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March 11, 2008

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New Movies | Upcoming Movies | Ratings - New York Post
New York Post - Mar 11, 2008
Book TourFred TopelSpecial to Hollywood. comThe publication of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has hardly been the end of the magical phenomenon surrounding the young wizard’s adventures. With two movies still to come, author J. Rowling is touring the country signing books for children and answering their questions. Her Open Book Tour stopped in Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans from October 15 through 19…
I told Emma [Watson] the most and she nearly fell off her chair laughing when I told her who she’d have to kiss. As you probably know if you finished the book, if they make it faithful to the story, she’s going to kiss both of them [Ron and Neville], which I think is kind of fun. “” Franchisus Prolongus: Conjuring up one last Harry Potter product, an encyclopedia of the magical world. “”It’s not coming along and I haven’t started it yet. It’s really not anywhere at the moment. I always said maybe I’ll do the encyclopedia and that’s still the case, but I never intended it to be the next thing I did. I want to take a break and step back and then in due course, I may go and do that.

National News | US News | Current National News - New York Post
New York Post - Mar 11, 2008
Harry Potter scribe J. Rowling is no mere muggle. She doesn't just live up to the astronomical and seemingly unrealistic expectations surrounding her seventh and.

Sunday Herald: Arts: Culture
Sunday Herald - Mar 11, 2008
advertisementThey evidently share the same quirky outlook on life, typified by the fact that when they first met, rather than move in together, Burton bought the house next door to Bonham Carter’s home in London’s Belsize Park and knocked it through. They now share this extended living space with their three-year-old son Billy Ray, who is evidently being tutored in the way of his parents’ Gothic tastes. His mother lets slip that recently she let him watch Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban - in preparation for her own role in the forthcoming fifth film of the franchise. “It was the one where his aunt blows up into a huge balloon and floats out of the window,” she giggles. “That was really traumatic!” She then realises how this comes across. “It was a mistake,” she says, more sombrely. Right now, Bonham Carter is “having a really nice life”…
“It had a sort of energy as if we were doing it live,” she agrees. Shot in just 13 days - the fastest shoot Bonham Carter has ever enjoyed - “it meant there was more time acting than waiting, which is often the opposite case with most films”. She evidently preferred the experience to working on the Harry Potter film, The Order Of The Phoenix, in which she gets to play the “mad, sadistic witch” Bellatrix Lestrange. “It was the other extreme,” she says. “That was six weeks and I had about five lines you just camp there and every so often do a bit of acting in front of green screens. ” Given the dotty impression she makes, I wonder if it’s this that led to her Potter debut. “I don’t know,” she muses.

The fall of shock and awe
Hartford Courant - Mar 11, 2008
Rowlings admission Oct. 19th at Carnegie Hall that she had always envisioned Dumbledore to be gay was especially shocking to Harry Potter fandom and the world at large — both because no one saw it coming and because now that the series is completed, it seems weird to keep adding information about the characters.

‘Twilight’ Co-Star Anna Kendrick Braces For Buzz - Movie News…
MTV.com - Mar 11, 2008
“I hadn’t read the books before, but I tore through them the second I was cast. Join the crowd, Anna. Last August, author Stephenie Meyer’s latest book, “Eclipse,” debuted in the top spot on the USA Today best-seller list, knocking off “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ” That was seen by many as the latest sign that the vampire series is becoming the new Potter, with more than 50 million books sold and a fast-rising ranking as one of the top 30 best-selling book series of all time. If the huge Internet response to recent comments by co-stars.

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