Steve Crook

There's a whole thread about Royal Film performances (as they are more correctly called).

In fact I'll move this over there

Steve

CaptainWaggett

New Royal Film Performance chosen

Royal screening for Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince has been chosen for this year's Royal Film Performance.

The sixth Potter instalment will receive its European premiere in front of a yet-to-be announced member of the Royal Family on 17 November.

Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles, while Jim Broadbent joins the cast.

Last year's Royal Film Performance was cancelled amid controversy about the chosen movie, Brick Lane.

Protestors claimed the film, based on Monica Ali's novel, portrayed residents of London's Brick Lane as uneducated.

A royal spokesman said the controversy had been taken into account, but it had also been impossible to find a date for The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to attend a screening.

It marked the first time the annual gala had been scrapped since 1958.

Trailer

The Half-Blood Prince is directed by David Yates, while Steve Kloves - who scripted the first four Potter instalments - has written the screenplay.

The sixth film follows the young wizard as he fights to overcome the new challenges brought about by Lord Voldemort's return.

The last Harry Potter film The Order of the Phoenix was the top-grossing British movie in the UK and Ireland in 2007, taking £470m at the global box office.

A trailer for the latest movie is due to debut on Wednesday and the film will be released in the UK on 21 November.

Stephen Pickard

Royal Film Performances: (All at the Odeon, Leicester Square)
1959: The Horses Mouth ( Feb 4th)
1960: Last Angry Man (Mar 28th)
1961: Facts of Life Feb 20th)
1962: West-Side Story (Feb 26th) (In an article in the Kinematograph Weekly, dated March 1st, 1962 it states that this is the first attendance by the Queen since 1957).
1963: Sammy Going South (Mar 18th)
1964: Move Over, Darling (Feb 24th)
1965: Lord Jim (Feb 15th)
1966: Born Free (Mar 14th)
1967: Taming of the Shrew (Feb 27th)
1968: Romeo & Juliet (Mar 4th)
1969: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Feb 24th)
1970: Anne of the Thousand Days (Feb 23rd)
1971: Love Story (Mar 8th)
1972: Mary Queen of Scots (Mar 27th)
1973: Lost Horizon (Mar 26th)
1974: Three Musketeers (Mar 25th)
1975: Funny Lady (Mar 17th)

Stephen Pickard

picture show

Hi,BLONDEL,
I attented the premiere of Walt's ROBIN HOOD at the Leicester Sq theatre.Not only did JOAN RICE turn up..so did CLAUDETTE COLBERT on the arm of the director.

But NO Queen Im afraid.

Also possess that poster in my collection.Pristine shape.