As you probably know by now Magical-Menagerie has a Twitter account. If you didn’t know you were probably wondering what that little blue bird with the sorting hat on it is, well, it is a link to follow us on Twitter.
We are also up to win the Top Harry Potter fan on Twitter and you can vote for us here! Right now we have 100 votes and are on page 2, we need to get up to the first page! So vote, and vote often (you can vote every 20 minutes). It only takes 2 seconds to vote, so please help us out 😉
Tim Hailand has posted up a video on his youtube where he talks about his work, and shows us a copy of One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe. The book is only available from Tim’s website, and will be shipped to the US, Asia, Central and South America this week, and to the UK and Europe on December 28th. A portion of all book sales will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
People Tree is allowing fans to ask Emma questions about fair trade fashion:
Emma is offering you the chance to ask her why she is so passionate about Fair Trade fashion. Are you eager to know why she thinks it’s so important? Why she’s so excited about using fashion as a tool to help reduce poverty? Maybe you are wondering why she chose to work with People Tree or what benefits she thinks sustainable fashion can bring? Or perhaps you just want to ask her why young people should care about where their clothes come from at all?
If you would like to ask Emma a question about Fair Trade and sustainable fashion simply film yourself asking your question and email the MPEG to askemma@peopletree.co.uk** A selection of the best questions will get a video answer back from Emma!
The closing date for all video questions is 17th January 2010.
The Keighley News is reporting that Michael Thompson who will be playing a death eater in Deathly Hallows has donated a set of Potter books to the British Heart Foundation charity.
For the past few years Mr Thompson has been collecting first editions of the famous books written by JK Rowling. Now he has given a full set of seven books to the BHF’s charity shop in Keighley. They are being valued by BHF experts in Halifax and are likely to be auctioned on ebay. Mr Thompson said one of the books had previously been valued at about £100.
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Mr Thompson decided to donate books after his mother, Noreen, was fitted with a pacemaker for her heart. He has about 60 Harry Potter books at home but admits that even after taking part in filming, he has never read any of the stories.
I will post again if/when these appear on ebay or up for auction.
Clémence Poésy is featured in the January 2010 issue of French Cosmopolitan and she talks about her return to Deathly Hallows! See the photos over at SS! If anyone can do a full translation, please do so and send it in!
“I play the character Fleur Delacour in number 7 (out November 24th),” says she. “For me it’s the holidays! And it will be weird to go back on a shoot where everyone has grown older and taller.”
The Economist has a new article online entitled: The Harry Potter Economy where they discuss the Harry Potter franchise and all the money it makes as well as it’s effect on the economy. Here are some snippets
This production line at Leavesden Studios, which has been running for almost a decade, will soon be switched off. “People talk about the effect of factories closing,” says David Heyman, who produces the Harry Potter films. “When we stop filming next May, at least 800 people will be looking for work.”
The first company to be transformed was Bloomsbury, a London publishing house. It was a somewhat unlikely home for a blockbuster children’s book series. […] As each book appeared it drew new readers to the series and expanded sales of earlier books in a snowball effect. Thanks largely to the boy wizard, Bloomsbury’s turnover, which had gradually increased from £11m in 1995 to £14m in 1997, took off. In 1999 it stood at £21m. Two years later it was £61m. By the middle of this decade, with Bloomsbury’s revenues above £100m, rival publishers were griping that there was no point bidding against the firm for a children’s title.
In 2000 Ms Rowling said her “worst nightmare” was that her hero would end up on the side of fast-food containers. He was to appear just about everywhere else. Warner Bros, which had been wary of being seen to spoil a revered series of books with tacky tie-ins, had no qualms about exploiting its own property.
