“Half-Blood Prince” Has Huge Midnight Opening
July 16, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
The gamble by Warner Brothers appears to have paid off.
Last year, Warner Brothers moved the sixth installment in the “Harry Potter” franchise from November to July, giving the studio a much-needed tentpole movie for the summer season. The move appears to have paid off, at least if the midnight ticket sales are any indication.
According to [...]
“Half Blood Prince” Sees Potter Crew Grow-Up
July 9, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Director David Yates says the latest movie in the Harry Potter franchise feels like the first installment in a trilogy and that audiences won’t believe how much the actors who bring the denizens of Hogwarts to life have grown up since the last time we saw them.
“It’s actually about sex, potions and rock ‘n’ roll,” [...]
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” — A Variety Review
July 8, 2009 || Category: Film Reviews || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Kids’ stuff is a thing of the past in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Suddenly looking quite grown up, the students at Hogwarts are forced to grapple with heavy issues of mortality, memory and loss in this sixth installment in the series of bigscreen adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s Potter tales. Dazzlingly well made and [...]
“Half Blood Prince” Will Have Midnight Debut
July 8, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Can’t wait to see the next installment of “Harry Potter?”
Then hopefully your local theater hasn’t sold out of midnight showings for the latest installment.
Following the trend of most recent blockbusters, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will have a midnight opening next week.
If you’re interested in finding out more about the movie and the pace [...]
New “Harry Potter” Trailer Debuts
April 21, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Last week, we brought you news that Warner Brothers moved up the release date for “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” two days to July 15.
Now we’ve got the latest trailer for the upcoming film thank to Yahoo Movies.
You can surf over and check out the new trailer (as well as several previous trailers) [...]
Warner Moves Up Opening Day for “Harry Potter 6″
April 16, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Warner Brothers just can’t seem to settle on an opening day for the next “Harry Potter” movie.
After moving “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” from the holiday season last year to July 17, 2009, the studio has decided to move the opening back two days. The movie will now open on July 15, two-days earlier [...]
Warner Releases New “Harry Potter” Trailer
March 10, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter, Trailers || 1 Comment
A new trailer for the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” has been released. If you’d like to see it or watch it again, you can check it out it below.
“Tales of Beedle the Bard” Optioned
December 23, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Warner Brothers has optioned the movie rights to the Harry Potter related book, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” according to Cinema Blend. The book is a collection of five short fables set in the Harry Potter world of wizards and muggles by author J.K. Rowling.
The titular Beedle the Bard wrote five tales, each accompanied [...]
ABC Family to Show Deleted Scene from “Goblet of Fire”
December 2, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Part of the annual ABC Family “25 Days of Christmas” is a weekend long marathon of the “Harry Potter” films. And while most Potter fanatics may have the films on DVD and the novels memorized, they may want to tune in this weekend when the network debuts “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”
On Sunday, [...]
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Trailer
November 18, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 4 Comments
Fans eager for a glimpse of next summer’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will be happy to see the latest trailer for the film. Warner Brothers recently released this new teaser trailer for the upcoming film.
Thompson Won’t Return for “Deathly Hallows”
November 13, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Harry Potter has lost a battle with Nanny McPhee. Emma Thompson has decided to pass on starring in the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise to star in a sequel to “Nanny McPhee”.
“No, no, no,” Thompson told MTV News when asked whether she’d be returning as Professor Sybil Trelawney in “Harry Potter and the [...]
New Harry Potter Trailer
October 27, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter, Trailers || 1 Comment
A new international trailer for next summer’s “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” debuted over the weekend.
Radcliffe’s Benign Brain Disorder
August 19, 2008 || Category: News || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor best known for his portrayal of Harry Potter in movies, recently revealed that he suffers from a little-known and non-fatal brain disorder called Dyspraxia.
The problem, though not well known by its name, is quite common and is a neurological disorder that can cause clumsiness, dissociative body movements, and the inability [...]
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector’s Edition
August 1, 2008 || Category: Book News, Collectibles || Tags: Harry Potter || 5 Comments
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector’s Edition (Offered Exclusively by Amazon & Slice of SciFi) (Hardcover)
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In December 2007, J.K. Rowling unveiled The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a very special book of five fairy tales illustrated by the bard herself, embellished with silver ornaments and mounted moonstones. [...]
Last Potter Film Will Be Two-Parter
March 13, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 4 Comments
We told you last year that this might happen and now can report that Warner Bros. has officially decided to turn the last Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” into a two-part production.
Director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves felt there was just too much ground to try and cover [...]
Two “Deathly Hallows” Possible
January 14, 2008 || Category: Film News, From Page To Screen || Tags: Harry Potter || 2 Comments
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
“Harry Potter” fans may get a treat when the final novel in the series comes to the big screen.
Weighing in at over 700 pages, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” left many fans wondering how the story could be condensed for the big-screen and still make [...]
More Potter On the Way?
December 31, 2007 || Category: Book News || Tags: Harry Potter || 6 Comments
Author and creator of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, 42 told the London Daily Mail that an eighth Potter book is not out of the question.
The biggest reason for a possible return of the famous boy wizard comes from Rowling’s 14-year old daughter Jessica. The author hinted that she has been getting some [...]
Unpublished Rowling Manuscript Auctioned at Staggering Bid
December 13, 2007 || Category: Book News || Tags: Harry Potter || 7 Comments
Several weeks ago we reported that an unpublished hand-written and illustrated tale of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling would be auctioned off to benefit one of her favorite charity providers. This particular story was one of seven in the series titled “The Tales of Beedle Bard,” which was a tale told to [...]
Rowling Named EW Entertainer of the Year
November 25, 2007 || Category: News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Author J.K. Rowling, creator of the magical Harry Potter series, has been named Entertainment Weekly’s (EW) “Entertainer of the Year.”
Rowling has sold over 400 million copies of the novels showcasing the career of the young boy-wizard, which also forged movies for each edition. The last two films are coming soon.
Others getting the nod from [...]
Potter Big At Auctions
October 31, 2007 || Category: Collectibles || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
A first edition copy of J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter novel in pristine condition was sold this week at auction for nearly $41,000 (USD).
It was the hardback copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” (aka — “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”) which was signed on the back of the title page by Rowling [...]
Look Ma! Potter Franchise Is on “Top of the World!”
September 11, 2007 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || 4 Comments
The Harry Potter film series has become the biggest in box office history, beating James Bond and Star Wars, according to BBC News.
The total for all five Potter films has grossed over $4.47 billion (USD). Bond sits second with $4.44 billion. However, Potter has done in 5 films what it has taken Bond [...]
The $700 Million Wizard Boy
August 2, 2007 || Category: Film News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
Written by: Kenneth Li
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global box office sales for “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the latest film about the British boy wizard, have reached $700 million, media company Time Warner Inc. said on Wednesday.
“We’re looking for a very big year for Warner and New Line,” Time Warner Chief [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Perhaps all those people who weren’t going to see “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” were curled up in a comfy chair or sitting by the pool reading the latest and last tome in the series “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
Whether people were reading it or [...]
Rowling Reads “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” LIVE
July 19, 2007 || Category: Book News, Fan Mailbag || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Submitted by: Kurt (SoSF Fan)
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that now everyone will be able to hear J K Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a live webstream from the Natural History Museum in London at the precise moment it is published - 12.01am bst on Saturday 21st July 2007
Ten [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — A Movie Pulse Review
July 11, 2007 || Category: Film Reviews || Tags: Harry Potter || 5 Comments
After stunning our muggle readers with my less than positive review of the fourth installment of J.K. Rowling’s beloved fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it took me weeks to wade through the massive amounts of hate mail and death threats I received from the franchise’s diehard fans. As easy as it [...]
Rowling: Finishing ‘Potter’ ‘very, very emotional’
July 4, 2007 || Category: From Page To Screen || Tags: Harry Potter || 1 Comment
Source: CNN Entertainment
LONDON, England (AP) — J.K. Rowling said she was sad, but relieved, to have completed the final “Harry Potter” book as she greeted fans at the European premiere of the latest movie in the young wizard saga.
J.K. Rowling hasn’t even told her family how the Harry Potter saga ends.
Hundreds of fans [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
For the first time since the first two installments of series, the same director will direct back-to-back installments of the “Harry Potter” franchise.
David Yates, the director of the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” will return to the director’s chair for the sixth installment “Harry Potter and [...]
1st Look — Potter Book Cover for #7
March 28, 2007 || Category: Book News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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Final Potter Book — July 21, 2007
February 2, 2007 || Category: Book News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
On July 21st, just 6 months away, fans of the Harry Potter series of books will at last find out what destiny awaits Harry Potter. Fans have watched the young wizard grow from a small lad into a young adult just as they too have in real life reading about his adventures at Hogwarts [...]
Final Potter Book Given Title
December 21, 2006 || Category: Book News || Tags: Harry Potter || Leave a Comment
J.K. Rowling, the famed author of the entire Harry Potter series of books has released the title for her final edition to the series. It will be called “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The question is…will Rowling and publisher opt for a 07/07/07 shelf-release date for the novel? The good news [...]
