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- Harry Potter Blog – Wizard News Editor’s Blog
- Separate Visions, Shared Passion
- Harry Potter And The Legal Eagles
- “Heart of Ravenclaw,” “Deadly Veil” Never…
- Sign On San Diego > Travel
- Whatâ’s Wrong With Cinderella?
- Owen brightens film’s bleak future

Harry Potter Blog – Wizard News Editor’s Blog
Wizard News – Dec 24, 2006
html>Permalink]Just a quick personal note on this Christmas Eve. We all got a wonderful surprise Christmas present this year, the title of Harry Potter Book 7. I didn’t even realize it until a few days after it happened, but the surprise gift turned out to be even more wonderful for me. I just noticed on Friday as I typed it for the first time, that that the shorthand of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be DH.
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Separate Visions, Shared Passion
Washington Post – Dec 24, 2006
They somehow keep that relationship they had early on the same, even now that they’re major players. "Indeed, one could argue that the very reason they’re major players is that they’ve listened to each other — and in the process fiercely protected each other’s singular vision. It was Del Toro who gave Cuarón the idea for the climactic scene of "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and who persuaded a skeptical Cuarón, fresh from that success, to direct "Harry Potter. " By the same token, Cuarón has served as producer for "The Devil’s Backbone" and "Pan’s Labyrinth," in the latter case investing his own money and later forfeiting his salary to make sure the movie was made. Frida Torresblanco, who runs Cuarón’s production company, Esperanto Films, was in Spain hiring crew for "Pan’s Labyrinth" when Cuarón said he would pony up pre-production funds. "His lawyers were like, ‘Why do you guys want to do this movie? Are you crazy?’ Everybody was so concerned — agents, everyone around the two of them. And Alfonso said, ‘Just tell them I’m so curious to see what is in Guillermo’s head.

Harry Potter And The Legal Eagles
The Spoof – The Spoof (satire) – Dec 24, 2006
The three books have made a fortune around the world from sales alone, before you even begin to look at royalties generated as a result of kids' meals at popular burger joints and film rights etc. Roly-Poly told our Arts Correspondent:"I've been well done up here. Fleming found the manuscripts when I left them on a train several years ago and he's had my ideas lock stock and barrel. Well I want what's mine and I'm going to get it!"A spokesman for Ian Fleming said:"My client's saying nothing over this but consider this if you will.

“Heart of Ravenclaw,” “Deadly Veil” Never…
Leaky Cauldron.org – The Leaky Cauldron.org – Dec 24, 2006
write(”flash-header”); advertise on this site In the News. jpg” –>Since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was revealed as the title to Harry Potter 7, some sites have reported that two other registered Harry Potter trademarks – Harry Potter and the Heart of Ravenclaw and Harry Potter and the Deadly Veil may have been the other two titles that J. Rowling said she was considering. These reports are false; a representative for Jo said the titles were "never contenders" for Harry Potter 7.

Sign On San Diego > Travel
San Diego Union Tribune – Dec 24, 2006
, attracting tourists as well as locals wanting to take their children on a “Day Out With Thomas” (the tank engine); to dress up for a night out on a deluxe dinner train; or to just sit back and listen to the hissing and puffing of a steam engine and the shrill notes of a whistle. Offering passengers a ticket to any era ranging from the 1890s to the mid-1950s, many of these railways have been used to create instant authenticity for any number of films and TV shows, including Harry Potter movies, “Brideshead Revisited” and the classic “The Railway Children. ”For Americans traveling to the U. who begin their journeys in London, the closest choice for such time travel is the Bluebell, about 30 miles south from Victoria Station by connecting train and shuttle bus, and just 12 miles east of Gatwick Airport.
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Whatâ’s Wrong With Cinderella?
New York Times – Dec 24, 2006
“Why are you so mad, Mama?” she asked. “What’s wrong with princesses?”
Diana may be dead and Masako disgraced, but here in America, we are in the midst of a royal moment. To call princesses a “trend” among girls is like calling Harry Potter a book. Sales at Disney Consumer Products, which started the craze six years ago by packaging nine of its female characters under one royal rubric, have shot up to $3 billion, globally, this year, from $300 million in 2001. There are now more than 25,000 Disney Princess items. “Princess,” as some Disney execs call it, is not only the fastest-growing brand the company has ever created; they say it is on its way to becoming the largest girls’ franchise on the planet. Meanwhile in 2001, Mattel brought out its own “world of girl” line of princess Barbie dolls, DVDs, toys, clothing, home d?r and myriad other products.

Owen brightens film’s bleak future
Washington Times – Dec 24, 2006
No, it’s that rare combination of intelligence and sensuality that makes him utterly compelling no matter the role, whether it’s the writer turned “Croupier” in the 1998 film that made his career or the cynical bureaucrat of the future in “Children of Men. ” Oh, right, the future. Cuaron (”Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”), it’s a scary place. This dystopian science fiction piece takes place in London of 2027. No children have been born for 18 years. Humanity has all but lost hope.