Move over Harry Potter…
The News Review:
- Move over Harry Potter…
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Set Visit Preview
- NYC’s Ziegfeld Theatre to Host Harry Potter Marathon
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Book review: Harry a History
- Pea in a pod
- Star wants to empower women
Move over Harry Potter…
BBC News UK
“Among his many other talents he had something otherworldly that he brought to the screen. “Something special and tortured and interesting and strange” says Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. So how does a boy from Barnes become this autumn’s hottest vampire and the talk of American fan sites?Robert Pattinson first came to public attention playing Cedric Diggory in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the fourth film in the series. In a noteworthy if short-lived performance Diggory lost his life and the girl to bespectacled love rival Potter. But Pattinson is having the last laugh – his new role as vampire Edward Cullen has seen him crowned Rolling Stone’s hottest actor of the year.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Set Visit Preview
ComingSoon.net
net visited the set of. She has a strong obsession with Ron Weasley and Cave talked to us about the infamous kiss with Rupert Grint.
NYC’s Ziegfeld Theatre to Host Harry Potter Marathon
TheaterMania.com NY
The films which are adapted from the novels of J. Rowling also feature a host of theater stars including Equus co-star Richard Griffiths Ralph Fiennes Maggie Smith Imelda Staunton David Tennant Alan Rickman Fiona Shaw an Michael Gambon. The final book in the series Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will become a two-part film; the first part is set to be released in July 2009 while the second part will begin filming in mid-February shortly after Radcliffe and Griffith’s complete the Broadway run of Equus.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Indianapolis Star United States
Rowling (Children’s High Level Group $12. 99)Just in time for the holidays J. Rowling has given Harry Potter fans a little gift. No not a new book about the young wizard — THAT would be like a birthday combined with Christmas! Instead she’s written a charming confection of a book from the world of Harry Potter with the sparkle and wit that remind us why she became a publishing sensation in the first place.
Book review: Harry a History
Scotsman United Kingdom
Go to the Leaky Cauldron website and you can’t help feel JK Rowling’s powerful imagination has begun to spawn a belief ADVERTISEMENTsystem on its own. In between articles on the latest Harry Potter films and its stars a wizard rock festival and how to brew your own Butterbeer the site invites you to register for LeakyCon 2009. It’s a Harry Potter gathering promising to bring friends together from round the world for fun fellowship and “to practise the greatest lessons of Harry Potter: bravery nobility acceptance and above all love”. Melissa Anelli an energetic young freelance journalist from New York is the award-winning webmistress of the Leaky Cauldron. Billed as “the most trusted name in Potter” it is Rowling’s own favourite fan site but repeatedly stresses its independence from her her publishers and the Warner Bros film studio. Now Ms Anelli has written a book of her own. Harry a History is billed as the “inside story” of the boy wizard and his fans.
Pea in a pod
Winnipeg Sun Canada
Now they’re caged by paparazzi and the stone walls of celebrity. It’s a point not lost on the filmmakers of The Tale of Despereaux which casts British ingenue Emma Watson as Princess Pea in the animated adventure about a rodent (Matthew Broderick) with an appetite for adventure nearly as large as his ears. After seven years as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise who else would be as perfect for the role of a young royal? “You’re casting a 17-year-old princess so it’s very logical” says producer and co-screenwriter Gary Ross. “We were lucky to have her. Echoes co-director Sam Fell “She has this amazing celebrity around her and like the princess she’s surrounded by it.
Star wants to empower women
Detroit Free Press United States
“The new issue of GQ is on newsstands Dec. ‘Potter’ exhibit hits Windy CityRabid Harry Potter fans will have the chance to study up at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry next spring as scenes from author J. Rowling’s mystical world go on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Running from April 30-Sept. 7 “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” is the first major museum display about the English schoolboy’s best-selling series of novels and films.
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