No, this post is not about who could beat who in a fight.

Much like Harry Potter movies, I weather the Super Bowl every year un-apologetically for the commercials and commercials alone. Some, like the Geico Cavemen, become a cultural entity all their own, but this year it seems movie trailers are what's really important.

Like most things, if it's going to happen, it'll get leaked on the internet before it does, intentionally or otherwise. Two movie trailers slated to be shown during the Super Bowl have been dropped onto the internet this morning. Will Ferrel's adaptation of the 1974 TV series Land of the Lost is finally being revealed (I got my hands on a Sleestak shirt way back and have been patiently waiting for a teaser since) and, though overlain with triumphant fanfare soundtrack, doesn't do a very good job of hyping up the movie.

Those unfamiliar with the plot can go educate themselves on someone else's copy, probably wikipedia's. It seems the original premise of a dad and his son and daughter shooting through a worm hole went out the window and have been replaced by a love interest (Anna Friel) and a best friend (Danny R. McBride). Little of them was shown even though they'll be incredibly integral in keeping the movie together and breaking up Ferrel's banal tantrums. The 3-D effects were shown off, even though we already know they're going to look fantastic -- turquoise T-Rex and all. It seems the line producer didn't want to really commit to the Superbowl and so only paid for a palsy 30-second spot that ends up making the movie look REALLY rushed. Good job.

I'm still gonna go see it, though, because who the hell doesn't love Land of the Lost? Also, my gigantic man-child ego refuses to agree with everyone that Ferrel's lost it. He hasn't, really; he's simply, since realizing the payload from Anchorman will never cease, stopped trying to please everyone.

Finally a settlement has come between Warner and FOX, and thankfully in time to not have to move the movie's March 6 release date. Variety reports FOX will not have their logo on the film but will be receiving a cut of profits between 5% and 8.5% dependent on international sales. They will also be receiving somewhere between $5 and $10 million from Warner up front to cover their legal and development fees.

The two sides' legal council met with Judge Fees this past Friday to finalize the settlement, but it seems Larry Gordon, an early producer on the project, might be sued by Warner in the near future for creating this debacle in the first place. It's been reported Gordon took the film first to Fox and then Warner and might carry a heavy blame for starting this whole suit. That's all small potatoes, though. The big guns have, for now, been put away.

After many initial setbacks people were very afraid would kill the show before it even got off the ground, Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" is finally getting previewed on TV. For non-feral Whedon fans, Dollhouse stars Eliza Dushku whose character, Echo, is a woman who's being used by a very secret organization for a very unorthodox purpose.

'The Dollhouse' uses people like Echo whose memories have been wiped clean in order to temporarily imprint someone elses onto their brains and while this doesn't change their appearance at all, they contain the memories and personalities of the people they're imprinted with, until they're wiped clean once again. Sometimes, they're assassins, sometimes they're long lost loves; the 'Handlers' tout endless applications of their technology and are quite proud of their 'Dolls'. But Echo's beginning to gain memories resistant to the routine wipes she undergoes and so is starting to become aware of what she is.

Tim Minear is also working on the project and so should contain stylistic dialogue not unlike Buffy, Angel or Firefly. Like any other Whedon show, it's all about the characters and as many of these characters will act absolutely different from episode to episode, I wonder how this show will feel compared to other projects from Mutant Enemy, Whedon's production company.

Preview after the jump.

While most people simply enjoy Pixar, as an animation enthusiast bordering on the obscene, to me Pixar's movies are more of a semi-annual celebration that gets better every year. Each movie is, by nature, always better than the last from an animation point of view, and there's a distinct reason for this.

Each time Pixar releases a film, the team that designs the algorithms for their 3D physics engine get another new task to embark on, some kind of new problem that must be solved for the fundamentals of the movie to work. This time, it's high-flying environemnts, big open landscapes that, likely after WALL-E, the art designers will be happy to take on after painting gray-brown landscape after gray-brown landscape. Each time one problem is solved, it's free to be applied to each movie that follows. Bugs, rats, very detailed indoor and outdoor textures, robots, garbage, space ships have all been perfected by Pixar's creative teams. Now it's time for balloons.

"Up" features a curmudgeonly old man who wants to explore the world Jules Verne-style, who accidentally brings along a doe-eyed boyscout for the ride. Sneak peek after the jump:

I unfortunately missed this, but earlier this month Entertainment Weekly reported Shamalamadingdong has begun casting for his live action movie adaptation of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender:

• Aang will be played by Noah Ringer, an unknown Texan Karate wunderkind who was discovered during an open casting call.
• Katara will be played by Nicola Peltz (Deck The Halls)
• Sokka will be played by Jackson Rathbone (Twilight)
• Zuko will purportedly be played by singer Jesse McCartney

Toph will not be in the movie, which segues into some good news. Shaymalan plans to make three Avatar movies, one for each season of the original show, and as Toph isn't introduced until the second season, she won't be introduced until the second movie.

Special treat after the jump.

Check out my write-up if you missed it, but I honestly expect the 3D Astroboy to be quite good. If any anime can be translated from 2D to 3D, it's Astroboy.  Enjoy: