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Harry Potter and the deathly hallows review:

Finally, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 1 movie was released today on November 19,2010  and i got lucky enough to see it in its release date itself.

The movie is simply superb and i give full credit to the director David Yates. Man! you have finally delivered.

I was completely in hate for Mr.Yates for spoiling both Harry potter and the order of pheonix and Harry potter and the Half blood prince, in my reviews for the former and latter movies i gave very criticizing comments.

But in this movie, i hardly found any mistakes from the story part and the direction.

Boy ! They have sticked to the basics and followed the Book as it is.

The movie begins with Minister of Magic addressing the Witch and Wizards on the dark time the magic world is facing. Adding to the serious scenes was Hermione Granger who completely erase her parents memories about her.

It just explained how hard the situation is and how panic the magic world is in.

After which the story continues with good script. The only thing i found missing was Harry,Hermione,Ron just start looking for horcrux without Ron’s mother asking them not to trouble themselves going out. It seemed like they already knew what these trio  are up to.

When Harry, Ron and Hermione enter the minister of magic to take the Horcrux, you will witness a most humorous scene from Ron that will make you laugh to the core. See the movie for this scene, cause i dont want to spoil your interest on the scene.

Apart from the above, Dobby’s appearance will make you laugh and will make you cry.

Rupert has acted very well in the forest scene where Ron will fight with Harry thinking that Harry and Hermione are in love. Emma Watson as always had delivered the screen with very good acting display.

Daniel Radcliffe in my view was far more better than his acting in the previous movie “The Half Blood Prince”

This is a must watch movie. Even if you have not read the book, you will understand the script.

The Background score almost killed the movie. Honestly, the background score didn’t even support the movie and made it look dull. I suppose they wanted to show that the situation is serious, but for that they have spoiled the movie.

If it wasn’t for Background score the movie would have scored a 9 out of 10.

Though i am a die hard Potter fan, My personal rating is 7 out of 10.

It may not eclipse the opening-weekend performance of franchise predecessors, but Summit Entertainment’s vampire-romance threequel “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” is off to a bloody good — and record — start.

“Eclipse” fetched more than $30 million in estimated boxoffice from more than 4,000 domestic theaters programming midnight Tuesday performances, an unprecedented midnight tally. The witching-hour coin will be lumped in with Wednesday grosses.

Twilight Eclipse sets sales record due to early release

A first sequel — “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” — opened with $142.8 million in November, en route to registering $296.6 million in total U.S. and Canadian coin. Opening with midnight Thursday performances, “New Moon” rose to a then-record $26.3 million in witching-hour loot and a record $72.7 million in first-day Friday boxoffice.

The original “Twilight” unspooled in November 2008 with a first-weekend haul of $69.6 million and a total domestic cume of $192.8 million.

Prior to “New Moon,” the record for midnight boxoffice was held by Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” which rung up $22.2 million from its earliest performances.

“Eclipse” is expected to ring up more than $150 million through Monday, playing in a record 4,410 total locations. The coming weekend is considered a four-day theatrical frame, with Independence Day falling on Sunday and most U.S. workers marking a holiday on Monday.

In comparing the “Eclipse” debut with its franchise predecessors, industryites will be watching the threequel’s Wednesday-through-Friday grosses. But domestic rankings for the Independence Day holiday weekend will be based on Friday-through-Monday boxoffice.

Many believe “Eclipse” will have scooped so much boxoffice cream off the top of its opening by Friday, that its first-weekend tally will fall well short of $100 million. That still would top weekend rankings, with Paramount’s 3D family adventure “The Last Airbender” expected to open at No. 2 with about $50 million.

Directed by David Slade (“30 Days of Night”), “Eclipse” features Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart reprising roles of vampire, werewolf and anguished love interest, respectively.

The super-hero talking guinea pigs of “G-Force” broke the spell cast by Harry Potter to take the top spot at the North American box office, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

The Disney animated family feature earned $32.1 million in the United States and Canada, pushing “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” down to 2nd place with $30 million in its second weekend — a 61 percent drop from its huge opening last weekend.

Romantic comedy “The Ugly Truth,” starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, brought in a solid $27 million to take third place — above expectations, distributor Sony Pictures said.

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth film in the boy wizard franchise, had earned $159.7 million at the North American box office over its five-day opening period last week and set a global opening record of $396.7 million for distributors Warner Bros.

Industry watchers had expected the movie’s box office gross to fall by around 50-60 percent in its second weekend but still retain its number one spot in the United States and Canada.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Vicki Allen)

Source : http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE56N0G920090726

Wow! Well, Harry Potter deservers it, after all the failed to make a good movie.

Rupert Grint with Love

Can you believe it!!! HBP has crossed  $ 396.7 million in just 5 days. Boy that is more.Just a week old and already rocking the box office itself. Nothing less if its  potter

I think the late release of the film might have done the trick. Crazier fans want it to cross  $1 billion. Man they really love it.

I personally feel  the film lack real battle scenes.Still i m very happy that, many of the fans are repeatedly seeing Harry potter and the half blood prince.

People who dont love movies also seem to have a crush on Harry potter movie.

Harry potter and the Half Blood Prince

Tagline: Once again I must ask too much of you, Harry

Director: David Yates

Writer: Based on the Novel by J.k Rowling

Actor Lead Role: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley

Actress Lead Role: Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley

Personal Thoughts:

I went to the theater with much excitement and so was all the fans with me. I just cant express  how fans shouted with thrill at the start of the movie. It was like a dream come true to see the good script as the movie. But this film is not as expected.

If your an Harry potter fan you will be stunned  by the irrelevant scenes that appears after an another. And if your a new guy who came to see the movie you will find very hard to understand the concept of the film itself.I never thought i will write the following  comment on the film.

This film is again a failure as Order of Phoenix. As an Harry potter fan, i am very much disappointed with David Yates. Its just outrageous to know another Best Script ever is failed by the crew.

I don’t think its only me but the film goes very dull. The only best part of the movie is  Ron’s quidditch comedy. Man  i enjoyed the romantic scene between Ron and hermione and also Harry with Ginny 

Other than this, nothing count’s. I dont know what happened to Daniel!!! He didnt expressed his act well. During Dumbledore death scene he just acted like he was forced to act 

Many scenes were missing, i said earlier that the two consecutive scene’s were irrevelant. The scene where Harry tells ron and hermione about Horcrux  is not there, and so was the good bye scene before harry goes to the cave. It was also missing. But at the climax, Ron and hermione speak as though they know about horcrux!!!! I just recalled one scene. many scene’s in between were missing or irrevelant.

Michael Gambon and Tom Felton ( Draco Malfoy)  has really made Justice to their role. Their act was very much superb. Particularly Tom Felton, he played his role very well.

Finally i conclude saying ,Personally i cried after seeing this movie. Not upto my expectations.

harry potter and the half blood prince

Stonehenge has one serious challenger for most popular tourist attraction of England: Harry Potter, boy wizard, and all the locations he has fictionally touched.

Britain is an island steeped in thousands of years of history, but more and more people at drawn by J.K. Rowling’s children’s books about the magical world of wizards.

Visitors can tour Christ College, the film inspiration for the Great Hall; Leadenhall Market, also known as Diagon Alley; and the London Zoo, where Harry Potter accidentally frees a snake in the first film. They can also visit Oxford and Gloucester, whose cathedral serves as a hallway of Hogwarts.

“We do a lot of big tours, and Harry Potter is one of the bigger ones,” said British Tours operator Jason Doll-Steinberg. “It’s up there with our tour of Stonehenge at dawn.”

British Tours gave 200 to 250 Harry Potter tours to about 1,000 people last year, said Doll-Steinberg, comprising 6 percent of total tours last year. About 600 people went on the Stonehenge tour.

For the London premiere of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth movie installment, hundreds of fans filled Leicester Square and waited in downpours so heavy they flooded parts of the Underground system, all to get a glimpse at the cast that brought Harry Potter to life on the big screen.

Izzy Martinez, a student participating in the University of California’s abroad program, makes no excuses for her decision to spend the summer in London: She came to London for Harry Potter and the premiere of the sixth movie.

Martinez was inspired, she said, to study in London for its culture, its modern culture.
“It was Harry Potter, the Beatles, pop culture in general,” she said.

As two girls next to Martinez jumped and screamed as Daniel Radcliffe appeared on screen, she laughed lightly.
“Coming here to Leicester Square and seeing all the fans, it’s crazy,” she said.

As Claire Lovrak, a Louisiana State University sophomore studying in London for the summer, struggled through the crowd with her friends, she talked about Harry Potter’s generational draw.

“Harry Potter has definitely changed how a lot of people in our generation look at London,” she said. “It’s so iconic now. It’s definitely not something that’s going to fade away.”

Years ago, J.K. Rowling sat in the Elephant House in Edinburgh, Scotland, scribbling down the beginning of what later became one of the world’s bestselling series.

As cafe-goers quietly sipped their tea and coffee over the morning’s newspapers, cameras flashed outside at the sign in the front window: the birthplace of Harry Potter. The cafe is a big destination for Harry Potter fans, said Doug Angelosanto, an Elephant House employee.

Doll-Steinberg, who was born and raised in London, said Harry Potter fits in with the history of the United Kingdom.

“We are a country of legends and mythology,” he said.

Doll-Steinberg said he considers Harry Potter “one of the best contemporary pieces of art going on” and is happy to have it be the eye through which the rest of the world sees his country.

“It quite encapsulates a nice vision of the country,” Doll-Steinberg said. “It keeps Britain in the public eye, and it keeps people coming over.”

Pop culture will always affect tourists’ choices, Doll-Steinberg said. After Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, “The Da Vinci Code” rose to fame, British Tours began offering tours of Da Vinci Code tours of Paris and London.

“I think the people on the Da Vinci Code tours were more obsessive,” he said with a laugh.

The pop culture tours give people the chance to experience Britain’s history in a different way, Doll-Steinberg said.

“People always want to visit the way it was in the past,” he said. “But the flipside of that, it’s nice to have the contemporary bit to it, something that gives it a kind of a twist.”

“It’s an ever-changing history,” he said.

Credit for the post goes to   huffingtonpost.com

This latest release of Harry potter and the half blood prince is just killing me in excitement. I happened to notice a TV  NEWS channel which Interviews Daniel Radcliffe.

I just  sat in front of the television to see the  clip of half blood prince. Daniel was answering questions about his latest film. And how they are all concerned about Rupert who is recovering from Swine flu. On answering few of the questions, Danielle was asked whether the NEWS  that he can rotate his arm 360 degree is true or just an hype.

Daniel laughed at this and right away he stood up and showed the interviewer by twisting his arm 360 degree. Man that was just unexpected. He was kind and sincere to share about himself to other people. I actually thought he will skip off the question.

Well what do you know, the famous Harry potter can do things other than Magic.