Evanna portraying Luna "Looney" Lovegood

Directed by: David Yates
Written By: Michael Goldenberg, based on the novel by J. K. Rowling
Release: 3rd July, 2007
Status: Complete (On DVD)
Genre: Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery
Runtime: 138 minutes (2 hours, 18 minutes)

With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.source

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Movie Trivia

• Evanna Lynch beat 15,000 girls and 29 finalists for the role of Luna. When it came to viewing the finalists, she was the ninth person in the audition videos and one of the producers, David Barron stopped viewing after her saying, "She is Luna." Unknown to them, Lynch actually wrote a letter directly to J.K. Rowling.

• The Room of Requirement was described as a room with no beginning nor end. To achieve the sense of infinity, the effects crew spent 5 months designing the room by having rotatable mirrors installed that would minimize camera and crew reflection as well as to avoid the Hall of Mirrors effect (a common term in CG). Also, another problem on the set is that the lighting underneath the grille was quite bright to generate reflection; so the floor had to be in black, cast members had to have black velvet covering their shoe soles while the crew has to wear blue surgical shoes to prevent treading dust onto the floor set.

• The film's fake working title was called Tip-Top.

• The radish earrings worn by Luna Lovegood were actually made by Evanna Lynch.

• During the breakfast scene in the Great Hall, a box of cereal can be seen with the name Cheeri-Owls with a color scheme similar to that of a Cheerios box.

• Broke the Wednesday opening day record previously held by Spider-Man 2 (2004) with a 44.2 million dollar domestic gross.

• Was released in 4,181 US theaters. A record for a Warner Bros. release.

• Had the biggest IMAX opening ever, pulling in $1.9 million.

• Since this film would include wand dueling at an elite level, a specific "wand choreographer" (Paul Harris, who is actually a professional dance choreographer) was brought in to design the style and technique of this highly unorthodox way of fighting. The result consists of five basic spell-casting moves, which each of the actors were then allowed to adapt slightly to fit their own character. So, for instance, Lucius Malfoy would have a very formal and somewhat 'stiff' fighting style, while Sirius Black uses a snappy and more spontaneous 'street fight' style.

• The exchange "So how do we get to London, then? - "We fly, of course!" pays tributes to a very similar exchange in Disney's Peter Pan (1953), "So how do we get to Neverland? - "We fly, of course!"