Videos from abc Family’s Harry Potter weekend has made it’s way online. In the first clip David Heyman talks about casting Emma and Rupert as Ron and Hermione. The second is about hwo they created the inferi. Watch below:
Variety has posted the nominations for the 2009 Grammy Awards and Half-Blood Prince has been nominated!
Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.)
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Disc 1) Alexandre Desplat, composer
[Concord Records]
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Nicholas Hooper, composer
[New Line Records]
Milk Danny Elfman, composer
[Decca]
Star Trek Michael Giacchino, composer
[Varèse Sarabande]
Up Michael Giacchino, composer
[Walt Disney Records]
Blockbuster stores around the US will be having midnight release parties for the Half-Blood Prince DVDs. Stop by your local store to win some amazing Harry Potter prizes, participate in exciting activities, purchase past Harry Potter movies and be among the first to rent or purchase “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on DVD or Blu-ray when it goes on sale at midnight. For those fans who can’t stay until the midnight release, copies can be reserved from now until Dec. 7th for $5 and purchased in whole on a later date.
You’ve obviously known Dan for a while now. Did that make the romantic scenes easier or more difficult?
Bonnie: I thought it would make it more difficult because we’ve known each other as friends and within a working environment. But it actually made it easier in the sense that from having known him for so long, there’s that familiarity. Also the crew helped to make it much more relaxed. They let us get on with it and didn’t make this big drama around it, and it just slipped into place.
Hermione and Ron obviously have a bit of a romance in the movie. Were you excited for this storyline?
Emma: Yes, I was very excited. It might not be the most obvious storyline in a way. I think a lot of fans always saw Hermione and Harry together, but I think that Hermione and Ron are very strange, but kind of perfect for each other. They’re very different, but you know, they make each other laugh. Ron lightens her up. Hermione’s quite a serious character, so I think they’re good for each other.
Does it daunt you when you stop and think of the size of the franchise – the biggest film franchise in cinema history! When you think about that does it freak you out or have you got used to it? Rupert: It’s strange because when we first started we had no idea where this was going or how long it would go on full sail. Every year it of comes as more of a shock in terms of how popular they seem to be getting. For me, it’s really crazy but nice, I enjoy that kind of thing.
And you’re also taking part in something of a first for the Blu-ray this time around. Tell me about the Blu-ray Live Community Screening? Dan: Yes, it’s on December 12th and it means that anybody who has got the Blu-ray copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince can use the BD-Live function on the disc which means that everybody can join in with me and David Yates who are going to be watching the film together. And then everyone around the world will be watching the synchronized version of the film and then they can ask David and I questions – which we will attempt to answer as cogently and interestingly as we can!
Evanna Lynch appeared on RTE’s Late Late Show in Ireland last night. On the show they gave away Harry Potter goodie bags full of DVDs and merchandise and Evanna talked about Deathly Hallows shooting on the grounds of Hogwarts.
Matthew Lewis along with Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, and Jessie Cave will be signing copies of the Half-Blood Prince DVD at the HMV store on Oxford Street, in London, England, on December 6th. The event will be held from 4pm – 6pm for 450 fans.
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