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Pirated Harry Potter DVDs on sale in Hong Kong before film opens

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HONG KONG (AFP) - Pirated DVDs of the lastest Harry Potter movie are already on sale in Hong Kong days before the boy wizard officially arrives to cast his spell on local cinemas.

Discs of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," some with Korean subtitles, were sold in a Hong Kong market for about 20 dollars each (2.6 US dollars), the South China Morning Post said Tuesday.

The third installment of Harry's adventures, the film has already proved a box office hit in the United States and Britain.

The film took in 93.7 million US dollars in its first weekend in the United States.

The bespectacled boy wizard's first film outing, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," grossed 43.3 million Hong Kong dollars in the former British colony while "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" earned 38.3 million dollars.

The first two Potter films earned around 1.8 billion US dollars worldwide.

A movie industry official told the Post that the pirated DVDs were known to be available in Hong Kong and the neighbouring city of Shenzhen in China from where most pirated DVDs have been smuggled.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the third film adaptation based on British author J.K. Rowling's books about the young magician, opens in Hong Kong on July 8.



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