TLC has recieved word that stores are starting to hear about the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD. The DVD is supposedly going to be released during the holiday season in December, 2009  “on 1-Disc, 2-Disc, and 3-Disc DVD/Blu-Ray combo versions.” The DVD may POSSIBLY contain several sneaks previews for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

REMEMBER this is only a rumour and not confirmed until WB informs us of the release date!

The Half-Blood Prince official Facebook page has been updated with new posters featuring Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore facing off against Snape, Draco, Bellatrix, and Fenrir Greyback.  See the two posters here in the gallery!

Thanks UHP!

There is a new interview on the LA Times with the Harry Potter visual effects supervisor, Tim Alexander!

So how many Inferi lie in the lake?
A couple million? Above water, you’d probably see about a hundred at a time. But when Harry gets dragged into the lake, there is a whole underwater environment…and it’s actually covered in bodies. It’s all just … bodies crawling on top of each other, and that’s how you get into the millions.

That sounds … disturbing. Certainly, more so than the previous “Potter” films.
It’s certainly much bolder and scarier than we imagined that they’d ever go in a “Potter” movie. Director David Yates was really cautious of not making this into a zombie movie, so we were constantly trying to figure out how not to make these dead people coming up look like zombies. A lot of it came down to their movement – they don’t move fast, but they don’t move really slow or groan and moan. We ended up going with a very realistic style. They move like anyone coming up out of water.

Today we now know that Matthew Lewis and Bonnie Wright will be joining Evanna Lynch at the Polish Half-Blood Prince premiere.  Evanna announced that she would be going earlier this week.  The premiere will be held on July 20th.  Bonnie and Matt will be in Poland on the 21st as well.

I will post more about the premiere when it is announced! Thanks SS!

Thursday’s issue of Australia’s Herald Sun talked about a tour of the Leavesden Studios lot that the Sun went on during Half-Blood Prince filming last year. Here is some thanks to SS:

Rupert Grint (aka Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) aren’t among that team today — they’ve headed north for an outdoor location shoot — but the boy wizard himself, Daniel Radcliffe, is present for duty in the place he’s called his second home since before he was even a teenager (he turns 20 next month).

Radcliffe’s not in this scene, but he’s happily watching what Jim Broadbent, who makes his Potter debut in the Half-Blood Prince as Horace Slughorn, does with his several go-throughs.

Slughorn is greeting guests, including Luna Lovegood (played by the wonderfully eccentric Evanna Lynch) dressed up like a silver Christmas tree, and with each take Broadbent mixes it up — easy stuff for a veteran of his status.

‘‘I wasn’t in the first shot this morning but I went down to watch it just ’cos . . . I’m just interested in it and I want to see how other people act together. It’s about learning, for me,’’ Radcliffe says.

‘‘I like wandering round. Sometimes I go and play table tennis or I’ll read or I’ll play a computer game. But most of the time here I’m on set, so there is not a huge amount of down time.’’

See the scan here thanks to SS!

The Brisbane Times is reporting that the Australian premiere for Half-Blood Prince will take place on Sunday, July 12, 2009 (the same day as in Paris). The event will be hosted by Warner Bros Movie World on the Gold Coast.   According to the article, “Celebrities and VIPs are expected to walk the red carpet at the July 12 event.” We do not know if any of the Harry Potter cast are attending as of right now.

Thanks SS!