King and Spielberg will executive-produce, and they're looking for a writer to adapt the book.

This would mark a return to TV for both of these prolific creators: Spielberg's best, in our opinion, was Syfy's Taken, and we've always loved the TV miniseries based on King's books, though they've varied widely in quality; maybe our faves are It and The Stand.

Does anyone else think Under the Dome sounds a lot like the story of the Simpsons movie?

What do y'all think of this new miniseries? Will you watch?

A lot of the visual effects look better this time around, too. The sparkling diamond skin is a little more subtle and feels more like part of the scene. Jacob's Parkour bouncing up the wall to Bella's window is much more impressive than Edward's tree-jumping in Twilight. The vampires move a lot more smoothly, and the visual of Victoria's red hair underwater is striking.

The new visual effects don't benefit from the trial and error of having a first film. The series' first try at werewolves looks like it belongs in the first film. The wolves look like fluffy Muppets. They're still blurry, as all Hollywood CGI work is, but at least their fights affect the environment. It's worth noting that they're crushing the forests while they fight, since they're really just painted in later.

Whatever improvements the filmmakers have made to the package, the contents are still the same. You either like teen angst or you don't. The story has a lot of buildup before cool stuff happens. Fans will read the subtext into the standard teen dating scenes, but the rest of us are kind of left waiting for the werewolves to come.

The teen socializing scenes have some of the film's most sincere moments, though. Jessica's (Anna Kendrick) riff on zombie movies is adorable. The fake movies that play at the cineplex are hilarious, if very silly, spoofs of action, horror and romance genres.

Plenty of it is still laughable. Edward's slow-motion brooding walk and Jacob's paraphrasing of the Incredible Hulk's line about getting angry don't resonate with casual viewers. And daintily running around a forest in slow motion is silly, right? But to a teenager who really feels that way, it probably means the world, so this movie is for them.

Now we know what director J.J. Abrams meant when he said he wanted to put more Star Wars in Trek. The Blu-ray is available in stores now.

Sounds like a job for The Equalizer!

You can read the tribute as it was intended on Wright's blog.

Biel is one hot E.T. Neera may only be a 16-year-old alien teen, but it's easy to see why Lem (Long) pines for her. Biel brought her sultry sex appeal to her voice and mannerisms, which the animators then put in Neera. "It was just about trying to create a 16-year-old girl who thinks she has this confidence and this sexy 'I am a woman' attitude and, at the same time, is really still trying to figure it out with boys and is still trying to see how far she wants to push the envelope with authority and what people tell her to do," Biel said. "I think I was just trying to create that person that I felt like I was when I was 16, which was confident but insecure, and pushing the envelope, but still feeling like she was a little kid, and thinking she was this strong, independent, sexy woman, but still not 100 percent there yet."

'50s retro is back in the best way. The society of Planet 51 seems to be living in what was our '50s. They've got the doo-wop, the pastels, the malt shops and the comic books. "Because it is set in an idyllic society that is also kind of repressed, since it mirrors our 1950s, it brings up a lot of issues that we dealt with and are still kind of dealing with," Long said. "Like paranoia in people who are a little bit different and judging people too quickly and harshly. In that sense, it's timely. There's a little lesson embedded underneath all the cute, fun, green stuff."

They may be aliens, but they're just like us. At its heart, Planet 51 is still a universal story, pun very much intended. The teenagers on Planet 51 still get nervous around girls and still have big dreams, whether it's exploring the galaxy or saving their own planet. "I had a very similar experience in high school," Long said. "I was just not as smart, though, sadly. Lem is a lot brighter than me." Biel added, "I related to Neera because, when I was 16, I was pushing it, on every angle, with my parents and the world. I thought I had it going on. I had a little bit more of a bad attitude as a 16-year-old. She's way more of a positive, charitable person than I was as a 16-year-old, but the risk thing, the independence and the confidence with Lem, I related to a lot."

It has sci-fi homages. Listen sharply to the dialogue in Planet 51 and you'll hear some familiar phrases: "You're my only hope," "Hasta la vista, baby."

It marks the debut of a new animation studio. Planet 51 is the first feature film by Spanish animation studio Ilion, which aims to compete with Pixar and DreamWorks. "We were all shown early stages of the animation and, even at that time, the animation was gorgeous," Johnson said. "It was really beautiful, and you couple that with the fact that those guys are so incredibly passionate about this project. They've been with this project since 2002, so it's been a long labor of love and a passion project for them."

While the Colt has been part of the series' mythology since the end of Supernatural's first season, the gun has become the key to opening up the gates of hell. Talk about a multitasker. The weapon cameoed in an episode that sent Dean back to 1974 and in another episode this season when the cheeseburger-loving Winchester ended up in the future briefly. Unfortunately, the ultimate weapon did not work on Lucifer ("The End"), who came dressed as Sam, and proved that white is just not Sam/Lucifer's color.

So what's so special about this gun besides having some cool special features, including a little Latin inscription that means "I will fear no evil," and a pentagram on the handle? Well, Supernatural creator Eric Kripke admitted last year that he and his writers have dabbled with the idea of giving the Colt its own series.

"When the writers and I are procrastinating in the room, we sometimes discuss a possible Supernatural spinoff, ... a prequel that relates the adventures of Samuel Colt and the band of hunters who roamed the Old West. As I said, I consider Supernatural a kind of modern-day western, so it'd be cool to go all the way with it and make an actual horror western. And I like the idea that the Supernatural universe is a fleshed-out one with a history that goes back centuries. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll be able to tell that story."

Perhaps. Until then we'll have to embrace tonight's tale, which takes Sam, Dean and Castiel into the lion's den in search of the Colt. And, yes, we already know it won't kill future Lucifer, but it should certainly be able to take out some other bad guys.

(Extreme spoilers ahead!)

Here's some of the Supernatural goodies we can look forward to tonight on "Abandon All Hope."

The promo claims, "One gun. One shot ... heard 'round ... the netherworld."

"Last words?" asks Sam. "Here goes nothing," says Dean.

Our best guess as to how the episode will come out? It's the Apocalypse! Maybe some death, destruction and the Colt going bang. Regardless, our mind-reading superpowers tell us we're looking at a big, hairy midseason cliffhanger ... sort of a Happy Holidays from the folks at Supernatural to keep us all warm and cozy till the series returns with new episodes on Jan. 14, 2010.

Are you ready for a big Supernatural mythology episode? How about a huge cliffhanger and then having to wait till mid-January for more?

And that will be that for William Bell, at least for now, Nimoy said: His current deal for Fringe guest spots is complete. "We agreed that I would do three episodes," he said. "I have filmed three. Two have been on the air. One will be airing sometime in the near future, and that's the extent of my commitment so far. I think the work that I did served a very important purpose, which was to explain the alternate side and what the major problem could potentially be."

In tonight's episode, "August," writer/producer Roberto Orci told us that viewers will meet "more than a handful" of other Observers and learn more about their culture. (So far, we've met only one Observer, played by Michael Cerveris.)

"Individuality will be one of the things that they will be fanatically struggling with, actually," Orci revealed in a separate interview. "That was a fun one, because that one was one where you're finally getting to pay off things you've been setting up for a year. You finally get to open the toy box and really play with those toys."

The Observer we know is enamored of spicy food, because his sense of taste is dulled. Other Observers might have different food-related quirks. "They all love flavor," said Orci.

We also know that the Observer just witnesses events, so it must have been difficult to construct a plot that made his whole race central to the story. "Depends on how involved they get, right?" Orci teased.

Fringe airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

In terms of production value, Urban said that director Scott Stewart packed Priest with sci-fi atmosphere a la Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. "He shot this scene on the old Warner Brothers lot where they shot Blade Runner, and he really out-Ridleyed Ridley," Urban said. "It looked amazing. Crowd scenes, people speaking different languages: It was literally just jumping off of the screen. Literally, the [assistant director] said, 'Look, if you can speak a foreign language, please, we want to hear it.' It was amazing."

The movie will also feature hard-core vampire action. Paul Bettany plays the film's hero, simply called Priest, and Urban described the no-holds-barred fight scenes they're filming. "I stomped on his finger and smashed my elbow into his face, gave him a cut lip, and he still worked, so he's a professional," Urban said. "I did extensive fight training for this, because, literally, one-third of the movie is action-based stuff."

We're in! Priest opens Oct 1. 2010.