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News Release

December, 2000

Warner Bros. Consumer Products selects Kalmenson and Kalmenson Voice Casting as project manager for all voice related casting and direction for all "Harry Potter" consumer products licensees.

Under the auspices of Warner Bros. Consumer Products division, Kalmenson and Kalmenson Voice Casting has been selected as the official Project Manager for all voice implementation involving the upcoming Harry Potter consumer products licensees who plan on using any of the Harry Potter voices in product(s) based on J.K. Rowling's worldwide literary phenomenon, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

Warner’s Harry Potter "assignment" involves all voice casting with Harvey Kalmenson, "da harv", set to direct consumer product sessions. The first movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" will be released in November of this year.

The extensive and intensive search for the “official” consumer product voices for each character took place in November 2000, at the Kalmenson Studios, in Burbank, CA

Kalmenson and Kalmenson Voice Casting is headed up by the husband and wife team of Catherine and Harvey Kalmenson.

Kalmenson is the largest voice casting service in Los Angeles. Their staff of sixteen employees includes eight full time casting directors. The Kalmenson’s, in tandem, bring with them the most impressive industry credentials afforded.