The sixth installment of Harry Potter franchise

The sixth installment of Harry Potter franchise — though I personally am not a huge fan of Boy-with-a-Wand — definitely makes it to the list of most awaited openings of 2008.

It is still being filmed, not having entered even a post-production stage, so the rumors still boil around it. Get me right — there are no rumors on the movie plot (that'd be weird), but as for the cast — there’s something to muse upon.

But let's get to the plot first. So, shortly: as Lord Voldemort is playing Joker (see The Dark Knight) on the United Kingdom, Harry is busy with a potions book with a "Half-Blood Prince" bookplate on it. He also practices some magic privately with Dumbledore (which is all too weird now, for we know now that Dumbledore was as gay as it gets). Luckily, Harry is totally straight, so he falls in sexual interest with Ginny Weasley. All the rest — magical wars, Voldemort's plans for the new world order, China’s growing influence and Teheran nuclear research — is so unimportant compared to puberty, you know…

So, the cast... Some thing never change (if the contract says so, of course), hence Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are still here as Harry, Ron and Hermione. The was a lot of buff that Watson will be leaving the franchise after the fifth movie, but she eventually decided that "the pluses outweighed the minuses", so we can be sure she’ll stay with us for Harry Potter 7 as well.

Jim Broadbent plays Horace Slughorn, blondy Tom Felton is again Draco Malfoy, Bonnie Wright plays Ginny Weasley. Other notables are David Thewlis as Remus Lupin and Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange.

There were reports that both Naomi Watts and Joseph Fiennes would be appearing in the movie too, but their representatives denied the reports completely. It is being still buzzed that Naomi Watts would be playing Narcissa Malfoy, Draco’s mother. Cthulhu-like Bill Nighy had expressed an interest in appearing in the film. The director David Yates said that if the part of Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour makes it to the final screenplay, then Nighy will be his first choice for the role.

Yates, by the way, who directed the previous Potter movie, could be substituted in his chair by Terry Gilliam, M. Night Shyamalan or Guillermo del Toro, but they all just turned down the chance to direct something like "Harry Potter and whatever".



The movie is opening on November, 21 in the United States and is destined to become a box-office hit. You know, the five Harry Potter films together have already out-grossed all 22 James Bond films, so Potter is the biggest movie franchise ever! Potter's $4.47 billion worldwide is nothing to sneeze at.

Hello, guys!

From now on and, hopefully, a couple of times a week, I'll be spending some time here, at this page, to dwell upon some upcoming movie openings.

Now, if you're reading the blog's title, then you should know one thing — we're blatantly lying to you, ha-ha! We're not going post any movie reviews here — well, may be from time to time — only movie previews — based on rumors, news, leaks and so on. But those previews will be pretty far from bad. At least, that’s what I hope for. May my hopes be not disappointed.

Now, having tattooed my motto across my chest, I should start off. And the motto goes as: "Rumors are my food, trivia is my dessert". Clunky, but true.

Well, I guess I should begin with summing up all we got to know about The Dark Knight — a sequel to Batman Begins, that had managed to totally reboot the whole Batman series — the later being on it's way down due to some sordid Joel Schumacher efforts.


So, Christian Bale is again Batman, Sir Michael Caine is Alfred, Gary Oldman is Lt. Gordon and Morgan Freeman is Lucius Fox. There are also some newcomers, as we already know that this time Batman will cross his ways with the Joker. The giggling sinister is played by the Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger. Heath was chosen to play Joker after Sean Penn, Adrian Brody, Robin Williams and Paul Bettany proved to be not... err... weird enough. Will Ledger's specific Brokeback talents help him to overpower the winged black latex guy? Scarcely likely...

Another new guy Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. Mr. Eckhart was two-face enough to win the casting race against Hugh Jackman and Ryan Philippe.

We have casualties, though. Katie Holmes is out, having turned down almost a $2 million salary. Is it due to marriage or Ron Hubbard that her brain suffers an oxygen shortage? Anyways, she's substituted as Rachel Dawes by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The presence of Cillian Murphy (Scarecrow in Batman Begins) is also rumored.

Despite having one death on the filming site in Chicago (an unnamed special effects expert died following Batmobile in his car), The Dark Knight should collect a nice box office. Death of a crew member is a bad sign, but the absence of "Batman" in the title might be a good one. The movie is due to hit cinemas on July 18, 2008.


I only long for one thing — Mr. Bale should definitely work on his Batman voice. After all, the Dark Knight needs to sound intimidating, not constipated, doesn't he?