by Daniel Myrick

The first film Myrick did solo after Blair Witch Project is actually the second to be released (the first was the Raw Feed film Believers). Strange how...