Sky News and Sunrise have new interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Tom Felton that may be seen below. Dan was also on ITV Daybreak this morning, that may be viewed below as well.
A new TV spot for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has appeared online! You can watch the new spot, which has new scenes from Malfoy Manor and more below:
WB have just emailed to let us know about an awesome competition to win a Ministry of Magic Visitor’s Badge that was made for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. To enter you just have to sign up for their insider rewards program, here! The prizes are as follows:
First prize: Harry PotterTM Years 1-6 Blu-ray™ combo pack and a Sony Playstation®3 with built-in Blu-ray player plus remote to watch the films on. Second Prize: $100 gift certificate to WBshop.com good on Harry Potter merchandise. Third Prize: $50 gift certificate to WBshop.com good on Harry Potter merchandise.
You must be 13 or older and live in the US to enter; all rules may be found here!
In a new interview with MTV, Helena Bonham Carter has talked about her fellow castmates in Harry Potter, the end of filming and more!
“I definitely had a sense of finality and a real sense of loss, because I really got involved with people,” she told us. “You had to, not ‘you had to’ — they were a really nice group of people.”
That sense of loss was perhaps exacerbated by the fact that the final scene Bonham Carter filmed was the death of her character, Bellatrix Lestrange, who’s killed during the climactic Battle of Hogwarts. “You know what was weird, which has never happened on a film, was I died on my last day,” Carter revealed. “Usually you die the middle of the shoot. But they actually killed me off on my last day. So there was a sense of real end and finality. They zapped me. My last shot was me dead.”
Luckily, the actress will be reuniting with Radcliffe and their cohorts in a few days, as the cast gathers in London to begin the promotional effort for part one of “Deathly Hallows.” Then they’ll all hop on a plane heading to New York for another red-carpet premiere. Carter welcomes the chance to reconnect with pals. “I miss them all,” she confessed.
Movies.com have just emailed to let us know about their three part set report from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. They have interviews with Warwick Davis, production designer Stuart Craig, Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, costume designer Jany Temime and more! You can read the reports at the following links: one | two | three
Craig’s attachment to the entire series is a bit unusual but since he has designed the sets from the beginning, his eye for continuity has proven valuable. “I said to every one of [the directors], ‘You don’t have to have me,'” he laughed. “I know what we did before and how to rebuild it, but it isn’t as necessary as it appears. I think the changes of director have been exciting and stimulating and entirely good for the whole project. A change of designer would’ve produced similarly interesting results, I’m sure.”It’s been especially challenging for the filmmakers to adapt the books since many details of the final chapters had not yet been revealed. Craig said they’ve had to rebuild and revise many Hogwarts sets to accommodate additions. “When we started, there were just two novels. Not everything was known. We didn’t know [about the Room of] Requirement. Certain changes have been forced upon us. The astronomy tower’s had to pop up in the middle of the whole complex and the forecourt in front of it has had to get bigger and bigger to accommodate the battle at the end.”
As the series has gotten progressively darker, the crew has changed the color of the sets to match the films’ seriousness and emotional content. “The sets have literally gotten darker. That rather attractive sort of honey color, we’ve gone and painted out.”
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