The way I understand it, the movie involves a bunch of shady folk trying to get their hands on some money put up for grabs by a Russian mobster or some such nonsense. As usual, it sounds like a Ritchie original. I will say this for the man, he really knows how to create interesting characters in his movies. The movies themselves don’t always have the kind of cohesiveness that make them great but they are generally worth seeing … well, except for his movie Swept Away, which starred his wife Madonna. That movie should not be seen by anyone, under any circumstances. And speaking of Madge, I think it was quite sporting of her to take a break from her Sticky & Sweet World Tour to come out for the movie premiere last night. She is such a good wife. Makes you feel kinda silly if you believed any of those break-up rumors, right? RocknRolla opens in theaters in early October.

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And here are a few pics of some of the principal stars of the NBC hit Heroes who attended the Con this year to promote the upcoming third season of the show:

Honestly, there are just too many things that were presented at this year’s Con that I can’t possibly post them all … but Entertainment Weekly was in the hiz taking photos of some of my fave sci-fi/comic booky things at this year’s convention to give a nice overview. After the jump, check out a few EW photos of some of my fave things that I would’ve checked out had I attended this year’s Comic Con …

Joss Whedon, Eliza Dushku & Tahmoh Penikett were there reppin’ the new FOX TV series Dollhouse, Michael C. Hall was reppin’ Dexter, Robert Rodriguez & Rose McGowan were reppin’ Red Sonja, Milo Ventimiglia was doing double duty promoting Heroes and his new comic book Rest and Guy Ritchie & Gerard Butler were representin’ their new movie RockNRolla. Oh yeah, it’s just far too much geekdom for one person to handle all at once … which is why I’m not a good candidate for the Comic Con (plus, I don’t look all that great in lycra). Obvs this post can’t do the entire weekend justice but I wanted to post a taste of some of the stuff that I found most interesting. I may end up attending one year … mebbe. Any Comic Can fans out there? Am I totally missing out?

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