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The cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will wear white ribbons on their wrists at the film's world premiere in Leicester Square Tuesday as a mark of respect to murdered actor Rob Knox, BBC News reported.

If two hours and 42 minutes of Watchmen wasn't enough for you, you can enjoy about half an hour more on the upcoming director's cut DVD/Blu-ray, which is due this month, and director Zack Snyder promises that he'll personally guide you through the film's byzantine storyline, reveal secrets and bloopers and more.

As the horror/punk/metal/thrash band The Murderdolls sang, "You can knock on Ed Wood, but it won't do you no good."

What's the point of making fun of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It's going to be close: Preliminary box-office estimates for the July Fourth weekend show that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs are tied for the top spot, with and estimated $42.5 million in domestic ticket sales each, the Associated Press reported.

The long July 4th holiday weekend kicks off tomorrow, which for many of us means trips to the beach, burgers on the grill and fireworks (only where legal, of course).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Lost is one of the best sci-fi shows of the last decade, but if you're a longtime viewer, it can also one of the most frustrating. After an explosive start, it struggled to find a comfortable rhythm, answering its initial mysteries at the same time as introducing new ones, abandoning plot developments and new characters even as it constructed even more mythology.

When SCI FI's Eureka returns for the second half of its third season next week, it will immediately deal with the cliffhanger of Sheriff Carter (Colin Ferguson)'s firing. (Spoilers ahead!)

Robert Rodriguez, who is writing and producing Predators, confirmed to
Ain't It Cool News that Nimrod Antal will direct the movie, and he also offered up a few details about the film, which is supposed to reboot the franchise and move it as far away as possible from the Aliens vs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It's been a long, long wait for the return of Torchwood, but star John Barrowman, who plays Capt. Jack Harkness, promises it will be worth the wait when the series returns on July 20 for consecutive nights on BBC America in a five-episode mini-season called Torchwood: Children of Earth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Jim Carrey has been attached to play Robert Ripley, the cartoonist at the center of Ripley's Believe It or Not! through a series of writers and directors. He was not happy with the biographical script to be directed by Tim Burton.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share