ROTTEN TOMATOES: Friday Harvest: Harry Potter, Halloween II, and more!

Friday Harvest: Harry Potter, Halloween II, and more!

The best pictures, posters, and videos of the week!

by Alex Vo | July 17, 2009

Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy!

Pictures

Picture Gallery of the Week: The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson has stated in interviews he has no interest in altering his (increasingly suffocating) style to suit or grow his audience, so I was relieved when he signed on to animate the Roald Dahl classic. And with the first official pictures out, I'm now excited. The fashion, the attention to background detail, the eerie, tactile quality of the characters that should strike excitement in young audiences. Has a new medium reinvigorated Anderson? Browse the gallery.

More New Pictures


The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Terry Gilliam's headtrip	Iron Man 2 First pics of Scarlett Johannson as Black Widow	Comic-Con 2009 Costume Gallery Cosplay galore	Jennifer's Body More Megan Fox from the horror/comedy	Alice in Wonderland More pics of the literary adaptation

Posters

Poster of the Week: Prince of Persia

Can the golden age of the comic book movies be over? Are we entering a new era of video games? Over the last year, adaptations have been garnering the talent and budget to potentially see them right. Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp for Halo. Gore Verbinski for Bioshock. James Wan for Castlevania. Sam Raimi for World of Warcraft. It could all begin with Mike Newell's Prince of Persia, the $150 million vision of the 1989 Jordan Mechner masterpiece. View the poster.

More New Posters


Bright Star New from Jane Campion	Offspring Cannibal holocaust!	Shutter Island Scorsese's latest	I Can Do Bad... Tyler Perry returns	White on Rice Contemporary comedy

Videos

Video of the Week: Whip It! trailer

Ellen Page's first major post-Juno performance. Drew Barrymore's first directed movie. A lot of major firsts riding on this movie, but this raucous trailer for Whip It! (a comedy tracking Page's entry into the world of roller derby) looks like it'll be a fun time. Watch the video.

More New Videos


District 9 New clip dissecting aliens	Sorority Row Exclusive clip	The Hurt Locker Opening sequence	Paper Heart 3 interviews with celebs

Want to keep up to date on ALL the pictures, posters, and videos that are added to Rotten Tomatoes throughout the week? Then check out the Trailers & Pictures page, which is automatically updated as material is uploaded.

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Paints Hz Shirt Red writes:
on Jul 17 2009 06:16 PM

district 9 looks interesting. ilike some of the tv spots it has. they almost have a starship trooper feel to them.

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Jul 17 2009 09:05 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528262)
Yeah, it should be awesome.

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runmong writes:
on Jul 18 2009 12:29 AM

In reply to this comment (#2528307)
So the new D-9 trailer had me saying Holy Sh*t throughout the whole thing. I literally creamed all over myself, and I don't even care. That's how cool the trailer is.

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runmong writes:
on Jul 18 2009 12:38 AM

In reply to this comment (#2528307)
So the new D-9 trailer had me saying Holy Sh*t throughout the whole thing. I literally creamed all over myself, and I don't even care. That's how cool the trailer is.

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brandon s. writes:
on Jul 18 2009 01:06 AM

Can't wait for District 9.....Halloween, as expected, looks like utter ****....but that's no surprise- there hasn't been a decent slasher film since the original and Rob Zombie just adds a much unneeded white-trash feel to all of it.

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zsmiller79 writes:
on Jul 18 2009 12:38 PM

Saying that there hasnt been a decent slasher film since the orginal Halloween shows a lack of knowledge about the genre.

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BrokenDreamer writes:
on Jul 18 2009 02:39 PM

Isn't District 9 from the team who was at one point set to make the Halo film (producer Peter Jackson and director Neil Blomkamp)? That trailer seems to make the prospect of Halo a lot more interesting, doesn't it?

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 18 2009 02:39 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528482)
Examples please. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I had more trouble thinking of them than I thought I would when I tried. Here's what I came up with: Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Steet, Scream, I suppose an argument could be made for Candyman.

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De4ective Detectiv3 writes:
on Jul 18 2009 03:27 PM

I find it highly ironic that Sony is producing District 9, the movie from the guy who was supposed to helm Halo (the game brought to you by Xbox).

To be honest, I'm kinda glad this movie is being made instead of Halo. As far as Halo goes, its obvious that they built the game then slapped the plot on ex post facto. The Halo Universe is poorly realized, it is seriously lacking an interesting protagonist and the settings are pretty bland. Don't even get me started on the whole aliens invading the planet story - kinda been done to death.

And what is the actual significance of the Halo? I get that it is supposed to be a weapon of mass destruction, but why a Halo? Why not a giant twinkee? I just get the feeling Halo doesn't know what it wants to be.

Besides, Halo could never compete against Avatar releasing later this year. Something tells me that has to do w/ why they scrapped the project.

Anyways, it looks like District 9 is the movie Blonkamp wanted to make all along, this movie was obviously influenced by his short film he shot to get consideration for Halo in the first place. Directors make movies like Halo so they can later go on to do movies like District 9. I say good for Blonkamp.

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celia h. writes:
on Jul 18 2009 05:29 PM

The only upcoming movies I'm looking forward too this year are SHERLOCK HOLMES and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS.

I guess I will go see Harry Potter 10 more times while I wait for those to come out. :D

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rle4lunch writes:
on Jul 18 2009 06:18 PM

Actually, Halloween 2 looked better than the original Halloween 2. This could be Zombie's maturation into real cinema. Although Devil's Rejects was actually quite good in some scenes as well.

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Jul 18 2009 06:31 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528536)
"Sherlock Holmes" might just be an action flick, if the trailer is any indication.

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Jul 18 2009 06:33 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528512)
Interesting hero? Hello, Master Chief is bada$s! Halo may not work as a film, but don't diss the Chief.

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runmong writes:
on Jul 19 2009 12:06 AM

In reply to this comment (#2528554)
Halloween 2 didn't look terrible, but it also didn't look any better then any of the other hundreds of slasher films.

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MADDAZ writes:
on Jul 19 2009 04:02 AM

District 9 looks amazing. Just watched the trailer and am amped for this one. Was hanging out for Avatar but District 9 looks the goods. Daybreakers and Zombieland look like they might be worth watching.

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Fuzzylogik writes:
on Jul 19 2009 12:48 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528512)
When Halo was originally made by Bungee and the first trailers hit the Net, it was awe-inspiring, utilizing graphics that had never been experienced to date. Then Microshaft bought it, adapted it exclusively for the XBox (and throwing away the PC code), and by the time it actually hit the market, it was pedestrian -- everyone else had caught up. Later, they RE-wrote the PC code (why?!?!?) and made it even less interesting. Halo should have been vapor-ware -- it would have lived on much better never haven come out. Still waiting for Duke Nukem -- or am I?

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Paints Hz Shirt Red writes:
on Jul 19 2009 01:38 PM

xbox made a game called halo?

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TehAntiChuckNorris writes:
on Jul 20 2009 09:29 AM

I really am looking forward to District 9....it's on my "must watch" list for sure!

Halloween II.....really Rob Zombie? -sigh- no comment....

Funny people actually looks very good! I might be watching that one....I'll look at a few more clips before I officially decide, though ;D

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Jul 20 2009 09:26 PM

In reply to this comment (#2528725)
Oh you Halo haters.

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