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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 11, 2009 6:37:06 GMT -5
Half-Blood Prince becomes fastest-selling DVD of 2009 in United Kingdom
Having been on sale since Monday, the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD is the fastest-selling DVD in the UK. UPI reports:
More than 840,000 copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" were sold its first day on DVD, making the British flick the year's fastest-selling video.
The BBC quoted Warner Home Video's John Stanley Thursday as saying he is "delighted by the extraordinary first day sales performance" of the DVD edition of the sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise.
The fastest-selling DVD of 2008 was the ABBA movie musical "Mamma Mia!" which moved 1,669,084 copies its first day in stores, the British broadcaster said.
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 11, 2009 6:39:12 GMT -5
it's a big number but compared to Mamma Mia it's bloody nothing lool I can't believe that Mamma Mia is the highest grossing film in the UK.
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 18:32:53 GMT -5
Ka-Ching! Half-Blood Prince finishes theater run with $934,559,990
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has officially left all movie theaters as of December 17th, and the grand box office total is in: $934,559,990
$301,959,197 came from the United States box office while international ticket sales accounted for the remaining $632,600,793.
We wonder how much the film would have made if it was released as originally scheduled in November 2008!
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 18:41:28 GMT -5
Thats ALOT of dosh lol
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 18:45:10 GMT -5
Half Blood Prince is now #7 at the All Time Box Office. It's been updated since the last time I posted it so here's the link again if just in case you wanna look www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 18:51:02 GMT -5
The Minister speaks: Bill Nighy discusses role as Scrimgeour
WITH his squid-like tentacles, Bill Nighy's Davy Jones is one of the scariest baddies in family film history.
And even without the computer effects, just the mention of the Pirates Of The Caribbean star coming for tea is enough to strike fear into children.
But Bill, 60, is a bit of a scaredy-cat himself ... he suffers from terrible stage fright. He admitted: "It gets worse and worse. It's like an illness. You get a shortness of breath, light-headedness and you feel nauseous."
While he's not laughing about his problem, the reaction of children to him provokes a chuckle.
"I look a lot different to Davy Jones," he said.
" That means I don't get recognised as him too often.
"But a lot of people put two and two together. I visited a friend the other day. We were in the kitchen and she said, 'My grandchildren would love to meet you. They're huge fans of Pirates.'
"So she went off to get these two little boys from their bedroom, shouting, 'Hey boys, Davy Jones is in the kitchen.'
"They locked the door, which seemed a very sensible thing to do. They wouldn't come out."
Bill starred as Scots baddie Davy in Pirate films Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, which is the main Boxing Day film on BBC1 and stars Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom and Rolling Stone Keith Richards.
But it's Bill you can't take your eyes off. Even though you only see his real face for a few seconds, his computer-created waving tentacle beard, massive crab-claw hand and barnacled body have become the stuff of children's nightmares.
Even when he later saw his friend's grandchildren and they could see he wasn't really Davy jones, they were on their guard.
He said: "I met them in the street, where they couldn't get away. But obviously I wasn't the squid, Davy Jones.
"I was just the guy who played the squid, so they were perfectly fine, although they were slightly edgy. Afterwards, I heard they said to their mum: 'He looks like the president and talks like Austin Powers'."
Bill, whose psychiatric nurse mum grew up in Glasgow - the reason he did a Scots accent for Davy was because he was couldn't do a Dutch one - has become a national treasure.
Since his Bafta-winning role as Cameron Foster in the original BBC version of State Of Play, he has become a seriously in-demand actor.
He won a Best Supporting Actor Bafta and his first flush of fame as washed-up rocker Billy Mack in Love Actually.
He has also played a vampire in the Underworld series, voiced Dylan in The Magic Roundabout, done the voice-over in television documentary Meerkat Manor, been the baddie in the family film G-Force and had scene-stealing roles in comedies Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Boat That Rocked.
It seems Bill, who split last year from actress Diana Quick, whom he'd been with for 27 years and had daughter Mary, can turn his hand to anything - apart from beating stage fright.
He said: "When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months."
Bill, who made his Broadway debut in 2006 in The Vertical Hour, added: "It's absolutely normal and appropriate to be scared.
"Everyone is scared. I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
"It doesn't stop you from doing what you've got to do. Otherwise, no one would be able to do it."
One part Bill won't mind being scared about is Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister for Magic in the final two Harry Potter movies - Deathly Hallows Part 1 and II.
He is currently filming the second, in which his character becomes a father figure to Harry, Hermione and Ron after the death of Dumbledore. Part 1 will be released in November next year with the final Potter film, due out in July 2011.
"Scrimgeour is a tragic figure," said Bill. "He knows what's coming. It's a very moving thing to play.
"He's also very powerful and has had a very complicated progress to the top. And he has an interesting relationship with Harry, who views him initially with contempt. But then it's softened by subsequent events.
"There's a scene where he delivers Dumbledore's legacy to the three children.
"He gives them all the things Dumbledore has left them, and that's when it's indicated he may not be around for much longer."
This year has been good for Bill. He was the stand-out in The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis's pop-tastic look at a pirate radio ship in the Sixties.
In G-Force, which featured gadget-using guinea-pigs, he was very much the human star.
Bill admits he's a bit of a technophobe and wasn't jealous of his furry co-stars.
He said: "I never got into electronic things.
"I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer. I don't even own a car.
"I don't have anything electrical, except for a kettle and toaster. Oh, and my mobile phone." Which he uses a lot. He loves to text. Perhaps it's this energy - he can never sit still - that keeps him agreeing to new roles.
Next year, he'll be filming Burke And Hare, about Edinburgh's famous graverobbers, which also stars David Tennant, Simon Pegg and John Cleese.
But there's a downside to being in such demand.
Bill said: "I would love another dog, but I'm too busy.
"I had two dogs and a cat, but they passed away. I don't think it's fair to get one right now."
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 18:55:37 GMT -5
Thats one long arse interview lol and I don't know where they got the 'father figure' part from coz in the books i'm pretty sure Harry disliked Scrimgeour lol
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 22, 2009 19:00:06 GMT -5
JK Rowling is the bestselling author of the decadeTo the surprise of no Harry Potter fan, The Telegraph has published a list of the bestselling authors of the decade and JK Rowling sits at the top: The top 100 authors dominate sales. As The Bookseller has explained, some 100,000 titles are published every year, but these authors account for 1 pound in every 6 pound spent on books and a fifth of revenue. J K Rowling, who has seven of the decade’s top 10 bestsellers, sold 29 million books with a sales value of 215 pound million, but Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code was the bestselling book of the decade, selling 5.2 million copies to 4.4 million for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. To view the full list of bestselling authors, click here: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6866648/Bestselling-authors-of-the-decade.htmlOn a related note, The Guardian recently published a list of this decade's icons. Harry Potter, of course, is on the list: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/22/harry-potter-icons-of-the-decade
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Post by ●..Chuck..● on Dec 23, 2009 10:10:32 GMT -5
Ohh i like that Bill Nighy's in the next film! I loved him in POTC and Love Actually, hes one funny dude! And im pretty sure this was the guy Beth wanted to play Aro in New Moon lol
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Dec 24, 2009 17:30:49 GMT -5
Ohh i like that Bill Nighy's in the next film! I loved him in POTC and Love Actually, hes one funny dude! And im pretty sure this was the guy Beth wanted to play Aro in New Moon lol lool yeah he's a great actor and I loved him too in POTC 2! It's my fave!
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Post by ●..Chuck..● on Dec 25, 2009 9:03:48 GMT -5
I GOT MY DVD THIS MORNING! Off to watch the extras now before dinner!!
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