Harry Potter 6 sold out over 4,500 midnight screenings last night. Box office scientists predict the new Potter movie will break all Mid-Week-6th-Installment-of-Magical-Being-Coming-Of-Age-Movies-That-Open-on-the-287th-Day-of-the-Lunar-Calender ticket sale records. [LAT

There will be a TV show dedicated only to Twilight news. Does this mean that the Twilight kids are like The Beatles of the Undead? Does that make Daniel Radcliffe a young Mick Jagger? Does that make me a third rate Chuck Klosterman? [THR]

Speaking of which! Quentin Tarantino thinks you're a shitty writer: "I respect criticism," he said, "But I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me." Yes but how well could he tweet it? #burned. [ Vulture ]

Do you like overwrought shows about chemically dependent geniuses? Are you interested in their story of redemption? Here's a new promo for House season 6. House goes to rehab! [TV Guide]

Sometimes it can feel as though we are victims of an unjust universe that could roll us between its thumb and forefinger and squish us like a bug for any arbitrary reason. But sometimes it feels as though humans have the ability to craft their own destiny and impose a restorative kind of justice in the word. The blogger who leaked the Chinese Democracy got two months of house arrest. [ AP ]

Somewhat intriguingly, EW retracted this morning's item headlined, "Guns N' Roses manger: 'Great art takes time'" almost as soon as it was published — right around the time the single first hit the radio and began streaming online. But why? After all, rock managers are chronically bloated with braggadocio, even if shaking up their band's label and exclusive retail partners at Best Buy with suggestions that Nov. 23 doesn't really mean Nov. 23:

[A]ccording to GNR's current manager, Azoff's Andy Gould, you can't rush the magic of rock. "Art and commerce have always made strange bedfellows," Gould tells EW.com. "When they asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, they didn't say, 'Can you do it in the fourth quarter?' so they can make their numbers. Great art sometimes takes time." [...] With less than a month to go until fans can judge the final product for themselves (pending approval of the album's artwork, which, Gould hinted, could have its own complications), the anticipation — and pressure — is most certainly high.

The full EW item (we think — is there something we missed, tipsters?) is currently available only on GNR fan forums (we know you're starved for Matt Pinfield's take on the "most expensive rock record ever made"), but in any case, after hearing what we heard this morning, we strongly encourage Rose, Gould and co. to take all the time they need. We'll gladly wait forever if that's what Chinese Democracy requires. Listen for yourself.

• 'Chinese Democracy' [WJRR-FM]

• Guns N' Roses manager: 'Great art takes time' [EW Insider via My GNR Forum]

Weinstein, who claims he has good relations with the Chinese government, has gone to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, which is where he decided to do the bulk of the filming, after 35 days of shooting interiors in Britain.

Producer Mike Medavoy, who spent the first seven years of his life in Shanghai, said, "We have the greatest respect for China, and Shanghai will look to capture and celebrate this great country."

Weinstein and company can't afford bad relations with China, having raised $285 million dedicated to making movies in Asia starring local actors.

Our thoughts exactly, although the Jet Li/Jackie Chan kung-fu fantasy The Forbidden Kingdom isn't the kind of sexy, vaguely political American imposition the Chinese have in mind when evicting Harvey and Co. In any case, we suspect Harvey was shocked to arrive ready for diplomacy only to find Chinese culture minister Sun Jiazheng decked out in a STOP DARTH WEINSTEIN T-shirt given to him by an earlier, unidentified American visitor, who apparently punked him into believing it said WELCOME WEINSTEIN COMPANY. Those Fanboys loyalists — always thinking two steps ahead.

• Weinstein's Asian Persuasion [NYP]