Today, Daniel Radcliffe is asking fans to vote for their favourite ghost story from the ten shortlisted final entries of THE WOMAN IN BLACK ghost story competition that launched this past Halloween. The 10 final videos may be seen in this YouTube playlist. To vote head to The Woman in Black YouTube Page and click “Cast Your Vote” A video of Daniel asking fans to vote has been released and may be watched below:

Launched on Halloween (31st October 2011) the competition challenged budding writers to submit their own original short story to the official YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/thewomaninblackmovie) for a chance to win a trip to attend the Worldwide Premiere of THE WOMAN IN BLACK on 24th January 2012. In addition, the winning entry will be read out by Daniel Radcliffe and included in the bonus features of THE WOMAN IN BLACK DVD.

The competition was a resounding success with a 177 harrowing, haunting tales submitted that have now been whittled down to ten finalists. The stories shortlisted for the final ten were selected on the following judging criteria: creativity, originality and writing style.

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Votes for the best video commences from 21st December, with voting closing at 23:59 on January 5th, 2012. The winner will be announced on 6th of January, 2012.

A full set of terms and conditions are available on the YouTube channel.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK will be released across the UK and Ireland by Momentum Pictures, an Alliance Films company, on 10th February 2012 and in the United States on February 3rd.

Daniel Radcliffe will be hosting Saturday Night Live on January 14th! The show airs at 11:30PM on NBC, so make sure to tune in to see Daniel in his hosting debut (perhaps it will be the first of many)!

I will post a video as soon as one is made available online.

Entertainment Weekly has named Daniel Radcliffe as one of their Entertainers of the Year.  Digital Spy reports that Editor Jess Cagle described Radcliffe as “the nicest guy with one of the brightest futures in Hollywood”, adding: “There’s nothing he can’t do. Ultimately there was one person who made the most sense. He’s really interested in doing the work. Despite all his wealth and fame as a teenager, he never derailed. He was never busted. Never went outside without his panties on,” she said.

MTV has posted a new video interview with Daniel Radcliffe where he talks about writing, television, where he will live after his stint on Broadway and more.

“I am trying to write a script which is fun and frustrating and terrible at the moment but hopefully will be good at some point,” Radcliffe shared with MTV News. When asked what genre the movie would be in, Radcliffe didn’t have much to say. “Arthouse,” he said with a laugh. “Beyond that, I don’t know. It will be a film that no one wants to see.”
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“I actually wrote a poem the other day for the first time in about eight months and I went, ah, actually that’s half decent. Everything else I’ve written has been crap, but I wrote something the other day I was actually pleased with,” he said.

The nominees for the 2012 Grammy Awards have been revealed and two will be of great interest to Potter fans. First, the soundtrack for How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying has been nominated for Best Musical Theater Album.

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
John Larroquette & Daniel Radcliffe, principal soloists; Robert Sher, producer
(Frank Loesser, composer/lyricist) (The 2011 Broadway Cast Recording)

The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat is up for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2
Alexandre Desplat, composer
[WaterTower Music]

The Grammy’s air on February 12th at 8pm EST on CBS.

Numerous sources are reporting that Daniel Radcliffe will be playing gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, a thriller directed by John Krokidas.

A thriller based on actual events, Kill Your Darlings revolves around the relationship between Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr. Carr, for his part, is credited for connecting Ginsberg, Kerouac and William S Burroughs but, most notoriously, served time for the 1944 murder of his lover David Kammerer.

This is only a rumor as of yet, if anything is confirmed I will post.