“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series, debuted on DVD and Blu-ray today.

Featuring an all-star British cast, the much-anticipated motion picture event is the second of two full-length parts. In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice …

Rascal Flatts

Country music trio Rascal Flatts, which includes Picher-bred guitarist Joe Don Rooney,  release today “The Best of Rascal Flatts LIVE,” the group’s first live album. Actually, the album is coming out on Lyric Street Records/Hollywood Records, the band’s former record label.

The album will include “Bob That Head,” “Bless the Broken Road,” “Still Feels Good,” “Here’s to You,” “Stand,” “These Days,” “What Hurts the Most,” “Life Is a Highway” and a medley of “I’m Movin’ On,” “Skin (Sarabeth)” and “Feels Like Today.” For an encore, the album offers …

Oklahoma City-based comedy duo Twinprov (AKA Clint and Buck Vrazel) has released new video of their “Twinprov Deathly Hallows Rap (Dirty Harry Potter),” which they prepared and performed especially for last month’s release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”

As they note in their rap, the film’s release marked the end of an era, since “Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ is the eighth and final film based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved book series. (According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the last Harry Potter movie has made almost $1.3 billion worldwide. …

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” maintained its No. 1 spot on the domestic box-office chart for the second straight week, according to the Associated Press.

The 20th Century Fox action thriller took in an addition $27.5 million, boosting its 10-day domestic total to $104.9 million.

The “Planet of the Apes” prequel came in just ahead of “The Help,” a drama about black Mississippi maids helping a young white writer with a tell-all during the civil rights movement, which debuted at No. 2 with $25.5 million. “The Help,” a …

The well-reviewed prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” rose to the top of the box office over the weekend.

The 20th Century Fox action thriller took in $54 million to open as the No. 1 movie, according to the Associated Press.

The haul was about $15 million to $20 million more than analysts expected for the “Apes” prequel, but well below the $68.5 million opening of Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” remake 10 years ago.

But the prequel, starring James Franco, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis, proved …

The mash-up adventure “Cowboys & Aliens” has ridden off the victor in a close race at the box office against a new big-screen iteration of “The Smurfs.”

According to final studio counts Monday, the sci-fi Western, based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s Platinum Studios comic book, took the No. 1 spot on the domestic charts with a $36.4 million debut, reports the Associated Press.

That puts Universal Pictures’ “Cowboys & Aliens” $800,000 ahead of Sony’s family adventure “The Smurfs,” which finished at No. 2 with $35.6 million over opening weekend. The …

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ crossed the $900 million worldwide mark on Wednesday, making it the fastest movie ever to reach that milestone, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

The eighth and final film based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved book series reached that milestone in just 15 days, breaking “Avatar’s” 18-day record.

On Wednesday, Deathly Hallows Part 2 brought in $24.7 million worldwide ($5.2 million from domestic and $19.5 million from foreign), lifting its total to $906.8 million, according to the box-office tracking site. The final film in the franchise …

A patriotic superhero was able to overcome the Boy Who Lived at the box office over the weekend.

Paramount Pictures’ “Captain America: The First Avenger” opened at No. 1 with $65.8 million, according to the Associated Press. The Marvel Comics superhero adventure sets up next summer’s all-star Marvel blockbuster “The Avengers.”

Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the eighth and final installment in blockbuster franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved books, dropped to the second spot. It made just more than $48 million in its second …

As if you needed another reason to see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” you also get to see this on the big screen. Just wow.

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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the eighth and final film based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved book series, took in $168.6 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million, also held by Warner Bros. for 2008′s Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” according to the Associated Press.

Overseas, the Harry Potter finale added $307 million in 59 countries since it began rolling out Wednesday, topping the previous best international debut of $260.4 million set in May by Disney’s “Pirates of the …