This week kicked off with the red band poster for Ted, the feature directorial debut of Seth MacFarlane, the creator of much-loved animated series Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show.  Now, for humpday, Universal Pictures has followed up that delightfully coarse trailer with a new one that's a bit more family friendly.

This summer's comedy Ted is rated R for "Crude and sexual content, pervasive language, and some drug use."  You'll see examples of all that in the thoroughly red band trailer for the film, which marks the directorial debut of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

You'd think that being the mastermind behind almost the entirety of Fox Sunday night animation block would keep Seth MacFarlane far too busy to co-write and direct a live-action feature film.  Evidently Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show aren't enough to occupy his time, though, because Ted, MacFarlane's live-action directorial debut, is on the way this summer.  The first poster has made its way online, showing the unidentifiable back of Mark Wahlberg and the titular teddy bear.

The day before this Sunday's Oscar ceremony, while seemingly everyone is preparing for the onslaught of pomposity that the Academy Awards bring to the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, there's actually a cooler awards ceremony going down on the other side of town.  On the beach in Santa Monica, in a giant tent literally yards from the Pacific Ocean, Film Independent puts on the Independent Spirit Awards, celebrating the very best in movies made without studio backing.  Following Joel McHale as last year's host, the 2012 Spirit Awards are hosted by Seth Rogen.

Rogen needs no elaborate introduction, but the Canadian hilarity-factory has gone well beyond just acting in the likes of Freaks & Geeks, Knocked Up, Funny People, Observe and Report, and The Forty Year Old Virgin.  With his creative partner Evan Goldberg, Rogen has written and/or produced films including Superbad, Pineapple Express, and The Green Hornet.

Not only is Rogen hosting this Saturday's ceremony, but 50/50, the comedic drama which he produced and co-stars in, is up for three awards, including Best Feature and Best First Screenplay for Will Reiser, who wrote the film based on his own experience with cancer. 

In an interview with a handful of national outlets, Seth Rogen was gracious enough to talk about a wide range of topics.  Those topics included, amongst other things: hosting the Spirit Awards, his directorial debut The Apocalypse, his awards hopes for 50/50; improvisation, taking Kate Beckinsale off guard at the Golden Globes, his friend and collaborator Jonah Hill's Oscar nomination, his love of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol;.and movies he's enjoyed over the last year.

Synopsis: Three men, all with varying levels of dissatisfaction in their daily lives, engage in an annual competition amongst bird-watching enthusiasts to spot the very rarest birds in North America.

San Diego Comic-Con is an event of wholly unique pomp and circumstance, but our cherished holidays provide a convenient means to contextualize each individual day of the Con, which goes down next week.  In our last rundown of selected panels set for Friday, July 22nd, we likened the experience of a Comic-Con Friday to a child's enthusiastic examination of their booty on a lucrative Halloween.  For Saturday, we're moving on chronologically to Thanksgiving.  By midday Saturday, the average Con attendee is in danger of overeating, having thoroughly stuffed themselves on three courses of nerd fixings.  With pants in danger of splitting and a sudden urge to nap, it's more imperative than ever to prioritize which panels to attend, so once again, we've provided an overview of events that should prove appealing and informative on Saturday, the penultimate day of Comic-Con.

If you could send this first trailer for Spy Kids: All the Time in the World back in time to 1996, moviegoers just out of From Dusk Till Dawn probably wouldn't believe that the upcoming franchise rejiggering was directed by Robert Rodriguez, the same guy behind El Mariachi and Desperado.  And not just because of the dueling novelties of 3D and Smell-O-Vision-style Aroma-Scope.  There's also the matters of Ricky Gervais inexplicably voicing a robot dog and Jeremy Piven playing a time-stealing villain with a terrible goatee.  All these things and more are on display in the first Spy Kids 4 trailer, along with Jessica Alba as a superspy stepmom.

Remember Spy Kids, the trilogy written and directed by Robert Rodriguez featuring kids who are also spies?  The last entry was 2003's Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, and almost a decade later, the duo of Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara are no longer kids, but Rodriguez has resuscitated the series with a new pair of child secret agents, this time played by Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook.  The first poster showed up online today, and it features the next generation of Spy Kids, along with Jessica Alba and Joel McHale as their parents, the be-goggled head of Jeremy Piven, and a robot dog with a detachable head.

Well before The Simpsons became the longest running animated series in primetime, The Flintstones was the king of televised animated.  Any and all animated subsequent sitcoms owe much to the prehistoric comedy, including The Simpsons and Family Guy.  Between Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show, creator Seth MacFarlane is responsible for roughly 98% of the programming on Fox, he will naturally be rebooting The Flintstones as a television series and potential feature film.  The show has been in development for some time, but all the deals are freshly in place, and the series will go into production this fall for a televised premiere in 2013.

Despite a lengthy resume, Anna Faris has yet to find the find a leading role that fully brings her formidable comedic chops to bear.  In the upcoming comedy What's Your Number?, Farris plays a woman who discovers that the vast majority of women who have been with 20 or more lovers "can't find a husband."  With that novel concept to motivate her, Farris decides to track down her ex-boyfriends to discover if "the one" was amongst them.  Helping her out is neighbor Chris Evans, which provides a handy clue as to how the film concludes.  An international trailer for the film provides a showcase for many an ex-boyfriend, including Zachary Quinto, Martin Freeman, Andy Samberg, Joel McHale, Anthony Mackie, Thomas Lennon, and Farris' real-life husband Chris Pratt.  Check out the trailer right here, courtesy of Comingsoon.