Here Lies Harry Potter, and 7 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: That Swarm remake you've been craving is on the way... True Grit gets a rating... Amazon starts a "studio"... A silent-film child star passes... and more...

· Just in time for the beginning of the end of the Harry Potter film franchise, someone has publicized the grave of one Harry Potter, a British soldier killed in action in 1939 and buried in the rural town of Ramle, Israel. Cue the exploitation: "There is no connection with the Harry Potter we know from literature, but the name sells, the name is marketable," said one local tour guide. Sure -- but do they sell butterbeer? [AP]

· Disowned by its star, rejected by audiences, laughed at by history... Yep! It's definitely time to remake the 1978 killer-bee flop The Swarm. [TheWrap]

· Good news! Someone has finally seen and rendered a verdict on True Grit! Bad news: It's just the MPAA ratings board, which gave the film a PG-13 for "intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images." Sony also got the PG-13 it wanted for How Do You Know after a few judicious trims. [Box Office Mojo, Variety]

· Amazon and Warner Bros. -- but mostly Amazon -- is getting into the crowdsourcing business with Amazon Studios. It's a gimmick barely worth your time, unless you're a screenwriter who feels like letting anonymous hoards gang rape your work for the chance at $100,000. I mean, this company takes six weeks to refund my book orders that never arrive, and now they want to develop movies? Next. [TOH]

· Meanwhile Allison Anders and Kurt Voss are also raising $17,500 to make their next film, Strutter. Donate at the link. [Kickstarter]

· "She retired at age 8, and might have lived happily ever after. But her mother and father turned out to be foster parents who never told her she was adopted and frittered her fortune away before splitting up." The obituary of silent-era child star Baby Marie Osborne, who died last week at 99, is a nice little bummer for your Wednesday morning. [NYT]

· What's shakin' in North Korea? Oh, nothing, just another skirmish over a dead tourist and continued delays in reopening the Diamond Mountain resort it jointly operates with the South. Sorry! You'll have to ski domestically this year. [NYT]

· This is your planet from space. Prepare to lose about 20 minutes of your day. [Wired]