Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler) has been cast in the HBO series True Blood as ( SPOILER ) (EW)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's next film, a thriller called Inception set within "the architecture of the mind." (THR)

David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) will direct the third Twilight movie, Eclipse. (THR)

Jacques Audiard's new movie, Un Prophete, will be in competition at Cannes this year. The imdb synopsis is intriguing: "A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin." This is the first I've heard about this film, which is embarrassing considering how much I love his last two films (De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté and Sur mes lèvres). Also on the Cannes line-up: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, Jane Campion's Bright Star with Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, Almodovar, Haneke, Coixet, Noe, Loach...

Kevin Macdonald will direct The End of Eternity, based on an Isaac Asimov short story about time travel. (Coming Soon)

Romola Garai will play the title role in the BBC's new version of Jane Austen's Emma. Emma's father will be played by Michael Gambon, and Johnny Lee Miller will play Mr. Knightley. (Telegraph)

Recap of preview footage from Battlestar Galactica: The Plan from the Paley Festival. (IGN)

Strange Horizons' Abigail Nussbaum on the Battlestar Galactica finale (thanks to baleanoptera for the link):

'Far worse to my mind than Galactica's ending being anti-science is the fact that it is anti-science fiction. Science fiction is the literature of change. It's about imagining the future--which things get better, which get worse, which stay the same; what new systems we come up with to live our lives, and how they fail under the weight of the same basic human flaws. Far from imagining it, with its final episode Battlestar Galactica has shown itself to be a series about ending the future. Everything that's happened in its four seasons, everything its characters have experienced, seen, or done, has been calculated to bring them to a point where they take their future apart, leaving nothing behind but their genetic code. And all this is so that we can arrive, not at an analogy or at an allegory of it, but at the actual, real-world present day and say 'we don't know what happens next.' Well, of course we don't, but that's just what science fiction is for--to say 'what if?' and then imagine the answer. And that is just what Battlestar Galactica has been desperately opposed to doing almost from day one.

'What bothers me about this is less that Galactica itself isn't science fiction--I came to that conclusion at the end of the third season--but that there are still plenty of people who can't tell the difference between its stasis-oriented brand of pseudo-SF and the real thing. More importantly, it worries me that there are people, in and out of genre, who think that Battlestar Galactica represents a model of what science fiction television should be like--allegorical, present-oriented, cowardly and unimaginative.'

The Battlestar Galactica series finale has left me feeling extremely torn. ( Spoilers )

Anyway, have some Caprica footage:

I have one thing to say about BSG 4x14, aside from the obvious ( SPOILERS )

Now that Significant Seven/Final Five couples have proved to be capable of reproduction, how long do you think before Tory and one of the Leobens start getting it on? For the good of the species, of course.

Bear in mind, I haven't seen "The Oath" yet.

ETA: While I'm on the subject, though, and if you're following Baltar's back-and-forth on the God Issue, I'd like to recommend a FABULOUS holocaust movie written by Frank Cottrell Boyce (who regularly works with Michael Winterbottom and Danny Boyle; nice piece by him here on writing it) for the BBC last year, called God on Trial. Antony Sher, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Marsan, Stellan Skarsgard, Jack Shepherd and others play Auschwitz prisoners who decide to put God on trial in absentia for breaking the covenant.

ONE MORE DAY.

Currently enjoying Maggie Beer's vanilla bean and elderberry icecream with a dash of Frangelico. Add that to the list of things I will miss when I go overseas: the heavenly dairy products in Australia.

EW has new photos from Michael Mann's Public Enemies, McG's Terminator Salvation, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, as well as Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

In the unlikely event that you haven't heard yet: meet the newest Doctor Who. Executive producer Steven Moffat says of Matt Smith, the eleventh Doctor: "As soon as Matt walked through the door, and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man." (io9)

Alan Sepinwall talks with executive producer Ron Moore about Caprica and Battlestar Galactica - no significant spoilers. Also, a rumour about the final scene of Battlestar Galactica, at io9.

Skins series 3 trailer.

In the afterword to his adventure novella Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon reveals that he was initially going to call the story Jews with Swords, fully aware of the apparent absurdity of it. Jeffrey Wells comments on tough-ass Jews in upcoming films Defiance and Inglorious Basterds.

Preview of the Battlestar Galactica spin-off comic, "Ghosts", at io9.

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New pictures from the fantasy adventure City of Ember, directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House) and based on the novel by Jeanne Duprau. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) and Harry Treadaway (Control) play Lina and Doon, two teenagers who must discover the secrets of their city's origins before Ember's ancient generators fail and the lights go out forever. [imdb]

Trailer for Gus Van Sant's Milk, starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America. Also featuring Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, and Victor Garber. [imdb]

Clip from Neil Burger's comedy-drama The Lucky Ones. Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peña play three very different U.S. soldiers who find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America. [imdb]

Promo for BBC's fantasy-drama series about the legendary sorceror Merlin. Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy) plays Uther Pendragon. Santiago Cabrera (Heroes), bizarrely, is Lancelot. [imdb]

Stuart Jeffries at The Guardian talks to Dominic Cooper, star of The History Boys, Mamma Mia! and The Duchess.

Pictures of James Marsters as Piccolo in the Dragonball live-action movie. Yikes! (io9) [imdb]

The Battlestar Galactica movie has reportedly added ( *casting spoilers* )

USA Today previews John Hillcoat's The Road, adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. There are 6 new stills which show just how desolate the post-apocalyptic world it portrays (filmed in Pittsburgh) will be. The Road stars Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Michael K. Williams and Garret Dillahunt. [imdb]

Elvis Mitchell talks to Christopher Nolan about The Dark Knight.

The Wire alums, the AWESOME Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters have signed on to David Simon and Ed Burns' new pilot for HBO, Treme, which looks at the rebuilding of New Orleans post-Katrina through the eyes of local musicians. Khandi Alexander (CSI Miami) is also in negotiations to star. (THR)

Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael Culkin, Johnny Harris and newcomer Max Irons join Ben Barnes and Colin Firth in Dorian Gray. (Coming Soon) [imdb]

Lily Rabe (No Reservations) join the regular cast of David Milch's new pilot for HBO, Last of the Ninth. A police drama set in 1972, it stars Jonah Lotan (Doc Bryan on Generation Kill) as a young Vietnam vet who joins the NYPD as an undercover cop, and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as the detective who takes him under his wing. (THR)

Rolling Stone talks with Robert Downey Jr. whose next film is Tropic Thunder.

LA Times has Battlestar Galactica movie spoilers. ( *spoiler* )

io9 takes a look at spoilery script pages from the Dollhouse pilot.