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Book Review editors introduce Christopher Hitchens review of J K Rowling book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Book Review editors introduce Christopher Hitchens review of J K Rowling book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By bill(noreply@blogger.com) Stephenson sees a parallel to the George W. Bush-era wars between science and religion, made possible because the general population is either indifferent or hostile to extended rational thought. "I could never get that idea, the notion that society in general is becoming aliterate, ou...

Electronic Arts posted a press announcement that James and Oliver Phelps, known as “Fred and George Weasley” in the Harry Potter films, made it to the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. They helped to promote the new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame produced by Electr...

By DiveTwin Share This Ringer Deej found this article on EW.Com: It’s now official: The Lord of the Rings screenwriting team of Peter Jackson (pictured), Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens will join The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro to pen the screenplay for the two planned Hobbit movies. Sources t...

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By EmmaRiddle Quote: “We thrilled to celebrate the first decade of Harry Potter’s magical influence on books and reading, right here at Scholastic headquarters,” says Ellie Berger, President of Trade Books, Scholastic. “What makes this anniversary special is seeing readers who have grown up with H...

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By EmmaRiddle Quote: Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” to Summer 2009. Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never do anything to hurt any of the films. Over the past 10 years, we have n...

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By katiebell Dan stated that Sirius was in the script for Deathly Hallows in regards to 'The Forest Again' scene, but there is no guarantee at the moment on whether or not Gary Oldman will be back to play the part. He also mentioned that the shoot for the last films will be 14 months long, which will start nex...

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By Calisuri Some news on the funding behind the upcoming ‘Hobbit’ films from Bloomberg.com: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the movie studio controlled by private-equity firms, is raising as much as $600 million to produce some of its biggest films including “The Hobbit.” [...] MGM’s would be the first movi...

By EmmaRiddle Quote: The current Potter game producer, Electronic Arts, told me last week that they’re interested in the possibility of a Harry Potter MMO, too. “I think there could be a fun MMO with Harry Potter,” said “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” executive producer Jonathan Bunney.

“…She would not be number one in a poll of today's children because of a certain JK Rowling. But it would be good to see where JK Rowling is in 60 years' time. Obviously Rowling is a publishing phenomenon, but you can not compare somebody who has written seven-and-a-half books with somebody wh...

By Calisuri There is a great article posted at IGN today that summarizes what we already knew about Guillermo del Toro’s intention to use more animatronics in the creation of the ‘Hobbit’ films. But Ringer Elven points out one small bit of information of which we did not have previous confirmation: We...

By Kyle Buchanan It's been a rough few months for Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe; not only was his sixth Potter film delayed until next year (causing a Time Warner headache), but blame for the hasty move fell on his bare shoulders. Now, though, Radcliffe has played his trump card: a sympathy-inducing m...

By emmawatson-fan4eva This is where it starts, it's Rose's 7th year and she's constantly worried, there's always something on her mind, and she doesn't know who to confide in. Before coming to Hogwarts, Rosalyn had recieved a note saying "We're coming back for you." from one of the attackers. She hadn't told her pa...

Happy Birthday, Ms. McCrory! All Harry Potter fans are eagerly waiting to see Helen McCrory’s performance as “Narcissa Malfoy” in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It will be the first time the mother of Draco Malfoy has appeared in the film adaptations of the books by J.K. Rowling.

By Alex Billington As much as I'd love to talk highly of Twilight, I just can't, especially after they ruined Comic-Con. I know that there are probably countless individuals who love both books, but seeing Twilight become the big Thanksgiving release while we wait another 8 months for Harry Potter really, t...

By Wendy To some degree, that success motivated Warner to shift “Half-Blood Prince,” Horn said. The film will now hit theaters the same midsummer weekend that “Dark Knight” was released this year. Horn said the young, core Potter audience would be out of school and give the film a longer theatrical...

By By RICK LYMAN At 12:01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Friday, the official Web site for the forthcoming film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' books is to be simultaneously reinaugurated around the world in 10 languages. Making their first appearance on www.lordoftherings.net will be d...

By Alex Billington Note: The planned split release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows features both a November and May date. The first part will hit theaters on November 19th, 2010 and the second part will tentatively hit theaters in May, 2011. This change, if it remains, leaves less waiting time between...

By STV “The release date change does not alter the production schedule for this or future Harry Potter films. Post-production on Half-Blood Prince was completed on time, and the studio’s release plans for the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be affected by this change. We k...

By EmmaRiddle Quote: In making the announcement, Mr. Horn stated, “Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossin...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pushed to July 2009 - First Showing

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pushed to July 2009! - First Showing

A Nintendo DS review of the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" video game as well as a video are now online. The interview touches on the games, features and once again Quidditch. The video shows Hogwarts grounds and school, Quidditch, dueling and potions class.

Desperately seeking Harry Potter readers 18 to 24 years old!" So begins a plea for volunteers to take part in a study seeking to find the reasons why kids who grew up with the book series really read them in the first place (not why adults think they did). Were you were born between 1984 and 1990...

By reddiej Quote: Both celebrities enclosed personal letters with their shoes, in his, Daniel Radcliffe tells Jennifer, "When I was filming the third Harry Potter film, I knew I'd be going back to school before I started the fourth film. However, when it came to trying on my old school shoes, they wer...

By EmmaRiddle In a new interview with the Manchester Evening News Geraldine Somerville, Lily Potter in the Harry Potter films, says she intends to return for Deathly Hallows. Quote: That, of course, includes finishing off the remaining Harry Potter films.

By xoanon Share This James Holden, Marketing Manager for Odeon Covent Garden, writes: I was hoping to post an upcoming Lord of the Rings event on your website. Next Saturday, the 16th August, we at the Odeon cinema in Covent Garden, London are playing all three Lord of the Rings film back to back, in pa...

By Diedye July 29 – The Fellowship of the Ring turns 50! TORn offers its congratulations (along with a TOP 50 list by MrCere and a TOP 50 list of important people in the Tolkien universe) and the BBC digs up some reviews from that time. All info has been collected from Hammond & Scull’s “J.R.R. Tolkien C...

By eden2zion The Wandering Wizard" - Gandalf is itinerant and insists on building up other groups but being beholden to none.  He takes REAL responsibility for his role in providing guidance and strategy without settling down in any one place (the flaw of Saruman).  In the Silmarillion there is an inte...

By xoanon WESTWOOD, MA – July 31, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today its partnership with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to distribute The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ at retail in North America. As part of the announcement, Turbine unveiled its fall product lineup which inc...

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By Mike Fahey The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria - Fall 2008 Product Lineup: · 22” x 22” premium quality cloth map of the Mines of Moria · Mines of Moria poster · The Lord of the Rings Online Art and Music Collection with the official Mines of Moria Soundtrack

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By Mike Fahey “The Lord of the Rings Online is one of the only MMOs to successfully integrate story into game play,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. “With Book 14 we continue to create new ways for players to experience the epic story in Middle-earth from the dram...

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PR-inside.com) Author J.K. ROWLING will always regret not sharing her HARRY POTTER manuscript with her mother before she passed away. The writer began work on the boy wizard series six months before her mother Anne died of multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45. And Rowling admits she is st...

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings OnlineWe've created a nice range of guides for Lord of the Rings Online so far, from the very basics to some rather intermediate. While these guides will continue to get more advanced, we wanted to take this opportunity to catch readers up...

PR-inside.com) HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING has joined rival fantasy writer PHILIP PULLMAN's campaign to block publishers' plans to introduce age guidance limits on books. Pullman, who penned the His Dark Materials trilogy from which the 2007 film The Golden Compass was adapted, is a...

Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling's spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will make it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped l...

By harrypotterprogs@yahoo.com (Harry Potter Prognostications) In the news:  Harry Potter makes it to Entertainment Weekly’s “1000 New Classics”. Greg has big time issues with this.Thirty new international release dates for the Half Blood Prince movie.  My guess is that the movie will be released internationally before we see the teaser trailer.You ca...

By ajmarra The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II had a lot going for it, but overpowered military units, unbalanced difficulty levels, and a serious identity crisis left the game feeling average, boring, and not so Lord of the Rings-ish. If you're a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, you might w...

PR-inside.com) LONDON (AP) - An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, sold for 25,000 pounds (US$49,323, �31,278) at an auction Tuesday. An absent bidder paid more than 30 pounds (US$59, �37.50) per word for Rowling's short story at a charity aucti...

By Morvelaira This lovely guide to the classes in Lord of the Rings Online is mainly aimed at selecting a class and less on how to play one. It also offers handy information on how much of the population plays that class so you can figure out where you might be needed.

PR-inside.com) LONDON (AP) - An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, will be auctioned for charity on Tuesday night. Rowling's short story is the star lot at a charity auction at the flagship of Waterstone's book store chain in London. Proceeds wil...

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By persistentillusion by J.K. Rowling And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before. Copyright of J.K. Rowling, June 2008 The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling Speech Detail

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By mischalova A computer hacker that goes by the name “Gabriel” claims he knows how the JK Rowling tale will end: Hagrid is killed by Professor Snape during an attempted ambush of Hermione and Ron. The latter two flee, but are surprised by ...

Two key roles in the sixth Harry Potter film go up for grabs, with open casting sessions due to be held in London.

By katiebell According to Sussex radio station Southern FM, Warner Bros. is looking for teenagers aged 15 to 18 to play Lavendar Brown and Tom Riddle in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Open auditions will reportedly be held at Earl’s Court in London on July 1 and 8 respectively. Click...

 UK - Feb 22, 2006 As with another of his mooted projects - an adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel, Good Omens - the problem lies in raising enough ...