… That Guy With Harry Potter?(David Yates to direct “Harr…
The News Review:
- … That Guy With Harry Potter?(David Yates to direct “Harr…
- Cloning attractions
- 2007: A Look Ahead The Hottest Events, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Music…
- Children’s series and tie-ins bestsellers.
- In 2006, Hollywood Rebounds From Slump
- THE GOOD BOOK BUSINESS.
- Imaginary friends
… That Guy With Harry Potter?(David Yates to direct “Harr…
Free with registration – Newsweek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 18, 2006
Movies: Who’s That Guy With Harry Potter? (18-DEC-06) Newsweek. 5 billion franchise with a string of high-profile filmmakers–C.
Cloning attractions
NEWS.com.au – Dec 18, 2006
Regulars Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom will be joined by Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa, reason enough to put a ring around this release date. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (July 4), a sequel to the Fantastic Four’s smash 2005 debut, has the line-up of super-heroes in battle with the Silver Surfer (Doug Jones). Opening two days later will be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. After achieving the longest run of any animated series on television, the Simpsons are embarking on a movie career, with The Simpsons Movie (opening July 27). When Homer accidentally pollutes the river with toxic waste from the nuclear power plant, he gets fired from his job and everyone has to evacuate Springfield. Harry Potter and the Simpsons won’t have July to themselves, as the Transformers live-action debut, featuring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight and Megan Fox is scheduled for July 4. If animation is your medium, look for Surf’s Up (September 30) with a family movie centred on a group of penguins… Regulars Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom will be joined by Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa, reason enough to put a ring around this release date. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (July 4), a sequel to the Fantastic Four’s smash 2005 debut, has the line-up of super-heroes in battle with the Silver Surfer (Doug Jones). Opening two days later will be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. After achieving the longest run of any animated series on television, the Simpsons are embarking on a movie career, with The Simpsons Movie (opening July 27). When Homer accidentally pollutes the river with toxic waste from the nuclear power plant, he gets fired from his job and everyone has to evacuate Springfield. Harry Potter and the Simpsons won’t have July to themselves, as the Transformers live-action debut, featuring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight and Megan Fox is scheduled for July 4. If animation is your medium, look for Surf’s Up (September 30) with a family movie centred on a group of penguins.
2007: A Look Ahead The Hottest Events, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Music…
CBS News – Dec 18, 2006
Dennis Leary’s controversial drama “Rescue Me” returns along with the USA sci-fi series “The 4400″ and “The Dead Zone. ” Music: Natasha Bedingfield and Rihanna may be releasing their new albums this month. Movies: “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” premieres July 13. Doh! “The Simpsons Movie” debuts in theaters on July 27. Books: “High Noon” by Nora Roberts is out this month. Although no official publishing date has been announced, J.
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Children’s series and tie-ins bestsellers.
Free with registration – Publishers Weekly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 18, 2006
(18-DEC-06) Publishers Weekly. When will the next (and last) Harry Potter book come out? Amazon’s page for the book says "Waiting for Book 7? So are we!".
In 2006, Hollywood Rebounds From Slump
FOXNews – Dec 18, 2006
While business rose in 2006, Hollywood has not caught up with where it was two years ago. Domestic revenues are off 1 percent compared to 2004’s, while attendance is down 6 percent. The real turnaround could come in 2007, whose summer lineup looks phenomenal, led by “Spider-Man 3,” “Shrek the Third,” another “Pirates of the Caribbean” adventure, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Ratatouille,” the latest animated tale from Pixar, maker of “Toy Story,” “Finding Nemo” and “The Incredibles. “We certainly look out there at next summer and look at it as a huge opportunity and a huge challenge. The opportunity is that when the business is on a roll, you have the ability to open at mind-boggling numbers,” said Disney’s Viane, whose “Pirates” sequel last summer had a record opening weekend of $135. “The challenge, of course, is there’s so much good product coming to market next summer, you may find it challenging to be able to maintain a presence in the marketplace.
THE GOOD BOOK BUSINESS.
Free with registration – New Yorker – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 18, 2006
But the general principle–that Scripture can be repackaged to meet the demands of an increasingly segmented market–is at the heart of the modern Bible-publishing industry. The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. Calculating how many Bibles are sold in the United States is a virtually impossible task, but a conservative estimate is that in 2005 Americans purchased some twenty-five million Bibles–twice as many as the most recent Harry Potter book. The amount spent annually on Bibles has been put at more than half a billion dollars. In some ways, this should not be surprising. According to the Barna Group, an evangelical polling firm, forty-seven per cent of Americans read the Bible every week. But other research has found that ninety-one per cent of American households own at least one Bible–the average household owns four–which means that Bible publishers manage to sell twenty-five million copies a year of a book that almost everybody already has.
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Imaginary friends
New Statesman – Dec 18, 2006
Children don’t mind you talking over their heads – they’re used to it, and used to figuring it out. Anything is better than being talked down to. The Harry Potter phenomenon, a fantasy aimed at sub-teenagers becoming a great best-seller among adults, confirmed that fantasy builds a two-way bridge across the generation gaps. Adults trying to explain their enthusiasm told me: “I haven’t read anything like that since I was ten!” And I think this was simply true. Discouraged by critical prejudice, rigid segregation of books by age and genre, and unconscious maturismo, many people literally hadn’t read any imaginative literature since childhood. Rapid, immense success made this book respectable, indeed obligatory, reading. So they read it, and rediscovered the pleasure of reading fantasy – which may be inferior only to the pleasure of rereading it.