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Saturday, October 27, 2001
PG RATED:
The first Harry Potter film has been given a PG certificate by UK film censors.
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone has a running time of two hours and 32
minutes.
The British Board of Film Classification did not ask for any cuts to be made to
the movie.
posted by Sidrah 7:18 AM
Thursday, October 25, 2001
NEWS! AND TONS OF IT!
The following are some interesting
news tidbits!
The official site released a new
game! Get it here!
Dieing to listen to the Harry
Potter sound track and imagine what kind of music it has? Well have no fear!
HarryPotterSoundTrack.com
has clippings of the songs! So enjoy the clippings and tell us how you liked
them!
The official site added four new
screensavers to it's collection! There interesting but not as great as the
first two. There's one on The
Great Hall, Gryffindor
vs. Slytherin, The
Forbidden Forest and Wingardium
Leviosa.
CountingDown.com
reports: The Simpsons' annual Halloween episode will include a Harry
Potter spoof. Every year the show features three separate stories in its
Treehouse of Horror edition. In Wiz Kids, the children are tutored in the
fine art of transforming frogs into princes at the Springfield Elementary
School for Wizards. There's no word on when the episode will be shown in the
UK.
Violet, the Fat Lady's friend,
is rumored to be played by British actress Miriam Margolyes. This rumor is
not confirmed yet.
DarkHorizons
report: "Warner Bros. President and CEO Alan Horn dropped by a UCSB
film studies class, which focuses on different aspects of the entertainment
industry and brings in guests with different roles in television and
movie-making to come in and speak about his or her profession and Hollywood
in general. Before Horn was interviewed by the professor, we were treated to
various trailers of films to be released by the studio, which included the
trailer for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." What took me
by surprise was that this particular trailer was extended: the scenes
included in the original trailer are the same but just longer because more
dialogue and shots were thrown in, cuts from a few new scenes were added (my
favorite - Harry and Ron playing a game of chess in the Gryffindor den with
Ron's magical chess set - simply awesome!), and some new shots had rough
animation in place of the computer-animated special effects. This is because
even though the film is due out in a month, some of the special effects are
not completed. More info about "Harry Potter" was revealed during
the Q&A session. They are in the process of shooting the second
installment of the series and the screenplay for third is currently being
written, all so that the child actors can "age appropriately." Due
to its length, the fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire," is under consideration to be adapted into a two-part film. As
for the rumor that Steven Spielberg is directing the third film, "Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Horn was quick to respond,
"Not true." As you all know, Spielberg was offered the first film
but passed on it, although he believed the third to be the most cinematic.
Horn says that after Steven passed on the first and it came together under a
different director and a different vision, a certain kind of
"process" in making the Harry Potter project was developed, a
process that Horn prefers. In conclusion, I have no idea if the trailer we
saw is going to be released once the special effects are done. Hopefully it
will, because the new material is stunning."
USA Today says : [The
movie] will be released in 130 foreign countries (and in 40 languages),
making it the biggest international release of any movie distributed by
Warner Bros.
Harry Potter is the key character in a series of books by J.K. Rowling that
follow the adventures of a boy who learns on his 11th birthday that he is
the orphaned son of two wizards and, thereby, a wizard himself. So far, only
the filmmakers, studio executives and preview audiences in Chicago and
London have seen the 2-hour, 33-minute film based on the first of the Potter
books.
Those lucky few in Chicago had no advance notice when they arrived at an
undisclosed theater. "We didn't ask our Harry Potter fans when we
recruited the audience," says Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of
domestic distribution. "We didn't want to give it away."
They were told only that they would see a family movie. Fellman says:
"When we announced what the movie was, there was 10 to 15 minutes of
non-stop applause."
Director Chris Columbus adds: "The readers were ecstatic, and the
non-readers loved the story and wanted to get the books."
That kind of reception gives Warner Bros. an overwhelming idea of the level
of anticipation for this movie. But it's not as if the continued
mega-success of the books didn't tell them all they needed to know.
The movie, estimated to have cost about $125 million, likely will draw huge
crowds. It has been dubbed into 24 languages, and another 16 countries are
getting subtitled versions. (There are 116 million books in print in 200
countries. They have been translated into 47 languages.)
A new trailer for the film will hit theaters on Nov. 2. "It's our third
and most interesting preview trailer," Fellman says. "Now that the
special effects have been finished, we'll see Quidditch."
Columbus promised that Harry and his schoolmates playing Quidditch, an
imaginary aerial sport played on turbo-powered broomsticks that merges
elements of soccer and basketball, would be a dazzling sight to behold and
probably the most complex scenes.
"Quidditch took months to plan and six months to shoot for a
nine-minute scene," Columbus says. "Kids were riding brooms
(while) interacting with computer-generated backgrounds."
The-Leaky-Cauldron
says:
The British show Newsround will be
featuring the first television interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
Rupert Grint sometime soon. Andrew Ralph sent us a link to a short, low-quality advertisement
of it - it's very low quality, but pretty cool. It starts at about 5:00 minutes
in. The
Spell Binder has posted three
small articles from this week's Entertainment
Weekly - one about Robbie Coltrane's career, JK Rowling making #15 on their
list of 101 Powerful People, and The Trio making #101.5.
: The
Telegraph reports of "thousands of people queued at cinemas across the
country to book advance tickets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone."
UCI Cinemas sold 10,000 tickets in the first hour
of making them available to the public. The company's central box office,
which usually has 100 active telephone lines, has had to open an extra 300.
"The response has been fantastic. Sales show that Harry Potter has really
captured the imagination of the nation. There are a lot of people,
particularly parents on behalf of children, queuing up outside our box offices
for tickets. We expect ticket sales for Harry Potter to build, day on day, as
more people learn that tickets are available," a spokesman for UCI told
The Telegraph.
Ron Hanlon, the marketing director of Odeon
Cinemas, said: "We were expecting a tremendous response from the public,
but the reaction so far has been unprecedented." The Odeon cinemas call center
has taken many inquiries from corporate customers wanting to book the entire
Leicester Square cinema for their employees. Their preview screenings sold out
by Friday afternoon. Special previews of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone will take place at cinemas across the country on November 10 and 11,
after the London premiere at Odeon Leicester Square on November 4.
posted by Sidrah 7:52 AM
NEWS! AND TONS OF IT!
The following are some interesting
news tidbits!
The official site released a new
game! Get it here!
Dieing to listen to the Harry
Potter sound track and imagine what kind of music it has? Well have no fear!
HarryPotterSoundTrack.com
has clippings of the songs! So enjoy the clippings and tell us how you liked
them!
The official site added four new
screensavers to it's collection! There interesting but not as great as the
first two. There's one on The
Great Hall, Gryffindor
vs. Slytherin, The
Forbidden Forest and Wingardium
Leviosa.
CountingDown.com
reports: The Simpsons' annual Halloween episode will include a Harry
Potter spoof. Every year the show features three separate stories in its
Treehouse of Horror edition. In Wiz Kids, the children are tutored in the
fine art of transforming frogs into princes at the Springfield Elementary
School for Wizards. There's no word on when the episode will be shown in the
UK.
Violet, the Fat Lady's friend,
is rumored to be played by British actress Miriam Margolyes. This rumor is
not confirmed yet.
DarkHorizons
report: "Warner Bros. President and CEO Alan Horn dropped by a UCSB
film studies class, which focuses on different aspects of the entertainment
industry and brings in guests with different roles in television and
movie-making to come in and speak about his or her profession and Hollywood
in general. Before Horn was interviewed by the professor, we were treated to
various trailers of films to be released by the studio, which included the
trailer for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." What took me
by surprise was that this particular trailer was extended: the scenes
included in the original trailer are the same but just longer because more
dialogue and shots were thrown in, cuts from a few new scenes were added (my
favorite - Harry and Ron playing a game of chess in the Gryffindor den with
Ron's magical chess set - simply awesome!), and some new shots had rough
animation in place of the computer-animated special effects. This is because
even though the film is due out in a month, some of the special effects are
not completed. More info about "Harry Potter" was revealed during
the Q&A session. They are in the process of shooting the second
installment of the series and the screenplay for third is currently being
written, all so that the child actors can "age appropriately." Due
to its length, the fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire," is under consideration to be adapted into a two-part film. As
for the rumor that Steven Spielberg is directing the third film, "Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Horn was quick to respond,
"Not true." As you all know, Spielberg was offered the first film
but passed on it, although he believed the third to be the most cinematic.
Horn says that after Steven passed on the first and it came together under a
different director and a different vision, a certain kind of
"process" in making the Harry Potter project was developed, a
process that Horn prefers. In conclusion, I have no idea if the trailer we
saw is going to be released once the special effects are done. Hopefully it
will, because the new material is stunning."
USA Today says : [The
movie] will be released in 130 foreign countries (and in 40 languages),
making it the biggest international release of any movie distributed by
Warner Bros.
Harry Potter is the key character in a series of books by J.K. Rowling that
follow the adventures of a boy who learns on his 11th birthday that he is
the orphaned son of two wizards and, thereby, a wizard himself. So far, only
the filmmakers, studio executives and preview audiences in Chicago and
London have seen the 2-hour, 33-minute film based on the first of the Potter
books.
Those lucky few in Chicago had no advance notice when they arrived at an
undisclosed theater. "We didn't ask our Harry Potter fans when we
recruited the audience," says Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of
domestic distribution. "We didn't want to give it away."
They were told only that they would see a family movie. Fellman says:
"When we announced what the movie was, there was 10 to 15 minutes of
non-stop applause."
Director Chris Columbus adds: "The readers were ecstatic, and the
non-readers loved the story and wanted to get the books."
That kind of reception gives Warner Bros. an overwhelming idea of the level
of anticipation for this movie. But it's not as if the continued
mega-success of the books didn't tell them all they needed to know.
The movie, estimated to have cost about $125 million, likely will draw huge
crowds. It has been dubbed into 24 languages, and another 16 countries are
getting subtitled versions. (There are 116 million books in print in 200
countries. They have been translated into 47 languages.)
A new trailer for the film will hit theaters on Nov. 2. "It's our third
and most interesting preview trailer," Fellman says. "Now that the
special effects have been finished, we'll see Quidditch."
Columbus promised that Harry and his schoolmates playing Quidditch, an
imaginary aerial sport played on turbo-powered broomsticks that merges
elements of soccer and basketball, would be a dazzling sight to behold and
probably the most complex scenes.
"Quidditch took months to plan and six months to shoot for a
nine-minute scene," Columbus says. "Kids were riding brooms
(while) interacting with computer-generated backgrounds."
The-Leaky-Cauldron
says:
The British show Newsround will be
featuring the first television interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
Rupert Grint sometime soon. Andrew Ralph sent us a link to a short, low-quality advertisement
of it - it's very low quality, but pretty cool. It starts at about 5:00 minutes
in. The
Spell Binder has posted three
small articles from this week's Entertainment
Weekly - one about Robbie Coltrane's career, JK Rowling making #15 on their
list of 101 Powerful People, and The Trio making #101.5.
: The
Telegraph reports of "thousands of people queued at cinemas across the
country to book advance tickets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone."
UCI Cinemas sold 10,000 tickets in the first hour
of making them available to the public. The company's central box office,
which usually has 100 active telephone lines, has had to open an extra 300.
"The response has been fantastic. Sales show that Harry Potter has really
captured the imagination of the nation. There are a lot of people,
particularly parents on behalf of children, queuing up outside our box offices
for tickets. We expect ticket sales for Harry Potter to build, day on day, as
more people learn that tickets are available," a spokesman for UCI told
The Telegraph.
Ron Hanlon, the marketing director of Odeon
Cinemas, said: "We were expecting a tremendous response from the public,
but the reaction so far has been unprecedented." The Odeon cinemas call center
has taken many inquiries from corporate customers wanting to book the entire
Leicester Square cinema for their employees. Their preview screenings sold out
by Friday afternoon. Special previews of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone will take place at cinemas across the country on November 10 and 11,
after the London premiere at Odeon Leicester Square on November 4.
posted by Sidrah 7:51 AM
GOOD NEWS!
I've found a possible hosting site but I have to have about 150 - 200 visiotrs a day to apply. We'll find out how many visitors come on to our site (www.potterworld.8m.com) when its availible to view again on the first of november so please be there!
posted by Sidrah 7:47 AM
INTERVIEW
Click Here for viewing a recent interview with the actor playing Fat Friar in the movie - Simon Fisher-Becker! Thanxs to DarkMark!
posted by Sidrah 7:38 AM
ART WORK
Click here for some great Harry Potter artwork!
posted by Sidrah 7:26 AM
PROF LUPIN HAS BEEN CASTED!
Kenneth Branagh is to star in the second Harry Potter film. He will play Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in the sequel. The character is a handsome, golden-haired wizard who arrives to teach at Hogwarts. Lockhart teaches Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione, reports www.variety.com. The Professor is regarded by many as a fraud, but Hermione develops a crush on him. Hugh Grant and Alan Cumming had been linked with the role.
posted by Sidrah 7:22 AM
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
HOSTING
Hi! This is the webmisstress of www.potterworld.8m.com - as you all know the site was taken off and it'll be on again on the 1st. Well, I'm also looking for a new webhosting service. If you kno any good webhoster - mail me at worldofharrypotter@hotmail.com! Thanxs!
posted by Sidrah 4:57 AM
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