Japanese Fangirl interviews Harry Potter stars

You've got to see this. Out of 10,000 contestants, this girl won the chance to visit the Harry Potter set and do an interview. She almost explodes with excitement. I love it when she zaps Daniel Radcliffe with her wand!




"Touch okay?"

ROFLMAO!!!

Dan Radcliffe obsessed with ping pong

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Could he be more adorable talking so passionately about his ping pong prowess or his cheating in Monopoly? I also love how both he and Meredith are continually startled by the Today show Wand graphic and sound effects!

New Awesome Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!

Harry Potter will release two days earlier on Wednesday, July 15th! Can't wait!

New Harry Potter Trailer

The ending is just the best. They're torturing us by delaying this till summer!

Naked Daniel Radcliffe may be the real reason for changing date for Harry Potter

Posters like this one have been appearing all over New York, heralding Daniel Radcliffe's run on Broadway in the play Equus. A reprise of the play he did in London, and oh, by the way, he appears NAKED on stage and has sex with horses and blinds them. Not exactly what Warners wants playing at exactly the same time as their family film, Harry Potter comes out.
From Huffington Post:

Warner Bros. has announced moving its sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," from Nov. 21, 2008, to July 17, 2009. The reason? Officially, there is no reason, except that "a spot opened on the summer schedule."

That's not much of a reason. The real story? Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will be right in the middle of his sensational, highly publicized run on Broadway in the play, "Equus." Radcliffe appears naked in the play, on stage, and has sex in it was well. That's not the image Warner Bros. wants associated with bespectacled Harry, who remains chaste and virginal.

Indeed, posters for Equus are up all over New York, of Radcliffe's naked torso superimposed on a horse's head. This is not the sort of thing that's taught at Hogwarts. For the movie to open on Nov. 21, Radcliffe would have to do publicity entailing answering questions about blinding horses and having sex with them vs. flying around and making potions.

Harry Potter moved to July 2009! Noooooooo!

Say it isn't so! Seems the writers' strike has made gaps in the summer tentpole schedule for 2009, while the end of 2008 is crowded with goodies. Thus, the powers that be have moved Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be a major tentpole of next summer. WB honcho Alan Horn's official statement:

"Our reasons for shifting 'Half-Blood Prince' to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment. Additionally, like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers' strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films--changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of. We agreed the best strategy was to move 'Half-Blood Prince' to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer."

And does this affect the final two films' release dates? WB production president Jeff Robinov:

"The release date change does not alter the production schedule for this or future Harry Potter films. Post-production on 'Half-Blood Prince' was completed on time, and the studio's release plans for the two-part 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' will not be affected by this change. We know Harry Potter fans are eagerly anticipating seeing the final chapters unfold onscreen. In fact, the good news for them is that the gap will now be shortened between 'Half-Blood Prince' and the first part of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.'"

Waaaaahhhhhh!!!

New Harry Potter 6 Trailer!!!

Creepy and awesome! Fun fact: Young Tom Riddle is played in suitably Damien-creepy fashion by 11-year-old Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who is briefly seen here as the adult Voldemort).

You Got Your Cherry Bomb

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint stretches his acting range in the new UK film, Cherry Bomb.

The Sun reports the 19-year-old British actor is currently in Belfast still filming the rest of the film for BBC. Cherry Bomb follows teenagers Malachy (Grint), Luke (Robert Sheehan) and Michelle (Kimberley Nixon) as they embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can’t get off the wild ride they’ve set in motion.

The 19-year-old actor — Ron Weasley in the blockbuster films — gets a battering over a beautiful girl in his new movie Cherry Bomb.

The teen thriller, out next year, is a far cry from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which hits screens in November.

Rupert, filming in Belfast with co-stars including JAMES NESBITT, said: “As soon as I saw the script I wanted to do it. It’s so different from Potter.”

Sounds a bit like Daniel Radcliffe getting acting cred for going buck naked on stage in Equus.