the fallout with the writers strike will affect movie crops slated for 2009, as it will do in the US market, but if the UK industry has enough home grown films to sustain it for just that year it would be all roses again come 2010 onwards. (hopefully of course)

We did have great films come out in past year or two, including the potter films, its great that its not just affecting Rowling, it helping the british film industry grow as well. it quite nostalgic

there appears to be some level of justification (from the UK Film Council) for the amount of public money pumped into the Arts in the UK?

All the same only the UK film industry (with the backing of WB of course) could have created something like the HP phenomenon!!

Still, ocompared to the book, the film sucked

It also affects films this year; e.g. Half-Blood Prince. That script was completed in time but due to the strike Steve Kloves was not allowed to do re-writes, which are usually done throughout shooting, apparently. It was also why he had to wait before starting on Deathly Hallows.

Mind you, there are some blessings. Steven Moffat was on board to write 2 Tintin films, but because of the strike could not finish the second and so chose to become showrunner for Doctor Who instead. Hurrah! BBC > Hollywood

Yeah, though there should be more. They really don't get all that much, in terms of tax breaks, especially in and around London. That's why production teams like to shoot in Eastern Europe, Ireland and New Zealand.

Unfortunately yes!

I'm no filmmaker but how could any film cover everything in GOF, HBP & DH? I'm still not convinced that the 2 DH movies will satisfactorily tie up all the various story lines considering the mess made by Mr Kloves, etc but I'll still be one of the first in line to see them when they come out.

Yeah...only the last part with the Death Eaters, especially Bellatrix, was good.

Yeah, I mean what about Dobby , SPEW (for the kiss..), Bill? And do you know id there was a locket in OotP? And so many more things they didn't have...
But I think HBP is going to be better (even though they are probably not going to have the funeral scene.. ).
Why is there nothing on the site about the 1 year aniversary of DH??????
But the apparating or whatever it ws wasn't good..but Evanna Lynch was very good in it LUNA

^ Because there isn't We prefer posting actual news

Hmm, I still didn't like OotP as much as the previous films. =S

That was interesting! Harry Potter is pretty much the UK's biggest money maker.

tht's simply good..am happy..good for us.

That's good The films could be better though :/

THATS A LOT OF MONEy! wooww...

That's good, but the films could have been so much better though.

that's so good!

Oh! That's great!

compared to the other films i think the producers are making it a lot darker then i the book has it

well the films slated for 2008 arent affected too badly. most of the scripts were completed before the strike happened and if there were any rewrites that needs to be done they could be done during main production, pick ups and/or ADR, well after the strike ended. what the strike affected though, were films in development. i know that a whole crop of superhero films from WB that fell victim to this: the Justice League movie is dead because of that, as well as other startup films for Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern; and the Superman sequel got even dodgierer. so if you noticed, there arent any popular superhero related films from WB in 2009. in fact there were early rumors that WB might push to have HP: DH1 come out in 2009 just to save their year, but that would screw with everyone's schedule, forcing cast and crew to keep filming as soon as HBP was done. obviously that never materialized.

WB then moved a few films for 2008 and pushed them for a 2009 release, such as Watchmen and Terminator: Salvation. they're hoping to repeat the success of 300 with another little know comic book story in Watchmen and a windfall with Christian Bale's star power and an old franchise name in Terminator. hopefully it will work, at least for Bale's sake

They couldn't do any HBP re-writes, or so we were told.

seriously? hmm.... well maybe not "on record", they could course it through the director or other people involved. i know they did something similar to this with The Incredible Hulk, coursing the rewrites through the director and through Edward Norton-- who also had writing duties in the film. so if they really want/ need a rewrite, and they care more about the film than their wallets, then the right thing will get done

Yup, though technically I shouldn't be talking about it yet, It would have been possible so long as the person involved wasn't a member of the Writer's Guild of America. As lucrative as the industry it is, writers are not given their fair dues, considering there would be no stories without them.

oh yes indeed. thats why even if this strike killed a number of movies and tv shows i was looking forward to *sniff* i was in full support of the Writers Strike. heck if they can pay $25M to an actor who doesnt really deserve it, i dont see any reason why writers shoudnt get better compensation and credit for their work.

That's good