With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. Read more
| Starring | Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham-Carter |
|---|---|
| Director | David Yates |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Children, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
loading...
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince has smashed U.S. box office records by raking in £14.8 million in less than 24 hours on Wednesday (15Jul09) to score the best midnight opening gross of all time. The sixth movie in the boy wizard franchise easily topped The Dark Knight's midnight opening earnings of £12 million when it was released last summer (08), and the £11.3 million grossed by Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith in 2005. The latest installment, which stars... Read more
Bellatrix Lestrange. Narcissa Malfoy. Romilda Vane. Jo Rowling certainly has a knack for names (including her own pseudonym – the “K” is pure affectation). Persecuted by such alarmingly exotic creatures, it’s no wonder the scrupulously mundane Harry Potter keeps his nose in his books and leaves the lovey-dovey stuff to his best friend Ron. Weasley even swipes the chocolates drenched with a love drug meant for Harry. One book, in particular, commands Potter’s... Read more
A new trailer for the forthcoming Harry Potter film has been released on the internet, giving audiences an idea of what to expect from the fifth instalment of the series. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which has a scheduled release date of July 13th, features Daniel Radcliffe returning to the role of the boy wizard, accompanied by his best friends Hermione and Ron. The film, similarly to the book, follows the appointment of a new teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Read more
The final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split into two films to be released six months apart, according to reports in Hollywood. Tinseltown bible Variety says the movies - installments seven and eight in the boy wizard's saga - will be filmed concurrently before part one hits screens in November 2010. It is Warner Bros' solution to making their adaptation of J K Rowling's final Potter book - which clocks in at 745 pages - more manageable for cinema audiences.... Read more
Daniel Radcliffe, the boy known best for his performances as Harry Potter on the silver screen, is to appear in his first film unrelated to the JK Rowling novel adaptations. The 15 year-old will star in a film called December Boys, a story of four young orphans who vie for the attention of a couple who are seeking to adopt in 1960s Australia. December Boys will be directed by Australian Rod Hardy, an experienced TV director whose only dabble in the film world resulted in the unsuccessful... Read more