harry potter and the half blood prince
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Harry Potter Does Not Get Its Romantic Ideals From Twilight
3:08AM Richard Lawson | Supernatural-obsessed youngsters are delicate creatures to cater to. Just ask the producers of Harry Potter and Twilight. The juggernauts often square off in ideological combat, but when it comes to their movies, they mostly stay far away from each other. More »
Spirited Fans Move to Death-Threat and Hate-Mail Phase of ‘Harry Potter’ Fever
4:00AM STV | We don’t traffic in empathy much around here — especially for studio heads — but you can’t help but feel a bit sorry for Alan Horn these days, who has been reduced to peering under his car in a paranoid state before each trip to and from the Warners lot, searching for some Harry Potter fan’s homemade peat-moss explosive affixed to his gas tank with frog spit and the hovering air of revenge. Surely he knew what he was getting into when he pushed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from this November to July 2009 (he’s already apologized), but still, no one deserves to live under the type of shrieking death-threat duress graphically laid out by The Wall Street Journal:
But What Daniel Radcliffe Really Wants to Do Is Play Hermione
3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | It isn’t as easy as you might think to be Harry Potter — sure, there’s all that tween-supplied dough to roll in, but whenever your film gets delayed, you know that some crackpot from Fox News will blame it on your private magic wand. Small wonder, then, that Harry portrayer Daniel Radcliffe wants to forgo that magic stick entirely in his next role (or at least tuck it somewhere so hidden you’d need a summoning charm to get it out). Says Details: More »
‘Harry Potter’ Star Faces Terrifying New Enemy: Shoelaces
4:05AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s been a rough few months for Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe; not only was his sixth Potter film delayed until next year (causing a Time Warner headache), but blame for the hasty move fell on his bare shoulders. Now, though, Radcliffe has played his trump card: a sympathy-inducing medical condition that would make even Voldemort lay off the kid for a while. Says the NY Daily News:
Fans’ Wizard Hats Droop With Anger, Sorrow as Warners Pushes Back ‘Harry Potter 6′
10:00AM STV | Warner Bros. sent surprising word today that it has bumped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a release this November all the way back to July 17, 2009 — a savvy numerological strategy landing Potter exactly one year’s worth of Fridays from its opening day for The Dark Knight. Studio boss Alan Horn officially attributed the move to more practical considerations, however, namely the fact that Warners’ vibrant content chain is missing a few links next summer thanks to the writer’s strike. But don’t get any ideas about Jonze-esque hold-ups or other snags, added Jeff Robinov: More »Daniel Radcliffe Reveals Harry Potter’s Secret Heroin Habit
9:19AM Clem Bastow | At the rate the Harry Potter movies have been getting scarier and more grown-up, I admit I have been wondering what they’ll be like by the end of the series – more violence? Extreme horror? SEX?? – and, indeed, what classification they’ll cop.
So, thank goodness for Daniel Radcliffe, who has revealed that the next installment will be just like… Trainspotting?!
The 18-year-old actor, who has played teen wizard Harry in all five of the films, insists the sixth instalment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will have drug metaphors and sexual references similar to the 1996 film about Scottish heroin addicts.
“There is a fair amount of sexual energy and there are some drug parallels. We have a couple of Trainspotting moments,” Radcliffe told Empire magazine.
Yes, that’s very good, Daniel *pats him on the head*
Not having read any of the books beyond a cursory glance at Wikipedia, I can speak with no authority as to whether this is an appropriate treatment of Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. But what I will say is WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!? Thanks. More » 