Yesterday Sky Movies along with WB Studio Tour held an event in The Great Hall to celebrate the fact that Sky will be the only channel broadcasting all eight Potter films this holiday season. This morning they have sent over some photos of Jessie Cave and Oliver Phelps at the event as well as a press release. Our correspondent Patrick was there as well, so I’m sure we’ll be getting a report and some photos from him as well, stay tuned!
Sky has also revealed that they will have a lot of behind the scenes footage as well as an interview with Daniel Radcliffe. All the details may be read in the press release below:
Harry Potter™ stars Jessie Cave and Oliver Phelps (Lavender Brown and George Weasley in the films) yesterday attended a special screening of the Harry Potter™ films at the Great Hall set at Leavesden.
To celebrate all eight of the Harry Potter™ films being available on Sky’s set-top box, on the comprehensive TV On Demand service and Sky Go, the award-winning multiplatform TV service, Sky Movies HD hosted a screening event in the famous surroundings, allowing fans to choose their own film from theseries to stream on iPad throughout the evening.
The films are also available to NOW TV customers subscribing to the Sky Movies monthly pass. NOW TV offers easy and flexible access to Sky Movies across PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, YouView, Xbox and selected Android smartphones, with films available to stream instantly. Customers who subscribe to Sky Movies via Virgin Media, UPC and TalkTalk are also able to enjoy the entire Harry Potter™ film series.
In addition to the complete Harry Potter™ box-set, Sky Movies is also offering viewers the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes, onto the sets and red carpet premieres with a range of original Potter related programming. In addition to the original movie trailers and special on-set and premiere reports, viewers will be able to hear from the star of the spellbinding franchise himself in Sky Movies’ brand new, in-depth interview Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter will premiere on Friday 9th November, exclusively on Sky Movies Showcase HD, alongside all eight Harry Potter™ films, now also available across Sky Movies HD.
In a new interview with Australia’s The Chronicle, Tom Felton talks about his upcoming trip to the continent for Supernova. He also talks about his new film, Belle, and his life Post-Potter.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss [Draco]. It was a great ability to vent all the frustration and anger of day to day life through him. He was very good fun and it got more interesting as the years got on, which was nice. He went on to say that “(at the end of the series) there was an inkling of hope for him, a lot of it is left unsaid which is one of the beauties of the book. It is kind of left up to the audiences interpretation. It was nice to see some good side of him at least.”
“Right now I am working on an English period drama called Belle,” he said. “A lot of the things I have been working on the release dates are a bit up in the air for next year, so lots of things to look forward to including a film called Therese and mini TV series Labyrinth. The one I am playing now is not such a nice guy. But I won’t lie, I do enjoy playing people that aren’t so friendly or nice. But I actually have some other chances to play other things as well, one quite heroic and one very sickly meek child type role, so very different and very contrasting and I am hoping that broadens my horizons.”
For any fans wondering if the actor has been sorted on the Pottermore website, he admitted he hadn’t got that far. “We signed up ages ago when they first set up the website but I haven’t been sorted yet,” he laughed. “I am still awaiting my destiny. I don’t think I could face it if it was anything but Slytherin to be honest with you.”
This morning ABC Family have emailed with the news that they will be having another Harry Potter marathon next week, as well as featuring brand new interviews with cast members (Dan, Rupert, Emma, Tom and Matt) on their website! Be sure to view the short promotional video they sent over:
According to the press release:
ACCIO! ABC FAMILY SUMMONS A MAGICAL, MYSTICAL, FOUR-DAY “HARRY POTTER” MARATHON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
“Harry Potter” Marathon to Include Exclusive Online Interviews at ABCFamily.com with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Matthew Lewis Throughout the Four-Day Event.
(Burbank, November 2, 2012) ABC Family stirs up some thrills with a four-day “Harry Potter” marathon. The marathon starts with “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” on Monday, November 12th and will run through Thursday, November 15.
ABCFamily.com is also getting into the magical hijinks with never-before-seen online interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Matthew Lewis throughout the four-day event. The interviews are broken down into four topics: Enemies – Tom Felton discusses the duels between Harry and Draco; stunts – Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe talk about some of their memories of the stunts they had to perform; comic relief — Matthew Lewis, Emma Watson and Tom Felton gossip about some of the more hilarious moments in the series; and girl power — Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe give their thoughts on Hermione’s journey from shy schoolgirl to powerful witch.
The “Harry Potter” marathon schedule is as follows:
Monday, November 12th
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
Tuesday, November 13th
3:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
7:30 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Wednesday, November 14th
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
Thursday, November 15th
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
7:30 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
As most of you will know, PlayStation is coming out with a brand new game for the PS3 called Wonderbook: Book of Spells, which will be released on November 13th. The game will be available as a bundle including the Book of Spells game, Wonderbook peripheral, PlayStation Eye camera and a PlayStation Move motion controller for $79.99. If fans wish to purchase only the game it will cost $39.99.
Yesterday our UK correspondent Patrick was lucky enough to attend the PlayStation Wonderbook: Book of Spells launch party in London. He has written up a report and sent over a few photos from the festivities which may be seen in the gallery!
The latest venture in the world of Harry Potter gaming is ‘Wonderbook’s Book of Spells’, and I was luckily enough to be invited along to the launch party for the game, on behalf of Magical Menagerie.
Along with a friend I headed down to the Freemason’s Hall in Covent Garden, which in its self is an impressive enough building, not at all out of step with the Gringotts we all know and love. But it was what the team behind the event had done inside that made the day all the more exciting!
Greeted by a fur wearing Warlock the kids lucky enough to been invited where led through the grand doors and into the smokey, colourfully lit marble halls. To the right was the chance to be photographed with an owl, above an awe-inspiring dragon and straight ahead a quick demo of how the new gamed worked, after which we were then all ushered upstairs to a space full of witches and wizards with riddles to solve, a traditional sweet shop selling everything from liquorish wands, and cupcakes to sherbet lemons! And finally there were corners where everyone got a chance to have a go of the new Playstation Game, with experienced gamers on hand to help out where ever they could. By the use of the PS3 Move System and the Wonderbook, the children were able to learn basic spells, such as Incendio, Wingardium Leviosa, Expelliarmus, and Engorgio. Not all learn them, but get a chance to see themselves on screen with no longer a controller in their hand, but a wand, emitting light as they moved it over the book.
The event seemed to be a roaring success, with children with painted faces smiling brightly as they ran from one exciting task to the next! They even put me, a 21 year old to shame, by being far superior at the Book of Spells game than I, who struggled with even the simplest of spells! With adult beverages as well as juice and smoothies for the younger ones, it was a day everyone could enjoy!
Look out for a review of the game in the coming weeks, and a big thank you to Charlie and his team at John Doe PR for having us along.
The Province interviewed Daniel Radcliffe from the set of his new film, Horns, in Canada. Some snippets from the article may be read below the full article can be read here.
“Prosthetics are amazing these days, this [his horns] is like a transfer tattoo — they just peel the backing off and it sticks,” the 23-year-old actor said. There’s a bit of touching up involved as well. Radcliffe is in the make-up chair for 45 minutes each day as the effect is created, and up close it looks uncanny, the goat-like horns seeming to rip through the skin of his forehead.In Horns, from the hit novel by Joe Hill, Radcliffe stars as Ig Perrish, a guy who wakes up with a pair of mysterious horns to find that he’s the prime suspect in his girlfriend’s death. “It’s a metamorphosis story, but the thing that excited me was that tonally it wasn’t like anything I had read,” he says. “It was both incredibly dark — like really dark and violent, and full of classic horror stuff — but also it has a very dry sense of humour.”
[…]“The nature of the horns means that any time I meet somebody, they end up telling me their deepest, darkest revelations. So even a small scene like this becomes incredibly intense.”
As to that American accent, “there are certain words — murderer is a hard word to say because there’s so many f—ing Rs in it, and girlfriend. Now, unfortunately those are two of the words I use most in this movie.”
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“It’s a really cool time for me,” Radcliffe says. “I’m getting to a point where I can step back and appreciate how great this year has been.” Finished and awaiting release are the feature Kill Your Darlings, with Radcliffe as the young poet Allen Ginsberg, and the just-finished comic romance The F Word, filmed in Toronto with Canadian director Mike Dowse (Goon).
Radcliffe also filmed a role in the British TV mini-series A Young Doctor’s Notebook, starring alongside Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. “They’re all really different, they’re all interesting and weird, or have something weird about them,” Radcliffe says. “I feel like the best work I have done yet in my career, I have done this year.”
Discovery Times Square announced that, Harry Potter: The Exhibition will still open today, Saturday, November 3, to the general public. Many fans were concerned because Hurricane Sandy had a huge effect on the city.
Despite the storm, the newly updated Harry Potter: The Exhibition is still due to open to the public on Saturday, November 3 at New York City’s Discovery Times Square. Visitors will be able to experience “snow” in the Exhibition on opening week, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.
Discovery Times Square invites visitors to see newly updated (with artifacts from the final Harry Potter film) dramatic displays inspired by the Hogwarts film sets and the amazing craftsmanship behind authentic costumes and props from the films. Harry Potter fans can get a firsthand view of hundreds of artifacts displayed in settings inspired by the film sets including the Great Hall, Hagrid’s hut, the Gryffindor™ common room, and more.
Exhibition opens to the public starting Saturday, November 3
Sunday – Thursday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Friday – Saturday: 10:00AM – 9:00PM
