'Harry Potter' DVDs Disapparating From Store Shelves After Christmas

The Boy Who Lived won't be living on store shelves for much longer. It's hard to deny that there's a big market for the "Harry Potter" film franchise. The final film, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," went on to gross $380.5 million domestic and $1.3 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing "Potter" movie to date. But less than a month and a half after "Part 2" hits DVD and Blu-Ray on November 11, Warner Bros is going to put all the "Potter" films on moratorium until an unannounced future date. Can we be the first blog to dub this the "Gringotts Vault" after Walt Disney's "Disney Vault"? All eight "Potter" films are going to be pulled off store shelves on December 29, including the eight-film collectors edition boxed set. Stores won't be able to reorder any more copies after that until WB decides to release a new edition of the film. So make sure you put the "Harry Potter" films on your Christmas list if you want them because they're going to be pretty hard to come by after that. Disney fans should be familiar with this sales move, as it's the main way Disney distributes their animated films. Movies like "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" are locked away in the Disney vault for several years until the studio decides to release a new, updated version of the movie often with better animation, new special features and a more expensive price tag. This move by Warner Bros seems to be an attempt to maintain interest in the film series. It's also a guarantee that a new, better version of the films with new special features and added bonuses will likely hit Blu-Ray and DVD within the next few years, so that might influence whether you decide to buy that deluxe boxed set now or wait until the better one comes out down the road. What do you think of Warner Bros' decision to stop production on the "Potter" films? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Is Attack the Block Getting an Awards Season Campaign?

Awards screeners have yet to really start coming in (a few have already been sent out, including Sony Pictures Classics’ Take Shelter, The Guard, and Higher Ground, and Summit’s A Better Life), but this week’s arrival of Attack the Block DVD screeners is a surprise entry to the season. The Sony/Screen Gems-released sci-fi pic was sent out to members of the L.A. Film Critics Association this week, although it’s unclear how much of a campaign the studio plans, if any. Does the British kid-oriented genre film have a shot at awards season, anyway? Last month at Awards Daily, Oscar pundit Sasha Stone entertained the idea of Attack the Block having Oscar potential, even if it’s a long, loooong, longshot given its modest box office returns and Academy-alienating genre trappings. Where it could conceivably pick up steam, however, is with critic groups like LAFCA, who in previous years embraced studio-released genre pics like Black Swan, Inception, District 9, and Pan’s Labyrinth, though each of those honorees enjoyed a great deal more mainstream attention and acclaim. The critically-embraced Attack the Block seems an appropriate contender for LAFCA’s New Generation Award, as it’s Joe Cornish’s feature debut. Even its techno-flavored score, contributed by Basement Jaxx, could contend in the Best Music category. And there are always critics groups’ Top 10 lists, which couldn’t hurt this relatively small film’s chances of picking up steam, even in home video release. (The DVD and Blu-ray hit shelves October 25.) Technically, the Attack the Block screeners arrived without the usual “For your consideration…” verbiage, making the intent even more vague. Earlier this year, Attack the Block took home the Midnight Feature Award at SXSW and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It’s currently vying for the Audience Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, which is voted on publicly at the festival’s website. Screen Gems did not respond immediately to Movieline’s request for comment, but keep an eye on this space for more as the story develops.

NBC Buys Family Cleaning cleaning soap From Burr Steers, ABC Art galleries & Di Bonaventura Pictures TV

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Burr Steers could make his TV writing debut with Palm Beach, a drama work with NBC from ABC Art galleries and Lorenzo DiBonventura and Serta McDermott’s studio-based Di Bonaventura Pictures Television. The project is known to becoming an Upstairs, Downstairs-style family cleaning cleaning soap occur the exclusive enclave of Palm Beach. Steers, DiBonaventura and McDermott are executive creating with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Shawn Simon. Steers, who made his filmmaking debut while using 2002 Igby Goes Lower, they written and directed, also helmed the qualities 17 Again and Charlie St. Claud, both starring Zac Efron. He's with CAA as well as the Gotham Group. This really is really the most recent purchase at NBC for ABC Art galleries, which features a comedy composed by Howard J. Morris and produced by Courteney Cox and David Arquette together with a drama composed by Daniel Taplitz and professional produced by Ian Sanders and Kim Moses within the peacock.

New Streetdance 2 Poster

The Brit boogie follow-up will receive a quadIf Footloose a couple of days ago split up along with you gagging for further dancing, you're fortunate. Blighty's own Streetdance 2 acquired proper care of, offering yet more if this involves gyrating, reducing and general rug-cutting. And concepts can provide the teaser quad within the film, only to prove it will feature gorgeous people dancing, apparently before giant number twos (steady).The film stars Falk Hentschel as Ash, whose crew (that's his chums who dance with him, grandad) is soundly beaten in the "dance fight" while using properly-named US crew Invincible. Ash vows to accomplish better next time, and recruits an worldwide team to help him. Hence, we're taking a chance, the trailer's shots from Paris and Rome.Streetdance 2 comes to March 2012, in addition to stars Sofia Boutella, George Sampson and Tom Conti. Like its possibly-remarkably effective predecessor, it's directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini.

Blurb Helmer Nicolai Fuglsig In Vital Deal For Movie Debut Brass Monkey

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed ads director Nicolai Fuglsig has set Brass Monkey at Vital, wanting to produce his pointing debut around the real-time kinetic thriller that occurs within a killing spree in La. Fuglsig hatched the idea for your film, and John Horiuchi remains set to produce the script. Horiuchi is repped by Gersh and Untitled Management. Stefan Sonnenfeld is creating with Missy Papageorge and Sarah Perlman is co-producer for Sunny Area Entertainment. Fuglsig is repped by CAA and Management 360. The graphic for Brass Monkey is really a that was produced by Fuglsig when he needed the pitch to Vital. Right here are a handful of Fuglsig’s memorable spots. The initial, for Guinness, won the DGA Award, as well as the second broadcast through the 2008 Super Bowl:

Filmmaker J.C. Chandor on His 15-Year Journey to Make Margin Call

Writer-director J.C. Chandor isn’t traditional Verge material — a 15-year veteran of commercials, documentaries and short films whose dramatic feature debut, Margin Call features a eye-popping ensemble cast of Oscar winners (Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons), seasoned pros (Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Simon Baker) and next-generation standouts (Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley) taking on the tale of a NY City investment bank flirting with oblivion at the dawn of the ongoing financial crisis. And thanks to both the cast and his own formidable chops, Chandor pulls it off with impressive aplomb. Chandor sat down with Movieline today to go over his long, long road to feature filmmaking, how and where to write a first draft in four days, and feeling comfortable leveling with legends on the set. So this is your first feature, but you’re not a rookie by any means, right? No, I have been a commercial director and a documentary producer and anything else anyone could hire me to do for 15 years. Since before college. I’ve been trying to do this for 15 years. It’s been a personal dream come true in a major, major way, and to have it all come together the way it did is kind of more than you can imagine. I had a film almost five and a half years ago fall apart like five days before principal photography that I had been working on for like seven years. Oh my God. The financier walked. It was just a horrible experience. I didn’t ever leave the documentary projects, but I left the commercial world and left the independent world. My daughter was about five months old at the time, and I’d put my family at financial risk because I’d basically taken off six months of any kind of commercial work to try to produce that. I went out to see if there was something else in the world I could do, and this writing is kind of what drew me back. I just had the idea bouncing around. When did this idea come to you? It was in late ‘06/beginning of ‘07. I began to see a bunch of things happen. I’d gotten into real estate; I love old industrial buildings, and so some partners and I had bought a little building in Tribeca with a little bit of our money and a lot of other money. And that was at a time when everyone was trying to get rich with real estate. We got in over our heads on this big renovation project, and the architect on the project — who was one of our partners, and a friend of mine — his godfather is a very senior banker at a very senior investment bank before starting his own thing. He came to us in ‘06/’07 — in the middle of our renovation, when we were getting offers to buy the building. NY real estate was still [strong], and we were saying, “No way! This is our project.” And he came to us and basically said, “Take them.” At first we didn’t quite know what his motives were, but then he told us about how he was walking away from deals where he was leaving millions of dollars of deposits on the table. And one of our partners who had given us money turned out to be a total pain in the butt. So considering that — combined with what we were told — we sold the building. A year and a half later, the financial world literally comes to an end. And I started thinking back to what it was like. What did he know? What was he literally seeing that made him say something? My partner was an architect, and this was a lifetime dream of his. He affected his godson’s life in this very severe way: “Abandon your project. Get out.” I thought, “What does it feel like to walk around with that information, and when do you decide to actually start acting on it? Who do you act on it with? What if you’re wrong?” Then the investment banks failed, and my father had worked in that world for 35 years. So I knew a lot about those characters — not from a technical standpoint, but from an emotional standpoint. Why they make the decisions they do. Why do some people take the jobs they do? Why do people quit when they quit? Why do people get fired when they get fired? All of those things, I did have a very deep, deep understanding of, just from my own life. So I knew the vice of the characters, and I tried to combine the two. And going back to your other question, I have a long, long history of production. I wrote this to direct it. I thought, “How do you tell this incredibly complicated story for under a million bucks?” That’s where I started, and that’s where I came up with the idea of trapping them on one floor of a building. I knew I could shoot that very quickly and would probably have a better chance of getting prominent actors. All these knowledge bases came together, and this script came out of me in like four days. Four days? Yeah. I went back, obviously, but there was an 81-page draft that I wrote between job interviews. I was in Boulder, Colorado, for a job, and the Monday interview went well, and they asked me to stay until Friday, when the CEO was coming back. I thought, “I could sit here for four days and get drunk or hike in the mountains or do whatever the hell else anyone does in Boulder, Colorardo, or actually do this thing that’s been in my head for a year and a half.” It says “Based on a true story” on the poster. Obviously the crash is pretty real, and you know people like these characters. But is there a specific “true story” you’re telling here? To specify it that way is a marketing situation — though it’s certainly inspired by a true story of what’s going on. But I tried to strip away all identifying factors. There are no dates. There are very few times; the time of the day is laid out, but we don’t really know. I always found it sort of interesting that, by the actual content in the movie, this could have taken place in 2006, or 2004, even. People were calling the end for many years. Part of what I find so interesting is that what got a lot of these CEOs in trouble from a risk-taking standpoint is that they saw their [counterparts] at other companies get laid off for not taking enough risk — for calling in 2005, “It’s time to pump the brakes, boys.” And there were still two more years of making billion-dollar profits. There was this fear of being the first person off the train, so to speak, which in the end led the train over the fucking cliff. But for me, this firm is still in business. This is not a Lehman Brothers situation. This action helped avert bankruptcy, and that’s really interesting to me — that these people are still out there doing their thing.

Talkback: Which Twilight Zone Episode Should Become a Feature Film?

Congrats to Matt Reeves, the Cloverfield director who just landed the upcoming Twilight Zone movie. Hopefully it’ll be less of an apocalyptic disaster than the 1983 movie, but I’m already feeling optimistic: Reeves is also handling the Frankenstein-rejiggering His Dark Materials, which means he has a strong grasp on the eerie and far-out. Since we know the new Twilight Zone will not be a series of episodes like the first movie, I say we suggest possible episodes of the real series for writer Jason Rothenberg to adapt. What’s your favorite? For me, it’s all about “The Jeopardy Room,” the espionage-laden reversal of Rear Window. Instead of peering inside an apartment to catch a killer, the killers are outside the residence looking in. Since it’s basically been established that the new Twilight Zone will feature paranormal elements, I’m making a last-minute plea for a juicy, semi-realistic, KGB spy caper. I also happen to be obsessed with young Martin Landau, who brought such unsettling (and homoerotic!) power to North by Northwest. What’s your pick? (By the way, we still need to settle the matter of casting Rod Serling.) Matt Reeves is Warner Bros. Pick for ‘Twilight Zone’ Movie [Deadline]