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Latest news as of Friday, May 9, 2008
| Monday, May 5, 2008 |
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| Chris Rankin to appear at young actors festival |
Young thespians from nine young theatre companies will get to show their worth on a Newcastle stage this week, as the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, is once again home to the National Theatre's New Connections Festival. The festival weekend will feature a very special guest appearance from Chris Rankin, Harry Potter's Percy Weasley. [more...]
Source: The Evening Chronicle, UK |
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| Sunday, May 4, 2008 |
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| Happy 85th birthday to Eric Sykes! |
Eric Sykes, who was born in Oldham, England on May 4, 1923, is 85 years old today. Eric Sykes is Riddle Manor caretaker Frank Bryce in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and was very popular on TV in the UK in the sixties, particularly with the series "Sykes Versus TV".
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| Friday, May 2, 2008 |
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| Video Interview: Robert Pattinson talks about Twilight |
Now online is a video from G4 of a new interview with Twilight leading man Robert Pattinson. The young actor, previously seen in the Harry Potter series as Cedric Diggory, has big shoes and fangs to fill by realizing Edward Cullen, the vampire from Stephenie Meyer's popular literary series. [more...]
Source: Crave Online |
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| First official pic from Robert Pattison's new film |
Twilight is a new film based on a very successful series of horror-romance novels by Stephanie Meyer. In it, Robert Pattinson plays a young vegetarian vampire (he only drinks animal blood). After some early leaks, the first official cast photo from the film has now been released. [more...]
Source: Empire Online |
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| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
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| Review: Kipling saga strikes right note |
Adventurous casting placed Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) in the role of John, and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) as Carrie, Kipling's American wife, in My Boy Jack. Bizarrely, this casting was perfect. Radcliffe was totally believable as the dutiful but troubled teen trying to both knuckle under and break away from the huge shadow of his father. [more...]
Source: New Zealand Stuff |
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| Monday, April 28, 2008 |
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| Filming starts on Robert Pattison's vampire flick |
Filming on "Twilight" is taking place around the usually rainy Pacific Northwest. But the weather isn't cooperating, so fake rain drizzles down the window at Madison High School, enhancing Robert Pattinson's chalky complexion as he sits in a classroom inside. Pattison is be best known to Harry Potter fans as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. [more...]
Source: Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN |
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| Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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| All the Harry Potter kids make newest Rich List |
On the list of Britain's Richest 100 Young Millionaires, compiled by the Sunday London Times, Emma Watson, listed with £10 million, and her Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint, at £7 million, feature for the first time. They join Daniel Radcliffe, who has added to his wealth and is now worth £20 million. [more...]
Source: The Star, UK |
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| Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
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| New twist in search for Harry Potter's mystery girl |
Two young Australian women have come forward, each claiming to be the beautiful stranger who bewitched Dan Radcliffe at a party. But their hopes of meeting Radcliffe have gone up in a puff of smoke, with Radcliffe's representatives saying his comments about being smitten with a girl who stared at him all night and then disappeared were just a joke. [more...]
[Related Articles] Source: Reuters |
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| Dan Radcliffe angry at Equus outcry |
Daniel Radcliffe has accused theatre-goers of "double standards" following criticism of a scene in the new production of Equus, which debuts on Broadway on September 5. He said, "No one actually minded that he blinds six horses. It's a bit of a dose of double standards, which aggravated me slightly." [more...]
Source: Digital Spy |
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| Mark Williams returns home to dedicate new school |
Mark Williams, Mr. Weasley in the Harry Potter films, will be will be returning to his Bromsgrove roots for the opening the new North Bromsgrove High School building this Friday. During his visit Mark, who attended the school in the 1970s, will be helping students when he runs a drama workshop. [more...]
Source: Bromsgrove Advertiser, UK |
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| Monday, April 21, 2008 |
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| Rupert Grint unhappy at nasty comments |
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint says he'll be taking action after he was accused of making nasty comments about some Hollywood celebs, including Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. But his spokesman said Rupert has never said anything bad about Lindsay or Paris and he's never even met them! [more...]
Source: CBBC Newsround |
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| Found: the Sydney girl who cast a spell on Harry Potter |
The mystery of the glamorous Australian woman who captured Daniel Radcliffe's eye appears to have been solved. She is 20-year-old Sydney insurance worker Cassi McKay, and in an extraordinary coincidence, she is preparing to fly to Radcliffe's native city of London next week for a four-month holiday. [more...]
[Related Articles] Source: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney |
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| Dan Radcliffe seeks mystery Australian girl |
Daniel Radcliffe, the actor behind the boy wizard Harry Potter, is hunting for a mystery Australian girl who cast a spell on him at a film awards party. "She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn't find her," Radcliffe told a local newspaper. [more...]
[Related Articles] Source: Reuters |
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| Friday, April 18, 2008 |
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| Emma Watson the new Scarlett Johansson |
Emma Watson, who recently turned 18, has lined up her first big movie role outside the Harry Potter series. She's taking over the role previously inhabited by Scarlett Johansson in Napoleon and Betsy. Watson will play Betsy Balcombe, a spunky young noblewoman who falls for Napoleon. [more...]
Source: Empire Online |
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| Interview: Daniel Radcliffe and Kim Cattrall Talk My Boy Jack |
Sex and the City siren Kim Cattrall and Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame play mother and son in My Boy Jack, a BBC drama airing Sunday at 9 pm. The unlikely pair spoke together, Cattrall from her home in New York and Radcliffe from the U.K. set of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, about their roles, their upcoming projects and their fondness for each other. [more...]
[Related Articles] Source: seattlepi.com |
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| Review: Daniel Radcliffe stars in My Boy Jack |
The Elijah Wood of his generation, Radcliffe has begun to look beyond Harry Potter. In My Boy Jack, he smokes and drinks and wears a mustache, which certainly distinguishes him from Harry Potter, but also has the possibly intentional ironic effect of emphasizing rather than disguising his evident youth. [more...]
[Related Articles] Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Argus Filch at literary festival |
Harry Potter star David Bradley will be joined by a host of other literature fans at this weekend's Stratford International Festival of Literature. Bradley, who plays the grumpy Argus Filch in the film adaptations of J K Rowlings' novels, will be causing a shiver or two when he reads his own ghost stories to audience members on Sunday. [more...]
Source: Warwick Courier, UK |
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| Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
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| Emma Watson's magical birthday present |
Harry Potter star Emma Watson really had something to celebrate on her 18th birthday. Emma finally got access to the £10.5 million she had amassed while working on the movies. There won't be much splashing out, however, as Watson has been enrolled on a course to ensure she understands the responsibility of investing the money wisely. [more...]
Source: The Telegraph, UK |
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