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A Message From Alan Horn |
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Aug 24, 2008 - 10:31 AM - by Reba
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Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to Summer 2009. Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never do anything to hurt any of the films. Over the past 10 years, we have nurtured and protected each film, and the integrity of the books upon which they are based, to the best of our ability. The decision to move "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We know you have built this series into what it is, and we thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support. If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a two-year gap between "Half-Blood Prince" and the much-anticipated first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which opens in November 2010. So although we have to wait a little longer for "Half-Blood Prince," the wait from that film until "Deathly Hallows" will be less than... [Read More]
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From the Gossip rags... |
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Aug 21, 2008 - 2:27 PM - by Reba
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With his duds-doffing Broadway debut in "Equus" looming, Daniel Radcliffe is getting a few things out on the table, including his health issues. In an interview with Vogue, the "Harry Potter" star, 19, reveals how he suffers from a mild case of dyspraxia, a coordination disorder that affects motor skills (it's often mistaken for clumsiness) and can make simple tasks such as tying his shoes a challenge. "I sometimes think, 'Why, oh why, has Velcro not taken off?'" he quips to the magazine. Radcliffe says his acting career began at age 9 when his mother realized his confidence needed a kick-start and let him audition for a TV version of "David Copperfield." "I was having a hard time at school in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent," admits the actor, who begins flashing his bits on the Great White Way on Sept. 5. A rep for Radcliffe confirms his dyspraxia diagnosis, telling the London Daily Mail, "This is something he has never hidden. Thankfully, his condition... [Read More]
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 Harry Potter film pulls vanishing act |
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Aug 18, 2008 - 11:47 AM - by Reba
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Aug. 17, 2008, 2:49 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maybe Harry Potter should have brought a note from his parents saying he would be missing school.
Warner Bros. gave Harry the school year off, announcing last week it was bumping the sixth movie in the series from fall to next summer. But Entertainment Weekly — which shares the studio's parent company, Time Warner Inc. — was unaware, featuring "Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe on the cover of its Aug. 22-29 fall-preview issue.
The magazine leads off the issue with a six-page spread pegged to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which Warner Bros. on Thursday moved from its Nov. 21 release date to July 17, 2009.
The studio had been considering the date change for three or four weeks, "but it really didn't kind of get on the front burner until sometime within the last seven days," Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. head of distribution, said Sunday.
Entertainment Weekly's... [Read More]
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 Poof! Next 'Harry Potter' flick moves to summer |
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Aug 15, 2008 - 9:36 AM - by Reba
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Aug. 14, 2008, 5:04 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's summer school for Harry Potter.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth installment in the blockbuster film franchise about boy wizard Harry, is moving from its planned Nov. 21 release to July 17, 2009, distributor Warner Bros. said Thursday.
The move was made to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood's busy summer season, said Alan Horn, Warner Bros. president and chief operating officer. The film had been on schedule, and the change was not due to any production snags, he said.
"The picture is completely, absolutely, 100 percent on schedule, on time. There were no delays," Horn told The Associated Press. "I've seen the movie. It is fabulous. We would have been perfectly able to have it out in November."
The switch will mean a two-year lag between the film adaptations of books five and six in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. But it will shorten... [Read More]
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Harry Potter prequel to be auctioned for charity |
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Jun 10, 2008 - 1:31 PM - by Reba
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June 10, 2008, 7:50 AM EST
An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, will be auctioned for charity Tuesday night.
Rowling's short story is the star lot at a charity auction at the flagship of Waterstone's bookstore chain in London. Proceeds will benefit the writers' association English PEN and a dyslexia charity.
Rowling was able to squeeze her Harry Potter prequel onto both sides of a piece of A5 paper, which is slightly bigger than a postcard.
"Given the enormous interest we have seen in recent times for autograph work by J.K. Rowling, the prospects for her story card are good to say the least," said Philip Errington of Sotheby's auction house, which is running the sale. "There is just no telling how high the bidding might go."
Organizers wouldn't comment on the content of Rowling's card, but the prequel to the seven-book series doesn't offer hope for a new Potter novel.... [Read More]
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 'Harry Potter' actor fatally stabbed in London |
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May 26, 2008 - 8:40 AM - by Reba
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Teenage actor from forthcoming film killed in late-night bar brawl
A teenage actor who will appear in the forthcoming "Harry Potter" movie was stabbed to death in a brawl outside a south London bar early Saturday, police said.
Rob Knox, 18, was caught up in a fight outside the Metro Bar in Sidcup just after midnight, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The teen's death, less than two weeks after another youngster was brutally slain only a few miles away, has focused the British capital's attention on knife crime.
Knox plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince," the sixth cinematic installment of the wildly popular Harry Potter series, set for release this fall. Warner Brothers said it was shocked by the news.
Knox was one of five young men and boys taken to various hospitals across the capital after the brawl, police said. Among them was a 21-year-old who has since been... [Read More]
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'Potter' Author Seeks to Block Fan Book |
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Apr 14, 2008 - 9:48 AM - by Reba
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April 13, 2008, 10:43 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a "Harry Potter" encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.
The showdown between Rowling and the fan, Steven Vander Ark, is scheduled to last most of the week in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Rowling is scheduled to testify Monday in a trial that is sure to generate huge interest among Harry Potter fans and the public. Her lawyer has arranged with the judge to have a private security guard for Rowling in the courtroom and for the author to spend breaks in the seclusion of a jury room — away from any die-hard Potter fans in attendance.
The trial comes eight months after Rowling published her seventh and final book in the widely popular Harry Potter series. The books have been published in 64 languages, sold more than 400 million copies and spawned... [Read More]
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Last 'Harry Potter' Book Becomes 2 Films |
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Mar 13, 2008 - 8:10 AM - by Reba
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NEW YORK (AP) Harry Potter was the center of seven novels, but he'll star in eight films.
The final book in the wildly successful series will be made into two films, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Producers are expected to announce Thursday that J.K. Rowling's last "Potter" installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be split into two parts on the big screen. The first film is slated for release in November, 2010, with part two following in May 2011.
"It was born out of purely creative reasons," producer David Heyman told the Times. "Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book."
Filming began in September on the sixth "Potter" flick, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
"It's been brilliant," said star Daniel Radcliffe. "It's also, I think, the funniest of the films so far."
The "Potter" film franchise has pulled in $4.5 billion at the worldwide... [Read More]
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Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least |
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Dec 13, 2007 - 11:44 AM - by Reba
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Thanks to Elwen for this one!
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The broomsticks they hold between their legs can't help them fly. The Snitch is not a winged golden ball but a young man who sprints across the field at lightning speed. And at times, the game looks like the mongrel offspring of rugby, dodge ball and soccer. But somehow it all works.
The first intercollegiate Quidditch match was held here this month, and though this version of the game is earthbound, it's taking off. Originally played by wizards darting about on broomsticks in the Harry Potter novels, the game is now taking root on college campuses.
"We were all Harry Potter's age when the books started," says Sam Libby, 20, a Middlebury College junior geography major from Richmond, Vt. "And Quidditch is one of the most creative things that came out of the books. We were able to create that here, follow all the rules, except the ability to fly. It just caught on."
Quidditch surfaced... [Read More]
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‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ was expected to sell for $100,000 |
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Dec 13, 2007 - 11:39 AM - by Reba
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LONDON - A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record $3.98 million at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” had been expected to go for up to $100,000 at the Sotheby’s sale.
The buyer was from London dealer Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, the auctioneer said.
“There was applause when it reached one million and more when it finished,” a Sotheby’s spokesman said. “Bidding lasted about 10 minutes with four or five bidders in the room and the same number on the phones.”
The price is the highest ever achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript, an auction record for a work by JK Rowling, and an auction record for a children’s book.
All proceeds from the sale will go to The Children’s Voice, a charity Rowling co-founded in 2005 to help vulnerable children across Europe.
“The Tales of Beedle... [Read More]
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