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Why did I hear that in the voice of the kid-from-next-door from The Incredibles?

Just watched Columbus's Percy Jackson flick, which at the time was being touted as the new Harry Potter.  Can't see it somehow.  Thought the guest stars were ill-used and the kid himself a rent-a-youth.  Pfft...

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Quite liked Percy Jackson (annie likes it more), but PJ and others, like Artemis Fowl, all came out after HP and reeked of cashing in, but that's the nature of the business

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With today's fashion for lazy journalism, I'd say it was well nigh impossible to create anything original without some idiot calling it "the new [insert franchise]".  And automatically everybody assumes some bandwagon boarding or off-ripping.

Do anything involving vampires and it's the new Twiglet.
anything involving magic or schools and it's the new Harry Potter.
Time Travel and it's the new Doctor Who.

I suppose in some ways it's a useful shorthand for the potential audience - I could see Percy Jackson appealing to the Harry Potter crowd, but other than the training ground set-up having some vague similarity to Hogwarts, the two franchises are Gorgonzola and Calcite.

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It's also the nature of marketing. Your releasing something, you want journalists to know what it is immediately so they can get allegedly excited enough about it to cover the thing... so you call it the new Harry Potter, or the new Saw.


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Following on from a soon-to-be published interview with David Yates & the cast in EW, several hi-res images have been released. The split in the movies has also been hinted at heavily (bottom of post) by Yates and Radcliffe.

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Plot change, and spoiler. Harry releases Hedwig, makes more sense than trying to fit all his crap in that sidecar. However: SPOILER:
Hedwig comes back in the Seven Potters battle to save Harry, THEN she dies




Entering Grimmauld Place



Now, in the original teaser, her hands wre like this, but in the MTV trailer a month ago, they digitally cleaned her hands, nice to know they're not softening it up too much



Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna's dad, played by Rhys Ifans. Sidebar, Rhys is also playing Howard Marks in 'Mr Nice Guy'. Howard was present when Rhys had a fitting of his wizard's robes, Howard thought it was for his movie and remarked "I've done a lot of drungs in my time, but I don't remember wearing THAT"



Thought this was at Godric's Hollow, but looking at the furniture, I'd say that was at Xeno's house (It's completely circular)




The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, by Rita Skeeter



Scoping out the Ministry



WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE



Happy looking bunch



Gotta keep the tweens happy

So, the split. SPOILER:
According to the EW article, the split happens after Voldemort gains the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb. HOWEVER, Dan Radcliffe has recently said that while the first film is more of a road movie, the second film starts with a heist and doesn't stop from there. If what both guys has is true, they're screwing with the timeline again, and will take away the urgency with which Harry wants to gets to Hogwarts.

Harry wanted to get as many of the horcruxes under his belt before Voldemort figured out where the Elder Wand was. He did this just after the raid in Gringotts, which is obviously the heist Dan mentions, while they're resting by the lake after jumping of the Dragon (Harry gets a vision of Voldey entering the school grounds). It would make more sense with the split being just before the heist, and after the drama of Malfoy manor. That fills the second movie with Shell Cottage, Gringotts, Hogsmeade, Aberforth, into the school, start of the battle, Snape's death, snapes memories, into the forst, then the final battle.

That should fill 2.5 hours nicely

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This item was edited on Thursday, 19th August 2010, 21:44

The poster is on our Odeon now, and has a "See it in Imax 3d" sign on it.

I hope the 3d is Avatar proper use of 3d, rather than Alice in Wonderland tacked on 3d.

lol, just seen that's on the image above, hadn't noticed it before, it occupied more space on the picture I saw.

This item was edited on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 23:40

Think you'll find it's cardboard cut-out 3D

There's been a screening in Chicago this evening. Some chaps from Mugglenet managed to get in (buckets, I'm sure). One of the main points seems to be that the previous filmmakers' omission of Dobby from the intermediate films has been a sorer point than many realised

honestly

EDIT: Possible spoilers too

Voldemort has a hell of a lot of screen time

All reports seem to suggest that Yates has been incedibly faithful to the book, even including Georges' 'holey' gag, however-

While Kreacher is in the movie, his back story with Regalus isn't, which leads me to ask what was the point of keeping him in the fifth movie? His character is pivotal to the location of one of the horcruxes.

Wormtail doesn't die by his own hand, Dobby stuns him in the cellar.

The split is indeed after they escape Malfoy manor (and bury Dobby at shell cottage) and climaxes when Voldemort gets the Elder Wand from Dumlbledore's grave. Hopefully they'll patch this up in Part 2

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This item was edited on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, 11:52

Couple more, thanks to an up-coming Empire article

Just after the Seven Potters scene. In the book they fled to Ted Tonk's house, but it's been shortened so they go straight to the Burrow



Spot On. Scrimgeour hands Harry his golden snitch, bequeathed to him by Dumbledore



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High Volume, Full screen,. lights out, if you please...



Human vocabulary alone cannot possibly encapsulate how f***ing awesome this looks. maybe I'm biased, but every single shot was as it should be.

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