Tag Archives: Harry Potter

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in July

To absolutely no one's surprise, the newest Harry Potter movie tops the weekly charts after being open only one day. But there are other genre films deserving of box office attention, too... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 12-18 July 2009

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Young Wizards in Love—a review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The newest Harry Potter film is a worthy adaptation of the novel, and a satisfying and expert film production... Read more [...]

Dan Persons launches Mighty Movie Podcast

Dan Persons's Mighty Movie Podcast will interview filmmakers talking about their latest releases, and launches with episodes featuring Matt Aselton on Gigantic and Rupert Wyatt on The Escapist... Read more [...]

The Trojan Carousel and the Geek Card

Author Carl Frederick has posted the first half of his novel, The Trojan Carousel, for free on his web site. The second half is available via e-mail. And the password on his freely available Geek Card offers access... Read more [...]

GRRMartin’s Game of Thrones picked up as a pilot for HBO

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire & Ice series has been picked up by HBO, which is funding a pilot, to be titled Game of Thrones (after the first book in the series)... Read more [...]

Paolini’s Brisingr Brings in the Sales

The third volume of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance cycle sold more than half a million copies in its first 24 hours on the shelves... Read more [...]

Court rules for J.K. Rowling against Steven Vander Ark’s Harry Potter Lexicon

J.K. Rowling prevailed in her suit against fan web site-turned-book to be Harry Potter Lexicon, stopping publication of the largely derivative reference book... Read more [...]

Francesco Sedita moves from Scholastic to Grosset & Dunlap

Francesco Sedita, until recently the executive creative director at Scholastic, is the new vice president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap... Read more [...]

Cover to Cover Day celebrating ten years of Harry Potter in the US

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first US publication of Harry Potter, publisher Scholastic is offering fans a chance to sit in author J.K. Rowling's throne and participate in a read-a-thon... Read more [...]

2008 Mythopoeic Award Winners

The winners of the 2008 Mythopoeic Awards were announced 17 August at Mythcon XXXIX. The awards, for fantastical literature and studies thereof, went to... Read more [...]

Harry Potter, Bolt, and Twilight do a three-part scheduling dance

The film version of the sixth Harry Potter novel is moving from November to next July, so Disney's Bolt and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight film are moving up to take its spot... Read more [...]

J.K. Rowling’s previously unavailable The Tales of Beedle the Bard to be widely published

J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which until now has only existed in seven hand-written copies, will be published by Bloomsburg, Scholastic, and Amazon.com, as a charitable project to benefit... Read more [...]

Winners of the 2008 Nominees for Constellation Awards for Canadian SF Film and Television

The winners of the two-year-old Constellation Awards, which honor Canadian science fiction film and television, are... Read more [...]

Entertainment Weekly judges the top 1000 of everything pop culture (since 1983)

Entertainment Weekly celebrates the last 25 years of pop culture with its "new classics." Genre titles make a respectable showing in the mix... Read more [...]