The sixth book in the Harry Potter series Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince has earned Scottish author J K Rowling £1 million per hour.
According to the Telegraph, thousands of readers made a beeline to bookstores all over the world to secure their copy when the book was launched on July 16. Rowling made £24 million in just 24 hours.
The author unveiled the book during a weekend of wizardry at Edinburgh Castle, in the city where she wrote her first novel as
a single mother.
Sales of the book are expected to top 10 million worldwide, breaking all records -- most of which were set by the last
instalment in the series, Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix.
Sex, drugs, thrills: Harry Potter has it all
Rowling has said she fears what she will do after the final Harry Potter book is completed. She has mixed feelings about the seventh installment of the series, as on the one hand it would give her a sense of achievement, but on the other, she'll miss creating new adventures for kids.
'Even though I have known it is coming for the past 15 years -- I have known that the series would end -- I think it will still be a shock. Conversely, obviously there will be a sense of achievement. I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing
Harry Potter books any more. So it is about 50-50,' contactmusic.com quoted her as saying.
Asked about the prospect of writing another series, she said, 'I get asked a lot whether I would write another series, I don't
know because the thing that interests me about Harry Potter was not the fact that it was a series, it was just the story and the subject matter. So I could do a one-off or a series, I don't know.'
Sandra Bullock weds
Miss Congeniality actress Sandra Bullock married beau Jesse James in a sunset ceremony on Saturday, July 16.
According to E!Online, the couple exchanged vows in front of more than 300 friends and family members who descended upon the 300-acre Folded Hills Ranch in Solvang, California.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield and actresses Constance Marie and Regina King also attended the ceremony.
The newlyweds first met last spring, when Bullock's 10-year-old godson, a fan of James' television show, got her to set up a tour of the Monster set.
This Bullock's first marriage. She was earlier engaged to actor Tate Donovan. James has tied the knot for the third time. He has two children from his first marriage to Karla James, and a daughter with second wife Janine Lindemulder.
MJ's aborted Men In Black dreams
Michael Jackson wanted Will Smith's role in the 1997 movie Men In Black, and had offered to work in it for free.
Journalist Stacy Brown, who wrote the book Michael Jackson: The Man Behind The Mask with Jackson's former PR guru Bob Jones, said the singer approached director Barry Sonnenfeld with a view to making his big feature film debut.
'He didn't understand the concept of the movie and what's ironic is he did land a small cameo in Men in Black II. But he didn't get the role he wanted. He offered to do it free if he could have Will Smith's role,' femalefirst.co.uk quoted Brown as saying.
