Presales for Harry Prtter and the Deathly Hallows Part I movie tickets through fandango are skyrocketing.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1 doesn’t open at theaters until next Thursday night at midnight, but the movie already accounts for over 900 showtimes sold out nationwide on Fandango, the nation’s leading movie ticketing destination. PART 1 also accounts for 83% of Fandango’s daily ticket sales.
According to our Fandango survey of more than 4,000 HARRY POTTER 7 ticket-buyers:
74% are pleased that the complex story of DEATHLY HALLOWS has been split into two parts for the movies.
52% plan on seeing the movie on opening night at midnight.
51% say that a 3D version of PART 1 wouldn’t have affected their interest in seeing the movie.
Also, Fandango had a poll to find the Top 10 Sexiest British Actors under 30 and four Potter stars made the list!
THE BRIT PACK: THE TOP 10 SEXIEST BRITISH ACTORS UNDER 30:
10. Aaron Johnson 1%
9. Dominic Cooper 1%
8. Alex Pettyfer 1%
7. Andrew Garfield %
6. Ben Barnes 2%
5. Jim Sturgess 3% 4. Tom Felton 5%
3. Rupert Grint 9%
2. Robert Pattinson 13%
1. Daniel Radcliffe 16%
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As you may recall tonight started ABC Family’s Harry Potter weekend, as part of it a new clip from Deathly Hallows was released, it can be seen below! The clip is of Scrimgeor reading Dumbledore’s Will to the trio. Tomorrow they will be showing another new clip where Kreacher tells the trio about the locket.
HeyUGuys has a new article up where they briefly talk about their experience at the Deathly Hallows London premiere. Some snippets are below:
Another highlight was talking to Evanna Lynch who spoke about how much she loved her character of Luna Lovegood. She loved the fact that everyone loves her since she ‘doesn’t judge’ and how much she’d like to have her as a friend and how she ‘doesn’t worry what other people think about her’ but also how she ‘loves her bluntness’.
For me, talking to Warwick Davies was the highlight. The man was in Star Wars!!! Warwick spoke to me about working in all the movies and how he’ll be moving on to ‘Life’s Too Short’. I went on to ask what the experience was like coming to these massive events. He told me that he thought he’s get used to it but every time, ‘there’s more people here and more crazy and it just seems so fresh every time. It doesn’t feel like this is the seventh movie but there’s a lot of anticipation in this.’
I also got to speak with acting legend, Toby Jones who told me the evening was just completely ‘Overwhelming’ and he was visibility excited to be here at the premiere of the seventh movie. I then spoke to Matthew Lewis who plays Neville Longbottom and asked him if he realised that for the rest of his life, he’s going to be doing Potter appearances!
“It’s kind of odd. We were discussing it on the way here. My dad was saying in 10 years time they’ll do some kind of reunion and Justin Lee Collins will be trying to get us all get back together and it’ll be interesting to see where we all go. I’ve had a few meetings recently, and hopefully I’ll be doing some theatre next year. It’ll be a tour. Not confirmed yet but fingers crossed.”
SM: How would you say The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2 differ?
JP: I think it starts off with Harry Potter trying to avoid getting captured by Voldemort. They’re trying to work out how to get away. My character gets pretty battered in the process, and that’s the first time you see that Voldemort’s not a normal bad guy. He’s just ruthless. Then it really starts to get dark, the more desperate he becomes to get Harry. And then in Part 2 it all kicks off at the school.
OP: Part 1 picks up exactly where Half-Blood Prince left off and it kind of builds from that. Part 1 is kind of like a typical Potter movie in that it’s about exploring things, while Part 2 is full-on action. It’s a war pretty much.
JP: When we filmed the Battle of Hogwarts sequence, it was like a scene from Saving Private Ryan. All these gothic buildings had been totally obliterated. The first time we saw the decimated Great Hall, it was sobering. I think it’ll look fantastic on screen.
SM: Do you think the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2 will both have their own distinctive plots, tones and identities?
ML: While Part 1 is mainly Ron, Hermione and Harry off on the run, there’s a tiny bit of a flash into what’s going on with the resistance back at Hogwarts. It’s very heavily focused on Harry, Ron and Hermione. Part 1 is them trying to find the Horcruxes, while Part 2 is really focused on them coming back and the Battle of Hogwarts.
It’s a bit like The Lord of the Rings, where Parts 1 and 2 are about how long the road is and how much of a toll it’s taking on everyone, while the final part is the real climax – the real action. There are a lot of deaths, a lot of blood.
Hero Complex has interviewed Steve Kloves, who is the screenwriter for the Harry Potter films.
“The truth is ‘Potter’ was really strange for me, right from the beginning, it wasn’t the sort of thing I ever expected to be doing,” he said. “It was really, really nice in many ways but always a little odd…. I always saw myself writing movies that, you know, people don’t go see.”
“At that point, this was 1998, ‘Potter’ wasn’t that big a deal here in the States, and later one of my friends said to me, ‘If it had been on the cover of Time magazine before you signed up, you never would have done it,’” Kloves said. “And that’s absolutely the case.”
“The single greatest thing I take from the experience of the past 10 years is becoming friends with Jo. That’s a separate thing from all of this now, separate from ‘Potter,’ and it’s become a very important part of my life. I used to say she’s the coolest chick on the face of the planet. You read that first book and you thought, ‘Angela Lansbury wrote this book,’ then you meet her and she knows all of your music references and she’s funny. The first thing you pick up sitting down with her though is the intelligence. We had to make movies as smart as her books and as smart as her.”
Kloves is proud of the work he’s done but he still gets spooked by its reach and ripple. “I still don’t understand the magnitude of it,” he said. “I only catch glimpses of the size in my peripheral vision. It kind of freaks me out.”
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