• Comedy Central’s Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire didn’t quite do it, but maybe the upcoming movie Your Highness will bring slapstick comedy back to fantasy. It’s due April 2011.

• Some great pics from ComicCon New York (right).

• A movie version of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune video game is on the way, directed by David O. Russel (Three Kings). At this point, I should probably remind you that the track record of turning video games into successful movies is about 0 out of 500.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows won’t be 3D after all. (Thank God. Maybe this stupid 3D fad is coming to an end.)
  

• Yoda was the movie’s first animatronic puppet. But originally, the plan was for it to be a trained monkey in a mask and suit.

• DC Comics lowered their prices — now Marvel is following suit. Price war!

• Hey, Doctor Who is coming to the U.S. to film!

• Speaking of HP, here’s proof that J.K. Rowling really did have the plot all mapped out: here are some of her plot notes for Order of the Phoenix (right).

• The first pics from Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. I miss Andy Whitfield, but I love it already.

• Daniel Radcliffe, from boy to man, in pictures!

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