LG Display has submitted a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicating they’re going to start producing a 9.7 color e-paper display and a 19 inch flexible e-paper display.

Companies tend to pump out neat prototypes that get shown off at events like the Consumer Electronics Show, but this is one of the first times in recent memory that “futuristic” technology familiar from film, such as the newspaper in Minority Report, will actually be put into production (and by the end of the year!).

Warner Brothers, the media behemoth that owns the rights to the Harry Potter movie franchise, is reportedly in the midst of fighting a legal battle against a Swiss company for copyright infringement. What did these neutral, chocolate-loving, particle-accelerating people do to earn their ire? Why, they simply created a line of condoms which prominently feature a cartoon likeness of Harry Potter.

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Emma Watson announced via Twitter that the rumors are true and that she recently got a very short haircut. We are writing about this firstly because we suspect that a decent chunk of our readership has had an unhealthy obsession with Emma Watson since they first saw her play Hermione in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when she was like 10 years old that has only deepened with age; secondly, there is not all that much going on today.

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After a year-long hiatus, Neil Cicierega’s Potter Puppet Pals series is back. Best known for the “Mysterious Ticking Noise” episode, of which Daniel Radcliffe himself is a fan, Potter Puppet Pals was one of the charter viral video series of the 2000s, beginning with two Newgrounds animations in ‘03 and expanding into real-life puppetry in 2006, when it became one of the first videos we remember watching on a then-new video service called YouTube.

Cicierega hasn’t been slacking off since “Snape’s Diary,” the most recent Potter Puppet Pals episode, which aired in July of 2009 (and which managed to rack up an impressive 4 million-plus views): You may remember his delightfully insane BRODYQUEST video from last month, which features Adrian Brody “vibrating in harmony with the universe” as per usual. But with the revival of Potter Puppet Pals, he’s returning to his roots.

I’m not saying that Daniel Radcliffe likes horses in that way. In fact, it’s a safe bet he doesn’t. But if hypothetically, the Harry Potter star had gotten any ideas while naked on stage with the horses in Equus, and he hypothetically acted on those ideas, then we could hypothetically end up, 11 months later, with this: An adorable wizarding horse with a lightning-bolt scar (which really doesn’t seem like it should be heritable).

On the 30th anniversary of the 1980 musical comedy movie The Blues Brothers, The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano advised Catholics worldwide to watch the film. Developed from the two Saturday Night Live sketch characters played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the Blues Brothers embark on “a mission from God” in the movie, to save the Catholic orphanage where they grew up from foreclosure. So retroactively topical!

So it got us thinking, what other cool or geeky things have the Vatican been known to admit to liking? Hit the jump and find out.

Your prayers have been answered: Warner Bros. has just dropped the theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. A full two-and-a-half minutes of epic bliss ensue. The trailer features scenes from both the first and second Deathly Hallows movies, which are scheduled to hit theaters on November 19th, 2010 and July 15th, 2011, respectively.

See the full Deathly Hallows trailer, below:

Six years and an estimated $200 million later, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is now open to the general public, with gates having opened at 5:30am EDT today and long lines expected. The park is situated within Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventures theme park.

The crown jewel of the park is the Forbidden Journey ride, which J.K. Rowling and several Harry Potter cast members rode during promotional events for the park earlier this week; however, waits for the ride are expected to be up to five hours long this opening week. And there are only two other rides at the park:

In addition to showcasing many an F-bomb and allowing Tom Cruise to reprise his brilliant Lev Grossman character from Tropic Thunder, last night’s MTV Movie Awards brought to the world a brand-new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The trailer consists almost entirely of new footage unseen in the previously released sneak peek for the film, including a dash of Voldemort acting menacing and a healthy dose of Harry-Ron conflict, and feels altogether more like a ‘real’ trailer than the more all-over-the-place sneak peek which came enclosed as a bonus feature in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVDs.

Here’s the trailer:

It’s official. Columbia Pictures has secured actor Will Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld, and is in “advanced negotiations” with Tommy Lee Jones: Men in Black 3 is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. In a possible major plot-related give away, Columbia has also announced that they are in talks with Josh Brolin (of No Country for Old Men and Milk) to play a young Agent Kay.

ScreenRant suggests that this means that the movie will heavily feature the training of a new Kay. We have another idea.

It’s official: Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and Stardust, is at the helm of X-Men: First Class, the reboot of the X-Men movie franchise. This new prequel film (a long the same world-exploring lines as Wolverine: Origins) will “chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga,” which probably means Professor X and Magneto as young rebellious allegory-for-civil-rights-leaders.

This dashes our dreams of watching a movie where the X-Men sit at the front of an airplane for two and a half hours, enjoying complementary drinks.

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Nowhere have the sparkly claws of Twilight failed to secure their grasp, for this week Forbes published their yearly Fictional 15, a compilation of the fifteen richest fictional people in current pop culture. Carlisle Cullen, the nearly 400-year-old patriarch of the Cullen family is the richest fictional person in the world with a net worth of $34.1 billion.

Now that the Harry Potter franchise is finally kicking the bucket (in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Warner Brothers is looking for another cash cow of beloved characters to drive its infernal engine, and it didn’t have to look far.

Yesterday, at Showest, WB head Alan Horn said this:

As we ease out of Harry Potter, we hope to bring you the excitement of the DC [Comics] Library!

This would imply that DC character based movies will be released yearly, like the Harry Potter films, and, according to another Showest announcement, will be in 3-D.

We’ve seen the Super Bowl commercial and the nifty interactive website, but today brings us our first on-the-ground look at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the Harry Potter theme park estimated to open on or around May 28th.

Cool shots of rides were notably absent on The Today Show special, but correspondent Kerry Sanders donned his Gryffindor scarf and gave viewers enough footage of the Hogwarts Express and various wizarding shops to sate them for a spell.

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After a kinda useless ten-second trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse came out yesterday, the folks at Twilight, Inc. (read: Summit Entertainment) released the full trailer for Twilight: Eclipse this morning.

Twilight has a strange power to inspire nerd-rage because it is not Lord of the Rings, or even Harry Potter, and yet it presumes to come up with its own mythology, involving vampires and werewolves. How dare it! Also, Twilight is for girls, and girls are gross.

In truth, we can’t pretend to be huge Twilight fans, but neither is Twilight the scourge of the earth: