Best of the Week: First Look at the New 'Harry Potter' Spinoff, Another 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer and More

By Christopher Campbell

The Important News

First Look: The Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dropped a whole bunch of pics.

Sequelitis: Dennis Kelly is now writing the World War Z sequel. Mark Waters will direct Bad Santa 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is finally sort of getting a sequel. The Lego Movie 2 will feature Doctor Who. Jurassic World 3 has been confirmed. Daniel Craig might do another James Bond movie.

Remake Report: French horror film Inside is getting an English-language remake. The Crow remake is happening again. Ricky Gervais will voice a character in the animated Blazing Saddles remake.

Casting Net: Nicole Kidman will co-star in Wonder Woman. Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard will star in Duncan Jones’s Mute. Elizabeth Banks will star in Rita Hayworth With a Hand Grenade. Noomi Rapace will star in an Amy Winehouse biopic.

Video Game Movie Fever: StarCraft, Diablo and Call of Duty cinematic universes are in the works. The Witcher is headed for the big screen.

Amusement Park Plans: The Hunger Games rides are hitting theme parks starting next year.

New Directors, New Films: Damián Szifrón will direct Mark Wahlberg in The Six Billion Dollar Man.

Box Office: The Martian continues to be a huge hit in theaters.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Warcraft, In the Heart of the Sea, London Has Fallen, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hateful Eight, The Brothers Grimsby, Anomalisa, Concussion, Risen, Christmas Eve, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and Chi-Raq.

Watch: An honest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Meet: The Star Wars fan who got to see the new movie early.

See: The best celebrity Halloween costumes.

Watch: A side-by-side comparison between Mad Max: Fury Road and the previous three movies.

See: The emotion designs that didn’t make it into Pixar’s Inside Out.

Learn: How hoverboards work.

Watch: An animated recap of the James Bond movies. And a supercut of every James Bond gadget. And some James Bond parodies.

See: Every James Bond movie statistic you need to know.

Learn: The four basics of a Paul Thomas Anderson movie.

See: This week’s best new movie posters. And new Star Wars: The Force Awakens character posters.

Watch: Iconic movie posters come to life.

Our Features

Montly Movie Guide: See our November movie calendar above.

New Movie Guide: Why you should see The Peanuts Movie.

In Memoriam: We remembered all the reel-important people we lost in October.

Comic Book Movie Guides: What other characters might we see in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? Could we see Miles Morales’s Spider-Man on the big screen?

Sci-Fi Movie Guide: 5 reasons to love Moon.

Home Viewing: Here’s our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And here’s our guide to all the new indie and international movies you need to see.

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