With his film due out in a couple of weeks, Harry Potter is beginning to make some waves. First up is an update on the Potter IMAX delay. Long story short, Half-Blood Prince won't be arriving on IMAX screens the same day the film hits conventional theaters because of a deal IMAX made with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for an exclusive four-week run. However, three theaters will be getting Harry Potter in IMAX on opening day, July 15th, but if you don't live in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, you're out of luck. Collider tells us those three theaters are as follows: Century City IMAX (Los Angeles), Henry Crown (Chicago), and AMC Loews Lincoln Square (NYC). The first 12 minutes of the movie have been converted to IMAX 3D, and so I'm sure it's worth the trip for those who live in the surrounding areas. Unfortunately, everyone else will have to wait another two weeks.

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Now that the Academy Awards have extended the best picture category to include ten nominees instead of five, you bet your bottom half we're going to start seeing some pretty bold claims when it comes to fan favorites, like Star Trek, Watchmen and the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. With a couple weeks still to go before Half-Blood Prince finally hits theaters, Hollywood.com's Paul Dergarabedian looks to be the first to champion the film for a possible best picture nomination.

Having watched the movie at an advanced screening, he says, "... the Potter loving beast in me has been unleashed after having witnessed a film that was not only exquisite in its production values, but was also charming, funny, scary, enchanting, moving (stop me, the adjectives could go on and on) and dare I say, sexy. Brilliantly directed by David Yates (he directed 2007's "Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix"), "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is a tour-de-force that combines style and substance, special effects and heart and most importantly great performances from all of the actors young and not-so-young. Not only that, half-way through I'm thinking the unthinkable - "ten academy awards nominations are available this year, hmm I wonder...."

Granted, the folks from Hollywood.com could be angling themselves for some Potter quotes in print and in future trailers, but seeing as Lord of the Rings had its time in the Oscar spotlight -- coupled with the fact that Potter is nearing his big-screen finale -- I wouldn't be surprised if Half-Blood Prince nabbed one of those ten spots. You?

Back in April, we received some cool and spooky character posters for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- the dark and foreboding sort to tingle the spine and pucker the goosebumps. Now a whole new set have hit the the film's UK site, and this time around, they're all about the plot. Or rather, a few glimpses at Draco and the wonderful Luna Lovegood, and the rest being all about the tumultuous looks of love and teen yearning.

There's Draco opening the vanishing cabinet, Luna with those excellent glasses, Harry and Ginny getting their stare on, and two are focused on the little love triangle of Ron, Hermione, and Lavender. With the addition of this latest set, there's about a billion different images and posters released to eager fans, and by this point, they should just sell the images on wallpaper. There's probably enough to fill ten rooms!

With Half-Blood Prince the Potter world is on the regular track for adolescence and increasing wizardry. Voldemort's power is increasing, Hogwarts is a safe haven no longer, and Dumbledore is trying to prepare Harry for the impending battle against darkness. Meanwhile, however, nothing can stop puberty as most of the kids fall to the power of hormones.

Prince will finally hit the screens on July 15.

Above: MTV revealed the first clear shot of The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Oh, admit it -- you totally watched the MTV Movie Awards last night because you're secretly obsessed with Robert Pattinson and you knew they'd be overdosing on the poor guy since MTV is fastly becoming the All Twilight Network. In case you missed some (or all) of the action, here are the new clips they aired, as well as a little of the show itself.

First up is that clip from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. MTV took it down for some reason, but Trailer Addict has it up in decent quality. Essentially, Sam and Mikaela are hiding from a whole fleet of Decepticons, and when Sam destroys some weird looking mosquito/satellite bot, all hell breaks loose. Check it out below.



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Not many movie-going summers have had the good sense or fortune to formally kick themselves off with the likes of Hugh Jackman and his razor-sharp jazz hands, but as these are the times in which we live in, it's a clear indication that we're in for about eighteen weeks of spectacular spectaculars worth gulping down popcorn and guzzling down pop* with.

Eugene's already shone the spotlight on a fair amount of smaller titles worth your while, so our staff tried to keep the focus on that which we haven't seen, those spectacles for which we're most excited and least likely to text during. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: sit down and shut up, because these are the seven movies that we're fairly f**kin' pumped for.

(*Okay, I pretty much never call soda that, but you get the idea.)

Cinematical has just received these four very cool (and haunting) character banners for this summer's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which just topped an AOL Moviefone poll as the film readers were most looking forward to seeing. But that shouldn't surprise anyone; folks has been itching to see Half-Blood Prince ever since its release date was pushed back several months from last November to this July 15, and it seems fans are desperate to spend as much time as they can with Potter and the gang before their big-screen adventures come to an end (after Half-Blood Prince, all that's left is the two-part Deathly Hallows finale). Check out larger versions of all four character banners in the gallery below.



Directed by David Yates, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finds friends Harry, Ron and Hermione a bit older, wiser and, well, more attracted to the opposite sex. As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, our hero discovers a mysterious book that helps him learn more about the evil Lord Voldemort's dark past.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will arrive in conventional theaters and on IMAX screens on July 15, two days earlier than the previously scheduled July 17.

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UPDATE: Check out the new trailer below ...

Cinematical has just received this exclusive screengrab from the brand spanking new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer, which premieres online tonight at around 9pm EST over on AOL Moviefone. It's taken awhile for this latest Harry Potter installment to reach theaters (after the original release date was pushed from November '08 to July '09), but knowing the boy wizard and his wild cohorts, this sixth (!) adventure will definitely be worth the wait.

Directed by David Yates, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finds friends Harry, Ron and Hermione a bit older, wiser and, well, more attracted to the opposite sex. As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, our hero discovers a mysterious book that helps him learn more about the evil Lord Voldemort's dark past.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will arrive in conventional theaters and on IMAX screens on July 15, two days earlier than the previously scheduled July 17. Check out a larger version of the above image in our official Half-Blood Prince gallery below ... and make sure you tune in later on tonight for that new trailer.

No doubt you recall the dark days last August when Warner Bros. announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was being pushed from its Nov. 21, 2008, release date all the way back to July 17, 2009. Surely you still bear the emotional scars of those troubled times, and I apologize if my mentioning it has reopened old wounds.

But you will pleased to know that Warner Bros. has heard your plaintive weeping and done the honorable thing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is being moved up -- all the way from July 17 to July 15! That's two whole days sooner that we'll get to see Harry, Henrietta, Rob, Haggard, Prof. Mumblecore and all the gang do battle with Vadermort!

Astute readers might notice that July 17 is a Friday, making July 15 a Wednesday. Those readers might also recall that pretty much ALL of the biggest summer blockbusters have been coming out on Wednesdays lately. Cynical readers might wonder why HPATH-BP was ever scheduled for a Friday in the first place, and if indeed it was the plan all along to "change" it to Wednesday as a means of drumming up a little extra publicity now, in April, when most people wouldn't be thinking about the movie otherwise.

To those readers I say: You're probably right. Still, good news. A Wednesday release date means it's really coming out late Tuesday night, at midnight, maybe even 10 p.m. No word yet on when the pirated copy will be avilable on the Internet.

Star Trek
I stopped watching trailers and clips for Watchmen awhile ago because I want to save something for the final release. I'm almost at that same place with JJ Abrams' new Star Trek movie, but this latest Trek trailer throws out some tantalizing bits. Kirk's dad was in Starfleet? He knew Captain Pike? Don't bother with the transporter, I'm already on board for this one, and it hits on May 8.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
If you're a hardcore Harry Potter fan you've probably already finished reading the novels, so this penultimate film in the series will have no real surprises. The question is how well will the film retell Rowling's story, and if this trailer is any indication the answer is "quite well indeed, thank you very much." Hope everyone's gotten their letter from Hogwart's because the Hogwart's Express departs on July 17.

The Limits of Control
This trailer will have you wondering what the heck is going on, but it piqued my curiosity enough to make me want to see the movie. There's this mysterious guy, there's talk of revenge and how useless it is. It's all pretty cryptique. My enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that this is from Jim Jarmusch, director of the disappointing Broken Flowers, but who knows. This one gets a limited release on May 22.

As part of MTV's new quarterly show Spoilers, they unveiled some clips and behind-the-scenes footage for flicks like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek, Watchmen, Land of the Lost and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Check it out below ...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen



Star Trek



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