Are you bereft about the imminent cinematic end of Harry Potter, yet Twilight's chastity-belted vampires hold no appeal? You might be interested, then, in a teaser trailer that's been attached to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; from Christopher Columbus, director of the first two Potter movies, it's a film entitled, Waitwaitwait Don't Go Anywhere, We Have, Like, An American Harry Potter Coming Out Soon. My bad, that was the working title. Apparently, it's now named Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Almost as long!
Like the J.K. Rowling-derived Potter films, Percy Jackson is based on a series of children's fantasy books, perhaps the only remaining growth industry in this economy besides "senator's mistress." 3:10 to Yuma's Logan Lerman plays the lead role of a teenage boy transported to Hogwarts Mt. Olympus, where he will eventually encounter a series of Greek Gods essayed by actors like Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, and Rosario Dawson (though none of those stars figure into this trailer). I dunno...it looks capable enough, but I'm going to hold out judgment until we finally see a shot of Thurman as Medusa; here's hoping that two of the CG snakes on her head are voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Kenny, and that they fight with each other while making jokes about timeless pop culture properties like Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
VERDICT: So far, it's all Greek to me.