People have been dreaming about loving giant women (or becoming giant women, for that matter) forever. But the Internet has fostered a really vibrant, creative community of people who've created artwork and lore. This fetish has a fancy name: macrophilia, according to this 1999 Salon article. There are actually two different types of macrophilia porn: There are women who've been hit with growth rays (or growth viruses) turning them into giants. And then there are men who've been hit with shrink rays or whatnot. The science-fiction origins of this fetish rest with movies like Attack OF The 50 Foot Woman and The Incredible Shrinking Man.

If you want to get the total awesomeness of giantess fetish, you have to go with artwork, which allows creators' imaginations to run wild. There are tons and tons of message boards and groups where people post their favorite art showing massive women and the doll-like men who love them. A lot.

And some of our favorite giantess art comes from Dream Tales, which kindly allowed us to feature a few images from their comics:

But adherents to this fetish also post tons and tons of homemade Photoshop collages, showing scantily dressed or naked women stomping across cities and trampling little men, including the one above, and these masterpieces:

There's even a giantess and shrunken men Flickr pool, where people post their own creations.

On the other hand, if you want actual professionally shot giantess porn, that exists as well. There are tons of pay porn sites that feature staged photos of women in their underwear, smashing model cities and stepping on toy soldiers. There's even HebrewGiantess.com, for those of you who just desperately needed "point of view" shots of a man looking up at a skyscraper-sized Jewish woman. Here are some of our favorite pay-site images:

But like many other niche fetishes, the love of giant women is (wait for it) big in Japan. Just check out this scene from a live-action video, featuring a man who's been shrunk to the size of a doll. The movie also includes scenes where the woman stimulates the helpless little man's tiny penis with a giant Q-tip. And the man climbs inside her vagina. But here's a nice scene where she licks his face and then he climbs onto her breast:

And then there's some amazing manga and hentai art from Japan, showing — among other things, a giant woman having sex with a giant robot.

Fans have also collected these amazing Kookai ads, featuring giant women and tiny men (via the defunct GTSFeet site):

So obviously, giantess porn, to some extent, is a fantasy about female power — women who grow to the size of a mountain are stand-ins for powerful women everywhere. But at the same time, you have to love the playfulness and sheer weirdness of the huge females crushing cities with the sheer force of their voluptuousness.

Sad news for the playful and clever collection of CG pals cast in Dreamworks Monsters Versus Aliens. While taking a conference call, Jeffey Katzenberg explained why the monsters needed to be put down:

I'd like to tell you there's a perfectly rational, clear and easy answer as to why not, but there isn't. There was enough of a consensus from our distribution and marketing folks in certain parts of the world that we would be pushing a boulder up a hill.

In my humble opinion, nobody knows how to market animation anymore, except Disney/Pixar. This makes me sad because I was dearly hoping for an Insectosaurus stuffed animal, and it was all but impossible to find. Still haven't seen it in stores. But besides the marketing the movie fared pretty well in theaters and was wildly entertaining. So this is sad news.

Sadly this will be the last time we spend with our dear Monster friends, in this brand new Halloween special clip, on Tonight! That is until they get their own TV show...

[via Slashfilm]

Star Trek:

Even though the new Trek movie includes time travel, creating a new timeline, large amounts of the stuff in the movie is "true" for either timeline, argue writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. And yet, the new timeline is different enough to account for any inconsistencies, like the Enterprise being built in Iowa. [Sci Fi Wire]

Iron Man 2:

Director Jon Favreau Twittered a picture of Sam Rockwell during rehearsals for the new movie with Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey, Jr. And meanwhile, Mickey Rourke was photographed in New York — is this his new hairstyle for the movie? [IESB and TMZ]

Monsters Versus Aliens:

By the end of the movie, Reese Witherspoon says her character is calling herself "Ginormica" instead of Susan, and speaking in an action-hero voice. [Fresno Bee]

Lost:

Yes, Ben got shot... but Young Ben actor Sterling Beaumon says he's in two more episodes of the show. But there will definitely be repercussions from the shooting. It gets talked about quite a bit. And this isn't the incident that turns sweet, loveable Ben into older, evil Ben - that doesn't happen quite yet. And "that big older mean Ben that we know may not even exist," says Beaumon. Also, we may never learn what happened to Olivia, Horace Goodspeed's earlier significant other. And Elizabeth Mitchell says "there's a good reason" why Daniel Faraday is missing in 1977, which "flows really nicely for the character." [TV Guide]

In related news, someone found this picture of Young Ben from Lost Untangled. [SpoilersLost]

An inside source claims, based on recent filming, that the finale will include an attack on the Dharma Initiative that focuses on the latest Dharma station that's under construction. Rose, Bernard and Vincent will all appear in the finale. And Jack has some "explosive plans" which may lead to "the Incident" of the episode's title. [SpoilersLost]

In a podcast, the show's producers say next week's episode will include some Kate flashbacks. We'll see enough of the four-toed statue to determine exactly what it is. And by the end of this season, Ben will explain why he killed Locke. And Miles will reveal why he specifically wanted $3.2 million. [Doc Arzt]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here's what happens in the season finale, "Born To Run":

The Connors come face-to-face with Weaver in a confrontation that shakes John to the core and changes his reality forever. Nothing will be the same.

And here are some pics, including an intense John-Cameron conversation, and the Connors going with James Ellison into Zeira Corp.

Eureka:

Sci Fi Wire interviewed all of the show's cast about what's coming next for their characters. [Sci Fi Wire]

Supernatural:

In case you missed it, here's the pretty hilarious promo for "The Monster At The End Of This Book". [TV Guide]

Reaper:

Here's a new clip from next Tuesday's episode. (Thanks Oliver!)

True Blood:

We'll be seeing more supernatuaral stuff in the show's second season, says actor Carrie Preston. And as you've probably already heard, the second season will depart from the books to a greater extent. We're going to follow Jason, who's going to veer off the path a bit, while Tara has gotten herself involved with some questionable characters. As for Arlene, she's not the sort of person to stay single very long. [Sci Fi Wire]

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins.

In Monsters Versus Aliens, a woman named Susan gets hit by a meteor and becomes a bleach-blonde giant on her wedding day, so she's shipped off to a secret government facility where a host of classic monsters are kept. At the same time, a giant robot arrives from outer space to conquer the planet on behalf of the evil Gallaxhar. Conventional weapons are no use, so the government decides to send Susan and the other monsters to fight the alien menace.

Spooky improv at a distance:

The recording process for Monsters Versus Aliens sounded totally demented, the way Vernon described it. On the one hand, stars like Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert and Rainn Wilson were encouraged to make up their own dialogue and go crazy with the script. On the other hand, none of the actors were ever in the same room together - except for one scene between Reese Witherspoon (Ginormica) and Paul Rudd (Derek, her fiance).

"That's one reason we enlisted these great comedic actors: We needed the dialogue to sound completely natural, because this was an ensemble cast," explains Vernon. But at the same time, "they're never really together, in the sense of recording their dialogue together."

Instead, the actors were bouncing their dialogue off a "reader," named Stephen Kearin, and when they would ad lib, "he would come back at them" with an ad lib of his own.

So if Seth Rogen (B.O.B.) came up with a great line that wasn't in the script, the directors would go to Will Arnett and Hugh Laurie and tell them what Seth had said. And then Arnett and Laurie would make up their own responses. And then the tape would go to Reese Witherspoon. And often, it would end up coming back to Rogen a few more times, so he could respond to what the other actors had ad-libbed. And sometimes, Rogen would end up changing his original line of dialogue that had sparked all of this round-robin reinvention.

"It was very iterative," explains Vernon. The same scene would get re-recorded over and over, "more than several times."

The benefit of 3-D:

Since James Cameron told Time Magazine that proper 3-D movies use more neurons in your brain and create a "real" experience, I asked Vernon if the MvA audience might possibly think they were watching a documentary. He didn't seem to think so. But he did think that having the movie in 3-D made the sight gags pop more. And it allowed you to become more invested in the characters and "more on the edge of your seat when they're in danger."

Are classic science fiction films the new fairy tales?

Vernon directed Shrek 2, which plays with the classic Disney formula of making old fairy tales into animated source material. But now he's making a film that uses classic science fiction characters like the Blob, the 50-foot woman and the creature from the Black Lagoon in place of fairy-tale characters.

Vernon says he thinks these characters are "atomic-age fairy tales: each one of them has a certain idea behind it, and a certain moral, and a certain story theme." Many of the 1950s movies are about what happens if the bomb drops, and "what would be the fallout." So in a typical 1950s movie, "this was a fish that absorbed atomic radiation, and grew to be 1000 feet tall. And now it's flopping around New York eating everything." So whereas a fairy tale might have a moral about jealousy or talking to strangers, these 1950s movies have a moral about being careful with atomic weapons.

And Vernon definitely hopes MvA will appeal to adults who remember seeing these old monster movies on television. "It's like these characters kind of transcend time" and keep getting reinvented for new generations. Frankenstein has already been around since the 1800s and on film since the 1930s, but each generation makes its own Frankenstein story. "They're always going to have new generations becuase of the way they're updated. There was even a new Blob movie put out. We wanted the adults to remember those movies and know the movies and kind of nod to them. It's nostalgic and pulls at the heartstrings a little bit."

At the same time, Vernon would rather reinvent these old characters and ideas than do a straight-up remake. "You have to give everything a new spin," he says. "The original is always going to have more punch."

Yay for empowerment!

So what's the moral of Monsters Versus Aliens? Vernon says there are "parallel messages" going on at once. "I think the main message is for Susan (aka Ginormica), [and that is] 'Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do, and who you are. Be proud of who you are, and don't let anyone stop you doing what you want to do.'" And once Susan learns this lesson, she passes it on to the other monsters. She also learns not to let her weatherman fiance Derek treat her like dirt any more.

Star Trek:

Leonard Nimoy talks to SciFi Now, and explains that the Spock he plays in the new movie is not the same one he last played 17 years ago in Star Trek: TNG.

Spock has evolved in the sense that a lot of personal experiences have affected him. On the other hand, you've got Zachary Quinto coming into this movie, who is even slightly before the Spock I played in the original series. You're seeing him even before the place I was playing the character on the original series, and you're seeing me giving a performance that's totally after all of that. This movie contains a very broad spectrum of the Spock.

And Nimoy says he has a scene with Zachary Quinto that's a "mind twister." Also, he hints that he could come back as Old Spock in another film, if the producers wanted. [Trek Movie]

Also, Star Trek Magazine talks to designer Scott Chambliss, who explains the military transport shuttle has the air of a real military bus. "It's got the textures, it's got a little bit of peeling paint, the safety bars and the seatbelts that you just know makes sense in the world now, so will makes sense 200 years from now." Also, the Narada interior is "minimalist, with excessive detail, and brutalist." (No, I have no clue what that means.) And Spock's time-ship is called the Jellyfish. The containment field inside the Jellyfish is a "big red ball"; apparently every project Chambliss does with J.J. Abrams has to have a big red ball in it. [TrekMovie]

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen:

Co-writer Roberto Orci answered more fan questions. Apparently, it's not too far off to speculate that the Fallen enslaved the ancient Egyptians and forced them to build the pyramids, which are actually "space bridges." Very few Autobots can fly in the film. Also, the Fallen will have dialogue in the movie. And he hints that Leonard Nimoy might voice the Fallen, if Frank Welker doesn't do it. [TLAMB]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine:

It's been a couple of days since Ryan Reynolds tried to explain how the movie version of Deadpool relates to the comics version. In his latest interview, where he says the movie "really does trace the origins of the character. You really see his birth, his evolution from Wade Wilson to Deadpool, and really he is more or less the creature that becomes Deadpool later on, but we see his kind of, you know, humble beginnings." Probably the only time the words "humble" and "Deadpool" will ever share space in a sentence. [MTV]

Avatar:

Time Magazine saw a bit of 3-D footage from James Cameron's epic movie. The planet Pandora has a "lush jungle-aquatic environment" and includes a "nine foot tall blue, dappled dude." (Who abides. I'm just guessing.) [Time]

Monsters Versus Aliens:

Variety has an early review of Friday's animated 3-D smackdown. A few new details: apparently Derek (Paul Rudd), the weatherman that Susan is supposed to marry before she becomes giant, is a preening moron and Susan is lucky she's spared marriage to him. After she becomes giant, she's tied down like Gulliver and carted off.

The film focuses on Susan to the point that the other monsters often don't have much to do, and it becomes a "rote female-empowerment story." When Susan returns home for a brief visit, Derek summarily dumps her. And Susan does sexy James Bond-style silhouette gymnastics during the end credits, to appeal to male viewers.

The alien would-be invader, Gallaxhar, can create an army of identical clones of himself. The monsters must "creatively pool their talents" to defeat his army. Also, nobody dies in this movie, because it's utterly kid-friendly. [Variety]

Doctor Who:

We already mentioned that Jessica Hynes, who played the Doctor's girlfriend, Joan Redfern, when he became human, would be back in the final episodes of David Tennant's run. But now it's official, thanks to these set pics. But it's the present day, not pre-World War I England. And Hynes appears to be playing someone named Verity Newman (a play on Doctor Who's creators, who included Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman.) She's written a book called A Journal Of Impossible Things, apparently based on the journal the humanized Doctor left behind. (Note the pocket watch on the cover.) And she's doing a book signing, where the Doctor shows up to have words with her. The Doctor is stern but sad, then he turns and walks away. Photos by Alun.Vega, Scooty and ViveLeSteve. As always, you rule! [Planet Gallifrey and Den of Geek and SunnyTyler and TARDIS Newsroom]

Also, someone saw a trailer for the Easter special, "Planet Of The Dead," during a rugby match, and it included shots of London (Cardiff) and a desert planet (Dubai). And Christina (Michelle Ryan) doing a "Mission Impossible" style break in with wires and a harness, and then being chased by the cops. UNIT troops shoot at something after Col. Mogambo announces a "Code Red." A smoking, burned corpse appears in the tunnel. The Doctor and Christina are aboard the bus. And the Doctor, in another scene, asks Christina if she's ready. And a woman says "We're dead" over and over. [Planet Gallifrey]

Torchwood:

The five-part miniseries allows for more character development and a larger canvas, says director Euros Lyn. Also, the story's crux, of every child on the planet stopping dead still, happens in the very first scene. [Comic Book Resources]

Fringe:

Here's the official description of episode 1x15, "Inner Child":

Just seconds before a building is demolished, a mysterious mute child that has been living alone underground is discovered. When the FBI's Fringe Division investigates, the boy forms an unspoken connection with Agent Olivia Dunham. Meanwhile, an especially gruesome serial killer resurfaces and showcases his "artistry" by displaying his work publicly. As the boy gradually assimilates into a new environment, Olivia and the team must race against the clock to prevent the mad man from further macabre.

And here are some pics from the episode. [Fringe Television]

Lost:

Here's a pic of Daniel's Oxford PhD graduation, funny robe and all. [SpoilersLost]

Actor William Sanderson will be playing a Hunter S. Thompson-esque character in an upcoming episode. And here's our first glimpse of Sayed Badreya, playing Young Sayid. [SpoilersLost]

And apparently the show is shooting a big wedding in its season finale, which could be a major plot point. [E! Online]

Chuck:

Ryan McPartlin, who plays Captain Awesome, says his character gets more action at the end of the season. He gets worried about Chuck, so he starts following him around. He asks questions he shouldn't be asking and pokes his nose into places he shouldn't. And this leads to some "fun stuff" and some "emotional stuff." But we may have to wait until season three (if any) to see if Awesome gets thrown into Chuck's "other life." And stuff goes wrong (of course) with Awesome and Ellie's wedding. [Sci Fi Wire]

And here's a promo that includes footage from Chuck and Heroes:

Heroes:

Good news! IMDB says Christopher Eccleston will be back as Claude in the show's season finale, the appropriately titled "Invisible Thread." [SpoilerTV]

And here's the official description of episode 3x23, "1961":

THE HAUNTING SECRETS OF ANGELA PETRELLI'S PAST CAN'T STAY BURIED FOREVER

As Nathan (Adrian Pasdar), Claire (Hayden Panettiere), Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) and H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) help Angela (Cristine Rose) uncover her past, she reveals the dark secrets that have haunted her for years. Meanwhile, Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) learns of his father's involvement in a long forgotten government operation.

[Heroes The Series]

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine:

Yet another update on the Deadpool controversy. Ryan Reynolds confirms that the weird figure in the trailer with his mouth sewn shut and the freakish tattoos is him, and that it's Deadpool. "When I'm in the scarred makeup, too... you'll see closer shots, obviously, in the film." You can see in the video, the reporter even asks a follow up question to make absolutely sure "the dude with the mouth sewn shut" is Reynolds, and he says yes. [MTV]

Monsters Versus Aliens:

A couple of pretty hilarious TV spots have been airing the past few days, including some new footage of the monsters meeting Ginormica's family and stuff. This movie may be the only time I ever find Seth Rogen cute.

The Thing:

Scribe Ronald D. Moore repeated that his script is a prequel, and added it's a "companion piece" to John Carpenter's original movie. It links up with the Carpenter film, and doesn't try to reinvent it. A director (Matthijs Van Heijningen) is assigned, and now he's waiting to see if Universal Pictures greenlights it. [Sci Fi Wire]

Doctor Who:

The Tenth Doctor will face creatures from Mars right before he regenerates, according to a report from the Mirror. (But it's not clear if these are Ice Warriors, or some new creatures. Or possibly the guys from "Ambassadors Of Death," who were not technically from Mars, but hung out there.) Also, two villains in the final episodes will be played by Neighbors star Peter O'Brien and "glamorous actress" Gemma Chan. [Mirror]

Battlestar Galactica:

Ron Moore tells Sci Fi Wire it was important for him to deliver a finale that tied up most of the loose ends and left a few people dead. (From which I infer, not everybody dies?) [Sci Fi Wire]

Also, the first hour and a half of the finale is so intense, you'll be breathless. And Mary McDonnell, in particular, will have you in tears more than once. A ton of questions will be answered, including some you'd think they wouldn't have time to address. [TV Guide]

Lost:

That mystery upcoming death? Apparently, it's not Sawyer. Also, don't expect to see Nikki again on the show this spring. [E! Online]

What's going on with Young Ben in the upcoming episodes of Lost? Actor Sterling Beaumon explains:

You're going to find out how Ben became the mean, cruel Ben that he is today. And you're going to find out about the roots of the island and how the island became the island. ... In two of the episodes, I'm really not doing a lot, but you just see me a lot, and you'll see what I mean by that.

And he says he's not really doing an impression of Michael Emerson, for a reason that will become apparent. [Sci Fi Wire]

There are six pages from the season finale script that detail some huge twist, which only the actors involved get to have... and Elizabeth Mitchell says she's not one of those people. And Juliet has a lot of insecurity over Kate coming back, and how Sawyer will react. [TV Guide]

Dollhouse:

This week's episode will make you gasp at least once, and possibly rewind to see if someone said what you thought he/she said. And the episode features one of the best hand-to-hand fight scenes ever, a "cool reveal" about the Dollhouse's business model, and lots of shirtless Tahmoh Penikett. [TV Guide]

Also, this Friday's episode is Sierra-centric, and focuses on a documentary about the "urban legend" of the Dollhouse. There's some "sexy time" going on "behind the scenes" in the house, and some of it involves Sierra. And as we've mentioned, Echo and Paul also come face to face. [E! Online]]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

The official description of the season's penultimate episode, "Adam Raised A Cain," fills me with giddy excitement:

When John attempts to rescue Skynet's latest target he finds himself closing in on Weaver, but at what cost? Game plans change, causing Sarah and Ellison to reunite. Meanwhile, Weaver learns Ellison's secrets.

[Sarah Connor Society]

Fringe:

When we find out what Peter's "condition" is, we'll understand why Walter has been so desperately attached to him, and so concerned about him. [TV Guide]

Life On Mars:

Producer Josh Appelbaum hints that the American version of this time-stranded cop drama will have a very different ending than the U.K. version. But he also seems to be saying both Sams are in a coma, so it's hard to tell. [Slice Of Scifi]

Smallville:

Meteor freaks start dying out in Metropolis, but Doomsday may not be to blame. [E! Online]

Heroes:

Angela and Peter Petrelli are on the run together, now that the Hunter is in charge. They hide out in a church on Monday, and then after that they go "someplace special." And Angela has a big role in the rest of the season's episodes. [E! Online]

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins.

Star Trek:

Sonita Henry plays the doctor who delivers baby James T. Kirk — and her character is referred to only as The Doctor, she tells Starpulse. Sounds like she's not human, since she says she doesn't know what her character will look like when the special effects are added. She adds that during the scenes where the Kelvin is being destroyed and Kirk's dad takes command, "everything is being blown up, and Winona Kirk is trying to deliver [James Kirk]." [Starpulse]

Spider-Man 4:

Director Sam Raimi says right now, he's only thinking in terms of a story for the fourth installment of the web-slinger's series, not the fourth and fifth movies as one unit. And he says any villain (or villains, god forbid) will be straight from the comics. (He makes a point of saying "or villains.") And he's hoping Kirsten Dunst will be back as Mary Jane. [MTV]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine:

Ryan Reynolds seems to think a Deadpool spin-off movie is still a possibility after this film, and he explains that he does play both versions of the merc with a mouth:

I've had a couple of people approach for meetings about a 'Deadpool' movie, but I think it's absurd to even think that way until this movie comes out and I don't even look at it like I play Deadpool in that movie. I really think that I'm more or less playing Wade Wilson, obviously and then I'm playing the creature that will eventually become Deadpool. But in this movie it's sort of his newly formed version.

He also explains that Deadpool was just supposed to have a cameo in the film, but then they added more scenes, which he mostly shot after the movie was supposed to have wrapped, because of scheduling conflicts. [Movies Online]

Terminator Salvation:

Here's what appears to be a new poster for the film, complete with the slogan, "We Fight Back." Bigger version at the link. [Slashfilm]

Monsters Versus Aliens:

Here's a great behind-the-scenes featurette focusing on Rainn Wilson's villain, Gallaxhar. [Sci Fi Wire]

Chronicles Of Riddick II:

Star Vin Diesel clarified that although the second Chronicles film will start with Riddick struggling to survive against carnivorous monsters, it'll get much bigger and go to the Underverse. And then the third film will take us to Furya. Think of Pitch Black as Tolkien's The Hobbit, and the Chronicles films as the more epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Diesel suggests. [Sci Fi Wire]

Avatar:

Michelle Rodriguez says she plays a pilot on the movie's alien planet. [Sci Fi Wire]

Moon:

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), the miner stranded on the Moon, can only communicate with his wife, Tess, via recorded messages, never through live chat. Sam starts seeing things, such as a woman standing in the one of the station's bays, or glitches in recorded conversations that he's already watched... or conversations he doesn't remember having. He starts to wonder if he's really alone up there. [IGN]

Doctor Who:

Russell T. Davies talks us through the 2009 specials, starring David Tennant for the last time:

There's the Easter one and then a big gap, and then the other three are going to go out around Christmas time/end of the year. It ends in a two parter. There's a very strong link between the last three specials. It's not a three parter, but there's a strong connection - as we head towards the ending it gets thematically bigger and bigger. Everyone knows that David's going, so you start to write that into it. It's not like a giant spider suddenly turns up and kills him out of the blue! But even in Planet Of The Spiders his death was written into it quite properly. So there's a feel of that to it. Everyone knows where the story is heading, especially with Matt Smith being everywhere. It's nice actually - we play with that.

Davies also hints the Tenth Doctor's death will have something to do with that Ood prophecy that his song will end. And he says he's known how the Tenth Doctor will die for a long time, although some of the details have changed, such as the geography and who's where. [SFX via Sci Fi Pulse]

Battlestar Galactica:

A reader points out this eBay auction for a stripper costume as worn "in the 'Daybreak' flashback. When Saul Tigh and William Adama were at a strip club, Tigh tries to buy Adama a lap dance from the stripper wearing this outfit. This outfit features a blue pleated miniskirt with matching butterfly halter top. Miniskirt made by Serious, top's maker is unknown. Comes with assorted jewelry." And that's probably the same strip-club scene you can glimpse in these wrap-video images. [Thanks Max!]

Lost:

An interview with costume designer Roland Sanchez reveals a couple of spoilers: First, he had to create robes for a scene showing Daniel Faraday's PhD graduation at Oxford. And second, a character he thought we'd never see again is coming back... but she's played by a new actress. [Honolulu Advertiser via The ODI]

A fan got this set pic showing Sawyer filming at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum... and Sawyer had traces of blood on his face. [SpoilersLost]

Actor Malcolm David Kelley hints we may see Walt in the season five finale. And he refuses to comment on rumors that he's already filmed a scene from the series finale (because he'll be too old to play present-day Walt when season six ends.) [Dutch Lost via SpoilersLost]

Here's the synopsis for the April 1 episode "Whatever Happened, Happened":

Kate goes to extreme measures to save Ben's life when Jack refuses to help. Meanwhile, Kate begins to tell the truth about the lie in order to protect Aaron.

And here are some pics. [Doc Arzt]

Fringe:

When this show finally returns from its endless hiatus, in April, we'll learn a massive revelation about the mysterious William Bell. And we'll find out more about how Walter, Olivia and Peter were all linked from the beginning. [E! Online]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here are a couple of photos from episode 2x21, "Adam Raised A Cain." [Sarah Connor Society]

Heroes:

Here's the official synopsis for episode 3x22, "Turn To Face The Strange":

RELATIONSHIPS ARE TESTED AS DANKO TAKES THE OPERATION TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL – EMMY AWARD-WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK GUEST STARS – As Danko (guest star Zeljko Ivanek) spearheads the government operation, someone close to him is put in the line of fire. HRG's (Jack Coleman) life continues to spiral out of control and his marriage is dangerously close to the breaking point. Meanwhile, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) continue their road trip with a special delivery for Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg). Elsewhere, Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose) unearths the demons of her past.

[SpoilerTV]

The flashback episode, "1961," will feature a young version of Dr. Zimmerman, the scientist responsible for creating an army of superpowered Ali Larters. Larter, meanwhile, will be in the season finale after all. And it looks like Peter Petrelli gets pretty messed up in his D.C. Capitol battle with Sylar, in episode 3x25, judging from these set pics. [The ODI]

Chuck:

Here's the official synopsis for episode 2x19, "Chuck Vs. The Dream Job":

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR CHUCK WHEN HE FINDS HIS FATHER AND LANDS HIS DREAM JOB OR SO HE THINKS - CHEVY CHASE AND SCOTT BAKULA GUEST STAR - Chuck's (Zachary Levi) life seems to be coming together: his long-absent father Steve (guest star Scott Bakula) has returned and he's landed his dream job with his hero Ted Roark (guest star Chevy Chase). Unfortunately for Chuck, neither turns out to be quite what he expected.

[Chuck TV]

Also, in the following episode, Jordana Brewster says she returns to the show as Chuck's ex, Jill. She gets broken out of jail so she can work with Chuck and Sarah. [Sci Fi Wire]

Smallville:

Here's what happens in episode 8x18, "Eternal":

Tess (Cassidy Freeman) tries to kill Davis (Sam Witwer) by blowing up his truck. However, after he escapes, she realizes she needs help to destroy him and turns to Clark (Tom Welling). Tess reveals Davis' secret childhood with the Luthors and hints that she knows Clark's true identity. Meanwhile, Davis runs to Chloe (Allison Mack) for help.

[SpoilerTV]

Supernatural:

Here's the Canadian trailer from episode 4x16, featuring lots of blood-drinking!

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins.

It looks like Gallaxhar takes Ginormica prisoner at some point and rants to her about his plans for universal domination? I think that scene with the pink bars and stuff shows up in the trailer as well. And Ginormica takes her fellow monsters, including Dr. Cockroach PhD (Hugh Laurie) and B.O.B. (Seth Rogen), to meet her parents. Awww. Plus Ginormica seems to become pretty friendly with General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland).

Monsters Vs. Aliens is in theaters March 27, in 3-D.

Monsters Versus Aliens is out March 27th.

Wolverine:

Dominic Monaghan gives a teeny bit of background on what his character, Beak, is doing in this movie:

My character's story begins the angry motivational moves for Wolverine. I'm a guy who was friends with Logan in his earlier Army days, and something goes down in an Army sortie, and because of that, Logan gets brought back into a combat scenario.

[E! Online]

Terminator Salvation:

The Academy Awards showed a super-brief montage of clips from this movie during its closing credits.

Monsters Vs. Aliens:

The closing credits during the Oscars also included a shiny eight seconds of clips from this upcoming movie:

Dragonball Evolution:

The movie did a press conference in Korea, and a few snippets of new footage showed on Korean TV. [DB The Movie]

Battlestar Galactica:

Here are some pics from episode 4x17, "Someone To Watch Over Me." [SpoilerTV]

Fringe:

Keep looking in the backgrounds of the upcoming episodes, because another "observer" may be turning up soon — and co-creator Roberto Orci says it may be a female observer this time. [E! Online]

Also, Jasika Nicole says she'll finally get more screen time in an upcoming episode, as we learn why Astrid was chosen to do such a crucial job and have access to so much crucial information. [E! Online]

Dollhouse:

Here are some pics from the show's fourth episode, "Gray Hour." [Multipleverses]

During that episode, Echo gets "remotely deactivated" by telephone, and it's bad news. And the mysterious former doll Alpha is responsible. [E! Online]

Lost:

Getting back to the island is not what the Oceanic Six expected, says actor Jorge Garcia, and the O6 get split up and scattered through time. The time-jumping storyline will continue, but with a pause in one decade (the 1970s, I guess.) And there are more hints that Sawyer and Juliet will be hooking up long-term, at least for now. Also, Sawyer is becoming more of a leader and gaining some substance, says Josh Holloway. Sawyer's leadership role will put him in opposition to some of the Oceanic Six's goals, and cause him to butt heads with Jack. [TV Guide via SpoilersLost]

Here are some sneak peeks from tomorrow night's episode.

Heroes:

Joshua Rush appeared as Young Sylar in a photograph shown during the first episode of the "Fugitives" story arc (see pic, right), and the young actor blogged that he'll be back in next Monday's episode, playing Young Sylar, probably in a flashback of some sort. [SpoilerTV]

We'll see more of Rebel coming up, and it's looking increasingly likely that he/she is really young Micah. And Noah and Sandra may actually get divorced. Sylar remembers more of his childhood before he was given up for adoption, and we'll learn that one of his "signature" psycho killer acts runs in the family. (Like, dad used to slice people's foreheads too?) [E! Online]

Supernatural:

Here's a new trailer for episode 4x15, "Death Takes A Holiday." Anna the "disgraced angel" is back, and so's Tessa, the reaper who tried to claim Dean back in the season two opener. [Thanks Amy!]

And Dean and Bobby start an intervention for Sam, over his addiction to demon blood, and keep him prisoner. (Bondage!) Also, the show is casting a cutie-pie 11 year old who's suddenly possessed and turns into an ice queen, which means Lilith is probably coming back. [E! Online]

True Blood:

The show put out another casting call, this time for episode 2x05, "Never Let Me Go." They're looking for someone to play Gabe, a fierce drill instructor at a boot camp for vampire hunters; Stan, Godric's metrosexual lieutenant in Texas, who dresses in fancy Westernwear and is a volatile troublemaker; and Isabel, an elegant Hispanic vampire and Godric's other lieutenant. [SpoilerTV]

Also, we'll catch up with Eric in 10th Century Scandinavia, when he was first turned into a vampire. [E! Online]

Reaper:

Here's what happens in episode 2x02, "Dirty Sexy Mongol":

Sam's (Bret Harrison) been given a new assignment from the Devil (Ray Wise) but all he can focus on is finding out how Alan (guest star Sean Patrick Thomas) got of his deal with the Devil. However, after Sam and Alan are attacked by two demons sent by the Devil, Alan refuses to talk to him anymore and disappears. One of the demons takes a surprising interest in Ben (Rick Gonzalez).

[Reapersite]

Also, TV Guide says Sam, Sock and Ben come back from their male-bonding road trip to find they've lost their jobs, and Sam's in hot water with Andi over all his evasions. Andi gets a promotion at the Work Bench, and there are some new characters that add complications (such as love triangles) to existing storylines. [Reapersite]

It's pretty amazing to see all the work that went into crafting this insane rollicking adventure — from the guy wearing 3-D glasses to animate a scene, to the "camera" tracking as it goes down a staircase into the president's briefing room. Even more than all of the adulatory featurettes and cool soundbites, this look into all of the movie's insane prep work is making us excited for a crazy 3-D ride.

I'm having a hard time deciding which comical monster is more adorable — Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach, PhD, or Will Arnett as The Missing Link. Either way they've really assembled the cream of the crop as far as clever comedic talent goes. I can't wait to see the big monster showdown. Also revealed in this little featurette, our monster pals are being held in monster prison, so they have to defeat the evil alien (Rainn Wilson) to win their freedom.

Monsters Vs. Aliens hits theaters on March 27.
[Yahoo]

After seeing a large chunk of the movie's first third, I'm still pretty excited. The voice performances, by talents like Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland, are just as fun as you'd expect. The movie is jam-packed with silly in-jokes and ridiculous sight-gags, at least half of which are genuinely super funny. I'd say it's not quite as great or memorable as The Incredibles, but several heads better than 99 percent of other animated films.

Here's my rundown of the scenes we got to see:

First scene:

A 350-foot tall alien robot has landed in Modesto, CA, as a reporter explains. The president (Stephen Colbert) tries to confront the giant robot, which has a single swiveling blue eye. The president leaves his guards behind and ascends a giant staircase that leads up to the alien's eye. At the top he plays a big synthesizer. (First he plays the musical message from Close Encounters, then "Axel F" from Beverly Hills Cop. All the soldiers and government spooks dance, stiffy.)

The Prez seems to be getting through! The alien puts out a little protruding item, like a communcations device. Colbert tries to shake hands with it — but it smashes his synthesizer. The robot sprouts massive legs and starts to walk.

The president barely manages to get away, and tells an army captain, "Do something violent." The army complies, but to no avail, and everyone has to withdraw. On his way out, the president pulls out a big gun and shouts, "Eat lead!" (No good. As the president says, "Turns out it eats lead.") Then the president lets himself be carried off, insisting that he's a brave president.

The missiles launched against the alien robot include one that says "E.T. Go Home" in giant letters.

Then we see a guy running to get into the secret bunker where the president is meeting with all his top advisors, and he has to get his eyes, hands, feet, and butt scanned to get in.

The president has two giant red buttons: one of which launches every nuclear weapon in the country, the other of which makes a latte. (Who designed that ridiculous system? he demands. And then it turns out it was him. In which case, of course it makes sense.) The president keeps almost pressing the wrong giant button, either by accident or because he's panicking. ("Damn good cup of joe," the president says.)

Just when all seems lost, General W.R. Monger (Sutherland) shows up and suggests a solution. (The bit you've seen in the trailer where he says "We need a hail mary pass, we need raw power, we need... monsters.")

He runs through a round-up of all the monsters and their origins. (The killer blob B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) is the result of an experiment in a fast-food factory involving ranch dressing and candy. Insectosaurus was irradiated and became giant, attempting to destroy Japan.) When each monster is shown, one woman in the room screams in a theatrical B-movie fashion.

Finally, she's dragged out of the room, but we still hear a scream when Ginormica's origin is revealed — it's the president.) One nerdy guy asks if we really want to have a monster problem added to our alien problem, and General Monger gives him a horrendous wedgie. The president gives the go ahead for the monster plan.

Second scene:

Susan Murphy (Witherspoon), the gigantic woman known as Ginormica, is asleep in her cell, when an alarm begins to sound. She thinks it's her honeymoon and asks her new husband to press the snooze button — then she wakes up and realizes she's actually giant, and her wedding never finished. (She suddenly turned giant on her wedding day after being hit with a meteor, as you probably saw in the film's trailer.)

Then the cell suddenly turns into an elevator and starts shooting down. She finds herself in a huge hangar in Area 52, where mysterious voices speculate on whether she's just a giant pair of legs or something more. A pile of gloop drops onto a table, and a shape scuttles out and hides behind it. The insect-man genius Dr. Cockroach, PhD (Hugh Laurie) pops out and introduces himself, and Susan tries to squish him in a very Bugs Bunny-esque sequence. "My brain will be in the Smithsonian some day, let's not ruin it, shall we?" he implores. Gradually, she meets the other monsters: the gelatinous B.O.B., the half-fish Missing Link (Will Arnett), the gigantic Insectosaurus, whose roar only makes sense to the Missing Link.

B.O.B. thinks Susan is a boy, and says "Look at his boobies! B.O.B. has no brain and says it's overrated. Then he forgets how to breathe, and Dr. Cockroach has to explain it to him.

They all get their food — nasty fish for the Missing Link, garbage for Dr. Cockroach and a giant ham bone which dissolves inside B.O.B.'s see-through flesh.

Susan tells the monsters her name, but they want to know her monster name. She says, "Susan." And they're all like, no, what do people scream when they see you coming, "Oh my god, it's —" And she's still like, "Susan." "Oooh, Sooosan," says B.O.B. And then he decides it is a scary name after all. "I just scared myself."

General W.R. Monger turns up in a flying jetpack harness, and tells all the other monsters to go back to their cells. Insectosaurus gets led around via a giant lamp that he stares at. Susan is thrilled to meet another real human — until she worries that the general is really one of those half-machine, half-human things. "A cyborg," the general says helpfully. "Aaaaa you're a cyborg!" she screams.

Third scene:

The monsters go to confront the giant robot probe in San Francisco. Ginormica gets chased down the street, and runs across the rooftops. She falls down one slanted rooftop, and hangs by her fingernails — and then she only falls! But she only falls a few feet because, duh, she's giant. And B.O.B. gets stuck to the underside of the robot's foot, and grabs a hot dog cart off the street for a snack.

Meanwhile, Dr. Cockroach, PhD has fitted a cable car with rockets, and is zooming down the street with the Missing Link. He tells the Link he'll pull up alongside the robot, and the Missing Link can get up inside it and access the control center. But just as they reach the robot, B.O.B. comes flying into the cable car, knocking the other two over. They go whizzing down the street until they land in the water.

Susan, meanwhile, has turned a couple of cars into improvised roller skates, and she's running away. She reaches a group of people trying to escape the city in their cars, so she has to dodge and weave around them while going a zillion miles per hour. And then the robot shows up when she reaches the Golden Gate Bridge, and starts smashing everything. She's trying to fight the robot and help the people get to safety. The other monsters (except Insectosaurus) show up and tell her she's doing great. "I'm doing everything!" she shouts.

Dr. Cockroach, PhD, runs up inside the machine's crushing mechanism, because nothing can crush a cockroach. He manages to reach a control mechanism. He puts two wires together — and only succeeds in generating a beam that hypnotizes Insectosaurus, who's shown up to fight it. The Missing Link is knocked out, so Susan tries to get B.O.B. to help. "Oh, sorry, I was just looking at that bird," B.O.B. says. She tells him to get the people out of there, so B.O.B. tries to pick up the cars and throw them off the bridge. "No!" she says. "Move the dividers!" B.O.B. starts eating the dividers on the bridge, so people can drive into the opposite lane and drive away.

Overpowered by the robot, Susan almost gives up, but then she gives herself a pep talk and rallies. She manages to knock the robot over so that part of the bridge comes down and slices it in half.

Most of Katzenberg's presentation had to do with the development of the InTru 3-D system. Proper 3-D film (as opposed to the clunky 1950s version) is the third great advance in film-making, after sound and color. From now on, every Dreamworks animation movie will be conceived, from the earliest storyboards, in 3-D.

I asked Katzenberg about the comic book Rex Havoc And The Ass-Kickers Of The Fantastic, which was rumored to be where some of the ideas in Monsters Versus Aliens came from. Said Katzenberg:

Rex Havoc is something that we did option, some many years ago. And that does have a monster hunter, I think, at its core. But the filmmakers, Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon... actually ended up creaing [MVA] from scratch. And so I think the similarities between those are fairly distant.

During the Q&A after Katzenberg's presentation, people asked why CG animation in these sorts of movies is not more photorealistic. Katzenberg replied that at $150 million a movie, CG animated films are much more expensive than just pointing a digital camera at actors. So in animation, it's better to go for "heightened realism."

Katzenberg also said he's seen a few minutes of James Cameron's 3-D epic Avatar, and it was amazing. And he admitted that the financial crisis has slowed down the financing of 3-D-enabled movie theaters, meaning there are a lot fewer screens available than everyone had predicted this time last year. So even though Katzenberg insisted every movie would soon be in 3-D, it might take a little longer than he'd hoped.

We've already told you about the fact that, because of NBC's plans to transmit the game in 3D, Chuck will be getting a special 3D episode, and during the game itself, upcoming animated flick Monsters Versus Aliens will be running a special 3D trailer, but those are just some of the treats lined up for us three weeks from now according to Variety:

Nearly every studio will push pics during the big game, airing on NBC Feb. 1, with the movie lineup naturally made up of summer tentpoles whose studios hope to appeal to the nearly 100 U.S. million viewers that tune in to the broadcast.

Expect to see brand new trailers for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (The first footage from the movie to be officially released), GI Joe, Star Trek and Land Of The Lost, in addition to the MvA trailer. And those are just from the studios that have already bought ad time. Still undecided are Fox (who could use the time to pimp X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Warner Bros. (Watchmen — well, maybe — Terminator: Salvation, and the new Harry Potter) and Disney (Race To Witch Mountain), meaning that it could end up being a very interesting afternoon's viewing for movie fans.

Of course, the sports fans may get some enjoyment out of the afternoon as well, but who cares about that?

Super Bowl push planned for film ads [Variety]

At first glance, Total Conspiracy is just a hilariously awesome conspiracy site, including pictures of flying dogs, alien coins (from the U.S. Treasury), and alien-influenced mathematicians. It's chock full of weird ranty videos by sitemaster Jeffrey Freedman, and essays on things like flu vaccines as an alien scheme to weaken us. (And I love the whole thing in the video, where he demands to know if the government had anything to do with the death of Robert Heinlein.)

But eagle-eyed reader James pointed me to the science fiction book covers in the latest video, posted above. Not only do they have great parody titles like Weirdo In A Weird Land, Probed: A Love Story, Scales Of Fear, The Boy Who Forgot The Time, Welcome To Our New Mechanical Overlords, My Big Fat GIant Revenge, and I Have No Brain And I Must Yell. But they also feature MVA characters like Bob (the blob), Dr. Cockroach PhD, Ginormica and a couple others.

Could this, too, be a conspiracy? Could Dreamworks be controlling the mind of an innocent UFO conspiracy nut, trying to get him to promote their movie? Only you can decide, by exposing your truth. [Top Secret Conspiracy, thanks James!]