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HarryPotter.com is going to launch their online trading cards again. This time there will be Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire cards. Here you can see a countdown clock counting down to this event.
The other night Rupert Grint appeared on the UK television program called "Generation Fame." I hear there was some dancing and skipping and the Weasley family would not be impressed with his teapot. Rupert Grint.net recently posted the video and some screencaps.
The Scottish Magazine, "The List" published their Hot 100 List, and it contained a few people from Harry Potter. On the cover was actor David Tennant (Barty Crouch Jr.) came in at number 1. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series came in at number 63, and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) came in at number 79. You can get scans from The Leaky Cauldron.
JKR has updated her site with a new wizard of the month.It is Jocunda Sykes (1915 - present) She is famous for being the first person flying across the Atlantic ocean on a broomstick.
Happy Birthday to Lord Voldemort, who was born some 79 years ago! I'll though we don't really wish you a happy birthday!
Actors Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) and Imelda Staunton (widely rumored to be playing Dolores Ubridge in OotP) will be made Officers of the Order of the British Empire, the order of chivalry of British democracy. It is in the New Year's Honors List and acknowledges service to the arts and science, public services and work with charitble and welfare orginizations. Congrats!
Soundtrack.net has ranked the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire soundtrack as one of the top ten this year. They said;
"Williams is out, but Doyle is in - and while it's much different than the first three Harry Potter score, his score works wonderfully when taken on its own. Dark and dramatic, there is some great orchestral action, and a beautiful love theme. "
You can read their review here.
J.K. Rowling has donated a signed first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the Peace Hospice in England. It is going to be auctioned off to help raise money. The spokesperson for charity hospice is quoted in the Watford Observer newspaper saying;
"Bids for a first edition Harry Potter currently on Ebay are up to $3,500 so we are hoping we will raise a lot of money for the hospice. JK Rowling contacted us through a third party to donate the book and she said she will be following the auction on Ebay."
JKR has been nominated for the Italian edition of Vogue Magazine's women of the year contest. It is open to the public and you can vote here to vote for Jo or go here to see the other nominees.
On the BBC1 TV show, "Film 2005" Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was voted number 6 by the viewers.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came in at number 8 in USA Today's Top 10 Books of 2005. They also had a poll where fans vote for their favorite book and HBP came in first!
IMDb has announced its Top 25 Stars of 2005. They are based on searches performed by the users of IMDb. D aniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the HP movies, ranked 18 this year. Last year he ranked 20. Emma watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the HP movies, ranked 15, where last year she ranked 13.
Mary GrandPre, the illustratior of the U.S. Harry Potter Series, will be featured until January 1, 206 at the Artinsights Gallery, in Reston, Virginia. It will then become a permenant addition to the gallery and the gallery will donate a portion of the proceeds to First Star, a children's charity that assist abuse and neglect.
Happy birthday to Maggie Smith, who plays Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies. Today she is turning 71!
Daniel Radcliffe will be appearing on "Live with Regis and Kelly" December 29, 2005, which is a Thursday.
JKR.com has a new wizard of the month.
Fifi LaFolle- 1888 ? 1971
Author of the 'Enchanted Encounters' series
Today is Kelly's birthday! Kel is the founder of this site and does all the design,news and more.
Arthur Levine, editor of the US edition of the Harry Potter books, recently appeared at Yale and spoke about his work at scholastic on the series.
"First, I felt just shock, and then I felt there's no way, just no way, [name edited for spoiler] couldn't be dead, So I thought, 'What's the trick?' but unfortunately J.K. Rowling doesn't do that. She's writing about war and in war people die. They are not protected by their office and the esteem in which they are held. She wouldn't compromise that idea by easily bringing him back. Though his work on the "Harry Potter" series will end soon, Levine surprised some when he said he has no intention of ending his partnership with Rowling. I think I'll have complex feelings about the last book. It's clearly the series that I will be best known for. But it won't be, it's not the end of my career. It's not the last thing J.K. Rowling will write either, and my relationship with her will continue."
To see the rest of the article you can go here.
Here are some pictures from the GoF 2006 calendar!
Cover- Harry
January- Going Camping!
February- Quidditch World Cup
March- Mad Eye Moody's Classroom
April- Fleur Delacour
May- Weasley Twins with Beards
June- Harry and Hermione at the First Task
July-Harry and Ron in Dress Robes
August- Harry in the Prefect's Bathroom
September- Harry and Hermione
October- Barty Crouch, Jr
November- Fudge, McGonagall, Dumbledore and Harry
December- Yule Ball
Two days ago on NBC aired a GoF trailer with some additional footage during "Joey" and "The Apprentice." You can see the clip here!
Yesterday, 15,000 copies of the Vietnamese translation of HBP sold out soon after its release. The Youth Publishing House is now making 10,000 more copies for unfortunate fans who did not recieve a copy of the book.
Sci-Fi Wire had an interview with Mike Newell, director of GoF, discussing the actor Raloh Fiennes, who plays Voldemort in the Harry Potter films.
"You have to have the actor to do it," Newell said in an interview. "And Ralph was the actor to do it, because Ralph doesn't chew the scenery, and he isn't a sort of 19th-century melodrama figure. He's absolutely real and cold and chilling and absolutely dedicated to doing bad. And as soon as you have that, you can do it."
He also discusses Voldemort's motivation for being the Dark Lord.
"What does he want?" Newell asked. "Why does he want to come back? What sort of a person is he that he wants to come back? What sort of a person is it who wants to impose a reign of evil? Does somebody who wants to impose a reign of evil actually see that it's evil? Or is it in fact for them a kind of good? So there was a lot of that stuff, which is the sort of thing that you discuss with an actor when he's getting to really concentrate on the part. And that was all very, very profitable."
Newell says he has not read HBP yet.
"It's another huge, wacky novel, and, simply, I've been busy," he said. "I obviously read the fifth one, because that has relevance...Nor did I change my view of things for any of the stories that might be coming up. I've been very strongly encouraged by the producers and by Warner Brothers to think of this as a specific one-off film."
The swedish edtion of HBP, or "Harry Potter och Halvblodsprinsen" was released today. Check out the cover art here!
Happy birthday to Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter Movies. He turned 18 today! whee! *sings him happy birthday*
In the last 2 monthes HBP has sold 11 million copies in the US! It is still controling charts and is currently number one at amazon. HBP has now sold as many copies as OotP has since its June 2003 release.
There are four new GoF 'Coming Soon' posters. All four can be seen here.
Latino Review got a high-resolution picture of the international GoF poster, which is currently being displayed in Japan. It has a picture of the four champions and the Trio infront of the lake and the second task viewing platforms. It also says 'Dark and Difficult Times Lie Ahead.' You can see the picture here.
The UK has debuted a Avenue of Stars (Similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame) and many Harry Potter actors, such as Julie Walters (Mrs. Weasley) and Kenneth Branaugh (Lockhart) were featured. For a complete list, see BBC
It's Hermione's 26th birthday! (JK Rowling.com)
L.A. Daily News published a new interview with Mike Newell, the director of GoF, today. He said that the fourth movie "is bound to be a bit different, because I'm English and the others weren't. Whether anyone will notice, I don't know, but I hope it has a kind of authenticity. And it's a little darker than the others, because these kids are growing up, and they have to face stuff that they haven't had to before. But the real thing about it is that it's a terrific adventure story and a really good thriller."
When they asked him what the most frightening part of the movie was he said, "Jo Rowling is very, very interested in what happens to these people when they hit puberty. So you've got to take it on, and of course it's painful, as we all remember it. But it's also terribly funny as well."
The complete interview can be read here.
Three Owls, a Japanese fan site, has scans of a guidebook that is being distributed in the theatres. It includes never before seen pictures from GoF. You can see the scans here.
There was a collage of GoF pictures that were in a Japanese magazine today.
Posted by Casey on September 17, 7:56 pm EST
Source: MN
Yesterday, AOL posted the GoF theatrical trailer online. Check it out!
Today on Good Morning Television, a British program, aired some new GoF footage. You can view it here with all of the voice overs removed.
Okay. First off, I would like to say sorry for not updating in such a long time. We just started high school so things got a little hectic. Yeah... we will update more reguraly now so don't leave us! Thanks to all of you guys for visting everyday! Tell your friends, comment on the tagboard and vote in the polls!
The Chicago Sun-Times reported an article about fall films. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire "is expected to claim the No. 1 box-office title this season."
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" opens Nov. 18, and we can't think of a better reason to go back to the movies.
Why? Because people are still wild about Harry, whose audience crosses both age and gender lines in its appeal. Because there was a new book this summer that renewed our hankering for Hogwarts. Because this movie also promises a teenage Harry who likes girls -- which is enough to make most Muggles count the days until they can see their boy wizard grow up and perhaps experience his first magical kiss....
New director Mike Newell says in a nervous voice, "It's a dense, wonderful book, and it's just my job not to mess it up."
IMBD reports that Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) is going to be starring in a movie called Airborn, which is going to be releaed in May 2006.
Looking over VTM this week was filled with LOTS of news. I don't have time a lot of time to update all of it so go to VTM to check out some of the other news. This week there were lots of new pictures released of GoF. Check them out!
There's a new Wizard of the Month up at J.K. Rowling's website - the inventor of the Self-Stirring Cauldron.
A Bulgarian HP site had some behind the scene photos with Mike Newell, director of GoF movie, working with some of the actors.
Newell with Cedric, Rita, Harry, Fleur and Krum
Harry and Newell
Newell with Crouch, McGonagall and Karkaroff
Newell with Cedric
There is a new article where Mike Newell briefly discussed his favorite parts of filming GoF movie.
"Aside from everything else, these are school stories," Newell said. "In a middle-of-the-road English education, the teachers are embattled, the school is a very kind of anarchic place and a very funny place, as well. Where two sets of people - one of which is becoming adults and one of which is trying to avoid going back to becoming children - clash.
"The anarchy of youth, it is really rich stuff. I loved that. I loved doing the school side of it."
Harry Potter is once again mentioned in a Get Fuzzy comic.
A well-placed source has apparently told the HP Lexicon who R.A.B. is and what the "A" stands for. Treat this as a rumor until confirmed; and don't click the link if you don't wish to be spoiled.
One of BBC's photos of the day shows a person looking at a minature person statue.
Mugglenet has the transcript of a webchat they held with Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) last Thursday.
A French magazine, le NouvelObs, has an article on fanfiction. TLC has the article translated into English.
Terry Gilliam (director of the Brother's Grimm) is mentioned in the September 2 issue of Entertainment Weekly. The interviewer mentioned that J.K. Rowling wanted Gilliam for HP, so there's a paragraph about that. TLC has the transcript.
"I was reading the script as I was flying to Los Angeles for the [Warner Bros] meeting and thought, "Oh, she's seen Time Bandits, she's seen Monty Python." You know you're not going to get the job. It's just to keep her happy - due diligence. The terrible thing about it was during the course of the meeting, I started getting enthusiastic - I was even getting myself excited. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry I'd allowed myself to get excited about it. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian. But I thought Alfonso Cuaron did a great job with the last one. I thought, Yeah, you got really close to it."
The magazine Girl's Life will be having an interview with Emma Watson (Hermione) soon and want people to sumbit questions. They can be sumbitted here.
Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) has updated his blog; it is mainly about the International Carp Fishing Tournament in New York, which he recently attended.
In an interview with "Popstar" magazine Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) shared some of his recent dreams.
"There's one that I keep getting operated on! It's happened like three times! And everyone has the falling one. I always fall to the ground in my dreams. Most people kind of wake up before they hit - I always hit, which is evidently supposed to be really good luck in life! If you die in your dreams, apparently it's supposed to be great!"
There is a difference between the US and UK version of Half-Blood Prince. Two sentances that were edited out of the UK edition still remain in the US edition. They are also in the deluxe edition. The page from the UK edition can be seen here and the page from the US edition can be seen . (SPOILER WARNING!)
WB had just announced that the Domestic premiere (premiere in the US) of Harry Potter and the GOblet of FIre will be in New York City, on November 12. It is also confirmed that the wolrd premiere of GoF will be in London on November 6.
A soon-to-be-released box set of the first six HP books (in hardcover) is up at Amazon. It costs $100, $58 off the list price of $158. It comes in a box covered with artwork.
The official Goblet of Fire website has put up the trailer. Just click on "trailer" on the left to see it!
Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) was recently at the 2005 Junior World Carp Championship. He took pictures with fans, signed copies of HBP and discussed future movies. On a video posted on the website, he said,
"I'll keep doing it as long as they want me to. I'm not overly fussed. It's not my 100% choice of life career, so if they do decide to get a new cast, it's okay, fair enough - off we go onto bigger and better things, really. But as long as they want me to do it, I'm more than happy to trailer on."
A photo gallery can also be seen.
A Spanish site has some new behind the scenes footage. It includes the Yule Ball and the Burrow.
John Kenney, one of the four editors who didn't publish Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone recently wrote an article for The International Herald Tribune about why he declined the story. He writes:
When I did arrive, the office was empty. On my desk I saw a manila envelope. The cover letter was from an agent I'd never heard of. British. Said the enclosed manuscript was "the next great children's book, a 'Goodnight Moon' for preteens." I laughed. My father, who had also been a book editor before turning to taxidermy, had passed on "Goodnight Moon," and he and I often laughed at that.
I've always thought myself a rather keen spotter of "the next big book."
Certainly that was my reputation. I don't wish to boast, but....
I read the first few chapters of this so-called manuscript and, frankly, thought it drivel.
February, perhaps March of the next year, I received a call from J.K. Rowling herself.... I said I enjoyed her work a great deal, but that it didn't meet our needs at this time - the standard industry brushoff. There was a pause and I thought the line had gone dead when I heard laughing. "Mr. Wortham," she said with a light British accent. "I was calling as a courtesy, actually. To tell you that I sold the book. To Scholastic. For..." The line went dead. Or perhaps I passed out. I forget which.
You can get the full article here.
Christopher Brown pleaded guilty to stealing 2 copies of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in June. He tried to sell them to Sun newspaper reporter John Askill for $100,000. He also pleaded guilty to having possesion of an offensive weapon.
His companion, Aaron Lambert, will go to court in October. He is facing charges of "possesion of an imitaiotion hangun with the intent to cause Askill to fear unlawful violence."
Happy birthday to Rupert Grint! (Ron Weasley) Today he is turning 17!
Dennis, a sixteen year old boy from the Netherlands, was so impatient waiting for the release of HBP he decided to write his own version. He began writing his own version in January 2004. Bloomsbury wasn't happy though and forbid him to publish the book. So instead he uploaded his story, Harry Potter and the Torck with the Green Flames onto the internet. The author stated:
"I used a lot of my own school experiences in the story. It covers a multitude of aspects like a school-strike, friendship, love, but also sport. It's certainly not difficult to try to come close to JK's own writing style. There is a certain structure to the story that I also used in my own book."
If you would like to read the rest (in Dutch) click here.
The French HBP cover has surfaced.
Katie Leung and Robert Pattinson, who play Cho Chang and Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, recently attended the premiere of the Dukes of Hazzard, in London. Pictures can be seen on wireimage.
Happy Birthday Percy Weasley!! If Percy lives through the seventh book today he will be turning 29!
I might post more news later but I'm supposed to be doing homework. (shh!) Not that you care... mostly I did this because that Kel had been kidnapped and not been updating. bad Kel...
Last night, the GoF movie was featured on Extra. The footage is now online on their website.
The GoF movie will be featured in tomorrow's issue of Entertainment Weekly. There will also be a story about the band Harry and the Potters. For now, you can read both stories on TLC.
Scholastic has updated their HP Pronunciation Guide with words for book six - some words added include Abraxas Malfoy, Aguamenti, Merope, and Sectusempra.
J.K. Rowling.com has been updated to wish Ginny Weasley a happy birthday. (It's already August 11th in the UK).
The Danish cover of HBP has been released, and the German publishers have released two possible choices for a cover; readers can vote.
The GoF movie has been given a PG-13 movie in the US for "sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images". This story was originally found on the TV Guide website and later confirmed by Warner Brothers on TLC
.WB has pledged to fix the gravestone in GoF, according to TLC. They have said that they won't reshoot the scenes but will probably use computers instead.
Apple is reporting that audio technicians visited Cornell University when trying to find bird sounds for OotP.
Scholastic has added some printable HBP-themed bookmarks to their site.
Hot Topic has launched a new line of Harry Potter-themed clothes, from GoF. One has Voldemort on it and the other has the GoF teaser poster.
The Noble Collection has added some new products to their line. You can even buy Malfoy's wand!.
J.K Rowling has been nominated for a Quill Award. Consumers can vote for this award; voting will begin on August 15 here. HBP was nominated in the Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade category. Other books in that category include Dragon Rider (Cornelia Funke) and A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket).
TLC has obtained a ton of new GoF pics. They can be seen here and here.
The Mirror is reporting that Helen McCrory has been cast a Bellatrix Lestrange in OotP. Keep in mind that this is a rumor until confirmed by Warner Bros.
A new Wizard of the Month is up at J.K. Rowling.com (it's already August in the UK).
Mugglenet has a new picture of Katie Leung as Cho Chang (in costume).
J.K. Rowling has updated her site to wish Harry Potter a happy birthday. Assuming that he lives through the end of the seventh book, he turns 25 today. It is also J.K. Rowling's birthday as well.
The DVD launch of PoA has been nominated for "Best Launch Event2005" by England's Events Magazine. On October 7 the winners will be announced in London.
The person who died in HBP has been seen on a piece of toast. It is being sold on eBay. (DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED THE BOOK!!) The seller claims to have seen this person's face when the toast popped out of the toaster.
Genes Reunited has a picture of JKR's family tree.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANCES DE La TOUR!!! Frances de la Tour, who plays Madam Maxime in GoF, turns 61 today.
We might be quiet for a few days (ex: not posting much news) but we have a reason: We're creating a totally awesome layout. So if we don't update, don't panic: We'll be back soon!.
JK Rowling.com has been updated to wish Neville Longbottom a happy birthday. His birthday is really tomorrow (July 30); it's already the 30th in the UK.
Many of the cub reporters have posted their reports of the HBP release. TLC has a list of a few of them.
Forbes has released their list of the 100 Most Powerful Women and J.K. Rowling is at #40. Condoleezza Rice is #1.
IGN has new GoF clips along with an updated preview.
M & C has some new pictures from GoF.
HBP was the biggest title in Amazon.com's history, they announced today. They distributed 1.5 million copies around the world.
TLC has the dates and locations for Jim Dale's book tour, along with a report from his stop in L.A.
For HL's archived news click here
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