A new batch of 2020 Harry Potter LEGO sets expand Hogwarts School of Witchcraftand Wizardry with the Astronomy Tower, the Room of Requirement, and more.
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A new Harry Potter vinyl soundtrack set will bring the soundtracks for the first five films to the old school format for the first time ever.
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CinemaSins lampoons the Harry Potter film adaptations with Everything Wrong With Harry Potter Movies video series. Watch the first five videos now.
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The Harry Potter Hogwarts Collection is a 31-Disc Blu-ray featuring all eight Harry Potter films and a slew of special features.
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As much time and money and effort as Hollywood pours into big-budget franchises, only a handful manage to make a real lasting impression on moviegoers. But the best of them live on long after the last installment has hit theaters, and one that falls into that category is Warner Bros.' Harry Potter series. From 2001…
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The moment I walked out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last summer, I remember thinking "I can't wait to own the entire series in one Blu-ray box set." Warner Bros. quickly obliged with a disappointing barebones release for the 2011 holiday season and then vowed to take the movies off shelves.…
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Fake Criterion covers have become a pretty popular form of fan art as of late. Design-inclined cinephiles have fake-Criterioned everything from Orson Welles' Macbeth to a French version of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle to Kickpuncher (which is itself a fake movie), and it's no wonder why. Criterion DVDs often get the kind of…
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Tickets for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 have been on sale for a few days but true fans were waiting for this moment. AMC has announced that not only will they host back to back screenings of Part 1 and Part 2 on opening night, select theaters will host a four night…
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Though a good number of fans have already purchased their tickets to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 at midnight on November 19, most of us have not. Two weeks away still feels a little too early to make plans. Well, AMC has upped the ante with an event that's sure to…
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One of the questions all of our great storytellers now have to answer on a daily basis is, "Where is it all going?" Think of the writers of Lost. All anyone ever wanted to know from them was if they actually had everything planned out. Another person who has had to answer that question is…
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[This is part three of a four-part series. You can also read part one, part two, and part four. This article contains spoilers for the films discussed, but NOT for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] Next up: Director Mike Newell's take on the Potter franchise. Newell cut his teeth directing TV but went onto…
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What is your favorite Harry Potter film? Which of the movies in the series do you think is the best reviewed? Highest rated by the mainstream public? Largest grossing. I can tell you that my favorite is Alfanso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and it seems like I'm not alone. Azkaban is…
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The HD-DVD release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix offers a revolutionary new DVD feature called "Live Community Screening": Gather your own army of fellow wizards for a live community screening party. Invite other owners of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix HD DVD to simultaneously watch from their…
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Last year we wrote an article on how we wished that movie studios didn't force us buy a movie in 5 different formats. I have a library of thousands of DVDs, which I now must re-buy in HD-DVD or Blu-ray, in addition to spending hours encoding them for my iPod video or iPhone or plunking…
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 HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (Warner Bros) continued its strong run at the box office on Friday grabbing an estimated $26.5M, bringing its 3-day cume to just shy of $90M. That should put HP5 right at $80M for the traditional Fri thru Sun 3-day weekend, and it will give ORDER OF…
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 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the new all-time Wednesday box office champion, topping Spider-Man 2's $40.4M. The opening day estimate, however, sailed past my target range of $39M-$42M. HP5 is in the stratosphere with a breathtaking estimated $44.3M to start its domestic run. Harry's record-breaking day started off Tuesday night/Wednesday…
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is tracking to take $128 million in the first five days of release. Looking at the 5 major 2007 summer sequels I've calculated a formula to redict the success of the latest Potter. Using Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, Pirates 3, Ocean's Thirteen and Fantastic Four 2, there's…
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The Harry Potter series has grown on me. I remember attending the first movie wondering what the big deal was. I half dismissed it, but was there opening night for the sequel. I've since read all the books (or rather, listened to them on audiobook/ipod, which I highly recommend), I own all the DVDs, and…
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 In a summer full of big blockbuster movies, adaptations, sequels and threequels, you would think that Hollywood would have made some record scratch. Not so! According to the AP, attendance is running behind last summer's and has even fallen below that of the summer of 2005. According to Media By Numbers, 279 million tickets had…
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A 13 minute video of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix aired on HBO last night and is now available on GoogleVideo. The preview contains a bunch of new footage inter-cut with the usual cast and crew interviews. Check it out after the jump. Although, I must warn you, they reveal a lot…
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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is being paid $50 million for the final two films Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows.
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The London Times has published the first review of Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix. Leo Lewis calls the film: "a solid, occasionally spectacular set-piece that struggles unsuccessfully to give us thrills and fun we have not already had in previous installments." That doesn't sound very positive, does it? This is too bad,…
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 At the London press conference for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, one of the big topics of conversation was which character was cut, than added back into the film's screenplau under JK Rowling's advisement. "Jo reads each draft," David Heyman said, "she reads each screenplay, and she said, 'You know, I…
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Warner Bros has released a final batch of new Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix production photos. Below we have put together a collection of all the Phoenix photos, 75 in all, that have been released thus far. Some are old, some are brand spanking new, and some are even behind the scenes…
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AICN and many other sites around the web are reporting that a teaser trailer for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, will premiere before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Unfortunately we have received word from a VERY GOOD SOURCE that this is completely 100% untrue. So mark this rumor as killed.…
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Earlier today we reported that The Weinstein Co/Lionsgate had decided to release Michael Moore's Sicko up against Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille and Live Free or Die Hard. A bad release date if there ever was one. Now The Weinstein's Dimension Films is finally making a smart move. They have moved the John Cusack Stephen King adaptation 1408…
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Yesterday we posted a couple of these, but now Warner Bros has sent us the full line of the six new Character posters for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Check them all out after the jump. Be warned: We don't have high resolution versions.
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