Like any adult, I've confronted myself with the fact that the entire cast of Harry Potter is cool. They just are. They're witty, fun, sarcastic, and they even play along when you tell them to speak in American accents. In this clip from MTV (an update of a feature they did for the first Deathly Hallows), Tom Felton, Rupert Grint, and Matthew Lewis pronounce "brewskis" in their most Toby Keithian drawls. Prepare to renew your crushes on all three.
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Higher Ground comes with a wealth of advanced praise. Vera Farmiga's directorial debut about a woman going through a spiritual coming of age in the '60s premiered at Sundance to rave reviews, and the new trailer is packed to the gills with pull-quotes and flowery adjectives. Engrossing! Haunting! Startlingly Bold! Sounds great. Which is what makes the trailer so disappointing -- this doesn't really look like the work of the next great voice in American filmmaking, does it?
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Sgt. Scott Moore may seem like a typical marine stationed in Afghanistan, but he's got more nerve and charisma than the whole of the internet. In a video he made overseas dedicated to Mila Kunis, he invited the Friends with Benefits star to attend a Marines ball in North Carolina with him. And who helped cajole Kunis to accepting the date? Her patriotic co-star, of course! The video, posted by Moore under the YouTube handle "GoWithMeMila," follows.
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Helena Bonham Carter's personality is larger than life, which explains why her top hats and mismatched ballet flats seem so tiny! She could not be a more deserving movie star or fantastic interview, and on those grounds I welcome you to a new level of honesty from Tim Burton's wife. Ready? She peed herself while shooting Harry Potter. And she's going to tell you why.
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James Marsh, the Oscar-winning director of 2008's Man on Wire, scintillated Sundance with his new documentary Project Nim, which centers on a chimp named Nim who was raised as a human child and taught American Sign Language. The first six minutes are now online, and if they're any indication, Nim's human preferences are enough to break a family apart. Watch, gape, and repeat.
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Despite the recent torrent of production stills, it has been awhile since Peter Jackson released any moving pictures from the production of The Hobbit, so this second video diary comes at an ideal time. The first block of filming on the two-part epic is complete (production is set to resume in early September), and everyone already looks sufficiently exhausted -- including second unit director Andy Serikis. Click ahead to watch the charming video.
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Well, here you go: After a light drizzle of poster curios and shadowy stills comes the heavy rain of this new, full-length UK trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. And it really does have everything: Intrigue! Humor! Planes! Explosions! Dogs! And an ensemble of actors doing their best to salvage the uneasy relationship between cutting-edge mo-cap and characters just exaggerated enough not to be totally creepy.
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Wow. Just wowwwwwww. When it was announced last year that Adam Sandler would play his own twin sister in the comedy Jack and Jill, it seemed like a joke -- specifically, the type that Sandler and Judd Apatow made about the star's career in Funny People. Only, it's not a joke; Jack and Jill is real, and it's got the craziest trailer you'll see all summer.
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The story of Steven Spielberg's career beginnings -- including how he fled a tour group at Universal and earned his first internship by asking staffers about their jobs -- is oft-told, but when you're the most influential filmmaker of a generation, your origin tale is always relevant. In a new video with his Cowboys & Aliens collaborators Jon Favreau, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard, Spielberg sheds light on a time when Searchers director (and general legend) John Ford cursed him out. It is mesmerizing.
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It's coming up on two years since Restless was first announced as Gus Van Sant's follow-up to Milk (click here to learn how Bryce Dallas Howard planted the seed for its development), and while its film reels might be covered in a layer of dust from sitting on the shelf for so long, boutique box office prospects seem bright. Ish. After all, Restless looks like the (500) Days of Summer-y twee romance that recent bomb The Art of Getting By only wished it could be!
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If you thought the Sarah Palin campaign-boosting documentary The Undefeated wouldn't resort to such propaganda-y things as comparing the former half-term Alaskan governor to a Marine while video of a burning building plays onscreen, some bad news: it does. On the upside, however, is this hilarious juxtaposition: "On day one, Governor Palin made it absolutely clear that this was a different governor," says someone in voiceover just as a dollar bill is being cut up with scissors. Different! (Alternate: That's one way to slash the budget?) The trailer for The Undefeated is here.
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Acupuncture. Balance beams. Crowded bridges. Construction sites. Hot adult women who cling to teddy bears during low-risk medical procedures. All seemingly harmless things that will be ruined for you by Steven Quale's Final Destination 5 judging by the horror flick's traumatizing new trailer. Steel yourself, and check it out ahead.
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Unless your boss plays mind games with you involving genitalia and shaved coconut, makes you work while your "gam-gam" is on her deathbed, and insults you for sport, he/she has nothing on Kevin Spacey in the new UK trailer for Horrible Bosses. So, watch and take pleasure knowing that your superior (hopefully) won't ever be as bad as the power-wielding Spacey, the sexually inappropriate Jennifer Aniston or the coke-fiend Colin Farrell.
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Are you a Harry Potter fan questioning your bona fides after seeing pictures of the robed few who braved the streets Trafalgar Square in London this week to wait for the world premiere of The Deathly Hallows Part II? Worry not! Thanks to the magic of modern technology, you, too, can enjoy the festivities, all from the comfort of your own computer. So, pour yourself a butterbeer and click through to watch!
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"One simply has to maximize your appeal. Bring out all your qualities. Make you look and sound like the leader that you could be," says one political advisor to an off-screen Meryl Streep-as-Margaret Thatcher in the first teaser for The Iron Lady. "You've got it in you to go the whole distance," says another. The men are talking about Thatcher's political aspirations, of course, but they might as well be talking about Oscar season. Is this Streep's best chance to get off the Academy Award schneid?
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