Wizard News: 17th October 2007

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Harry Potter most lucrative film franchise of all time

Harry Potter is shaping up to be the most lucrative movie franchise of all time, eclipsing the profits from Star Wars and all 22 James Bond films combined. The boy-wizard franchise is forecast to make $10 billion when all seven installments have made it to the big screen, through box office takings and DVD sales. [more...]
Source: Hollywood.com

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Emma Watson says ballet harder than Potter

Emma Watson says she found filming her new role as a ballerina much harder than working on the Harry Potter movies. She said, She says, "I loved shooting Ballet Shoes, but it's much harder doing ballet than stunts on Harry Potter as I don't do most of those myself. Playing a ballerina is so different, it's lots of hard work." [more...]
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Cover released for Swedish edition of Deathly Hallows

Thanks to our friends over at The Swedish Rowling Fanclub for letting us know that the Book Leaf website in Sweden has posted the first look at the cover of the soon to be released Swedish edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter och Dodsrelikerna is 784 pages long and will be available on November 21. [more...]
Source: Book Leaf, Sweden (thanks to The Swedish Rowling Fanclub)

J.K. Rowling reveals what the Potter stars knew in advance

J.K. Rowling says the stars of the Harry Potter movies all wanted to know what was going to happen to their characters as the last book approached. Until, that is, she started to tell them. "I think they were always petrified of asking me," she said, smiling broadly. "I told all of them little bits, [but] I told Emma Watson the most." [more...]
Source: MTV Movies Blog

J.K. Rowling speaks about Christian imagery in Harry Potter

Harry Potter is followed by house-elves and goblins, not disciples, but for the sharp-eyed reader, the biblical parallels are striking. Author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have always, in fact, dealt explicitly with religious themes and questions, but until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, they had never quoted any specific religion. [more...]
Source: MTV News