Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Pinocchio.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
the described Movies Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from 2005 and Pinocchio from 1940
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on J. K. Rowling's 2000 novel of the same name.
Produced by David Heyman and written by Steve Kloves, it is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter film series.
The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.
Its story follows Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts as he is chosen by the Goblet of Fire to compete in the Triwizard Tournament.
The film is the first of the series to receive a PG-13 certificate in the US, and a 12A in the UK.
Filming began in early 2004.
The Hogwarts scenes were shot at the Leavesden Film Studios.
Five days after its release, the film had grossed over US$102 million at the North American box office, which is the third-highest first-weekend tally for a Harry Potter film behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.
Goblet of Fire enjoyed an immensely successful run at the box office, earning $896 million worldwide, which made it the highest-grossing film of 2005 and the sixth-highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter series.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.
Goblet of Fire was the second film in the series to be released in IMAX.
The film is one of the best-reviewed instalments within the series, being praised for the higher level of maturity and sophistication of its characters, plotline, tone, screenplay, and the performances of the lead actors.
It was followed by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007.
Directed by: Mike Newell.
Produced by: David Heyman.
Screenplay by: Steve Kloves.
Based on: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: by J. K. Rowling.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith and Timothy Spall.
Music by: Patrick Doyle.
Cinematography: Roger Pratt.
Edited by: Mick Audsley.
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures and Heyday Films.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release date: 6 November 2005 ( Odeon Leicester Square), 18 November 2005 (United Kingdom and United States).
File Length: 150 minutes.
Countries: United Kingdom and United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $150 million.
Box office: $896.5 million.
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the first animated success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
The plot involves an old Italian woodcarver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio.
The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be "brave, truthful, and unselfish".
Pinocchio's efforts to become a real boy involve encounters with a host of unsavoury characters.
The key character of Jiminy Cricket is based on a 100-year "wise, old" talking cricket from the original book, who warns Pinocchio of his impudence when they meet only to be killed in return shortly after, before returning as a ghost.
The film was adapted by several storyboard artists from Collodi's book.
The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and the film's sequences were directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, and Bill Roberts.
Pinocchio was a ground-breaking achievement in the area of effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows and water.
The film was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on 7 February, 1940.
Although it became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award — winning two for Best Music, Original Score and for Best Music, Original Song For" When You Wish Upon a Star" — it was initially a box office bomb, mainly due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets overseas.
It eventually made a profit in its 1945 reissue, and is considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, with a 100% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes.
The film and characters are still prevalent in popular culture, featuring at various Disney parks and in other forms of entertainment.
In 1994, Pinocchio was added to the United States National Film Registry for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In April 2015, a live-action adaptation directed by Robert Zemeckis had officially entered development and began filming in March 2021.
Directed by: Supervising Directors: Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske.
Sequence Directors: Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson and T. Hee.
Produced by: Walt Disney.
Story by: Ted Sears, Otto Englander , Webb Smith , William Cottrell , Joseph Sabo , Erdman Penner and Aurelius Battaglia.
Based on: The Adventures of Pinocchio: by Carlo Collodi.
Starring: Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable and Frankie Darro.
Music by: Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith.
Production company: Walt Disney Productions.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 7 February , 1940 ( Center Theatre), 23 February , 1940 (United States).
File Length: 87 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $2.6 million.
Box office: $164 million.
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