Potter Reaches Cult Phenomenon Status
The News Review:
- Potter Reaches Cult Phenomenon Status
- Potter gets first on-screen kiss
- ‘Harry Potter’ and the Gospel of JK Rowling
- Harry Potter rides to author’s rescue
Potter Reaches Cult Phenomenon Status
FOXNews – Jun 30, 2007
Potter the wizard’s fate will be known July 21 with the release of “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows,” Book 7 of J. Rowling’s fantasy epic. Worldwide sales of the first six books already top 325 million copies and the first printing for “Deathly Hallows” is 12 million in the United States alone…
” In July 1999, the “p-word” appeared in long articles in the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly and the Times, which observed that “Hannibal Lecter and Harry Potter are shaping up as the summer’s must reads,” but then added, with a bit of a wink, “Harry who?” By 2000, Harry was a friend to millions, the toast of midnight book parties around the world. For a time, the first three Potter books held the top positions on the Times’ hardcover fiction list of best sellers, leading the newspaper to create a separate category for children’s books. The fourth work, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” had a first printing of 3. 8 million in the United States alone. The release date became 12:01 a. , sharp, “so everyone could come to it at the same time _ no spoilers!” according to Scholastic spokeswoman Kyle Good.
Potter gets first on-screen kiss
Chicago Sun-Times – Jun 30, 2007
write(”flashcontent”); Potter gets first on-screen kiss June 30, 2007. Even for Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe — the star of the Harry Potter series — said Friday while in Tokyo for the premiere of the latest installment that it took a few takes to get over the nerves of getting the young wizard through his first on-screen kiss…
jpg_20070629_18_49_13_375-116-165. (AP) And even then, he didn’t really feel the magic. “When we started it, we were both a bit nervous,” Radcliffe said at a news conference. “But after the first few takes, it was sort of like any other scene, which is never really what people want to hear. It doesn’t really feel any different, because you are still acting.
‘Harry Potter’ and the Gospel of JK Rowling
Washington Post – Jun 30, 2007
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Harry Potter rides to author’s rescue
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 30, 2007
Two Hollywood studios and an independent American producer are also competing to buy the film rights for her 80,000-word yarn, Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone. “I think it is probably fair to say that most children’s authors struggle along earning about £2,000 a year,” said Christopher Little, Miss Rowling’s literary agent.