HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Harry Potter has worked his magic at the box office yet again.
The teen wizard's latest adventure, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," debuted early Wednesday with midnight screening sales of $22.2 million domestically, according to the film's distributor, Warner Bros. The mark shatters the previous midnight record of $18.5 million brought in last summer by "The Dark Knight."
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Harry Potter has worked his magic at the box office yet again.
The teen wizard's latest adventure, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," debuted early Wednesday with midnight screening sales of $22.2 million domestically, according to the film's distributor, Warner Bros. The mark shatters the previous midnight record of $18.5 million brought in last summer by "The Dark Knight."
LONDON — A British man was convicted Wednesday of murdering an actor who appears in the upcoming "Harry Potter" movie, The Associated Press reports.
Karl Bishop, 22, was found guilty in the May 2007 stabbing death of 18-year-old Rob Knox. He could be sentenced to life in prison.
Knox was stabbed five times outside a bar near London. At the time of his death, he was trying to protect his younger brother Jamie, 17, who had been threatened by Bishop.
LONDON — It just might take two full-length movies to do justice to the final "Harry Potter" book from British author J.K. Rowling, Hollywood sources say.
