8-bit Harry Potter

Though it's not technically a game, the creators sure went out of their way to make it feel like one, right down to the amazing retro music. You can watch Harry Potter in his summer school adventures and pick his path in this choose your own adventure video. Best part is you don't have to blow any cartridges to enjoy. Though if you have a Wiimote handy you can still work on your blowing skills.

Hogwarts Hotline

It's late at night...You're home alone, sitting there, polishing your broomstick, and you're looking for a good time. Thinking about some cute little witch and her chamber of secrets. You've got a major case of petrificus totalus and these muggles just aren't getting your wands at the ready. You're feeling like a filthy little mudblood and want to whisper sweet nothings in parseltongue in someone's ear, who do you call? Why the Hogwarts Hotline of course you dirty little whorecrux!

Pick up your phone and dial: 267-436-5109

Unfortunately it isn't a Harry Potter sexline, but it does have some fun little information about Hogwarts. And you can always use it as a decoy number to give out to ugly squibs.

Speilberg almost ruined Harry Potter

Two words: Animated Movie.

Thank god we dodged that bludger. Speilberg is a great man no doubt, but his recent movies certainly haven't packed quite as much of bite as his older swansongs like Jurassic Park or JAWS. It's a huge relief to hear that this never panned out, because his take on the franchise was to combine a couple of the books and make it animated. Silly muggle...

I can just imagine the crammed incoherent CGI mess it would have been, mostly liked voiced by Shia Lebeouf. He instead passed on the project in favor of making the mess Artificial Intelligence.

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Harry Potter To Be Converted Back To 2D

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 will now be released solely in 2D, the format in which the movie was originally filmed. WB was in the process of converting the footage to 3D but has since abandoned the process because it would not be done in time for the film's November 19th release date.

The studio is now concerned however that it will not be able to convert the 3D footage back to 2D in time. They'll have to painstakingly alter the movie frame by frame to make sure that nothing will appear like it's flying off the screen at your face. Audiences will be forced to wear sunglasses while watching in order to dull out the brightness that viewers normally experience when watching movies without 3D glasses.  Until 3D came around audiences found it impossible to distinguish objects in the foreground from those in the background. To combat this WB has been considering hanging broomsticks from strings in front of the screen and jiggling them up and down.

Alternatively there is a conversion process that tags all images throughout the film, identifying to viewers whether it's in the foreground or background. This gives people the illusion of 3D and depth without the need for cumbersome glasses. Otherwise movie goers watching a 2D version of Harry Potter might think there is a tiny 6-inch man flying next to Harry as opposed to following him in the background. Most likely the studio will release a hybrid of the movie should the conversion process not finish in time. This would be a 2D/3D version that would simply have both types of footage in it where the viewer removes and puts back on their glasses on every few seconds.

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ZOMG!1! 2nd Harry Potter Trailer!

This ain't no trailer trash, this is friggin epic. Remember when Harry Potter used to be all magical and whimsical, tra la la?

Well now there's death, lightning, and Harry Potter cross dressers. Just drop what you're doing AND GO WATCH!

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Harry Poster

What started as a kid's movie has now slowly morphed into an NC-17 rated horror flick. And I like it. Is anyone else as turned on by this poster as me?

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The bottom of the poster assures us that the movie will be released in 3D, and also shown in 2D Theaters [Otherwise known as "Theaters"]

For a look back to the past to see just how far we've come [since AOL Keywords], check out this side by side comparison:

ZOMG!1! Hrry Pttr!!!

There's a new Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows trailer that encompasses both Parts 1 & 2, The first of which is to be released this November. Then in July of 2011 everyone's lives will also officially be over and we'll all have nothing left to live for.
Anyone have a Time Turner so I don't have to wait this long?

Of course the movie will be out in 3D for those dying to have wands waggling in your face.