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Youth Fantasy Face-Off: Will Oscar Pill or The Seventh Son Become Your New Harry Potter?

Now that marketing is kicking into gear for the final half-chapter of the Harry Potter saga, fans everywhere are starting to feel the disappointment and sadness that comes with the ending of a beloved movie franchise. But you know who’s feeling it even more? Producers and studio execs! For them, ending this series is like taking a huge bulldozer to a perfectly healthy money tree! So naturally, everyone’s now scrambling to find the next Harry Potter . Right now, two children’s fantasy series, Eli Anderson’s Oscar Pill books and Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles , are competing for the prize. But which one will triumph?

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Youth Fantasy Face-Off: Will Oscar Pill or The Seventh Son Become Your New Harry Potter?

Miral Actor, Peace Activist Juliano Mer-Khamis Shot and Killed

Sad, sobering news: Israeli actor and peace activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, who played Seikh Saabah in Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal’s Miral , was shot and killed by a masked gunman Monday. Worse still, the murder took place just outside his “Freedom Theater,” a drama and culture center that he set up inside a Palestinian refugee camp. Said a Miral rep, “Rula and Julian were very shocked at this tragic news.” [ New York Post ]

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Miral Actor, Peace Activist Juliano Mer-Khamis Shot and Killed

Woody Harrelson to Advise John McCain in Game Change

Another day, another casting announcement for HBO’ s Game Change , the movie about the 2008 presidential campaign. Woody Harrelson has been added to the apparent Oscar-nominee-only cast as Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s senior campaign strategist and adviser. Harrelson joins Ed Harris as McCain and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in the Jay Roach film. Expect Sarah Palin to continue to belittle this project on Fox News. [ EW ]

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What Should Be The Weinstein Company’s First Video Game?

A tremendous week of news deserves no less a finale than this: The Weinstein Company is going into the video-game business . “The TWC Games label will utilize The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films’ strong and recognizable properties, and work with external partners to develop and publish video games for mobile, social, and console platforms,” announced a press release, punctuated by Bob Weinstein’s observation: “With all of the digital platforms, there are so many opportunities to broaden our audience with compelling, high quality, cost-efficient, video game entertainment.” No kidding! But what should come first?

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What Should Be The Weinstein Company’s First Video Game?

Buzz Break: Glee Goes to the Leather Bar