Battlestar Galactica may be winding down to its final season, but the news isn't all bad: Sci Fi Channel has greenlit the BSG spinoff series, Caprica. The prequel is set 50 years before Battlestar Galactica and will follow two rival families, the Graystones and the Adamas.
Caprica stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcolmson and Polly Walker and will go into production next summer in Vancouver. Sci Fi has ordered 20 hours for season one, including a two-hour pilot. It is expected to premiere in 2010.
Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.