Freema Agyeman Jonathan Ross 5 25 07

Russians to go all Michael Bay on approaching asteroid

Not content with sending robot-assisted monkeys to Mars, the Russians are looking into yet another mission that will bring sci-fi into outer space—an Armageddon-like plan to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of ... well ... armageddon.

55 million Flixster users rate Avatar best movie of 2009

The war of the social networking sites rages on! We've already told you that Moviefone users rated New Moon the best film of the year, and it was also the film most discussed on Facebook, while Twitter users couldn't stop tweeting about Harry Potter.

Freddy Krueger's claws (maybe) seized by U.K. customs officials

Looks like some poor U.K. horror fan ended up with a lump of coal in his stocking, because according to the London Telegraph, officials from the U.K. Border Agency seized a set of cool (but potentially deadly) claws it claims are similar to those worn by Robert Englund in Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street films.

Which classic sci-fi film was just declared a national treasure?

Star Wars. Alien. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Those are just three of the sci-fi films that the Library of Congress has added to its National Film Registry since 1989, meaning that they are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and must be be preserved for all time.

Meet (and rate) season three's hot new True Blood cast

Sookie's world is starting to fill up! And we have to say creator Alan Ball of the smokin' hot HBO series True Blood has done some smokin' hot casting this month for the upcoming third season. So we put together a cast list of all the new characters who will be added, along with information about who's been cast in the roles.

For fun, we've added a Smokin' Hot Factor score, which was determined based on the Hotness Level of the Role + the Actor/Actress. This score is entirely subjective, and only new characters that have been cast were included (except in one unique case).