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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeThe movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince set a record in the UK in the first week of its opening.The movie crowds are still filling up the cinemas - the movie is at the top of the UK box office for the second week.In the US, however, the 3-D movie G-Force has pushed the Harry Potter movies off the top spot. But it is still a close second.(Photo: Author J K

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Image by AFP/Getty Images via DaylifeWarner Home Video is offering a chance to win a visit to the movie set of the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is re-releasing the first five movies on Blu-Ray and DVD. The lucky winner will be the one who finds a token inside one of the discs.The winner will be offered a week at Leavesden Studios in England, and will be able

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It's been announced that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game will be released on June 30. The game was supposed to have been out last year in time with the movie, but, as we all know, they were both delayed.There will be PC and a Mac versions, in addition to versions for the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2 and 3, Playstation Portable, and Mobile platforms.The game is

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Though the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be out in mid-July, Warner Bros. is releasing a new international trailer.This is the YouTube version. Pretty neat.

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American author Steve Vander Ark has published a revised version of the Harry Potter guidebook. He was sued by JK Rowling on the original version and lost. According to Rowling's agent, the new version is very different and follows the guidance given by the court. Material found to be objectionable was removed. There was too much direct copying from the novels.The new version is called The

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the movie, will be released on July 17. The film is directed by David Yates, who also directed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Daniel Radcliffe returns a Harry, as do Emma Watson as Hermione, Rupert Grint as Ron Weaseley, Sir Michael Gambon as Dumbledore Image via Wikipediaand Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldermort. When the trailer for the movie

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Carl Turner, a friend of Rob Knox, the Harry Potter actor who was stabbed to death outside a pub in Sidcup in south-east London, testified at the trial of Karl Bishop. He said that Bishop waved a knife in his face through an open car window. He broke down in tears during his testimony. He said he tried to intervene as Bishop pointed his knives at Jamie, brother of Knox, and another friend. Knox

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Elizabeth Spriggs, who played the Fat Lady in the movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, has passed away. She was aged 78. She had a long acting career. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company since the age of 36, she worked in a number of stage productions. She also appeared in a number of TV dramas, like Simon and the Witch, Doctor Who and Midsummer Murders. She was well

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The Cameo Fine Art Auctioneers in Berkshire, England, will be selling a signed set of first edition Harry Potter books. The set is expected to go for £15,000 to £20,000.Update on Harry Potter prequel: the 800-word prequel, handwritten by the author, was sold in a charity auction to an absent bidder earlier this month for £25,000.Technorati Tags: harry potter, signed first edition Harry Potter

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There's a growing musical movement dedicated to Harry Potter. "Wizard rock" is gaining momentum with bands playing in various parts of the country.Wrockstock 2008, a wizard rock extravaganza with 15 bands, went on over three days in the Ozark foothills last Memorial Day weekend.Bands are of different sizes. The Whomping Willows is Matt Maggiacomo's own one-man band. Other bands that are making

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The Harry Potter prequel is only 800 words long, and is written on both sides of an A5 storycard.The author J.K. Rowling wrote it in response to a "What's Your Story?" campaign run by bookseller Waterstone's. She and 12 other authors were asked to donate a story card, writing anything they wished.Rowling decided on a brief prequel to her Harry Potter series. Whether that will be developed remains

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Rob Knox, who plays the character Marcus Belby in the new movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was stabbed to death during a dispute last Saturday. The stabbing took place outside a South London pub. His friends were also injured.Details are not yet clear what had led to the dispute.An older man, aged 21, has been arrested for murder.Rob Knox was only 18 years old. The movie in which he

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The Harry Potter novels have spawned an industry of toys. Amongst the most popular are the Harry Potter action figures. There are so many characters in the stories that for every child there are bound to be one or more that endear themselves more than the others. All children love action figures, and out of the variety of Harry Potter action figures, there are many to choose from.How about a pack

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The name Harry Potter will forever be known as that of the character in J.K. Rowling's books, but the name is not an uncommon name. There must be thousands of people in the world called Harry Potter.There certainly is one in Florida. Mr. Harry Potter of Florida is an elderly gentlemen aged 79.He has been bombarded with calls from children whenever a new book is published. They demand to know if

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J.K. Rowling had her first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published in 1997 by the English publisher Bloomsbury, after having been rejected by several publishers. It was an instant success.Rowling was persuaded by her publisher to use initials and not her own first name Joanne. She chose "J.K." "K" stands for Kathleen, her grandmother's name.The publisher suggested

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A collection of 553 first editions of Harry Potter books will be put on sale by auction in London on 28th February. The collector is a 33 year-old fan, who started collecting all versions of the books since October 2002.The collection is valued at $78,000. It covers 63 languages, including Gujarati and Urdu as well as West Frisian an obscure language in Holland. Not only that, there are also

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J.K. Rowling the author said that she conceived Harry Potter's story as a seven-book series. This was to represent each of the seven years of Harry Potter's life at Hogwarts, training as a wizard, from age 11-17.So with The Deathly Hallows, being the seventh book in the series, which came out in 2007, that marked the end of Harry's seven year period, as originally conceived.There is a clamour

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The Harry Potter novels are written by J.K. Rowling, a British woman writer. Her own real story as to how she achieved success is itself very interesting, but we'll leave that for another time.The first novel was published in 1997. It's called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but for the American public it was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Apprentice. This was followed by six

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