Welcome back, Potter: $12 mil for midnight "Phoenix"
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LOS ANGELES  - In his fifth film outing, Harry Potter continues to cast a box-office spell.
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LOS ANGELES  - With "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" breaking boxoffice records, Warner Bros. Pictures -- on the lookout for its next franchise -- has picked up the rights to another seven-book children's fantasy series, "Septimus Heap."
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With &quot;Harry Potter and  the Order of the Phoenix&quot; breaking boxoffice records, Warner  Bros. Pictures -- on the lookout for its next franchise -- has  picked up the rights to another seven-book children&#39;s fantasy  series, &quot;Septimus Heap.&quot;
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The final countdown is on: Harry Potter fans worldwide have only days to wait to learn the boy wizard&#39;s fate, when the last instalment of the best-seller series finally goes on sale Saturday, July 21.
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Warner Bros. Pictures&#39;  &quot;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&quot; worked its magic at  the box office Wednesday.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban becomes only the 10th film to pass the $500m outside the US.
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The fate of fictional boy wizard Harry Potter will finally be revealed on July 21, the publication day for the seventh and last installment of J.K. Rowling's hugely successful book series.
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Millions of Harry Potter fans around the  world are just hours away from learning the fate of the  fictional boy wizard and his Hogwarts friends as the final  installment in the seven-book series hits shelves at midnight.
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The seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has become online retailer Amazon's most pre-ordered product, with almost 1.6 million copies bought globally ahead of the book's release on July 21.
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U.S. sales of the seventh and final  Harry Potter volume hit an estimated 8.3 million in the first  24 hours, confirming its place in the history books as the  fastest-selling book ever.
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A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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The critically acclaimed Western "3:10 to Yuma" outgunned the fright fest "Halloween" to become the weekend's top box office draw.  The remake from Lionsgate took in $14.1 million from Friday through Sunday according to studio estimates...
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A first edition of the debut Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowling is expected to sell for up to 7,000 pounds at an auction on June 26.
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"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" enchanted moviegoers with a $77.1 million opening weekend, raising its total since debuting last Wednesday to $139.7 million.
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Harry Potter fans eagerly await the midnight launch of the seventh and final book in the wizard series.
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A copy of the first trade edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the first book in the seven-volume series, fetched 19,700 pounds ($40,000) at auction on Thursday, Christie's said.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" mopped up on the international circuit for the second consecutive weekend, towering over the competition with an estimated box office of $100.8 million from more than 13,000 screens in 58 markets.