1) Holy Hogwarts, today over on Pottermore, JK Rowling posted a new Harry Potter short story that basically destroyed their servers like people from Israel tried to destroy ours yesterday. Pottermore is a site that builds an online experience around reading the books, or in my case, a site I signed up for like 7 years ago around when the last book came out and didn't really use again. The fun part is it gives you super-hard usernames that you couldn't remember if you tried like NimbusNiffler2842.
In this story, written as a gossip column by Rita Skeeter and talks about the Hogwarts kids, who are all grown up now. Skeeter starts dishing some dirt and stirring the pot about possible marriage issues with Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, although this is likely Rowling having fun with when she came out online saying Harry should have ended up with Hermoine. There's other juicy nuggets in there concluding with a hint towards more to come when Skeeter releases "Dumbledore's Army: The Dark Side of Demob" on July 31. What this means exactly right now, we have no idea, but it seems like the magical world of Hogwarts that Rowling stated she was done with, might not be over after all.
2) I am very much looking forward to Kevin Smith's new movie Tusk, which is based off of a Craigslist ad where someone wanted to hire a person to wear a walrus outfit in his house for 2 hours every night. While the movie is shot, Kevin Smith still hasn't acknowledged the cast of the movie completely and there is one big role that he wanted Quentin Tarantino to play, but he turned it down that it's rumored Johnny Depp might be playing. The trailer is scheduled to premiere at Comic Con in a few weeks and hopefully will come out on VOD and possibly another nationwide tour (ala Red State) this fall. The poster was released online today.
3) Disney has done a lot of live-action remakes of their classic animated movies with Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent hitting theaters in recent years. It sounds like the next one that is being prepared for the big screen will be a live-action Dumbo. Disney has hired the writer of the past three Transformers movie Ehren Kruger to write the screenplay. The mouse also has live-action versions of Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Beauty & the Beast planned to come out over the next couple of years. I was never a big Dumbo fan growing up, I will admit to being intrigued to see a live-action flying elephant, that will be a really cool sight.
4) I have absolutely loved the V/H/S movies and view them as some of the best horror movies to come out over the past couple of years. The compilation horror series will end this year with it's third and final movie V/H/S Viral which will be available on VOD October 23. Maybe the only horror movie I liked more than V/H/S 2 last year was The Conjuring, which that's spinoff based on the creepy doll from the beginning of the movie, Annabelle, which was just announced will be hitting theaters this October 3. Not much is known about the story and if any of the story with the Warren family's history with the doll will be rehashed for this version or if it'll be treated more like a prequel, is up in the air. Looks like we could be in for a very spooky Halloween.
5) Ridley Scott has a movie coming out this December called Exodus: Gods and Kings, which stars Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Pharaoh Ramses, and tells the biblical story of Moses. It's a strange year in that we have a movie about Noah and Moses within one calendar year. The first teaser trailer for Exodus was released online today and you can watch here.
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