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Should Joss be compared to Lucas and Cameron already?

The Producers Guild of America announced today that Joss Whedon will be honored with its prestigious 2010 Vanguard Award, joining a list of previous recipients that includes George Lucas, James Cameron and John Lasseter, Deadline Hollywood reported.

Whedon's humorous response won't be surprising to anyone who's seen his superhero spoof Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog or watched the way he accepted previous awards.

DTH STR and B*GLTCA: 25 great sci-fi license plates

Want to show off your sci-fi love, but don't want to get a tattoo like the hardcore fans we showed you last week? Then a vanity license plate is definitely the way to go—and it's a heck of a lot less painful, too!

James Cameron explains why Avatar aliens have tails

James Cameron appeared on 60 Minutes last night, where he gave Morley Safer—and us—a behind-the-scenes look at how he went from being the director of "the very best flying piranha movie ever made" to the creator of the $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar.

"This is the film I think I always wanted to make when I set down the path of being a filmmaker," said Cameron.

He also revealed the reason he gave his blue aliens tails—because: "Tails are cool!"

Well, there's actually more to it than that. To learn the rest of the story, check out the video below.

Harry Potter beats out Twilight as the book of the decade

Sorry, Stephenie Meyer! A movie made from your books may have won the weekend at the box office, but your novel Twilight only came in at #32 on a list of 100 books that defined a decade.

Topping the list is J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which the Telegraph said "stands as a cornerstone of the decade, a melding of high and low culture that appeals to all ages and nations."

While Rowling "is never less than absorbing" and "makes reading a 700-page book seem easy," Meyer's first novel, though considered influential, is described as "astonishing, mainly for the ineptitude of her prose" and "teen vampire schlock."

Ouch!

New movie mixes Edgar Allan Poe and 'torture porn'

Edgar Allan Poe might have been the original "torture porn" author, writing stories about diabolical ways in which characters can die. An upcoming film called The Raven posits a story about what would happen if Poe were faced with the very murders he wrote about. In the movie, at the end of Poe's life, a serial killer challenges him to solve a series of killings inspired by Poe's fiction.

Director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) revealed some of the classic Poe stories that provide inspiration for his upcoming movie. "'The Raven,' 'Tell-Tale Heart,' 'Premature Burial,' 'Murders in the Rue Morgue,'" McTeigue listed in an exclusive interview Saturday in Hollywood. "There's a whole lot of them. It's actually a pretty cool concept."