Video's here

Here is the promised video of Daniel Radcliffe that aired on Pogo:

Xclusive- Rupert and Emma's Pogo interview

Hey guys, I've something special for you here. An old video (one year old), which was re-broadcasted on Pogo on 16th November, is here for your watching experience.
In this interview, Rupert talks about similarities between him and Ron and he also talks in Hindi.
Emma talks about Hermione's dressing sense and other things too.

Watch it here exclusively on MuggleIndia blog. (Sorry for bad quality)

Order of the Phoenix on November 16th

Hey guys, it is confirmed that Pogo is going to air Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (in Hindi dub) on Sunday, November 16th. So now at least there is something to wait for in November.

Pogo is also going to air Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire in these 30 days.

Keep watching Pogo and enjoy!

Dark Knight breaks OOTP's record

The Dark Knight, a Warner Bros. film, has broken the record of 6th highest grossing film of all time (worldwide). It was previously held by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. OOTP enjoyed this record for more than one year.


Warner Bros. is having a blast. If TDK continues to earn money like this, soon it will be the highest grossing film of all time (worldwide). But who cares about TDK (but it was a great movie).

Pogo will not air Order of the Pheonix

So it is now crystal clear that Pogo is not going to air Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in hindi (dub).
Generally, Pogo airs all Harry Potter movies. but this time Pogo is going to air only Goblet of Fire and some new movies like Krrish and Dragonheart will be going to be broadcasted in May Movie Magic.

The most important reason for not airing Order of the Phoenix is because 'one year gap' between theatrical release and tv premiere. OOTP, as we all know was released in India on June 13th 2007, and Pogo airs Harry Potter movies in May (each year). So, this clears everything about why Pogo is not going to air OOTP.

Anyway, we all have to wait one big year for Pogo to air OOTP. But enjoy May Movie Magic only on Pogo.

Pogo may NOT air Order of the Phoenix

Well, I got some news about May Movie Magic. There is a rumour (yes, rumour) that Pogo will not air Order of the Phoenix until 2009. This delay is because of DVD to TV time.
I will update when I'll get some more news on this.

Newsround

Sorry for not posting anything for quite a long time, but here is a quick newsround for you:

• JK Rowling speaks about Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, likening him to English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
• Order of the Phoenix BAFTA-less. Lost from Atonement and The Golden Compass.
• HBP filming takes place in Gloucester Cathederal.

Also, let me remind you that Half-Blood Prince's teaser poster will be online within next month, i.e. March and a teaser trailer will be online in April.

Harry Potter again Oscarless

So, Academy Awards nominations were declared yesterday and guess what? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix didn't got even a single nomination...
So heartbreaking! Anyway, Order of the Phoenix has joined Chamber of Secrets, which also was nominated for nothing.

Except the Oscars, OOTP has been very unsucessful in other pretigious awards like BAFTA (Nomintated for only two), Golden Globe (nominated for nothing).
Hope.... This Oscar-thing goes away from Harry Potter with Half-Blood Prince.

OOTP won Pogo Amazing Kids Best Foreign Movie

I know I know, Pogo Amazing has been announced since December, I just didn't knew it. Anyway, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won Pogo Amazing Kids Award for best Foreign Movie 2007.

Isn't its great news!

MuggleIndia 'Order of the Phoenix' DVD Review

Well, it has been a long month since Order of the Phoenix DVD has been released. sorry for being later but here is a brief review-

'Order of the Phoenix- Good as well as very bad DVD'

So folks, enjoying aren't you? I know some of you still haven't owned the Two Disc Special Edition DVD so for those people here is MuggleIndia's Review.

Great Movie (Disc One Review)

What I should say about the film? Ofcourse it is good. And crystal clear video and audio adds more delight into it. Video quality, as expected is great and very clear. Audio is also good but only problem in the audio is its low-pitch sound as compared to the original. Otherwise, I must say the Disc One of Two is great.

What the heck? (Disc Two Review)

'Kya socha tha aur kya paya' That totally fits into the disc two of the Two Disc Special Edition DVD of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There are 4 extras in the second disc and these are namely-

Deleted Scenes - There were, let me remember, I think 4 or 5 . Yes.. 7. Two of them were totally boring (Trelawney Eating, Malfoy and gang ice fighting and very short clip of Umbridge's polluted hair after Weasley's exit). Other scenes were okay.

Hidden Secrets of Potter - Includes some previous movies' scenes and some cast interviews. Not very special.

Magic of Editing- Very good, but only for some particular audience interested in film making. Good fun.

Trailing Tonks- Best Part of the DVD. Awesomely narrated by Natalia Tena (aka Nymphdora Tonks), includes very personal tour of Nat walking around Leavesden Studios.

There is another extra, sneek peak at sets and quidditch costumes of Half-Blood Prince movie. Nothing very special again.

So Disc Second totally dissapoints us. In short apart from Trailing Tonks 'nothing very special'.

Hope you enjoy better than me.

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And on a short note, as Warner Home Video's official site says, the US Bluray and HD-DVD Edition will have some more features, more deleted scenes (17 min) and some focus points. Eww... feeling of envy.

DVD trailer and National Awards

The DVD Trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has just arrived. Although it contains nothing very special, but it can be seen here--



And a very very cool news. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won 3 out of 6 awards at ITV's National Awards. OOTP has won best family film award, Dan won the Best Male Actor award and Emma won best female actor award. Isn't its great!

And here's the video:-



The whole even will air ITV1 UK (unfortunately not in India) tommorrow.

Confusion Confusion Confusion

Reading the above heading you all also are in confusion? Well it is about OOTP's DVD. Everyone knows that it is going to release one month earlier in UK and one month later in US. Confusion is about deleted scenes. Early reports this month said that there are 7 minutes of additional footage. After that news came out that the additional scenes are of 17 minutes. And now some sites suggests that the deleted scenes are of 30 minutes (as Marcie of DR.net says).
So confusion is what is the real length?

I think this will be going to releaved when we will see the back-artwork of Order of the Phoenix's Two Disc Special Edition.
Hey hang-on one more confusion that, when DVD is going to release in India? Saregama Home Video's site is currently offline for some upgradation so there is no info about his matter. Hopefully all these 'confusions' will be over soon.

HUGE NEWSROUND

So guys it has been lots of time I haven't posted, so here is the huge, but quick newsround. Lots of news is on the net, most of them are excellent but slightly heartbreaking, though.

HBP FILMING STARTED YESTERDAY, JIM BROADBENT IS HORACE SLUGHORN- Yesterday was 17th of September. Official Half-Blood Prince filming has just started. More casting news is that Academy Award winning British actor Jim Broadbent has been casted as Horace Slughorn.

UK DVD TO RELEASE ON 12th NOVEMBER, US (HDDVD, BLURAY) ON 12 DECEMBER
Slightly unfair to US (and may be to India too?) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's DVD will be going to released on 12 November in UK. More Happy news is that they have increased the length of additional footage to 17 Minutes. Happy news, isn't is!

JO TO VISIT CANADA. Our magical writer J K Rowling will be going to visit Canada on October 23. When she will visit India, anyway?

Hey you can discuss it in comments!

OOTP DVD to be released on December 11th

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's different DVD versions and HD-DVD/Bluray versions will be going to released on December 11th (long way) in US. It is unclear when these home videos will be going to released in India or even HDDVD/Bluray will be going to released in India or not.

Prices for HDDVD and Bluray are pretty high though, reaching $34 to $40 (INR Rs. 1380 to Rs. 1630, if they release in India).

Price for Two Disc Special Edition (pretty sure) will be around Rs. 699

There will be special features in Two Disc Editon as well as Bluray and HDDVD. Two Disc Editon features are:

10 minutes of never before seen footage."Trailing Tonks" featurette - Spend a day with Actress Nat Tena and receive a very personal and often wacky tour of the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix stages.

"Harry Potter: The Magic of Editing" featurette - Director David Yates and Editor Mark Day show us what a difference a good edit makes and then allow you to edit a scene.

"The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter" featurette - We look for clues in the past Harry Potter films for what the future films may hold.

Plus 10 minutes of addition footage and making clips.

Film Newsround

There are two pieces of news for this day. Both are great, fantastic!
Check'em out:
BONHAM REPRISES HER ROLE AS BELLA: Our Wicked Witch playing actress, Helena Bonham Carter will come back in Harry Potter and the Half-Blod Prince too. She is pregnant so she will film her part in the Spring 2008 (March-April).

OOTP WORLDWIDE GROSS CROSSES USD 900 MILLION: Great piece of news it is! Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has crossed the 900 Million (worldwide) mark within just 50 days. Phoenix's current worldwide gross is 911 Million USD, domestic (US) gross is 286 Million and UK gross is 95 Million. Hopefully it will cross one billion mark at the end.

OOTP DVD deleted scenes list plus (fake?) cover

Happy Day!

First of all the image on your left is (may be fake?) DVD cover for OOTP. Click it for a larger view.

And We've finally got the deleted scenes list for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which will be included in DVD (list on BBFC but not confirmed by Warner Bros.) :

00:02:31:17 "TRELAWNY EATING"

00:00:13:08 "NEVILLE SPEAKS UP FOR HARRY"

00:00:26:02 "STEADY CAM AROUND"

00:02:46:18 "UMBRIDGE QUESTIONS TRELAWNY"

00:00:17:21 "MALFOY, CRABBE AND GOYLE BULLY A STUDENT"

00:00:21:06 "FILTCH BLOWS ON UMBRIDGE'S HAIR"

00:01:47:14 "HARRY HERMIONE AND UMBRIDGE - EXTENDED"

00:00:37:22 "HARRY ENTERS"

00:01:07:23 "HARRY AND RON PACKING"

Overall each scene lasts for about 1 minute in lenght and total runtime is around 10 minutes.

I've got some news (rumored) that OOTP will be priced Rs. 699 (INR of-course!) and will be released around end of september or mid-october! (rumors say November 12)

OOTP soon to reach 900 Million USD world-wide collection

So, as expected Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is just about to cross the $900 million landmark. As of today (27th August 2007), the movie's total world-wide gross is 896 million US$ in just 47 days. Order of the Phoenix's US domestic gross is 283 Million, UK gross is 91 Million and Indian gross is 5 Million USD.
It has broken the world-wide records of Spider-Man 3 and Goblet of Fire too. It should be noticed that GOF's worldwide gross was 892 Million within long 140 days. Whereas OOTP has crossed this figure in just 44 days. Hopefully, OOTP will also cross the 1 Billion figure if it runs for 140 days.

Order of the Phoenix Indian gross reached 56 crores

After 31 days from 250 screens, the Indian gross for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has reached Rs. 56 Crores (around 4.8 million US$), only behind Titanic, Spider-Man 3, Spider-Man 2 and Goblet of Fire.

It will cross 62 crores made by Goblet of Fire in 2 months, probably.

However, this data is just speculative and not to be taken as 100% reliable. I've taken top-most priority to give you as correct as possible data. Please cross check from Box Office Mojo.com

Deathly Hallows sales figures crosses 10 Lakhs

Today, I acknowledge the book, the last book of the Boy who lived... Harry Potter.

Jo's Harry Potter's series final book, the Deathly Hallows, has earner expectedly. over 10 million in US and Uk and now the book has earned 100,000 INR all over.

Isn't its great! Anyway on a very short notes, the screens for Order of the Phoenix has now dropped down to just 40 all over India. Earnings for the Order of the Phoenix in India will be going to released tomorrow officialy, so stay tuned!

Phoenix starts in India with a bang

Order of the Phoenix, released yesterday in cinemas got very positive response from the Indian audience. The so-called competetors for OOTP were Naqaab, a boring thriller, My Friend Ganesha, aimed at small audience, boring, Bombay to Goa, comedy film without very good comedy and Apne, good one but not good enough, "phew".

Most of the theatres were full with crowds. were full with crowds. There are 250 prints released throughtout the country (25, 25 in Tamil and Telegu, 85 in Hindi and remaining in english).

DH NEWS: Lots of fans are dieying to get Deathly Hallows. However, watching OOTP will give you are short relief from the tension. DH is out in bookstore on July 21st.