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Rowling Wins Lexicon Court Case

September 8th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Lexicon Court Case, Harry Potter Lexicon decision, J.K. Rowling Steve Vander Ark, Rowling vs. Vander Ark, rdr books from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

JKR/WB has won the court case against SVA/RDR.
Plaintiffs have shown that the Lexicon copies a sufficient quantity of the Harry Potter series to support finding a substantial similarity between the Lexicon and Rowling’s novels.The Lexicon draws 450 manuscript pages worth of material primarily from the 4,100-page Harry Potter series.
The full text of the decision.
J.K. Rowling Statement
“I took no pleasure [...]

Half-Blood Prince Game, The Sequel!

August 22nd, 2008 — , Grand Theft Auto, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, World of Warcraft, simulation, spinoff, videogames from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head

by Dave
An article on The Leaky Cauldron has touched on a different issue concerning the Harry Potter videogames: the potential that they might keep making them after Deathly Hallows. The game industry does have a habit of running moneymaking franchises into the ground, especially if they have marketing tie-ins that reach audiences outside of [...]

Half-Blood Prince Game

August 21st, 2008 — , Electronic Arts, Half Blood Prince, Half-Blood Prince videogame, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head

by Dave
So, now that the movie has been delayed, what does this mean for the videogame? Apparently nothing. Some footage was shown at the Lepzig Games Convention (YouTube link here) in Germany over the last couple of days, and the release date is still slated for this November. The link is worth a look just to [...]

Alan Horn Statement on Half-Blood Prince Film Delay

August 19th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince Movie Delay, Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, The Novels from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

by Travis
Alan Horn of Warner Bros. issued a statement today in response to the many complaints about the delayed release of Half-Blood Prince:
Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009.
Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never [...]

Why The Half-Blood Prince Movie Delay?

August 19th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

by Travis
Eric D. Snider debunks the following 4 Myths about the Half-Blood Prince movie delay:

Half-Blood Prince was moved because WB was scared of Twilight. (That one’s just silly.)
It got moved because WB was nervous about Daniel Radcliffe’s extra-curricular activities. (Referring to his appeared naked in Equus)
WB moved Half-Blood Prince to the one-year anniversary of The [...]

Entertainment Weekly’s Prince Cover Mistake

August 18th, 2008 — , Cover Mistake, Entertainment Weekly, Fall Preview Issue, Half-Blood Prince film, Harry News and Commentary from Behold a Phoenix @ The Hog's Head

by Johnny
Entertainment Weekly, who is owned by Warner Bros. parent company Time Warner, Inc., featured the face of Daniel Radcliffe in their new Fall Preview issue that hit newstands in the middle of last week. The only problem is that the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will not be released until July 17, [...]

Potter Fans Happy About Half-Blood Prince Movie Delay

August 17th, 2008 — , Azkatraz San Francisco, Azkatraz and Half Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter conferences, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

I suggested, upon hearing the news of the delay of the Half-Blood Prince movie, that the only silver lining to the news would be for Azkatraz 2009 attendees. The LA Times got a note from a member of Team Azkatraz, Heidi Tandy, saying that very thing. There is no way they’ll be able to accommodate everyone [...]

Marauder’s Map: Potter Events From Now Till Half-Blood Prince

August 15th, 2008 — , Beedle the Bard, Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter conferences, Harry Potter events, John Granger, Melissa Anelli book, Tales of Beedle the Bard, The Movies, academic books on Harry Potter from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

Despite the fact that the supposed next big Potter event - the release of the Half-Blood Prince film - has been delayed till next summer, the Potterverse will be alive and kicking, with lots of key events, until that film release. Here’s a breakdown, in as close to chronological order as possible. Consider this your magical [...]

New Half-Blood Prince Pictures

August 14th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Half-Blood Prince pictures, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

Five more pictures from the Half-Blood Prince movie we now won’t see until July 17 of next year. Images of Snape, Bellatrix, and Slughorn, and the Slug Club are of interest. (HT to HPANA)

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Half-Blood Prince Movie Delayed Until Summer 2009

August 14th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

This is going to disappoint a lot of folks (myself included). Warner Bros has apparently decided to change the release of the film version of Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009 (instead of Thanksgiving of this year).
“Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for [...]

Rowling is Gold: A Simple 800-word Prequel Helps Break a Record

August 9th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter 800-word prequel, Harry Potter Prequel from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

It was a simple 800-word story scribbled on two sides of a postcard, but it helped What’s Your Story? sell out in a day, breaking the record for the fastest-selling short story collection in history. From BBC:
What’s Your Story? contains 13 postcard-sized tales by authors including Doris Lessing, Nick Hornby and Sebastian Faulks.
More than 10,000 copies [...]

Tales of Beedle the Bard Cover Art

July 31st, 2008 — , Amazon Tales of Beedle the Bard, Beedle the Bard Cover Art, Harry News and Commentary, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

For the standard edition:

Pre-Order The Tales of Beedle the Bard at Amazon.com

July 31st, 2008 — , Amazon Tales of Beedle the Bard, Harry News and Commentary, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

by Travis
I decided this deserved its own post.
Exciting news: Amazon is selling copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, available for pre-order! (If you decide to order a copy, please do so by clicking to it from this site; that way, you can support The Hog’s Head at the same time!) Proceeds go to [...]

Image from Half-Blood Prince Trailer

July 28th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince pictures, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies, Tom Riddle from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

HPANA reports the release of an image of young Tom Riddle from the trailer for Half-Blood Prince to be released tomorrow. That’s actually a younger Dumbledore in the background, too.

Harry Potter This Week: Half Blood Prince Trailer, Harry’s Birthday

July 27th, 2008 — , AOL Half-Blood Prince Trailer, Half Blood Prince Teaser Trailer, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter's Birthday, J.K. Rowling's Birthday, Jim Dale, Portus 2008, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

It should be a fun forthcoming week in Harry Potter’s world.
Tuesday, the 29th, the Half-Blood Prince Trailer will be appearing exclusively on AOL. It will be our first live-action look at the new film. I really enjoyed what Yates did with Order of the Phoenix, but I have to admit I’m a bit nervous about this [...]

HP a “New Classic”

June 25th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, goblet of fire from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head

by Dave
Jamie and I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, my favorite section of which is Stephen King’s monthly column in the back of the magazine. While the magazine certainly isn’t especially critically aware or anything, their latest issue lists what they believe are the “new classics” of film, television, books, and videogames. “New Classics” [...]

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HP “Prequel”: What Do You Think?

May 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Prequel, JK Rowling from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head

by Dave
Check out this news article from the Chicago Sun-Times. For a charity event, several major UK authors were asked to write something on a card to be auctioned to raise money to help those with dyslexia:
Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.
Rowling’s “prequel” [...]

Rowling Wins Court Case

May 7th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary, JK Rowling from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

No, not that court case. This one:
Harry Potter author JK Rowling won a landmark privacy ruling in her battle to ban publication of covert long lens pictures taken of her son when he was 18 months old.

Potter Out of the Top Ten

May 1st, 2008 — , Bestseller List, Harry News and Commentary from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

For the first time in 10 years, there are no Harry Potter books in the Top Ten Bestseller list.
(HT to Glenn Lucke)

Rowling vs. the Lexicon, Again…

April 15th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, JK Rowling, Rowling, Steve Vander Ark, The Movies, The Novels, copyright infringement, lawsuit from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head

by Dave
The copyright case Rowling brought against Steve Vander Ark goes to trial this week, as I’m sure some of you read. I’m not going to offer up anything new about the case, copyright infringement, or her ownership over her work (authorial or otherwise).
I thought I’d give you a couple of links:
This one takes [...]

Rowling on Dumbledore’s Sexuality (again)

March 11th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

There are a lot of comments I want to make, and later tonight I may modify this post to include them, but for now, I figured I’d just report it: Rowling’s talking about Dumbledore’s sexuality again, and this statement is packed with stuff that is bound to generate an opinion or two (or thirty).
“It is [...]

Harry Potter: Addictive?

February 24th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary from Behold a Phoenix @ The Hog's Head: A Pub for Potter

by Johnny
This is several days old, but not covered here. MTV News broke the story about a new study that concludes that Harry Potter, big surprise, can be addictive:
They surveyed fans before the book’s release, upon completion of the book and six months afterwards as a follow-up. The 10 percent of respondents that Rudski considers [...]

For Harry/Hermione ‘Shippers…

February 20th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head: A Pub for Potter

I avoid ’shipping here, but after the debates and disappoinments for Harry/Hermione ’shippers (of which I was not one), there is a touch of vindicating irony in this story.

Rowling invokes Tolkien, talks literature and politics

February 12th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary, JK Rowling from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head Pubcast - A Harry Potter Blog!

by Travis
Rowling rarely mentions Tolkien, but I’ve found in the process of writing my book that she has far more in common with him than I had previously realized. Chalk it up to the Cauldron of Story (which is precisely what I do, actually….) In the recent interview for El Pais, translated (with [...]

Sharing Our Entertainer: Rowling, Shared Books, and Pop Culture

November 29th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, Hogwarts School of Literature from Dave the Longwinded @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

by Dave
I know that I’m a bit late on this subject. I’ve been fighting a good case of the flu (which has morphed into a sinus infection), and the Thanksgiving holiday threw me out of the loop, too. Combined with the fact that ideas new to me take some time to percolate and [...]

J.K. Rowling Sues Steve Vander Ark

October 31st, 2007 — Harry News and Commentary, J.K. Rowling from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers are suing RDR Books for the forthcoming “Harry Potter Lexicon” book by Steve Vander Ark.
In a statement on Wednesday, Rowling said even though she loved fan sites, she hoped to write “the definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia, which will include all the material that never made it into the novels” and [...]

Please, Mrs. Rowling, May We Have Some More? Or Might You Simply Shut It, Altogether?

October 23rd, 2007 — Albus Dumbledore, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, Hogwarts School of Literature from Dave the Longwinded @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

by Dave
Update: Jamie, my wife, has forwarded me a link to an AP news story on Yahoo! The revised reading has begun…
So, we all woke up this weekend with our understanding of our favorite fictional realm…”altered”. I have to admit, my first reaction upon seeing the headline on Yahoo! Saturday morning included [...]

Rowling: “Dumbledore was Gay”

October 19th, 2007 — Albus Dumbledore, Harry News and Commentary from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

by Travis
Note: The spam-catcher is stealing a lot of comments in this thread. Matthew and I are trying to stay on top of it, but if your comment does not show up, please let us know, and we’ll find it!
Well, if the bombshell revelation that the Harry Potter books really were about the Christian story [...]

Review for Local Paper

July 26th, 2007 — Deathly Hallows, Harry News and Commentary, Hogwarts School of Theology from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

I wrote a short review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for our local paper, the Democrat and Chronicle, and it was published today in the opinion section:

Harry Potter message is biblical: Love can oust evil

Thankfully, the online version does not have the mugshot of a picture I sent to the paper which appears [...]

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