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My Life Ends with ‘Harry Potter,’ Emma Watson Says

At 19, British actress Emma Watson has already made more money that other stars probably get to make in their entire career, and is enjoying the support of a fanbase so large it probably knows no match. Thanks to the highly successful “Harry Potter” film franchise, Emma also has a very promising future ah...

10 July 2009
05:08 GMT

Cybercrooks Target Harry Potter Fans

Security researchers warn that malware distributors have launched a Harry Potter-themed campaign, which promises free access to the latest movie in the series. Blackhat search engine optimization techniques and comment spam are used to attract potential victims. Malware analysts from security vendor PC Tools advise ...

29 June 2009
06:15 GMT

EA Mobile Announces New Movie-Based Games

EA Mobile recently announced that it would bring Hollywood to mobile phones in 2009 with the release of four new games based on this year's movies: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra, Star Trek, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Mobile phone users will be able to extend their movie ex...

26 June 2009
04:36 GMT

E3: LEGO Harry Potter Lives Through Years 1 – 4

Warner Bros., a company that is becoming more and more interested in the videogaming industry, and LEGO Group, have officially announced that they would be collaborating on creating a game called LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 – 4.The title, as the name implies, will deliver content taken from the first four books ...

2 June 2009
14:21 GMT

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Coming on June 30

Electronic Arts is really dishing out the launch dates these days. And one of the games that could have the biggest fan base on release waiting for it is Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the videogame based on the J.K. Rowling book that is set to be out on June 30, just before the movie based on the same book ...

15 May 2009
16:41 GMT

Emma Watson on Why She Wanted the Hermione Part

Emma Watson has proved countless times that she is more grown up and, some say, wiser than most celebrities her age. As a matter of fact, she could even serve as a model for stars older than her, and her latest interview with Interview magazine could be used as illustration for that. It’s clear that Emma is no ...

23 April 2009
08:21 GMT

‘Harry Potter’ Star Waylett Arrested for Cannabis Bedroom Farm

Jamie Waylett, famous as the bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the “Harry Potter” films, has just been arrested, News.com reports. Police were tipped off as to the 19-year-old star’s activities and were shocked to discover that he had eight bags of cannabis in his car and, later on, t...

8 April 2009
10:27 GMT

The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Harry Potter Turn to LEGO

Nobody thought that creating a videogame about LEGO bricks, which could take the shape of well-known characters, would be feasible and even less people believed that a LEGO series could go on for quite a few years and attract so much praising from both players and critics.Yet, Traveller’s Tales has managed to c...

16 March 2009
07:25 GMT

LEGO Harry Potter Game Could Come in 2009

First, here are a few facts. Traveller's Tales was recently bought by Warner Bros. The company has the rights to use the intellectual property of Harry Potter in multimedia projects. Warner Bros. has created a lot of movies featuring the kid wizard and the next one is coming out in summer 2009. Traveller's ...

4 December 2008
17:51 GMT

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Unlockables and Hints (DS)

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts' venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, ...

31 October 2008
16:31 GMT

Electronic Arts Invests in the Long Term

Electronic Arts has presented its financial results for the second quarter, saying that it met expectations but that the overall outlook for the year would be reduced. The company now expects yearly revenue of 4.9 to 5.15 billion dollars, which means a growth of about 33% to 40% over the last year. A reduction of ear...

31 October 2008
06:00 GMT

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Unlockables and Hints (PSP)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an action adventure game based on the highly successful movie and book written by JK Rowling, the fourth one  in the series from the Harry Potter universe. The usual heroes are playable in the game, Harry, Ron and Hermione, all of them can be controlled by the player. In th...

23 September 2008
07:51 GMT

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Achievements (Xbox 360)

Yeah, the same good old eternal story, with a touch of Latin or Italian... That's how most of the spells in the games sound like, so why not be hip and call the game's plot Harry-Potter style? From what I've heard, EA received the aid of a fan council while creating this game, so the plot's quite...

7 July 2008
08:48 GMT

Emma Watson Is the New Face of Chanel

She may be only 18, but "Harry Potter" lead actress Emma Watson - or Hermione Granger for those of you too fascinated with the movies to know her real-life name - has a very bright future ahead of her. Her acting career is in full swing, she is wildly popular among teenagers everywhere, already a favorite of the UK p...

16 June 2008
02:29 GMT

Wizard 101 Takes You to Ravenwood

In a world where movies are more and more based on games, and where every new movie out there is tied down to a game companion, seeing games-based-on-movies-that-try-to-be-something-else as well was pretty much inevitable. Following this trend, KingIsle Entertainment is announcing that it plans to launch a fantasy-th...

23 May 2008
03:18 GMT

Battle the Half Blood Prince in New Harry Potter Game

As the movie based on the sixth book in the Harry Potter saga is due to launch later the year, it was inevitable to get a little gaming companion. Electronic Arts Casual division has partnered up with Warner Bros Interactive to produce a game that will follow the adventures of the magical Harry as he stumbles his way...

23 April 2008
02:50 GMT

Ron Weasley Hates Lindsay Lohan

In this modern age of extreme narcissism, shameless fame-whoring and constant attention-seeking, it's nice to see younger, more down-to-earth stars sticking together, in no way seduced by the over-hyped aura of the Hollywood "sex, drugs and rock and roll" generation. The British actors of the multi-billion dolla...

17 April 2008
08:14 GMT

Nude Harry Potter Comes to Broadway

Make no mistake, everybody who deliberately chooses to call Daniel Radcliffe "Harry" rather than use the actor's true name is not doing it out of ignorance, but out of fondness. Even more than ten years after the first written "Harry Potter" installment first saw the light of day and the final book in the series...

10 April 2008
04:58 GMT

First Sneak Peek into the Brand New Harry Potter Movie

Joanne Rowling may have finished her world-famous series of novels depicting the magical adventures of the boy wizard Harry Potter, but the movie franchise intent on bringing Harry to the big screens is still going strong. The shooting for the sixth movie in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", has ...

24 March 2008
06:01 GMT

One (Harry Potter) Book, Two (Mega) Movies

The sensational boy-wizard Harry Potter - portrayed on the big screen by the equally popular British actor Daniel Radcliffe - seems to like all the attention he's been getting in the Muggle world. Therefore, he has decided to prolong his stay with the non-magical community, and travel with us into the next decad...

13 March 2008
08:01 GMT

Harry Potter and Hermione Dating?

Well, I'm not sure Joanne Rowling was expecting such a twist in the life of her famous boy-wizard, but it seems that young people nowadays are even harder to manage than we might have expected. I mean, look at all the Disney "bad girls" (I'm thinking the likes of Vanessa "I look good naked" Hudgens here): t...

20 February 2008
08:18 GMT

J.K. Rowling May Continue the Harry Potter Saga!

I remember talking to a friend once, who asked me if I thought Joanne Rowling would "let Harry be" after finishing the seventh book and thus completing the saga. My honest reply was "yes". That was before the final book was released, mind you, so all I could do (as a hopeless Harry Potter fan that I've been over...

21 December 2007
09:09 GMT

Apparate: Harry Potter And The Order Of... Archos!?

You surely remember when book stores everywhere were stormed by millions of kids eager to obtain the latest book of the Harry Potter series. After the stores episode, the thick book took over the subway where readers were spotted with their heads buried in the book.Recently, the massive Harry Potter hysteria has spre...

18 December 2007
12:11 GMT

Leave Hermione Alone! She's Doing Great...

Emma Watson is the kind of girl who doesn't need alcohol and infamous one-night stands to keep herself in the news - or to be voted Britain's greatest female role model (in a magazine poll earlier this year), ahead of much older and more experienced stars such as Keira Knightley and Kate Moss. As an aside, ...

5 December 2007
03:59 GMT

Are We Going to See Justin Making Out with a Man Now?

Remember all that craze that hit us about a month ago, when the "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling let the whole world know one of her best loved characters, professor Dumbledore, was in fact gay? Well, I think Rowling must have had some vision, or at least a wicked sense of humor in allowing the headmaster of Hogwa...

16 November 2007
04:10 GMT

JK Rowling's New Book Is a Harry Potter Spin-Off

JK Rowling has reportedly completed the first book that does not deal with the fate of Harry Potter, the famous boy wizard she created more than 15 years ago. However, don't look for any mention of Rowling's book anywhere else outside the "Harry Potter" shelf at your local bookstores, as Rowling's new ...

2 November 2007
10:25 GMT

For All You Potter Fans Out There: Dumbledore Is Gay

Joanne Rowling's love for shocking twists and surprise revelations sure managed to take us all by surprise again. And there was me thinking that the Harry Potter surprises were over. I must confess, the only big surprise I still had in mind (after waiting patiently for almost 10 years to find out the series'...

22 October 2007
05:00 GMT

Harry Potter Brings His Naked Self to Broadway

No, don't be alarmed, everybody. There's no Harry Potter 8 on the way, although maybe some of us wouldn't be so unhappy to see the boy wizard come back for another turn of magic and mystery. But if Harry's adventures are finally over and the now-all-grown-up wizard may rest for a while on the shel...

6 September 2007
02:35 GMT

Chinese SANSUI PMP Wears Funny Codename, Plays Harry Potter!

SANSUI might sound unfamiliar to you, but I don't blame you at all. With so many ghost brands of PMPs out there, it's hard to tell when something really big will penetrate the market.SANSUI makes no exception. We haven't heard of these gays before, and we definitely never seen one of their products in ...

20 August 2007
02:32 GMT

Free Torrent Download For the Latest Harry Potter Book

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the latest book concerning the famous hero, is about to be released in this weekend in several corners of the world. But the very addicted fans now have an alternative. The latest J. K. Rowling's creation was leaked on the Internet by a user who managed to obtain a US editio...

18 July 2007
04:14 GMT

Box-Office Magic with Harry Potter

Everyone talked last week about the "Transformers" movie and how much of a success that was and how it's gonna be the beginning of a beautiful franchise and all that. Well I say the "Transformers" movie didn't quite stand out to the task because it was topped by a children's film. Although Harry Potter...

16 July 2007
10:57 GMT

Harry's Hormones, This Time on Film

The latest in the Harry Potter series is "Order of the Phoenix", in which the now-teenage wizard has more than a few challenges in a dark world of magic. The movie is doing very well at the box-office, making $91 million in the first three days. And the fun is just beginning. Although the critics are harsher this tim...

14 July 2007
05:31 GMT

Harry Potter's Phoenix Has A Bright First Night Opening

Harry Potter is officially back! The fifth installment of J.K. Rowling's saga had its opening night in the US theaters yesterday and it sure cashed in big: $12 million to be exact. But how does that fare compare to the other big name openings?Well, since they are here for about a week, let's see how the "Tr...

12 July 2007
03:34 GMT

Daniel Radcliffe Like You've Never Seen Him Before

Being the guy who plays Harry Potter for seven movies straight can have a serious backfire on Daniel Radcliffe's career. No matter how hard he tries, the first thing that people think when they look at the 17-year-old Daniel is the young wizard from J.K. Rowling "Harry Potter" series. Nevertheless, Daniel keeps ...

10 July 2007
12:06 GMT

Transformers Turn into No 1 in The Box Office

As expected, the sci-fi flick co-produced by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures was the highest grossing movie of this weekend. The modern screening of the 1980's Hasbro toys has debuted with $67.6 million in its first weekend, which makes for a total of $152.5 million in seven days.With that grossing for its fir...

9 July 2007
07:01 GMT

Harry Potter Is Desperate for Sex

Daniel Radcliffe, the 17-year-old actor that plays Harry Potter, has revealed to the world that he wants to have sex, lots of it, with as many girls as possible, because he is famous and chicks want him. That's basically it. Let's break it down a little.Daniel Radcliffe was chosen out of tens of thousands o...

7 July 2007
05:05 GMT

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Premiers in Europe

The fifth movie of the "Harry Potter" series has had its European premiere last night in London. It seems that "The Order of the Phoenix" was too hot to be put out by the pouring rain, as hundreds of devoted fans (mostly girls) braved the bad weather.Although she is camera shy, J.K. Rowling, none other than the one w...

4 July 2007
10:27 GMT

Warning! Harry Potter Is Dead!

The USB sticks are assaulted once again after W32/Hairy-A, a Trojan file that affects the image of the famous novel Harry Potter. Security company Sophos discovered this problem and sustained that the worm is automatically copied onto a new memory stick connected to the USB port once the autorun function is started. ...

29 June 2007
03:06 GMT

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Moves to Mobile Gaming

EA is working on ways to bring Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on handsets for mobile gaming. This is just another movie storyline that undergoes changes in order to be best adapted to mobile gameplay.There are plenty of Harry Potter fans out there, which might be enough to make sure that this game will tur...

6 June 2007
07:07 GMT

EA's Harry Potter Using Wii-mic and Wiimote

It is already well known that Nintendo has announced High School Musical for their Wii. Nintendo fans are now anxiously waiting for GoNintendo to say something about a Wii-mic to be launched. Strangely, this rumor has been somehow connected to EA's working on a Harry Potter title for the Wii, using the mic along...

13 March 2007
05:42 GMT


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