Rowling has surprise for Chinese fans

J.K. Rowling, the creator of "Harry Potter," has a mysterious surprise for Chinese Potter fansas the film series will be shown during the 19th annual Shanghai International Film Festival inJune.

The eight installments of the "Harry Potter" series will be screened during the Shanghai filmfestival, announced the organizers last weekend. It was also revealed that J.K. Rowling, thewriter of the book series as well as the script writer and producer for the film series, willpresent a big surprise to Chinese fans.

The mystery can only be solved at the Shanghai theaters in June.

It is unknown if the surprise is linked to "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the firstinstallment of a film trilogy written by J. K. Rowling directed by David Yates, a spin-off of theHarry Potter film series to be released on Nov 18, 2016, or the two-part London West Endstage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which is set to open on July 30, 2016.

The 19th Shanghai International Film Festival will be held from June 11 to 19, 2016. Inaddition to the Pixar selection, there will also be several special screening selections thisyear, including Tribute to Masters, Classic 007 Films Screening, Oscar Film Panorama,Jackie Chan Action Movie Week, New Works of Renowned Japanese Directors, KoreanFilms, Retrospective of Recent Works of Woody Allen, 4K Restored Classic Film Panoramaand others.

Ticket sales will start at 8:00 am on June 4.

(CHINADAILY)