The Bookseller has a new interview with Pottermore CEO, Charlie Redmayne, and he discusses the amazing interest in the Harry Potter eBooks which were released a month ago.  The books made £1 million in the first 3 days and £3m in the first month.  He also revealed that fans still have a ways to wait for Chamber of Secrets saying that it is still “weeks away.” They will, however, be adding new features to the site for fans to enjoy. “It’s a fantastic experience, but not yet as good as its going to be. We are working on book two now, I’m very pleased with some of the pages I’ve seen, and it will be coming as soon as possible.”

He has the following to say about the affect of the ebooks on piracy,

[…] sales of the physical copies of the seven titles had also increased, and that because of the site’s light-touch Digital Rights Management, piracy had diminished. “Obviously there were fears piracy would increase as a result of being DRM-free, and that sales of the e-books would cannibalise sales of the physical titles, but we were delighted to see sales of the physical books go up, and piracy come down.” Redmayne said that though there had been an increase in piracy immediately after launch, the community had rejected these illegal versions because of how the e-books were brought to market. “We have demonstrated that if you make these books available in the way that people want them, and on a platform that is accessible to them, and at a price they are happy with, then then generally people will chose to buy them.”

Of the weird launch time, Redmayne said: “Given how we launched it, at 8.15 in the morning when most people were asleep, almost anti-marketing it, we were very pleased. It has been amazingly successful and shows the power of the Harry Potter brand.” Some statistics on the site have also been revealed:

• Pottermore, the Harry Potter experience, has seen 22 million visits from 7 million unique users in its first two weeks, generating more than 1 billion page impressions, with the average user visiting 47 pages, spending 25 minutes on the site.
• Redmayne said there had been 4.2m attempts to make potions, with a success rate of just 32%.
• In those first two weeks there had been 39.9m “wizard duels” with the “full body bind” spell the most popular, and “pimple jinx” the least used.
• After two weeks 5m new users had registered, with perhaps half of those already sorted into houses, such as Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.

The Sun is reporting that Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm will be starring as the same character in a Russian Doctor Drama on Sky Art. It will be 4 parts in which Daniel and Jon will be playing the same doctor after the First World War.

Daniel will be his younger self and Jon will obviously play the older version, along with narrating the show. According to the article, “the series will incorporate some dark humour as the doctor attempts to overcome self-doubts about his competence.”

The Sun is known for not being very reliable so this could just be one big lie, more will be posted as things are confirmed (or debunked).

The nominations for the MTV Movie Awards have been announced and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II is up for SIX awards! The show will air live Sunday June 3 @ 9/8c on MTV! Fan voting opens in all categories Tuesday (tomorrow) at 8 a.m.  The nominations are as follows:

Movie of the Year
» “Bridesmaids”
» “The Hunger Games”
» “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» “The Help”
» “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1”

Best Male Performance
» Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» Ryan Gosling, “Drive”
» Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “50/50”
» Josh Hutcherson, “The Hunger Games”
» Channing Tatum, “The Vow”

Best Female Performance
» Jennifer Lawrence, “The Hunger Games”
» Kristin Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
» Emma Stone, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
» Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

Best Cast
» “Bridesmaids”
» “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» “The Hunger Games”
» “21 Jump Street”
» “The Help”

Best Fight
» Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig, “The Hunger Games”
» Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill vs. Kid Gang, “21 Jump Street”
» Tom Hardy vs. Joel Edgerton, “Warrior”
» Tom Cruise vs. Michelle Nyqvist, “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”

Best Kiss
» Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
» Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
» Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, “The Hunger Games”
» Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, “The Vow”
» Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1”

Multiple sources are reporting today that Emma Watson is in negotiations to have a cameo appearance in Seth Rogan’s End of the World, formerly named The Apocalypse.  According to The Hollywood Reporter,

The project is inspired by a short called Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse that featured Rogen and Jay Baruchel playing themselves, holed up in an apartment as they dealt with an apocalyptic end of the world.

Expanding upon the short, the story now includes not only Rogen and Baruchel but James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson, all playing themselves as they are stuck in Franco’s apartment in Los Angeles facing an apocalypse.

The script has fun with the actors, who may or may not make it out alive.

On May 8th, J.K. Rowling is set to receive the Freemen of the City of London honour, meaning she will be an honorary citizen, for her services to children’s literature. Alderman David Wootton, Lord Mayor of the City of London, elaborated on his nomination by saying, “Her Freedom, which is bestowed on her for services to children’s literature, recognises two unique achievements – the astonishing success of the series, and the way in which Harry Potter’s adventures have not only enthralled book lovers, but also encouraged many young people to lose themselves in a book for the first time.” Jo had this to say of the honor:

Both my parents were Londoners.  They met on a train departing from King’s Cross Station in 1964, and while neither of them ever lived in London again, both their daughters headed straight for the capital the moment that they were independent.  To me, London is packed with personal memories, but it has never lost the aura of excitement and mystery that it had during trips to see family as a child.

I am prouder than I can say to be given the Freedom of the City, which, on top of all the known benefits (and few people realize this), entitles me to a free pint in The Leaky Cauldron and a ten Galleon voucher to spend in Diagon Alley.

Her Freedom ceremony will be held at The Mansion House, the Lord Mayor’s official residence and will begin with her reading aloud the Declaration of a Freeman, and end with her being greeted by Chris Bilsland, Chamberlain of London, as a ‘Citizen of London’ and the presentation of her framed parchment certificate.

Other notable honors JKR has received are an OBE for services to children’s literature, the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and the Légion d’Honneur.

In a new interview with ETOnline, Evanna Lynch talks about leaving Potter behind memories from the set.

ETOnline: Did you take any souvenirs when filming ended?
Lynch: I didn’t! And it’s annoying because everyone else seems to have taken something [laughs]. I was being too good because they drilled it into us, “Don’t take anything!” I remember while we were filming the sixth film, I accidentally wore Luna’s shoes home and five different people called me, screaming, “Where are the shoes?!?” [laughs] They weren’t actually angry, more just freaking out that they’d lose their jobs. But I did collect things I was allowed to – I have all the callsheets from the films and I saved the sign from my dressing room door that says my name and Luna Lovegood. I took things that were important to me, but no authentic props.

ETOnline: Are you far enough away from the experience to realize what a massive contribution to pop culture those films made?
Lynch: Not really. I never think about that because even when we were on the sets, it never felt like work. Yes, it was a big budget movie and we’ll never get treated this well in your life [laughs] but it was such a family feeling. When I see the fan reaction, that’s when it hits me. I’ll always be proud to have been in Harry Potter.