By Karen Moul

It seems one Dreamgirl isn’t enough for NBC’s Smash. Jennifer Hudson, who won a slew of awards for the 2006 film, joined the cast earlier this season as Veronica Moore. Next week iconic star Sheryl Lee Ralph, a 1982 Tony nominee for her work in the original Broadway hit, joins Smash as Hudson’s powerful mother/manager, Cynthia.

“I love this character,” Ralph said in a recent interview. “This is a woman who is so comfortable in her well-earned Manolo Blahniks that it is a joy just to get to play her.

“She's so grounded in the church but at the same time she knows how to handle the world. You can tell that she's been under the leadership of a strong bishop or two, you know? And I love that about her.”

By Jamie Ruby

End of the World, Syfy's newest original disaster movie, premieres tomorrow night. The film is somewhat different from the usual fair. Many of the Syfy Saturday originals are campy, whether they are meant to be or not, but this one is different. It's the ultimate disaster movie to end all disaster movies, almost a spoof of the genre, if you will. And it's really funny, paying homage to science fiction and disaster movie fans everywhere.

The film revolves around two such fan boys, played by Neil Grayston and Greg Grunberg, who work at a video store. Their world is turned upside down when their small town becomes a disaster of its own, with plasma rain that causes power surges and reduces people to ash.

By Jamie Ruby

The Celebrity Apprentice returns for a six season, with an All-Star edition, beginning Sunday, March 3rd on NBC. In preparation, Donald Trump, as well as celebrity contestants La Toya Jackson and Bret Michaels, talked to the press earlier in the week about the new season, the charities they are playing for, and some of whom and what we can expect.

According to Trump, the series is doing extremely well in the ratings, "It's the number one show at 10:00 on Sundays..it has been doing very, very well in the ratings and so I would anticipate that it would continue onward.

"... This is our 10th year, it's our 13th season. So it has been a great success and it continues to do very well in the ratings."

By Jamie Ruby

End of the World, the newest Syfy original movie, premieres tomorrow night. The movie follows two video store employees (Eureka's Neil Grayston and Heroes' Greg Grunberg) as they must use their disaster movie knowledge to save the world from destruction. They also get help from a mental patient, played by Brad Dourif, who's known to most as the voice of Chucky from the Child's Play franchise.

The three actors, along with executive producer Lisa Hansen, talked to the digital media recently to discuss the film, which airs tomorrow night on Syfy.

Grayston told SciFi Vision that his favorite part had to do with the actual process. "Sort of my favorite part was the whole filming process, because it was a really sort of open and free and it almost felt a little bit like gorilla film making at certain times because we were just sort of fighting for the light all day.

"But we also just got to play around especially a lot of the scenes involved just me and Greg just sort of bantering back and forth and we got to kind of explore that a lot and very quickly. So it was a really fun shoot just in general and it kind of all blurs together now that I think of it because it was so open and free, but it was definitely one of my favorite experiences filming something."

Syfy's new series Robot Combat League premieres Tuesday. In preparation, you have a chance to see some exclusive Robot Fight Cam video, from the point of view of the robot! All you have to do to participate is tweet with the hashtag #RCLonScifiVision (and mention @scifivision so I can track it)! Whatever site gets the most tweets will get to host this great exclusive content!

There's more photos at Syfy.com to check out as well!

The new film Phantom comes to theaters March 1st.

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

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'Ed Harris' plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (led by David Duchovny) bent on seizing control of the ship's nuclear missile. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Harris discovers he's been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail. 'Phantom' is a suspense submarine thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices.

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