B&N Asks: Where Are You, Harry Potter?
The News Review:
- B&N Asks: Where Are You, Harry Potter?
- Julie Walters on the ‘Potter’ movies, writing & acting
- Fire safety paramount in schools
- Special Screenings
- Murder, she writes
- FOXNews.com – Lists of Best-Selling Books – Celebrity Gossip |…
- Yes, it’s difficult to get published. But it was ever thus
B&N Asks: Where Are You, Harry Potter?
Motley Fool – Aug 17, 2006
Rowling toils away somewhere in Scotland on the final edition of Harry Potter, Barnes & Noble (NYSE:. After all, B&N may be the best-run bookseller out there, but how much is that worth when the whole sector isn’t growing much these days?
All things considered, it was still a decent quarter.
Julie Walters on the ‘Potter’ movies, writing & acting
HPANA – Aug 17, 2006
I see his shoulders start to twitch and I’m off too. But he’s grown up so much in the last few years. At the premiere of the first Harry Potter film, my husband Grant turned to me, pointed at the three young stars, and said ‘Look at them, poor things’. Waltes will film her scenes for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this autumn… At the premiere of the first Harry Potter film, my husband Grant turned to me, pointed at the three young stars, and said ‘Look at them, poor things’. Waltes will film her scenes for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this autumn.
Fire safety paramount in schools
Evening Telegraph – Aug 17, 2006
Letdown for young fans
ON A recent trip to a garden centre in Cupar with my daughter and two nieces, I was amazed to see actor Robbie Coltrane walking towards us. The girls, aged three, four and five, instantly recognised him as Hagrid from the Harry Potter films. They were so excited, I said I would ask if he would mind having his picture taken with them. I approached Mr Coltrane and asked him very politely and was shocked at his reply. He said he did mind, in a very abrupt manner. I explained I only asked because the girls recognised him from Harry Potter and I was then spoken to abruptly again.
Special Screenings
OC Weekly – Aug 17, 2006
Free, but burgers, kettle corn, chips, candy and water are sold with all proceeds benefiting the theater. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Chris Columbus is no genius auteur, but he gets rapped a lot for his first two entries in the Harry Potter film franchise, and it’s just not fair. He took fun, busy kid books and made them into fun, busy kid movies. What more do you want? This one introduces our hero and the magical world of Hogwarts, and it does so efficiently and with more panache than anybody could have expected from the director of Mrs.
Murder, she writes
Christian Science Monitor – Aug 17, 2006
“There’s one underlying need we have to address,” Hellmann says. “That is nurturing the next generation of mystery readers. We used to say, ‘All these kids are reading Harry Potter. They’ll be the next generation of mystery readers. They stop reading as teenagers. They’re lured by iPods, the Internet, MySpace, and games.
FOXNews.com – Lists of Best-Selling Books – Celebrity Gossip |…
FOXNews – Aug 17, 2006
“Judge&Jury”by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) (F-H) 3. “Lifeguard”by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Warner) (F-P) 4. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”by J. Rowling (Scholastic) (F-P) 5. “The Clique 6: Dial L for Loser: A Clique Novel”by Lisi Harrison (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-P) 6. “The Devil Wears Prada”by Lauren Weisberger (Anchor) (F-P) 7.
Yes, it’s difficult to get published. But it was ever thus
Times Online – Aug 17, 2006
Cinemas don’t offer discounted prices for the latest Harry Potter film, so why do publishers allow booksellers to discount their bestselling titles? Today all books have to fight harder than ever in a world where a hardback title often costs more than a CD or DVD. As an agent, you have to have a heavier dose of optimism in your outlook than you might need in other jobs: you have to believe that good writing will somehow find readers and that word of mouth will carry the work of an author whom readers care for. Turner writes that the show will go on, and it will. It promises to have its share of bumpy rides but that, bizarrely, is half the fun. David Miller is a literary agent at Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.