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New 'Harry Potter' Trailer Due November 2nd
Monday, October 22, 2001 12:54 PM EDT
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, arguably the movie most eagerly awaited by fans around the world arrives in theatres November 16th. The movie version of the tale of the bespectacled young wizard will open in at least 4,000 theaters around the USA, which should be a record number. On the same day, it also will open in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
A new trailer for the film will hit theaters on November 2nd. "It's our third and most interesting preview trailer," said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution. "Now that the special effects have been finished, we'll see Quidditch."
Columbus promised that Harry and his schoolmates playing Quidditch, an imaginary aerial sport played on turbo-powered broomsticks that merges elements of soccer and basketball, would be a dazzling sight to behold and probably the most complex scenes.
"Quidditch took months to plan and six months to shoot for a nine-minute scene," Columbus says. "Kids were riding brooms (while) interacting with computer-generated backgrounds."
The movie, estimated to have cost about $125 million, likely will draw huge crowds. It has been dubbed into 24 languages, and another 16 countries are getting subtitled versions. (There are 116 million books in print in 200 countries. They have been translated into 47 languages.)
It will be released in 130 foreign countries (and in 40 languages), making it the biggest international release of any movie distributed by Warner Bros.
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