document_title: Take Me Out (UK game show)

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text: Take Me Out (UK game show)

text: Format[edit]

text: The objective of the show is for a single man to obtain a date with one of thirty single women. The women stand on stage underneath thirty white lights, each with a button in front of them. A single man is then brought down on stage via the 'Love Lift' and tries to persuade the women to agree to this date in a series of rounds, playing a pre-recorded video discussing his background, displaying a skill (such as dancing or playing a musical instrument), or playing another video in which the man's friends or family reveal more about his virtues and philosophy.

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text: At any point during the rounds, the women can press the button in front of them to turn off their light if they do not believe a date with this man would be constructive to their well-being and if this occurs, their area of the stage will turn red. If, at the end of three rounds, there are still lights left on, the bachelor will turn off all but two of the remaining lights himself. He will then have a chance to ask one question to the last two women, before choosing which woman he wants to go on the date with by turning off one more light. If the man is left with two lights at the end of round 3, he will just ask his question to the two remaining women and if there is only one light left at the end of round 3, he will go on the date with that girl without asking her his question. There are usually four men brought on in the course of a single episode, though on some occasions segments have been cut and only three men have been shown.

text: If all the women turn off their lights before the end of the third round - this is referred to as a "blackout" - then the man must leave the show without going on a date, accompanied by the Céline Dion version of the hit Eric Carmen song "All by Myself". In the first series, the successful couples conducted their date at FERNANDO'S! in Manchester, which is actually Club Bijou on Chapel Street, the outcome of which is shown as part of the following week's show. For the second series, the date took place abroad on the Isle of FERNANDO'S!, a fictional location based in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.[3] Previously the date took place in Cyprus. Successful couples leave the programme upstairs on the opposite side of the studio to the 'Love Lift', and a song, usually from the latin pop genre, will be played.[4]

text: Comedic value is mostly provided by McGuinness's array of catchphrases such as "Let the (object) see the (object)", "No likey, no lighty!", "If you're turned off, turn off", "If he's not Mr Right, turn off your light", "Get out there, turn one girl off and take one girl out!", "Come and get some Paddy love!", "The isle of...FERNANDO'S!".

text: Round 1[edit]

text: In this round the man comes down the love lift. He meets the girls and then says his name and where he is from. Paddy repeats but afterwards with one of catchphrases. Then the girls can turn off their light. From series 7 onwards, they have to write down a 'love at first light' from the girls who had left their lights on.

text: Round 2[edit]

text: This includes a pre-recorded video presented by the man. It sometimes includes interviews with his friends and family. It describes his personality and what they do. At any point the girls can turn off their light.

text: Round 3[edit]

text: In this round the man shows a skill in the studio. Alternately their friend or family can say a secret. At any point the girl can turn off their light.

text: Round 4[edit]

text: In this round the man turns off the lights of the remaining girls until just two are left lit. Alternatively, if there is only one or two girls left from round 3 then round 4 is skipped entirely.

text: Round 5[edit]

text: In this round the man asks the girls who are remaining a question. The man then turns off the light of one girl. Paddy questions the chosen girl if they would rather know the man's 'love at first light' or not. Then they meet, go up the big stairs opposite the love lift and have a backstage interview. Alternatively, if only one girl remains lit from round 3 then the man gets to choose between her and a "mysterious girl", who remains unseen until he makes his choice.

text: Transmissions[edit]

text: Original series[edit]

text:
Series
Start date
End date
Episodes
Average viewers
(millions)

1
2 January 2010
20 February 2010
8
4.83

2
11 December 2010
19 March 2011
14
4.63

3
7 January 2012
7 April 2012
14
4.81

4
6 October 2012
15 December 2012
10
3.29

5
5 January 2013
23 February 2013
8
4.06

6
4 January 2014
22 February 2014
8
3.64

7
3 January 2015
7 March 2015
10
3.05

8
2 January 2016
5 March 2016
10
3.00

9
15 April 2017
3 June 2017
8
3.11

10
6 January 2018
24 February 2018
8
TBA

text: Specials[edit]

text:
Date
Entitle

15 December 2012
Celebrity Christmas Special

20 December 2013
Over 50s Text Santa Special

31 December 2016
Celebrity Specials

19 February 2017

24 February 2018
10th Anniversary Celebrity Special

2018
Over 50s Special

text: Take Me Out: The Gossip[edit]

text: Take Me Out: The Gossip was a behind-the-scenes sister show that began airing weekly on ITV2 from series 3-5 and 7-9, following the broadcast of the main programme. Most recently, it was presented by Laura Jackson and Mark Wright.[5] Zoe Hardman previously hosted the show with Wright.

text: A similar format, previously broadcast online, featuring backstage gossip and interviews with the contestants, was regularly made available on itv.com just hours after the broadcast of the main programme.

text: International versions[edit]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Viewership[edit]

text: Take Me Out has proven popular with the public, generally pulling over 3 million viewers per episode.

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: In its early days, Take Me Out was reviewed negatively by critics. Shortly after the second series began in December 2010, The Guardian's Tim Dowling said that, "When you strip away its tired, utterly false premise, all that remains of Take Me Out is a lot of flashing lights and some scripted innuendo delivered in a range of regional accents."[6] Reviewing the show after the second series concluded in March 2011, Manchester Grouch of Manchester Central wrote: "ITV should consider renaming the show 'Desperate Moron Lift Disco'" and concluded the review by comparing it to "...a drunken Saturday night out that ends up in a dodgy club having a quick fumble with that girl from the hairdressers you’ve been eyeing up all week."[7] Writing for the Metro during the third series of the show in January 2012, Rachel Tarley said that Take Me Out was the "death knell for feminism disguised as entertainment".[8]

text: However, after the beginning of the fifth series in January 2013, Julia Raeside, also writing for The Guardian, admitted that the show had become "must-see TV" and was "a worthy successor to Blind Date": "...when Take Me Out noisily barged its way on to the Saturday night schedules in 2010, it was too much for me. The little I'd seen of it put me off trying a whole episode...But about a series ago, Take Me Out really started to grow on me. One night, out of sheer laziness, I didn't bother to switch over – and now they've got me. I don't like nightclubs and I cover my upper arms at all times. But the women behind those podiums, however much I fail to identify with them for wanting to be on TV with their armpits constantly on show, make it gripping viewing."[9]

text: Controversies[edit]

text: Throughout its run, several Take Me Out contestants, both male and female, have caused controversy by hiding things that are against the show's rules or have offended viewers and/or other contestants by their actions.[citation needed]

text: Jim Brown[edit]

text: Wrestler Jim Brown, the first contestant on the first series, was accused of continually harassing his date Caroline Mellor despite the fact that their date did not work out. Caroline claimed to receive numerous phone calls and texts from him for over four months. Jim was later also charged with possession of child pornography on his computer.[10] Prior to this, Jim was caught pleasuring himself in a Wishaw Sports Centre cubicle, which alerted the police to investigate him.[11] On 21 March 2014, Jim was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for flouting a ban on going near children.[12]

text: Wen-Jing Mo and Aaron Withers[edit]

text: The date segment of contestant Wen-Jing Mo scoring a date with construction worker Aaron Withers was axed from the programme after it transpired that Aaron had a criminal conviction for punching a woman, had worked as an escort, and also had a long-term girlfriend, and that Wen-Jing had also worked as an escort for a short period ten years previously.[13]

text: Damion Merry[edit]

text: The studio segment of contestant Chelsea Stewart scoring a date with model Damion Merry caused controversy when broadcast. During the third and final round, it became apparent that Damion used to date reality television series personality Jodie Marsh, and he later told one of the girls who had turned her light off, Lucy Harrold, that he would have picked her, offending all the girls who still had their lights on.[14] It later transpired that not only was Damion not single at the time the programme was filmed, he was also about to marry his girlfriend Sarah Ann Gras; the segment was broadcast a month after the wedding took place.[15] On This Morning, Marsh later denied having ever dated Damion, saying: "I tell you what, this guy - I went on one date with him, one date...We had pictures in a nightclub, he sold the pictures to the TV show or whoever and gave 'em away and now, it's being told that we had a whole full blown relationship and that I was his ex-girlfriend."[16]

text: Rory Alexander[edit]

text: The studio segment of contestant Jade scoring a date with banker Rory Alexander was axed from the programme, after it transpired that Rory was serving a suspended sentence for common assault. Jade did not return to the show.[17]

text: Jarvis Walters[edit]

text: The studio segment of contestant Hannah Reville scoring a date with semi-professional footballer Jarvis Walters was axed from the programme, after it transpired that Jarvis had served a 12-month community order for assaulting another man in a nightclub in 2009. Hannah did not return to the show.[18]

text: Param Singh[edit]

text: Many viewers were extremely offended when one of the girls, who had left her light on for contestant Param Singh, made a joke about contestant Param's turban, saying she was interested in him because she could use his turban to store her phone. Despite the fact Param himself took it light-heartedly, many Sikhs found this remark to be extremely offensive. Param later went on to describe the backlash that he received from sections of the Sikh community.[19]

text: Fakery claims[edit]

text: In 2012, several of the contestants accused the show's producers of telling them whom to choose on each episode. Female contestants complained that they were forced to choose men who they didn't find attractive, while some of the show's male contestants went home without a date after the girls were told not to choose them.

text: "The whole thing is totally misleading and leaves a whole lot of people feeling humiliated and exploited afterwards," one girl who had appeared on the show told the media.

text: "The producers pulled some of the girls in and said, 'If you’re waiting for George Clooney or Brad Pitt, they’re not coming',"

text: "They told us to keep our lights on for the next contestant, who was more than 10 years younger than me. I refused and was taken off."

text: Other female contestants reported that producers had told them to reject certain men even if they liked them because it made better television.[20][21][22][23]

text: Influences[edit]

text: Take Me Out is cited by the creators of the website tubecrush.net as being an influence for their website, as they saw it as an example of how the sexual objectification of men had become part of mainstream culture in the UK.[24]

text: 10th Anniversary[edit]

text: On February 24, 2018, Take Me Out celebrated its 10th anniversary on ITV with a special addition show.[25]

text: Take Me Out – The Album[edit]

text: Take Me Out – The Album is a 60-song compilation album, which was released 18 November 2013.[26]

text: Track listing[edit]

text:
[show]Disc One

No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length

1.
"Counting Stars"
OneRepublic
4:17

2.
"It's My Party"
Jessie J
3:38

3.
"Burn"
Ellie Goulding
3:48

4.
"Disco Love"
The Saturdays
3:13

5.
"La La La"
Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith
3:40

6.
"Summertime Sadness" (Cedric Gervais Remix) (Radio Edit)
Lana Del Rey
3:34

7.
"Only Girl (In the World)"
Rihanna
3:55

8.
"Starships"
Nicki Minaj
3:30

9.
"How We Do (Party)"
Rita Ora
4:06

10.
"Milkshake"
Kelis
3:02

11.
"Ready for the Weekend"
Calvin Harris
3:37

12.
"Call My Name"
Cheryl Cole
3:28

13.
"OMG"
Usher featuring will.i.am
4:28

14.
"Don't Cha"
The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes
4:01

15.
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
Eve featuring Gwen Stefani
3:47

16.
"Dip It Low"
Christina Milian
3:16

17.
"Hips Don't Lie"
Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean
3:37

18.
"1 Thing"
Amerie
3:59

19.
"Good Feeling"
Flo Rida
4:07

20.
"Candy"
Robbie Williams
3:21

text:
[show]Disc Two

No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length

1.
"Wake Me Up"
Avicii
4:08

2.
"When Love Takes Over"
David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
3:08

3.
"Hot Right Now"
DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora
2:59

4.
"Just Dance"
Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis
4:01

5.
"Party Rock Anthem"
LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
3:52

6.
"Million Voices"
Otto Knows
3:13

7.
"Moves Like Jagger"
Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera
3:20

8.
"Boomerang"
Nicole Scherzinger
3:17

9.
"Maneater"
Nelly Furtado
3:16

10.
"Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)"
Ne-Yo
4:13

11.
"Don't Stop the Party"
Pitbull featuring TJR
3:26

12.
"Beautiful"
Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell and Uncle Charlie Wilson
4:57

13.
"I Gotta Feeling"
The Black Eyed Peas
4:49

14.
"Hollaback Girl"
Gwen Stefani
3:20

15.
"All About Tonight"
Pixie Lott
3:04

16.
"Beggin'"
Madcon
3:35

17.
"Hey Ya!"
Outkast
3:55

18.
"I Need You Tonight"
Professor Green featuring Ed Drewett
3:43

19.
"Changed the Way You Kiss Me"
Example
3:12

20.
"Miami 2 Ibiza"
Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah
2:56

text:
[show]Disc Three

No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length

1.
"Blurred Lines"
Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell
3:51

2.
"Love Me Again"
John Newman
3:34

3.
"I Love It"
Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX
2:33

4.
"Gangnam Style"
Psy
3:38

5.
"Spice Up Your Life"
Spice Girls
2:52

6.
"Toxic"
Britney Spears
3:20

7.
"Wings"
Little Mix
3:38

8.
"Love Machine"
Girls Aloud
3:24

9.
"Mama Do the Hump"
Rizzle Kicks
3:35

10.
"Call Me Maybe"
Carly Rae Jepsen
3:12

11.
"Domino"
Jessie J
3:19

12.
"Push the Button"
Sugababes
3:37

13.
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
Cyndi Lauper
3:51

14.
"Murder on the Dancefloor"
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
3:36

15.
"Don't Stop Movin'"
S Club 7
3:50

16.
"Dreamer"
Livin' Joy
3:39

17.
"Two Can Play That Song" (K Klassic Radio Mix)
Bobby Brown
3:30

18.
"Mysterious Girl"
Peter Andre
3:36

19.
"Fernando"
ABBA
4:11

20.
"All by Myself"
Jamie O'Neal
4:37

text: Board game[edit]

text: A board game was released on 3 August 2011. It contains: light and buzzer number unit, 100 single man cards, 50 the power is in your hand cards, 1 single girl pad, 12 isle of Fernando's vouchers, coloured dice and rules.[27]


question_text: where was harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1 filmed

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text: Plot[edit]

text: Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour addresses the wizarding media, and states that the Ministry will remain strong, even as Lord Voldemort gains strength. The Death Eaters have made major gains after Dumbledore's death, committing mass killings of Muggles and infiltrating the Ministry itself. Harry, Ron, and Hermione set out to complete the mission Dumbledore gave Harry by hunting down and destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes. Meanwhile, Severus Snape informs Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters of Harry's impending departure from Privet Drive. Voldemort commandeers Lucius Malfoy's wand, as Voldemort's own wand cannot be used to kill Harry because they share the same core.

text: The Order of the Phoenix gather and escort Harry to safety, using Polyjuice Potion to create decoy Harrys for the trip. During their flight they all are ambushed by Death Eaters who kill Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig, injure George Weasley, and knock out Hagrid. After arriving at the Burrow, Harry has a vision of the wand-maker Ollivander being tortured by Voldemort. The next day Scrimgeour arrives at the Burrow with Albus Dumbledore's will and distributes three items to Ron, Hermione, and Harry. Ron receives Dumbledore's Deluminator, Hermione receives a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Harry receives the first Golden Snitch that he ever caught in a Quidditch match. Scrimgeour reveals that Harry was also bequeathed the Sword of Godric Gryffindor. The minister tells Harry that the sword was not Dumbledore's to bequeath, and in any case is missing.

text: The Death Eaters kill Scrimgeour and replace him with Pius Thicknesse. The Ministry begins arresting and persecuting Muggle-born witches and wizards. Before the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley kiss passionately until George interrupts them. At Bill and Fleur's wedding, however, Death Eaters attack. Kingsley Shacklebolt's patronus charm forewarns the wedding party, and most escape. Harry, Hermione, and Ron disapparate to London, where they are attacked in a diner by Death Eaters. The trio are forced to seek refuge at 12 Grimmauld Place. While there, they discover that the "R.A.B." from the fake Horcrux locket is Regulus Arcturus Black, the younger brother of Sirius Black. Kreacher, the Black's house elf, tells them that Mundungus Fletcher broke in and stole many items from the house including the real locket. Kreacher and Dobby apprehend Fletcher, who reveals that the locket is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. Using Polyjuice Potion, the trio infiltrate the Ministry and find the locket around Umbridge's neck. Harry stuns Umbridge and Hermione retrieves the locket. The trio escape from their pursuers by apparating in the wilderness but Ron is injured and cannot apparate again until he recovers.

text: After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy the Horcrux, the trio take turns wearing it to dilute its power. Harry sees a vision of Voldemort interrogating and killing the wand-maker Gregorovitch, who claims that a teenage boy had once stolen the legendary Elder Wand from his shop. While Ron is wearing the locket, he is overcome by negative feelings and argues with Harry before leaving him and Hermione behind. Hermione deduces that the sword of Gryffindor can destroy Horcruxes and decides with Harry to go to Godric's Hollow. They visit Harry's parents' graves and the house where they were killed. They encounter Bathilda Bagshot, who they believe may have the sword. Bathilda lets Harry and Hermione into her house, and is revealed to actually be Nagini, controlling Bathilda's reanimated corpse from inside of her. Hermione and Harry escape into the Forest of Dean, but Hermione accidentally breaks Harry's wand whilst fighting Nagini. Hermione is then able to identify the mysterious thief seen in Harry's vision as Gellert Grindelwald.

text: That evening Harry sees a Patronus in the form of a doe, which leads him to a frozen pond. Gryffindor's sword lies beneath the pond's ice, which Harry breaks and jumps in to retrieve it. The locket around his neck attempts to strangle him, but Ron arrives just in time to rescue Harry. Harry uses parseltongue to open the locket, and Ron destroys the Horcrux with the sword. Hermione and Ron reconcile, and the trio decide to go and visit Xenophilius Lovegood to learn more about a symbol drawn in the book Dumbledore left Hermione. Lovegood explains to them that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows, three magical objects that when combined make a wizard master of Death. Hermione reads the story of the Hallows from her book, and after some awkward conversation the trio try to leave but are stopped by Lovegood. He explains that Luna has been kidnapped before betraying them and summoning the Death Eaters. Harry, Ron, and Hermione disapparate as Lovegood's house is destroyed.

text: Arriving back in the wilderness, the trio sets up camp when Snatchers find and chase them down. Hermione strikes Harry with a curse to disguise his features as the Snatchers take them all to Malfoy Manor. Bellatrix Lestrange imprisons Harry and Ron in the cellar with Luna, Ollivander, and Griphook the goblin. Bellatrix then tortures Hermione for information on how they got the sword of Gryffindor, which Bellatrix claims was in her vault at Gringott's. Harry requests help, communicating with a piece of broken mirror in his possession. Dobby apparates into the cellar to save them. Harry and Ron rush to save Hermione, and a battle ensues that sees Harry disarm Draco Malfoy. Dobby drops a chandelier above Bellatrix, forcing her to release Hermione. Bellatrix throws her knife at them as Dobby grabs everyone and disapparates. They arrive at Shell Cottage and find that Bellatrix's knife has fatally wounded Dobby. Harry insists that they bury Dobby properly without any magic, which they all agree to do.

text: In the final scene, Voldemort breaks into Dumbledore's tomb and steals the Elder Wand.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends.
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends.
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater and Sirius Black's cousin and murderer.
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, Harry's half-giant friend, and gamekeeper at Hogwarts.
Warwick Davis as Griphook, a goblin and former employee at Gringotts Bank. Davis replaced Verne Troyer, who portrayed the character physically in the first film, though Davis had dubbed Griphook's lines.
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, a Death Eater and son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, an evil, power-hungry wizard, and the leader of the Death Eaters.
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, former headmaster of Hogwarts killed by Severus Snape in the previous film.
Brendan Gleeson as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley, Harry's Muggle uncle.
John Hurt as Garrick Ollivander, a wandmaker abducted by the Death Eaters.
Rhys Ifans as Xenophilius Lovegood, the eccentric father of the trio's friend Luna.
Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's father and a disgraced Death Eater.
Bill Nighy as Rufus Scrimgeour, the new Minister of Magic.
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, a double agent to the Death Eaters and the new headmaster of Hogwarts.
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley, Harry's Muggle aunt.
Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, the Death Eater who betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort.
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister and Head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission.
David Thewlis as Remus Lupin, a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a former teacher at Hogwarts.
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley, the Weasley matriarch and a mother figure to Harry.

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text: Production[edit]

text: Part 1 was filmed back-to-back with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 from 19 February 2009 to 12 June 2010.[14][15] Director David Yates, who shot the film alongside director of photography Eduardo Serra, described Part 1 as "quite real"; a "road movie" that's "almost like a vérité documentary".[16][17]

text: Originally set for a single theatrical release, the idea to split the book into two parts was suggested by executive producer Lionel Wigram due to what David Heyman called "creative imperative". Heyman initially responded negatively to the idea, but Wigram asked, “No, David. How are we going to do it?”. After rereading the book and discussing it with screenwriter Steve Kloves, he agreed with the division.[18]

text: The production filmed at Dartford Crossing for the dramatic chase where Hagrid and Harry are being ambushed by Death Eaters.[19]

text: Sets[edit]

text: Stuart Craig, set designer for all of the previous Harry Potter films, returned for the final two parts. He said, "We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We travelled quite far, we built sets, and they spend a lot of time in a forest," he explained. "We built forest sets and integrated them into the real forests, so there were challenges there, as you might imagine."[20] Craig was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Part 1.[21]

text: On the wedding tent for Bill and Fleur's wedding in Part 1, Craig commented on his aim to "rather than make it an extension of the house, which is rather eccentric, homemade, we decided to make it rather elegant . . . It's lined with silk and beautiful, floating candelabra. So it's a nice contrast with the house." For the Ministry of Magic set, he noted, "This is an underground world; this is a ministry, so we went to the real ministries, the Muggle ministries – Whitehall, in London – and decided that our magical ministry was kind of a parallel universe to these real ministries."[22]

text: Craig also commented on his design of Malfoy Manor, saying that it is "a very strong architectural set. The exterior is based on an Elizabethan house here in this country called Hardwick Hall and it has massive windows, and these windows are kind of blinded out. The shutters are drawn so they are like blind windows and they have a real kind of presence, an ominous presence, so that gave us the basis for a good exterior. There's an extraordinary magical roof that's added and surrounded by forest which isn't there in reality, but again is one of the devices to make it more threatening and mysterious."[22]

text: Costumes[edit]

text: The costumes for Part 1 were designed by Jany Temime, who has been the costume designer on Harry Potter productions since Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).[23] Temime was involved in a controversy regarding her work on Fleur Delacour's wedding dress. She was accused of copying the design from a similar dress from Alexander McQueen's Fall 2008 collection.[24] Temime spoke about the dress, saying that she "wanted it to be a witch wedding dress but not a Halloween dress. The dress is white but it needed to have something fantastic to it. So there is the phoenix [motif], the bird, which is a symbol of love in a way because there is rebirth, love never dies, it is born again."[23]

text: Visual effects[edit]

text: After working on every film since Prisoner of Azkaban, Double Negative was asked to provide visual effects for the final instalments of the story, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 and 2. Working closely with the film's VFX Supervisor, Tim Burke, the team was led by VFX Supervisor, David Vickery and VFX Producer Charlotte Loughlane. The main team also included 3D Supervisor, Rick Leary and 2D Supervisor, Sean Stranks.

text: Double Negative's work for Part 1 included the corroding Warner Brothers logo and extensive environment extensions of the Burrows and its surrounds. Additional environment work was completed on Xenophilius Lovegood's home, extending it in 3D and culminating in the Death Eaters' attack. Double Negative also advanced the Death Eaters' smoke effects, with the introduction of the 'flayed man' stage in between their smokey, fluid, flying state and their live-action presence upon landing. Other work included the Patronus charm that interrupts the wedding party to inform the guests that Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic.[25]

text: The visual effects company Framestore produced most of the creature CGI, as in previous films, as well as the animated Tale of the Three Brothers sequence, which was directed and designed by Ben Hibon.[26]

text: Music[edit]

text: Composer Nicholas Hooper, who scored Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince, did not return for Deathly Hallows. Instead, Alexandre Desplat was hired to compose the score for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows − Part 1.[27] The film also featured the song "O Children" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.[28]

text: Distribution[edit]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: The first official picture from the first film was released on 1 December 2009 (2009-12-01), showing Harry, Ron and Hermione in a London street. A clip was officially released on 8 December 2009 (2009-12-08) with the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on Blu-ray and DVD.[29] At the 2010 ShoWest convention, Alan F. Horn premiered unfinished footage from both films.[30] The 2010 MTV Movie Awards premiered more footage from Deathly Hallows.[31] Following this was the release of the official teaser poster, which shows the release date of both Part 1 and Part 2 and a destroyed Hogwarts castle.[32] ABC Family broadcast interviews and additional scenes from both parts during their Harry Potter weekend, which began on 8 July 2010.[33] A two-minute trailer for the film was released worldwide on 22 September 2010.[34]

text: On 29 September 2010, three character posters for Part 1 of Harry, Ron, and Hermione were released by Yahoo! Movies.[35] The following day, a Part 1 cinema poster was released featuring the trio on the run in a forest. The theatrical poster has the tagline "Nowhere is safe", and another version with no credits has the tagline "The end begins".[36] Various other character posters for Part 1 were released on 6 October 2010, featuring Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lord Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Severus Snape and Fenrir Greyback.[37] On 12 October, four new character posters were released.[38] The posters are set to the theme of "Trust no one" and "The hunt begins".

text: On 15 October 2010, tickets began selling on Fandango for the US release of Part 1, and on 19 October, a 50-second clip featuring never-before-seen footage was aired at the 2010 Scream Awards. On 16 October, the second TV spot was released on Cartoon Network during a premiere of Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.[39] On 25 October 2010, Yahoo! Movies released an exclusive featurette of the film.[40] On 30 October 2010, Entertainment Weekly released two new featurettes titled "Horcruxes" and "The Story", featuring a large amount of never-before-seen footage. On the same day, the Warner Bros. Harry Potter website was updated to reveal twelve miniature clips from the film.[41]

text: On 3 November 2010, the Los Angeles Times released an extended clip of Harry leaving the Burrow to find the Horcruxes, titled "No One Else Is Going to Die for Me".[42] On 4 November, a new clip was released from the Harry Potter Facebook page, titled "The Seven Potters".[43] Two more clips were released over the next two days, including a scene depicting a café attack[44] and another taking place in Malfoy Manor.

text: Theatrical release[edit]

text: On 26 August 2010, director David Yates, producers David Heyman and David Barron, and with Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn attended a test screening for Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in Chicago.[45][46] The unfinished film gained rave reviews from test screeners, some of whom labelled it "amazing and dark" and "the most perfect Harry Potter film". Others expressed that the film faithfully adapted the novel, which led to an inheritance of the "book's own problems".[47]

text: Warner Bros. Pictures was originally going to release Part 1 of Deathly Hallows in 2D and 3D formats. On 8 October 2010, it was announced that plans for a 3D version of Part 1 had been scrapped. "Warner Bros. Pictures has made the decision to release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in 2D, in both conventional and IMAX cinemas [because] we will not have a completed 3D version of the film within our release date window. Despite everyone's best efforts, we were unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality." Part 1 of Deathly Hallows was released on Blu-ray 3D as a Best Buy Exclusive. Part 2 was still released in 2D, 3D, and IMAX formats.[48]

text: The world premiere for Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was held in Leicester Square in London on 11 November 2010, with fans from across the world turning up – some of whom had camped for days in the square. This was followed by the Belgian premiere on 12 November and the US premiere in New York City on 15 November.[49]

text: Just 48 hours prior to the official North American launch of Part 1, the first 36 minutes of the film were leaked on the internet.[50] Even before the leak, the film was already the fifth-biggest generator of advance ticket sales in history, after selling out 1,000 cinemas across the United States.[51] Despite widely circulating rumours that the leaked footage was a marketing ploy to generate hype for the movie release date, no screener discs had been created by Warner Bros., and executives called it "a serious breach of copyright violation and theft of Warner Bros. property".[52]

text: In Australia, the film had its premiere on 13 November at Warner Bros. Movie World, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Three hundred people attended the viewing, which was the second official showing in the world, behind the UK premiere. The film premiered in Kuwait's release on 16 November. In Israel, Estonia, and New Zealand, the film was released on 18 November.

text: Home media[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was released on a single and double disc DVD and 3-disc Blu-ray combo pack on 11 April 2011 in the UK and on 15 April 2011 in the US.[53] On 28 January 2011, it was announced by Emma Watson on the Harry Potter UK Facebook page that the page's fans will get to vote for their preferred cover for the Part 1 Blu-ray. The cover with the most votes will be the cover for the disc. Voting started that same day.[54] The DVD and Blu-ray include eight deleted scenes, with the Blu-ray Combo Pack containing an opening scene from Part 2 featuring Harry and Ollivander discussing the Deathly Hallows.[55][56] Deathly Hallows – Part 1 performed well in DVD sales, selling 7,237,437 DVD units and adding $86,932,256 to the gross revenue of the film,[57] bringing the total to $1,043,331,967.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 grossed $24 million in North America during its midnight showing, beating the record for the highest midnight gross of the series, previously held by Half Blood Prince, at $22.2 million.[58] The film also had the third-highest midnight gross of all time, behind The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which grossed $30 million and $26.3 million, respectively.[59] The film broke the record for the highest midnight gross in IMAX, with $1.4 million in box office sales, surpassing Eclipse, which grossed $1 million.[60] All of these records were later topped in 2011 by the film's sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.[61]

text: In North America, the film grossed $61.7 million on its opening day, marking the sixth highest single day gross ever at the time.[62] It became the highest opening day for a Harry Potter film in the series, a record previously held by Half-Blood Prince with $58.2 million,[63] until it was broken by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 with $92.1 million.[64] The film grossed a total of $125 million in its opening weekend, marking the largest opening for the franchise, previously held by Goblet of Fire[65] and later topped by its sequel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. It also was the second biggest November opening ever at the time, behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon's $142.8 million,[66] the ninth biggest weekend opening for a film of all time at the North American box office,[67] and the second biggest opening weekend for a 2010 film in the United States and Canada behind Iron Man 2's $128.1 million.[68] The film stayed at the top of the box office for two weeks, grossing $75 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, bringing its total to $219.1 million.[69]

text: In the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Malta, the film broke records for the highest Friday gross (£5.9 million), Saturday gross (£6.6 million), and Sunday gross (£5.7 million). Additionally, the film set the largest single day gross (£6.6 million) and the largest opening three-day gross (£18,319,721), a record previously held by Quantum of Solace, which grossed £15.4 million.[70] As of 13 February 2011[update], Part 1 has grossed £52,404,464 ($86,020,929),[71] becoming the second highest-grossing 2010 release in the country, behind Toy Story 3 (£73,405,113).[72]

text: Outside North America, the film grossed an estimated $205 million in its opening weekend, becoming the sixth highest of all time, the highest for a 2010 release, and the second highest for a Harry Potter movie, behind only Half-Blood Prince.[73] Globally, the film grossed $330 million in its opening weekend, ranking seventh on the all-time chart.[74]

text: It was the highest grossing 2010 film in Indonesia ($6,149,448), Singapore ($4,546,240), Thailand ($4,933,136), Belgium and Luxembourg ($8,944,329), France and the Maghreb region ($51,104,397), Germany ($61,430,098), the Netherlands ($13,790,585), Norway ($7,144,020), Sweden ($11,209,387), and Australia ($41,350,865).[75] In total overseas earnings, it surpassed Philosopher's Stone ($657.2 million) to become the highest grossing Harry Potter film overseas.[76]

text: On 7 April 2011, Part 1 ended its run with $295,983,305 in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2010 in these regions,[77] and $664,300,000 from other countries around the world, for a worldwide total of $960,283,305,[3] making it the third highest-grossing film of 2010 worldwide behind Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland,[78] as well as the 38th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide and the third highest grossing Harry Potter film in the series behind The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and The Philosopher's Stone.[79]

text: Due to the success of the sequel in Germany, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 could return to No. 9 on the country's Cinema Charts with 28,000 viewers in July 2011.[80]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 78% based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 7.1/10. The site's consensus reads, "It can't help but feel like the prelude it is, but Deathly Hallows: Part I is a beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying penultimate installment for the Harry Potter series."[81] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating to reviews, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[82] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[83]

text: The UK's Daily Telegraph also gave the film a positive review, remarking, "For the most part the action romps along, spurred by some impressive special effects," adding, "It's just slightly disappointing that, with the momentum having been established so effectively, we now have to wait until next year to enjoy the rest of the ride."[84] Roger Ebert awarded the first part three out of four stars, praising the cast and calling it "a handsome and sometimes harrowing film . . . completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time".[85] Scott Bowles of USA Today called it, "Menacing and meditative, Hallows is arguably the best instalment of the planned eight-film franchise, though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost",[86] while Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly likewise praised the film as "the most cinematically rewarding chapter yet."[87] In a review for the Orlando Sentinel, Roger Moore proclaimed Part I as "Alternately funny and touching, it's the best film in the series, an Empire Strikes Back for these wizards and their wizarding world. And those effects? They're so special you don't notice them."[88] Ramin Setoodeh of Newsweek gave a negative review, writing, "They've taken one of the most enchanting series in contemporary fiction and sucked out all the magic . . . while Rowling's stories are endlessly inventive, Potter onscreen just gives you a headache."[89] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post found the film to be "Beautifully shot but a soulless cash machine... [that] delivers no dramatic payoff, no resolution and not much fun."[90]

text: Accolades[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects at the 83rd Academy Awards.[91] It is the second film in the Harry Potter film series to be nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar (the previous one being Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). The film was long-listed for eight different categories, including Best Cinematography, Production Design, and Original Score, at the 64th BAFTA awards, and ultimately was nominated for Best Special Visual Effects and Make-up.[92]

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[show]List of awards and nominations

Award
Category
Result
Recipient
Source

83rd Academy Awards
Best Art Direction
Nominated
Stuart Craig
Stephenie McMillan
[91]

Best Visual Effects
Nominated
Tim Burke
John Richardson
Christian Manz
Nicolas Aithadi

64th BAFTA Awards
Special Visual Effects
Nominated
[93]

Best Makeup and Hair
Nominated
Amanda Knight
Lisa Tomblin

BAFTA Britannia Awards
Artistic Excellence in Directing
Won
David Yates (for Harry Potter films 5–8)
[94]

37th Saturn Awards
Best Fantasy Film
Nominated

[95]

Best Director
Nominated
David Yates

Best Special Effects
Nominated
Tim Burke
John Richardson
Nicolas Ait'Hadi
Christian Manz

Best Make-Up
Nominated
Mark Coulier
Nick Dudman
Amanda Knight

Best Costume
Nominated
Jany Temime

2011 Hugo Awards
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Nominated
David Yates, Steve Kloves
[96]

2011 MTV Movie Awards
Best Movie
Nominated

[97]

Best Male Performance
Nominated
Daniel Radcliffe

Best Female Performance
Nominated
Emma Watson

Best Villain
Won
Tom Felton

Best Kiss
Nominated
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson

Best Fight
Nominated
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint

Satellite Awards 2010
Best Cinematography
Nominated
Eduardo Serra
[98]

Best Original Score
Nominated
Alexandre Desplat

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Art Direction
Nominated
Stuart Craig
[99]

Art Directors Guild Awards 2010
Best Art Direction in a Fantasy Film
Nominated
[100]

Golden Reel Awards 2011
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film
Nominated
Gerard McCann
Peter Clarke
Stuart Morton
Allan Jenkins
Kirsty Whalley
Rob Houston
[101]

Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
Nominated
James Harley Mather
Bjorn Ole Schroeder
Dan Laurie
Jon Olive
[102]

Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2010
Best Cinematography
Nominated
Eduardo Serra
[103]

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2010
Best Cinematography
Nominated
[104]

Best Production Design
Nominated
Stuart Craig

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2010
Best Cinematography
Nominated
Eduardo Serra
[105]

Best Visual Effects
Nominated

Visual Effects Society Awards 2011
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture
Nominated
Tim Burke
Emma Norton
John Richardson
[106]

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
(Dobby)
Won
Mathieu Vig
Ben Lambert
Laurie Brugger
Marine Poirson

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
(Kreacher)
Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2010
Best Visual Effects
Nominated

[107]

Best Makeup
Nominated

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2010
Best Visual Effects
Nominated
[108]

Special Merit (Obliviate Scene)
Nominated

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Best Visual Effects
Nominated
[109]

International Film Music Critics Association
Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film
Nominated
Alexandre Desplat
[110]

2011 Kids' Choice Awards
Favorite Movie
Nominated

[111]

Favorite Movie Actress
Nominated
Emma Watson

Empire Awards 2011
Best Actress
Nominated
[112]

Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Won

2011 National Movie Awards
Best Fantasy Film
Won

[113]

Performance of the Year
Nominated
Daniel Radcliffe

Nominated
Emma Watson

Nominated
Rupert Grint

2011 Teen Choice Awards
Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Won

[114]

Choice Movie: Actor Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Nominated
Daniel Radcliffe

Choice Movie: Actress Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Won
Emma Watson

Choice Movie: Villain
Won
Tom Felton

Choice Movie: Liplock
Won
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson

2011 British Academy Children's Awards (BAFTA)
Favorite Film
Nominated

[115]

BAFTA Kids' Vote (Film Category)
Nominated

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