Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Sold Out at Midnight, Second Night
Cold and flu symptoms have me awake with coughing. So, I decided to go online for awhile. My son was planning on seeing the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at a 12:30 A.M. showing, after getting off of work. But when he and his co-workers arrived at the theater at about 12:15, all seats were sold out. That's incredible!
Of course, if we lived in China, with its contempt for protecting intellectual property rights, they could have gone down to the corner video store and picked up a pirated version of the film for a buck!
The buzz about the Potter film seems to be that it's very good. Some are even suggesting that it's the best of the lot.
Who could have imagined before the Potter phenomenon that a movie based on what is essentially a children's story would sell out theaters after midnight, when the crowds are sure to be predominantly adults, even on a Friday night? Amazing!
Of course, like The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis' extraordinary seven-volume series, the first of which, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is scheduled to hit cinemas on December 9, the Potter books are well-written stories with appeal to more than just children. They're works of literature. The truer their cinematic adaptations can manage to be to the books, as the Potter books have shown, the better, both artistically and commercially.