Daniel Radcliffe has recorded a short video message about The Woman in Black event at Empire BIG SCREEN, which is being held this weekend. The director of the film and author of the book will be in attendance at a Q&A session and there will also be some exclusive footage shown. This event will be on Saturday at 4pm, I believe you have to be a Diamond Ticket holder to attend, but the BIG SCREEN website has more information.
As fans will recall there will also be a presentation for the Harry Potter Leavesden Tour at the event, more information on that may be seen here.
BBC has posted a new video interview with JK Rowling that includes a behind the scenes look at Pottermore. In the video we see some looks at Privet Drive, Ollivanders and some extra text!
Also, there is a rumor going around the web about when Pottermore beta testing emails will go out, this is NOT CONFIRMED so treat this information as a grain of salt. If anyone gets their email be sure to email to let us know! The rumor is as follows: (the day refers to the day you pre-registered)
Day 1: August 8-14
Day 2: August 15-21
Day 3: August 22-28
Day 4: August 29-September 4
Day 5: September 5-11
Day 6: September 12-18
Day 7: September 19-25
Warner Bros is asking fans to vote for their favorite t-shirt design with the words ‘Mischief Managed’ on it to become a new product in the WB store. To vote for your favorite visit this page and take the survey, after completion you will get a coupon for $5 off an order of $25! There are 4 choices and you will be asked to rate how much you like each one. The designs may be seen below:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II has surpassedLord of the Rings: Return of the King as the third highest grossing film of all time, worldwide! It has now grossed $1.1339 BILLION! The next highest grossing Potter film is Sorcerer’s Stone at spot 11 with $974.8 Million.
The only films ahead of Deathly Hallows: Part 2 are David Cameron’s Avatar and Titanic, but Titanic is $700 billion ahead, so Potter probably won’t pass them.
The LA Times has posted a new article about the Epilogue for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. The article included a few promotional photos from the scene, you can view those in the gallery! In the article they interview Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, and David Heyman as well as quotes from the past where they talked about what they would like to do for the epilogue.
“The thing we didn’t want was for it to be distracting and I think we figured it out,” Radcliffe said. “We did it with prosthetics, in the end, and I’m sure there will be little bits of visual effects for retouching on those moments when we do a close-up… when you have the prosthetic on for a long time, it’s hard to maintain it, that illusion, and with close-ups you need to fix it up. It’s also a challenge to make someone who is 19 or 20 — an age where their face is still changing — and make them a fully grown adult. I think they looked fantastic though and, if I do say so, particularly mine. Mine looked pretty dead on. That’s me in the future I think.”
David Heyman had this to say about re-shooting the scene:
“Rupert looked like he was about 75 years old with the triple chin and the belly, he looked like he had really lived as a lush,” Heyman said. “We knew we needed to rework the makeup. There was another problem, too, shooting at the train station proved quite challenging for some of the younger kids who played the children of Harry, Ron and Hermione. It was really noisy every few minutes a train from Liverpool would pull in on one of the other tracks. We only had our one track closed.”
In a closing statement he said:
“It was something very strange and affecting,” the producer said. “I was really pleased because I thought there was a real tenderness about the last scene, a feeling of closure and the cycles of life. There’s a new beginning and there’s an ending. There are different sorts of adventures for these actors and for all of us. But we made it to the train station together.”
