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Boo-yah! Let’s get some mozzarella sticks at the Olive Garden!

With the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 just weeks away, the L.A. Times’ Geoff Boucher and Claudia Eller take a look back at the franchise’s Hollywood history.

Is it November yet?

Because we’re just not starved enough for a half-decent movie this year…

A big celebrity shindig at the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, last night.  JK Rowling herself attended.

A good chunk of the cast attended.  But did they fly down on the Harry Potter plane?

A recent fund-raising drive by Harry Potter fans has raised enough funds (US$123,000!)  for Partners in Health to fill three planes worth of supplies for Haiti.

The first of the three planes, named Harry, has been deployed.  Ron and Hermione are to follow.

Congratulations to The HP Alliance and all the Harry Potter fans for this monumental achievement.  Other fandoms will be hard-pressed to match this one!

ComingSoon.net is putting together a series of articles in which they try to pry some quotes out of actors with confidentiality clauses associated with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

There appears to be some real, giddy joy amongst the actors (especially the new ones) about getting to be involved with this monster cast of the UK’s best actors.  Which is totally understandable.

Can they win back everyone so disappointed by the last film?  I suspect so. (via)

They have a Star Wars one too, but there’s a reason that everyone is raving over Dangerous Wands.

The teaser trailer for the final (two) Harry Potter movies linked online this weekend. Be sure to watch before it goes down again! (Thanks, Toph!)

Baby, why you gotta be so sparkly? There’s actual, serious talk about splitting the fourth Twilight book into two movies. After all, Harry Potter is doing it, and just think of all that squeeful allowance cash beckoning. At this rate, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part I: The Pillowing will be out next Christmas. All signs point to beige, and a possible endorsement deal with the old-timey Gap.

On a more positive Twilight note (Not so! I lie!) there’s Cleolinda’s New Moon in Fifteen Minutes. And for proof that Bella Swan follows a well-worn path, five terrible male role models in guy-centric blockbusters. You’ll never guess who takes the first spot. (Okay, you totally will.) Though alas, Edward is still rather creepy, what with fufilling all those signs of an abusive relationship… By any chance does Breaking Dawn end with him getting pan-fried in lava? That I’d watch.

Moving on… First images from Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Oh baby. (Please don’t suck, movie.)

It is RDJ, after all. The first official poster for Iron Man 2 has arrived, and it looks kind of familiar…. Oh my god. Entertainment Weekly has kindly provided a primer on War Machine for the soon-to-be eager slash fangirls.

Speaking of… A (rather boring) first look at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Naturally. Harlan Ellison wants in on Abrams’ Star Trek sequel; The Hobbit script is still a work in progress.