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| Gym Leader Nigel | Jul 15 2005, 04:20 PM Post #31 |
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I bet <_< I suppose if they want a movie- they've got to send something to the cutting floor... It happens. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Jul 15 2005, 10:00 PM Post #32 |
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Check out the Perfect Wand Thread. Describe what your wand would be if you were a wizard in that universe. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Jul 27 2005, 12:38 PM Post #33 |
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Report: Potter VI Already Pirated Less than 24 hours after the English edition of the latest Harry Potter book went on sale in China's capital on the weekend, the full text of the 672-page volume was available for free on the Internet as an unauthorized e-book, the Beijing News reported, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Shui Mu Tsing Hua bulletin board service posted the full text of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 17, according to the Chinese language daily. Author J.K. Rowling has long warned readers against unauthorized electronic versions of her work. Using a guest login, a check of the password-protected electronic bulletin board showed the pirated e-book was no longer available under a chat thread labeled Harry Potter, which repeatedly turned up an "error" message instead, the trade paper reported. Over the weekend, Beijing bookstores sold some 5,000 legitimate hardbound copies of the book for 178 yuan ($21.51) each, according to The Hollywood Reporter. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Jul 27 2005, 12:39 PM Post #34 |
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Potter Book Sales Help Films David Heyman, producer of the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, told SCI FI Wire that this weekend's expected record sales of J.K. Rowling's sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, can only help the film, which is still in post-production. "It's exciting," Heyman said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 17, where he was promoting his upcoming CBS TV series Threshold. Heyman confessed that he's already read Half-Blood Prince, though it went on sale the day before. "The books are great," Heyman said. "Jo's done a brilliant job, and this book ... is a progression from the last. ... It's getting darker. It's getting edgier. And it's getting more mythic. ... The world, the story, ... is expanding. And I think it's really exciting." The upcoming movie, based on Rowling's fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is aiming for a Nov. 18 release. "It's going very well," Heyman said. "We had a test screening last week, and the response seemed to be very positive. Some are saying it's the best yet. Hope they're right. But, you know, ... the film's coming out in November, so we're still in the middle of post, and we are ... rushing to the finish line. A lot of visual effects to finish and some editing tweaks." Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is expected to be the fastest-selling book in history, with British retailer Waterstone's forecasting that 10 million copies would have been snapped up worldwide during the first 24 hours of its sales, the Reuters news service reported. |
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| Gym Leader Nigel | Jul 28 2005, 02:06 PM Post #35 |
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I would have expected that Harry Potter six would sell out- it was so eagerly awaited since January- anyways- the book has a lot to offer, and for me, finishing the book in a week is something close to a record! |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Jul 28 2005, 03:11 PM Post #36 |
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I think I read one of the earlier books in less than five days. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Aug 16 2005, 11:30 AM Post #37 |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, now in post-production and due to hit theaters Nov. 18, has been slapped with a PG-13 rating, a first for the blockbuster franchise, due to "sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images," TV Guide Online reported. o Ralph Fiennes talked with ComingSoon.net about his upcoming role as the evil Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which opens in November. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Aug 23 2005, 09:34 AM Post #38 |
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Extra has posted a sneak peek at the trailer for the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, The Goblet of Fire. http://extratv.warnerbros.com/ |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Aug 30 2005, 01:47 PM Post #39 |
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Eldest Upsets Harry Potter Christopher Paolini's Eldest, the second volume in the Inheritance trilogy of fantasy books, has displaced J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from the top slot on Amazon.com for the first time since the sixth Potter book debuted, the Reuters news service reported. Eldest, the tale of magically gifted farm boy, Eragon, and his dragon, Saphira, and their fight against an evil empire, went on sale Aug. 23 and promptly bumped Half-Blood Prince to second place. Paolini, a home-schooled country boy who daydreamed of sword-fights, spells and rescuing beautiful elves, wrote down his fantasies at the age of 15 and sold 2.5 million copies of his first book, Eragon, Reuters reported. "At least I'm young enough to get through the trilogy before I die," Paolini, now 21, told Reuters. He still lives with his parents in Montana, where he writes seven days a week. Paolini's parents self-published Eragon and took him on a tour of schools, where he dressed up in medieval costume to promote the book. Eragon caught the eye of publishing giant Random House, and filming has just started in Hungary on a movie of the book, with a cast that includes Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Sep 16 2005, 12:48 PM Post #40 |
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Harry Potter Playing 007? Contact Music reported a rumor that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is one of the young actors under consideration to play James Bond in his teen years. Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell is also rumored to be up for the role in a movie based on Silverfin, the first in a series of books by British comic Charlie Higston about 007 as a 13-year-old, the site reported. Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that the film's storyline would center on Bond's time in Britain's public school Eton, but movie producers are planning to raise the age of the teenage spy to secure either 16-year-old Radcliffe or Bell, 19, in the lead role, the site reported. http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.ns...20teenage%20007 |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Sep 21 2005, 09:40 AM Post #41 |
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New 'Goblet Of Fire' Trailer Gives A Taste Of PG-13 'Potter' Fourth film in blockbuster series is due in theaters November 18. by Larry Carroll Flying horses, butterfly-spouting beauties and the very incarnation of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named await fans in the new trailer for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the most revealing glimpse yet of the first PG-13 installment in the blockbuster series. Series regulars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson return a few years wiser and with more complicated issues now facing their teenage characters. This time, Harry must compete in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament, while Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes, joining the series) looks for an opening that may allow him to re-establish his evil reign. As if that weren't troublesome enough, Harry will face an even more terrifying situation in preparing for his greatest challenge yet: getting a date for Hogwarts' Yule Ball dance. In addition to Fiennes, additional new actors can be glimpsed in the trailer in roles that will no doubt be well-known to die-hard fans of the books. Stanislav Ianevski appears as Quidditch superstar (and object of Hermione's affection) Viktor Krum, while Miranda Richardson ("The Prince and Me") will be taking on the muckraking ways of reporter Rita Skeeter. Brendan Gleeson ("The Village") assumes the hideous visage of incoming Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody, whose terrifying glare will no doubt be firmly fixed upon the activities of the lightning-bolt-scarred wizard and his friends. Nineteen-year-old newcomer Robert Pattinson will play the dapper Hufflepuff seeker Cedric Diggory, while French actress Clémence Poésy becomes snooty Fleur Delacour and Katie Leung will soon be known to fans as Cho Chang, Harry's first official crush. Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral") takes the directorial reins of the series from Alfonso Cuarón, himself a replacement for the behind-the-camera presence of the first two films' Chris Columbus. "Goblet" is scheduled to bring its magic to theaters on November 18. http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/15...equestid=383949 |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Sep 21 2005, 09:41 AM Post #42 |
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The new full-length trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been linked through SCI FI Wire's Trailers page. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=8 Gary Oldman has joined the cast of the upcoming SF movie The Children of Men, reuniting with his Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón, MTV.com reported. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Sep 25 2005, 09:53 AM Post #43 |
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Cho Chang Revealed. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 1 2005, 05:44 PM Post #44 |
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Newell Saw Goblet As Thriller Mike Newell, who directed the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, told SCI FI Wire that he has envisioned the screen adaptation of the fourth book in the J.K. Rowling series as a thriller. "The first question that I asked myself was, 'Can I find a spine in this thing, which will allow me to tell the story of this book in a single film?'" Newell said in an interview. "And I found for my own satisfaction a very good way of pulling everything together, and it was that the thing is a thriller. And the thriller is that Voldemort, the creature of ultimate evil, is now feeling his power again, and he needs to reform himself. He needs to get his body back. And the only way that he can do that is to subject himself to a particular potion, which, in order to be effective, needs three drops of Harry's blood. And so this whole year is set up by Voldemort as a way of getting the boy sufficiently in his power." In order to condense the novel, which is more than 700 pages long, into a two-hour film, Newell and screenwriter Steve Kloves stripped out everything that didn't directly support the story. Newell said that the scene he most regrets losing is a brief appearance by Harry's uncaring Muggle family, the Dursleys. "I'm sorry about the Dursleys, actually," he said. "Because I think there's a kind of a convention in the movies that it's enjoyable to see the Dursleys each time. But, in fact, if you read the books, the Dursley incident is absolutely tiny and not central at all." Newell-the third director to take on the Harry Potter franchise and the first who is British-said that although the story has fantastical elements, he wanted to approach it as realistically as possible. "People ask me, 'What was it like dealing with such a fantastical story?' And it wasn't a fantastical story to me at all," he said. "It was absolutely real. OK, it's got wands and stuff like that, but you could say that this was what it was like living in Europe in the '30s. There was something really bad out there, and people were either going to do something about it, or they weren't going to do something about it. And that really bad stuff was creeping ever absolutely remorselessly forward. It was getting worse. And so there are all sorts of things that you can do, really quite recent manifestations of this, that you can point to. And you can make a very real world out of it." Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opens Nov. 18. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 1 2005, 05:45 PM Post #45 |
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Fiennes Is Real In Goblet Mike Newell, who directed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, told SCI FI Wire that he cast Ralph Fiennes as the dark lord Voldemort because of his ability to play the character as a realistic and frightening villain, rather than a simple caricature. "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." Goblet of Fire is the fourth in the Potter series of movies and is based on J.K. Rowling's book of the same name. It marks the first appearance of the present-day incarnation of You-Know-Who. Newell said that he and Fiennes talked a lot about the character's motivations for becoming the ultimate force of evil. "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." Although much of the character's history is revealed in the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was just released in July, Newell said that he hasn't had time to read it, because he's been working on the film. "It's another huge, wacky novel, and, simply, I've been busy," he said. "I obviously read the fifth one, because that has relevance. But, no, I didn't do that. 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. Perhaps it's a link in a chain. There are going to be seven of these. Each is a school year, and therefore you can't be irresponsible, but that was simply never even discussed. It was simply assumed that this was a one-off film, for which I was very grateful." Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opens Nov. 18. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 8 2005, 01:50 PM Post #46 |
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Canadian Group Sues Radiohead, Warner Bros. Over Use Of Name In 'Harry Potter' Flick Long-running folk group claims trademark infringement. by James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Jem Aswad It's the kind of lawsuit that could only be cooked up in the bubbling cauldrons of Hogwarts: a legal spat that somehow manages to involve a Canadian folk group, members of Radiohead and Pulp, and the Warner Bros. multimedia conglomerate. It all started last week, when the Wyrd Sisters, a folk ensemble from Winnipeg, Manitoba, filed a $40 millon suit in the U.S. and Canada against Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, claiming the release of the Warner-distributed film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which reportedly features a performance by a fictional band named the Wyrd Sisters, would harm their career. Even though the band's name is the Weird Sisters (not "Wyrd") in the book upon which the film is based, and even though Warner has removed the band's name from the film, the Wyrd Sisters stand by their claim. "The issue is who used [the name] first. My clients have trademarked the name the Wyrd Sisters, and Warner recognized that, so they're taking the name out of the movie. We're just saying that's not enough," the band's lawyer, Kimberly Townley-Smith, said. "The concern is that people in the general public will be exposed to the Harry Potter phenomenon, and when they see my clients' advertising and merchandise, they will think we're Harry Potter. That's happened in the past, and it can cause difficulty for the band, even though we were first, because people come to our concerts and they're mad because they're not seeing witches - they're seeing a band that is much different." |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 8 2005, 01:51 PM Post #47 |
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Also named in the suit are Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway, who play the Sisters in the film (Franz Ferdinand were originally tapped for the role but opted out: . Townley-Smith said that naming the musicians in the suit was simply done for legal reasons, mainly to prevent members of either band from ever performing as the Wyrd Sisters. But this didn't stop angry fans from bombarding the Canadian Sisters' messageboards, accusing the band of simply trying to cash in on Pulp's or Radiohead's fame. "The primary thrust in the litigation is Warner Bros. Entertainment Group. We're not interested in Radiohead's money; we just don't want them to go around performing as the Wyrd Sisters," Townley-Smith said. "They're also mentioned because they are the performers in the film, which makes them personally liable. They're not the focus, but we understand that Radiohead fans are very upset, and that was unintentional." In J.K. Rowling's book of "Goblet of Fire," a band named the Weird Sisters plays at a party attended by Potter and his friends. Townley-Smith is quick to point out that her clients did not initiate the legal wrangling, but rather that Warner had initially approached them with an offer of $5,000 to use the band's name in the film. After the Wyrd Sisters declined, Warner made a second offer - which some reports put in the range of $50,000, a figure Townley-Smith would not confirm or deny - which the band also turned down. At press time, lawyers for Warner Bros. could not be reached for comment about the lawsuit or the "Goblet of Fire" film, though Townley-Smith said she is in talks with them and hopes a resolution can be reached. If not, she plans on filing a motion in Canadian court to block the film's distribution. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 8 2005, 01:52 PM Post #48 |
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Townley-Smith's statement of claim alleges the film depicts a Wyrd (with the spelling changed from the book to include a "y") Sisters band in an "involved, spectacular and memorable" performance which, because of the mass appeal of the film, will usurp the Canadian band's identity. The Canadian Sisters are likely to have taken their spelling from Terry Pratchett's 1988 book, "Wyrd Sisters," which spoofs, among other things, Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, who predict the destinies of the main characters in "MacBeth." "This sounds rather silly but it's really not: The issue is one of trademark," Townley-Smith said. "And it doesn't matter if the names are spelled correctly or not; it sounds exactly the same. The issue is confusion. People often misspell one for the other. And if you look up 'Harry Potter Wyrd Sisters' on the Internet, you get references to the Cocker/Selway/ Greenwood band. And bands travel by word of mouth, and by a trademark perspective, it makes confusion. It's the sum of all the factors. The spelling isn't significant." |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 13 2005, 12:17 PM Post #49 |
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Harry Potter Fans Create Makeshift College By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 10, 2:55 PM ET SALEM, Mass. - Hundreds of Harry Potter fanatics have turned this historic seaport, best known for its witches and their trials, into a makeshift college campus fit for a young wizard. In hotel ballrooms, professors from real-world universities led panel discussions with titles such as "Bucolic Bullionism: Economics in the Wizarding World," "Christianity and Harry Potter" and "Introduction to Spell Writing." While on the city's common, students braved rain showers over the weekend for a muddy game of Quidditch - minus the floating broomsticks. And fans dressed as Lord Voldemort, Draco Malfoy and, of course, Harry Potter drew stares from tourists as they wandered through the streets of Salem's historic district. The "Witching Hour," a serious-minded symposium on all things Potter that opened last Thursday and was to end on Monday, suggests that adults may get as much from J.K. Rowling's series of novels as the children who line up at midnight whenever a new book hits stores. The Potter books chronicle the life of Potter and his cohorts as they attend Hogwarts, a magical boarding school. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the most recent volume, had sold 11 million copies in the United States as of September. Potter books have now been translated into 63 languages, most recently Farsi. Worldwide sales top $300 million. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 13 2005, 12:18 PM Post #50 |
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The event is not sanctioned by Rowling or Warner Bros., which holds the movie rights. But its organizers, a Texas-based Harry Potter fan group called HP Education Fanon, Inc., brought the Witching Hour to Salem because the city is the only American location mentioned in any of the books. That comes in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the fourth book in Rowling's seven-book series, when Harry meets members of the Salem Witches' Institute at the Quidditch World Cup. "Salem is considered almost like a sacred place for fans of the books and the movies," said Carol Thistle, executive director of the city's tourism office. Among those attending was actor Chris Rankin, who plays Percy Weasley in the three Potter films. "I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie," Rankin said. One of the event's most popular was a speech by Henry Jenkins, a professor of literature and comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jenkins, who writes about Harry Potter fans in a forthcoming book, "Converge Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide," said Rowlings' novels could become fodder for serious academic study. Nathaniel Hawthorne's books were "potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establishment," Jenkins said of the 19th-century author, a native of Salem. "No one knows if the Harry Potter books will be part of the literary curriculum 100 years from now, but it's quite possible." Several professors participated in a panel discussion of the "perils and potential" of using Harry Potter books in college courses. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Oct 13 2005, 12:19 PM Post #51 |
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George Plitnik, a physics professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland, uses Harry Potter mythology as a hook for the real science he teaches in class called "Cosmic Concepts." Mind-reading wizards who float on broomsticks and teleport their bodies help Plitnik illustrate the principles behind antigravity research, quantum physics and genetic engineering. "It's not a pop culture class," he said. "You don't just sit around and talk about Harry Potter. You don't even have to read the books to take the class. ... When students find out they have to actually do work, about 20 drop it on the first day." The fans at Witching Hour may be serious about Harry Potter, but they haven't lost their sense of humor. Michelle d'Entremont, a 25-year-old Army reservist from Rochester, N.H., traded in her military uniform for a Harry Potter costume. "The wonderful thing about Harry Potter fans is that we do indeed know the difference between fantasy and reality. We just choose to occasionally ignore it," she said. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:04 AM Post #52 |
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Fast Times At Hogwarts High? Hormones Rage In 'Goblet Of Fire' Series' latest installment shows there's no magic spell to stop adolescence. by Jennifer Vineyard Harry Potter and his best friend, Ron Weasley, have encountered many magical creatures during their years at Hogwarts, from three-headed dogs to giant spiders to Dementors, but in "The Goblet of Fire" they face the scariest thing yet: girls. "It has a very strange effect on everyone, hormones, and all the trouble they cause," said Daniel Radcliffe, who portrays Harry in the film series. "I think that's what people have been waiting for, for us to portray it in the films." (Click here for exclusive photos from the movie.) "It's all brought about by the Yule Ball, and everyone needing to have a partner," said Emma Watson, who plays Hermione. "And also being older and being of that age where you do start to get interested." Yes, hormones are raging at Hogwarts High, and nobody's more flustered about it than Harry himself, who starts getting all goofy around fellow student Cho Chang (played by Katie Leung). "You know, that was really awful for me," Radcliffe joked. "Um, no, that was great. I don't know if Katie's going, 'I hated doing the hugging scenes with Dan,' but for me it was great fun." "There was one scene I did with Dan on the train, and it was the first time we saw each other," Leung said. "And [director Mike Newell] wanted Dan to look at me that certain way, like it's love at first sight." Too bad for both the timing's off - Harry's too late asking Cho to the dance, since she's already accepted an invitation from another suitor. Readers of the books know that the Harry/Cho ship will sail in the next installment, "The Order of the Phoenix," when she'll give him his first kiss. Until then, he's fated to drool, stumble and stutter at the sight of her. "There is a parallel in that both Harry and me are not very good with women," Radcliffe said. "I think I've gotten better now, but any man who says he's never had an awkward moment with a girl is either a liar or delusional, because he's been thinking he's going along really well, and the girl's thinking, 'Who is this man and why is he still talking to me?' " |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:06 AM Post #53 |
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"I'm pretty much the same as Dan, really," said Rupert Grint, who plays Ron. "I'm probably similar to Ron. He's not very lucky and he has some bad experiences." "You're the worst date in the world!" Radcliffe said to him. "But that's what I like about Harry and Ron, is that they are the worst dates in the world. And the poor girls who have the great misfortune of going out with us, you feel so sorry for them, because this night should be the greatest night for these girls. And it's horrible. You've got sort of ballroom casualties outside, weeping because the night has gone so horribly."Watch Harry as he comes to grips with puberty and dragons, on Overdrive. "Hermione included," Watson said. "That's the thing I loved doing, because I can relate, in so many ways, to her situation and what's happening to her, how boys, how insensitive they can be, how awkward it can be. It's always that boy who's mean to you and teases you who's actually the guy who has the huge crush on you." In this case it's Ron, who discovers a new side of his old pal Hermione as she makes the transformation from plain little girl to pretty young woman. Like Harry, he stumbles when he attempts to ask her out to the dance, saying instead, "It's one thing for a bloke to go alone. For a girl, it's just sad." Not exactly an invite girls dream of, but even if he had made his intentions less insulting, he's also, like Harry again, too late. Hermione tells him angrily, "Someone's already asked me, and I said yes!" Her date to the Yule Ball turns out to be none other than famous Quidditch player Viktor Krum, "their world's David Beckham," explained Stanislav Ianevski, who plays Viktor. "Hermione's never really had any attention from any guy before," Watson said, "so when she sees Viktor looking at her, it's one of those 'Is he looking at me?' She is quite literally swept off her feet." The problem is that not only is Viktor Ron's favorite player, but he's also Harry's rival in an interschool competition, the Triwizard Tournament, around which the movie's plot revolves. This prompts all sorts of new emotions for Ron, particularly jealousy, and helps him realize how strong his feelings for Hermione are, even if he can't quite express it (yet). "It's always been suggested throughout all the films that there's something between them," Grint said. "Just think, they're so different, but they're so cute together," Watson said. "They're so wrong and they're so right, they just need to get on with it. It's got to happen, it's got to happen." http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/15...equestid=137099 |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:07 AM Post #54 |
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Goblet Of Fire Stills: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/galler...px?gallery=8928 Director Mike Newell, producer David Heyman and the cast of Harry Potter cast a spell over Goblet of Fire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Thomasina Gibson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's immensely popular novel series sees trainee wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) battle with dragons and demented Dark Lords and, most daring of all-attempt to date the girl of his dreams. Best friend Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) has to contend with jealousy, betrayal and a near-terminal dose of teenage attitude, while Hermione Grainger (Emma Watson) transforms from a bookish goody two-shoes to a beautiful young woman. That all three emerge older, wiser and definitely triumphant is down to the magic of director Mike Newell and producer David Heyman. Newell is the first British director to put his stamp on the Harry Potter franchise. Best known in the U.K. for delights such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Newell has also worked with some of North America's finest, including Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Kate Hudson and Ben Affleck. Producer David Heyman spent many years in the U.S. as a "creative" with Warner Brothers before returning to the U.K. to set up Heyday Films with the intention of forging a unique relationship between Europe and the U.S. to produce great international movies. Science Fiction Weekly caught up with this group of talented people in London a few days before the movie's world premiere in Leicester Square. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Newell, you're the newcomer to the Harry Potter world. What was it like to join such a successful franchise? Newell: It's very daunting, to start with. The book is as big as a house brick, and I was very unsure quite how one would attack it. But, of course, you come after these wonderful guys ... you come after Chris Columbus and you come after Alfonzo Cuaron, and you are guided through this minefield by David Heyman, and little by little you lose your terror of it. But after a bit, the thing itself overwhelms you, and what you do is try and get from day to day. At the end of it all, looking back, I'm terribly proud of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:07 AM Post #55 |
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There's a story that you were angry about the lack of cash. What are your feelings on that? Newell: I'm sorry, but that is a vast piece of quoting out of context. Let me tell you what I actually said. What I said was that when I began, the sheer scale of the film is daunting, and then after a little bit, like every film that I've ever made, big or small-and I'm sure this applies to all other directors-you feel that there isn't quite enough money to put the absolute little topspin on it. Of course, you start to feel aggrieved that there is not enough money, and it answers the question "How long did you stay frightened?" And the answer to the question is not very long. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What was the final figure? Newell: I can't tell you that, and I'm not going to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ballpark figure? Newell: Nope. Sorry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clearly there are lots cut from the book, but it doesn't feel as if there are bits missing from the film. How do you find that balance? Newell: David was very clear to me when we first started to talk about me making the film, that if I could see a way of making one film then we could continue to talk. If not, we should part friends. There was a time when people were thinking about making two films. But I read the book very carefully and I felt two things. I felt there was a way of making one film, which means that there was a way of shedding the things that needed to be shed, because the book is too big to make as a single film. And that it was a thriller. It was that, in fact, Voldemort [Ralph Fiennes] was really in charge of events right from the very beginning, and only little by little did Harry catch up with what was happening to him, until it was too late. There he was facing the devil in a graveyard. As soon as I could see that, I felt that I could stay true to the book and at the same time keep the length down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There's a line at the end of the movie when Hermione says, "Everything's going to change." What's been the biggest dramatic difference in this one? Newell: For me, it's that I think in the previous films, the age of the people is crucial. What's been happening is that the scale of the challenge to the leading character has been limited. He's had a basilisk to deal with. He's had this problem, that problem, but he's never actually been challenged in his self. He's never had to put up or shut up. He's always had the group to rely on. Now, in this one, he's older, he's more conscious, so he knows much more what's happening to him. And he knows when Voldemort says in that graveyard, "Come out here! What do you want? To take it in the back or take it in the front, but you're gonna get it whatever way." That this is it! But what Harry says is, "All right, I'll show you." And he comes out and he's ready for a fight, and he knows that it's a fight to the death, and he has the moral courage to do it. Of course, there are lots and lots of differences. There are lots of wonderful new things about this, like the jokes and growing up and girls, and "Oh God, how do we dance?", and all of those things. But the big difference is the challenge is kind of a moral one, and he may not survive it. Heyman: When we went to Jo Rowling the first time, this was a very important thing for her. A theme that will be continued, which is to stand up and be counted. Even if you might not win, you have to stand up for what you believe in. The other thing is the kids, frankly, are growing as actors, and Mike is benefiting from them having had two films with Chris and one film with Alfonso. At the same time I think the real reason, and one of the many reasons that we brought Mike in, is that he is one of the great directors of actors, and the kids are challenged. He didn't let them rest one minute on what felt comfortable. He pushed and pushed and pushed, and the performances show it. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:08 AM Post #56 |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ This film is much darker than previous ones, and certainly there are some scenes that made us jump out of our seats. Are you happy the movie has been given a PG-13 in the U.S.? Heyman: Very much so, and I am very happy with the 12A in the U.K. One, I think that it'll be good for the slightly older audience, and two, I think that we had to be ... we chose to be faithful to the material. The books do not talk down to an audience, the audience reaches for the books, and I think the films do the same; they don't patronize our audience. We make films very much in the spirit-it's not literally faithful, it is truly faithful to the spirit of what Jo has written, and that's really exciting. Newell: One of the challenges was that, of course, everything goes back to the book, always. That's where the audience begins as well. And so as the audience, which began with the first book, progresses through 2 and 3 they get to 4, and they see that it's a different kind of animal. It's a much tougher beast than the others, and if you don't get a PG-13, in a way, then that audience that began with number 1 and is now 14, 15, 16 or 64, whatever, will kind of want to know why you are still infantilizing the situation. Of course, what David says is that these are not children's books. These are kind of adult stories, with a very strong moral aim and view, so with PG-13 they [the audience] can believe. Without it I am not sure they can. Watson: I think to some extent our audience who were fans of Harry Potter are growing up with the films. Yes, to some extent we might have lost some of the much younger audience because, well, I'm in it and I got scared. But at the same time I think that we've all gained by it. This one is more of a thriller, which I really like, and it's always been about staying faithful to the book. It's always been about staying faithful to the book, and you can't avoid the fact that someone dies in it at the end of the day. There are some very serious and deep topics in it. You can't avoid it, and I love the fact that they haven't pulled the punches and have gone with it and have made something which is true to the book and have made a really, really good film. It was the way to go. Heyman: The ratings don't exclude under 13s, it just means that they have to be accompanied by an adult. We did a couple of test screenings, and at test screenings you have people fill out cards and give their views. A lot of them said their favorite character was Voldemort, and sometimes he was the character they liked least. We did two groups of 30, and the people who were more concerned about it being scary were the adults rather than the kids themselves. We had a couple of parents out of the 60 who did speak up, and the kids who were with them were shocked and really upset by it. They said, "Mum! That's embarrassing." I think kids are more up for this than the parents. It's not that it's not scary. It is. Watson: ... And I was talking about a much, much younger audience. I mean, really young kids, like 5-year-olds. Heyman: Emma is right, I think for 5 years or 6 years old. Or 4- or 5-year-olds I would think twice. It's difficult, because it really depends on where you live and how you've been brought up, what you're exposed to. You might find some 4-year-olds who've grown up with LOTR and Exorcist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Much has been made of the very British sensibilities Mike has brought to the movie. What are your thoughts on that? Heyman: Mike brings an innate sense of understanding of British school life. The school is more anarchic than I feel it's been in any of the other films. It's a little madder and a little looser. Yes, you have the authority of the teachers, but you also have the kids rebelling as kids do; kids standing up for themselves; kids complaining to teachers, and I think Mike brings a real sense of that. I think it's very true to a lot of schools, definitely the school that I went to, and I think it's true to school life in general, but it's most certainly true to British schools. I also think that, in a way, the nature of the performances ... it's an incredible thing I don't know quite how to describe ... but I really feel that the performances in this are more British than they have ever been. I feel that there is a complexity and, you know, at times a Bollywood theatrical largeness, in a really positive way, to the performances. By the way, I think Dan [Radcliffe] is incredibly subtle and nuanced, and I think there is a boldness about all the performances which I think is very, very British, and I'm very happy for that. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:09 AM Post #57 |
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Newell: There was maybe a problem in that these guys [the kids] would think of me as a teacher or an authority figure, and I didn't much like the thought of that. I felt that they had grown up to the point where they've got a lot to give, and one of the wonderful things about them is that they all want to be better. All of them. Which is terrific. But if they take you as an authority figure they're obedient but they aren't giving properly, and so there was this day in which I found myself having a fight with one of the Weasley twins [Oliver and Jamie Phelps] in order that I would lose my dignity. I didn't think they would think of me as any sort of authority figure if I was a fat, middle-aged man rolling in the dust with a 17-year-old boy. Radcliffe: And he fractured ... He broke a rib. Newell: Oh, and I did break a rib. Heyman: So he really was middle-aged. Watson: One of the great things about Mike is he really treated us like adults and gave us the responsibility, and sometimes that was difficult, because sometimes I would say to him, "Just tell me how to do. Please tell me what to do. I can't get this right. Tell me how to do it." And he would say, "I can't tell you how to do it, and I won't tell you what to do. This has got to come from you." I think he directed us but didn't tell us what to do, and I've learned a lot. Grint: Compared to when I did the first one, it was a whole new sort of experience. I'd never sort of done anything like it before, and it was all sort of scary. But I think we've all learned a lot since then, and it's quite strange having a new director each time, 'cause you don't really know what to expect. But Mike was great. He was a really good laugh, and we had a great time. Radcliffe: We've grown up enough to feel confident enough to make our own acting decisions. But we do it in collaboration with Mike. We don't just go out and do whatever we want when we want to do it. That's what Mike is great at, is directing that energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Given that your characters are so well known all over the world, how much impact does it have on your life away from Harry Potter? Radcliffe: First, with regard to the power thing-I think Emma is right in terms of we don't think of it as power, although I do insist on a huge chariot to take me to work every morning, and a throne to carry me around in (laughs). Emma answered the first question beautifully, so I'll go on to answer the question about us not living a normal life. Some people find it quite hard to believe that we can live normal lives, and I can sort of see why people refuse to believe that we are telling the truth and think we are just liars, but we are actually able to just go out. It's often sensible to wear a hat. Not one that draws attention, so not a cowboy hat or something. Just a baseball cap or something pulled down. But, other than that, we still go out to the cinema. I mean, it actually hasn't changed. For me I only feel famous for about two days a year which are the Premieres. Other than that, it doesn't intrude into our lives so much. Having said that, there is a possibility that may change when we're 18, because maybe the paparazzi and photographers have been going quite easy on us, and that might change. But I hope it continues. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:10 AM Post #58 |
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Heyman: Just in general, we try to maintain a pretty normal atmosphere at Leavesden [Studios]. There are a lot of the same faces around, and the kids are a lot more confident than when we began, but they are still the same people. They are still open and generous individuals. Power? I think the power that they have, as Emma said, is about responsibility more than anything. Watson: And it's not something that is just put on our shoulders; it is something we want to take on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now that the Goblet of Fire is completed and receiving rave reviews, what can you tell us about the fifth film? Radcliffe: Nothing-other than we're all signed up for it and really excited, looking forward to it. Heyman: I can tell you that Michael Goldenberg is writing the fifth-The Order of the Phoenix. He's a great writer and doing a fantastic job. We start filming in February. We asked Mike if he'd like to direct and he said no. These films are a real endurance test, and I don't know how Chris Columbus had the stamina to do two back to back. At the end of each film, we ask the director if they would like to do the next one. We asked Chris Columbus if he would like to do the third and he said no, and we asked Alfonso if he would like to do the fourth and he said no. We asked Mike if he would like to do the fifth and he said no. We've hired a chap called David Yates who is a brilliant director. He's won lots of BAFTAs for his British television work. He's done something called "State of Play" and it's fantastic. We've been really lucky; each director is the right director for the films they've done. In terms of casting, we are searching everywhere for the right Luna Lovegood. We're down to the final four or five girls for that. Imelda Staunton you've heard about for the role of Umbridge, and we already have in mind a Tonks and a Shacklebolt, but I am reluctant to mention them as we haven't made their deal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And the rumours about Liz Hurley? Heyman: You press really invent a lot. That is not true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:11 AM Post #59 |
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Just before we leave we'd like to ask the "trio" what their favorite memories of this year have been? Radcliffe: My favorite memory is not to do with the film. My favorite memory is that I went to the Reading Festival this year for the first time. It's a music festival, and it was amazing. It was one of the best three days of my life, and it was one of those times when you were exhausted, because it's three days without proper sleep, but it doesn't matter because it's just so cool to be there. So that is my best memory of 2005. Watson: Probably switching on the lights in Oxford Street is my most magical amazing moment. I will remember that for the rest of my life, probably. Grint: I find it quite hard to remember the last year, really. Recently I saw the film for the first time, and that was definitely a good feeling. So that's about it, really. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue448/interview.html The soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, with a score by Patrick Doyle, was released a week early exclusively on the iTunes Web site; the CD hit stores on Nov. 15. 'Goblet Of Fire' Tops Johnny Cash - And Harry's Previous Adventures Fourth Potter installment comes in at #1, earning $101.4 million its opening weekend. by Alyssa Rashbaum With a bit of wizardry, and the added promise of more violence and increasingly impressive special effects, the fourth installment in the "Harry Potter" series took the #1 spot at the box office this weekend, helping to reverse the long-running box-office slump. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" bowed in the top spot on the box-office top 10 with more than $101.4 million, according to early estimates. That total not only puts "Goblet" ahead of the three previous "Potter" films, it's also the fourth-best three-day opening weekend ever, just behind "Spider-Man," "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and "Shrek 2." Our hero battles in the Triwizard contest in the fourth film, the first in the series to show the evil Voldemort in human flesh and the first to earn a PG-13 rating . "Walk the Line" was the only other new release to break into the box-office top 10 this week, debuting at #2 with $22.4 million, according to early estimates. The film, which follows the early days of Johnny Cash's legendary music career, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (see "Johnny Cash Was 'Thrilled' Joaquin Phoenix Would Play Him, 'Line' Director Says"). Both actors did their own singing for the film. |
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| Purple Ranger 14 | Dec 5 2005, 11:12 AM Post #60 |
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If the animated star of "Chicken Little" knew that the sky was falling, he probably could have guessed that his film would be knocked out of the top spot on the box-office top 10 by two new releases this weekend (see "Zach Braff Calls 'Chicken Little' 'Garden State' On A Farm"). The #1 flick for two consecutive weeks, "Chicken Little" dropped to #3 this week, earning more than $14.7 million. "Derailed," which stars Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, fell from #3 to #4 with more than $6.5 million. In the thriller, Owen and Aniston star as two strangers who start a secret affair after a chance meeting on a subway and are targeted by a criminal who threatens blackmail. Family-friendly "Jumanji"-esque sci-fi flick "Zathura" fell from #2 to #5 with $5.1 million. In the movie, two young brothers discover a board game in which each move has a real-life consequence - including meteor showers (see "How Do You Sell A Movie These Days? Online Satanic Newscasts"). Dropping just one notch this week, from #5 to #6, is "Jarhead," which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a Marine fighting in the Gulf War . Rounding out this week's box-office top 10 are "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," which fell from #4 to #7 with more than $4.3 million; "Saw II," which dropped from #6 to #8 with $3.9 million; "The Legend of Zorro," which slipped from #7 to #9 with $2.3 million and "Pride and Prejudice," which held the #10 spot for the second week in a row with more than $2.1 million. Overall, ticket sales were up from the corresponding weekend last year. Next week, look for "Rent," "In the Mix," "Yours, Mine and Ours," "Just Friends" and "The Ice Harvest" to debut on the box-office top 10. "Syriana" opens in limited release. http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/15...equestid=414692 Harry Potter, You Got Served! How Other Directors Would Handle The 'Potter' Flicks Directors of 'Walk the Line,' 'Napoleon Dynamite,' 'You Got Served' weigh in. by Jennifer Vineyard There's a joke at Hogwarts that the most highly coveted teaching position must be jinxed, because there's a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher every year. And for practically every "Harry Potter" film, there's a new director as well ("We don't kill them, though," says Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry. "That's an important thing to realize"). From Chris Columbus to Alfonso Cuarón to Mike Newell, each "Potter" film has a distinctive stamp - the Columbus pair have a wonderful Neverland quality to them, Cuarón's is more raw and natural, while Newell's has the rush of a thriller. Newell says it doesn't hurt but helps the "Potter" flicks to pass the wand around, otherwise "you would get cookie-cutter films." That begs the question - what could the next three films in the series look like if, say, someone like David Cronenberg or Quentin Tarantino were heading them up? (And might we suggest, Quentin, that "Half-Blood Prince" might be more up your Diagon alley?). So we asked a few directors to dream up what their magic touch would be. Here's what they said ... |
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