i love harry potter
but I Love Harry Potter sooo much it will always be alive!
I cried just watching the trailer!Warner Bros. released a new video clip from Harry’s Return to Hogwarts, which takes a look at Alan Rickman’s speech as Severus Snape in the Great Hall before his confrontation with Harry. Watch that below, thanks to Mugglenet:
Harry Potter wins big at National Movie Awards
The National Movie Awards aired live this evening in the UK, and as usual Harry Potter was one of the big winners. Deathly Hallows Part 1 picked up Best Fantasy Film and Deathly Hallows Part 2 was named most anticipated movie of the summer.
Producers David Heyman and David Barron were there to accept the awards along with Bonnie Wright. Meanwhile Bonnie's fiance Jamie Campbell Bower, who appeared in Deathly Hallows Part 1 as the young Grindelwald, won the 'One to Watch' award. All the awards were voted for by the British movie-going public.
There's also a nice Harry Potter montage in the middle looking back at all the awards its won at the NMAs in the past. I managed to record all the HP related footage and you can watch that right here:
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Harry Potter cast and crew give final farewells in new video
Harry Potter: The Quest has unlocked another new video, and in this lovely feature we see members of the cast and crew – Dan, Rupert, Emma, David Yates, Mark Williams and many more – look back on Harry Potter and give some farewell messages.
We have seen so many ‘goodbyes’ in the last year, but these clips are from the Leavesden set back when they were filming, so it must have been one of the first times these guys had reflected on ‘the end’. The video is nicely interspersed with old set pictures and stills from over the years.
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Second Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park to be built in Hollywood
Big news! Reports last night have revealed that a second Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park is to be built by Universal at their site in Hollywood, California.
The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and Variety have all released some information ahead of an official announcement which they say is coming soon. From the Wall Street Journal:
“NBCUniversal is planning to expand its Los Angeles theme park with a section devoted to the “Harry Potter” franchise, according to people familiar with the matter, hoping to repeat the success of a similar attraction at NBCU’s Orlando, Fla., resort.
The new “Harry Potter” addition in the Los Angeles park, Universal Studios Hollywood, will likely resemble the one in Florida, these people say, which includes a Hogwarts Castle, roller coasters, and several Potter-themed restaurants including the Hog’s Head tavern, which serves butterbeer, as in the books.”
This attraction is likely open some time after 2015. They also say more HP parks could eventually spring up all around the world:
“If the new section succeeds, more “Potter” attractions could open in other parts of the world where Universal has theme parks, including Japan, Singapore, and Spain, say people close to Universal.”
Interestingly, there is currently very little space at Universal Hollywood, and the budget is reported to be $200 million, which is less than the $265 million that was spent on the original Orlando one. This could mean the new park isn’t on as big a scale as the existing one.
Good news? Not brilliant, in my opinion…
While the news will likely bring immense happiness to anyone around the west coast of the USA, I personally have rather mixed feelings about this development.
My fear is that a second park in America will reduce the novelty of the experience. The Orlando park is THE place to go for Harry Potter fans worldwide. Having a second park, which by the sounds of it will be very similar to the first, may cheapen it and make it all less special.
For the moment I’d rather see them putting all their resources into developing and expanding the Orlando park, and maybe try to improve the accessibility and affordability for the whole of America. Then I’d like to see them build a new Potter park in another corner of the globe, like the UK, or maybe more feasibly near Disneyland Paris. It would also be good if they developed a park in Asia, which seems likely as Universal already has a site in Singapore.
This way, there would be a park close enough to every Harry Potter fan around the world, whilst still maintaining the integrity, the novelty, and the special magical experience which has made the Wizarding World in Orlando such a huge success. Each of these three theme parks could then be the “Holy Grail” for Harry Potter fans in each third of the globe.
But alas, it doesn’t seem like they’re doing it my way.
