By Andrea Reiher
Source ZapIt.comJune 20, 2010 3:41 PM ET
5000 people were waiting in line for the opening day of the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, FL, Universal Orlando spokesman Tom Schroder tells the BBC.
"What Universal Orlando has done with Harry Potter is really, really fantastic," star Daniel Radcliffe tells BBC News. He was joined at the park opening by fellow Potterverse actors Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Warwick Davis, Bonnie Wright, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton and James and Oliver Phelps.
The park resides on 20 acres inside the Universal Studios theme park/studios and includes reproductions of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the main street of the village of Hogsmeade and the Hogwarts Express train.
We are honestly geeking out about the park and cannot wait until we can get to Florida to see it for ourselves. Are you going to go?
Friday, October 29, 2010
Immersive Harry Potter Theme Park Brings Wizardry to Orlando
By Scott Thill September 16, 2009 | 5:34 pm
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Orlando Resort’s theme park dedicated to the world-famous boy magician, is opening in spring 2010.
The highly anticipated immersive environment, originally scheduled to open this year, includes faithful re-creations of the film’s memorable haunts like Hogsmeade, Hogwart’s Castle and more, according to new details revealed this week on Universal’s site.
“It’s fantastic that people get to realize everything they have seen on screen,” Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Potter in the film series, explains in the promo video above. They’re going to be “walking into the films,” agrees Rupert Grint, who plays Potter’s pal Ron.
Attractions for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter are weighted nicely between shops and rides. Zonko’s joke store sells Potter-themed tricks and gadgets, while Honeyduke’s hawks treats and sweets, and so on.
On the coaster front, Dragon Challenge offers a high-speed approximation of the Triwizard Tournament, while the more family-friendly Flight of the Hippogriff gives fans small and large a ticket to ride.
There’s more, but probably not enough for Potter loyalists, whose captured imaginations have made author J.K. Rowling’s repurposed myths a brand worth $15 billion and counting.
Are you one of them? Let us know if you’re itching to visit Florida next year, or if you’re holding out for the Lord of the Rings theme park yet to come.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Orlando Resort’s theme park dedicated to the world-famous boy magician, is opening in spring 2010.
The highly anticipated immersive environment, originally scheduled to open this year, includes faithful re-creations of the film’s memorable haunts like Hogsmeade, Hogwart’s Castle and more, according to new details revealed this week on Universal’s site.
“It’s fantastic that people get to realize everything they have seen on screen,” Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Potter in the film series, explains in the promo video above. They’re going to be “walking into the films,” agrees Rupert Grint, who plays Potter’s pal Ron.
Attractions for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter are weighted nicely between shops and rides. Zonko’s joke store sells Potter-themed tricks and gadgets, while Honeyduke’s hawks treats and sweets, and so on.
On the coaster front, Dragon Challenge offers a high-speed approximation of the Triwizard Tournament, while the more family-friendly Flight of the Hippogriff gives fans small and large a ticket to ride.
There’s more, but probably not enough for Potter loyalists, whose captured imaginations have made author J.K. Rowling’s repurposed myths a brand worth $15 billion and counting.
Are you one of them? Let us know if you’re itching to visit Florida next year, or if you’re holding out for the Lord of the Rings theme park yet to come.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Daniel Radcliffe multiplies before our eyes!
Daniel Radcliffe multiplies before our eyes in this brand-new still from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Producer David Heyman says of the final films, “We’re reaching the climax, so the relationship between the three is more intense. They’re on the run, and they’re not in the safe confines at Hogwarts. The pressure is on them to sort things out. It’s ominous in the sense that the end is nigh.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 opens November 19th. Are you ready?
Read more: http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/09/22/new-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-trailer/#ixzz11eaVl49x
Producer David Heyman says of the final films, “We’re reaching the climax, so the relationship between the three is more intense. They’re on the run, and they’re not in the safe confines at Hogwarts. The pressure is on them to sort things out. It’s ominous in the sense that the end is nigh.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 opens November 19th. Are you ready?
Read more: http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/09/22/new-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-trailer/#ixzz11eaVl49x
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
J.K. Rowling reveals favorite scene from 'Deathly Hallows'
NOVEMBER 13, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Posted by GERI
Source: Guardian Unlimited
J.K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter series, revealed her favorite scene from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows novel when she contributed to The Birthday Book, published to mark the 60th birthday of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.
An excerpt of the contribution is below:
I admit that, at first glance, the extract I've chosen for The Birthday Book might not seem particularly celebratory, given that it has for its subject my hero walking to what he believes will be certain death.
But when Harry takes his last, long walk into the heart of the Dark Forest, he is choosing to accept a burden that fell on him when still a tiny child, in spite of the fact that he never sought the role for which he has been cast, never wanted the scar with which he has been marked.
As his mentor, Albus Dumbledore, has tried to make clear to Harry, he could have refused to follow the path marked out for him. In spite of the weight of opinion and expectation that singles him out as the "Chosen One", it is Harry's own will that takes him into the Forest to meet Voldemort, prepared to suffer the fate that he escaped sixteen years before.
The destinies of wizards and princes might seem more certain than those carved out for the rest of us, yet we all have to choose the manner in which we meet life: whether to live up (or down) to the expectations placed upon us; whether to act selfishly, or for the common good; whether to steer the course of our lives ourselves, or to allow ourselves to be buffeted around by chance and circumstance.
Birthdays are often moments for reflection, moments when we pause, look around, and take stock of where we are; children gleefully contemplate how far they have come, whereas adults look forwards into the trees, wondering how much further they have to go.
This extract from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favourite part of the seventh book; it might even be my favourite part of the entire series, and in it, Harry demonstrates his truly heroic nature, because he overcomes his own terror to protect the people he loves from death, and the whole of his society from tyranny.
All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to benefit The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts and can be purchased on Amazon and Amazon UK
Posted by GERI
Source: Guardian Unlimited
J.K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter series, revealed her favorite scene from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows novel when she contributed to The Birthday Book, published to mark the 60th birthday of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.
An excerpt of the contribution is below:
I admit that, at first glance, the extract I've chosen for The Birthday Book might not seem particularly celebratory, given that it has for its subject my hero walking to what he believes will be certain death.
But when Harry takes his last, long walk into the heart of the Dark Forest, he is choosing to accept a burden that fell on him when still a tiny child, in spite of the fact that he never sought the role for which he has been cast, never wanted the scar with which he has been marked.
As his mentor, Albus Dumbledore, has tried to make clear to Harry, he could have refused to follow the path marked out for him. In spite of the weight of opinion and expectation that singles him out as the "Chosen One", it is Harry's own will that takes him into the Forest to meet Voldemort, prepared to suffer the fate that he escaped sixteen years before.
The destinies of wizards and princes might seem more certain than those carved out for the rest of us, yet we all have to choose the manner in which we meet life: whether to live up (or down) to the expectations placed upon us; whether to act selfishly, or for the common good; whether to steer the course of our lives ourselves, or to allow ourselves to be buffeted around by chance and circumstance.
Birthdays are often moments for reflection, moments when we pause, look around, and take stock of where we are; children gleefully contemplate how far they have come, whereas adults look forwards into the trees, wondering how much further they have to go.
This extract from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favourite part of the seventh book; it might even be my favourite part of the entire series, and in it, Harry demonstrates his truly heroic nature, because he overcomes his own terror to protect the people he loves from death, and the whole of his society from tyranny.
All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to benefit The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts and can be purchased on Amazon and Amazon UK
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