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When adapting a novel as dense and convoluted as Frank Herbert's "Dune," you will unfortunately have to cut major elements from it, even if you're splitting the book in two. The first "Dune" movie cut out a significant amount of the book's mystery storyline, where nearly everyone in House Atreides suspected someone else of being a Harkonnen spy. This cut made a lot of sense: in order to do it justice, director Denis Villeneuve probably would've had to add an extra hour to the runtime. Still, that doesn't lessen the blow for fans who loved the book's early paranoid atmosphere.

Although "Dune: Part Two" covers a slightly smaller page count than the first movie, it too needed to make some major omissions to keep the pacing sharp. This meant cutting the novel's two-year time jump, and unfortunately it also meant cutting out poor Tim Blake Nelson. A well-known actor...

It has been ten years since EuroTrip, riding the raunchy teen comedy revival of the late ’90s and early naughts, burst into theaters and exposed an entire generation of teens to a beach full of dangling male genitalia. And even a decade later, those involved with the cult classic are still proud of it — every sex organ included.

At least, that was the vibe taken away from the audience Wednesday night in Hollywood, where cast members Scott Mechlowicz (“Scotty”), Jacob Pitts (“Cooper”), Michelle Trachtenberg (“Jenny”), Travis Wester (“Jamie”) joined producers Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, and David Mandel and several others for a Q&A session.