Harry Potter Posters, First Look

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

If you weren't ready before now, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has new movie posters out!


















The sixth installment of Harry Potter is in theaters July 16th.

Source: Empire Magazine

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pt. 2

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

The second part to the long awaited end of the story- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 1- has a release date: July 15, 2011. Months after the first movie is released in theaters on November 19, 2010.

Source: Yahoo!

Rowling Copyright vs. Fan Lexicon

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

J.K. Rowling wins suit over encyclopedia fan. As she has admitted in the past, she went to the fan’s site and researched terms, characters, and the like for her books. Then she told a judge that the Lexicon was lifted from her prose.

Instead of working with this fan, Ms. Rowling chose to sue. She could have co-creator rights over the encyclopedia, but didn’t want to share. This situation could have been win-win.

When entertainment becomes apart of the popular vernacular, are we too to pay homage every time to Ms. Rowling? For this muggle, I won’t be buying her rendition of a Harry Potter encyclopedia because she will probably “lift” the fan’s original prose for her version.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Staff Writer: DL Mullan

4 1/2 out of 5 Shovels
An orphan discovers that he is a wizard. Harry Potter is brought into a strange world full of witches and sorcerers but also evil. The lad soon learns he was the boy who lived.

As the school year proceeds, Harry makes friends with Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Rubeus Hagrid. He also makes enemies with Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle.

His biggest enemy appears to be Voldemort himself. With the help of a professor, he goes after the Sorcerer’s Stone. A stone of red hue has the ability to make the user live forever.

The young actos, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, are wonderful. With the older support case, this movie steers clear from campiness and keeps a serious tone.

This PG movie doesn’t feel 152 minutes long. Heartwarming, suspenseful, and an adventure for children as well as adults.

Films on the Move

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

For some reason, Hollywood is dancing with movie release dates.

Twilight was moved up as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moved out. Harry Potter went from November 21, 2008 to July 17, 2009. Even with the citation of the writer’s strike, does the industry believe fans are inept? A little love please, give us a better reason. Anyway, Twilight moved from December to fill that November spot.

Why do films change dates? Some are for the best opening and run for the movie. Other reasons are because the flim is not good, or unforeseen production problems.

As Disney figured out for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the release date can make or break a movie. Yet Disney has not changed the Voyage of the Dawn Treader from May 7, 2010. A date close to Iron Man 2, how can Disney hope to continue The Chronicle of Narnia franchise? The children’s movie didn’t do well squashed between Iron Man and Indiana Jones 4.

Perhaps Disney has inside information. Or, Disney hasn’t really learned from their mistakes.

Iron Man and Indiana Jones 4 DVD dates are September 30 and October 14 respectively. Prince Caspian will be released on DVD on December 2. As for Twilight and Harry Potter, these films are highly anticipated by genre fans young and old.

Ben Barnes, Robert Downey, Jr., Harrison Ford, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Gwenth Paltrow, Shia LeBeouf, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton