Word: potter
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Last year, Harvard took home fourth place, and Princeton came in second. No. 1 Trinity won the national title in 2009, extending its Potter Cup championship streak...
Ever since the first Harry Potter smash in 2001, the industry has been looking for that next killer franchise of movies based on famous books for children. The quest has often proved fruitless. The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Golden Compass expired after one episode; and the first two films based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia novels became so expensive that Disney ditched the idea of making a third. (It has been picked up elsewhere.) Hard to say whether Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, will flourish on screen, but it has a hopeful start, for which director Chris Columbus deserves...
After Titanic, Cameron got financial carte blanche to spend a bundle on another no-star epic. (The film's distributor, 20th Century Fox, claims that the budget for Avatar was $237 million, less than that of Spider-Man 3 or the last Harry Potter movie.) This time, instead of re-creating a cruise ship, Cameron created a whole new world, using technologies he waited nearly a decade to see come to fruition. The man who built the Titanic became the God of the Old Testament - or at least J.R.R. Tolkien - summoning previously unseen lands from his majestic imagination...
...everyone realizes that. The rowing world is very much separate from mainstream athletics, which is why we rowers hear Harry Parker and think of the rowing legend when others think they misheard “Harry Potter...
...first book hit the shelves this year, Penguin sold over 60,000 hardbacks - a total that raised expectations for best-sellers in the country. A decade ago, the company wouldn't have dreamed of printing more than 7,000 copies, says Padmanabhan. When the fourth book in the "Harry Potter" series was released in 2001, Penguin sold 30,000 copies. That was a good haul, but still small in comparison to the U.S., which sold 3.8 million copies, and the U.K., which sold another million. By its last two installments, 270,000 hardback copies of each flew off the shelves...