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The Half-Blood Prince opens huge, but not quite as huge as it could have: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $77.8 million (NEW) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $17.6 million (3rd week; drops 36%) 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $13.7 million (4th week; drops 44%) 4. Bruno: $8.32 million (2nd week; … more…
Maybe it only seems like the haters are more vocal when a movie is really really popular, but there’s a weird strand of Harry Potter hating going around that I simply don’t understand because it quite factually makes no sense at all, and yet this doesn’t stop anyone from spouting it. It’s perfectly expressed by … more…
There’s been a lot of nitpicking at the details — and the missing details — of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is to be expected when so much of the book inevitably has been omitted from the film, and so many fans are deeply involved in both the book and film series. But … more…
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Harry Potter has been sold out since Christmas and, well, that’s the only new movie opening everywhere. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, … more…
I don’t get it, either: Conservative Christian reviews of the new Harry Potter movie are surprisingly positive. “As ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ opens, we are once again reminded of the characteristics that make him something of a Christ figure,” Connie Neal writes for the evangelical Christianity Today. Suggest that Christ is a Mithras … more…
So, is this the fourth Harry Potter movie, or the fifth? It’s the sixth? Really, already? Ah, that’s the one where Harry goes to the magic school, which has yet another new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, right? And Harry fights the evil wizard?
A theater in Chicago is offering a free Harry Potter film festival, showing one film — for free! — in the series for one showing each, starting today and running through Tuesday, so that fans can refresh their memory or so that catchers-up can get up to speed before Half-Blood Prince opens with midnight shows … more…
Still sorta a slow week. I should cherish this, especially with all the non-movie-related crap that is filling my head, unwanted, at the moment. But I don’t. I’d rather I had nothing at all to do but think about movies (and TV: Torchwood: Children of Earth is calling…) I’m most intrigued this week by Ink, … more…
Year One: Oh god, there’s gonna be a sequel, isn’t there? Year Two? For the love of Brian, someone make it stop… Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: By the time I see this come Monday afternoon, its debut-weekend fate in the U.K. will already be known. Weird. [trailer] Miss March: Man, we are just dumping … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh my goodness. I think we always knew Sherlock Holmes was familiar with handcuffs, but did we suspect he was this, ahem, intimately familiar? Tee hee! This is Guy Ritchie’s reboot of the world’s first consulting detective — the script is by Harry Potter producer Lionel Wigram, … more…
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