Thanks to SnitchSeeker, we have scans of the September issue of Family Getaway magazine which contain advertisements for the new Diagon Alley section of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!  All the scans may be seen in the gallery.

The promos reveal that the expansion will open in Summer 2014, we previously assumed it would open in the Spring, so pretty close.

I am Rogue recently interviewed Tom Felton about one of his new roles, Full Circle, a TV show where each episode takes place at a restaurant and only features two actors at a table talking. Each following episode will include one of the actors from the previous episode, and also introduce a new character. Some questions from the interview may be read below:

IAR: To begin with, Full Circle is a very unusual TV project. Were you sold on doing it once they told you that Neil LaBute created the series?

Tom Felton: I’m glad someone asked that because that’s pretty much how it was. I had said to people for years that I’d love to do some really high quality TV and my agent brought me this and said, “You’re doing it.” But as soon as I heard that Neil actually wrote it I was pretty keen. In fact, after reading the first few pages I really kind of got to see the quality of it. You don’t want to be going into something like this where the dialogue is not first class and I think this is about as good as it gets, so that really lends itself well when you’re doing something like this.

In what way was it a challenge?

Felton: Several. The first one specifically was remembering exactly all the dialogue because I had never done anything like that as far as performing that amount of dialogue in one day. It was pretty much the ultimate contrast from filming on Harry Potter where you might be lucky if you got ten seconds done in a day. So suddenly we’re shooting 25 minutes of footage, and there were no real scenes. We start at the beginning and we ran it all the way to the end and we did that like 50 times with multiple cameras shooting. That was the first challenge I think, which was just the sheer intensity of the surroundings. The other part of it was that I didn’t meet Minka (Kelly) until two days before we started shooting. We hadn’t done any rehearsals, we had only done a couple of Skype reads together to try and familiarize ourselves with each other, but with something like this that is so heavily relied on chemistry we just lucked out. We got on very well, we were both on the same page at the same time, and we had a great director. He managed to get the best performance out of both of us.

Is it hard to really create a full arc of a character when you are only in two episodes of a series?

Felton: Yeah, again I like the uniqueness of the concept really and it’s kind of cool that Tim’s character is the only one that is in the first and the last episodes. Everyone else is happening episodically one after another. It’s really nice and I think it’s quite a cool thing to be the first face and the last face of the project. Also, to highlight again that he is quite different by the end but I don’t want to reveal what happens. There’s a real shift in his consciousness and I want to say less selfish in some respects, but I’ll let you be the judge.

Finally, in your post-Harry Potter career has it been difficult for you to find different roles and choose good projects? 

Felton: No, it’s been great. I think people have kind of got the wrong end of the stick there about me having to shake a burden off or anything like that. That’s definitely not the experience I have or I’ve had in the last few years. People almost expect you to be the same character you are in the films. That’s kind of worked to my advantage I think coming into casting directors rooms and expecting me to be a wizard and I’m quite the opposite. So it’s kind of worked in my favor a few times I think. Harry Potter is something that I’m very proud of and I’m always ready to talk about it, but I am willing and hoping to do other stuff.

In a new interview with I Am Rogue, Alan Rickman discusses his newest film, CBGB, which also stars Rupert Grint. Alan plays club owner Hilly Kristal and Rupert plays Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys. CBGB opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 11th.  The full interview can be read here with some snippets below.

The Dead Boys’ Cheetah Chrome is played by your Harry Potter series co-star Rupert Grint, who you’ve known since he was just a boy. Was it nice to reunite with him for this film and see how he has grown as an actor since the Potter films?

Rickman: Well you know it is a validation of the fact that people shouldn’t be trapped by one thing and God bless him there he was looking quite different. It’s great that the acting profession reinvents itself for people in that way and he moves on.

Were you familiar with CBGB and the punk scene of the ‘1970s, and what kind of research did you do into the life of club owner Hilly Kristal in order to play him in the film?

Rickman: I was completely not familiar. I had never been to CBGB. In the ‘70s I was a student in London and punk rock was just a lot of noise to me, apart from people like David Bowie who was cool and arty. Then I knew Blondie, and Patti Smith, but I really wasn’t buying albums by The Romones or The Dead Boys or anything. I couldn’t afford them anyways. Research was made easier because there is so much material available on DVD now. So I watched Hilly, and I listened to him. It helped because there was so much irony in the fact that he started a club to be filled with country music and it never was, and that’s because he was quite brave about recognizing a moment in time. Also, given how much noise was involved in the music and in the club, he was essentially a very quiet man. He was rumored to have a terrible temper at times but mostly he had a still, calm center in the middle of it all.

What do you think it was that Hilly Kristal saw in these bands?

Rickman: I think it is pretty much an accurate quote from the film when Hilly says, “These kids have something to say and we should listen.” So it wasn’t just the music it was the lyrics too and the fact that he only let them play original music and no covers or anything. So it was a moment in time for him and a moment in time for young people, and a particular kind of rebellion was going on.

Way back in February we reported that Rupert Grint would be filming a pilot for a new television series called Super Clyde. That first episode is now available to watch on CBS.com! The show is 22 minutes long and also stars Stephen Fry who did the UK audio books for Harry Potter.

SUPER CLYDE is a comedy starring Rupert Grint about a shy comic book fanatic who discovers his calling after he inherits millions of dollars from his eccentric uncle. Clyde, a mild mannered fast food worker, is bequeathed $100,000 per month for the rest of his life and with the help of his butler, Randolph (Stephen Fry), Clyde begins his thrilling new life as a Super Hero, secretly helping strangers in need.

Visit CBS.com to watch the episode in it’s entirety. Unfortunately the show was not picked up by CBS for a full season, which is a shame because we found it very entertaining.

A new trailer for Rupert Grint’s new film, Charlie Countryman, has been released and may be watched below. Rupert plays the character of Carl in the film which also stars Shia Labeouf (as Charlie) and Evan Rachel Wood. The film will be released in the USA on November 15, 2013. A synopsis of the film is as follows:

Charlie Countryman (LaBeouf) is just a normal guy until he meets and falls in love with Gabi (Wood), a Romanian girl after he sits next to her father on a plane that resulted in his death. But Gabi is married to Nigel (Mikkelsen), a violent and mentally unstable crime boss with a gang of thugs at his disposal. Armed with little more than his wit and naïve charm, Charlie endures one bruising beat down after another to woo Gabi and keep her out of harm’s way. Finally his exploits of blind valor create such a mess that he’s left with only one way out; to save the girl of his dreams – he has to die.

The trailer contains mature content.

Thanks SnitchSeeker!

The holiday season is approaching and Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter has announced that they will be having another snowy Winter at the studios!

This winter, the Studio Tour will undergo a festive makeover:

• Experience the most magical snowfall of the season as the breathtaking Hogwarts castle model is covered in a blanket of snow.
• Discover some of the intricately-detailed sets decorated using the actual decorations and food props seen in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Explore the Great Hall which will be lined with eight Christmas trees, along with festoons of holly, mistletoe and golden wreaths. Two long dining tables will also be dressed as they were for seasonal feasts with prop versions of turkeys, hams, fruit, vegetables, plum puddings and snow cakes.
• See the hand-knitted jumpers that Molly Weasley gave Ron and Harry for Christmas in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Other costumes on display will include the first Christmas present Harry received at Hogwarts – his Invisibility Cloak – and the dress Luna Lovegood wore to the Slug Club Christmas party in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Festive facts:

• The artificial snow used on the Hogwarts castle model throughout the Harry Potter film series was actually dendritic salt. It was chosen because it clumps like snow and even squeaks when walked on. During filming, a member of the crew would have climbed aboard a cherry picker and put salt on the model by hand with a sieve – like dusting sugar onto a cake. The same process will be used at the Studio Tour this November and samples of the different types of salt used will also be on display.
• The food featured in the feasts throughout the early films was real; however, the Set Decoration Department later used artificial food created from powder and resin.

Hogwarts in the Snow will take place from Friday 15th November to Monday 6th January, book your tickets today.