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Harry Potter News, Books and Films – The Leaky Cauldron 
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The Daily Prophet – Harry Potter blog – timesunion.com – Albany NY
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When Harry Left Hogwarts Documentary Now Online
Posted 11/21/2011 Source: The-Leaky-Couldron.org
The “When Harry Left Hogwarts” documentary, which features footage from the filming of the final two movies, is now available to watch online. The documentary was filmed by BAFTA recipient Morgan Matthews and can be viewed in two parts here and here or below.
Bringing a Wizard’s Dark World to Life
Posted 11/19/2010 Source: WSJ.com
Over the past 10 years, Stuart Craig has designed a sprawling gothic boarding school campus as the setting for the Harry Potter films. For the seventh film, which moves away from theHogwartsSchool, he gave the franchise a darker look.
For the seventh Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” released Friday, Mr. Craig, 68, faced a new challenge: None of the action takes place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the primary setting of the first six Harry Potter movies. Mr. Craig needed to create nearly 2½ hours’ worth of new settings, and give the franchise a darker look. The film unfolds like a road movie, with the characters traveling through bleak, barren countryside and facing mortal dangers in burning houses and cobwebbed castles.
At the movie’sLondon premiere last week, Mr. Craig noted with satisfaction that the audience visibly shuddered when Harry jumped into an icy pond in a lifeless, moonlit forest. “It was giving an extreme sense of discomfort,” he said.
In reality, the scene was shot entirely at Leavesden Studios in Watford, nearLondon, where all the Harry Potter movies were made. Leavesden is also home to the fictional Ministry of Magic, which is supposed to sit beneath a real street in theLondon government district of Whitehall. To create the ministry, which first appeared in “Harry Potter and the Order of thePhoenix” in 2007, Mr. Craig studied underground structures such as theLondon andMoscow subway stations.
For the new film, Mr. Craig added a towering monument to the ministry’s atrium. The Soviet-style sculpture shows wizards crushing cowering muggles—people without magic powers—and bears an engraving that says “Magic Is Might.” The totalitarian aesthetic, Mr. Craig says, highlights the theme of a world dominated by evil. He used seemingly long, winding corridors to give the ministry a Kafkaesque feel. As the characters explore the building, including an upstairs office and a basement courtroom, viewers soon feel as if they know their way around the place.
Mr. Craig designed his first set as a teenager inEngland, when he painted theTower ofLondon as a background for a school production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Yeomen of the Guard.” Years later, in 1983, Mr. Craig won his first Academy Award for his work on “Gandhi.” He won two subsequent Oscars for “Dangerous Liaisons” and “The English Patient.”
One afternoon in 1999, Mr. Craig was decorating the bedroom of his soon-to-be-born grandson when director Chris Columbus called and invited him toLos Angeles to discuss a film version of the first Potter novel. Mr. Craig rushed out to buy the book and got on the plane. Reading it, he felt “a slight sense of panic.” He had to invent a complex world, based in reality but with magical elements. Many readers had firm images of that world already in their heads.
For theHogwartsCastle, he studied Norman and Gothic cathedrals. The school’s Great Hall was based onChristChurchCollege atOxford. In the first six movies, the Hogwarts exterior that audiences see is a scale model built at 1/24th of the size shown on screen, that sat inside the studio, a former aircraft hangar. For the final film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” scheduled for release next year, Hogwarts was made digitally. Visual effects experts scanned the model and then scanned surfaces of real buildings, including cracks and crumbling masonry. Those images were then laid over those of the model, creating a more weathered texture and more architectural detail. The improved castle walls allowed for more action close to the building—essential for the final film, which revolves around Hogwarts.
In “Hallows: Part 1,” Mr. Craig’s favorite scene doesn’t use elaborate visual effects. Harry’s friend Hermione Granger leaves her family’s middle-class home to join her companions on a dangerous journey. After erasing her parents’ memories of her, she walks out of a cozy living room and onto a coldly lit street.
“We wanted to show a place that’s hard to leave,” Mr. Craig said.
Deathly Hallows trailer debuts at Cinema Expo, to play in front of Eclipse in theaters
Posted 6/24/2010 Source: MuggleNet.com
UPDATE: We’ve now learned that the trailer will debut online Monday, June 28th at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT!
This information has once again been confirmed by an entertainment and media analyst who caught the trailer at Cinema Expo International in the Netherlands earlier today. Moreover, he says the Deathly Hallows trailer is the best trailer of the year and contains footage from Parts 1 and 2: New Harry Potter teaser will play with Twilight’s #Eclipse next week and includes footage of both part I & II. Best trailer of year so far! Based on the FANTASTIC teaser at CinemaExpo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2D looks amazing in itself– no need for 3D. We have heard rumors that the trailer may debut online as early as June 28th. However, this is NOT official yet. At the least, you can expect to see the trailer with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in theaters on June 30th!
Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Finally Open, Get Your Quidditch On!
6/19/2010 Source: CinemaBlend.com
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is finally open at Universal Studios in Orlando, and by all accounts, demand is both unprecedented and a little bit nuts, with reports of four to six hour-long lines to just enter the park. The park opened around 9:30am, but thousands of fans arrived days in advance, with fans camping out overnight along the interstate. We’re all excited to ride a broomstick or two, right?
Early-bird fans who were there for the very start of the day’s festivities bore witness as Daniel Radcliffe drew open the curtain and officially opened the park, joined at the opening by Warwick Davis (who plays Filius Flitwick), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore).
Okay, okay. You want to know what you can find inside–we get it. The big centerpiece of the park is Hogwarts castle, which towers over the other Islands of Adventure. Inside the castle is the all-new, specifically crafted Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (eat your heart out, Cinderella’s Castle). The ride promises to be a “greatest hits” tour through the spots you’d expect, including a brief drop-in Quidditch match, a throwdown with the Whomping Willow, and an attempt at surviving a dragon attack.
Outside the castle, you can pretty much have the full Diagon Alley experience, from a pint at the Hog’s Head pub right on through to picking up a Marauder’s Map or three at Filch’s. There’s also the intriguingly-named “Flight of the Hippogriff” attraction, which I REALLY HOPE involves “The Flight of the Bumblebee” as played on a large instrument (let’s say a tuba), and another dozen or so attractions, from roller coasters on down.
Despite being less than a day old, the fan community is abuzz with what’s next for the park, as its popularity leads to inevitable expansion. MTV’s got a fun little piece on suggestions for themed rides coming down the pike, and, for those of you with an interest in homebrewing, the Christian Science Monitor has an in-depth interview with J.K. Rowling about the painstaking process of bringing butterbeer into real life. Happy wizarding, everybody!
Warner Bros Says ‘Harry Potter’ Set Fire No Cause For Alarm, That Set ‘Was Due To Be Rebuilt’
Posted 3/22/2010 by Adam Rosenberg in News
There was news out of the UK yesterday that a fire on the set of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” left Hogwarts in ruins. The truth is not quite that dramatic, but it makes for compelling copy, right? All of the “Harry Potter” films have been shot at Leavesden Film Studios, near Watford, Hertfordshire. Local paper Watford Observer reports that the fire started while second unit shooting was underway on Friday evening, on a courtyard scene that factors into a battle sequence — presumably the climax — in the second of the final two “Potter” films. The pyrotechnics-heavy work being done got a little bit out of control, leading to the fire. Warner Bros has already confirmed that none of the principal cast members were present, no one was injured and no equipment was damaged. In a statement, a “Potter” rep said of the incident: “It was a big special effects scene. Unfortunately, there was a small fire as a result of that. As a precaution, as we had already mobilized our own in-house fire team who had it under control, the fire brigade was called and it was put out in under an hour.” The statement went on to confirm that Leavesden wasn’t damaged at all by the fire and that the fire-plagued set was already going to be rebuilt anyway. “The scene was where the set was being destroyed and then it was to be rebuilt for a new scene, as part of a battle for Deathly Hallows part two.” The “Potter” team responded following early reports that the cost of the damage was somewhere in the neighborhood of £100,000. While those early reports also made mention of the incident causing production delays for Warner, so far the planned release dates of November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011 remain unchanged.
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Harry Potter’s Hogwarts set destroyed as explosions trigger blaze
THE Hogwarts set for the final Harry Potter adventure has been destroyed in a blaze as filming for the final battle scene went disastrously wrong. Explosives set light to scenery at the school of magic as cast and crew shot the Battle of Hogwarts climax for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fire crews battled for 40 minutes to bring the flames under control but the set was wrecked. Six fire engines raced to Leavesden Film Studios, near Watford, Hertfordshire, in the drama on Friday evening. A source said: “We were shooting the scenes where Hogwarts gets blown up during the battle. But fire managed to catch hold of the set and it went up in flames. It was completely out of control at one point.” It’s understood that the main cast members including Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione) or Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) were not there at the time. There were about 100 crew members and some cast on set and all escaped without injury. One source estimated damage at £100,000. Warner Bros confirmed the incident and insisted production was still going ahead but it will be a setback for the schedule, with the first part of the story due out towards the end of the year. The Battle of Hogwarts scenes involve Harry raising an army of students to defend the school from evil wizard Voldemort. A fire service spokesman said: “There was a big battle scene involving a lot of pyrotechnics and explosions. There was a mocked-up castle made of timber, steel and plastic and somehow it caught alight.’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the final instalment of the franchise. It will be released in 3D, with the first part out on November 19 and the second on July 15, 2011.