Tag archive: Harry Potter

Although Harry Potter may have finished his run in the theaters, and the books are long since done, the property still has life left in it, especially in the world of video games where there is still a lot of room for the series to expand and reinvent itself. Besides the fact that Harry Potter helped make J.K Rowling wealthier than the Queen of England, the property is just too rich in story to go away, and that is where Traveller's Tales… Read More

There has been buzz about another Doctor Who film in the works from the BBC. The project is fresh and currently formless, but Harry Potter veteran director David Yates says he's jumping on to develop the feature film. Yates told Variety that he's in the process of developing the anticipated film with Jane Tranter, head of BBC's LA-based Worldwide Productions, who oversaw the 2005 reboot for the Doctor Who series. There is… Read More

After the movie studios botched the initial launch of UltraViolet before the Blu-ray release of Horrible Bosses last month, the collective group of UltraViolet backers has finally enabled the ability to stream and download standard definition movies. With Universal Pictures, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. all pushing the technology, the studios… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school. 11/22/63 by Stephen King Fiction big-name Stephen King is back with a gripping novel about the day President Kennedy died — as the title would suggest. In this version, however; a man travels back in time to attempt to stop the shocking assassination that rocked… Read More

Now that the decade-spanning Harry Potter movie franchise is in the rearview mirror, Warner Bros. appears to be turning its attention to other ambitious projects — namely, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Stand. And given the success of Harry Potter, it's probably no surprise that the studio is looking to some of the masterminds behind its boy-wizard saga to bring King's post-apocalyptic saga to the big screen.… Read More

Harry Potter fans will soon be treated to a wide variety of new content provided by author J.K. Rowling through her website, Pottermore.com. The site, which is currently in invite-only beta mode, will serve as a portal to an expanded Harry Potter universe, with additional stories about The Boy Who Lived written by Rowling, as well as the digital storefront for never-before-released e-book versions of the Harry Potter series. With all that… Read More

We have been buying and printing movie tickets from Fandango for years, but how we buy they has been subtly shifting over the years. According to Fandango, 20 percent of the tickets it sold this summer were bought from a mobile device. The sales were generated from its mobile apps and newly redesigned mobile website. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 just broke records with its opening weekend, and that was due in large part to… Read More

Last month, author JK Rowling announced the launch of Pottermore.com, a website devoted to the expansive world of Harry Potter. But the most significant revelations from Rowling wasn't the website — it  was that her  Harry Potter series would, for the first time, be release in e-book format. And today, we've found out how exactly that will happen First, Rowling has decided to shun the publishing industry by self-publishing the… Read More

The weekend isn't even over yet, but estimates put Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two on track to end its opening weekend with $476 million in worldwide ticket sales in the bank. That number, which breaks down to $168.5 million in domestic sales and $307 million in foreign sales, breaks three all-time box office records, for domestic, foreign and worldwide openings. Half-Blood Prince, the sixth entry in the long-running series… Read More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 raked in an astounding $42.5 million dollars early Friday morning with all the midnight showings playing around the United States. This removes The Twilight Saga: Eclipse from the record books as it sold $30 million in ticket sales for midnight showings. It's also on track to destroy the record for single day ticket sales ($72 million) held by The Twilight Saga: New Moon as well as the… Read More

It is something of a bittersweet realization that after ten years, the Harry Potter films have come to their conclusion, and the character will never again grace the big screen — excluding Lucas-style special editions and the possibility that a rabid fan will go Misery on J.K. Rowling and force her to write an eighth Harry Potter book. Barring that, the franchise ends on a high note, albeit a slightly muted one. It has been an odd and… Read More

Author JK Rowling today revealed that Pottermore.com, the enigmatic website launched by the Harry Potter creator last Friday, will serve as a collaborative platform for Harry Potter fans to contribute their own ideas to the universe of the books. Rowling said she has also written extensive new Potter material for the website. And, to top off the sweet news, Pottermore will serve as a marketplace for newly available ebook versions of the Harry… Read More

It’s tough to know how to classify this article, since no one has any idea what it means yet. The other day a mysterious new webpage appeared on the interwebs, copyrighted by J.K. Rowling. The site, www.pottermore.com, simply features a pair of owls, the name of the site, and a “Coming Soon” notice above Rowling’s signature. Clicking on either of the owls then takes you to a YouTube page that features a countdown timer that will expire on… Read More

After nearly 15 years perched atop the collective public consciousness (not to mention the top of the best-selling book and movie box-office lists), the Harry Potter franchise comes to its conclusion next month. The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a bit light on action at times (you can check out our review here), but that is mainly because the majority of the action in the book took place in the second half. The same is… Read More

This is it, Potter fans, the end is nigh. It is a somewhat melancholy journey towards the final moments of what is arguably—maybe not even arguably—the most important franchise of the last decade. The stage is set, and the fate of Harry and his friends are sealed as the Harry Potter series comes to its long-awaited finale. If you have not read the books and are trying to avoid spoilers, you may want to skip this trailer. Beyond the obvious… Read More