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Deconstructing Harry, Day 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10 July 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | From Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news
The third installment of the Harry Potter series marks the franchise's shift into darker territory than we've previously seen. And although he's still producing, Chris Columbus has now handed over the directing reins to Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien) and that's a great move for the series. Cuarón's film is bit darker, a bit more sinister, and even a bit more wistful, which is as much a function of his direction as it is Rowling's development as a writer. The action, as always, starts off at the Dursleys' home in Surrey, but Harry quickly gets fed...
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Chicago & Portland – Get Ready For Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will the Harry Potter Collection
9 July 2009 11:56 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
Theaters Celebrate The Upcoming Release Of “Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince” With Harry Potter Marathons
Theaters are celebrating the upcoming release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with some Harry Potter marathons? Never seen a Potter flick? Now’s your chance to go overboard. Can’t remember what happened in the third film and want to see it on the big screen? Your Potter prayers are answered.
Here’s the Chicago info …
In celebration of the highly anticipated July 15th theatrical release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Woodridge’s Hollywood Blvd Cinema (1001 W. 75th St. – Woodridge,Il) will host a marathon of the first five installments of the Harry Potter film franchise: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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Jeff Bayer
Harry Potter 1-5: By The Numbers
9 July 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
What is your favorite Harry Potter film? Which of the movies in the series do you think is the best reviewed? Highest rated by the mainstream public? Largest grossing. I can tell you that my favorite is Alfanso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and it seems like I'm not alone. Azkaban is the best reviewed and highest publicly rated of the bunch, yet it made the least amount of money of the series ($83 million less than the next lowest release). How sad. Lets take a look at the Harry Potter film series (so far) by the numbers. The graph below shows the series in Worldwide Box Office Earnings: Sorcerer’s Stone -- $976,457,891 Chamber of Secrets -- $878,987,880 Prisoner of Azkaban -- $795,538,952 Goblet of Fire -- $896,013,036 Order of the Phoenix -- $938,468,864 In the graph below we ...
Peter Sciretta
Do MPAA Ratings Influence Which Movies You Want to See?
8 July 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
I was going to write this up yesterday after Pamela McClintock at Variety began a recent article asking, "After two recent PG-13 outings, the latest Harry Potter film is back to PG territory -- so is that good news for Warner Bros.?" However, I had my "Why Should Filmmakers Try to Make Good Movies?" editorial in the bag and it has generated plenty of good conversation making it look like holding this one for a day was a good idea. I remember back on January 7 when I first reported the news Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had been rated PG by the MPAA for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality, and the mild online stir the news caused. Harry Potter dedicated fansites were emailing me constantly asking if the news was true since I get MPAA ratings about a day before they are added to the MPAA's official site.
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Brad Brevet
Can 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' break Oscars curse?
5 July 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Everyone will be wild about Harry once more with the July 15 release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." But while Harry Potter waves his magic wand over and over, he just can't enchant Oscar voters. Indeed, Harry Potter is fast becoming the Susan Lucci of the Oscars. Since 2001, his five films have netted just six nods and no wins. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002) and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007) weren't nominated for anything! The only Oscar bid cooked up by "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) was for art direction (it lost to "Memoirs of a Geisha"). "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004) did slightly better, capturing noms for music score and visual effects. It lost to, respectively, "Finding Neverland" and "Spider-Man 2." It was the first flick that conjured up the most Oscar nods. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001) reaped three nominations: art direction,
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Daniel Radcliffe "Disappointed" by Lack of Darkness in Latest Harry Potter Movie
2 July 2009 6:22 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
Even though David Yates, the newest director to bring the Harry Potter mythos to life, took the franchise on a dark journey in the previous installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the tone is much lighter in the next movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Apparently, the new tone did not necessarily sit well with all of the cast members. In a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the titular character, said:
My favourite stuff is always the dark stuff. When I read scripts for the first time that's what I always lean towards and it's what I want to see included – even more so in Harry Potter movies, because we need the films to appeal to adult audiences. In fact one of the things I was disappointed about with the sixth Harry Potter movie was that there wasn't so much of that element. Radcliffe said
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BrentJS Sprecher
Harry Potter Star Emma Watson Surprised by Her Fortune
30 June 2009 7:39 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
Actress Emma Watson is just 19 years old, but she's earned an estimated £10 million from her recurring role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series. Surprised? Apparently, so is Ms. Watson. As a child actor, Watson's contracts and finances were out of her control and she preferred to pretend that the money didn't exist. It wasn't until she turned 18 that she discovered just how much money she had earned.
In a recent interview, Watson said:
My dad never told me how much money I was earning. Then, when I hit 18, he was like, "I want you to understand that your money isn't some kind of abstract concept. I want you to have a feel for what it's worth and what you can do with it." Watson is currently promoting the sixth film in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
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BrentJS Sprecher
Emma Watson Will Quit Acting After Harry Potter
29 June 2009 5:40 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
It seems like professional suicide to step away from a successful acting career to attend college, but that's exactly what Emma Watson plans to do following the conclusion of her Harry Potter duties. Watson hasn't revealed which university she plans on attending, but in an interview with Teen Vogue, she said:
There's not, like, a burning passion in me that I have to act and I don't care what I do. Until something comes along that I feel as strongly about as I did Hermione – like, I felt that it was life or death – I don't want to act again. Watson said that she will study English Literature and that she wants to be just like every other student, even sharing a dorm room: I probably sound like a paranoid nut, but I'm doing this because I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. Watson is currently promoting the sixth film in the series,
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BrentJS Sprecher
Harry Potter and the Lost Diary - 06/11/09
11 June 2009 5:13 PM, PDT | From ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news
We have a lot of Harry Potter news to share with you! Want to see all five movies at the Rhode Island International Film Festival? Want to know where the Hp:hbp train is heading next? Curious about the Obama's trip to the London set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Want to see pictures of Rupert Grint in his upcoming movie, Wild Target? Curious what Evanna Lynch has been up to? Care to enter some contests? Well, get ready for your Harry Potter and the Daily Prophet for June 11, because we have all of this and so much more to share with you! Providence Public Library to Showcase Harry Potter 1-5 If you're from Providence, Rhode Island or somewhere in the vicinity, you may want to stop by the Providence Public Library every Monday to watch all five of the current Harry Potter movies in order! They will be
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rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
ABC Family Airing Another Harry Potter Weekend
29 May 2009 8:22 PM, PDT | From RupertGrint.net | See recent RupertGrint.net news
Beginning tomorrow evening, ABC Family in the United States will be having a special Harry Potter weekend where they will be airing both the third and fourth film. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban airs tomorrow (Saturday) night at 8pm Est with Goblet of Fire playing on Sunday at 7.30pm Est. What makes this Harry Potter weekend extra special, though? The channel is expected to air some new clips and interviews from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in between commercial breaks! We will try our best to have videos of these previews online once they air. Thanks to Melanie for writing in and reminding us! Update: Apparently, the previews which aired included nothing new.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince looks to be an excellent rendition
27 May 2009 7:22 PM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news
J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint) , was perhaps one of the more challenging of the series to be brought to life on the big screen. That's not to say that predecessors Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix were any cake-walk. The books, riddled with imagination, lucid imagery, and exciting, other-worldly adventure, were daunting tasks for their directors to overcome in film-production. Chris Columbus had the largest and most heady obstacle
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La Times: Who Should Be The 'Breaking Dawn' Director?
20 May 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news
Ever since Robert Pattinson confirmed his commitment to a Breaking Dawn movie yesterday discussion has been swirling like crazy. One major topic regarding the possibilities of directors has just been touched on by the La Times. They delve into who they think would be a good match for the final filmWho is worthy of such a challenge? Weve thought of six so far.... Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings series The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers and The Return of the King and King KongThe New Zealander carries emotional story lines and dialogue to full tilt. With the help of the Weta Workshop and his Oscarwinning friend Richard Taylor the makeup and design effects would be a cinch.Guillermo del Toro Pans Labyrinth Hellboy Hellboy II The Golden Army and The HobbitWith Hellboy he dressed a grown man in latex prosthetics for a movable and realistic look
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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Matt Medlock
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Rips Off North American Box Office
3 May 2009 7:25 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has livened up to its expectation at the North American box office over the weekend. Projected to nab more than $70 million upon its release on Friday, May 1, the Gavin Hood-directed film has torn its way to the top spot at the ticket sales chart with $85.1 million after three days of screening at 4,099 sites.
Kicking off the summer season, the action fantasy movie starring Hugh Jackman opened lower than "X-Men: The Last Stand" which collected as much as $102.8 million when it was debuted in 2006. If ticket price inflation is taken into consideration, it also scored lower than 2003's "X2: X-Men United". However, it did pull in a higher number than the original "X-Men".
While scoring a relatively big bow over the weekend, "Wolverine" landed on the 15th slot among the top opening movies in summer, following "Spider-Man 2", "The Matrix Reloaded" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Harry Potter Exhibition In Chicago
2 May 2009 3:18 PM, PDT | From ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news
The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, opened the world premiere of Harry Potter: The Exhibition on April 30, 2009. In a 10,000-square-foot exhibit space, the exhibition offers fans a first-hand look inside the boy wizard's magical world and the opportunty to experience the amazing craftmanship of more than 200 authentic costumes and props from the Harry Potter films, displayed in intricate settings inspired by the actual film sets. The exhibition runs through September 27, 2009, and after that date begins its five-year world tour. The exhibit is staged in nine different settings: Sorting Hat, Pre-Show, Gryffindor Common Room, Classrooms, Quidditch, Hagrid’s Hut, Forbidden Forest, Dark Forces, and Great Hall. Before the artifacts traveled to Chicago for the world premiere of the exhibition, they were all housed at Leavesden Studios outside of London, where all of the films have been made. It took four hundreds organizers working eight-hour days (3,200 hours) to set up the exhibition.
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cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
Harry Potter Exhibition In Chicago
2 May 2009 3:18 PM, PDT | From ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news
The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, opened the world premiere of Harry Potter: The Exhibition on April 30, 2009. In a 10,000-square-foot exhibit space, the exhibition offers fans a first-hand look inside the boy wizard's magical world and the opportunty to experience the amazing craftmanship of more than 200 authentic costumes and props from the Harry Potter films, displayed in intricate settings inspired by the actual film sets. The exhibition runs through September 27, 2009, and after that date begins its five-year world tour. The exhibit is staged in nine different settings: Sorting Hat, Pre-Show, Gryffindor Common Room, Classrooms, Quidditch, Hagrid’s Hut, Forbidden Forest, Dark Forces, and Great Hall. Before the artifacts traveled to Chicago for the world premiere of the exhibition, they were all housed at Leavesden Studios outside of London, where all of the films have been made. It took four hundreds organizers working eight-hour days (3,200 hours) to set up the exhibition.
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cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
Interview: Writer/Director Carlos Cuarón – Rudo Y Cursi -- Talking about the world of soccer, the success of Mexican directors, and how I totally missed the point of his movie.
30 April 2009 | From Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news
Written by Matt Goldberg While it probably makes guys like Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo cry themselves to sleep at night, Mexican auteurs are making it big in America and worldwide. While it is debatable where their phenomenal success began, there's a strong argument to be made that it started with 2002's "Y Tu Mamá También" co-written by Carlos Cuarón and co-written and directed by his brother Alfonso Cuarón who has gone on to direct "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Children of Men". Now Carlos Cuarón makes his feature-film directing debut with the funny and charming "Rudo y Cursi" which reunites "Y tu mamá" stars Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as soccer-playing brothers who are winners on the pitch but losers at about everything else. I spoke with Cuarón about the message and theme of his film, the politics ...
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Twilight banned by Mormon bookstore: beginning of religious backlash?
29 April 2009 3:10 AM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news
Reports say that Stephenie Meyer’s hit book series was removed from a religious bookstore. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (which has also spawned a popular major motion picture series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and, now, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) received a similar (though, as of yet, quite worse) dismissal by the church, including bookshelf bans such as this. With the release of 2008’s Twilight film (with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Rachelle LeFevre, Cam Gigandet, Edi Gathegi, Billy Burke, Elizabeth Reaser, Justin Chon, Michael Welch, Anna Kendrick, and Christian Serratos and which will be followed with The Twilight Saga: New Moon & The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
thetwilightexaminer
Dear Harry Potter fans, prepare to be stimulated
16 April 2009 7:07 PM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news
I stopped watching the Harry Potter movies after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and I am truly regretting it now. Mainly because the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been released, and I know that if I carried on watching the films I would be releasing an array of [...]
Liam
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - Movie Review
13 April 2009 1:27 PM, PDT | From AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news
I have serious doubts about Daniel Radcliffe’s non-Potter acting future, but as my wife pointed out at the end of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he’s already been in a scene with Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, and David Thewlis, where he got to be, more or less, the center of attention. I’d hate to take anything away from countless similar scenes that have been a part of the Potter series thus far, or the fact that Radcliffe has worked with a very large portion of today’s finest actors, but that scene had to be a lot of fun. Now, add to all these experiences that Radcliffe will get to take with him for the rest of his life, whether acting works out for him or not, the fact that he has now been the star of a damn fine movie, and it’s hard
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Marc Eastman
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