Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Buy Half-Blood Prince tickets online and get free soundtrack song Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince doesn't open until two weeks, but Fandango is already reporting strong advance ticket sales. And everyone who buys an advance ticket for Harry Potter on Fandango will receive a free iTunes download of the song Friends and Love, from the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack. [more...] Source:  Wizard News

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Half-Blood Prince video game available this week The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame is available in stores across the globe this week from EA Play and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Available on multiple platforms, the videogame allows players to experience the game adaptation of the film based on the sixth book in the Harry Potter series. [more...] Source:  Inside Mac Games

Half-Blood Prince Soundtrack to include 5.1 audio and extras New Line Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on digital and CD Tuesday, July 14. In a first for a Harry Potter film soundtrack, it will be an enhanced CD giving fans a free digital download of the entire soundtrack in 5.1 Surround Sound audio, along with bonus exclusive content. [more...] Source:  Wizard News

Monday, June 29, 2009

Hear Half-Blood Prince Soundtrack on AOL Radio Can't wait for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in July?  Well, to quench that thirst, AOL Radio has a remedy. AOL Radio's Movie Score station is now presenting an exclusive premiere of the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by composer Nicholas Hooper.  At the top of the hour every hour, the station plays a song from the soundtrack. [more...] Source:  Wizard News Blog

Warning: Hackers try to snare Harry Potter fans Cyber criminals are using the new Harry Potter film to distribute malware. The criminals attract interest with links such as "Watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince online free". Clicking on these links will redirect users to a site prompting them to download and install a 'streamviewer', which is actually just malware, according to PC Tools. [more...] Source:  Secure Computing

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Demo of Half-Blood Prince video game now available In the game of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, players will return to Hogwarts to help Harry survive a fraught sixth year. They will also have a chance to engage in exciting wizard duels, mix and brew magical ingredients in Potions class and take to the air to lead the Gryffindor Quidditch team to victory. [more...] Source:  Worth Playing

Video: New Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince clip Yet another clip from the upcoming Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has made its way onto the Internet, and you can see it here. It includes about ten seconds of a funny scene that has not yet been included in any trailer or promo clips for the film. [more...] Source:  Celebuzz

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Devon Murray brings more Irishness to Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the latest installment in the Potter film franchise, is set to hit theaters in the UK this July 17, Devon Murray will return as Seamus Finnigan. Murray's character has been featured every Potter film to date, and has launched the young Irish actor, who's now 20 years old, into superstardom. [more...] Source:  Irish Central

Luna Lovegood on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 17 year old Irish actress Evanna Lynch plays Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter, including the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In a new interview, when asked is there any part of the whole experience she has never told anyone about before, Lynch demurs before confessing. "Maybe I shouldn't say this, because it might get me in trouble. But..." [more...] Source:  Irish Central

DVD slump might weaken Half-Blood Prince sales Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released July 15, and expectations are that it will be one of the year's biggest blockbusters. But the movie world that Half-Blood Prince will enter is very different from the one of its predecessor. Over the last two years, DVD sales, which have long propped up the movie business, have sharply declined. [more...] Source:  Los Angeles Times

Monday, June 15, 2009

Director David Yates talks about Half-Blood Prince Having changed the cinematic Harry Potter landscape with the universally acclaimed fifth installment, Order of the Phoenix, director David Yates returns to helm Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In a new interview, Yates discusses what's it like doing the film, and why he describes the story as "love, potions and rock 'n' roll." [more...] Source:  Business Mirror

New TV spots and photos for Half-Blood Prince Three new TV spots and some behind the scenes photos for the sixth Harry Potter film have now become available. Unfortunately, the last two have no been made available online yet so they are from folks who unsteadily used their cameras to capture what they saw on television. [more...] Source:  Screen Rant

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Half-Blood Prince IMAX release pushed back to July 29 According to TV Watch Online, IMAX has announced that the IMAX release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be July 29, two weeks after its release in standard theaters. IMAX Corporation signed a contract with Paramount guaranteeing them a 4 week exclusive window for Transformers 2. [more...] Source:  Wizard News Blog

Harry Potter train rolls into Paris The cast of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have arrived in France on-board a very special train to promote the new film. Actors and animals from the movie will tour the country, stopping at 11 towns. In addition to the human stars, including Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright and Oliver and James Phelps, Harry's owl Hedwig and Hagrid's dog are also taking the tour. [more...] Source:  Channel 4, UK

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Harry Potter and Twlight stars to present at MTV Movie Awards At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards this Sunday, New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will introduce the first ever trailer for their Twilight sequel. And Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will present, live from England, a never-before-seen clip from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. [more...] Source:  MTV

Monday, May 25, 2009

Rumor: Half-Blood Prince to have 153 minute runtime According to HPANA, a foreign Warner Bros. distributor has stated the runtime for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be 153 minutes (2 hours, 33 minutes). While certainly not confirmed, this would put it in line with previous films in the series and producers' comments over the years about limiting each film to around that length. [more...] Source:  HPANA

Another new featurette trailer released for Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. Pictures has released yet another special featurette movie trailer for their upcoming Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince film due to hit the theaters July 15. In This trailer we see more exclusive clips, plus interviews from Michael Gambon, Daniel Radcliffe, director David Yates, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. [more...] Source:  On The Flix

Official Harry Potter uniforms now available to fans Lochaven International, of Stewarton, Ayrshire, who make the Hogwarts jumpers, tank tops and cardigans for the boy wizard films, are putting the outfits on sale for the first time. The uniforms, as worn by Harry actor Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the cast, come in four sets of colours for the four Hogwarts houses. [more...] Source:  Wizard News Blog

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Video: Two more TV spots for Half-Blood Prince Two more TV spots for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" have been made available for viewing pleasure by Warner Bros. Pictures. One of the television promos has been aired on both ABC and FOX networks. Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the movie in U.S. on July 15. [more...] Source:  Ace Showbiz

Friday, May 8, 2009

Half-Blood Prince to open Giffoni Film Festival Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince will open the 39th Giffoni Film Festival for children on July 12, after world preeming July 6 in London. The event, in which pics are judged by 2,800 young jurors from more than 40 countries, is being renamed the Giffoni Experience. [more...] Source:  Variety

Friday, May 1, 2009

Harry Potter tops summer movie favorites-poll Movie fans expect Harry Potter will magically rule box offices this summer. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in an online poll named Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the summer movie they most want to see. Sixty percent said they expect the new Potter movie to be the top box office draw of the upcoming season. [more...] Source:  Reuters, UK

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Warner Bros. announces Half-Blood Prince celebrity premiere dates Warner Bros has confirmed to Harry Potter fan website Snitch Seeker that the Japanese premiere of Half-Blood Prince will take place on Monday, July 6, 2009. The London premiere will then take place on Tuesday, July 7th, and the New York City premiere the next day, on July 8th. No word yet on which stars will be attending. [more...] Source:  Snitch Seeker

Friday, April 24, 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince embraces complicated story Few film franchises live to see six installments, let alone the eight that the Harry Potter books will produce. Producer David Heyman, who has been with the Harry Potter movies from the beginning, says, "The sixth film is very different," citing the multiple plot threads that set it apart from the more Harry-focused Order of the Phoenix. [more...] Source:  MTV Movies News

Monday, April 20, 2009

Harry Potter trailer causes a stir for film fans on internet The latest glimpse of the new Harry Potter film has been released. An official version posted on YouTube was watched by more than 150,000 people within 24 hours of going live. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was originally meant to be released for Christmas, but was delayed by Warner Brothers. [more...] Source:  The Scotsman, UK

Hollywood studios postpone English movie releases in India Most studios are postponing the release of their films in India because of a standoff between producers, distributors and multiplexes. Warner Bros and Fox Star Studios delayed films scheduled for release in April. The status of the release Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in July for India is now unknown. [more...] Source:  Business of Cinema

EW's Annual Summer Movie Preview includes Harry Potter info The wait is over. Warner Bros.' adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finally hits theaters July 15. "You know the headline on this one, of course," says Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid). It's also the one where we learn Voldemort's origin story, although there's much less of it in the movie than in the book. [more...] Source:  Wizard News Blog

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Daniel Radcliffe prepares for difficult Harry Potter scene Daniel Radcliffe has admitted to feeling awkward while filming a big scene in the young wizard's latest big screen adventure, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the penultimate film in the franchise and one of the most eagerly anticipated blockbusters of the year. [more...] Source:  The Telegraph, UK

Sneak Peak: New stills from Half-Blood Prince New still pictures of some spectacular sequences from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been released by Warner Bros. The scenes form the centrepiece of the next cinema version of the young wizard's adventures. The new trailer is already one of the most downloaded on the internet. [more...] Source:  The Daily Mail, UK

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Half-Blood Prince release date moved up two days Harry Potter is heading back to class a little sooner than expected. Warner Bros. says "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" now is opening Wednesday, July 15, two days earlier than its previous release date. That gives the movie a head-start on the weekend during what's shaping up as a highly competitive summer season. [more...] Source:  Associated Press

Friday, April 10, 2009

New Half-Blood Prince international trailer now online There's a newly cut international trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince now making the rounds of the internet. Most of the footage can be found in the March trailer and another that was made for Japan. Readers familiar with the story of Half-Blood Prince will now have plenty to talk about. [more...] Source:  MTV Movies Blog

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