Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?
The News Review:
- Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?
- Best-seller Jordan overtakes ‘Potter’
- Why Harry Potter fans should read Ayn Rand
- Riled About ‘Harry’
- Withnail hero will always be useful
Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?
Daily Times, Pakistan
Two weeks ago, Warner Bros yanked Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a November release and pushed it to next July, which could spell trouble at box offices because the previous four Potter films averaged $920 million in worldwide ticket sales. That is a lot of movie magic. But a range of films from broad comedies such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua to thrillers like Eagle Eye and art house fare including Flash of Genius could sustain the summer upswing, studio executives and box office watchers said. Youve got it all, said Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracker Media By Numbers, when assessing the outlook from September through mid-November, when the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, kicks off holiday season moviegoing.
Best-seller Jordan overtakes ‘Potter’
Herald.ie, Ireland
Jordan’s editor Mark Booth, said: “In many people’s hearts she occupies a position which used to be held by Princess Diana. ‘ The ‘I’m a Celeb’ star – who writes under her real name Katie Price – is already worth €60m and it is believed she could earn €5m. She met JK Rowling at the British Book Awards in April, where it looked like the Harry Potter author was swapping roles. Rowling’s agent, Mark Hutchinson, was snapped in an embarrassing pose holding up his client’s revealing purple dress just before it gave just a little too much away. The ‘Harry Potter’ writer is worth €700m, with her seven Harry Potter books having sold more than 400 million.
Why Harry Potter fans should read Ayn Rand
Grand Junction Free Press, Colorado
The hero of the story rediscovers electricity in secret and eventually escapes with his beloved to freedom. The book inspired Aris preoccupation with liberty. More recently, Ari has grown passionate about another novelist: J. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. Ari has even written a book of literary criticism called Values of Harry Potter; see ValuesOfHarryPotter.
Riled About ‘Harry’
TheDay, CT
“Twilight” devotees are in a state of giddy rapture. Will Ferrell's getting nervous. And someone had better perform CPR on the editors of Entertainment Weekly. All because Warner Bros. decided that they needed one more blockbuster for the summer of 2009.
Withnail hero will always be useful
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Indie film buffs loved him in Withnail & I. Highbrow theatre and moviegoers delighted in his The History Boys. Kids have soaked him up in the Harry Potter films as mean Muggle Uncle Vernon. “Work is strange,” he says. “It’s sort of getting more significant and getting more attention. I cannot tell you why that is. I’m the oldest overnight sensation in recorded history.