After the recent news that Disney has pulled out of producing the third Narnia film, we have the surprising word going around that the last installments in the Harry Potter franchise might not make their way onto the big-screen, either (don’t worry – Half-Blood Prince is not included in that statement).
Now before any die hard fans of the series get up in arms it’s not really a cast iron piece of news but rather something that was alluded to by Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves, who said that:
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“…Warner Bros. was worried about the prospects of the last three films in the series, since J. K. Rowling is no longer driving anticipation for the titles by producing new books.”
Now hold on a second – I can understand a company like Disney not wanting to bankroll another installment in the Narnia franchise since the last film didn’t do anywhere near as well as had been hoped and expected. And you can even understand WB’s choice not to produce the sequel to The Golden Compass, because the first one only managed to garner $70 million in the US (although luckily for WB it managed to make $300 worldwide – to make some, but not as much as expected, profit).
But I don’t understand (and I’m sure I’m not alone here), how Warner Bros. could think even for the slightest of moments that a Harry Potter film wouldn’t make tons of money at the box office. Whether there are new books being released or not, the remaining installments are going to do just as well as the other films… perhaps even better because they show the story drawing to a close. Harry Potter has already proven itself to be the most financially successful film franchise of all time.
I hope that Warner Bros. really comes to their senses and puts any sense of doubt about the potential box office success of the remaining Potter movies firmly to rest. WB, if you’re reading this, trust us web guys when we say it: Harry Potter is safe; it will make truckloads of cash no matter what.
So what do you make of this piece of semi-news? Do you think Warner Bros. will persist with their doubts in the potential box office success of the last films in the series – or do you think they’ll put worry to rest?
Source: The Independant
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This is a bunch of malarkey, balderdash and unmitigated tripe..The Potter franchise is the fourth most successful franchise of all time right now(behind Star Wars (8films), Bond (20-odd films) and Batman(8 films)) and will in all likelihood be number one by the time all eight films are completed..It has made 4,5 billion globally not including DVD rentals, DVD sales and merchandising, TV revenue,hotel and other revenue streams..Something like this is pure speculation and has no credibility being on a site as great as this..
And for the Record, when I saw the movie, I thought it was passable and the only two things that really ruined it for me was Dakota Blue Richards (which we can both agree on) and the rather forced ending.
Thanks for the response Joshi !!
Cheers
With the ending I guess they were hoping for the franchise and they were setting it up for the next film…I agree with the ending as well it was rather contrived and forced..
There’s a story behind how the ending came to be, allegedly they filmed the ending that was in the book (and I believe said footage shows up in the Golden Compass video game), but the studio didn’t like the dark tone it took or something so they had to re-shoot another ending… which would have been great, but having two characters go through a literal shopping list of things they need to do in the next film is the laziest cliff hanger ending I’ve ever seen.
@ Joshi
Thanks for the post, very informative..
Once upon a time (5 months ago), I was in a Video rental store, the film they had playing up on the monitors (all throughout the store) was drilling into me like one of those things in the Matrix,,, as I ran for the exit I asked the clerk, “what is this madness??” !!!
I slowed down only for a moment as I heard him say,,,
“The Golden Compass,,,”
I then dry heaved a little in the parking lot, and contemplated suing the store.
But then I bird crapped on my sleeve and I just left angry…
Ask me sir what I think of the Golden Compass ,and prepair for a sitdown…!
I’m already sitting down… what do you think of the Golden Compass?
Horror,,,,the horror,,,
Do you know what horror means ? Young Joshi ???????
Its bad stuff.
Okay, a) Yes, I believe I have come across the term once or twice, b) I may not be in my Golden years, but at 23, I’m no longer “Young Joshi” and c) your question mark button seems to be broken.
The question marks are all part of the horror.
Happy new year Harry Potter freaks! Lol
Oh, yeah, Happy Years Anew, be safe.
Well, if they ever decided to kill th seventh movie it would be my last day on Earth! Seriously. This is so sick. I’m sick of Hollywood studios standing in the way of great franchises. I’ve invested too much money and emotions into this franchise to let it die. And in my book, WB doesn’t have the right to deprive us of the conclusion, NOT AFTER SIX MOVIES! If they ever decided to to so, there would be hell to pay!!!
First Disney’s Narnia, then Watchmen destroyed by Fox and now then most precious movie franchise on Earth? What’s next? Tolkien Jr. killing the Hobbit? Oh wait, that’s already happening. I’ve got no further interest in discussing these things. I want to see HP 7, even if I had to buy the copyrights from those freakin WB people!
They could do away with the split, though. One “Deathly Hallow” would be fair enough if they decided not to produce two seperate movies! I could live with that but not without the conclusion!
@smike
Again, this is very unlikely to happen and is most likely just a rumour.
And the Watchmen thing is mostly WB’s fault.
NO!!! warnor bros can’t do this, they r stupid! any harry potter fan would die 2 go see the movies and warnor bros would make millions! it is all back 2 the money game yet again, that is why they moved the 6th harry potter, not because twilight was needing a chance, to make sure that they made as much money as possible. if u r a hp fan and went 2 see twilight 2 get back at them, u were not the only 1, i did 2.
It would be really stupid if they stop to make movies of Harry Potter. I mean, it’s not as if the crowd would ignore it. Look aat it this way. Some people feel lazy to read the books. Well we cant blame them, can we? Please look on other perspectives as well.
the reason none of those films garnered that much attention as well as the first narnia installment and all the other Walden enterprises was because plain and simple: they were not Harry Potter films.
Narnia(the first one) did well only because it was some sort of spawn of a Potter/lord of the rings that seemed on paper to be too brilliant to pass up.
However, Walden banked on follow ups aswell as other “kiddie-sci-fi series of books” to make money off of…”the seeker??Golden Compass??,there are like 3 others that at the moment Ican’t think of..”Harry Potter” broke in these type of movies, it only seems fitting that it should be the one to end them for good til the next “kiddie-suspense” series come out..oh wait it already has…its called”Twilight”….
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