TV Guide has uploaded a preview of their coverage of the Half-Blood Prince New York premeire. You can see me in it, I’m in the red gryffindor shirt (ignore how stupid I look)!
(I also have to say…TV Guide people aren’t very nice -_-)
Variety is reporting that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has already broken records, as we all knew it would!
In a massive start, Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” easily scored the biggest midnight gross of all-time in earning $22.2 million as it unspooled in 3,003 runs at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. That figure beats the $18 million earned in midnight runs by Warners’ very own “The Dark Knight” and the $17 million earned by 20th Century Fox’s “Star Wars: Episode III —Revenge of the Sith.”
“Half-Blood Prince” opens in the same Wednesday slot that “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” did in 2007. “Order of the Phoenix” grossed $12 million in midnight runs on its way to a $139.7 million five-day debut. B.O. observers expect the boy—or rather, teenage—wizard to be as popular as ever, if not more so. It’s been two years since the last Potter pic, or the last book in J.K. Rowling’s series, creating a pent-up demand.
Well since Half-Blood Prince comes out in a few hours I took down the countdown and put up one for Deathly Hallows Part 1!!!! Only 492 days, hahaha….wow that seems long. But its only a year and a half!
For all of you going to see Half-Blood Prince at midnight, ENJOY! It was awesome and if you don’t love it, shame on you 😉
According to The AP, the Vatican has given Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Two Thumbs Up!
The Vatican newspaperL’Osservatore Romano even gave two thumbs up to the film’s treatment of adolescent love, saying it achieved the “correct balance” and made the stars more credible to the general audience. The newspaper said the film, which opens Wednesday, was the best adaptation yet of the J.K. Rowling series about the adventures of the bespectacled child wizard Harry Potter and his Hogwarts chums as they battle Harry’s nemesis, the evil sorcerer Voldemort.
While criticizing Rowling for omitting any explicit “reference to the transcendent” in her books, L’Osservatore said the latest installment nevertheless makes clear that good should overcome evil “and that sometimes this requires costs and sacrifice.”
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