Potter of Gold: 'Deathly Hallows, Part 2' Passes $1B

On the eighth try, Warner's highly lucrative Harry Potter franchise passed the $1 billion mark.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" is being absolutely carried by the hot international box office, with $690 million banked to date.

Not that the domestic market has been bad to the film, either -- its taken in $318.5 million through this weekend.

Here's Warner's press release:

“HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2”

CROSSES $1 BILLION THRESHOLD

The last is now first, as the finale becomes the top-grossing title in the film series.

BURBANK, CA, July 31, 2011 – Continuing its record-breaking run, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, becoming the first in the series—and just the ninth film in cinema history—to reach that benchmark.  The announcement was made today by Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution, Dan Fellman, and President of International Distribution, Veronika Kwan-Rubinek.

Adding to the records already achieved, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” tied the record for the fastest climb to $1 billion.  The finale of the blockbuster motion picture franchise crossed the billion dollar mark on Sunday, July 31, only its 17th day in release in North America, as well as most international markets.  The film has now earned an estimated $318.46 million domestically and an estimated $690 million on the international side for a worldwide total to date of approximately $1.008 billion, already making it the top-grossing film in Warner Bros. Pictures’ history at the global box office.

Dan Fellman stated, “What’s truly astounding is that these kinds of numbers are being achieved so early in the film’s release.  The movie’s excellent reviews, outstanding word-of-mouth and repeat business will ensure that Harry Potter will be charming moviegoers for months to come.”

Veronika Kwan-Rubinek remarked, “To say that the global response to the film has been extraordinary would be an understatement.  We are so proud that this last film in the series has not only reached such heights but has reached them in record time.  It is now Warner Bros.’ most successful release ever, and there is still plenty more to come.”

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series.  In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war.  The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe.  But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort.  It all ends here.

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson reprise their roles as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.  The film’s ensemble cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Lewis, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Julie Walters and Bonnie Wright.

The film was directed by David Yates, and produced by David Heyman, David Barron and J.K. Rowling.  Steve Kloves adapted the screenplay, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling.  Lionel Wigram is the executive producer.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is the first Harry Potter film to be released in both 3D and 2D.  Concurrently with its nationwide theatrical distribution, the film is being released in select IMAX® theatres.  The film is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.  It has been rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.

‘Potter’ finale offers viewers fulfilling emotional experience

On June 30, 1997, J.K. Rowling published the first book of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone.” Little did Rowling know that more than 14 years later, the series would end with thunderous applause in theaters around the world.

During the opening weekend that began at 11:59 p.m. on July 14, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” attracted millions of fans to their local theatres, including The Grand in Conroe. The lines that went out the door into the rain at The Grand only contributed to a small fraction of the $169.2 million in ticket sales that broke the record for the highest grossing opening weekend in movie history, with the help of 3D ticket prices, of course.

Each scene in the movie was essential to conveying the story of “The Boy Who Lived,” and many of the major scenes were taken word-for-word from the book. Some of the unnecessary parts of the book were left out to keep the movie flowing, but many scenes were also added for the same reason. For example, the epic fight scene between just Voldemort and Harry that took place from the Great Hall to the castle battlements created an unforgettable adrenaline rush. The book provided the same feeling, but with a chapter of fighting with words instead of with wands.

Fans’ emotional journey with Harry inevitably starts to come to a close at the turning point of the movie, when “The Boy Who Lived” went to die. Harry realized his destiny was to stop fighting and die in order to completely destroy Voldemort.

He went straight to the Forbidden Forest upon Voldemort’s request, and for the first time he was sure that he was about to die. Throughout the series Harry was involved in many dangerous situations and close calls, but as he was surrounded by the spirits of his deceased family and friends in the Forbidden Forest, he hopelessly asked Sirius Black “Does it hurt? Dying?” While Harry’s fear of death builds sympathy for the story’s hero, Voldemort’s fear of death, shown for the first time in the series, gives viewers hope that he is weak enough for Harry to defeat. In this way, Voldemort becomes more human and vulnerable instead of immortal and invincible. These emotions displayed for the first time on screen gives viewers a deeper connection to the characters.

Not only do viewers have a fulfilling emotional experience, but thanks to the breakthroughs in 3D technology they also have an intense viewing experience. Many 3D movies try to dazzle you with a bunch of obnoxious effects popping out in your face. This movie’s 3D effects however, are so natural that most of the time you forget that you are wearing 3D glasses, which are fashioned after Harry’s own circular glasses. The stunning performances by familiar characters, focused and well-chosen scenes, an emotional journey and seamless special effects absorb you into every moment making this the best movie of the series.

Scott Scarborough is going to be a senior at Willis High School and is on the newspaper staff. Hayley Fick is a 2011 graduate of Montgomery High School, where she was the newspaper editor.

Scarborough and Fick had the winning photo in The Courier’s Harry Potter costume photo contest on The Courier’s Facebook page as a part of the paper’s coverage of the opening of the film on July 15. They won the opportunity to write a review of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” for the paper.

Review: Harry Potter 7 Part 11

Reviewing Harry Potter 7 part II is like trying to describe my senior year of high school — almost impossible to do in 500 words or less — so I’ll begin with the simple observation that people with glasses should not watch 3D movies in the theater. Ever. That the latest craze sweeping the movie-going public is not designed

with the bespectacled in mind speaks volumes about how likely a given attendee is to see a preview or poster and exclaim, “Gee! I hope they did that in 3D!” — much less agree to pay $20 for the experience.

I was not actually looking forward to seeing this film as much as those who have been subject to my persistent Harry Potter references would think. There was so much that the makers could mess up. Like so many, I grew up with these books. The novels’ release, and the characters’ ages, proceeded at nearly the exact same pace as my own.

I have an emotional connection to the characters and their journeys; I remember the midnight release parties, the frantic need to finish each new volume as soon as possible, the slow realization that J.K. Rowling was serious and would not spare us the ugly reality of death or torture or bureaucracy, that none of the questions about who was good or bad were as simple as we thought, that someone I cared about could die. When I think of Harry Potter, I think of growing up, of how magical and exciting and scary it was and is.

When the movies were first released I didn’t like them, for the same reason that I don’t like wearing someone else’s sneakers. Even if they’re the correct size, they don’t feel right…they’re formed to someone else’s feet, not my own. The films did not conform to my imagination of Hogwarts, and that ruined the magic for me.

I expected this film to be the same as its predecessors, so I was surprised by how familiar and right it feels. The actors have grown with the characters too, and they’re more comfortable in them now, slipping into the scenes like putting on an old jacket, with an ease noticeably absent from the earlier films. Nowhere does that certainty show more than in the final installment. As one dude sitting behind me said as we left: “It’s been ten years, and it’s finally over.” The sense of achievement, of completion, is palpable, and I could feel it ripple across the crowd. It was done, and we were satisfied.

Watching the movies in short succession is particularly interesting. The first two years at Hogwarts are bright and magical; by the eighth movie, the film is practically black and white, desaturated of even the little color present in Part I. It mirrors the darkness of the world itself, all the magic and color of childhood drained, only stark reality left.

I skipped out on the theater experience for most of the previous movies, and I’m glad I didn’t for this one. Even though they left out parts of the book, or even blatantly changed others — Harry very explicitly didn’t say goodbye to Ron and Hermione; the Voldemort of the novels couldn’t feel his Horcruxes being destroyed; Harry and Voldy did not wrestle with each other while falling off a turret and inexplicably clawing at each others’ faces — all of the changes made sense in the interest of time, pace, or avoiding the stilted feeling that comes from following the book too closely.

Or they tied up ends not answered in the book, such as Neville’s crush on Luna. None were a source of outrage, and some were quite funny. After McGonagall brings the statues to life to defend Hogwarts, she quips rather cheekily, “I’ve always wanted to use that spell!”

I did wonder how in the world it would feel to watch this without actually knowing what was going to happen — in other words, for those who didn’t read the books. I’ve often thought that much was left unexplained because the filmmakers assumed we understood from reading the novels, and had more than one moment where I thought, “If I hadn’t read the books I’d have no clue what is going on.” The fourth film was particularly bad about that.

Luckily, I had my boyfriend with me, who has read the books, but also suffers from some odd brain malfunction that makes him like a goldfish: he can’t remember anything that hasn’t happened within the last 3 minutes. He exclaimed in surprise when Snape was killed, and when Harry discovered he was a Horcrux, and when George died, but followed the course of action well enough.

And even though I knew about these things years ago, and was distracted by nitpicking all the missing and altered details from the novels, I still managed to get swept up in these moments and cried and laughed and applauded at each. That’s a testament to how good the movie was. It was enjoyable both for me, the nitpicky book-loving fan, and him, the might as well have been the movie only audience member.

I was impressed a great deal by the special effects, mostly because they were not particularly noticeable, and that’s saying something when the movie involves a dragon, trolls fighting animated suits of armor, battles of magical spells and aging 20 year olds into their late 30s. They did what special effects are supposed to do: enhanced the story, made it believable, without being the story or distracting from the story. Even the 3D was less about “Hey, it’s 3D!” (a la Resident Evil 4) and more about sweeping you into the moment. It was also the first 3D film I’ve seen that didn’t hurt my eyes.

Bottom line: The final installment is well worth the trip to the theater, regardless of whether you’re a casual viewer or a die-hard fan. It’s a suitable ending to a franchise that has ensnared our senses for more than a decade, and a lovely way to lose two hours of summer. I just wish I hadn’t been so startled by the last spoiler I’ll leave you with: 36-year-old Ron is fat.

'Harry Potter' breaks records: three trends behind the success

The final "Harry Potter" film shattered box office records worldwide with a whopping $168.6 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales over the opening weekend and nearly $476 million globally.

The staggering domestic total for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" is the best three-day

opening for a film ever, distributor Warner Bros said on Sunday. It beat the previous record of $158.4 million over the initial three days for the 2008 Batman movie, "The Dark Knight."

Internationally, the finale for "Harry Potter" captured $307 million in 59 countries since it opened last week, another record. That includes weekend sales plus Wednesday and Thursday for some markets.

The prior record for an overseas opening belonged to "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the fourth installment of the series released in May, which took in about $260 million outside North America in its debut.

The eighth film in the "Harry Potter" series about a teenage wizard and his friends battling against evil also set records for the largest opening-day domestic sales total, largest midnight screenings and largest opening on giant IMAX screens.

The movie took in an average $38,526 on more than 4,300 screens, according to Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc. It was the first "Potter" film also released in 3D.

"Harry Potter," already the highest-grossing film franchise ever with over $6.4 billion in global ticket sales, is based on the novels of British author J.K. Rowling.

"A CULTURAL EVENT"

The massive numbers for "Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" showed the story still enchants audiences a decade after Harry's first film adventure was released.

"It's become a cultural event," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. Young fans stuck with the series as they grew up and the audience expanded over the years, Fellman said, adding that final global ticket receipts could "easily" reach the rare $1 billion mark.

The "Harry Potter" magic dwarfed other films over the weekend, but there were a couple of notable events.

Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" reached a milestone by hitting $41.8 million in domestic sales since its release, making it the highest-grossing film in North America from director Allen, according to distributor Sony Pictures Classics.

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" took the No. 2 spot on U.S. and Canadian box office charts with an estimated $21.3 million over three days, distributor Paramount Pictures said. The film ranks as the year's first film to top $300 million in domestic sales with $302.8 million total.

Rounding out the weekend's top five domestic films were "Horrible Bosses" with $17.6 million, "Zookeeper" with $12.3 million and "Cars 2" with $8.3 million. Disney's new "Winnie the Pooh" movie finished sixth with $8 million.

"Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" and "Horrible Bosses" were released by Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc.

"Zookeeper" and "Midnight in Paris" were released by various units of Sony Corp. "Cars 2" and "Winnie the Pooh" were distributed by Disney's Pixar animation unit, a division of Walt Disney Co.

Potterheads find solace in the boy wizard's silver screen finale

About 13 years ago, a seemingly ordinary boy (apart from the lightning scar on his forehead) inhabited a cupboard under the stairs at number four Privet Drive. Of course, he was anything but ordinary. He led a generation into a world of strange incantations, chocolate frogs and Quidditch. In

the final installment of the "Harry Potter" series, the boy-who-lived-under-the-stairs is long gone, replaced by a brooding young man with a patchy beard. The fanciful world that Harry Potter introduced millions of children to is under siege.
Lord Voldermort is not the only threat, however. For simple muggle folk, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is the end. But, really, the end of what? The last book came out a few years ago. What makes this movie so special, so significant as to have lines outside movie theaters that twist around the block, packed with 20-something-year-olds dressed in costumes who leave the theater two-and-a-half hours later with tear-stained faces?
After all, the vast majority of people who will see the movie have read the books and, therefore, know how the struggle between Harry and Voldemort ends in the wizarding world. It’s certainly not the plot itself that has caused “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” to have the largest ever single day gross.
Indeed, in many ways, the final movie is guilty of all the same flaws as the others. Parts are left out and other aspects are put in. Far too much time is devoted to a ride through Gringots to showcase special effects. Daniel Radcliffe still can’t act all that well and seems to have eaten a Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Bean that doesn’t agree with him every time his scar twinges. And yet, no one could really have asked for a better finale.
It has been said that “Harry Potter” belongs to a generation. Arguably, he doesn’t belong to just any generation. It’s a generation that has lived through Sept. 11, a generation that must make its way through some of the toughest economic times this country has known. It’s a generation that must grow up and face reality just as Harry and his friends are forced to do. They’ve grown-up together, bonding over teen angst in a dark world. As a result, the fear of Lord Voldemort and the somber, muted colors of the movie strike a chord.
But above all, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” provides an escape — a chance to sit in wonderment of a world where the word “lumos” produces a light at the end of a wand and heroes emerge from unlikely places. In particular, Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”) emerges, not only more attractive, but as a stronger character and a force to be reckoned with in the movie. And of course, there’s Severus Snape (Alan Rickman, “Alice in Wonderland”), the bravest of them all, fleshed out in all his complexity with a truly wonderful final performance.
With the movies, it’s not the plot that matters that draws its sizeable audience, but the characters who emerge on screen. The actors and their characters have grown alongside their fans. Plot holes and missing scenes don’t matter in the wake of being swept up by Potter-mania.
And now it’s all over, time to move on, time to return to the real world, remembering that the halls of Hogwarts are pure fantasy. But perhaps those leaving the theater with tear-stained faces should consider Dumbledore’s remarks in Kings Cross Station: “Of course it’s happening in your head Harry, but why on earth should that mean it’s not real?”

Final 'Harry Potter' movie has already earned $25 mil from advance sales

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part 2 has already collected $25 million domestically from advance ticket sales, according to Warner Bros. (Variety first reported the news) The majority of the sales have reportedly been for midnight screenings, giving Deathly Hallows a legitimate shot at beating the $30 million midnight record set

last year by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The final Harry Potter film will also be aiming its wand at some other box-office milestones, such as the largest opening day (currently The Twilight Saga: New Moon with $72.7 million) and the biggest opening weekend (The Dark Knight with $158.4 million).
Deathly Hallows opens early Friday morning with midnight showings. The 3-D movie also debuts this week in every major foreign market except China (where it premieres Aug. 4), meaning the worldwide-opening record of $394 million (set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) could also be in danger. Check back with EW.com throughout the weekend for more box-office updates.

For 'Harry Potter' fans, an era is ending

Friday marks the end of an era. Some, like Warner Bros. executive Dan Fellman, compare its finality to the breakup of the Beatles.
When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and presumably final film based on the

phenom that has sold 450 million books and close to a billion movie tickets, opens this week in theaters from Lahore to Los Angeles, it will be twilight in the Potterverse.
No more pajama-clad kids lining up at midnight to buy the new Harry volume. No more getting out the crimson-and-gold Gryffindor garb for the 12:01 a.m. premiere of the latest Harry movie. No more convoys of FedEx trucks delivering the one about Azkaban straight to readers' doors.
"It's a little melancholy," observes Johanna Winant, a doctoral student in literature at the University of Chicago. Winant grew up in Mount Airy inhaling the seven books that vividly detail seven years in the life of the orphaned wizard who acquires the skills and courage to avenge his parents' deaths.
Not only the fans of J.K. Rowling's hero are experiencing symptoms of withdrawal. For film execs and book publishers, educators and costume merchants, e-tailers and neighborhood booksellers, the pangs are likewise acute.
Nearly as universal as Harry's appeal is admiration for his cultural impact. Harry Potter has broken publishing and box-office records, boosted adolescent reading habits, erased the line between young-adult and adult fiction, and had a steroidal impact on the profits of Amazon.com.
"It's the highest-grossing franchise in the history of the motion-picture industry," says Fellman, president of theatrical distribution for Warner.
"Usually, the law of diminishing returns applies to movie franchises," says Paul Dergarabedian, analyst at Hollywood.com, who notes that from the first Harry film, in 2001, to the seventh, in 2010, box office has been consistently strong. "No other series has had a trajectory like this."
The series made millionaires of its young stars. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), 21, pocketed $20 million for each of the last two Harry films, while Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), 21, and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), 22, earned $15 million apiece.
"I don't think it's possible to overstate the effects of Harry Potter on reading and on publishing," says Diane Roback, children's book editor at Publishers Weekly. "In terms of number of books sold, anticipation for new volumes in the series, getting children to read, getting adults to read books for children, and creating a cultural phenomenon, it is unmatched."
"It reminded Hollywood that blockbusters don't need to be male-oriented action films," says Jeanine Basinger, chair of film studies at Wesleyan University. "And that a movie could appeal at once to kids, teens on dates, parents, and grandparents. It had a real unifying effect on audiences."
Don't discount "the Harry Potter factor" for the uptick in young-adult reading between 2002 and 2008, says Sunil Iyengar, a researcher at the National Endowment for the Arts. "I wouldn't be surprised if the Harry Potter books played a role in the resurgence of young-adult reading."
In other words, not only did Harry strike gold, but he also struck a chord felt around the world.
There are other, measurable, Harry Potter effects.
The New York Times created a children's best-seller list because Harry titles were crowding the fiction roster. The Free Library of Philadelphia, which routinely had purchased three or four copies of popular books for circulation, had to buy up to 25 Harry Potter books per branch to keep pace with demand. From booksellers to multiplex operators, the Harry Potter effect was palpable in the increased interest in other narratives.
"It really triggered the use of our fantasy collection," says Siobhan Reardon, president of the Free Library.
"It was the gateway book for a lot of young readers. When the new Harry wore off, they came in for other books," says Michael Fox, proprietor of the Joseph Fox bookstore in Center City,
Nearly everyone agrees that Rowling, the welfare mom who wrote the first Harry Potter book in an unheated apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland, while caring for her infant daughter, created characters and settings more notable for their emotional than their economic impact.
Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron grew up, it seemed, in real time, mirroring the readers' and moviegoers' own developmental stages.
"The early Potter books were written at an easier developmental level than the later ones," says Joel Nichols of the Free Library. "So readers who are Harry's age in each given book see reflections of themselves developing friendships, relationships with teachers and parents."
Says Jesse Dougherty, a onetime English teacher and now head of the upper school at Friends Select, "The school setting is important. It is a universal feeling to wonder about your place in school that [Rowling] captures well."
"The Harry Potter books and movies have an empowerment effect," says Basinger. "They're about kids having power and adults being wary. They offer a taste of freedom and an escape from childhood, but they present serious challenges."
Winant reflects, "For my younger brother's micro-generation, who were 10 when the first book came out, the cosmology of Harry Potter is the most important thing. And that's because in 2001, our country went to war against a shadowy evil."
"I wonder if Harry Potter would have been quite so important without al-Qaeda, which, like Voldemort, smeared itself across the sky in smoke," says Winant. The first of the movies was released two months after the twin towers fell, and the last comes out two months after Osama bin Laden was slain.
Predictably, not everyone is wild about Harry.
"The impact of Harry Potter is overrated," says Lark Hall, an English teacher at Central High School. "Our kids are still reading Lord of the Rings on their own and the old classics such as Beowulf that contain supernatural beings and mortal family conflict."
Still, she concedes, "Promoting reading in any way is our job. And Potter on iPad is certainly reading."
It's useful to make a distinction between the Harry books and the Harry Potter "entertainment-industrial complex," says Robert Thompson, Syracuse University professor of popular culture.
"I am convinced that the Rowling books will join J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis as classics," he says. Of the Potter empire, which includes an Orlando theme-park attraction, Bertie Bott's puke-flavored candies, and what costume saleswoman Jen Simms calls the "slutty Hermione" minidresses flying off shelves at Masquerade in South Philadelphia, Thompson audibly shrugs.
He does note the near-magical synergy between the Harry books and movies, staggered like time-released pleasure givers.
"The Harry Potter movies are a perfect storm of great story, great special-effects technology hitting the cultural zeitgeist at a moment when people were looking for something magical," says Hollywood.com's Dergarabedian.
While she doesn't think that the movies are "cinematically groundbreaking," Basinger says she is impressed with their visual distinction and consistency. "Harry Potter does not fall off in quality, like Star Wars."
"I didn't think the movies would count," says Julian Bennett Holmes, a music student at Mannes College in Manhattan. "But somehow the movies became an integral part of the experience. The book doesn't feel complete without the movie." He has already bought his ticket to the midnight Friday screening of Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Harry Potter is ending, but is it the end of Harry Potter?
"One hears J.K. Rowling is writing a prequel," says a reliable Hollywood source who does not want to be identified, "with Volume 1 about Harry's parents, their meeting, and love, and Volume 2 about the birth of Harry and the killing by Voldemort."
"We know she's working on a project," says Warner's Fellman, "but she hasn't discussed it with us."
With a hearty laugh he adds, "We like that rumor."

Daniel Radcliffe - Daniel Radcliffe Wants To Help Child Stars

Daniel Radcliffe is hopeful that he can help other child actors face fewer expectations of failure if he goes on to forge a successful career now the 'Harry Potter' series is complete.
Daniel Radcliffe wants to be successful to help other child actors.

The 21-year-old actor - who was cast as the titular character in the Harry Potter movies when he was just 11 years old - believes that if he can go on to do well in his movie career now he is older, other young stars will no longer be dismissed before they reach adulthood.
He explained: "My personal crusade. If I can make a career for myself after 'Potter', and it goes well and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the Child Actors Argument.
"If I can do it, in the biggest film franchise of all time, no other actor who comes after will have to answer those same questions."
Daniel insists he doesn't mind that he will always be associated with 'Harry Potter' and will always be proud of how huge the franchise was.
Asked if he thinks he will always be connected with the character, he told Britain's GQ magazine: "Yeah. But I think that's pretty cool. And I'm sure that in another 20 or 30 years time there will be a new phenomenon.
"And I will at some point be saying dismissively to my children, 'Huh. 'Harry Potter' was bigger than this. This is nothing compared with 'Harry Potter'. You think that's fans? That's not fans.' "

The final 'Harry Potter' trailer (likely) ever: Watch it here (Video)

I don’t really have the words for this (likely) final trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. It definitely has more plot that the previous trailer for the film. And it has tons more footage, including an opening scene that, though not precisely canon, took my breath away nonetheless. But you aren’t here for what I have to say about this trailer. You’re here to watch it. And so you shall: I thought I already could not be more excited to see this movie, but somehow I’ve entered a new realm of excitement, one I’ve only

been to once before, in those precious weeks in late June and early July of 2007, when a certain book was about to hit shelves. How about you?