Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is marking its seventh anniversary at London’s Palace Theatre Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2023-07-30 06:50:32 UTC ]
From Grange Hill to the West End, via Eurovision and the Brit awards, the star has built multiple careers. She talks about stage-school pressure, TV diversity and playing Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildMichelle Gayle was 10 months into her role as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-13 08:41:05 UTC ]
As the Harry Potter play officially opens in San Francisco on Sunday, the production continues to sidestep a deeper discussion about casting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-12-01 23:54:38 UTC ]
Little, Brown has revealed the cover for its behind the scenes book on hit play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-17 22:49:55 UTC ]
An official behind-the-scenes book of the record-breaking play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two" will be published by Little, Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blockbuster sales of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' helped drive revenue to $1.74 billion in fiscal 2017, but without a comparable hit, sales fell 6% in the fiscal year ended May 31, 2018. Operating income dropped 38%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Can "Mean Girls" edge out "The Band's Visit" and "SpongeBob SquarePants"? Will "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" or "Angels in American" take home more trophies? Here's a quick rundown of key contenders from shows with the most nominations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales in the children’s/young adult segment fell 36.8% in July, compared to same period a year ago, according to figures release by the AAP. The decline is due, in large part, to the fact that July 2017 did not see a hit like July 2016, when 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' was dominating... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A 52% decline in Scholastic's children’s book publishing group was blamed on the absence of a major bestseller. In fiscal 2017, the publisher's sales were driven by 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' which was released during the first quarter of last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
While July sales last year were mightily padded by the release of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' which came out July 31, 2016, July 2017 saw no such blockbuster. Thanks in large part to this, July 2017 sales were down 1.9%, compared to the same time last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books in the week ended Aug. 6, 2017, were down 17% from the similar week in 2016 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The decline was due entirely to the release last year at this time of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which sold about 2.5 million... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
As her wizarding world returns to the stage and screen, Rowling’s $95m pushes James Patterson into second place with $87mJK Rowling will need to reserve a particularly large vault at Gringotts bank after a bumper year for the Harry Potter novelist magicked her back to the No 1 spot on Forbes’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has Wingardium Levoisa’d straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Driven by sales of general merchandise and 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' the Canadian bookstore chain reported record revenue growth for fiscal 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling and Bill Bryson top the charts, while film tie-ins give Paula Hawkins and Jojo Moyes a second bite of the cherry – but this unpredictable year has also seen a welcome revival of humorous writingIt was a year when the No 1 book was a play script. When hyper-prolific James Patterson,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling books over the holidays at the e-tailer were 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down,' 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' and a children's backlist book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The July publication of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' helped raise sales in the children's/young adult segment 31.1% in July over a year ago. July sales of adult books fell. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' was Amazon's best-selling book of 2016 and was also the year's "most wished for" and "most gifted" book at the e-tailer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top of France’s nonfiction list took on a political bent in October, with an exposé of French president François Hollande penned by investigative journalists Fabrice Lhomme and Gérard Davet after five years of research. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent is the only novel on the six-book shortlist, up against JK Rowling’s play script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and a long-lost Beatrix Potter storySarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent might have missed out on the big literary prizes this year, but her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]