The Children’s High Level Group, a charity started by JK Rowling and Baroness Emma Nicholson, has unveiled their new site and re-brand, which is now known as Lumos! Visit their official site by going to lumos.org.uk!
The Children’s High Level Group today unveils its new name and a new brand with a rallying call to put an end to the systematic institutionalisation of disadvantaged children across Central and Eastern Europe.
The charity today re-launches as Lumos – named after the spell in J K Rowling’s global sensation Harry Potter. In the books, Lumos causes a small beam of light to emit from the spell-caster’s wand.
With the change of name to Lumos comes a shift in focus: Lumos will no longer work in Romania – this work will be continued by the Asociatia Children’s High Level Group, whose Chair is Baroness Emma Nicholson. Lumos, chaired by J K Rowling, will continue its work in the Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova, as well as expanding into other countries.
J K Rowling says, “Twenty years ago, as Communist regimes across Europe toppled, harrowing images of Europe’s hidden children began to emerge. Thousands upon thousands of children were living in vast, depressing institutions – malnourished and often maltreated, with little access to the outside world. Slowly governments have begun to transform care systems. Real and lasting change takes time, but today we are putting down a marker and calling for significantly more progress in the next twenty years to ensure that eventually no children are living in, or at risk of entering, such institutions.”
MTV is reporting about a new rumor, that rumor being that /Film has deduced that Daniel Radcliffe will be staring in The Lucky One, adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks.
The Lucky One tells of US Marine Logan Thibault who finds a snapshot of a young woman when on duty in Iraq and feels that it brings him a tidal wave of good luck. After his tour is done and he returns to America, he sets off on a journey to track down the woman in his photograph. She’s Elizabeth, a young mother who is now divorced, and I suppose it’s inevitable she’ll begin an affair with Thibault at some point, seeing as who wrote the story and all.
I’m assuming Radcliffe and Rabe will have the lead roles. Their names come from tweets by Christine Vachon, the producer of Infamous as well as pretty much every Todd Haynes movie and both of Tom Kalin’s pictures.
Heading to Doug McGrath’s script reading, starring Daniel Radcliffe–
Daniel Radcliffe and Lily Rabe were AMAZING together!
Now, while she doesn’t mention which movie this is, the actors fit the roles, and we already knew McGrath was adapting this particular Sparks book. Furthermore, a recent interview with Sparks at Collider saw the author say “I think they start filming The Lucky One in May”. I’m sure we have a match.
UPDATE: MTV has posted up exclusive news that this is untrue:
Our insider said the reading was for another film being produced that doesn’t even have financing lined up yet.
“It’s for another film called ‘Nothing Else Like It On Earth’,” our source said. “It’s a really beautiful story.”
Apparently none of the actors have been confirmed yet due to film being in an early state of production. Daniel and Lily were just doing the readings, and no casting decisions have been made.
Jason Isaacs, Lucius Malfoy, was interviewed by CNN and he discussed the Harry Potter series. Thanks to SS we have a small summary of what was said, and you can watch the interview below:
Jason admitted that he tried out for the Gilderoy Lockhart role in Chamber of Secrets, as well as Lucius (though is more grateful for getting the latter role). He said the best bits are off-camera, working with great actors like Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Gary Oldman, and Bill Nighy, to name a few.
He said that work on the Harry Potter films is relatively easy for him, and that the biggest challenge is in keeping the wig up and act.
Jason joked that he was bitter and jealous that he never got a scene in Half-Blood Prince, but overall voiced his overall joy at being a part of the series.
If Jason were Lucius Malfoy for a day, he said he’d go around killing Muggles. If Jason were to meet Lucius, he might just shave off the long blond locks.
APLive will be playing an exclusive interview with Daniel Radcliffe tomorrow (Fri., Feb. 26) at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. In the interview he will discuss his return to New York and Broadway for the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle) has given an interview to Scottish television network, STV, and you can view the interview here! On not being in Deathly Hallows:
Revealing some of the Harry Potter magic, she said: “When the camera is on the other characters, I was really in the swimming pool and really swimming towards Harry and doing all the voice but when the camera is turned on me, nobody is there. I am just by myself in a big green empty warehouse so I have got to imagine and remember what Harry did.
“I found it very difficult to begin with. I am up in the sky so I am strapped to a bicycle seat with my legs clamped down tight so I don’t fall off it and swivelling through the air and trying to hit marks and imagine how Harry would be reacting.”
Despite appearing a little in future books, Shirley’s character will not feature in later films, a part she says she will miss playing.
She said: “I think they just have to make that decision about who is going to be there and who’s not. And it is very much about the love interest now and a little bit more serious, less silly characters like me. I miss it, I loved doing it.”
Thanks very much to SnitchSeeker we have a bunch of photos from the Swinley Forest filming taking place this week! See the photos here in the gallery! Their source also spoke to someone on set and gained the following information:
Firstly he said the reason for the security is that if a person or even just a torch or camera flash gets in a shot it can ruin a whole take. [He] told me they were having 150 extras on set that night, which explained the many mini-buses we saw going through the forest, and the huge catering marquee at the WB base. He said no main cast were due in that night although I noticed on Matt Lewis’s twitter that he was “rockin in from work at 4am”.
They were filming chase scenes with freerunners – the Snatchers? (he called them Catchers) – running down a slope (i think there’s a picture of the slope) towards a crowd of extras, I heard lots of shouting (“Go, go, go!” that kind of thing) which sounded like they were rehearsing the running.
They were going to be filming this till the early hours of the morning, but it eventually would be edited down to a clip less than 30 seconds long. I assume this could only be something for the Battle, with the many people and the section of Hogwarts nearby.
Finally he said that some main cast would definitely be on set filming for about an hour on Monday night, and they hoped to be all done with filming by Tuesday.
