First Offical Pic From 'HBP'

First Official Picture from Half-Blood Prince Film

The first picture of Half-Blood Prince has been released with a WB 2008 preview today. The picture of Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter also features a glimpse at the Half-Blood Prince's potions book, and a visual of the Marauder's Map. This is the image

Amazon.com Buys Beedle the Bard for $3.98 Million


UPDATE: It has now been revealed that Amazon.com bought this book, and will be adding pictures and reviews of each of the fairy tales soon. The permanent link will eventually redirect to http://www.amazon.com/beedlebard. The note already contains several high-quality pictures and a video reading the note from JK Rowling inside the cover, and reveals that the book is 157 handwritten pages. Amazon.com editors are now taking questions about the tales on the site's discussion boards. Amazon has said it won't be publishing the book unless JK Rowling decides to do so, but it will be taking the book on tour to schools and libraries so children can see it themselves. (This was posted in their message boards.)

Our previous article of today's events is below:

The auction for The Tales of Beedle the Bard, JK Rowling's original, handwritten book of wizarding fairy tales, just happened at Sotheby's in London, and the lucky winner walked away with the item for the bargain price of 1,950,000 pounds, or nearly $4 million.

In a Sotheby's release, the auction house said that this is the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by JK Rowling and indeed for any children's book - it is also the highest price ever paid at auction for any modern literary manuscript. It was a highly contested match between six bidders; the winner was a representative of London fine art dealer Hazlitt Gooden & Fox.

J.K. Rowling said of the sale, "I am stunned and ecstatic. This will mean so much to children in desperate need of help. It means Christmas has come early for me."

The copy was one of seven handwritten editions and the only one to be made available for sale publicly. The other six have gone to six people instrumental to Harry since his inception. The leatherbound, handwritten tome was encrusted moonstones, as would be representative of "mothers, lovers and the power of dreams." All proceeds will benefit The Children's Voice Campaign charity, instituted by J.K. Rowling, which goes to help aid children who most need an advocate in the world.

In the release, Dr. Philip Errington, Deputy Director, Sotheby's Books and Manuscripts department said: "Sotheby's has been thrilled to work with JK Rowling and The Children's Voice in selling this wonderful manuscript. This is one of the most exciting pieces of children's literature to have passed through Sotheby's. We have to reach back 80 years to find a comparison when we sold the manuscript of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on behalf of the original Alice."

In addition a set of signed Comic Relief books went for 1,125 GBP, and an original drawing of the main Harry Potter characters was sold for 34,100 GBP (or three times what was expected).

Golden Globe Nominations for Harry Potter Cast Members
HP Cast

Actors seen in the Harry Potter films received Golden Globe nominations today for their work in a variety of movies. Actor Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) was nominated in the "Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television" category for his performance in "The State Within" miniseries. Jim Broadbent (Professor Slughorn in upcoming "Half-Blood Prince") was nominated in this same category as well, for his work in "Longford."

Two other Harry Potter actors received nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today including Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical for her role in "Sweeney Todd." Finally Julie Christie was recognized for her role in the film "Away From Her," in the "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama" category.

The Golden Globes will be presented Sunday, January 13, 2008 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California, and broadcast on NBC at 8 PM (EST).

Originally posted by: sumera siddiqui

First Official Picture from Half-Blood Prince Film

Purple covered book! It doesnt look at all like what I had imagined of the HBP's Potions book...
anyways.thanks for sharing Sumera...Harry looking cutee..!😊

awesome!! can't wait for the movie.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww ohhhhh.....WEN wil 2008 nov cum????cnt w888888888888888888

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

Purple covered book! It doesnt look at all like what I had imagined of the HBP's Potions book...
anyways.thanks for sharing Sumera...Harry looking cutee..!😊

ya me too....i htot it wil b green or sumthn😳much macho hai na?

dan looked gud in dis than in the 5th movie.(not that he looked bad)

^^agreed..I felt Dan didnt look as good as he normally does in OOTP..Though his acting in OOTP was just amazin!
I feel Dan looked bst in POA movie ...though he looked cuteest in PS!

yeah Tukz..too much Macho. 😳

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

^^agreed..I felt Dan didnt look as good as he normally does in OOTP..Though his acting in OOTP was just amazin!
I feel Dan looked bst in POA movie ...though he looked cuteest in PS!

yeah Tukz..too much Macho. 😳

Yeah,he didn't look gud in da OOTP film.He looked da best/cutest in POA.😳😳.I simply put that film in da dvd player and see it coz he luks sooooo goood in it.😳