DVD sales fall 5.6%, the first decline since 2005 The collapse of Woolworths and Zavvi hit sales of DVDs last year, according to new figures, while cash-strapped consumers are increasingly deciding to rent the latest movies rather than buy them. The actual number of DVDs sold in the UK dropped 5.6% last year, the first decrease since 2005
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For years Steven Spielberg didn’t embrace DVD and all of his classic films stayed on VHS only. Eventually, he had a change of heart.
(Totals rounded to nearest million) 1. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2,” $381 million 2. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” $352 3
The stars were out the night of Saturday November 12, 2011 at new Harry Potter village Universal Studios Islands of Adventure Theme Park Orlando, Florida for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Blu-ray release celebration.
If there’s a blueprint on how to finish off a franchise, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″ follows it perfectly. Also: ‘The Change-Up.”
It’s hard to argue that one of the most badass breakout characters in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is Professor Minerva McGonagall. And author J.K. Rowling fought to keep it that way.
Going over in my mind the adventures of Harry Potter who gets thrust into wizardry in a strange school never knowing what the future will bring, I found the first six films increasingly enjoyable. During each year at the academy of dark arts, Harry and his friends fight their way out of perilous situations. With this final book the boy wonder is now an adult and is still trying to figure out his destiny, but this time Harry and his friends are on the run from ‘you know who’.
Mystical, mushy and meager is the best way to describe the movie version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in a series of seven books by J.K. Rowling. Not your ordinary kid friendly film, but more of an updated drama filled with romance, some adventure and sinister machinations.