· Watch out, Hermione! There are Deatheaters behind you! What's that you say? This isn't real and it's just a staged bit of fun at the London premiere of The Deathly Hallows? Ah, never mind. Emma Watson's hair looks great, at least. Check out the pic ahead and stick around for more Buzz Break -- now with 50 percent more casting rumors about the female leads in The Dark Knight Rises!
Today is Veterans Day, when we honor those Americans who risked their lives for causes that are often too big or too complicated for mere civilians to understand. But there's always the movies, where the veteran returning home has been a longtime standard for processing this country's complex relationship with war.
Live in the Los Angeles area and have some free time this weekend? Perhaps you can accompany Kim Kardashian to your local multiplex. "Who wants to take me to see the #Skyline movie this weekend?" Kardashian wrote on Twitter. "Looks amazing!" That's one way to put it. Though you have to admit that her reasoning for that "amazing" is fairly hilarious. "All of LA gets sucked up into a alien ship? Finally!" Finally, indeed. [@KimKardashian]
Everyone and their mother wrote about the premiere episode of Conan -- including us! -- but judging a late night show on its first episode seems like a fools errand. After all, it's not a normal late night show when the host's monologue gets its own press release before air. Now, episode three...well, that's where Movieline comes in: After watching the third edition of Conan, myself and Julie Miller decided to chat about how the show has progressed throughout this first week. To the IMs!
Your FYI for the day: Here is Tyrese Gibson tweeting his unchecked joy at having wrapped Transformers: Al Yankovic in 3-D. Michael Bay has been mysteriously silent about this himself, but the enthusiasm herewith is enough to get anyone's anticipation up. Or dread. Anyway, this happened.
Here's the thing about Zac Efron: He actually seems extremely charming! Try watching 17 Again (this is a plea, not a threat) without succumbing to his brand of go-for-broke enthusiasm. He just wants the audience to like him. That he also displays some fairly refreshing candor in interviews doesn't hurt either. None of that excuses his appearance in The Lucky One, which I'll assume is another weepy and limp Nicholas Sparks adaptation, but nobody's perfect. The first images of Efron as U.S. Marine Logan Thibault (ah, romance novels) have arrived and they'll leave you wondering whether The Lucky One is an actual movie or a Chevy truck commercial. Ain't that America? Click ahead to find out.
Veteran producer Dino De Laurentiis has died in Los Angeles, per reports. He was 91. De Laurentiis got his start over 70 years ago, climbing through the ranks of the Italian film industry before getting into producing in 1940s. He and partner Carlo Ponti collaborated on Fellini classics like Nights of Cabiria and the Oscar-winning La Strada before De Laurentiis spun off to one of the greatest big-budget genre careers in Hollywood history -- including Barbarella, King Kong, Flash Gordon and Dune -- while producing little masterpieces like Blue Velvet and Evil Dead 2 along the way. He produced more than 500 films overall. They don't make them like him anymore. More to come here today... [The Wrap]
Some complained that David Yates' Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cut too many important aspects of the novel in order to fit its running time. But with the two-part structure of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Yates actually had the luxury of adding scenes this time, and for whatever reason he's revealed what they are. Join Movieline after the jump for a summary of the scenes that you'll only find in the film, which sound like they range from good to unnecessary to surprisingly racy. Warning: Spoilers ahead, even for those who have read the book a dozen times.
Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Ridiculous development happenings at Disney... The first Flip-Cam movie is coming to a theater near you... Presidents with hams... We're all zombies... OK Go turns to toast... and more!
Great news: Kinji Fukasaku's controversial and totally brilliant kids-killing-other-kids film Battle Royale is finally getting a release in the United States. Not-as-great news: Anchor Bay has picked up the theatrical rights to the 3-D conversion of the film, along with non-3-D rights for its less controversial and not-at-all-brilliant sequel. They are planning a 2011 release. If the timing works, they should go balls-out and releases the first film the same weekend as The Hunger Games. [Tokyo Graph via ONTD]
· Discomfort: My favorite viral video thrill. Watch here as Aaron Sorkin and Todd Phillips ream the Writers Guild of America in front of its physically uneasy West Coast president John Wells. Phillips handles sass like a regular Etta James! [NYMag]
Sadly, NBC executive Jeff Gaspin -- who replaced Ben Silverman in July 2009, just in time to mishandle the epic primetime programming disaster that was the Jay Leno Show -- will not live to turn NBC's dismal ratings around as he had hoped. THR reports that the chairman parted ways with NBC Universal yesterday after watching Tina Fey accept the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in New York. A successor is expected to be announced next week. [THR]
I tend to think that it's really only going to be news the next time Bill Murray is not in a Wes Anderson movie (the last time this happened was Anderson's first film, 1996's Bottle Rocket). This time, Murray is in talks to join Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton in the 1960s set Moon Rise Kingdom. Not a hybrid of Dark of the Moon, Dark Knight Rising and Animal Kingdom, Anderson and Roman Coppola wrote the unrelated script about two runaway lovers being searched for by the residents of a small New England town. [Deadline]
Assuming you count Hollywood Homicide, Harrison Ford makes his return to comedy after a seven-year absence in today's Morning Glory. But how did Ford get to this point after his big-screen debut wayyyy back at the tender age of 24? You can always trace a direct line through a handful of roles (not necessarily his best roles, mind you) to illustrate what led to an actor's current success, and with Ford, though still well respected, that line has had a bit of a downslope as of late -- well, until today. Let's look at eight performances -- including his very first -- that trace the evolution of one Harrison Ford.
· Do you remember when The Simpsons predicted 9/11? Me neither, but according to some conspiracy theorists the video ahead is proof that the attacks on the World Trade Center were hatched inside the The Simpsons writers' room. Or something. Click ahead to watch the coincidental video and stick around for more Buzz Break. (Where else are you going to get your daily requirement of Demi Lovato news?)
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