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

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

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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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What Meg Ryan Really Wants to Do Is Direct, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

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Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inching ever closer to a director… Jackie Chan’s will won’t include his son… Sylvester Stallone’s latest film loses its director… and more ahead.

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Oh, Baby: Natalie Portman’s Father Writes Pregnancy Thriller

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Ripped from the conversations at his own dinner table! Long Island fertility specialist Dr. Avner Hershlag — the man better know Natalie Portman’s father — is shopping his debut novel Misconception to publishing houses. A “reproductive thriller” about cloning and embryos, don’t be surprised when Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman team up again in five years to adapt Misconception , and take another swing at the whole Rosemary’s Baby thing they did in Black Swan . [ NYO ]

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Poor Christopher Walken Has Creepy, Grabby Criminal Doppelganger

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New Yorkers viewing their local newscasts Tuesday night were faced with the disturbing story of Tony Kadyhrob, a 68-year-old Lawrence, N.J., resident banned from state college campuses after allegedly grabbing a female Rider University student; he’d also been spotted at and escorted from the College of New Jersey as well. He’s now on bail facing charges of criminal luring — which would be creepy enough without looking just like Christopher Walken .

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Why Did The Hangover Part II Trailer Get Pulled From Theaters?

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While discussing the underwhelming first trailer for The Hangover Part II recently, director Todd Phillips bemoaned the fact that he couldn’t reveal all the good stuff in the marketing . “[T]he truth is, we’re constrained by the fact that we’re R-rated, so you can’t give — even the trailer you just saw, that’s a PG-13 trailer, so by the nature of the movie, we’re holding so much stuff back just because you can’t show it.” Maybe he should have held back even more? At least according to the MPAA.

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Can Thor Broker Hunger Games Peace Between Team Peeta and Team Gale?

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Chris Hemsworth , the Norse god Thor himself, revealed recently that he helped brother Liam rehearse for his Hunger Games auditions by reading the part of Katniss aloud . Liam eventually landed the part of Gale , one of two young men in love with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) in Lionsgate’s 2012 adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s YA novels, but lest you assume that means the elder Hemsworth is unequivocally on Team Gale, think again. Talking with Movieline he explains his ties to Liam’s future on-screen rival, Josh Hutcherson, and how they’ve landed him firmly in the middle of the Peeta-Gale conflict.

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VIDEO: Fan Made Credits for X-Men: First Class Appropriately Retro

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Cam Gigandet Talks Priest, Being a Screen Gems Star, and Joel Schumacher’s Trespass

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Three years after he shot to fame by terrorizing Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight , Cam Gigandet finds himself once again in a vampire flick — only this time the bloodsuckers are really nasty, and Gigandet is one of the good guys. As a young sheriff in the upcoming Priest , Gigandet plays foil to Paul Bettany’s Jedi-like warrior, both searching for a missing girl in the vampire-infested wasteland. Gigandet met with Movieline to discuss Priest and more after he and his fellow filmmakers debuted first look 3-D footage from the film at WonderCon.

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Constantine Maroulis Not Cast in Rock of Ages Because of Age, Not Rock

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With the exception of some stragglers , the final major piece of Rock of Ages casting became official last week when it was announced that relative newcomer Diego Gonzalez Boneta had won the lead role of Drew in the Adam Shankman-directed film. Which begs the question: Why not Constantine Maroulis, who originated the role on Broadway? As it turns out, the Tony nominee had one major thing going against him.

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