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The Harry Potter franchise has had a significant impact on entire generations from all around the world, as the young children who grew up with the films are now full-grown adults. To start off the new year, HBO Max released a celebration of the series on the 20th anniversary of the franchise’s first theatrical release. “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Special: Return to Hogwarts” gathers many of the core members from both cast and crew from all of the films as they dive into the creation of the iconic wizarding world of Harry Potter. The special has a nearly two-hour runtime and closely follows the production, reception and relationships formed between those involved over the years.
The special begins with a select few cast members shown hanging around random places such as Emma Watson at a second-hand book shop and Matthew Lewis talking to a cab driver when they “find” the iconic Hogwarts invitation letter. Then, the original Hogwarts halls and rooms are shown as the cast is reunited for big hugs and bright smiles. The special follows a loose chronological order through the films, dividing up seemingly by directors as the core cast narrates the experience of making these films from start to finish. At the center of course is the legendary trio of Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and “the boy who lived” Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter). All three are now in their early 30s, which was surreal for audiences considering they started playing these characters at around 10 years old.
While much of the special is not revealing groundbreaking information or secrets about those involved, it does offer an incredible amount of heartwarming interactions and discussions from those involved, not to mention endless nostalgia for any long-time Harry Potter fan. It was fascinating to see just how extraneous the casting process was for the first film, with a decent portion of the beginning dedicated to showing audition footage from the trio and commentary from film producers. The footage really put into perspective just how much effort and attention to detail was placed into every element of the filmmaking process, showing how perfect the eventual casting really was, so much so that they even reference the fact that Watson, Grint, and Radcliffe very much were Hermione, Ron and Harry from the get-go.
It was also interesting to see how the filmmaking approach changed from director to director while still maintaining the series quality and continuity. Each director offered their own experience with the cast and what their vision for the films they created was. You can see how the tone and darkness slowly increase as the characters grow from the whimsical child-like feeling of “The Sorcerer’s Stone” all the way to young adults in the dark and dramatic finale in the “Deathly Hallows.” The special also offers an interesting insight into the more technical sides of the production process such as set design, cinematography, costume/make-up and the use of both visual and practical effects. While not discussed at great length, it was awesome to see how the filmmakers approached adapting the novels and were able to do so so masterfully.
Despite all the fantastical elements of the stories, the Harry Potter films are coming-of-age films. This is something that each director took into careful consideration and Watson, Grint and Radcliffe discussed at length in scenes where the three were reunited in the Gryffindor common room. The trio discusses the time they spent together, shared experiences and moments that stuck with them over the years. They also show extreme humility and gratefulness to the fans, showing not only that they are who the films are for but that they understand how important these films are for so many people of all ages. Watson briefly discusses her feelings of loneliness and the hardships of fame from when she almost decided to quit halfway through the series. This engaging and meaningful segment makes for some of the most captivating and interesting content in the entire special.
As they moved through the films, we also saw entertaining and heartwarming interviews, reunions and cameos from secondary cast members such as Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) and more. While some had more significant appearances than others, seeing so many of these actors reunited and talking about their roles in the films was spectacular. It also revealed some of the unexpectedly close relationships between certain cast members such as Radcliffe and Carter or Watson and Felton. These interactions were extremely fascinating to see as fans would probably not expect these actors to be as close as they are in real life. The way they express their love and admiration for each other is magically wholesome.
These moments and more are what really makes the special worth watching. Through interviews and discussion, you can see that every single cast and crew member was fully invested in the franchise, the source material and showed a passion that is rarely found in the film industry today. You also see how the main members grew together over the years, creating a family-like bond in the process. Despite its lengthy runtime, any hardcore Harry Potter fan is sure to love every second of “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Special: Return to Hogwarts,” a joyous and heartwarming reunion of one of the most successful franchises in cinematic history.
Sony is finally releasing an Uncharted movie after trying to make one for over a decade. If you need more evidence that the film actually exists beyond a snap of Tom Holland in Nathan Drake’s classic attire, here’s the first trailer.
Even though Holland plays a much younger version of the character (which Mark Wahlberg’s Sully jokes about in the opening moments) than in the games, the enjoyable-enough trailer incudes some of the most memorable moments from Drake’s globe-trotting adventures. There isn’t a bit where he clambers up a train carriage that’s dangling over a cliff, but there’s the cargo plane set piece from Uncharted 3 and a ship trapped inside a cave, just like in Uncharted 4. The clip includes some underground exploration too.
The film’s set to arrive in theaters on February 18th, following several delays. Attempts to make an Uncharted movie stopped and started over the years, with directors including David O. Russell, Seth Gordon and Shawn Levy being attached at certain points before Zombieland and Venom helmer Ruben Fleischer saw the film through. The project had been in development for so long that, for a while, Wahlberg looked set to play Drake, rather than the character’s mentor.
Some viewers might be coming to the franchise with fresh eyes (maybe because they need more Tom Holland in their lives), and they might want to play the games to see what all the fuss is about. Sony Pictures included a handy reminder at the end of the trailer about a remastered bundle of Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy that’s coming to PlayStation 5 and PC in early 2022.
In case the trailer doesn’t quite match up to what you might have expected, or Holland doesn’t seem like the right person for the gig in your opinion, it’s worth checking out this short fan film from a few years back in which Nathan Fillion plays the rogueish treasure hunter. It’s a blast.
One of the most memorable exchanges in the trailer for The Batman wasn’t penned by co-writer and director Matt Reeves. It was written by Zoe Kravitz, because she just knew her character that well.
The Batman opens March 4. The movie sees the Caped Crusader (Robert Pattinson) form an uneasy alliance with Catwoman, aka Selina Kyle (Kravitz), to help solve a web of crimes being committed by the Riddler (Paul Dano). At one point, that alliance sees Batman going back to Selina’s apartment where he makes the astute observation “You’ve got a lot of cats,” to which she replies “I have a thing about strays.” “Strays,” in this instance, refers not just to cats but, maybe, that man who is so lost and alone he dresses up as a Bat every night to fight crime. Here it is.
“The character is so well-developed in the script, and I was really excited to explore her backstory and where she comes from and the process that she goes through in terms of kind of becoming closer to what will be Catwoman,” Kravitz said at a recent press event. “It was really lovely to be able to play Selina and not have to jump straight to Catwoman. I think with these iconic characters that we all love so much, it can be overwhelming in terms of, ‘OK, now here’s Catwoman,’ and I have this wonderful opportunity to kind of slowly develop her and the audience gets to come on that journey with me.”
It’s in that deep exploration of Selina Kyle before Catwoman that the above exchange came to be.
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“Certain things that are some of my favorite moments of lines in the movie, they’re yours,” co-writer/director Matt Reeves said to Kravitz at the event. “We talked a lot about the cats and we’re talking about this notion of the background that she comes from and what her life was, in essence, because she was essentially an orphan as well. That she was a stray and she was collecting cats because now she’s decided to protect strays. And so that whole conversation led to this whole idea … This is literally how this happened. I said, ‘That is so great.’ She goes ‘So I could say that, right? Something about like, you know, ‘I have a thing about strays’ and I said ‘Yeah, but how do we set that up?’ She goes ‘Oh, that’s easy. He can just say, ‘You got a lot of cats.’ I thought that is great.’”
And so it didn’t just make it into the movie, it made it into the most recent trailer. Also, you wouldn’t be wrong in assuming that an exploration of Selina before Catwoman does suggest could be more of her down the road. “What we’re really trying to do is to launch this world and if the world embraces this we have a lot of good ideas and for sure we want Selena to continue,” Reeves said.
The Batman opens March 4.
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If you didn’t get a chance to catch the dazzling stage show “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” when it was last in San Francisco — before getting COVID-canceled in March 2020 — well, it’s back.
But the “Cursed Child” now playing in previews at The Curran is significantly different than the version that was playing two years ago at the stately Geary Street theater. The main thing is it is no longer a two-part 5-plus-hour affair, which fans could enjoy in marathon style on a single day or split up over two days. It’s now a newly-staged single-performance show running about 3½ hours.
But, as the New York Times wrote of the new version of “Cursed Child” when it opened on Broadway late last year, “it remains diamond-sharp in its staging and dazzling in its visual imagination, as magical as any spell or potion.”
And the story line — created by Potter author J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany — is pretty much the same. The action returns to Hogwarts 19 years after the books and movies left off, and Harry Potter’s son is a student at the legendary wizarding school.
Details: In previews through Feb. 10; main run is Feb. 10-Sept. 4; check websites for COVID updates; $79-$299 (subject to change); sfcurran.com or sf.harrypottertheplay.com.
According to HRDS, she will be mostly working from the NGO’s Corporate office in New Delhi.
The NGO has operations in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand besides Kerala.
Early this week, Sapna presented herself before the Enforcement Directorate after she was served a notice by them in the wake of new revelations against co-accused and top IAS official M.Sivasankar, who also was in jail and after getting bail, has been reinstated.
The case resurfaced last month when an autobiography written by the then principal secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan – M. Sivasankar revealed that ‘he never did any favour to Swapna’ and also added that ‘he never knew the iPhone that was gifted to him by her was part of a bribe’.
One evening a decade ago, Rabbi Nir Yacoby made a discovery that would lead to the birth of a rare Jewish library in the community, at the Shuva Israel Torah Center in Pico-Robertson.
“We are a frum family,” said the Israeli-born Yacoby, a father of eight. “I send my kids to a very religious school. We don’t watch movies and we don’t have a television.”
For those reasons, he was surprised to find Avigail, his oldest, reading Harry Potter.
“This was okay,” he said, “because it had been assigned by her English teacher. Mind you, this is a very religious school.”
On her own, then 13-year-old Avigail went to the public library and borrowed the first Harry Potter book. She found it so interesting, she soon borrowed the second and third books in the series.
Avigail was not alone. Her school friends shared her enthusiasm.
“Before I knew it, she wanted to buy the whole Harry Potter series from Amazon,” Yacoby said, since there would be a waiting list by the time the books reached the library. Next, she wanted to go on the Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios. Then she asked him if she could see the Harry Potter movies.
Meanwhile, books began piling up. The Yacobys built their own home library, but soon, they ran out of room.
“So I told my daughter, ‘Why don’t we find a wall around this city where a rabbi is just going to give us a shelf, and we will put the books there?’” he said.
The task was far more difficult than father and daughter had anticipated. Years went by.
“When I was just a regular member in other communities,” Yacoby said, “I would ask the rabbi, ‘May I borrow a book?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ he would say. ‘They have to stay on the shelf.’”
A little over a year ago, however, things changed. Yacoby entered the virtually unmarked Shuva Israel Torah Center, at the corner of Clark and Pico, for mincha, afternoon prayers.
Two dreams were about to come true.
Yacoby said, “[The] first time I walk in, I see a sign that says ‘Jewish Public Library.’ Rabbi [Shmuel] Laniado had published his vision before there even was a library.”
Then, Yacoby asked Laniado where the library was.
“There wasn’t one, just the idea,” Yacoby said. “So I told Rabbi Laniado, ‘I have the software and I have books, not a lot, maybe two shelves. Let’s do this.’ He and I are both doers. “
Now, Shuva Israel’s library is bursting, and so is Yacoby … with pride. One reason is that Avigail is the head librarian.
The rabbi was sounding like a very proud new father as he surveyed the facing walls of the lengthy, slender walkway.
“In the past year alone, 18,000 books have been checked out.” – Rabbi Nir Yacoby
“We have 3,000 books in the library,” Yacoby said. “In the past year alone, 18,000 have been checked out. That means a book – and each one has a barcode – has changed hands an average of 18 times.”
Reflecting years later on Avigail’s penchant for Harry Potter, Yacoby said, “There is no value in American literature. The value Avigail’s teacher wanted was proper English for her students.”
He said Potter and other English language books for students “are not teaching values, like how to be generous, how to be considerate, how to be giving, how to be loving. In Jewish literature, every book comes with a message.”
To illustrate, Yacoby cited the popular children’s fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling.”
“The ugly duckling was rejected because he was ugly,” said the rabbi. “Then he became a swan, and what happened? Nothing. When you think about it, there is nothing intrinsic in the book. He didn’t learn anything new about himself. He didn’t grow. He didn’t invest in himself. He just let time pass. Now look at our books. Every volume bespeaks a transformation.”
He cited a book in Hebrew titled, coincidentally, “Avigail.” In it, the main character, Avigail, is rejected in her school. Her teacher suggests she create playing cards to make friends. After doing so, Avigail says to another girl, “Let’s play together.” The girl says no and tells her she did not follow the instructions. Avigail realizes the friend is not really rejecting her — she is just rejecting the proposition of playing with the cards.
“Avigail understood she really liked the girl,” said Yacoby. “Her problem had been she was looking at herself. Friends were not rejecting her, but what she was doing. Then she developed a healthy self-esteem. That is phenomenal, [and] a beautiful way of looking at it.”
In the library, sacred volumes are on one side and books specifically for students are on the other, arranged by readers’ ages. The ones for the youngest kids are on the bottom shelves, the ones for the teens are on top.
“[You] know what category interests people the most?” said Yacoby. “Mourning. We have a lot of people who check out books on mourning because they don’t know what it means. How do you deal with death? What does death mean? What does kaddish mean?”
Shuva Israel is a Sephardic shul, but the library crowd is diverse: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, religious and non-religious Jews all gather there. “People come here from as far away as Bakersfield to borrow books,” said Yacoby.
About 600 families have visited the library, according to the rabbi. Shuva Israel is a Sephardic shul, but the library crowd is diverse: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, religious and non-religious Jews all gather there.
“People come here from as far away as Bakersfield to borrow books,” said Yacoby. “They bring shopping bags, too. People can take a book for two weeks, and then renew for another two weeks.”
Smiling, Yacoby said the library was an instant success.
“Within moments [of it opening], kids started showing up each afternoon after school. Don’t credit only Rabbi Laniado and me. It helps that we are so close to Menchie’s.”
Shuva Israel Torah Center, 8853 W. Pico Blvd.
Library hours: Sunday through Thursday, 4-6 p.m. See myjewishlibrary.org.
In another incident, SDPI state secretary KS Shan was killed on Saturday night. Shan was attacked at around 7 pm on Saturday near Mannancherry. His death was confirmed at 12.45 am. The party had accused RSS of the attack.
Are you troubled by strange blinking lights in trailers? Do you experience feelings of dread at the mention of key masters or gate keepers? Have you or your family actually seen Ghostbusters part one or two? If the answer is yes (or no) then don’t wait another minute. Just look below and read the professionals—io9. Our courteous and efficient staff is on call 24 hours a day to serve all your Ghostbusters: Afterlife needs.
It’s true. Next week, the highly anticipated, long-awaited, direct sequel to the first two Ghostbusters movies will finally be in theaters. And as you may have heard, the film leans heavily into a deep knowledge of the original 1984 film, directed by Ivan Reitman. This time, his son Jason is behind the camera and the movie picks up the story about 30 years after audiences last heard from Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler.
The best way to prepare for Ghostbusters: Afterlife would be to rent or buy Ghostbusters and rewatch it. Ghostbusters 2 couldn’t hurt either but is much less crucial to understanding the new story. If you don’t have the time, we’re gonna go back and hit the big points that will make sure you are ready for all the big twists and turns of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Note: There won’t be any direct mention of Afterlife spoilers in this article but there will be mentions of things that illuminate big spoilers in the movie. So if you want to go in completely clean, it’s probably best to avoid.
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In 1984’s New York City, two scientists—Ray Stanz (played by Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis)—created a technology that allowed them to trap and store ghosts. Together with their friend and fellow scientist Peter Venkman (played by Bill Murray), the trio used that technology as the basis of a business called “Ghostbusters.” The Ghostbusters were basically firefighters but instead of putting out flames they captured ghosts. Business was booming and so the group added a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore (played by Ernie Hudson) to help out. Eventually, the rise in ghost activity lead to a God-like creature named Gozer arriving in New York hoping to take over the world. But the Ghostbusters defeated her and her chosen destructor, a massive realization of a mascot for a marshmallow company named Stay Puft. New York City, and the world, was saved.
On the surface, Ghostbusters is a pretty straightforward movie about people creating a business in the 1980s and saving the world. But yes, Ramis and Aykroyd, who wrote the film as well as starred in it, added in a few extra layers of mythology. Mainly, the reason given for the rise in ghosts activity is that an architect named Ivo Shandor built an apartment complex in New York which acted as a conductor for supernatural activity. Shandor hoped his work would help bring back Gozer, an ancient, powerful being who has been around since 6,000 BC. The only way to bring back Gozer, however, is to first get two humans to perform a ritual while being possessed by the spirits of powerful Gozer allies, Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster, and Zuul, the Gatekeeper. Evil beings known as Terror Dogs (think large bulls mixed with dogs) arrive in the real world, hunt down humans—in this case, Dana Barrett (played by Sigourney Weaver) and Louis Tully (played by Rick Moranis)—and pass the essence of the Keymaster and Gatekeeper to them. Once those two perform a ritual, Gozer can return, which is exactly what happens.
After defeating Gozer, the Ghostbusters faced hard times in the form of huge debts caused by their exploits saving the city. They separated for a while but were brought back together when another evil being, Vigo the Carpathian, tried to rise to power. The Ghostbusters, of course, defeated him as well. See also the largely unrelated (for now) plot of Ghostbusters 2. After that, however, we don’t know what was next. What we do know from the Afterlife trailers is that Ray Stanz is back at the occult book store he owned at the beginning of Ghostbusters 2 and, for some reason, Egon Spengler was in the small town of Summerville, Oklahoma. It’s here we’ll meet the main characters of Afterlife and the bulk of its story will take place. Also, the question “What happened to the Ghostbusters?” will be revealed in more detail.
Now we’re talking. The Ghostbusters have a few key pieces of technology that help them bust ghosts. The first is the Proton Pack, the main weapon of a ghostbuster. It’s a giant backpack/portable nuclear reactor that generates a powerful stream of protons that surrounds and stops a ghost. The protons come out in a stream via a device called a neutrona wand, which is attached to the reactor. (Side note: Egon and Ray always said crossing a proton stream with another could be disastrous but, in the end, crossing them was the only way to do something powerful enough to defeat Gozer.)
Once a ghost is trapped by the proton pack, the Ghostbusters roll in a Ghost Trap which is just what it sounds like. It’s a yellow and black device that looks like a shoebox on wheels and sucks in the ghosts to trap them. The Ghostbusters can also detect ghosts by using a PKE Meter; it looks like a large remote control that has light-up ears that rise up on its sides the closer you get to a spectral entity. After a being is detected, captured, and trapped, they’re brought back to the Ghostbusters headquarters (an old firehouse in Tribeca) and put into a Containment Unit located in the basement. A green light means the unit is ready to be used, a red one gives a warning. The unit was powered down in Ghostbusters one, releasing ghosts all over the city.
Finally, the Ghostbusters get around in a vehicle called the Ecto-1. It’s an old ambulance/hearse which was upgraded to be able to store all the Ghostbusters gear.
There are three other major characters that are good to know for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. First is Janine Melnitz (played by Annie Potts) who was the Ghostbusters’ receptionist and a good friend and colleague. Later she became involved with Louis Tully, an accountant who ended up becoming the Keymaster in Gozer’s 1984 attack on New York. He also was the neighbor of Dana Barrett. Dana was the Ghostbusters’ first client because she lived in the Central Park building Ivo Shandor built decades earlier. It was her apartment where Gozer’s minions first began to show themselves. She was briefly romantically involved with Venkman before being possessed by the Gatekeeper. Later she had a son named Oscar, who found himself in the middle of the whole Vigo business.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is filled with references and nods to many of the things above, both big and small, but there are a lot of curious Easter eggs too. For example, it might be good to remember what candy Egon liked or what Louis wore on his head and definitely the brand of marshmallows. There’s much, much, more too, but you’ll have to wait until Ghostbusters: Afterlife is released on November 19 to find out.
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