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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince International Movie Poster Warner Bros has released three new international movie posters forHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The first of which was found atMyMovies.it, and features a close-up of Harry’s face. I love how they consolidated the film logo into 3 characters – HP6. Check out the full poster after the jump, as well as two additional international posters. The following two posters appear onMSN....

How 12 Monkeys Put A New Spin On Time Travel Movies By the mid-’90s any script for a film that featured time travel had the burden of inevitably being compared to two heavy-weights of the genre. First there was “Terminator” (1984) which not only twisted the trope of the post-apocalyptic wasteland into one dominated by merciless A.I., but famously sent its hero into the past to alter the future. A year later and audiences received a less dire and more lighthearted vision of time travel with the first installment of the “Back to the Future” trilogy....

How Gus Van Sant Influenced The Filming Of Spontaneous The screenwriter behind the films “Jane Got a Gun,” “Love and Monsters,” “Underwater,” and “The Babysitter,” Brian Duffield made something truly magical with his explosive 2020 directorial feature debut, “Spontaneous.” Adapted from Aaron Starmer’s book of the same name, “Spontaneous” is a coming-of-age romantic black comedy horror film about a girl named Mara Carlyle (Katherine Langford) whose friends and classmates begin spontaneously combusting....

How Marvel Decides Which Characters Get Films Or Disney+ Shows Over a decade after the MCU took over the blockbuster scene, Marvel has found itself having to deal with a whole new quandary — which stories ought to be made for the big screen, and which should go straight to streaming on Disney+? To state the obvious, this is probably the definition of a good problem to have, but it’s one that comes with all sorts of tricky ramifications to navigate....

Interview: ‘21 Jump Street’ Directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller Talk ‘Cloudy 2’, ‘Lego’, ‘Bob The Musical’, And More Phil LordandChris Millerimmediately marked themselves as filmmakers to watch withCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a sweet family CG comedy. So naturally, for their sophomore effort, they attempted to something completely different.21 Jump Streetis rowdy and live-action, and yet it retains much of the same heart and humor that made their first go-round such a hit....

Johnny Depp Passes On Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz, The Great And Powerful;’ James Franco Next Finding a new wizard of Oz is proving to be much more difficult than following a yellow brick road. First Robert Downey Jr.stepped out from behind the curtain, next Johnny Depp passed on the role and now directorSam Raimiis hoping that he can reunite with his Oscar-nominatedSpider-Manco-star to headlineOz, the Great and Powerful.James Francois in preliminary talks to star in Raimi’sWizard of Ozprequel after Depp passed on the role this week....

Kieron Gillen And Kev Walker Are Working On A Mystery ‘Star Wars’ Comic As much as I enjoyedStar Wars: The Force Awakens, this whole “Disney buys Lucasfilm and resets theStar Warscanon” thing has been worth it for the new comics. The new books being published byMarvelhave been solid all around and often sublime, capturing the voices of beloved characters and sending them on fantastic missions to every corner of this sprawling universe....

King Shark In ‘The Suicide Squad’ Was Written Specifically With Sylvester Stallone In Mind We’re all in love withThe Suicide Squad’s King Shark, the dad-bod abomination that bites the heads off people and rips men in half. The character is voiced bySylvester Stallone, and according toSuicide SquaddirectorJames Gunn, that was the plan all along. In a recent interview, Gunn revealed that he’s reached a point where he can pretty much get any actor he wants – kind of a #humblebrag there, James – and he wrote King Shark specifically with Stallone in mind....

Meryl Streep Went Full Method For One Of The Devil Wears Prada’s Most Intense Scenes If someone were to describe “The Devil Wears Prada” to you before the book was written or the movie was released, do you think you could see it as an ongoing cultural touchstone? The movie basically boils down to cute fashion montages, a mean boss, and a whatever boyfriend, but it’s a combination of fantasy and relatability cut with a health splash of acid straight from Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly that makes the movie work so well....

Mini-Reviews Of Award-Winning ‘Bullhead’ And Soon-To-Be-Remade ‘Two Eyes Staring’ [Fantastic Fest 2011] BullheadandTwo Eyes Staringhave nothing in common except their country of origin. They’re both from Belgium, two of the three films from that country playing Fantastic Fest this year, in fact.Two Eyes Staringwas optioned by Charlize Theron last year for an American remake and is about a woman who inherits her childhood house after her estranged mother passes away. There, her young daughter begins to have visions that illuminate mommy’s seedy past....

Mondo Will Release The ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Soundtrack On Vinyl Sadly, Laika’sKubo and the Two Stringscame in fourth place at the box office this past weekend. It’s the Portland-based company’s lowest-grossing opening weekend to date, which is a shame. The beautiful, elegant and often moving stop-motion / CG hybrid may not have immediately caught on with moviegoers, but the film already has its fans, and some of those fans may want to get their hands on theKubo and the Two Stringssoundtrack on Vinyl....

Now Channing Tatum Could Be Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Apparently,Channing Tatumis the guy you call whenBradley Cooperdrops out of a project. Over the summer, Tatum’s namecame upfor Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (now grounded)The Crowremake when Cooper left the project, and now that Cooper’s turned downSteven Soderbergh’sThe Man From U.N.C.L.E., Tatum’s reportedly being “eyed” for the lead. Were Tatum to get the part, it would mark his third collaboration with the director — the two have already completedHaywiretogether, and are currently working on the male stripper picMagic Mike....

Real Life 23-Year-Long Game Of Tag To Be Turned Into A Movie For 23 years, a group of friends from Washington state have been playing a game of tag. It started in high school, and went through college. Rules eventually developed that turned it into a no-holds-barred, nationwide game that goes on every year throughout the month of February. Who ever is “it” will travel all over the country to tag one of their competitors, sometimes creating elaborate schemes to do so....