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Our video team snuck onto the press line for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and scored a few moments with stars Rhona Mitra and Bill Nighy, director Patrick Tatopoulous and writer/star Kevin Grevioux.

Every Wednesday, Kevin Carr vents on what Hollywood shenanigans are boggling his mind that week in a feature we call WTF. Every Thursday from now on, an FSR staff member will refute him in a feature appropriately named STFU.

While scouring the Comic-Con show floor, I found some things that fit pretty easily into the Officially Cool Category. One of which was this 30th Anniversary DVD set for Halloween.

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… South Korea!

Remember back to a time when you first saw Austin Powers and all the jokes were funny? Neither do we.

On Friday of last week, I reported in that I was pleasantly surprised at the footage of The Wolf Man shown at Comic-Con. Now, thanks to this leaked footage, you too can share the surprise.

With Comic-Con over, you don’t necessarily have to toss that special edition “Watchmen” T-Shirt in the closet. The day of the nerd is here and comic clothing is cool.

FSR Editor Cole Abaius reports in from the show floor at Comic-Con International 2008 in San Diego. He went out in search of celebrity interviews and scoops… He came back with this.

A look at the poster for “Saw V” as well as some cast insight into the type of ride we’re in for. Their consensus: terrifying.

We’ve got a first look at the final poster for Stuart Townsend’s Battle in Seattle, a quaint little indie just hoping to break on through to the other side.

Stuart Townsend has spent the past 15 years acting, and now he’s hopping into the director’s chair for the first time with Battle in Seattle. He sat down with FSR – we assume he was sitting; it was over the phone – to talk about riots, balancing the truth with fiction, and targeting the Obama generation.

During the press conference for Zack and Miri Make A Porno, a very enthusiastic cast made it clear that this is a film to run out and see on opening weekend.

This year at Comic-Con, we were introduced to a small production called Bitch Slap. It was a life-changing experience, to say the least.

Apparently Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the original Batman TV series, told the New York Daily News that she has knowledge that Angelina Jolie has inquired about playing Catwoman in the not yet announced third film in Christopher Nolan’s series.

Now that Comic-Con is over and we are done collecting all of the free stuff that we could set our eyes on, we have decided to go back to doing what we do best: hooking you up with the coolest movie-related freebies on the web.

Brian Gibson loves to buy DVDs. Come with him on his weekly journey into the depths of credit card debt as he tells you what to buy, rent and avoid.

At their Comic-Con press conference, the cast of Zack and Miri took on the topic of their favorite Kevin Smith films.

While Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone production is in obvious trouble, her next project is already being revealed. It’s a popular British fantasy book… Hmm…

The Star Wars creator has lots to say about a new Indiana Jones film, the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and how he’s not to be confused with Britney Spears.

The production’s still in the early stages of monster development, but “moviegoers can expect an upscale creature feature along the lines of… Pan’s Labyrinth.”

Kevin Carr rages against vultures jumping on the “Help Shia LaBeouf” bandwagon.

I have no idea how I missed it, but over the weekend Summit Entertainment released the first trailer for director Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom.

FSR’s roving reporter Robert Fure scours the Exhibit Hall floor at Comic-Con for the good (a hot chick dressed as a skimpy firefighter), the bad (a nut-kicking Spider-Man) and the ugly (an anti-social Cobra Commander).

“You should make a weed action movie,” Judd Apatow said to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and thus was birthed Pineapple Express.

QT may have found a big name with deep pockets to help bring Inglorious Bastards to a big screen near you.

Puny humans beware, the little Spartan helmet wearing man from Mars is headed for the big screen.

Depp will be getting his Tea Time on once again with the dark director.

The folks at MTV have confirmed what many Transformers geeks have been hoping for a long time — that the character of The Fallen will appear in Michael Bay’s upcoming sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

While much of the FSR staff was in sunny San Diego for Comic-Con 2008, our own Jason Dorough was sitting at home salivating over the collectibles announcements. Here is what really caught his eye.

Robert Fure was on hand to take a look at the newest edit of “The Mutant Chronicles” and gives you the lowdown on what’s to come.