Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2014): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Originally, Warner Bros. set the Australian release date as 6 September 2007, nearly two months after the majority of other release dates.
• British television director David Yates was chosen to direct the film after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell, as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Vaughn and Mira Nair, turned down offers.
• Director David Yates stated in an interview that he had originally shot a three-hour cut of Order of the Phoenix.
• In March and April 2007, Hooper and the Chamber Orchestra of London recorded nearly two hours of music at Abbey Road Studios in London.
• Phoenix's gross was at $292.4 million in the US and Canada, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2007 in these regions, and at £49.2 million, or $101.4 million in the UK.
• Evanna Lynch joins the cast as Ravenclaw student Luna Lovegood.
• At the US premiere of Goblet of Fire, series producer David Heyman said that former Hogwarts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, played by Kenneth Branagh in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was in the first draft of the script for Phoenix.
• With a worldwide five-day opening of $333 million and a total gross of $942 million, it was the second-highest-grossing film of 2007, and was noted as a case of Hollywood accounting, as Warner Bros. claimed that it lost $167 million despite the total gross.
• Even though the book is the longest in the series (over 700 pages), the film is 138 minutes long (2 hours and 18 minutes), the second shortest in the entire film series.
• The film made £16.5 million during its opening 4-day run, breaking the UK box office record for the biggest 4-day opening weekend ever.
• IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the film has made over $35 million on IMAX screens, worldwide, with an impressive per-screen average of $243,000 making it the highest-grossing live-action IMAX release in history.
• The film's budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million ($150–200 million).
• In one poster, the profile of Hermione, played by Emma Watson, was made curvier as the outline of her breasts was enhanced.
• The IMAX release featured the full movie in 2D and the final 20 minutes of the film in 3D. According to estimates in March 2007, by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film would debut on over 10,000 theatre screens during the summer.
• In studio documents leaked in July 2010, it was revealed the film "lost" Warner Bros. Pictures about $167 million.

Source: Wikipedia

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