WB has just emailed us with some VERY exciting news about this weekends ComicCon!

I am thrilled to announce that Tom Felton will be appearing at the Warner Bros. Presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday, 7.24.

As we reported earlier, Warner Bros. will be showing scenes from their new films including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Natalia Tena (Nymphadora Tonks), George Harris (Kingsley Shacklebolt), Nick Shrim (Zacharias Smith), and Louis Cordice (Blaise Zabini) are all confirmed to attend this years Ring*Con.  It will take place at the Maritim Hotel in the city of Bonn, Germany from October 15-17, 2010.

Thanks to SS!

According to a rep at Twentieth Century Fox, Tom Felton is set to star in the Planet of the Apes prequel entitled Rise of the Apes. The film is set to be released June 24, 2011, which is a month before Deathly Hallows: Part II.

A summary of Rise of the Apes can be read below.

An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

Thanks to SnitchSeeker for the news!

Tom Felton has sent Feltbeats a video thanking his fans for voting for him as Best Villain (in his role as Draco Malfoy) in the MTV movie awards.

In another new interview with MTV Tom Felton discusses the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows epilogue!

“I had a monologue prepared, but time was short,” he joked. “No, it was all in the presence and the look.”

So Draco Malfoy’s farewell is all in his menacing presence? “This is the idea, that’s what they told me,” he said. “Hopefully that reads. It was a lot of fun.”

Adding to the epilogue fun is the fact that Felton’s real-life girlfriend, “Potter” stunt assistant Jade Olivia, plays his wife in that final shot. “She was at first reluctant, but I pulled her arm and twisted it,” Felton told MTV at last month’s Movie Awards of convincing Olivia to step in and play Astoria Malfoy. “She was filming with me for three days at King’s Cross [railway station in the U.K.]. We were very excited. It gave me a chance to see what she’s going to look like in 19 years,” Felton added. “And if that’s what she looks like, I’m doing pretty well for myself,” he laughed. “But I look terrible,” he said of his own aged visage. “The years have not been kind to me in the slightest. But what can I do? I’ve gotta just roll with it.”

In new interviews with FilmClub, Harry Potter actors Tom Felton, (Draco Malfoy), James Phelps (Fred Weasley), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge), Toby Jones (Dobby the House Elf) and Jessica Hynes (voice of Mafalda Hopkirk) let us know what movies have inspired them.   (You can see Tom Felton in this video starting at 1:47 and Jessica at 0:20)

Proving that film can be both enjoyable and a source of inspiration, James Phelps, who plays Fred Weasely commented: “I would say the film that made me most interested in films and acting in films when I was growing up was ‘Forrest Gump’.  It has always been my favourite film for many reasons; there is no bad guy and the story went into real events in history. Plus Tom Hanks is a great actor, which makes it all so believable.”

Tom Felton spoke of his film journey to becoming bad-boy Draco Malfoy, revealing: “There are a few films that have definitely influenced me on my journey to becoming an actor. I remember as a kid loving ‘Robin Hood’ and all the James Bond movies were a big inspiration to me as a child.  Those were some of the films that I thought,  “That would be a very cool job to do”. So, I’m very lucky enough to be here.”

Jason Isaacs, who plays Draco’s father, Lucious Malfoy revealed an MGM classic to be his source of inspiration; “A film that changed my life and has throughout my life is ‘The Wizard of Oz’.  I first saw it when I was a little kid…on a giant screen and it was overwhelming – it was awash with colours and music and extraordinary looking people…One of the great things about the film is that it makes you think about films.”

Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton, who has appeared in several Harry Potter outings as well as a number of classic British films and TV programmes cited another actress as her influence; “When I was a kid, I watched a lot of black and white films, and I was very influenced by an actress called Bette Davis, who wasn’t particularly attractive, but really, really good.  A film I really liked was ‘All About Eve’.”

Bonnie Wright chose family drama A Little Princess; “The film that changed my life was ‘A Little Princess’, which I remember watching when I was a little girl and it made me really believe that inside every girl that there is a little princess.”

Actress Jessica Hynes, who voiced Mafalda Hopkirk in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix said: “I’m a big fan of ‘Bugsy Malone’. It’s a classic. Jodie Foster as Tallulah is jaw-droppingly brilliant.  That was one of the first moments when I thought I just want to do that so much.”

Toby Jones who plays Dobby the House elf in the hit series said, “Films that inspired my journey within the industry include ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ and ‘Dougal and The Blue Cat’ – I loved these as a child.  I particularly liked the original Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder. He was fantastically charismatic!”

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