Harry Potter News

[Geekyfanboy]

Okay you can now download the new trailer in HD... http://mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/2316

Also they released four new posters.. pretty sweet..

[billybob476]

Looks like the release has been moved up by 2 days for a midweek release.

"Harry Potter" release moved up two days

By Carl DiOrio Carl Diorio   – Thu Apr 16, 1:16 am ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Film distributors continue to jockey for position just weeks before the start of the summer box-office season.

In the two latest maneuvers, Warner Bros. has moved up "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to a midweek domestic bow on July 15, and Universal slipped another wide release into the last full month of summer with an August 14 slotting of horror thriller "A Perfect Getaway."

Warners initially had the latest "Potter" sequel set to unspool last November before postponing its bow until July 17. The latest move -- to a Wednesday opening -- is in keeping with the studio's established pattern with "Potter" pics that debut in the summer.

"We just wanted to wait to get a look at the competitive environment before doing it," Warner Bros. president Dan Fellman said Wednesday. "But the last one opened up to $44 million on a Wednesday, so there's certainly no reason not to do it this time."

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opened in July 2007 and grossed $77.1 million over its first five days, eventually ringing up $292 million domestically.

"Getaway," which had not yet been scheduled, is set to compete against a whopping four mid-August wide openers. Those include Warners' literary adaptation "The Time Traveler's Wife," Sony's sci-fi film "District 9," Summit Entertainment's youth comedy "Bandslam" and Paramount Vantage's used-cars laugher "The Goods: The Don Ready Story."

Universal distribution president Nikki Rocco said the rival releases target different audiences and aren't a concern.

"We likely having an action thriller in that corridor," Rocco said.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090416/media_nm/us_potter

[Rico]

The movie looks great.  The new trailer is amazing.  I love the look of this movie from what I have seen so far.  Can't wait.

[globeTrekker]

Pulled the trailor up on mytube after reading Rico's post; agreed, it does look groovy! Chris

[Geekyfanboy]

Guess where they're going to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Empire Online reports that the upcoming two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie will split at a cliffhanger moment.

The magazine spoke with star Daniel Radcliffe and franchise producer David Heyman.

"We've played around with a couple of places," Heyman told the magazine. "And ultimately settled on a place that we think is very exciting, and I think quite bold, in that it's not necessarily where one might expect. You want to give a sense of completion, on one hand, but a sense that there's another piece, more to come. We tried one, and then Steve [Kloves, the screenwriter,] came up with the idea to try it another way, and when we tried that, it felt just right."

Radcliffe added that the split is "at a very tense cliffhanger", which may be a bigger clue for fans.

The pair also discussed the end of final film installments, which are based on the seventh of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. (Spoilers ahead!)

As readers of the book know, the final scenes take place 19 years after the events of the main story. Heyman wants to use Benjamin Button-like technology to age the three main actors to play their older selves, and Radcliffe hopes they get it right.

"I am nervous about that, because if it's good, I'll be really, really pleased," Radcliffe said. "If it's not good, and that's what people are left with, that would be awful.If it's a choice between having me, Rupert and Emma looking a bit stupid and it being slightly comical or having other actors play us, I would go for other actors every time. So we'll see." The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is slated for release in November of 2010. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, based on the sixth book, opens July 15.

[Geekyfanboy]

New TV spot.

New Half-Blood Prince Commercial

[Meds]

Looking good.

[Geekyfanboy]

The Official US Harry Potter Poster

[Geekyfanboy]

MTV Commercial for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Real life Quidditch.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/403904/how-much-do-you-love-quidditch.jhtml

[Geekyfanboy]

HBO's First Look

This movie is going to be the best yet.. I can't wait...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - HBO First Look (part 1) [HQ]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - HBO First Look (part 2) [HQ]

[Feathers]

Just watched an hours worth of 'making of' on ITV2 with interviews and set visits etc. It's looking very very good!

Can't wait to see this one!

[Meds]

Yeah saw that as well. Have just booked my tickets we're going Friday morning at 11am.

[Geekyfanboy]

Harry Potter cast lifts veil on final films

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince—the sixth film based on J.K Rowling's beloved books—finally makes its worldwide debut on July 15, but there's no rest for the weary back in England, where the epic, two-part conclusion, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is in its fifth month of production.

Armed with their fresh-from-the-set stories and behind-the-scenes teases, the Potter cast and creative team (including stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint; director David Yates; and producer David Heyman) took a short break from filming to promote the latest installment in New York City on Thursday.

The next movies will split Rowling's seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with part one debuting on Nov. 19, 2010, and part two bowing July 15, 2011.

Heyman said in the press conference that the two films will be very different, although they are two halves of a whole story. Part one is essentially an edgy, verite "road movie" that's a strong departure from the more comedic Half-Blood Prince, he said. "We are really enjoying it, actually," he said. "It's quite intense and very raw. We are way away from Hogwarts. It's a bit like three refugees being pursued across the landscape by these terrible Death Eaters. It feels very different. Actually, it's very hard coming back to [talk about] Half-Blood Prince, as we finished it a year ago."

Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, agreed with Heyman, adding that she's amazed at how different an experience shooting the Deathly Hallows installments has been.

"It feels totally different," Watson said in a separate cast press conference. "I feel like I am on a different film. The other films had a structure where it's like we come into the Great Hall, and then it's the opening talk, and ... that is just gone. It's not very often in the middle of filming you stop yourself and go, 'This is going to be awesome.' And I've done that on a number of occasions. We just [shot] this amazing scene in the forest, where we are being chased by the Snatchers. I've never done anything like it; nothing even close. I have never done any serious stunts or real action, and this is so exciting and dynamic. And all of us are now done with school, so we are totally focused on this finale at Hogwarts. I hope it's going to be brilliant."

As for part two, Yates said it's basically a "big opera." "It's a great big epic with huge battles," he said. "And it's oddly moving, because it concludes the whole saga."

Of course, the team wasn't spilling everything about the films, especially when asked where screenwriter Steve Kloves has split the book: where part one ends and part two begins. Producer Heyman suddenly got very tight-lipped and refused to divulge the specifics. "I could [tell you], but I'm not going to," he said.

"It's been an interesting process, because when we began all of us didn't want to make two films," Heyman added. "Why do it now? And it wasn't told to us that we had to do it; rather, it was an organic process of working on it and Steve working on it. The films took a fundamental turn when Steve, working with Alfonso Cuarón [director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban] made the decision to tell the story from Harry Potter's point of view, as opposed to translating the books to film. From that point, there were necessary omissions along the way. Something that we love—like SPEW [Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare], which is Hermione's interest in the house elves—we loved that, but it is omitted because it wasn't part of Harry's story. It allowed us to create a cinematic structure for the films rather than literally translating the books."

Heyman continued: "The seventh book is a long book, but it is a book in which there is almost nothing that isn't related to Harry and almost nothing that you can cut out. So Steve was working away in the vacuum of his house, struggling, in some ways, to figure out what to cut. Together, all of us made the decision ... to make two films. There is so much material in the seventh book, so making two films was the very best thing we could have done for the book to adapt it in the right way."

Heyman said they have their break point worked out, but it could change in the edit. "Because we are shooting both films as one, shooting them together, we'll see what happens ultimately," he said. "It's written in a very specific way, and that, I'm sure, is where we'll end up, but I don't want to say now and then all of a sudden we go, 'Hmmm?'"

The filmmakers also declined to discuss how the final film will depict the epilogue to Deathly Hallows—spoilers ahead if you haven't read the book!—which shows Harry and his friends 19 years in the future, as they send off their children to Hogwarts.

"It's an absolutely beautiful part of the book," Yates said passionately. "One of the most unique things of this franchise is the fact that we've grown up with these characters. I think it's what makes it special for the audience. So we will be delivering that at the end of part two, but we are looking at various options of how we do it. We still haven't quite figured it out yet."

Asked if the Academy Award-winning technology used for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button might be utilized in some way, Heyman said it was possible but unlikely at this juncture. "Benjamin Button was making him look younger, and we are taking people who are 20 years old and making them look like they are in their late 30s. We may use some of the techniques of Button, but we are still in an exploratory stage. We will do everything we can, but it will be Dan, Rupert and Emma in those parts, not some other actors."

[Geekyfanboy]

There is a new deleted scene to promote the upcoming release of The Half Blood Prince..

Harry Potter and the half blood prince : Deleted Scene 1

[Geekyfanboy]

JK is up to something.. this has hit several of the Harry Potter websites.

Following the completion of the seven Harry Potter books and eight films, J.K. Rowling has something new to announce. Even though this is not a new book, we have been informed it is something equally exciting.

As a teaser before the official announcement, ten letters have been hidden on the website below for you to find. To locate them you need to find ten sets of coordinates, enter them into the search box one set at a time, and take a look around.

So far there are two coordinates out there. 42.523356,-70.890698  and  51.530377,-0.123259

The rest will be revealed among nine other Harry Potter fan sites at intervals throughout the 15th and 16th of June 2011. Find the coordinates, enter them on the site below and you could be one of the first to piece the word together.

(Please note - These letters are magic, therefore do not exist in the real world...)

Good luck to you all.

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