EA has released a new video where Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Freddie Stroma (Cormac McClaggen), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown) and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) talk about the Half-Blood Prince video game.
Thanks to Oclumencia we have wonderful scans from CineMania magazine! Unfortunately the magazine is in Spanish so I can only understand a few random words. If someone could translate the scans, please send them in! See them here in the gallery!
Hollywood.com has reviewed Half-Blood Prince after seeing the movie at an early screening!
Not only that, halfway through, I’m thinking the unthinkable: “Ten academy awards nominations are available this year … hmm, I wonder ….” Hey, the Lord of the Rings movies were nominated three years running, and I rank this right up there with those incredible films. Now I know people are going to give me crap about this, but please hold your judgment until you see the film yourself and then come back and point your stubby little Hobbit fingers at me if you don’t agree.
Well, stand back because now the Potter-loving beast in me has been unleashed after having witnessed a film that was not only exquisite in its production values, but was also charming, funny, scary, enchanting, moving (stop me, the adjectives could go on and on) and dare I say, sexy. Brilliantly directed by David Yates (he directed 2007’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a tour-de-force that combines style and substance, special effects and heart and most importantly great performances from all of the actors young and not-so-young.
Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, has evolved into a really fine young actor who gives the film its emotional core. However, if Radcliffe is the heart, Michael Gambon is the film’s soul as Albus Dumbledore; Gambon gives a powerfully subtle performance as the de-facto father figure to young Mr. Potter. Of course, the always great Alan Rickman gives another menacingly creepy and memorable turn as the evil and duplicitous Severus Snape. The cinematography, music, set design and costumes are all amazing, and the film has a truly rich look to it reminiscent of the best of the old-school Hollywood epics.
The LA Times has another interview today with Stuart Craig.
JP: When dealing with CGI, do you suddenly see some things and think ‘that would be better computer-generated?’ Or do you just design everything as if you will physically have to build it?
SC: A lot of that has to do with physical limitations. Obviously the actors would prefer a physically real set to react to and respond to as directed. The CG effects encourage you to be bigger and more ambitious and scale things up, so what we try to do is build a physical set — which is always limited by the soundstage it’s on or the corner of the soundstage you have available — and then the CG extension becomes hugely important. Most of our sets when we began “Harry Potter” were real or were fully realized prototypical sets, and now most of them are part built with a bigger part that’s a CG extension and then occasionally and increasingly, some sets are almost totally computer-generated. We just build the floor that actors stand on.
UK Yahoo has posted a new clip from Half-Blood Prince with a lot of new scenes! It is a mix of some clips we have seen, interviews with the cast and crew and it is just awesome! I’m working on getting the video for youtube! It is 3 minutes and 53 seconds long!
The first five minutes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are now online. Head over to Videoload in Germany, you need to register then access where it says “Exklusive” to watch the first five minutes of the film. I’m working on getting the video, hopefully I can! 😀
UPDATE: for now there is a poor quality version on youtube that you can see here. The clip is in German sadly. (I didn’t watch because I want to be surprised, when I see the movie on the 9th, haha)
UPDATE 2: The user has removed the video.
UPDATE 3: It is now on youtube with subtitles, here!
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