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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Ending Explained: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” is finally here, after beingplagued with controversy, delays, casting changes, and a general lack of interest that has turned intobox office disappointment. Still, for a certain section of moviegoers, a new movie in the Wizarding World isworth checking out, or at least worth reading about. If that’s you, and you’re curious about what the big deal is with Dumbledore and his titular secrets, and whether this movie takes us any closer to the 1945 duel between Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) and Dumbledore (Jude Law), this guide is for you....

Gareth Edwards Rogue One Cameo Finally Revealed; Learn His Top 10 Films Of All Time Last month on the Empire Podcast, directorGareth Edwardsteased that he had a brief cameo in one of the final scenes ofRogue One: A Star Wars Story. It has taken fans a couple of weeks to find it, but now the Gareth Edwards Rogue One cameo has been fully revealed. Also, while we’re talking about the filmmaker, Edwards has released a list of his top 10 films of all time....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ Adds ‘Mindhunter’ Star Holt McCallany Guillermo del Toro’sNightmare Alleyalready has a stacked cast, but another exciting addition can’t hurt. Character actor andMindhunterscene-stealerHolt McCallanyhas come aboard the film, joining a line-up that includesBradley Cooper,Cate Blanchett,Rooney Mara,Toni Collette, andWillem Defoe. The story follows a con-man who teams up with a psychiatrist to run a scam on unsuspecting saps.Deadlinehas the scoop on Holt McCallany joining theNightmare Alleycast. The actor is set to play “Anderson, a get-the-job-done bruiser with more going on that is first apparent from his tough guy persona....

Leeloo’s Language In The Fifth Element Is More Real Than You Think J.R.R. Tolkiennever visited Finland, but as a lexicographer and philologist, the Finnish language fascinated him. Not only did Tolkien adapt a tale from the Elias Lönnrot’s Karelian’s “The Kalevala” (1835), often called the Finnish national epic — Tolkien’s book was called “The Story of Kullervo” — but he famously derived Quenya, the High Elvish language from the “Lord of the Rings” books, from the syntax of Finnish....

Lightsaber Dueling Is Now Recognized As An Official Sport In France France is light years ahead of the rest of the world. The country has now recognized lightsaber dueling as an official sport, in an attempt to bring fencing to a younger generation raised onStar Wars. But France may get more applicants to lightsaber duels than they bargained for — young and old generations alike are probably eager to wield those special illuminated blades....

LOL: How To Talk To Your Kids About ‘Star Wars’ Whether you have kids, or are going to have them in the future, chances are you think about how you are going to raise them. How would you choose to discipline them? Do you encourage them to participate sports? Force them to eat all foods? How important will religion be in their upbringing? And then there’s your personal pop culture fandom....

LOL: Kevin Smith Wants Steven Spielberg To Make His ‘Jaws’ Sequel Concept What I’ve always loved aboutKevin Smithis that he’s a fan. First and foremost, Smith loves movies and that’s why he always infuses his films with so much of that. At first is was totally blatant, like the references inClerksorMallrats. Now it’s a bit more subtle, such as borrowing storytelling techniques from Quentin Tarantino inTusk. Either way, if you want to talk about movies, there are few people better....

Nathan Johnson On Composing The Score To The Brothers Bloom We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nathan Johnson first got into composing movie music when he was asked by his cousin Rian to create the score for Rian’s 2005 filmBrick. The film was not a high-budget picture, but Nathan was still able to record the entire score using one microphone attached to his Powerbook inside his bedroom....

Netflix May No Longer Have Exclusive Rights To ‘The Office’ And ‘Friends’ In The Near Future Remember whenFriendsfanswere panicking last yearbecause it looks like the staple NBC sitcom would be removed from Netflix? The streaming service spent around $100 million to keep the exclusive licensing rights to stream the show through 2019. However, Netflix likely won’t be the exclusive streaming home to shows likeFriendsandThe Officefor much longer. That’s because the media companies behind them are starting their own streaming services, and Netflix might have to share the rights to some of their most popular shows....

New ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Trailer Shows First Look At The Speedster After Redesign It’s amazing how fast one trailer can turn our opinions around. Six months after Paramount Pictures putSonic the Hedgehogon hold to do a last-minute redesign of its lead character, the studio has dropped a new trailer with an infinitely less terrifying version of the speedster. Gone are the tombstone teeth and the horrifyingly human traits that made the video game character look like a creepy mutant version of himself — the classic Sonic with his huge eyes and white gloves is speeding his way to the big screen....

POTD: ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Battery Of John Boyega, Daisy Ridley And J.J. Abrams Plus A Cameo What you’ve got to love about Twitter are the windows it opens. The way a single tweet can just set your imagination on fire with possibility. Monday night, that happened twice. First as a joke, and then as a photo. The photo featuredStar Wars Episode VIIdirectorJ.J. Abramswith his two co-stars,John BoyegaandDaisy Ridley. It made you dream about the conversations being held between these three....

Primal Won The Emmy For Best Animated Program, Beating Out Some Serious Heavy-Hitters Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” for Adult Swim won two Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, beating out heavy-hitters like “Big Mouth,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “The Simpsons,” and “South Park.” The show took home statues for both Best Animated Program and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. Last night’s wins mark the fourth and fifth overall Emmy wins for the series, and the show’s first nomination and win for Best Animated Series....

Rumor: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Sequel Shooting In 2017, Bryan Singer To Direct? WhenBryan Singerannounced20,000 Leagues Under the Seaas his next project, he took pains to emphasize that he was “not abandoning the X-Men universe.” And in fact, a new rumor suggests his return to the franchise might come even sooner than we might have guessed. Word is Singer will be back at the helm for another X-Men movie shooting in 2017, due out in 2018....