* Check out the OFFICIAL movie poster for The Hunger Games, just unveiled this week! –>
What do you think? Read more about it here.
* After a record-setting opening weekend, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 continues to dazzle audiences. Now there is growing buzz that Alan Rickman should earn an Oscar nomination for his role as Snape in the final Potter movie. Anyone else agree?
* Also, over the course of the last week, Harry Potter became the single highest-grossing film franchise of all time, surpassing Star Wars, which had held the record for quite some time.
* Comic Con has taken over San Diego the last few days, and as part of their promotions there, Summit Entertainment released these character cards for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn –>
* At Comic Con, Summit showed two clips from Breaking Dawn — one of the honeymoon, and another of Jake planning to betray the other werewolves in order to protect Bella. The clips are NOT officially available online, but Hypable has a very nice, detailed description of the honeymoon scene here. There is some shaky, fan-captured video of the Jake scene online — though it could be taken down at any time.
* TONS of great interviews & photos in regards to Breaking Dawn came out of Comic Con. For a complete look at coverage, head over to Twilight Examiner. She has excellent articles detailing everything that went down, plus great video slideshows.
* On a somewhat related note, we finally have a trailer for Robert Pattinson’s Bel Ami, based on the novel by Guy De Maupassant. No release date yet, but this is promising:
* Tons of other amazing things have come out of Comic Con already — and it will continue throughout the weekend. For detailed coverage of all-things Comic Con, I’d recommend NextMovie and BuzzSugar.
* Score a GREAT deal on some of your summer reading list books thanks to this amazing Book Perk deal!
* Elizabeth Eulberg has unveiled the cover for her third novel, Take A Bow, coming April 2012:
From the fantastic author of The Lonely Hearts Club and Prom & Prejudice comes a story of all the drama and comedy of four friends who grow into themselves at a performing arts high school.
Emme, Sophie, Ethan, and Carter are seniors at a performing arts school, getting ready for their Senior Showcase recital, where the pressure is on to appeal to colleges, dance academies, and professionals in show business. For Sophie, a singer, it’s been great to be friends with Emme, who composes songs for her, and to date Carter, soap opera heartthrob who gets plenty of press coverage. Emme and Ethan have been in a band together through all four years of school, but wonder if they could be more than just friends and bandmates. Carter has been acting since he was a baby, and isn’t sure how to admit that he’d rather paint than perform. The Senior Showcase is going to make or break each of the four, in a funny, touching, spectacular finale that only Elizabeth Eulberg could perform.
*Rachel Hawkins also unveiled her cover for Spell Bound, the third book in her Hex Hall series:
Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.
Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride—can she get her powers back before it’s too late?
For the comments: What news had you most excited this week? Tell us about it below!!
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GULP. Yes please.
I Cant wait to read spell Bound By Rachel Hawkins, i just got done reading the first two and i was sad when i finnished them both in two days and was left wondering what would happen!