It’s Here! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Teaser Trailer!

Warner Bros. Studios has released a short but decent teaser trailer which you can see here for the highly anticipated, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  The teaser trailer features a short interview with the franchise’s producer David Heyman and director David Yates as well as some behind the scenes footage.  For those of you precious dew drops who don’t already know, Warner Bros. is splitting up the final book into two films, Part 1 being released November 19th 2010 and Part 2 being released sometime early 2011.

If you haven’t gathered already, I am obsessed with the Harry Potter books and films.  I’m also a manic depressive emotional eater with ADD.  Here are a few screen grab pictures from the film/trailer.  Take a look and this wondrous tid bit of Harry Potter and let it seep deep into your veins and warm your fat heart parts.  Meanwhile, I’m going to go eat an entire double layer Boston Cream Pie cake by myself.  Engorgio! (Images after the jump)

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How Sarah Palin could win the 2012 Election: Everyone got their purple Kool-Aid ready?!

“How Sarah Palin might win the White House” is an insightful and nerve wracking article written by Matthew Dowd at The Washington Post about the possibility of having Sarah Palin as our next president.

Hmm, President Palin…this is a scary, but totally a possible scenario.  So is this:  Sarah De Vil.  Just watch, she’ll get into office and this will happen.  This is a pretty frightening scenario too: The Mormons got the afterlife right!… or worse, I’ll never be thin again!

 

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New Moon Breaks Dark Knight’s Record: Teenage Girls Officially Run the World

New Moon has done it.

As of today, Summit Entertainment’s second installment in The Twilight Saga has set a new record for midnight openings with $26.27 million throughout 3,514 theaters.  New Moon has also broken the record for a single day, earning $72.7 million on Friday at 4,024 theaters. The previous single day record of $67.2 million was held by The Dark Knight.

If this continues, it’s quiet possible that the The Dark Knight’s 3-day record of $158 million may be in jeopardy now as well.

Reports of the poster for the third film in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, can be found in theaters already.

In other news, I recently found that if you light a match and then blow it out and place it on your dog’s butt hole, he’ll poop…my carpet is a mess.

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New Moon breaks Midnight Opening Record…too bad it still sucks.

“New Moon” Summit Entertainment’s second film in the The Twilight Saga has set box office history in breaking all records for midnight runs, grossing $26.3 million as it opened its doors in 3,514 theaters within the early hours of Friday morning.

Unfortunately all this wonderful news and money comes with the added bonus that critics are saying it’s pretty shallow and lame.  Early Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes gave “New Moon” a 4.9 out of 10 on average and their critic consensus had very little positive feed back.  ”The Twilight Saga‘s second installment may satisfy hardcore fans of the series, but outsiders are likely to be turned off by its slow pace, relentlessly downcast tone, and excessive length.”

Critics seem to agree with Rotten Tomatoes review as well.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times offered “Since they know it all and we know all, sitting through this experience is like driving a pickup in low gear though a sullen sea of Brylcreem,”  and Claudia Puig of USA Today added, “New Moon, the film version, does nothing to add depth to a shallow tale.”

Granted there are some critics out there who offer up some encouraging feedback on the film.  MTV’s aging hipster, Kurt Loder had this to say, “‘New Moon’ is a notable improvement over ‘Twilight,’” noting there’s “not quite so much moony young-adult yearning; and there’s a little more action.”

You can check out more on this “historic” event here or on any 8th grade girl’s Facebook page.

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Percy Potter and the Olympian’s Chamber Thief

Every time I waddle my way through Target’s book section, lost in my search for designer Snuggies and bargain face wash, I find myself face to face with one of the books from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and I admit, I dismiss it every time.   As it sits there amongst a slew of Twilight rip offs and a mountain of even more obnoxious looking tween novels I assume with indignation that it is nothing more than a blatant rip off of Harry Potter. My mistake?  Yes, but you do not rip off Harry Potter in front of me.  I’ll Sectumsempra your ass.  However after coming across the international trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the first in Rick Riordan’s book series (there are 5 books) and the first of what I’m sure will be a successful string of Percy Jackson films I’ve got to say, it doesn’t look that bad.

Now, it needs to be noted that the film is directed by Christopher Columbus, director of both Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as well as cinematic gems such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone so your personal opinion may be based on how well you like or dislike his style.  From what I can tell, Percy Jackson seems to have a interesting, solid and most importantly original premise (you’ll have to go read it) as well as a decent cast comprised of Pierce Brosnan, Catherine Keener and Uma Thurman just to name a few, but the selling point is the film’s lead, Logan Lerman.  Look at him; isn’t he just sickeningly adorable?  I’m sure with his perfect skin and goofy teeth he’ll become the next Edward or Jacob or whatever the hell it is teen girls and pedophiles follow.

You can check out more about Logan and the film here and here.  Official site here.

Anyhoodle, my assessment is if you love Harry Potter you’ll probably love this as well.  Meanwhile, next time I’m in a Target, I may just have to give the books a second chance or at least a quick skim of the back cover that way I can sound interesting and up to date next time I hang out with my terrible sister and her friends.  By the way, Target actually has a great book section that is unless you’re in small town America then it’s nothing but lonely women’s cookbook called Cooking for One Equals Fun or Glenn Beck’s Arguing with Idiots.

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