Once you're in the Jossverse, it's hard to escape, Amy Acker has discovered. Not that you'd really want to. There are worse things than being associated with Joss Whedon, the writer-director-producer whose cultlike fanbase worships his creations: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and the upcoming Fox SF series Dollhouse.

Columbia Pictures is setting up a new installment of its blockbuster Ghostbusters film franchise, hiring The Office co-executive producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script, Variety reported.

Greg Berlanti is developing The Return, an SF TV series for ABC, with The 4400's Rene Echevarria through ABC Studios, Variety reported.

Summit Entertainment has released new teaser trailers for its upcoming vampire movie Twilight, based on the hit series of young-adult novels by Stephenie Meyer. Twilight, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, opens Nov. 21.

Denzel Washington will star in Book of Eli, a post-apocalyptic drama that will be directed by Allen and Albert Hughes, Variety reported.

>a href="http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2008/09/lost-casts-zule.html" target="outside">Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello reported that Zuleikha Robinson has been tapped to play the pivotal role of Ilana in the upcoming fifth season of ABC's Lost.

Freestyle Releasing and Fathom Studios announced a Dec. 12 release date for its computer-animated fantasy movie Delgo.

SF/fantasy author Daryl Gregory told SCI FI Wire that his novel Pandemonium takes place in an alternate America where "demonic possession" has been frequently but randomly occurring since the 1940s.

Fox Walden has released the new poster for its upcoming family fantasy film City of Ember, based on the book by Jeanne Duprau.

New York, New York: A city so nice they keep destroying it. In science fiction films, that is. The Big Apple is arguably the city most likely to be devastated by a giant monster or natural disaster in movies, in part because it has such lovely landmarks to devastate.

Guy Pearce thinks Bedtime Stories will be more than a sleeper hit. Pearce (The Time Machine), who co-stars with Adam Sandler in the upcoming family fantasy, told SCI FI Wire that the film is a return to form for the funnyman.

Guillermo del Toro is now booked with films through 2017, including remakes of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Slaughterhouse-Five, Variety reported.

Relativity Media may put Voltron: Defender of the Universe in the hands of helmer Max Makowski, Variety reported.

Ashley Judd is set to star with Dwayne Johnson in 20th Century Fox's fantasy comedy Tooth Fairy, which shoots in Vancouver, Canada, in October, Variety reported. Michael Lembeck is directing.

Publishers of Anathem by Neal Stephenson--the Hugo-Award-winning SF author of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, among other novels--have posted a preview video for the book, which hits store shelves on Sept. 9.

The After Dark Horrorfest III added From Within, a horror film from director Phedon Papamichael, to its lineup of "8 Films to Die For," screening Jan. 2-9, chief executive officer Courtney Solomon announced.

IDW Publishing is releasing The Transformers Animated: The Arrival, number one, the first in a series of new comics based on the continuity of the Cartoon Network animated series.

Stephenie Meyer, writer of the best-selling young-adult Twilight books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet, the Reuters news service reported.

Crime writer Victor Gischler told SCI FI Wire that he's making his science fiction debut with his latest novel, Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. The book was inspired by the work of Cormac McCarthy, but perhaps not the McCarthy novel you'd think.

When Fox's Fringe debuts next week, it will introduce a new Australian actress to American audiences: Anna Torv, who has appeared in some TV down under and elsewhere, but is otherwise unknown. But if Fringe--created by J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci--is a big hit, as Fox and several critics expect, Torv won't be unknown for long.