Final ‘Potter’ book may spawn two films
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Final ‘Potter’ book may spawn two films
Earthtimes.org - Jan 13, 2008
“There’s so much to fit that the view is the last movie should be in two halves,” one anonymous source said. “There is a huge battle when Harry, played by Daniel Radcliffe, takes on Voldemort that needs to be done really well. The British newspaper said that to date, the first five “Harry Potter” films have earned nearly $4. 9 billion in box office sales. Copyright 2008 by UPI.
Book Folks: Davis-Kidd’s best local sellers
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Jan 13, 2008
, has released its annual list of 25 top sellers. It’s not surprising that for 2007 the best-selling title was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last in J. Rowling’s seven-volume series about the adolescent wizard. But with a few exceptions, such as Tom Brokaw’s "Boom!" and such book-club favorites as Sara Gruen’s "Water for Elephants" and Khaled Hosseini’s "A Thousand Splendid Suns," the selections are resolutely local. Here’s the complete roster, which does not include bulk sales:1.
Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland
Bloomberg - Jan 13, 2008
Forth Ports fell 17 pence,or 0. 9 percent, to 1938 pence. Pinewood Shepperton Plc (PWS LN): The owner of the studioswhere James Bond and Harry Potter movies are made is favored toacquire television studio BBC Resources, the Sunday Expressreported, without saying where it got the information. 5 percent, to 231 pence. Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA LN): Eni SpA and its partnersin the Kashagan oil development agreed to cede a greater staketo Kazakhstan's state-run KazMunaiGaz National Co.
When fiction becomes fact
Toronto Star - Jan 13, 2008
Spinal Tap, the glam-metal band in the 1984 "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, went on to record a real-life album, Break Like the Wind (tracks include "Christmas With the Devil"), and to go on tour in 1992, 2001 and 2007. Other examples aren’t so diabolically satiric. There’s Bertie Bott’s jelly beans from the Harry Potter books and movies, now manufactured by California’s Jelly Belly Candy Company. Flavours include earwax, sausage, earthworm and dill pickle. And the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant chain, now in the U.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Jan 13, 2008
Far behind are Adidas and Reebok. The idea of adding such unusual style to a product or so closely aligning with a personality was novel at the time, but it paid off. Other companies tried to follow suit but it was like trying to come up with the next Harry Potter or iPhone for basketball. The relationship completely changed the idea of sports marketing. Companies now make athlete sponsorships the centerpiece of their business, spending millions signing them and designing product lines and marketing platforms around them. Jordan’s original deal seems like a pittance compared with multimillion-dollar contracts inked these days, such as Nike’s $ 90 million agreement with LeBron James. “The beginning of the Jordan era marked a new and more sophisticated approach to leveraging an athlete,” said Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.