Trailer - Seth Rogen's 'The Green Hornet'

At long last, there's a trailer (and new photos) for The Green Hornet. Seth Rogen was handed the project about three years ago, I guess, and the plan was he'd write it and star and then Sony/Columbia would get a director and off we'd go with an updated superhero movie - although he's not a superhero - with a comedic spin.

That was the plan, but Stephen Chow, who would have been a fantastic director for this, split, leaving two holes to fill because he was also the film's Kato. So, replacing him are Jay Chou on screen and Michel Gondry behind the camera. Sony pushed the release dates a couple times and now it opens in January, which isn't very reassuring. And yet...the trailer's not bad. It certainly doesn't show signs of the plague, and Jay Chou has a pretty good opportunity to run away with this thing. There are certainly some interesting shots here, but if I had to guess, I'd still say Seth Rogen will do more harm than good, because the comedy is pretty flat.

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'Star Wars' Animated Comedy Series On the Horizon

Here's an interesting disturbance in the Force: Lucasfilm has announced that it is creating a new animated Star Wars TV series. And it's a comedy, but not in the Jake-Lloyd-unintentional-laughter sort of way.

As strange as it might sound initially, Lucas is putting the project in the right hands. Seth Green and Matthew Senreich from Robot Chicken will develop the series and write episodes with Daily Show writer Brendan Hay. Todd Grimes of the animated Back at the Barnyard will direct. Said Grimes of the concept, "We're looking at Star Wars from a new perspective; this will be a glimpse at how the rest of the galaxy is affected by the events of the Saga. There's a lot of humor to be mined from that."

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Seth Green Appearing on 'WWE Raw' Monday Night

Seth Green will be the guest host of Monday night's WWE Raw on USA. That's right, the wrestling show. In typically hyperbolic fashion, WWE.com calls Green's gig "monumental" and "unprecedented," even though at one point, the now-defunct former rival of WWE, Ted Turner's WCW, had David Arquette briefly reign as its champion. Now what does a guest host do on WWE Raw? Apparently, based on when Donald Trump ran the show, the guest host makes the matches, so Triple H may have to fight a guy whose entire ring persona is comprised of vowels and John Cena can...uh...not make movies. Really, he just announces the matches Vince McMahon orders, and the rest is a ratings ploy. Even though pro wrestling isn't at its zenith anymore, Raw is still the most watched weekly cable show by a wide, wide margin and recently helped push USA to the best second quarter ratings in the history of cable TV.