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Harry Potter roundup
Filed under: Site Announcements, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire 
It had to happen sometime, and that time is now : our Harry Potter blitz is officially (and, for those of us who are non-fans, finally) over. Here's a look at all we cranked out:
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Seven potential Harry Potter franchise killers
Seven Harry Potter rumors that officially are untrue
Seven Reasons Harry Potter is overrated
Seven Harry Potter spin-off possibilities
Seven Brits left to cast in Harry Potter
Defending Harry Potter - not that he needs it, really.
One final reason why Harry Potter is overrated
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Harry Potter Caption This winner revealed
Filed under: Site Announcements, Contests, Insert Caption, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire 
Congratulations to Evan, the winner of this week's caption contest and the lucky recipient of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire soundtrack. If you are Evan, please contact us with your address so's we can get you your prize. Thanks to all *70* of you who entered, and check back this time tomorrow - we're launching a huge new contest with massive prizes.
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Cinematical Seven: Brits left to cast in Harry Potter
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire 
The Harry Potter movies are slowly but surely depleting a vital resource from the film industry: venerable British actors and actresses. Look at the number of renowed actors from the UK portraying characters in the series: Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Miranda Richardson, John Hurt, John Cleese, Julie Walters, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Dawn French, Julie Christie ... the list is impressive and seemingly unending. Imelda Staunton has just been cast as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Stephen Fry hasn't...
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Steven Kloves back on board for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Warner Brothers, Scripts, Family Films, Newsstand, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire  As James Rocchi mentioned last week in his post on the troubles facing the Harry Potter movie franchise, screenwriter Steven Kloves, who scripted the first four Harry Potter films, is not writing the screenplay for the next film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That film is being scripted by Michael Goldenberg, a Sundance Institute alum and playwright who cowrote the most excellent script for 2003's vastly underrated Peter Pan. Kloves is back on board,...
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Harry Potter beats crap out of Johnny Cash: Weekend Box Office
Filed under: Box Office, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire  The post to follow can be summed up in one sentence: "Holy crap - that Harry Potter movie made over a hundred mil this weekend."
With only the mildest Thursday-night-at-midnight head start, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire blew away the box office competition this weekend, earning $101.4 million - roughly 4.5 times the gross of the number two film, James Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line. Its $22.4 million isn't exactly a disappointment - that's the kind of number that most frame-topping films have been raking in for the past few months - but the whole add-up certaily makes you...
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Last chance to enter our Harry Potter caption contest
Filed under: Site Announcements, Contests, Insert Caption, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire 
You know you want that Goblet of Fire soundtrack we're giving away ... so what are you waiting for? Head on over here and enter our latest caption contest. You have until 2pm EST this afternoon.
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Harry Potter: Braving the 12:01 showing
Filed under: Fandom, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire  On Thursday evening, my local AMC Theatre was having a big showing for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, with seven of the 16 screens showing the film. Before I even purchased my tickets - about three hours before the showtime - two of the screens already registered sellouts online, but I was still a bit skeptical. As we know, it's still a Thursday night, most schools in the area don't have Friday off for any holiday or teacher conference, and something that gets out in the area of 3 a.m. is going to turn away some people. Boy,...
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Cinematical Seven: Harry Potter spin-off possibilities
Filed under: Fandom, Cinematical Seven, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire 
As many Harry Potter fans have heard, the next book released in the series is reported to be the last. Harry and friends will wrap up what they've set out to do, and that'll be how things will end. Or is it? Is it possible that the series could thrive on in another form, perhaps as a spin-off of some kind?
Here are my picks, in order, of the most likely scenario for spinning off the Harry Potter franchise:
Continue reading Cinematical Seven: Harry Potter spin-off possibilities Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Theatrical Reviews, Family Films, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire, Comic/Superhero/Geek 
One of the best lines in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is brief, but it does a lot to explain why these films are as good as they are - which, by the standards of kid's entertainment, is very good indeed. Long-standing friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and title star Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) are feuding, and Ron has asked third-party Hermione (Emma Watson) to convey some information to Harry, even though Ron and Harry...
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WSJ on challenges facing Harry Potter
Filed under: Warner Brothers, Movie Marketing, Harry Potter, Five Days of Fire  A couple of days ago, James Rocchi detailed the seven biggest challenges facing the Harry Potter franchise. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal chimed in with a couple more. Being the Dow Jones-lapdogs that they are, WSJ reporter Kate Kelly points out the obvious - it's all about money - but the fiscal problems are all wrapped up in the bigger problem of demographics.
There's no denying that the franchise has milked huge pools of money for Warner Brothers. That's great, but each picture has made slightly less money than the last, whilst costing slightly more to...
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