NJ's favorite loudmouth Jason Mewes cuts his hair and bares it all for Zack and Miri Make a Porno. He tells AMCtv.com about the movie's scifi roots and his hopes for a Bluntman and Chronic animated feature.

Q: Tell me about your role in Zack and Miri.

A: My character is a dude who doesn't really need to work -- he has a trust fund, and he just hangs around. Then there's an open audition for a porno that Zack and Miri are holding, so he goes and auditions, and gets the part.

Q: Is it true you do a full-frontal in the film?

A: Yeah, but it wasn't that bad. At first I was a little hesitant because my family watches these movies. We did a couple takes where I did the full-frontal, then a couple takes where I'm covering up while I'm walking. But when we watched it, the covering up didn't work.

Q: The porno Zack and Miri come up with is called Star Whores.

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Memo to William Shatner: There is such a thing as a telephone. It allows you to talk directly to people who are a long way away. Maybe you should use one of those when you're upset with your friends rather than spouting off on YouTube. Geez, man ... for a guy who's made a career of manipulating the media and your own public image you've really bunged this up.

In other news, Daniel Craig has said no to Thor, the Heroes slide is now so bad that it made the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and Neil Gaiman has walked away from David Fincher's adaptation of Black Hole.  Only one of these got enough people talking to make this week's Power Ranking -- read on to see which.

SciFi Power Rankings
Rank	LW		Movie, Show or Comic
1	5		Watchmen After a bit of slippage last week, Zack Snyder's Watchmen easily reclaims the top spot on the strength of a new poster and fresh footage hitting the web. This juggernaut cannot be stopped.
2	1		Star Trek Slides from last week's high when a barrage of imagery had everybody talking about J.J. Abrams' reboot, but lingering goodwill and Shatner's latest rant have kept Trek in the headlines.
3	-		Dr Who Speculation about a replacement for the most iconic time traveler on the globe began last week and hit a fevered pitch when Paterson Joseph confirmed he's on a list of possible candidates. Joseph would be the first black Doctor if he wins the part.
4	-		Terminator: Salvation Words to warm a Terminator fan's heart: "We're trying to achieve something that's never been done before."  Come on McG, impress us... Actually, it's already pretty impressive that you've transformed dread into anticipation.
5	-		The Spirit The middle of the pack will probably be the best showing that Frank Miller's The Spirit will ever muster, but it's not for a lack of trying. New clips, new interviews, irritating new widgets... The Spirit is becoming unavoidable.
6	-		Conan They say all press is good press, but there are a whole lot people very unhappy that it's Brett Ratner taking the reins of the new Conan picture.
7	-		Black Hole David Fincher and Neil Gaiman can't play nice, apparently. Making headlines via subtraction is never the best way to get there, but a whole lot of Charles Burns fans are now buzzing over what this means for Black Hole.
8	-		Alice In Wonderland What the --?!  How have Crispin Glover and Tim Burton never worked with each other before now?! A major flaw in the space-time continuum has just been corrected with news that Glover has joined the stellar cast of Burton's Alice.
9	-		Fringe Yes, J.J., we love you and Fringe is just getting stronger as it goes.
10	9		Repo: The Genetic Opera Lionsgate may have abandoned it, but director Darren Bousman hasn't and Repo has become a major hit on the festival circuit. New clips, big buzz and savvy marketing ... Bousman's handling of this is textbook DIY.

• SF Signal's newest contributor, Jeff Patterson, rails against the dollification of scifi's most beloved icons.

• I, for one, welcome our new Dalek pumpkin overlords.

• io9 has a great dissection of what the look of Star Wars actually means.

• Ursula K. Le Guin says she'll never sell another book to Hollywood again.

• Neil Gaiman would really, really, really like to write Guillermo del Toro's Dr. Strange.

• The creator of Pushing Daisies would like to helm the next Star Trek series.