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The future of mankind comes down to a cockfight. Two of them, actually, or so the star and director of Terminator Salvation told reporters today.

In round one, franchise newcomer Christian Bale faces off against a totally nude Arnold Schwarzenegger, the original Terminator model. Kinda.

"I get a thrill out of seeing the scene where Connor faces off against the original T-800," Bale, who keeps his clothes on in the scene, told E! News. "I didn't meet [Schwarzenegger] on the set. He didn't have to expend one second of time."

So how'd they do it?

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This just in: Starfleet cadets are horny. Captain Kirk has always been into the ladies (human or alien), but the new Star Trek movie has a very unexpected hookup, the cast dished over the weekend: young Vulcan Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Earth woman Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

"We had to read the script and I dropped it," Saldana told reporters yesterday. "I grabbed my BlackBerry and I kept saying, 'This man's crazy! I'm not that aware about Star Trek, but I do know that they never mingled. It's crazy!' "

The original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, did not appear happy with the interspecies smooch:

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It's a murder mystery! It's got superheroes you've never heard of! It's totally deep and way metaphysical! It's an '80s period piece, with Richard Nixon and a giant blue naked guy!

Graphic novel adaptation Watchmen opens this week to big buzz, even though you may know nothing about it. But don't worry. We sat down with the oddly familiar cast and director Zack Snyder to decode this antihero epic, and gather the five essentials:

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This just in: Dakota Fanning thinks it would be, like, "really cool" to be in the sequel to Twilight—even though she hasn't read the book. She's still in negotiations for the role of nasty bloodsucker Jane in Stephenie Meyers' New Moon, and admits she still has a lot of homework to do.

"I haven't read all four yet," Fanning told E! News while promoting Coraline over the weekend. "I'm working on it. Getting there. I'm just about to finish the first one."

Not even on New Moon yet? Does she know how bad this Jane can be? Well...

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Hugh Jackman may be People's Sexiest Man alive, but the Australia star says his wife knows the secret of his sexiness: Garbage.

"Previously, my wife had said the sexiest thing about me was that I took the garbage out," Jackman told E! News days after receiving the honor.

"Since [being named Sexiest Man], it's like, 'All right, baby. Show it to me. Let's go.' I seem to be asked to take out the garbage more."

That sounds a little too grounded—or just kind of dirty—for our taste. But at least Wolverine can count on remaining a superhero to his kids, right?

Not so much.

"My son, Oscar, who is 8, goes, ‘You? You've got to be kidding me!' And I thought, There's the truth!"

Come on, Hugh. Now that's a load of garbage.

With record turnout expected in tomorrow's presidential election, Paris Hilton is ready to accept a big thank-you from the winner.

Speaking at the press day for her new organ-harvesting musical horror flick Repo! The Genetic Opera, Hilton told E! News that her Paris for President videos totally helped herd young folks in the booths.

"It's exciting to be involved in the biggest election in history," she said. "It encourages a lot of young voters to speak their voice and to vote."

Not only did she help mobilize the masses, but she managed to get, like, all kinds of important stuff and things into their heads.

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Movie history has been made! For the first time since his 1994 debut feature, Clerks, director Kevin Smith has failed to find a part—not even a li'l cameo—for buddy Ben Affleck.

Smith admits to E! News this week that he wrote his latest, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with new man-crush Seth Rogen in mind—and couldn't find any room for Affleck.

"I toyed with the notion of having [Ben] play a fluffer, but I was resolute about not wanting to do any fluffer jokes in the movie," Smith says. "I think it's just too obvious. So no, sadly, there was nothing for Ben."

Rogen, however, is "my Ben Affleck of the moment," Smith admits. Sorry, Ben. At least Jimmy Kimmel still loves ya, right?

Zack and Miri Make a Porno opens Oct. 31.

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Seth Rogen is now too skinny to play that chubby funnyguy Seth Rogen in a movie. "I'm sellin' out, guys," a slimmer Seth tells E! News at this week's Zack and Miri Make a Porno press day.

"It's for The Green Hornet," he says of his upcoming flick. "The only reason. There's no other reason. I think it serves the movie."

To play the legendary costumed crimefighter, there's no quickie detox or reality-show competition for Seth. "It's the lamest answer ever," he confesses. "I eat well and I exercise."

Easy, then. No burgers, plus a brutal trainer. "I go there real early in the morning," Seth says. "He tells me what to do, and I go home and go to sleep, and it's like it never even happened."

So how many pounds? You can tell us, man. "I don't weigh myself."

But as soon as Green Hornet wraps, expect the big old Seth we know and love. "I think it will take three hours," he says.

The Green Hornet begins shooting in May.

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Samuel L. Jackson's the original badass MF, so of course he didn't get all weepy about Soul Men costars Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, who both died on the same weekend in August. At a press event for the film yesterday, Jackson honored them as only he could: talking and telling tales.

"He would have found a way to make a joke about it," Jackson said about Mac. "He would have been poignant, and then he would have been funny."

Mac had been ill during filming, having up and down days, but Jackson promises fans that they'll be seeing "the Bernie Mac that they knew and loved, the Bernie Mac that came into their homes every week, who made them pee on themselves when he was doing his act. It's a fitting last performance."

Jackson also had kind words for Hayes...

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Shh! Don't tell fans of his latest tough-guy shoot-'em-up Max Payne, but Mark Wahlberg is just a big old softie. The father of three has finally set the date for his wedding to Rhea Durham, the mother of his children.

"We're talking about getting married in August," Wahlberg revealed at a press conference for Max Payne Sunday.

You must have a good reason for picking August, right, Marky? "It's a good month." OK!

So Hollywood, pencil that in—but don't check your mailboxes for that save the date notice. Adds Wahlberg: "We're not inviting yet."

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Okay kids, no more slacking off. The first two High School Musicals were totally made-for-TV, but High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a real movie, in real theaters, on big screens and everything. That means stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale had to step up their game, according to the film's director Kenny Ortega.

"They'll say that I pushed them harder in what we laid out for them," Ortega told E! News this week. "They really raised the bar on themselves. I think it's the finest acting, definitely the best production and a great finale to the trilogy."

Ortega also spilled that he's tweaking the final print—but you'll have to chase him around the world to see the first screening.

"I'm just a few weeks away from being finished," he said, "I'm going to have the movie under my arm on [Sept.] 27th, traveling to Europe to show it for the first time."

You coming? Otherwise, Senior Year opens for the rest of us Oct. 24.

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Aaron Eckhart has had a good summer. He can take credit for some of The Dark Knight's awesomeness, with his Harvey Dent/Two-Face baddie getting almost as freaky as Heath Ledger's Joker. But $500 million later, we have to ask him: Two-Face could survive that deadly fall at the construction site, right?

"No," Eckhart told E! News at the junket for Towelhead yesterday. "He is dead as a doornail. He ain't comin' back, baby. No."

The fans want him back, and the actor wants to come back, but ultimately director Christopher Nolan is the bad parent.

"I asked Chris that question. He goes, 'You're dead.' Before I could even get the question out of my mouth, 'Hey Chris, am I...' 'You're dead.' "

But death has never been a problem for comic book characters! "I'm not coming back," he said. "Unfortunately, Heath was supposed to go along."

Eckhart knows, too, that there are plenty of Batvillains waiting for spots in the sequels. He's even jealous about one rumor. "I heard Angelina Jolie was going to be Catwoman," he said. "I thought that was a great idea. I'd like to be in that one."

Oh, but sorry. Didn't you hear? You're dead.