I don’t really pay all that much attention to genre awards shows like the Saturns, especially now, since they’ve added categories like “Best Action/Thriller”, etc. What the hell? I thought the Saturns was just about science fiction and fantasy? When did they start nominating movies like “3:10 to Yuma”? I don’t know, it’s not like I keep up with the history of the Saturns. In any case, here are the nominees for the 2008 (34th Annual) Saturn Awards for those who are interested in such things.

Director Roland Emmerich really, really hates the planet Earth and wants to destroy it over and over again (”Independence Day”, “The Day After Tomorrow”). Why? Sources tell me because once upon a time, when Roland was very young, Planet Earth kicked his dog, threw his grandma out the window, and set his house on fire. Yeah, that’ll piss anyone off. Emmerich’s latest is “2012″, an end-of-the-world movie that he’s shopping the script around to potential buyers.

I hesitate to say that this is, honest to Goodness, the first real piece of artwork from James Cameron’s highly-anticipated “Avatar” movie, because Cameron hasn’t shown squat to anyone, and everything I’ve thought were authentic have turned out not to be so. But hell, whatever, here’s something that may be from “Avatar” (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below).

A new image (at least as far as I can recall) from the upcoming Pixar CG animated movie “Wall-E”. Who wants to bet against this movie earning a couple of hundred million in its first few weeks?

“Best of” lists are catchy, but when you start getting into the “best of” genre films, it becomes really tricky. The American Film Institute has picked 50 movies that they believe are among the best sci-fi films of all time, and on June 2008, they will narrow it down to 10 and present them on CBS as the Ten Best Sci-Fi Films of all time. But what do YOU think is the best sci-fi movies of all time?

New Line Cinema’s CG-animated sci-fi film “Planet 51″ has just gotten its cast — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott, and Justin Long have all signed on to voice major characters in the upcoming animated movie, which sees Johnson as an Earth pilot who crash lands on an alien planet paranoid about an alien invasion.

Previously, we reported that Michael Bay, director of “Transformers”, has already finished up his script for “Transformers 2″, and now it appears as if he’s already shown it to the film’s star, Shia LaBeouf. The young buck tells Empire Online that the sequel will have “insane shit”. No, really. Read the rest of what Shia says below.

Now I’m really not sure what a horror site like Fangoria is doing providing info on a sci-fi movie like “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem”, but I’m not complaining. Fox Home Entertainment is releasing “AVP-R” on DVD April 15, 2008, and here is your first look at the DVD cover art and disk specs. The DVD will come in two versions — a 94-minute “R” rated and a 101-minute Unrated version.

If you’re one of the legion of Trekkies waiting with bated breath for December to see J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the Trek franchise with Star Trek 11, then you’ll just have to wait five extra months, because Paramount has decided that Trek 11 would make a better Summer flick than a Christmas flick, and has changed the film’s release date from December 2008 to May 2009.

If Aussie Sam Worthington is not trying to make his bones as Hollywood’s go-to guy for sci-fi epics, then he’s doing a heck of a bad job at it. After winning the coveted leading man role in James Cameron’s sure-to-be massive hit “Avatar”, Worthington has now landed the plum role in the upcoming “Terminator” trilogy, starting with the first, “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins”, alongside Christian Bale.