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Here's a brief making-of featurette on Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con documentary, which opens in theaters and on VOD on April 6th.

Conan O'Brien has some footage imagining Michael Bay's version of the beloved sewer avengers.

Cursing the basketball gods because your bracket is broken? Searching for a tournament bracket which better suits your knowledge base? We present a multitude of 2012 non-sports tournaments, from popular culture, food, and corporate America!

The story circulating is that Ridley Scott started out looking to do a prequel to Aliens and the story turned into its own universe. Whatever the connection to Alien is or isn't, the Prometheus trailer does have a bit of the claustrophobic Alien look and feel. Have a look.

You heard Johnny Depp and Tim Burton had hooked up again to produce a feature film version of the classic 1966-71 gothic horror soap opera, Dark Shadows. Well, looks like there a trailer up for it and it just might not be quite what you were expecting.

Well, it's official, JOHN CARTER is being labeled a disaster, a flop, an "Ishtar" and anything else that signifies profit-and-loss ratio infamy. The media decided a while ago that this movie was going to be a disaster for Disney, and after finishing #2 for the weekend with barely $30 million—despite making over $100 million worldwide—every ill omen has been seen as sagacious. And the hate is baffling.

We've all heard the stories about how John Carter isn't tracking well, leading up to the movie premiere. We've all shaken our heads at why they didn't title it "John Carter of Mars" or "Warlord of Mars." Well, there's another group of fans that did something a bit more proactive than just shaking their heads. They took the available footage online and re-cut it into a new trailer. Dare I say, I better trailer. Anybody else like this one better?

We've received an official statement on the changed plans for the roll-out of the new Morgan Spurlock Comic-Con documentary:

INCEPTION whoom whoom music? Check.

Just a few short, happy days ago, we announced the the long-awaited release of Comic-Con Episode IV -- A Fan's Hope, the Comic-Con documentary by Morgan Spurlock. The VOD release was to be accompanied by a limited theatrical release which would include mini comic-cons at each stop, with comic-con-y activities like exhibits, costume contests and so on. Well, this rather mysterious item in the Sun-Sentinel states that the entire tour has been canceled:

New day, new Avengers poster. This time Black Widow is face front and the character in the brokeback pose is....the Hulk? Truly, this is the dawning of a new day.

Unlike last year's extremely uncomfortable Oscar® telecast, with its poorly-matched, inexperienced hosts, this year was as comfy as a cup of warm borscht, as Billy Crystal busted out venerable schtik and timing. Other than that, it was all a parade of white dresses, sequins, and very, very predictable wins. But a few moments stood out for Our Kind: