At this point it's pointless to hold the rights for a movie that will probably never been made. Sure, Sci-Fi has a show and that would be a good reason to throw the episodes out there, but right now it's either getting a different region ala Hardcastle and McCormick/Riptide or just not bothering...
Well, it's not always that way. Notice how the Wild Wild West show came out this year when the blockbuster failure came out circa 1999. It's not a solid theory, but most of the times if there's a movie coming out companies will try to piggyback the marketing by putting out anything that can be...
Sadly enough, the only way we may get an answer on the series is if a movie was being made. Hollywood loves to use movies as an excuse to put out the original series. Granted that's not always the case--since the third Mission Impossible movie only got the series into release in September--but...