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It All Ends (With Laughter): The Harry Potter Cast Reunite for One Last Photocall

Despite the epic tears everyone is bound to shed once J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter film series comes to its conclusion this month, the cast was all smiles as they gathered in London for what will probably be the last big cast photo call of the franchise. Sadly, star Daniel Radcliffe was M.I.A. for the bittersweet photo op, but just about every other beloved witch, wizard, and Muggle was on hand to share smiles before tomorrow’s world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 .

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It All Ends (With Laughter): The Harry Potter Cast Reunite for One Last Photocall

5 Pro Tips for Making a Great R-Rated Comedy From Horrible Bosses Director Seth Gordon

Despite some chatter to the contrary , comedies are alive and well in Hollywood this summer. Especially R-rated comedies: the combined domestic grosses of The Hangover Part II , Bridesmaids and Bad Teacher are closing in on $500 million. Into this landscape arrives Horrible Bosses (out Friday), the Seth Gordon-directed comedy about three dudes who try to kill their titular terrible employers. How come Bosses works so well when some other summer comedies have not?

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5 Pro Tips for Making a Great R-Rated Comedy From Horrible Bosses Director Seth Gordon

Check Out Tintin and Snowy in New Look at The Adventures of Tintin

It’s bad when images from a movie directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson call to mind those crudely animated Empire carpet commercials , but such is life for The Adventures of Tintin . The motion-capture spectacle (with Jamie Bell voicing the titular adventurer) arrives in theaters this Christmas, and looks about as comfortable in the uncanny valley as The Polar Express . This is not a good thing. Still, cute dog! Click through for another look at Tintin and his trusty canine companion, Snowy.

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Check Out Tintin and Snowy in New Look at The Adventures of Tintin

Honor International Kissing Day With the Screen’s Greatest Kiss

Apparently today is International Kissing Day, a global extension of the quasi-holiday founded in the UK before spreading its germy brand to foreign shores. We’re all stuck with it now, but you know what they say: When life throws you lemons, watch Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the greatest kiss ever captured for the screen. Or… something.

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Weekend Receipts: Transformers Drive Off With No. 1, Pirates 4 Cracks $1 Billion

It was never if but when — and by how much — Transformers: Dark of the Moons would affirm its bulky, sense-shattering supremacy at the holiday box office. After four days of preliminary evidence, its spacious margin of victory becomes ever clearer as the Independence Day frame tumbles further into history. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: Transformers Drive Off With No. 1, Pirates 4 Cracks $1 Billion

9 Milestones in the Evolution of Tom Hanks

In this weekend’s Larry Crowne , Tom Hanks plays a hardworking retail employee who is laid off suddenly because he doesn’t have a college degree. How did Hanks transform himself from a smooth-talking cross-dresser named Buffy to a dorky community college student who dresses in Dockers and crosses campus on a scooter?

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9 Milestones in the Evolution of Tom Hanks

Director of Sarah Palin Documentary Promises More Violence in Unrated Cut

You read that right: Stephen Bannon, whose Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated has drawn critical ire across the aisles , says an uncut version of his film will be released on demand following its PG-13 theatrical release July 15. The new cut will depict even more of the dastardly violence and vulgarity the former Alaska governor/vice presidential candidate has suffered during her rise in the public eye, including “crucifixions, lynching and suicides” sourced from social media. Pulling a classic double dip! Looks like Hollywood and its hateful methods aren’t all despicable, eh?[ THR ]

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Watch Baby-Wielding Jessica Alba Kick Ass in Ridiculous Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Trailer

If you had to sit through Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over , there’s a good chance you will be forced to see the fourth installment of the Spy Kids franchise when it premieres Aug. 19. Unfortunately for you, Sylvester Stallone will not be reprising his role as the unintentionally hilarious villain toymaker, and even more unfortunately, not even Jessica Alba , Joel McHale, Ricky Gervais and the movie’s Aromascope feature will be able to save the latest Spy Kids movie All the Time in the World from kid-approved ridiculousness. At least, that’s what the latest trailer makes it seem like.

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Watch Baby-Wielding Jessica Alba Kick Ass in Ridiculous Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Trailer

10 Terrifying Images That Come to Mind When Viewing the New Final Destination 5 Poster

Life handed us a traumatizing poster for Final Destination 5 , and we’re left to figure out why it’s so dumb and scary. Remember that horrifying Green Lantern poster featuring a yellow-eyed Peter Sarsgaard ? This is easily worse than that. Here’s our list of 10 images that the new poster conjures; please contribute your own and help paint a word picture with us.

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New Apollo 18 Trailer Milks Transformers, Super 8 Fever For all its Worth

With all of the excitement about this week’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon release, it’s important not to forget the other lunar-themed film hitting theaters this summer: Apollo 18 . The Weinstein brothers may have delayed the premiere of this found-footage-horror flick six months but that doesn’t mean it is necessarily bad, right? Take a look at the second official trailer and see for yourself.

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New Apollo 18 Trailer Milks Transformers, Super 8 Fever For all its Worth