MTV has released a brand new clip from Emma Watson’s upcoming film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  The film, out September 21st, stars Watson as a senior named Sam who befriends a new boy in school, played by Logan Lerman.  They also posted an interview with author and director Stephen Chbosky where he briefly talks about Emma.

MTV: What were the first days like on set? When did you start to see the actors gel?
Chbosky: In the way movie schedules work now, there wasn’t a lot of rehearsal period. The auditions become the rehearsal, and I just tried to create an atmosphere, maybe not so much on set because that was all about the work, but off set, where — for example, I’ll never forget the first day I brought Emma, Logan and Ezra and myself together. We had a beautiful dinner over the city, then I took them for the first time to the tunnel, I took them through playing this song called “Happiness” by Riceboy Sleeps and that was our bonding experience. Ezra and Emma bonded by learning all the dance moves to Rocky Horror for the homecoming dance. And then, as we introduced each castmember came to Pittsburgh to start doing their work, the kids just found each other and they made the Crowne Plaza hotel — which was literally 150 yards from the mall where I used to shop as a kid — they made it like a dorm, and they got in a lot of trouble.

MTV: What were the original meetings like with the castmembers?
Chbosky: I met them through the audition process — Emma was an offer. I knew she was Sam. That was easy. […]

MTV: In taking on this project, from writing the book, then the screenplay and then making your feature film directorial debut, did you have any hesitations? What were the conversations like with the studio in getting things off the ground?
Chbosky: I had no hesitations; I just had to wait to be ready. The book was so personal to me and I needed the time to get the distance, to work on my craft and learn from others. And then once I was ready, there was no hesitations I knew I was going to make this movie and I didn’t develop the script I just wrote it on my own on spec and then from the script I got the producers, from the producers we got Emma [Watson] and then we auditioned Logan and then we went to Summit. By the time we reached the studio, there was no hesitation, they were really excited about the project and they gave us the green light.

In a new interview with The NY Times, Emma Watson talks about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Guillermo del Toro’s Beauty and the Beast and more!  The interview also includes a new photoshoot with the actress.  In the interview Emma confirms that shooting for Beauty and the Beast will begin next summer,

I went to him [del Toro] and said Warner Brothers have given me the script for ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ but the only way I’d really want to do it is if you did it. And then miraculously he said, ‘Oh, funnily enough ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is my favorite fairy tale, I can’t let anyone else do this, I’ll start putting a team together.’ ”

She also discusses having to speak in an American accent for The Perks of Being a Wallflower, out September 21st.

“My grandma said — when I was really young and I’d sing along to the radio — why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists. And that was something Steve said to me as well: try singing the lines in an American accent. That kind of opened me up. Then I worked with a dialogue coach and I just put in the time to really, really listen and just go over it and over it and over it until I could do it without thinking about it too hard. And I just knew it was really important.”

Speaking of why she waited so long to do films other than Potter she states:

“I think at first I didn’t because I was always either studying or filming, I didn’t have time to go off and do other films or other things to sort of show people that, Oh, she is not just Hermione, she is an actress and she can go and do these other parts and roles. . . . I didn’t, because I was so focused on, you know, on my GCSEs and on my AS and on my A-levels and then getting in to university and then whatever, I didn’t really have time to do any of that.”

The rest of the interview includes Emma talking about schoool (Brown and Oxford) as well as her parent’s and their involvement in her career and being recognized in public, read the full interview over at The NY Times!

Today we have some film updates for Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton.  Firstly, five new promotional photos of Emma Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been released and can be seen in the IHeartWatson Gallery. They have also reported that the release date has been pushed back a week from September 14th to September 21st of this year.

Additionally, thanks to DanRadcliffe.co.uk, some new photos of Daniel Radcliffe on set for his upcoming film The F Word, have appeared online.  The photos may be seen via this link.  In the film Dan plays a man who is trying to become just friends with a girl he likes. Filming is said to take place over 6 weeks in Toronto and Dublin, there is no release date yet.

Finally, a slew of new photos from Tom Felton’s newest film The Apparition, have been released on the movie’s Facebook page.  The Apparation hits theatres on August 24th.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Emma Watson discusses her upcoming film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The newest issue of EW, out August 10th, contains the full interview with Emma. The film, also starring Logan Lerman, Nina Dobrev and Ezra Miller, will be released on September 20th.

She remembers meeting with Stephen Chbosky who persuaded her to take on the part of Sam, a rebellious and popular high school girl. “At our initial meeting, he said, ‘Okay, not  only is this going to be one of the most important parts you play, you’re also going to have the summer of your life and meet some of your best friends.’ I thought, ‘That’s quite a claim. Who is this guy?” Watson says with a laugh. “Everything he said came true.”

The cast  all bonded while living in the same hotel in Pittsburgh, which Watson now calls one of her  favorite places. It was there that Watson can point to one particular scene — when Sam stands up in the back of a pickup truck driving through a tunnel — as the moment she was able to truly graduate from Hogwarts. “I started as Emma with some Hermione still left in my system,” she says. “I went through the tunnel and I came out ready to start something new.”

According to London24 Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe have participated in a video that will be aired during the Olympics in London next month.  The article states:

A video featuring stars including actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, musician Gary Barlow, boxing star Amir Khan and comedian and actor Simon Pegg will be played at the end of Olympic events. The five-minute video will be played on screens at a number of venues as spectators leave.

In the video Emma says: “I hope you had an awesome time, keep loving London.” They did not reveal Dan’s message.

(Other Potter stars may be involved as well, but the article only reports Dan and Emma)

The 2012 MTV Movie Awards are being held tonight and Harry Potter is up for 7 awards.  We will be updating this post throughout the night to let you know whether or not the series and actors have won in their categories.  They are up for the following:

• Movie of the Year
• Daniel Radcliffe – Best Male Performance
• Emma Watson – Best Female Performance
• Best Cast – WINNER
• Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes – Best Fight
• Rupert Grint and Emma Watson – Best Kiss
• Harry Potter – Best Hero – WINNER

Tune into the show on MTV at 9pm ET!

You can also watch the Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer that Emma presented at the pre-show on the MTV website.

Results (winners in bold):

Best Male Performance
» Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″
» Ryan Gosling, “Drive”
» Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “50/50″
» Josh Hutcherson, “The Hunger Games”
» Channing Tatum, “The Vow”

Best Female Performance
»Jennifer Lawrence, “The Hunger Games”
» Kristin Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
» Emma Stone, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
» Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2?
» Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

Best Kiss
» Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
» Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2?
» Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, “The Hunger Games”
» Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, “The Vow”
» Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″

Best Fight
» Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2?
» Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig, “The Hunger Games”
» Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill vs. Kid Gang, “21 Jump Street”
» Tom Hardy vs. Joel Edgerton, “Warrior”
» Tom Cruise vs. Michelle Nyqvist, “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”

Best Cast
» “Bridesmaids”
» “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part “
» “The Hunger Games”
» “21 Jump Street”
» “The Help”

Movie of the Year
» “Bridesmaids”
» “The Hunger Games”
» “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2?
» “The Help”
» “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1?

Best Hero Twitter Voting
» Harry Potter
» Katniss Evergreen
» Captain America
» Thor
» Jenko