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Ron Howard’s next movie: The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft

by korg20000bc 09.25.2009

The L.A. Times reports that Ron Howard will begin work on The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft. It appears that the movie will be based on the series of comics from Image.
“It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there’s some loose biographical elements. But it certainly has the flavor and [...]

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No Parody Required

by Travis Prinzi 09.22.2009

A website called “Literacy News” poses the following question:
Anyone think that the generation raise on Harry Potter will eventual segue into real literature, or is the written word as we know it doomed as lightening scarred step-child of the internet?
The comments are just as good. Or bad. However you’re looking at it.

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Harry gets Vatican approval…this time

Yahoo! states that the Vatican and its official newspaper continue one line of praise of Harry Potter with a positive endorsement of the Half-Blood Prince movie:
The Vatican lauded the latest Harry Potter film on Monday, saying “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” made the age-old debate over good vs. evil crystal clear.The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore [...]

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Harry Potter – Great Literature?

by Travis Prinzi 07.05.2009

That’s the question being asked by Philadelphia Literature Examiner’s Peter McEllhenney. He answers, “no,” not great; but they are literature. I’m not really sure what that means. It is a very interesting article, however, assessing Rowling’s strengths and weaknesses. I wonder the extent to which Hog’s Head patrons will agree and disagree.
The question caught my [...]

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Rowling and Bloomsbury Accused of Plagiarism

by Dave the Longwinded 06.15.2009

A Yahoo! article indicates that a legal action filed in England is claiming that J.K. Rowling copied significant portions of Goblet of Fire from a 1987 children’s book written by Adrian Jacobs, called Willy the Wizard.
It named the estate’s trustee as Paul Allen, and said that Rowling had copied “substantial parts” of “The Adventures of [...]

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No Half-Blood Prince Secret Screening

by Travis Prinzi 03.13.2009

Mugglenet’s got the scoop – if you’ve heard about this screening, it’s not a true story. There was no secret screening that fans were upset about.

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A Published Lexicon, and a Beedle Movie

by Travis Prinzi 12.09.2008

Steve Vander Ark’s Lexicon is finally going to be published, after some revisions to the book are made, putting it in compliance with the court’s ruling.
Warner Bros. is talking about a Beedle movie. As I was reading the book, I thought, “A movie of these five stories might be interesting, if put in the [...]

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Rowling Wins Lexicon Court Case

by Travis Prinzi 09.08.2008

JKR/WB has won the court case against SVA/RDR.
Plaintiffs have shown that the Lexicon copies a sufficient quantity of the Harry Potter series to support finding a substantial similarity between the Lexicon and Rowling’s novels.The Lexicon draws 450 manuscript pages worth of material primarily from the 4,100-page Harry Potter series.
The full text of the decision.
J.K. Rowling Statement
“I took no pleasure [...]

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