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Growing up reading and watching Harry Potter, it’s only natural we think about the what-ifs: What if we woke up one day and found a Hogwarts acceptance letter in our post mail? What if we wander into the woods and accidentally bump into a unicorn? We’ve all been there, whether we like to admit it or not. It’s especially true with all the creatures that we got introduced to by the Harry Potter franchise, both through the Harry Potter films and the prequel spinoff series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the latter of which is expected to release its third film The Secrets of Dumbledore later this spring....

As an actress, Catherine Keener plays to type and that type for her is a slightly cynical, depressed, realist. Keener is primarily known for her work in independent films, but she’s also made her mark in studio films. In fact, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice — for 1999’s Being John Malkovich and for 2005’s Capote. Keener is frequently referred to as the acting muse of filmmaker Nicole Holofcener and appeared in her first five films including Friends With Money, Lovely & Amazing, Walking and Talking, and Enough Said....

Yesterday, Walt Disney Pictures released two character posters from Frankenweenie, featuring Edgar “E” Gore (Atticus Shaffer) and Weird Girl (Catherine O’Hara). Today, the studio has released three more posters that introduce us to two of Martin Short’s voice roles, Nassor and Mayor Burgmeister, along with Martin Landau’s Mr. Rzykruski. Take a look at these 1-sheets, along with the official description of each character. “Nassor is highly intelligent, serious and intense. He takes a darker, more doomsday view on life than the other kids in New Holland....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter Moon Bloodgood, Jessy Schram, Seychelle Gabriel and Maxim Knight are joining Noah Wyle in TNT’s untitled alien invasion pilot. It is being executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Robert Rodat is writing the pilot from an idea he and Spielberg came up with. The show will be set after aliens have killed off most of the human population. The show follows “a ragtag” band of soldiers and civilians that is led by Tom Mason (Noah Wyle)....

Apple has debuted the first teaser trailer and teaser poster for the upcoming sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which will be released in theaters nationwide on July 1, 2011. Click on the video below for your first glimpse at this high-powered adventure from director Michael Bay. You can also click on the poster to access our growing gallery: The Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action, taking on the evil Decepticons, who are determined to avenge their defeat in 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen....

If you have ever wondered how the spy business works then Burn Notice is set to answer all of your questions. This informative, often funny, even uplifting show examines the life of former agent Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan). Realizing that there is a burn notice (a termination from the spy world) out on him, Weston sets out to try and figure out who wants him out of the organization. Whilst doing this he is completely cut off from all his sources of money, so he is forced to take jobs helping people as the ultimate private detective (just don’t call Weston that)....

After a lengthy development with constant delays, Uncharted is swinging into theaters this weekend, and box office projections are looking good. The projections already put the video game adaptation ahead of the recent Mortal Kombat film. Uncharted is Tom Holland’s latest collaboration with Sony after Spider-Man: No Way Home, which recently just became the third highest-grossing domestic film of all time. Holland plays Nathan Drake, a young treasure hunter who is on the hunt for long-lost gold....

In 1984, Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter were found dead in their home in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. Lafferty was twenty-four years old at the time of her death and a devout Mormon, leading to shock at the cause of her death: religion. Her brothers-in-law gruesomely killed their former relative over what they called a divine revelation. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church), but the Lafferty brothers were excommunicated due to their beliefs....

Happy Halloween! Today is the spookiest day of the year, and social media has been flooded with pictures of celebrities celebrating other celebrities. Sometimes their shocking, spooky costumes are apparitions of their own creation, but most of the time, celebrities love to dress as each other (yes, it’s complicated but what isn’t this time of year). This year, one of the cutest looks of celebrities dressing up as other celebrities to hit social media is WandaVision actor Michaela Russell, who played the young Wanda Maximoff in the Disney+ series....

Today MovieWeb attended the Warner Bros. Home Video Sneak Peak in which the studio announced their upcoming titles for 2006. Here is a select listing of what DVD buyers can expect from the WB in the coming year. Newly cleaned up versions of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and the new, never before seen version of Eyes Wide Shut. Apparently, we will now get to see some of the more racier scenes that the old Warner Bros....

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG), today announced the debut of the “Warner Archive Collection” (WarnerArchive.com), a selection of movies spanning more than 60 years of filmmaking never before available on DVD. The world’s largest film and television vault is finally open to consumers who can now purchase authentic DVD and digital downloads of more than 150 classic titles for the first time drawn from Warner Bros. Entertainment’s unparalleled film library consisting of pre-1986 MGM, RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Bros....

Getting to “I do” has never been more adventurous. Or rife with murder. It’s the clever spin the producers of Broad City, Difficult People, Younger, and Search Party bring to Wedding Season, Hulu’s ambitious new rom-com outing. The creators have dubbed the show a “genre-busting” series and for the most part it is. Although these days, so many shows intend to be “genre-busting,” that maybe the most innovative way to “bust” any premise is to just go back to basics....

It’s been nearly 15 years since Indiana Jones last cracked his famed bullwhip across the big screen. 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a commercial success and got solid reviews from critics. Still, fans were lukewarm thanks to a nuked refrigerator and some swinging monkey gimmicks. All in all, Crystal Skull wasn’t the ideal send-off for the legendary adventurer and archeologist. Thankfully, Indy is gearing up for one more spin around the globe in 2023 with an as-yet-untitled fifth movie....

In a deal closed prior to its final public screening in Toronto, Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Whistleblower), Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston (Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Thor) and BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning theatre actor Simon Russell Beale (An Ideal Husband, London Assurance), has been acquired by Music Box Films, who have taken US rights from Protagonist Pictures. The Deep Blue Sea is Music Box’s first acquisition of an English language film....

The 1973 horror film The Exorcist established a new standard by portraying Reagan, a young lady, overtaken by a supernatural creature, in a frightening and thought-provoking way. The Exorcist became known as among the most frightening movies of all time, in part due to its premiere during the peak of the demonic scare. By demonstrating how far graphic effects and content could go to create a narrative, both its aesthetics and discourse contributed to the birth of a new era in horror....

A new poster for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie coming to Netflix in February has been released. The poster showcases a returning Leatherface on the prowl with an all-new face plastered over his own. Glare from the sun prevents us from getting a crystal clear look at the chainsaw-wielding maniac, but we can see just enough to get a good idea of how he will appear under the mask in the new film....

IMAX Corporation and Lionsgate today announced that Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games, the first installment of the trilogy based on Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novels, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in IMAX digital theatres in North America day-and-date on Friday, March 23, 2012. The film will have a limited one week engagement in IMAX theatres. Written and directed by Gary Ross and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik, The Hunger Games: The IMAX Experience stars Academy-award nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth....

NECA has recreated the big reveal scene in Universal Pictures’ 1933 classic The Invisible Man starring Claude Raines as the title character. For the 90th anniversary of the movie, the company is coming out with the Invisible Man in action figure form. The figure stands in 7” scale and comes in a display-friendly window box packaging with a front opening flap. To showcase its new product, the company shared the video on its official Instagram account....

With Netflix’s new series The Punisher currently streaming, fans may be asking themselves one important question: How far does the conspiracy go? Netflix has unveiled a four-minute behind the scenes preview with the cast and crew of Marvel’s The Punisher as they explain the setting and motivations of each main character on this Netflix series. Here’s what Jon Bernthal had to say about how his iconic character Frank Castle was introduced in Daredevil, and how that lead into this series....

It’s the end of an era. Hank Azaria, one of the core cast members on The Simpsons, has revealed that he is stepping down as the voice of Apu. This comes after debate has raged about the character for more than two years now. Filmmaker Hari Kondabolu made the documentary The Problem with Apu, which debuted in 2017 and highlighted the cultural insensitivities of the character, a stereotyped Indiana-American voiced by a white man....