Rowling to kill two in final Potter book

chad writes, According to this Reuters article, J.K. Rowling is going to kill off two characters in the final Harry Potter book. Notice, however, that Rowling says, “two die that I didn’t intend to die,” while the Reuters headline assume that only two will die. Rowling’s statement leaves room for additional deaths, provided she had intended from the beginning for them to happen.

Strangers in Paradise: Brave New World

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is.
O brave new world,
that has such people in’t!
The Tempest V.i.

Moore isn’t alluding to Aldous Huxley; he’s going back to the Shakespearian source of the phrase. It suits the story, but one wonders about the wisdom of giving your comic-book the same title as a famous dystopic novel.

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Sandler “Clicks” His Way to the Top

Another decent opening for Adam Sandler (who has opened with $35 million or more in his last 7 movies). We’ll see how it holds up. Apparently there’s another one of those “comic book” movies opening next week.

  1. Click*
  2. Cars
  3. Nacho Libre
  4. Waist Deep*
  5. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  6. The Lake House
  7. The Break-Up
  8. Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
  9. X-Men: The Last Stand
  10. The Da Vinci Code

More facts and figures from Box Office Mojo.
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