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Hollywood Headlines
There was a lot of new-baby buzz when news of Reese Witherspoon heading to a hospital was reported, but it turns out that there's no baby yet. While the expecting mom did visit a hospital Tuesday, she was still preggers when she was released. A source told The Daily Mail that "all parties involved are healthy and fine." The actress is reportedly due early next month.
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Celine Dion is taking most of it off for V. The usually modestly dressed singer posed for pics wearing skin-tight shiny black pants and no top for the magazine's upcoming travel issue. If a topless Celine is not enough to entice you to buy the magazine, perhaps Nicole Kidman's cheeks on the fold-out front cover will seal the deal.
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Though it was always assumed that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson would both attend the red carpet premiere of this fall's Breaking Dawn - Part 2, rumor has it that RPattz is going to man up and walk side by side with Stewart, despite their recent break up. He reportedly wants to protect Stewart from possible embarrassment and booing female fans.
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All seven of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles have been available for purchase as an e-book for a little more than a month, and they will soon be available to borrow in an e-format as well.
Starting June 19, Amazon exclusively will be adding Sorcerer's Stone, Deathly Hallows, and all of the books in between to their Kindle Owners' Lending Library. Unlike a public library, there is no limit on the number of copies of an eBook that would be available to Amazon Prime subscribers, so there's never a waiting list for any particular title. Of course, also unlike a public library, there is a monthly subscription fee to have access to the library, as well as the purchase price of the Kindle itself. One thing is for sure, though: if you're wanting to take something along to read on a summer vacation, it's much easier to throw an e-reader in a bag than it is to schlep a 650-page copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince along on your travels.
And where better to go on vacation than a Harry Potter theme park? It turns out that there's another one on the way.
More Harry Potter News Posted 05.10.12 by Mandy -
Last weekend, just in time to make that "early April" deadline, Pottemore was finally released to the general public. Once live, all it took was a quick questionnaire to determine if the user was magical and then fans could explore the site... Well, that is, after they got their confirmation email several hours later. Then on to Hogwarts — after after another fairly lengthy wait for a second email. Then the opportunity to see Pottermore truly arrived. After months of waiting, millions of Harry Potter fans were able to get a firsthand glimpse of the highly anticipated website.
Unfortunately, only the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were actually available, while the rest of the site remains locked. So far, Pottermore is filled with fun, interactive illustrations of the chapters, chapter summaries, and character descriptions, but best of all are the tidbits from J.K. Rowling, herself. Certainly fans will be checking back regularly, hoping to get another nugget from her obviously vast supply of facts from the Potter universe.
Posted 04.18.12 by Mandy -
After the massive success of a franchise like Harry Potter, it's got to be intimidating for an author to release something brand new. J.K. Rowling has already announced that her new novel will be targeted to an adult audience, and today she and publisher Little, Brown & Co. announced the title and release date for the new book.
The Casual Vacancy, which is described as blackly comic, will be available worldwide on September 27, 2012. Along with the announcement came a brief synopsis for the new book. It is very clear that this new book has nothing whatsoever to do with a magical British boarding school.
what's Casual Vacancy about? Posted 04.12.12 by Mandy -
For more than a decade, Harry Potterphiles visiting England have made their way to many of the real-life places that inspired the books' and movies' locales. Now they can add the Leavesden studio to their pilgrimage checklist. The Making of Harry Potter opened last weekend, taking fans behind-the-scenes and showcasing a huge array of the sets, costumes, and props. We'll have TV coverage of the Warner Bros. studio tour on an upcoming Hollywood Dailies. In the meantime, enjoy this photo sneak peek at J.K. Rowling's imagination brought to life.
Photo Tour of The Making of Harry Potter >>
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It was supposed to open in October 2011, and then it was moved back to January 2012, but now, officially, Pottermore will open in April. The announcement was made on the official Pottermore blog yesterday, and undoubtedly millions of fans are excited to see the online interactive Harry Potter reading experience for themselves.
Unfortunately, one little detail was left out of the announcement: an actual date. Hopefully, this time they're not just leading us on, and it will open in about a month. The announcement did apologize for the delay and explained why it took so much longer than expected.
More on Pottermore >> Posted 03.09.12 by Mandy -
Usually, a publishing company buying the rights to an untitled book with an unnamed publication date isn't big news; however, when the author to the said book is Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling, an unusual amount of excitement is to be expected.
The New York Times reported that Little, Brown and Company will be publishing Rowling's first book in five years, and her first novel after the Potter series, which was published by Scholastic. In a statement, Rowling made it pretty clear her upcoming novel will not be a reiteration of her first series, but instead it will cover "new territory."
More about Rowling's new book and Pottermore >> Posted 02.23.12 by Mandy -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Michael Lohan was back in jail just 12 hours since being released on Wednesday after he made harassing phone calls to ex-girlfriend Kate Major. When police officers arrived at his Tampa hotel to investigate, Lohan jumped from a third-floor balcony in an attempt to escape, but landed in a tree and complained that he broke his foot.
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TMZ is claiming MiLo's daughter Lindsay Lohan in fact agreed to go full frontal for her Playboy spread, contradicting earlier reports that it would be a "non-nude" pictorial. She was reportedly paid close to $1 million for the shoot and now has a chance to make another cool mil as sex toy company FleshLight has offered her the sum to take a mold of Lindsay's privates to produce "authentic" Lindsay Lohan sex toys.
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The New York Post first reported on Tuesday that J.Crew president and creative director Jenna Lyons, 43, left her husband for another woman, and this morning they revealed her identity as 38-year-old Courtney Crangi, who runs the business side of her brother Philip Crangi's hip celebrity jewelry business.
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Yesterday a British coroner confirmed what everyone already knew, that singer Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning, but officially labeled it the much more fun-sounding "death by misadventure."
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler claims his face-damaging Paraguayan shower fall was not the result of a relapse into drugs and alcohol after he appeared on stage Wednesday sporting a big black eye.
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Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote her second book Confessions of a Guidette, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi told Kimmel she does not know who J.K. Rowling or Maya Angelou are. Polizzi was paid $32,000 to give the commencement address at Rutgers University earlier this year.
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Beavis and Butt-head fans are rejoicing as the show returns to MTV tonight at 10PM ET.
Posted 10.27.11 by reelz -
In a rather obvious attempt to bolster 4th quarter Blu-ray and DVD sales for the Harry Potter franchise, Warner Bros. announced yesterday that it will stop shipping all Harry Potter titles starting on December 29th of this year. The final movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, isn't even available until November 11, giving it only seven weeks on store shelves.
No reason for the moratorium was given in the official announcement, which leads us to believe that the Dark Lord, himself, must have been behind the decision.
Burbank, CA – October 24, 2011 – Harry Potter, the #1 motion picture franchise of all time, will soon disappear from shelves, as Warner Bros. stops shipping all Harry Potter theatrical film titles (including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ – Part 2, and Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection) as of December 29, 2011 (moratorium does not include digital – Electronic Sell-Through & VOD – or games). The Harry Potter franchise has grossed more than $12.1 billion for Warner Bros. Entertainment – with $7 billion at the worldwide box office for Warner Bros. Pictures and $5.1 billion for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Posted 10.25.11 by Mandy -
So far, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the highest grossing movie of the year with over $1.3 billion in revenue, but it's still not done. The movie will be available on Blu-ray and DVD November 11 and it will be absolutely jam-packed with special features.
Of course, there are the expected features like deleted scenes, but there is also the documentary on making the last movie that was revealed earlier this year, a featurette with Warwick Davis describing the process of becoming a goblin, as well as conversations with the cast and with Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. One of the conversations with Rowling focuses on "The Women of Harry Potter," and a clip of Rowling discussing everybody's favorite brainy witch, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) was recently released online. Unsurprisingly, Rowling was a huge fan of Watson's portrayal of Hermione.
watch the clip >> Posted 10.13.11 by Mandy