Harry Potter Wiz: Two-Part Finale a Cash Grab!
Sirius Black crushes young Harry Potter’s innocence forever!
See, Gary Oldman played sketchy wizard Black in several Potter flicks, and he still keeps in touch with series star Daniel Radcliffe. During this week’s press junket for The Dark Knight, Oldman dished on a recent chat with Radcliffe that, like, totally destroyed the young actor’s childlike naïveté.
Oldman doesn’t have any scenes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsbeing released in two parts starting in 2010but that doesn’t mean he’s out of the Hogwarts loop.
“[Daniel] called me up to say that [Deathly Hallows] was going to be in two parts,” Oldmen said. “’It’s just so dense, so much material, that’s why,’ he says.
“And I said, ’Uh, no, Daniel. That’s not the reason why. Cha-ching!’ And he was a little crushed. He said ‘Oh, yeah. I see what you mean.’ ”
See? Sirius Black really was a Death Eater after all.
The next movie adaptation of the J.K. Rowling saga, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, debuts in November. And that’s not about money at allright, Gary?
Rate-a-Trailer: Paris Slices ’n’ Sings in Repo!
Let’s be clear: This way grisly, futuristic rock opera from the director of three Saw flicks is not about Paris Hilton. She just has a small part in itas the slutty heiress of a company that sells you much-needed internal organsand then totally repossesses them when you default on payment!
Let’s also be clear: We wouldn’t be writing about this movie if Paris Hilton wasn’t in it.
So what do you think? Is it stylish or ghoulishor both? Is Repo! destined to be the next Rocky Horroror the new Glitter? Sound off in the comments.
Seth Rogen (Really) Makes a Porno
Kevin Smith’s upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen, may actually be a porno. No, seriously. The MPAA is trying to slap it with an NC-17 rating, meaning you’d have a tough time seeing it down at the megaplex.
So what’s in this thing that makes it so, like, porny? We asked Seth, and here’s what he said…
“It’s like a romantic comedy,” Rogen told us this week, at the press day for The Pineapple Express, which opens in August. “It’s a romantic relationship moviewith a lot of porn and balls.”
Wait, whose balls? “My balls are not in it,” he clarified.
Still, Smith is fighting for an R rating, as he did when Clerks first got slapped with an NC-17simply for dirty language. “You can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can’t show people having sex,” Rogen said. “I think it’s weird.”
If Zack and Miri does get an NC-17, Rogen thinks his hit flicks Knocked Up and Superbad should have, too.
“This is not anything outside of what we’ve done before,” he told us. “The word porno is in the title, and that kind of freaks people out.”
Well, that and the balls, maybe.
Spider-Man 4? You’re Gonna Have to Wait
Looks like everyone’s favorite web-slinging superhero is slowly weaving his way back to the box office. Very slowly.
Laura Ziskin, producer of the blockbuster movie franchise starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, told theater owners from California and Nevada on Thursday that Spider-Man 4 won’t hit theaters until at least 2011.
She said there is no script yet and neither Maguire nor director Sam Raimi have signed on.
Spider-Man 3 opened in 2007 to mixed reviews, although that didn’t stop the film from grossing a record $59 million its first day out of the gate.
The first three Spidey flicks combined have grossed a whopping $2.5 billion worldwide.