Avatar: Creating The World Of Pandora, a special that goes behind-the-scenes of the technology used in James Cameron’s hit film Avatar, will air this Friday, January 22 at 7:30pm EST on Fox Movie Channel.

Encore presentations of the half-hour special will air through January and February; see full schedule here below.

You can also watch the special here below (it’s nearly 23 minutes long), but considering this is about the film’s groundbreaking special effects, you might want to take advantage of one of the airings on FMC (the video is not available online in high definition).

Making life-saving inventions out of household materials!
MacGruber!
Getting in and out of ultra-sticky situations!
MacGruber!
The guy’s a freakin’ genius!
MACGRUBER

Say what you will, but I LOVE the Saturday Night Live “MacGruber” skits, and when I heard they were making a feature-length movie based on those skits, I was totally fine with it.

New red band and green band trailers for the film, which hits theaters on April 23, are now online. Watch them both here below.

The MacGruber skit is a spoof on the 1980’s action television series MacGyver, which starred Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent known for his non-violent resourceful resolution methods, which were oftentimes over the top. The big joke has always been about what MacGyver could do with a piece of gum and some tape, so MacGruber just takes that to the next level.

The film stars SNL alum Will Forte as MacGruber, with fellow SNL co-star Kristen Wiig as part of his elite team. Ryan Phillippe (Crash) is also on this team, with Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph, and Vil Kilmer rounding out the cast.

The Goon has gone digital today!

The Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker was made available today for purchase on iTunes for the iPhone platform. For a limited time, this graphic novel — which is Volume 6 in the comic book series — is on sale for only $1.99 (a major discount for a graphic novel!).

Also, for the next three days, The Goon #7 one-shot issue, which features Hellboy, as well as cover and framing sequences by Mike Mignola, is available as a FREE download from iTunes for use on the iPhone.

Check out Dark Horse’s Mobile site for more information or for direct iTunes link, click here (clicking link opens up iTunes application).

Yen Press will release Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 on March 16, 2010, with a first printing of 350,000 copies, according to EW’s Shelf Life, which exclusively debuted the book’s cover and a sneak peak at one of its panels. The hardcover book is available for pre-order right now.

It was announced back in July 2009 that Yen Press would be publishing the graphic novel adaptation, with Young Kim providing the adaptation and art for the project and Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer carefully reviewing each panel [Read: Graphic Novel Version Of “˜Twilight’ Is Officially On The Way].

In a Q&A session with EW, Meyer talked about her involvement in the project, stating that while she didn’t write the script for the graphic novel, she did do a lot of “tinkering.”

Let me just preface this by saying that I’m not a fan of rumors. In fact, I’m not a big fan of anything that’s not officially confirmed, even if it’s a legit possibility. As I’ve said before, there’s so many rumors and maybes that come around, that it’s tough to ever tell what to believe and what will end up being false when it comes to future movies.

Now, even with as much as I hate rumors, let us just forget all of that for the moment. You see, sometimes there’s these rumors that are just too cool to ignore, even if they end up never happening; the rumors that get your mind’s eye running hard, imagining what something might look like if it were ever made. Today holds a rumor like this, and it involves the one and only Tim Burton, and a little Walt Disney classic called Sleeping Beauty.