A SCENE from the highly anticipated but now delayed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Los Angeles Times

CALL it “Harry Potter and the Revolt of the Muggles.” A day after Warner Bros. announced that it would be pulling the sixth Harry Potter film off its November release schedule and instead releasing it next July to take advantage of skimpy competition in the summer, fans of the popular franchise were lighting up the Internet with their rage Friday. Thousands signed online petitions, others organized boycotts and protests, and a vast number expressed their reaction with tears or clenched fists.

At Petitionspot.com, more than 12,000 fans had signed a demand that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in postproduction in London, be returned to the long-promoted November date. Their posted comments made clear that Warner Bros. chairman Alan Horn had, for a day, at least, replaced Voldemort as the main villain in the hearts of Potter fans.

“They are doing this for no other reason than to make more money,” 25-year-old Brooklyn resident Patrick Allen wrote in an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times. “This is ridiculous and I assure you that the millions of Harry Potter fans who have been looking forward to this release will not stand for it.”

So you want to be in ‘pictures’?

FOR someone involved in photography—be it for livelihood or self-expression or both—a good digital camera is just one half of the picture. Having an efficient printer or printing machine is the other half. Still, problems may occur when the final products are already in front of you. How many times should you go back to the shop for a reprint? How many hours should you wait?

Share More, Experience More

MANILA, Philippines—Nokia’s latest e-mail-optimized devices were launched recently at an exclusive media event held at the private dining room at M2M of the Renaissance Hotel in Makati City. 

Harry Potter Fans Are Angry

CALL it “Harry Potter and the Revolt of the Muggles.” A day after Warner Bros. announced that it would be pulling the sixth Harry Potter film off its November release schedule and instead releasing it next July to take advantage of skimpy competition in the summer, fans of the popular franchise were lighting up the Internet with their rage Friday.

Tom Cruise faces a crisis

WHO knew Tom Cruise could shake it like a Polaroid picture? Last week, he rocked audiences with his cameo as a profane, hip-jiggling, Machiavellian movie chief in Tropic Thunder. The role was designed to show the world—and Hollywood insiders—that the one-time king of Hollywood didn’t take himself too seriously and even had comedic chops.

Show & Tell: Go Brian 

JUST when we thought he had fallen off the social radar, Brian Gorrell is back with a vengeance. Well, not that vengeance, which is what has made him a sort of hero of the oppressed, but simply with a new look for his much-read six-month-old blog.

A Triangulation of Artists: Galleria Duemila’s Aguinaldo, De Guia & Robles

Galleria Duemila has always impressed me with its offering of artists shown in their widest context. The massive dimension of exhibits in the gallery is not necessarily in terms of huge canvases, though the gallery has had such exhibits in the past, but in the curatorship, which takes the artist outside the frame and into the social world where art really matters as commentator.