Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2011

'Harry Potter' looks to shatter box office record.



The final "Harry Potter" film is poised to shatter more box-office records when it opens this weekend."Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" will almost certainly break the record for biggest worldwide opener ever,the $236 million benchmark set by "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" two years ago.As it stands, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is on pace to pull in north of $150 million domestically, based on studio tracking. Adding extra gravy to Warner Bros. box-office feast, many of those ticket prices will come at a premium, as "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" will hit 3,000 3-D screens.Internationally, Potter will premiere on 19,500 screens in 59 foreign territories such as Russia, Australia and Italy this weekend. It already earned $43.6 million in foreign territories on Wednesday.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

J.k. Rowling: 'Never Say Never' To More 'Potter'



 J.K. Rowling has said that the story of Harry Potter ends with the seventh book. she’s reserving the right to change her mind and extend the story.The 45-year-old author Said , “It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.”She also said that the final “Harry Potter” premiere was a bittersweet moment for the author.“You know honestly, if someone told me this is coming, I might’ve said, I can’t do that. I’ve really come out of my shell,” she said. “I was not someone who was a natural public speaker and and I was not very comfortable with this sort of thing. It’s just as well that I got introduced to it by degrees.”