In exactly one year, many of us will be sitting anxiously in movie theaters all over the world waiting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 to start! Can you believe it! It always seemed so far away but now we have less than a year to wait and we will be seeing the last Potter book come to life before our eyes!

Jamie, a member of the crew of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sent a text to BBC Radio 5Live on November 11th:

We’re currently filming the final battle sequence of the last Harry Potter film, and we stopped for two minutes this morning. It was very eerie, it was thought-provoking, in the mists, along the ruins of Hogwarts.

You can listen to the audio by watching the video below:

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At a recent event for Twilight, Jamie Campbell Bower discussed the differences between Potter and Twilight.  Jamie is playing Young Gellert Grindelwald in Deathly Hallows.

“He’s an old friend of Dumbledore’s, a possible lover,” offered Campbell Bower at the LA press day for New Moon.

“The Twilight phenomenon cinematically is relatively young so there’s still a lot of growth there to go with the film, and there’s still a lot of connections to be made between cast and crew and stuff, whereas with Potter they’ve been going for 10 years now. It’s a machine, Potter. You go in, you do your thing, and then you go on. Whereas with this, it’s a lot more finding out about everything and a lot more exploration to do in general.”

“At the moment, I’ve only worked on it for about a week. I think I’ve got another week and a bit to go. They’re still working on it. They’re shooting simultaneously because they’ve obviously got lots of time scheduled and they have to do both side by side. Whenever they can, they will do that, I think.”

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It has been confirmed by Wonderland magazine in an interview with Jamie Campbell Bower that teen Dumbledore will be played by Toby Regbo.  You may see a photo of the actor below as well as the interview with Jamie and other photos from the interview here at Jamie-Bower.com.

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Thanks once again to my lovely friends at HP4U we have 2 new photos from Deathly Hallows! They are of the outside and inside of the Burrow.

This weeks treat HP4U visitors comes in the form of a couple of photos from the new look ‘Burrows’ the home of course to the Weasley Family, enjoy and check out those magical saucepans!

View the awesome photos here in the gallery!

Rotten Tomatoes recently spoke to John Hurt, who plays Ollivander in the first Harry Potter film, and will reprise his role in Deathly Hallows about the movie and about the film industry!

You’re returning to Harry Potter for the final films having appeared in the very first one, how has it been to come back?
JH: I’ve filmed one, which actually is the last one, and now I’ve got the penultimate one to do which is in November, and that wraps it all up. It’s a big loss for Britain in terms of having a big studio movie here, but it’s not representative of our culture in terms of the films that we make. I am convinced that though Pinewood and Shepperton — the big studios — playing host to big movies is very important, our film business is in the independent world. Of that I’m convinced.
Do you think the big franchise movies shooting in the UK give a false impression of the health of our industry? All these productions move in and hire local talent, but they aren’t British films.
JH: No, they’re not British films. Even Harry Potter isn’t a British [franchise]. We gave it to Warners, we just sit and collect. That always infuriates me. I do think huge areas of the industry are being neglected and we’ve lost the ability for middle-budget films. When we did have a stronger industry — and not just a business — we did have room for middle-budget films. They’ve gone out of the window, as they’ve done in America as well, but a $20m picture would be wonderful to make every now and then. We could do a lot for that.

But it’s like any country, if you don’t have a lot of money to spend. And it’s interesting seeing how much money gets spent on Harry Potter. It’s quite absurd, really. I watch it and think it’s just the same as Hollywood. I look around and you’ve got three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they’re all replicas of each other. It’s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.