The script was published on Sunday (31Jul16) – Rowling and Potter’s birthday.
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Excitement. Fans flock to get their copy at Dymocks in Sydney.
Hundreds of copies have already sold in the space of a few days, and thousands more are due to arrive. The book contains the complete script and stage directions used by the original West End production of the play.
When do Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tickets go on sale? The Golden Snitch. The Deathly Hallows. I wanted to love this.I love Harry Potter and everything about the Harry Potter world. Deathly Hallows sold a record 8.3 million copies in the United States in its first 24 hours back in 2007.
However, the sales of Cursed Child are a testament to the longevity of the franchise, although they fell far short of the sales record set in 2007 by Deathly Hallows, which sold 8.3 million USA copies during its first 24 hours on sale.
The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script has over taken 50 Shades of Grey, and now holds the title of the fastest-selling book this decade.
Sequel announced. Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
“Deathly Hallows” sold 1.8 million copies and 780,000 units of the adult edition in the U.K.in its launch week, it added.
The second movie in the Harry Potter spin-off series “Fantastic Beasts” will be released in November 2018, Hollywood movie studio Warner Bros said on Wednesday, promising “much more on the horizon” from the boy-wizard franchise. Redmayne plays the role of Newt Scamander, a “magizoologist” who observes rare and endangers magical creatures all over the world.
“Fantastic Beasts” tells the story of Newt Scamander, a character mentioned only in passing in the Potter books.
The popularity of the print version of the play in its first two days made it the biggest-selling hardback at bookseller Waterstones since the 2009 release of Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol“.
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Full first-week USA sales figures of “Cursed Child” from Nielsen BookScan are not expected until next week.
