harry potter

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" grossed $24 million at 3,700 locations for its midnight launch Thursday, making the Warner Bros. title the most third-most successful midnight launch ever, trailing only the two Twilight titles. The seventh film based on the J.K. Rowling-penned book...

Call it Harry Potter and the Dodgy Download. The first 36 minutes of the much-hyped movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" appeared online on Tuesday, days before the movie is released. The Internet is a-buzz with theories as to the origins of the leak, with some people saying it...

'Tis the season when toys come front-and-center in our consciousness. In the drive to produce thousands of new toys each year, the industry occasionally missteps, producing toys that anger rather than amuse the buying audience. Here are ten toys that reached the market over the past few years that...

Among today's top online stories for investors: Why holiday spending will surprise; two stocks hotter than AAPL; and are insiders trying to tell us something with all this selling?

For the many thousands of muggles who've gulped down Butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter without knowing what they were drinking, Consumer Ally has unlocked the closely-guarded secret of the magical drink's nutritional content. Neither the wizards at Hogwarts nor the folks at...

It's common practice in Hollywood to find ways to transform profit-making movies into those that bleed into the red. But Warner Brothers (TWX) may have made the most audacious creative accounting move with respect to the Harry Potter franchise, claiming the most recent movie's near-$1...

Will author Rick Riordan reach J.K. Rowling territory? Millions of fans of his 'Percy Jackson' series would answer that question with a resounding yes, but it will take Hollywood's blessing to vault him into that hallowed territory.

With the unveiling of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Studios Orlando has officially raised the bar for vacation attractions in summer 2010. The bold move is only one of many strategies that theme parks are using to turn around an industry that has been brutalized by the recession.

At a press conference today, the man closest to Harry Potter, actor Daniel Radcliffe, weighed in on his reaction to the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park addition to Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure. In his opinion, it's movie sets that can be deceptively inexpensive. He found...

The official grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter isn't until tomorrow morning, but last night a lavish VIP kick-off was held and WalletPop had a coveted golden ticket to attend. The new theme park at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure is how your family soon will be spending...