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Do you like Princess Leia? Do you especially like Princess Leia in that scene from "Return of the Jedi" where she got captured by a giant slug and turned into a slave in a golden, metal bikini? Were you intrigued by the news that a dozen girls were going to dress up in Slave Leia and cavort around at Comic-Con...

Our partner Cinematical reported that at the press conference for Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. said Rachel McAdams called Sherlock Holmes "a love story between Watson and Holmes." Downey explained, "Well, actually what it is ... it's circumstantial homosexuality...

Sci-Fi Squad Reports: Ripping a page out of Warner Bros.' Dark Knight book, Disney was responsible for what was perhaps this year's coolest Con-related viral marketing ploy. In honor of Tron Legacy, the studio went live with a website that kept giving folks instructions, sending them on a scavenger hunt until finally unveiling Flynn's Arcade...

In one of those wonderful moments that only happens when insane geeks meet insanely popular geeks, Peter Jackson and James Cameron got an unexpected visitor during their recent Comic-Con panel. While they weren't being freaked out, Jackson and Cameron discussed the 3-D versions being made of "Lord of the Rings" and "Titanic...

The original panel for "Futurama" was billed as an event where we would "join executive producers Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and stars Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, and Maurice LaMarche for high-stakes thrills as a top-ranking FOX executive decides live, on stage, whether 'Futurama' will make yet another triumphant return or whether it is gone forever...

Last month, our partner blog SciFiSquad heard a rumor about The CW's "Smallville" ending its run with a TV movie called "Metropolis." The most exciting part of this idea was the possibility of seeing Tom Welling's Clark Kent finally put on the cape and tights and take flight as Superman...

Cinematical recently watched the unveiling of the car that Seth Rogen will be driving as he plays the Green Hornet in Sony Picture's 2010 summer film, The Green Hornet. According to Rogen, they looked at a lot of updated cars in presentations from different manufacturers, but in the end it didn't feel right...

While our partner blog TV Squad has John Scott Lewinski fighting his way through hordes of overweight Rorschachs and pre-pubescent Chun Lis we'd also like to highlight that Cinematical is in the house doing a bang-up job. The movie side of the annual pop-culture cavalcade opened with one of the biggest names in the history of film and what could very well be one of the biggest names in the future

From our partner blog SciFi Squad: Not long after the Tron Legacy panel, an awesome teaser trailer arrived online for the sequel. If you're a fan of the original, you'll love this -- and if you've never seen Tron, then I highly suggest you pick that sucker up and watch it before the sequel crashes into theaters next year...

The metal bikini that Princess Leia wore after being captured by Jabba the Hut in "Return of the Jedi" -- sometimes referred to as the "Slave Leia" costume -- has become a iconic fantasy for many sci-fi fans, playing a major role in an episode of "Friends" titled "The One With the Princess Leia Fantasy," and causing a frenzy when G4 host Olivia Munn donned i