Talk:Harry Potter (film series)

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Why is this parenthesized? It would make more sense just to call it Harry Potter films. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 20:56, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 AFI 2 Harry Potter in Space? 3 Response 4 Comparison with Bond and Star Wars franchise 5 sold the rights to film / sold the rights to the characters? 6 Response Section 7 yates/hallows 8 DH split confirmed? 9 Matthew "Neville Longbottom" Lewis confirms DH split 10 Filming locations 11 The Harry Potter series is not, I repeat NOT the most successful film franchise of all time. Just google "most successful film franchises of all time" or whatever. 12 when wuill the DH films get their own pages? 13 Yorkshire? I think Not

[edit] AFI

For the 10th anniversary of the original list, AFI is redoing their list of the 100 best movies in order to add movies that have been released since the original list. All of the Harry Potters have been released since the original list and were not elidgeable, this time around they are. However, Prisoner of Azkaban is the only Harry Potter to be one of the 400 nominated movies. (All three of The Lord of the Rings were nominated) Shouldn't this info be added?

[edit] Harry Potter in Space?

There is a Harry Potter in Space listed in the release dates section claiming it will be out in 2012. I'm sure that that is graffiti, but on the very off chance that its not, I just want to know if anyone else knows about it.

I feel so stupid even asking if its real.

Its a funny but stupid idea,some guy just put there.

Nekrogeist 00:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response

This section appears to be completely Original Research. Unless someone has a good objection, I'll remove it soon. SpigotMap 18:53, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison with Bond and Star Wars franchise

I removed this because it did not take into account inflation which gave absolutely no sense to the comparison.

It clearly says when not adjusted for inflation... meaning its a perfectly good comparison... Gran² 18:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sold the rights to film / sold the rights to the characters?

The first paragraph under "Origins" states:

In 1999, Rowling sold the film rights to the first four Harry Potter books ... Rowling was hesitant to sell the rights because she "didn't want to give them control over the rest of the story" by selling the rights to the characters...

So, did she sell the rights to the characters? By selling the film rights, did she sell the rights to the characters? Or did she sell the film rights but NOT the character rights? Unclear.

--Drolldurham (talk) 02:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response Section

The entire section seems to be mixed up -maybe biased- information that can easily confuse. I think this section should be taken out entirely, and replaced with a list of the director, screen writer, and other major staff changes for each film. thus far (Isn't the section basically arguing the differences between the movie's production staff?); somebody could always go and re-structure the whole section, though (I'm too lazy).

BombDiggady (talk) 05:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] yates/hallows

the imdb page for deathly hallows is now listing yates as director —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.220.188 (talk) 11:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DH split confirmed?

the following is from http://www.evannalynchfans.com

"Well guys you will get the news first. Today I went down to Millennium Bridge to check out the filming for HBP. They were set up at the base of the bridge, there was quite a lot of equipment. I got speaking to one of the crew who was really friendly. There were about 120 extras standing on the bridge. There was a helicopter that was filming it all and coming down right close to the bridge to get the shots. The crew member told me that they will have stunt men jumping/falling into the Thames from the bridge later on (shame I couldn't stay to watch it).

They closed off the area when the scenes were being filmed but you could still see everything. They are only allowed to film every half hour, so as to allow members of the public onto the bridge. I then started speaking to the crew member about filming, I asked him about Deathly Hallows and YES IT WILL BE SPLIT INTO TWO MOVIES!!! which will be shot continuously. There are also still location shoots to be done in London but he said he's not allowed to tell me where."

shall we mention this or wait for someone else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.220.188 (talk) 17:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

mugglenet is now reporting this as well…… —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.220.188 (talk) 22:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Matthew "Neville Longbottom" Lewis confirms DH split

its is currently (at the time of this post) at the top of mugglenet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.220.188 (talk) 19:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Filming locations

Should we add a section about filming locations? Is there a particular building used for Hogwarts? --DearPrudence (talk) 04:58, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Harry Potter series is not, I repeat NOT the most successful film franchise of all time. Just google "most successful film franchises of all time" or whatever.

The top grossing film franchise is arguably either James Band or Star Wars, not Harry Potter. Just go to google, almost every site contradicts this hilarious claime. Badboysbadoyswhatugonnado (talk) 18:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

So Variety are lying are they? I did Google it, as you suggested, and four of the first ten results it came up with quite clearly (in the title) stated that Harry Potter was the most successful film franchise of all time. Of course, when adjusted for inflation Star Wars comes out on top, but it's stated that the results are not adjusted in the article (or at least should be). Gran² 18:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Axactly. Adjusting the original star wars trilogy for inflation, triples those films numbers. In fact Guiness Book has the original Star Wars movie (episode IV) at 3.5 billion alone. It'll take Harry all seven of his films to equal the six Star Wars movies. Give it up buddy, the harry potter franchise will never, I repeat NEVER will touch the Star Wars' prodigious impact on society as a whole. Badboysbadoyswhatugonnado (talk) 20:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Did I say it would? In fact what does "prodigious impact on society as a whole" have to do with box-office takings? When not adjusted for inflation, Harry Potter is the highest film franchise of all-time, as is shown by many many sources. Therefore I fail to what you argument is. I was able to find at least six sources in about 2 minutes that show the HP series as the highest grossing series. I don't see how you can dispute that. I agree it should be clearly stated that it's only the highest grossing because inflation is not counted, but that's still notable, and still the truth. Gran² 20:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Why is this being debated to vehemently? "I repeat, NEVER will touch the Star Wars' prodigious impact on society as a whole"? Are you kidding? This isn't a forum for discussion about Star Wars' effect on society. Please keep your discussion limited to facts and not opinions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.226.51.197 (talk) 03:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] when wuill the DH films get their own pages?

... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.220.188 (talk) 19:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

When there is too much information on the film to fit on the current article it is on which is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It's not coming out for a long while, so there is not much point in making an article on it now. Jammy (talk) 19:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

When filming starts. Gran² 19:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

To elaborate, WP:FUTFILMS forbids articles on future films until they are actually filming: this acts as a threshold to all articles because of the numerous films that get trapped in years of scripting problems, like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. While unlikely for these films, it would be biased to allow an article on it now. Alientraveller (talk) 20:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yorkshire? I think Not

The books are set in the Scottish Highlands, not in Yorkshire, and I have never seen anything which implies, much less clearly shows, that the films are set in Yorkshire. Among other things, the Hogwarts Express is clearly seen going over the Glenfinnan Viaduct in three of the films. The viaduct is not only in Scotland, but famously so, giving the impression that its inclusion was designed to show the films' location: Scotland, not Yorkshire. It may well be that parts of the films were shot in Yorkshire, but they are not set there. Pelegius (talk) 00:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)