4th Harry Potter Movie to be most expensive film...ever

[Lonestar]

An Official Source


Though I saw it over at Mugglenet (but those bastards at sd.net beat me to the post), there's the official word.

He said: ''We are casting right now. I've been in Paris, looking for giant women and French schoolgirls.''

I wish him luck in the endeavor. It's a pity the Rowan Aktinson= Voldemort rumor was false.

[GePap]

What the hell would they spend the money on?

At this point, LoTR has the title of most expensive movie ever at 300 million plus, but of course, it is 10 hours long plus.

Titanic was about 200 million, but they built a replica at a significant scale.

[BeBMan]

your link gives me a 404 not found-error

[mrmitchell]

In other news, it is also being planned to be the most expensive flop...ever.

[Lonestar]

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13829230_method=full_siteid=86024_headline=-HARRY-POTTER-AND-THE---xA3-170M-FILM-BILL-name_page.html

Damn!
well...

HARRY POTTER AND THE £170M FILM BILL World's most expensive

By John Millar



THE next Harry Potter film will be the most expensive movie ever made, says director Mike Newell.

Goblet Of Fire the fourth Potter film will cost £170 million £5 million more than Return of the King, the last in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Filming is due to begin in April and Newell, whose bigscreen successes include Four Weddings And A Funeral and Julia Roberts' hit Mona Lisa Smile, said: ''I think of myself as being really lucky. I'm going to make the most expensive film there has ever been.

''These things are not like ordinary films they are world events.''

Newell agreed that the job of directing a Potter picture carried huge responsibilities. He said: ''I have millions of 10-year-olds who must not be disappointed.

''Making Harry Potter is like being President of Brazil. It is a colossal undertaking.''

Goblet of Fire, scheduled for release in 2005, will again star Daniel Radcliffe as schoolboy wizard Harry and Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, the halfgiant grounds man at Hogwarts.

Robbie's character has presented Newell with a giant sized headache finding an 8 ft tall French woman to play Hagrid's love interest, Madame Maxime.

He said: ''We are casting right now. I've been in Paris, looking for giant women and French schoolgirls.''

TOP FIVE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIESFox, 1997.2000. £165m: Return of the Kingby New Line, 2003. £112m: Titanic by Paramount/ £96m: Water world by £110m: Dinosaur by Disney, Warner Bros, 1999. Universal, 1995.

[BeBMan]

Ah thx

And yes I also wonder why they need so much money - no big ships to (re)built, no mass scenes like battles....

[GePap]

I am sorry, but how do they come up with 165 mllion quid for Return of the King? you can;t separate the budgets of those three films so easily. Though the whole LoTR is till the most expensive movie ever.

And Titanic at only 115 milion quid...seems low.

[mrmitchell]

Is this considering inflation?

[Promethus]

Nflaation has een close to ziip.

[Tiamat]

Man......Atkinson would have been great as evil Voldemort. To bad. Wonder who they will get. The Prisoner of Azkaban is supposed to be out June 4th. Can't wait......am reading Order of the Phoneix right now.

[Lonestar]

Can you imagine the horrors of a Voldemort/Mr. Bean Hybrid?

[Tiamat]

A bumbling evil Lord......now that would be interesting. He could give Nevil Longbottom a run for his money in clumsyness

[Lonestar]

On another note, I am surely going to Hell for thinking that Emma Watson is turning into a Hottie...and she's like 15.

[Drake Tungsten]

On another note, I am surely going to Hell for thinking that Emma Watson is turning into a Hottie...and she's like 15.

I guess I'll be seeing you by the lake of fire, buddy.

[Sava]

harry potter = teh suck... what a waste of money