Ricky Gervais is still chubby but now is animated, J.J. Abrams discusses lens flares, Elizabeth Banks hits on Zac Efron, The Goonies, Michael Bay’s penis size. This is your very special humpday Early Edition!

Come for the Spider-Man 4 news and stay for the shot of Megan Fox in leather. You know you love it here in the Early Edition.

Variety is reporting today that New Line has purchased the rights to a female-driven comedy pitch called What Was I Thinking? with producer Lynda Obst (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and stars Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks attached.

Kevin Carr reviews the movies the studios didn’t allow him to see early this week: Taken and The Uninvited.

Neil has returned from Park City, but he’s decompressing from his fruitful Sundance trip. So Kristin Dreyer Kramer from NightsAndWeekends.com braved the Ohio snow and ice to make a trip to the Magical Studio in the Sky to join in this week’s fun.

Houseguests, whether they’re The Uninvited or not, can be rather annoying. Compare yourself to this checklist of bad traits to see if your friends secretly hate having you over.

The 2008 film season brought us beauty in both traditional and unconventional ways. While there has been an argument that leading ladies are few and far between, I think there’s a strong case to be made against that. This list of ten female figures will hopefully offer proof of that.

Forget the Best and the Worst of 2008. These are the actors, directors and producers that made the biggest impact on the world of film and how they might impact us in 2009.

I’ve been pretty vocal in my resistance to anything from Judd Apatow or starring Jonah Hill, so when I got a chance to see a comedy that neither had any involvement in, I jumped at the chance. That film was Role Models and is one of the five best comedies of 2008.

Kevin Carr looks at the slate of films in theaters this week with the FSR Report Card.

We’re sure that if you ask the real-life porno stars in the film (Katie Morgan and Traci Lords), they’ll attest to the fact that it’s easier to do your first porno if you’ve got some alcohol in your system.

Kevin and Neil bid adieu to the Magical Studio in the Sky while Neil prepares to embark on a cross-country Bohemian Gypsy travel adventure. They also talk about their favorite scary movies, porn star cameos and a bunch of other awful shenanigans in the newly-revived Internet-only segment.

Folks in the Beehive State are going to have trouble getting their laughs this weekend if Larry Miller has anything to do about it. And he does.

As part of the media accreditation I get passes to a bunch of non-gala films (mostly foreign films whose directors won’t be in attendance), but as a writer for FSR I took it upon myself to tackle the subject I know you care about most: porn.

A new clip from Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno has shown up online — it includes some random coffee drinker interrupting a very important adult film set.. or something like that.

I know we don’t like thinking about Spider-Man much these days. That third movie truly put a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth. But with that in mind, I think we need to look at some things that could be positive about Spider-Man sequels.

Kevin Smith’s next film might not hit theaters until Halloween, but that certainly hasn’t stopped people from talking about it. We’ve got a feeling that it has something to do with it having the word ‘porno’ in the title.

As he did during the production of Clerks II, director Kevin Smith has been putting together a bunch of fan-friendly behind the scenes webisodes for his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Check out the first one inside.

Instead of releasing a bunch of horror films and thrillers in the month of October, the powers that be in Hollywood have decided to release the trailers for their horror films in October, and release the actual horror films in January and February.

“I can’t believe this… I was delivering creme and now look what’s happening…”