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Fiennes Is Voldemort

Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) has signed on to portray the wicked warlock Lord Voldemort in the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, The Goblet of Fire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will mark the first time audiences will see the evil wizard in the flesh, though he has appeared in various incarnations in the previous three films.

Filming has been under way on Goblet since June 25, mainly with star Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) and co-stars Rupert Grint (Ron) and Emma Watson (Hermione). Fiennes has not yet filmed any scenes, the trade paper reported.

Other additions to the cast include Brendan Gleeson (The Village) as Potter's new defense against the dark arts teacher, Mad-Eye Moody, and Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow) as Rita Skeeter, a gossip columnist for a magical newspaper, the trade paper reported. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), is scheduled for release in November 2005.

hey b. ever visited jk rowling's site. she has the title of the 6th book out aleady. but it's puzzle you have to solve

Are you amazed at who they casted to play Voldemort???


What's her web address???

fienes.. huh..he looks intemidating.

i am still impress and can hardly wait

also here is jk's site

http://www.jkrowling.com/

note it is a flash site

also the door to the secret is closed for now

imdb is has already released the news of the new cast for the 4th movie :)

What is the sixth book called???

harry potter and the half blood prince--- slated to be a movie in 2008 :)

Cool thanks for the info bobby.

Any time, Mark.



Around the time Spider-Man 3 is supposed to come out.

I have never read Harry Potter yet though I've skimmed through the books at the store. The author(name??)must be rich as heck.

I've read the first four books & a large majority of the fifth. They're incredible.

Got this off of my subscription to Sci-Fi Weekly:


Potter VI Snippet Teased

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has revealed a few lines from her upcoming sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, on her official Web site, according to a report on Zap2it. Fans who solved a dart-game puzzle found two lines from the book:

"He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp."

Rowling's site does not reveal who is being described. Rowling is currently writing The Half Blood Prince and has not set a publication date.

Potter Character To Die

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling told fans on her official Web site that one of her characters will not survive the next book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the Associated Press reported. Asked whether she planned to kill off any more characters, Rowling replied, "Yes, sorry." But she refused to identify that character, the AP reported.

Potter himself is safe, at least for now. Rowling has previously said her teenage hero will survive until the seventh and final book in the series, but has refused to say whether he will reach adulthood. The sixth book in the series is due to be published next year.

Intresting I have not really read many of the books but they are good.

Dude, last May, I read Chamber Of Secrets, Prisoner Of Azkaban & Goblet Of Fire in like two weeks.

Cool bobby I just have not had the time too with College readings.

I get nervous whenever Harry's love interest is mentioned.

I found out something really neat about J.K. Rowling. Did you know that she is expecting her 3rd child. Here's the article: J.K. Rowling Baby Boom :)

Cool.

Newcomer Yates To Helm Phoenix

British director David Yates is close to signing to helm the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, for Warner Brothers, Variety reported. Michael Goldenberg will write the script and David Heyman will again produce. Phoenix, based on J.K. Rowling's book, is slated to start production in late 2005 and hit theaters in summer 2007.

Yates has only one big-screen credit: the 1998 feature The Tichborne Claimant. But his television work is what caught the attention of Warner and Heyman, with prize-winning dramas that include The Way We Live Now and the miniseries State of Play, the trade paper reported.




Michael Goldenberg (Peter Pan) has come on board to write the next installment in the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which will be the first in the franchise not penned by Steve Kloves, Variety reported.

Potter VI Already Best-Seller

The latest installment in the Harry Potter series won't hit stores for more than six months, but it has already topped at least one bookseller's most-wanted list and is racking up thousands of advance orders, retailers told the Reuters news service.
Less than 24 hours after publishers announced a July 16 release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth volume in J.K. Rowling's series, it had shot to first place at online bookseller Amazon.co.uk's Hot 100 book list, Reuters reported.
The list, calculated from all orders placed by customers on the retailer's Internet site, put the latest chapter in the boy wizard fantasy series ahead of best-sellers such as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
Meanwhile, Jo Marino, a spokeswoman for Waterstones bookstore chain in London, said customers had started calling its stores to place orders for the book immediately after publishers announced the release date on Dec. 21, the wire service reported.

Potter VI Is Due July 16

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling announced Dec. 20 on her official Web site that she has completed the sixth Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. On Dec. 21, Rowling's publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, announced that the book is set to be published on July 16, 2005, in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Half-Blood Prince picks up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as his evil foe Lord Voldemort's "power and followers are increasing day by day," Rowling's publishers told the Reuters news service.
"I know you all expected this to happen on Christmas Day, but I was sure that those of you who celebrate Christmas have better things to do on the day itself than fight your way into my study, whereas those of you who DON'T celebrate Christmas would definitely prefer not to wait until the 25th," Rowling wrote in a message posted on her Web site, the Associated Press reported.
Rowling added that she is pregnant with her third child, but still has had the time "needed to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction, and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result. I only hope you feel it was worth the wait when you finally read it."
The new Potter book is expected to come out in 2005. The last volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, came out in the summer of 2003.

Potter IV Is Trim, Hip

David Heyman, producer of the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, The Goblet of Fire, told SCI FI Wire that filmmakers, led by director Mike Newell, trimmed the 700-plus-page book by following a simple principle: "Anything that doesn't really relate to Harry and Harry's journey is less relevant." Speaking during a break in filming on the set at Leavesden Studios outside London earlier this month, Heyman added in an interview: "That's not to say that there're not minor detours. Inevitably there are. But there are certain things that we don't spend as much time with as they do in the book, just by the very nature of the material."
One example: The film will not deal with the subplot involving Winky and Dobby, two house elves, and the issue of elf liberation. "It's Hermione's issue," Heyman said. "Not to say Hermione's [not important]. Hermione's a vitally important character. But you have to make some choices. ... One piece of information ... we've put into another character, which feels perfectly organic [and] works. ... The story works perfectly without [the elf story]. And we consulted with Jo [Potter author J.K. Rowling] about it, and she was fine [with it]."
SCI FI Wire glimpsed a bit of filming during the recent set visit, including shooting inside the Weasleys' suprisingly spacious tent at the Quidditch World Cup. New sets for the film include the tent, a massive cemetery (where the film's climax takes place), a trophy room filled with silvered plaques and cups of various sizes, the Ministry Box at the Quidditch World Cup stadium, and a faux marble Trial Chamber, which rises several stories high. Filmmakers also constructed a large tank surrounded by green screens, where Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) and other actors performed underwater scenes, which will be enhanced with computer animation in post-production. And a massive Dragon Arena sits outdoors, where Harry and other contestants in the Triwizard Tournament will try to procure eggs from the flying beasts.
Hogwart's Great Hall, meanwhile, has been redressed for the Yule Ball, a big dance that occurs midway through the movie. Every surface has been silvered, with giant icicles to hang from the beams, and a giant Christmas tree sits at the head of the space. Heyman also revealed that the sequence will feature the Weird Sisters, a band consisting of singer Jarvis Cocker and members of the rock bands Radiohead and Pulp, which will give the movie a more hip feel.
"It's pretty interesting," Heyman said. "It's good. That's most definitely a different twist on the whole Potter thing. I think people will enjoy seeing the world getting bigger. I think the tasks are going to be great. And I think the kids [stars Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint] are better actors. They're just better actors, so you're seeing more nuance than you may have in the first film, and you saw more in the second and you saw more in the third." Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opens in November.

Potter VI Cover Image Revealed

Scholastic released an image of the cover of J.K. Rowling's highly anticipated sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is due in stores on July 16. Mary GrandPré, the acclaimed illustrator of all five previous U.S. editions of the Harry Potter books, came up with the design.
The cover of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is drawn in tones of green with purple shadows and depicts 16-year-old Harry and Professor Dumbledore gazing into a basin from which a mysterious green light is emanating, the publisher said.
"In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown," GrandPré said in a statement. "For the cover of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the mood of the art is truly eerie. I wanted the colors to be strong, and I chose upward lighting and dramatic shadows to convey a kind of surreal place and time."
Scholastic also announced the simultaneous July 16 release of a deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which will include a 32-page insert on special paper at the end of the book with near-scale reproductions of GrandPré's interior art, as well as a never-before-seen piece of full-color art for the frontispiece. The book will come in a foil-stamped cardboard slipcase printed with the cover image and will also include a blind-stamped cloth case, full-color endpapers printed with the jacket art from the regular edition, luxurious foil and a wraparound jacket featuring exclusive, suitable-for-framing art from GrandPré. The deluxe edition will be a total of 704 pages and have a retail value of $60, Scholastic said.

New Harry Potter Game Due

Electronic Arts and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment will release a video game based on the upcoming fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which will feature the likenesses of the actors for the first time in the franchise, the GameSpot Web site reported. The game will be available for a variety of console, hand-held and PC platforms.
Players will be able to take on the role of Harry (played by Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), and join forces to combine their skills and power with an all-new spell-casting system. The game will also interact with vibration-enabled systems, allowing players to feel the controller shake when casting a spell. Both the game and the film, based on J.K. Rowling's fourth Potter book, will be released in November.

The Leaky Cauldron reported that the full theatrical trailer for the fourth Harry Potter film, The Goblet of Fire, will hit theaters May 13, though parts of it will air on ABC on May 7 during a broadcast of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/MTarchives/006902.html

Imax Fires Up Goblet of Fire

Imax Corp. is expected to announce that it will premiere a wide-format version of Warner Brothers' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Nov. 18 on Imax screens at the same time the fourth film in the series debuts in conventional theaters, Variety reported. It's the second time the boy wizard will grace Imax screens; last summer's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Imax Experience became one of Imax's highest-grossing digitally remastered films, the trade paper reported.
Mike Newell directed Goblet of Fire, which is based on J.K. Rowling's book of the same name.

Newell: Potter IV Is Condensed

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell told Update magazine, the official magazine of Comic-Con International, that the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's popular series had to be significantly cut down for the purposes of the film. "This is a very difficult matter, and is worked out in huge discussions between representatives of Warner Brothers, the scriptwriter, the producer, the director, and sometimes J.K. Rowling," Newell said in an interview with 14-year-old Harry Potter fan Brianne Cisneros. "It takes a long time, and while it's happening you constantly seesaw back and forth on certain things-Dobby should be in, Dobby should be out, Dobby should be in, Dobby should be out, and so forth. After a while, everybody gets a feel for what would work in a movie as opposed to what works in a novel."
Newell confirmed that the filmmakers had considered splitting the book into two films, but eventually decided that it was possible to eliminate enough extraneous material to tell the story in a single film. Among the missing elements, Newell said, were scenes with Harry's foster family, the Dursleys. "Because we were making one, not two films, and something had to be let go, we decided the Dursleys were one of those things," he said. "We were sad about it. What's good about it being one movie is that the Tri-Wizard Tournament and Voldemort's plot to get Harry become very taut and very exciting because a lot of the purely descriptive stuff in the novel must be let go. That means the main story becomes a very tight, exciting, fast-paced thriller. Of course, what you miss are the fascinating little details which, in some cases, there just isn't room for. So it's swings and roundabouts. What can I tell you?"
Warner Brothers will be promoting Goblet of Fire at the 2005 Comic-Con International convention in San Diego July 14 through 17. The same weekend will see the release of the sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which goes on sale July 16.

If they've got to condense this movie- heaven knows what they will do for the remaining ones- they are longer still- the whole series itself in books so far is over 2000 pages- by the end it'll be 3500+! They must seriously think of making a two movie picture for number five- It wouldn't make sense overwise...

I was hoping to see Dudley's tongue swell like a balloon.

How can they cut that!?! Watching the Durslies suffer is one of the best ways of laughter in said films- shoot!

I was laughing my ass off for an hour when I read that part.

I bet <_< I suppose if they want a movie- they've got to send something to the cutting floor... It happens.

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Report: Potter VI Already Pirated

Less than 24 hours after the English edition of the latest Harry Potter book went on sale in China's capital on the weekend, the full text of the 672-page volume was available for free on the Internet as an unauthorized e-book, the Beijing News reported, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Shui Mu Tsing Hua bulletin board service posted the full text of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 17, according to the Chinese language daily.
Author J.K. Rowling has long warned readers against unauthorized electronic versions of her work.
Using a guest login, a check of the password-protected electronic bulletin board showed the pirated e-book was no longer available under a chat thread labeled Harry Potter, which repeatedly turned up an "error" message instead, the trade paper reported.
Over the weekend, Beijing bookstores sold some 5,000 legitimate hardbound copies of the book for 178 yuan ($21.51) each, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Potter Book Sales Help Films
David Heyman, producer of the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, told SCI FI Wire that this weekend's expected record sales of J.K. Rowling's sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, can only help the film, which is still in post-production. "It's exciting," Heyman said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 17, where he was promoting his upcoming CBS TV series Threshold.
Heyman confessed that he's already read Half-Blood Prince, though it went on sale the day before. "The books are great," Heyman said. "Jo's done a brilliant job, and this book ... is a progression from the last. ... It's getting darker. It's getting edgier. And it's getting more mythic. ... The world, the story, ... is expanding. And I think it's really exciting."
The upcoming movie, based on Rowling's fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is aiming for a Nov. 18 release. "It's going very well," Heyman said. "We had a test screening last week, and the response seemed to be very positive. Some are saying it's the best yet. Hope they're right. But, you know, ... the film's coming out in November, so we're still in the middle of post, and we are ... rushing to the finish line. A lot of visual effects to finish and some editing tweaks."
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is expected to be the fastest-selling book in history, with British retailer Waterstone's forecasting that 10 million copies would have been snapped up worldwide during the first 24 hours of its sales, the Reuters news service reported.

I would have expected that Harry Potter six would sell out- it was so eagerly awaited since January- anyways- the book has a lot to offer, and for me, finishing the book in a week is something close to a record!

I think I read one of the earlier books in less than five days.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, now in post-production and due to hit theaters Nov. 18, has been slapped with a PG-13 rating, a first for the blockbuster franchise, due to "sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images," TV Guide Online reported.



o Ralph Fiennes talked with ComingSoon.net about his upcoming role as the evil Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which opens in November.

Extra has posted a sneak peek at the trailer for the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, The Goblet of Fire.
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/

Eldest Upsets Harry Potter
Christopher Paolini's Eldest, the second volume in the Inheritance trilogy of fantasy books, has displaced J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from the top slot on Amazon.com for the first time since the sixth Potter book debuted, the Reuters news service reported. Eldest, the tale of magically gifted farm boy, Eragon, and his dragon, Saphira, and their fight against an evil empire, went on sale Aug. 23 and promptly bumped Half-Blood Prince to second place.
Paolini, a home-schooled country boy who daydreamed of sword-fights, spells and rescuing beautiful elves, wrote down his fantasies at the age of 15 and sold 2.5 million copies of his first book, Eragon, Reuters reported.
"At least I'm young enough to get through the trilogy before I die," Paolini, now 21, told Reuters. He still lives with his parents in Montana, where he writes seven days a week.
Paolini's parents self-published Eragon and took him on a tour of schools, where he dressed up in medieval costume to promote the book. Eragon caught the eye of publishing giant Random House, and filming has just started in Hungary on a movie of the book, with a cast that includes Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich.

Harry Potter Playing 007?
Contact Music reported a rumor that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is one of the young actors under consideration to play James Bond in his teen years. Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell is also rumored to be up for the role in a movie based on Silverfin, the first in a series of books by British comic Charlie Higston about 007 as a 13-year-old, the site reported.
Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that the film's storyline would center on Bond's time in Britain's public school Eton, but movie producers are planning to raise the age of the teenage spy to secure either 16-year-old Radcliffe or Bell, 19, in the lead role, the site reported.
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.ns...20teenage%20007