As the June 18th grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park draws closer, there is loads of coverage from this week’s soft opening. I highly recommend you check out InsideTheMagic.net for a lengthy review of the park, including numerous photos and videos and a podcast. The review can be found here.
Have all these photos, videos, and reports swayed your plans for visiting the park? Will you be visiting sooner?
Friends, we are less than one week away from the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! There are a ton of new clips, reviews, and pictures hitting the web that will help us get through this final week. Of note, however, are the pictures and video from the London premiere yesterday. You check out the HBP U.K. website here and MTV's website here for a sampling. There is also an extra special treat for us today...Yahoo! Music has an early release of the entire HBP soundtrack which you can listen to here! I took a listen earlier today and it is absolutely wonderful! It should be a great addition to what seems like will be a fantastic movie! Enjoy!
The Los Angeles Times is launching a Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince countdown on their Hero Complex blog with a series of new articles, the first being a rare interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves. In the interview, Mr. Kloves speaks about his experience working with J.K. Rowling, how he went about adapting Half-Blood Prince, including his decision to cut out some scenes, as well as the final dramatic moments of the story between Snape and Dumbledore. I, for one, found the exchange regarding the "12 uses of dragon's blood" quite amusing! You can read the full article here.
Friends, we are exactly a month away from the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! There are trailers, pictures, and TV spots all over the web to help us get through these final weeks. I, myself, wanted to pass along a great photo gallery that MTV put together on it's website of various production and behind the scenes shots from the film. You can find it at http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/06/15/loads-of-images-from-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince
Amazon.com has posted the complete track listings to the score for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince composed by Nicholas Hooper. The soundtrack will be released on July 14, 2009 and is already available for pre-order. Out of concern for unwanted spoilers, please scroll down to see the list.