The fourth instalment of the Harry Potter movies will hit US cinemas Nov. 18, according to a statement from Warner Bros.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be released simultaneously to both conventional theatres and in the big-screen IMAX format, the company said.
The franchise, based on the J.K. Rowling fantasy-adventure books, has already earned over US$2.6 billion worldwide and, with a returning cast featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, producers are hopeful for continued success.
South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has won a last-minute invite to join the race for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival with his film A Tale of the Cinema, organizers said Tuesday.
Twenty-one films will now compete for the coveted top prize at the May 11 to May 22 festival in the southern French resort, the organizers said in a statement.
Two additional films will join the "Un Certain Regard" section: Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachtani, by Japan's Aoyama Shinji, and Marock, by French director Laila Marrakchi.
The deaths of two horses last month during the filming of a remake of the 1943 film My Friend Flicka were unpreventable accidents, the American Humane Association said.
On April 11, a quarter horse broke one of its back legs while cantering at the Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley. The horse was put down after a vet determined the injury was untreatable.
Another horse died April 25 when it broke its neck after breaking away from handlers and tripping on its lead rope at the Hansen Dam Equestrian Center in the San Fernando Valley.
In a statement Tuesday, association spokeswoman Sara Spaulding said the fact that nothing could be done to save the horses ``does not lessen our sadness.'' She said the group is reviewing additional restrictions on horse action and will ``require an additional level of supervision when filming calls for intense animal action.''
The sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy thumbed its way to the top spot at the North American box office, raking in US$21.1 million on its opening weekend.
The big-screen adaptation of Douglas Adams' cult book took over the top spot from superstar Nicole Kidman's new thriller The Interpreter, which dropped to second place with earnings of US$13.8 million, said box office trackers Exhibitor Relations.
Hitchhiker's Guide, whose stars include Alan Rickman as a morbidly depressed robot, recounts the inter-galactic adventures of a man who escapes his bland life on Earth seconds before the planet is destroyed to make way for a cosmic highway.
The action thriller XXX: State of the Union, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a US intelligence agent who recruits an outsider, played by Ice Cube, for a dangerous
mission to foil a military splinter group, debuted in third place with US$12.7 million.
Fright flick The Amityville Horror took in US$7.9 million to grab the fourth spot, ahead of the desert adventure Sahara which grossed US$5.7 million.
The romantic comedy A Lot Like Love starring Ashton
Kutcher and Amanda Peet came in sixth with a weekend take of US$5.1 million, followed by Fever Pitch, the Jimmy Fallon romp about an obsessed baseball fan which earned US$3.5 million.
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