Location Filming Fees for Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows to Benefit Children's Hospice
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Posted by: sue
September 14, 2009, 09:18 AM
The BBC is reporting today that money spent in making of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will help benefit a children's Hospice in the UK. As readers will recall, last week location filming for the Seven Potters scene took place in Liverpool, England at a place called Queensway Tunnel. As standard in film making, Warner Bros paid for the use of the tunnel, this time to a company called Merseytravel. In turn the company is donating £20,000 (UK pounds) to Claire House hospice.
"Councillor Mark Dowd, chair of Merseytravel which owns and operates
the two Mersey Tunnels, said he was delighted Claire House would
"benefit from such an iconic children's character as Harry Potter".Claire
House caters for children and young people aged from birth to 23 years
of age who are suffering from a life-limiting or life threatening
conditions.
Neil Scales, chief executive of Merseytravel, said:
"We arranged for the filming to coincide with the closure of the
Queensway Tunnel for routine maintenance. He said there was
confidentiality clause to prevent discussion of filming, but Harry
Potter had "weaved his magic for Claire House".
27576 Points
Warner Brother’s didn’t donate the money, Merseytravel did, so congratulations to them, glad that this money is going to such a good cause.
86 Points
I’ve always wondered just how much Harry Potter-related money has gone to charity. Between JK’s various auctions, the HP Alliance, and even PotterCast, how much would that total? It’s awesome, but the amounts would probably be mind-boggling o_0
1397 Points
Its so true, that it what truly makes Harry Potter magical, that not only do the books provide for enriching reads, but every week there is some news of HP related charity work. It is truly amazing to be part of such a great fandom :)
Three Cheers for MerseyTravel!!
355 Points
Yeah, it’s great that at least some of the incredible amount of money that Harry Potter makes goes to charity. Kudos to Mersytravel for this!
Yeah, it would be cool to see the total sum of money that has gone to charity just from the HP community. Does anyone have an estimate?
355 Points
Yeah, it’s great that at least some of the incredible amount of money that Harry Potter makes goes to charity. Kudos to Mersytravel for this!
Yeah, it would be cool to see the total sum of money that has gone to charity just from the HP community. Does anyone have an estimate?
Well that’s awesome!