Potter repels box office rivals. Yes, HP holds off competition from G-Force, a movie with hamsters (there’s a sentence no one ever expected to write). I just have this vision of Harry trying to take out scurrying hamsters with blasts from his wand.
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Well it may have been knocked off the top spot in the US, but Potter’s box office magic continues here in the UK.
Some odd stories around HP today. First off, Bill Nighy mentioning he is in the next film, but can’t say anything for fear of the consequences, while discussing G-Force, which is about hamsters, and has just knocked Half-Blood Prince off the top spot in the US. Then there’s Daniel Radcliffe mentioning he’s likely to vote [...]
Image courtesy of ellie Apparently people have been vandalising all of the ‘Stop’ signs in a suburb of Milwaukee in the lead up to the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
io9 have posted an interesting article (with a trailer for a documentary) on Wizard Wrock – bands who are named/dress/sing about Harry Potter. Brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge formed Harry and [the] Potters in 2002, playing in libraries and high school auditoriums. The teenagers were surprised to find the genre they invented in their rec [...]
