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Issue 26 - Dec. 2009
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Telegraph: J. K. Rowling Bestselling Author of the Decade
The Telegraph has ranked Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling in the number one spot of their list compiling the top 100 bestselling authors of the decade. With over twenty-nine million copies sold, Miss Rowling's novels beat out books by such other authors as Dan Brown, John Grisham, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, and Frank McCourt. According to the paper, sales figures the HarContinued...
Reading of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Dan Radcliffe Takes Place in NYC
BroadwayWorld.com has a report online from a private reading of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," featuring actor Dan Radclliffe (Harry Potter) in New York yesterday. As readers will recall, rumors first surfaced of Mr. Radcliffe's involvement in this reading via a report in Variety Magazine last October. Today, the report, available to read here, goes through the aContinued...
Emma Watson Launches Official Christmas Site
Emma Watson has just launched a Christmas microsite, where she has recorded a video message for her fans where she discusses being back on set after returning from her first semester at Brown University. She has also included new pictures, links to music she'll be listening this holiday season, and message area where you can say hello to the Potter star. Enjoy!
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Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes Harry Potter: Guardian's Icon of the Decade Photographer Tim Hailand Talks One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe BookMore Leaky News
Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes
Happy birthday wishes go out on this day to actor Ralph Fiennes, who portrays the character of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. Mr. Fiennes is celebrating his 47th birthday today. Cheers to you, Ralph!
Harry Potter: Guardian's Icon of the Decade
As 2009 comes to a close, newspapers continue to take stock of the decade, compiling lists which look back the past ten years. Tonight, the Guardian has such a list, naming the Harry Potter series as one of their "Icons of the Decade." In this profile, the newspaper goes through the history of the series, noting its impact on the world of publishing, presence in Hollywood, and influeContinued...
Photographer Tim Hailand Talks One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe Book
Video featuring photographer Tim Hailand discussing his One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe photographic book has been posted to the photographer's YouTube, and contains the first look at the newly released publication. Order Partners DanRadcliffe.com report that the four minute video features the photographer speaking about concept for the photographs of Dan Radcliffe (Harry PottContinued...
Death Eater Actor Donates First Edition Potter Books to British Heart Foundation
Keighley News reports that the British Heart Foundation has received a charitable donation of a full set of first edition Harry Potter novels from Michael Thompson, an actor set to play a Death Eater in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film. Mr. Thompson donated the set books from his personal collection of sixty Potter novels to the British Heart Foundation after hisContinued...
Happy Birthday, Chris Dotson!
We are lucky today, because this person just joined senior staff at Leaky and we haven't even had time yet to mark his birthday in our "to post on Leaky" calendars before it was upon us. Nevertheless we hope you'll join us in wishing Chris Dotson, who runs the super-fantastic video galleries here at Leaky with endless enthusiasm and efficiency, the most super-fantastic birthday yet! HaContinued...
The Economist on Economy of Harry Potter; Deathly Hallows Filming Ends in May
Business and world finance magazine The Economist has published a lengthy profile on the varied ways in which the Harry Potter series by author J. K. Rowing as impacted on the financial and business markets over the past twelve years. In this article, the successes of the series are examined, along with many of their particular economic effects. Of interest are comments made by HarryContinued...
Times Online Significant Others Q&A with Tom Felton
Times Online has a fun and probing Q&A with actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) online tonight, in which he discusses the people in his life who have been most significant. In the article, which can be read via this link, Mr. Felton speaks to the reactions of his friends to his work on the Harry Potter films, the sacrifices of his mother, support of his family, and more. In regards to HaContinued...
James and Oliver Phelps to Attend Wizarding World Theme Park Opening
As readers will recall, last week word came from an interview conducted by The Magazine in Canada with actors Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) that the pair will be visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park currently under construction at Universal Orlando, Florida. Word comes today from the Twitter account of actor Oliver Phelps (George WeasleContinued...
Half-Blood Prince Debuts at Top of DVD and BluRay Sales Charts
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD garnered the top spot in Nielsen VideoScan's First Alert sales chart this week with a total of $302 million in sales. First week sales of the sixth Potter film came in above the such releases as Public Enemies and Julie and Julia, which were ranked in second and third place, respectively. The report goContinued...
Rupert Grint in February Issue of Total Film Magzine
At the request of Total Film Magazine, the scan of Mr. Grint featured in their February issues has been removed.
As TLC reported previously, the issue is set to feature the Harry Potter films at number eight of their "Franchise of the Decade" list. If anyone can get scans of the feature inside the magazine, please send them to staff@the-leaky-cauldron.org.
New Feature on LEGO Harry Potter Video Game
The upcoming LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 game is featured in the new issue of Game Informer magazine and contains many new photos and information about the video game which is due out next year. In scans you can see here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), we learn that you will play through each of the years separately (SS, CoS, PoA and GoF) but that you can bring a character forward to a different yearContinued...
Amazon UK: Harry Potter on Top Selling Lists of the Decade
Sales of Harry Potter items are in the news as UK Amazon has released several lists today of top sellers over the past decade. The Telegraph reports that in the Top Selling DVDs and Blu-rays of the decade for the online retailer, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was number six on the list (number one was Mamma Mia followed by Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Lord of thContinued...