A few Harry Potter items
EDITOR'S NOTE: JUST A COUPLE OF HP NEWS ITEMS. (I JUST FINISHED RE-READING BOOK ONE IN MY PRE-BOOK 6 RE-SLOG)
Piece on GOF in Entertainment Weekly
This week's edition of Entertainment Weekly contained a brief article on the Goblet of Fire along with some quotes from director Mike Newell and actor Dan Radcliffe. Here's a snippet:
"I'm terribly pleased with the film," says director Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco) of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth movie adapted from J.K. Rowling's series of novels, due Nov. 18.
In two weeks, Newell will screen his work (minus completed special effects) for Warner Bros. brass for the first time.
Nervous?
"Of course!" he says. "This is a story where the kids [are] now teenagers. Is the audience ready for an older Harry Potter? They bought the book--I just hope we present a Harry Potter they want to see."
Couldn't have set the stakes better ourselves.
Work has begun on the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. British TV veteran David Yates will direct, and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg follows Steven Kloves.
Harry is still good to go. EDITOR'S NOTE: YIPPEE!!!! "My enthusiasm has absolutely not gone down," says Daniel Radcliffe, 15, who wouldn't rule out doing a non-Potter film before starting part 5 in January.EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE MOVIE NEWS. "But it would be a mistake to want to show you can do stuff other than Harry Potter so badly that you just rush into something." EDITOR'S NOTE: WISE LAD.
Rowling refuses electronic editions for Potter books
When "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" comes out in July, children from around the world will line up at stores or wait anxiously at home or summer camp for their copy to arrive by mail.
But anyone looking to read the book online, at least legally, should not even try.
J.K. Rowling has not permitted any of the six Potter books to be released in electronic form, not even during the peak of the e-book craze a few years ago.
Neil Blair, a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, would only say that "this has not been an area that we have sought to license" and did not comment directly on whether pirated e-books, a common phenomena for Potter titles, were hurting sales. "We monitor the Internet and take appropriate action," Blair says EDITOR'S NOTE: IN OTHER WORDS, J.K.'S LAWYERS ARE READING OVER YOUR SHOULDERS!
Piece on GOF in Entertainment Weekly
This week's edition of Entertainment Weekly contained a brief article on the Goblet of Fire along with some quotes from director Mike Newell and actor Dan Radcliffe. Here's a snippet:
"I'm terribly pleased with the film," says director Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco) of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth movie adapted from J.K. Rowling's series of novels, due Nov. 18.
In two weeks, Newell will screen his work (minus completed special effects) for Warner Bros. brass for the first time.
Nervous?
"Of course!" he says. "This is a story where the kids [are] now teenagers. Is the audience ready for an older Harry Potter? They bought the book--I just hope we present a Harry Potter they want to see."
Couldn't have set the stakes better ourselves.
Work has begun on the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. British TV veteran David Yates will direct, and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg follows Steven Kloves.
Harry is still good to go. EDITOR'S NOTE: YIPPEE!!!! "My enthusiasm has absolutely not gone down," says Daniel Radcliffe, 15, who wouldn't rule out doing a non-Potter film before starting part 5 in January.EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE MOVIE NEWS. "But it would be a mistake to want to show you can do stuff other than Harry Potter so badly that you just rush into something." EDITOR'S NOTE: WISE LAD.
Rowling refuses electronic editions for Potter books
When "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" comes out in July, children from around the world will line up at stores or wait anxiously at home or summer camp for their copy to arrive by mail.
But anyone looking to read the book online, at least legally, should not even try.
J.K. Rowling has not permitted any of the six Potter books to be released in electronic form, not even during the peak of the e-book craze a few years ago.
Neil Blair, a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, would only say that "this has not been an area that we have sought to license" and did not comment directly on whether pirated e-books, a common phenomena for Potter titles, were hurting sales. "We monitor the Internet and take appropriate action," Blair says EDITOR'S NOTE: IN OTHER WORDS, J.K.'S LAWYERS ARE READING OVER YOUR SHOULDERS!
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