Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[Pubrick]

If we're lucky both Gilliam and Jeunet will get their chances. Maybe even Spielberg, and one from Burton would be cool.

hell, throw in mallick while you're at it. i think bergman expressed interest in it as his umpteenth swan song.

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Keep your fingers crossed for McG.

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Personally I'm keeping my fingers crossed for PTA. That would be AWESOME.

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hell, why doesn't squints take a stab while you guys are at it. i think RK expressed interest in this attempted owning as well.

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Carter Joins Potter Cast
New actors are in Order.

Helena Bonham Carter (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes) has joined the cast of Warners' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

CBBC Newsround reports that Carter is replacing the pregnant Helen McCrory, who had been cast as Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the David Yates-directed film. The screenplay adaptation was penned by Michael Goldenberg (Where the Wild Things Are, Peter Pan).

Helena Bonham Carter's credits include Corpse Bride, Big Fish, Fight Club, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

In other Potter casting news, the CBBC also claims that actress Apple Brook has been cast as Professor Grubbly-Plank.

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Potter's "Phoenix" Rising Next Summer

Muggles are going to have to crane their necks to catch this Phoenix.

Warner Bros. announced Wednesday plans to unspool Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the highly anticipated fifth film from J.K. Rowling's epic fantasy saga, simultaneously in theaters and on Imax screens nationwide July 13, 2007.

The studio followed a similar strategy for the last two entries in the billion-dollar franchise, last November's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabhan.

"We're delighted to be working with Warner Bros. Pictures," Imax coheads Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley Wechsler said in a statement. "The last two Harry Potter films we released to Imax theaters grossed a combined $34 million...This new title gives us a powerful kick-start to next year's film slate."

The last installment, Goblet of Fire, broke the record for Imax ticket sales, conjuring up more than $20 million.

No word yet whether Harry's latest supersize adventure will be digitally converted to Imax 3-D, as Warner Bros. is doing for several of this summer's would-be blockbusters, including Superman Returns and the animated Ant Bully, and as Sony Pictures Animation has agreed to do with its computer-animated debut, Open Season, out in September.

"Obviously, the entire industry is thinking about 3-D, but each film is looked at and negotiated one at a time," Imax spokeswoman Sarah Gormley told E! Online, noting that a decision on the eye-popping format will come once principal photography is complete.

Phoenix, helmed by acclaimed British TV director David Yates, finds our bespectacled orphan hero facing off against dastardly bureaucrat Dolores Umbridge (Vera Drake's Imelda Staunton), who, at the behest of corrupt officials at the Ministry of Magic, schemes to take over Hogwarts and oust Professor Dumbledore, enabling the return to power of You Know Who.

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are once again returning as Harry, Hermione and Ron, respectively, backed by an all-star cast that includes Ralph Fiennes back as the evil Lord Voldemort.

Warner Bros. has already begun development on the sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

As for the seventh and final chapter in Harry's increasingly dark odyssey, Britain's most famous (and wealthiest) author has confirmed she has started writing the story. But according to U.K. publisher Bloomsbury, the currently untitled tome won't hit bookstores until 2007 at the earliest. Our guess is it will be on shelves just in time for a certain movie opening.

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Goldenberg to script fifth 'Potter' film

Michael Goldenberg has signed on to adapt the fifth installment of the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," for producer David Heyman and Warner Bros. Pictures. The project is expected to begin principal photography in late 2005 or early 2006 for release in summer 2007. Steve Kloves, who wrote the screenplays for the first four "Harry Potter" films, has opted to step away from the series to adapt and direct another Warner Bros. project, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," based on the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon. Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B Entertainment is producing "Curious" with Heyman. Goldenberg most recently adapted "Where the Wild Things Are" and also wrote "Peter Pan" and "Contact." He also wrote and directed "Bed of Roses." In addition to writing the four "Harry Potter" screenplays, Kloves also has written "Racing With the Moon," "The Fabulous Baker Boys," "Flesh and Bone" and "Wonder Boys." He also directed "Flesh" and "Boys."

i know this is off topic, but is it just me or does practically every script with which this guy is involved have a name that wouldn't have to be changed for the softcore porn version?

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Rowling: Two 'Potter' characters will die

Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.

"I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I've always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books," Rowling said Monday on TV here.

"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, `Well, I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."

Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail.

"The last book is not finished. But I'm well into it now. I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is going to end," she said.

Some characters might die, but the blockbuster movie franchise lives on. Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that the fifth installment will be released in U.S. theaters, including Imax screens, on July 13, 2007.

In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," directed by David Yates, the teenage Harry continues to battle the evil Lord Voldemort (again played by Ralph Fiennes) and his followers. Daniel Radcliffe is returning as the title character, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles as Hermione and Ron. Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton plays the malicious, frumpy Professor Dolores Umbridge, who tortures Harry.

In her Monday interview on the "Richard and Judy" show, Rowling said people are sometimes shocked to hear that she wrote the end of book seven before she had a publisher for the first book in the series.

"The final chapter is hidden away, although it's now changed very slightly. One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die," she said. "A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras do they? They go for the main characters. Well, I do."

Rowling is the richest woman in Britain — wealthier than even the queen — with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine last year at more than $1 billion.

Whatever she writes next, Rowling is sure of one thing: It won't be as successful as Harry Potter.

"I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just get one like Harry."

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Emma Watson quits 'Harry Potter'?
Source: Digital Spy

Emma Watson has decided not to sign up for the final two Harry Potter movies, according to a report in the News of the World today.

The actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the films, has told producers that she wants to try other roles and turned down a new £2 million-per-movie offer.

Watson's co-star Rupert Grint, better known as Ron Weasley, admitted that he and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) no longer speak to the 16-year-old.

"Emma doesn't want to do it any more," Rupert explained. "She's tired of being known as 'that girl from Harry Potter'. Daniel and I are distant from her now. We don't text or talk to her when we are not filming."

The newspaper claims that it has received confirmation from Warner Brothers that Emma has not signed up for the final films.

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Watson 'will finish' Potter films

Actress Emma Watson is likely to return as Hermione in the last two Harry Potter movies despite reports she may quit, producers Warner Bros have said.
"We're extremely confident that Emma will be back for films six and seven," a spokesperson for the Hollywood studio told CBBC's Newsround.

The statement comes amid speculation that the 16-year-old told the company she did not want to continue.

Daniel Radcliffe has already agreed to take the lead role in both productions.

There have been four films based on JK Rowling's books so far, with the fifth - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - due for release in July.

Filming for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is scheduled to begin this year, with a release date at some point in 2008.

A release date in 2010 has been mooted for the seventh and final movie, The Deathly Hallows - the year Watson will turn 20.