The French Word For “Muggle” Is Almost As Basic As “No-Maj” The French may gladly die for love, but hopefully they’re not as dead set with their linguistics choices. TheFantastic Beastsfranchise is proving itself to be quite the globetrotting series, taking place first in New York City before jetting off to Paris forFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. And with Paris come French witches and wizards, who have their own lingo for non-magical people....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘Power Rangers’, Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Virtual Jazz Concert & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out what visual effects artists think of the work done on the originalMighty Morphin Power Rangersmovie from 1995 and thePower Rangersreboot from 2017....

The Pussycat Dolls Cover A.R. Rahman’s Jai Ho Once again, American pop culture manages to prove that there’s nothing that artistic foreigners create which America cannot completely desecrate.Slumdog Millionairefans will know that A.R. Rahman’sgreat soundtrackfor the film not only won a Golden Globe, but is also up for an Oscar too. In addition, it scoredtwoout of the three Oscar nomination slots for “Best Original Song.” One of those song nominations was for “Jai Ho,” the triumphant song that plays under the film’s closing Bollywood dance sequence....

The Weinstein Co Announces They Now Control The Weather I got the weirdest press release in my email today. It was from the publicity company that handles The Weinstein Co’s releases stating that “Los Angeles was covered in a dense foggy mist last night,” joking that it might be a “publicity stunt” for Stephen King’sThe Mistwhich hits theaters on Thanksgiving. So apparently now The Weinstein Co has found a way to control the weather....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Star Wars’ Construction Updates, New Waterpark Patents, And Ride Refurbishments In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A few weeks ago, we looked at some of Universal Studios’new theme park patentsthat were clearly intended to be used in the upcoming Super Nintendo World, While those grabbed the headlines (and for good reason – they’re pretty incredible), they also filed a few new waterpark designs, presumably for future use in their new Volcano Bay waterpark....

Theme Park Bits: Star Wars Land, Harry Potter, Haunted Mansion, Disneyland FastPass+, Captain America And More It’s been a while since the last Theme Park Bits, and I have a lot of bits saved up to discuss, including the following: All that and more, in today’s Theme Park Bits. Hit the jump to board the ride. InsideTheMagichas uncovered permit maps forStar Wars LandandToy Story Landwhich reveal how drastically Disney Hollywood Studios will change with the upcoming renovations and additions....

TV Bits: ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘They Both Die At The End’, ‘Psych’, ‘High School Musical’, ‘Utopia’, ‘Nightflyers’, ‘Man In The High Castle’ In this edition of TV Bits: Fox loves keeping (most) of their animated shows alive.The Simpsonswill seemingly never end, and now the network has just renewedBob’s BurgersandFamily Guyfor more seasons.THRreports the deals to renew both shows closed months ago, giving the go-ahead forFamily Guy’s 18th season, andBob’s Burgers' 10th....

VOTD: How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Quickly Crafts Pre-Recorded Sketches In Just A Few Days The novelty of the landmark late night sketch comedy showSaturday Night Liveis that it’s performed live on Saturday night in Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. But even though most of the show is done in front of a live studio audience, there are a handful of pre-recorded sketches that make it to air. What’s impressive is that these professional video productions, which include the famous SNL Digital Shorts, are completed in the window of just a few days....

Wednesday Box Office: Treasure Adds $11.47M; AVP=R Down 55%; There Will Be Blood Debuts w/$33K PTA! With National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) continuing strong with another $11.47M on the day after Christmas, the focus is on 3 Christmas Day openers that plummeted precipitously on Wednesday. The massive drop of 55% for Fox’s schlocky Alien Versus Predator: Requiem makes sense. The movie wasn’t screened for critics and fanboy zeal can only get you so far....

‘Agent Carter’ Season 2 Trailer: She’s “The Chick With The Shotgun” Early next year Marvel’sAgent Carterreturns to ABC. Like season one, the show will serve as a midseason replacement forAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.The season premiere isscheduledfor Tuesday, January 5th at 9/8c with a two-hour episode. After the jump, watch the newest teaser trailer for the latest season ofAgent Carter. Hayley Atwellis Agent Peggy Carter, an English-born agent for the Strategic Scientific Reserve....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’: Stan Lee Teases Major, Crowd-Pleasing New Character Stan Leehas never shied away from an opportunity to get fans hyped about a Marvel project, whether it was the comics he used to write and edit in his legendary days as the company’s editor in chief or an upcoming movie from Marvel Studios. Now the 94-year-old comics magnate is at it again, teasing fans about a new character who will apparently be introduced in the upcomingAvengers: Infinity War....

‘Call Of Duty’ Cinematic Universe Planned, Taking Cues From Marvel With Movies & TV Shows Back in the fall of 2015,Activision Blizzardannounced the creation of Activision Blizzard Studios, an entertainment company focused on giving their video game titles film and TV adaptations for even more brand recognition in the media landscape. One of the first video games they were hoping to give the multimedia treatment to was the long-running, best-sellingCall of Dutyseries, but we haven’t heard anything since that initial announcement....

‘Clerks 3’ First Look Photo: Believe It Or Not, These Guys Are Supposed To Be Here Today It’s been a long, winding road for writer and directorKevin Smithto bringClerks 3to the screen. There were starts and stops, but inJuly of this yearthe sequel to Smith’s debut film,Clerks, was finally officially greenlit. Now the first official photo from the sequel’s production has arrived online, revealing your favorite convenience store employees in all their glory....