One of the highlights for a lot of the Comic-Con attendees was the panel with the cast and crew of Chuck. And no wonder: NBC renewed it in the last minute, after a two month “Save Chuck” campaign mounted by fans, and it seems the cast wanted to give back to their community.

If you haven’t seen Chuck yet, I definitely recommend it. I liked the first season, but it was very much ‘bad guy/mission of the week’ type stories. The second series really picks up on the background story and mythology of the show; it slowly became one of the shows I was most looking forward to every week. And then the finale of Season 2, wow! (That being said though, if you haven’t seen it, but now want to, don’t watch the second video in this video; there are spoilers for that ep in it)

The panel started with a surprise performance by JEFFSTER!, the in-show band of characters Lester Patel and Jeff Barnes. Awesome:

If you’re really interested in seeing it all, the complete panel is available online on YouTube (check out this video for the first part), but here’s a clip with one of the funniest moments:

I kind of ignored all i heard about this movie in the past couple of weeks; somehow I just thought it was a simple stop-motion picture and one that didn’t even look that pretty. Seeing this trailer though makes me realize what a weird and quirky movie this is going to be.

It’s directed and written by Wes Anderson, who previously did The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Tha Darjeeling Limited. So that should give you an idea what type of movie this is going to be. Here’s the description:

Mr. and Mrs. Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristopherson. But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers — Boggis, Bunce and Bean — who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr. Fox at any cost.

And here’s the trailer:

Quirky, right? After reading the description, I’m guessing it’s not exactly what you were expecting to see. At least it wasn’t for me; I was very much surprised (although I shouldn’t have been: it’s Wes Anderson) at how much I liked this trailer.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Release Date: October 2009 (UK), November 2009 (US)