Harry Potter is heading for Japan for the next theme park modelled on the Hogwarts Castle experience - the first to be built outside the US.
The third Wizarding World of Harry Potter is to be built at Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka, with work starting in the next few weeks and the park scheduled to open in late 2014, the operator of the park announced on Thursday.
Universal's first wizarding attraction, in Orlando, Florida, has already attracted millions of Potter fans, while a second theme park is to open in Los Angeles.
But the Japanese have had a soft spot for the bespectacled boy hero who grew up under a staircase in Little Whinging, Surrey.
The eight movies grossed more than £550 million in Japan, making the franchise more popular in the Asian country than in Britain. More than 78 million people have seen the films in Japanese cinemas.
To date, the seven Harry Potter books have sole an estimated 450 million copies worldwide and the films have taken some £4.78 billion globally. -By Julian Ryall in Tokyo/The Telegraph/May 10, 2012
The third Wizarding World of Harry Potter is to be built at Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka, with work starting in the next few weeks and the park scheduled to open in late 2014, the operator of the park announced on Thursday.
Universal's first wizarding attraction, in Orlando, Florida, has already attracted millions of Potter fans, while a second theme park is to open in Los Angeles.
But the Japanese have had a soft spot for the bespectacled boy hero who grew up under a staircase in Little Whinging, Surrey.
The eight movies grossed more than £550 million in Japan, making the franchise more popular in the Asian country than in Britain. More than 78 million people have seen the films in Japanese cinemas.
To date, the seven Harry Potter books have sole an estimated 450 million copies worldwide and the films have taken some £4.78 billion globally. -By Julian Ryall in Tokyo/The Telegraph/May 10, 2012
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