Eric Stoltz (SCI FI Channel's Triangle) has signed on to star opposite Esai Morales in SCI FI's two-hour Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot Caprica, while Frances Fisher has been tapped for an eight-episode arc on Eureka, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Fox broadcasting network gave a series order for J.J. Abrams' SF drama Fringe for the fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

ABC is zeroing in on a series pickup of David E. Kelley's time-travel drama pilot Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, with October Road creators Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg coming in as executive producers and ABC Studios as a co-producer with 20th Century TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions and Arclight Films will team on a live-action feature adaptation of Witchblade, based on the Top Cow comic-book franchise, Variety reported.

Peter Fonda has joined the cast of SCI FI Channel's upcoming two-hour pilot Revolution, about a planet colonized by humans, Mark Stern, executive vice president of original programming, told SCI FI Wire.

Ben Barnes, who plays the heroic title character in the upcoming sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, told SCI FI Wire that he starts out as a bit of a tragic character because of his sad upbringing in the land of Telmarine.

Sheriff Jack Carter will find a love interest on SCI FI Channel's original series Eureka in the upcoming third season--and so will his automated house, S.A.R.A.H., producers told SCI FI Wire. (Possible spoilers ahead!)

Elisabeth Moss, who appears in an episode of NBC's upcoming horror anthology series Fear Itself, told SCI FI Wire she had to learn how to hold a gun and do some stunts for the role.

Jake Weber, who plays a father on NBC's Medium, told SCI FI Wire that he's completed production on She Lived, a supernatural thriller movie in which he also plays a concerned dad.

Kelly Preston, whose guest role on NBC's Medium wraps up in the season finale on May 12, told SCI FI Wire that she's willing to return next season no matter the ultimate fate of her scheming character.

Speed Racer stalled in its opening weekend behind returning superhero Iron Man, the Associated Press reported. Speed, from the Wachowski brothers, debuted in second place on the May 9 weekend, taking in only about $20.2 million against a budget estimated at $120 million.

Universal has signed a deal to adapt the hit SF video game Bioshock into a film under director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), Variety reported.

ABC has added more hours to the final two seasons of its SF drama Lost, whose current season was cut short by the writers' strike, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

V for Vendetta helmer James McTeigue is attached to direct the SF thriller Revelation for Inferno, Variety reported.

Hellboy star Ron Perlman will play the bad guy in Snoot Entertainment's hybrid martial-arts movie Bunraku, which Guy Moshe is directing from his own script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Andre Braugher, who plays the nefarious Gen. George Mancheck in A&E's upcoming SF miniseries The Andromeda Strain, told SCI FI Wire that the show goes well beyond the original Michael Crichton book and 1971 movie version.

Andrew Adamson, director and co-writer of the upcoming sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, told SCI FI Wire that the movie will be the last Narnia installment he directs. (The next is called The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and, like the previous installments, it is based on C.S. Lewis' series of books.)

Jason Dohring, who plays the 400-year-old vampire Josef in CBS' vampire drama Moonlight, told SCI FI Wire that the first-season finale will end with a cliffhanger.

Kelly Preston, who has a recurring guest role on NBC's Medium, told reporters that the upcoming fourth-season finale, "Drowned World," will resolve her story arc.

The creators of SCI FI Channel's original series Eureka told SCI FI Wire that many more esoteric gizmos are planned for the upcoming third season, which kicks off in July.