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Dan starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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Many sources are reporting, and it has been confirmed by Daniel’s representatives, that he will be starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway in Spring 2011.  We reported a while back that Dan would be reading for the role.

Radcliffe will portray the show’s unlikely hero, an opportunistic young man who rises from the mail room to the top of the corporate heap in this satiric, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. It features a score by Frank Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert.

The show’s producers said Thursday the musical will be directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford. First seen on Broadway in 1961 (with Robert Morse in the lead role), “How to Succeed” was revived in 1995 starring Matthew Broderick.

Filed Under: Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Talks Seven Potters Scene and More!
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In a new interview Daniel Radcliffe discussed the Seven Potters scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and more! If anyone can translate this better please send it in!

For Radcliffe, it was more difficult than he expected. “First, we filmed the scene with them all. I watched and did my best to imitate them,” he said. The target of jokes behind the scenes of “Deathly Hallows”, he defends the “accusations” that he wore girls’ costumes on camera – more specifically, Fleur’s (Clemence Poesy) clothes. “It was a dress, a jacket and a bra,” jokes the actor, smiling during an interview in the studios Leavesden, about an hour from London.

Even if it is used in dark moments, the potion turns out to be a comic relief at times. In the studios, UOL Cinema followed a scene of the first “Deathly Hallows”, with Harry, Hermione and Ron after sips of potion. In the place of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are on screen actors Sophie Thompson, David O’Hara and Steffan Rhodri. The transformation of three friends into officials from the Ministry of Magic is a tense moment of espionage. In the corridors of the Ministry, the characters are greeted by colleagues and Ron finds out, between the lines, he has a wife in danger and has to pretend to be her husband.

Thanks to SS for the tip!

Filed Under: Daniel Radcliffe, Deathly Hallows
New Role for Daniel Radcliffe
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Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying Mr. Darcy in a remake of Pride & Prejudice. Emma Roberts will be playing his love interest in the film, Elizabeth Bennet.

Mr. Darcy has been played by actors such as Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen while Elizabeth has been played by Keira Knightly.

Filed Under: April Fools!, Daniel Radcliffe
HBP long-listed for 5 MTV Movie awards
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Half-Blood Prince has been long-listed for FIVE MTV Movie Awards! Here are the categories it is long-listed in (you can also add your own choices):

Best Movie
Global Superstar (Daniel Radcliffe)
Best Male Performance (Daniel Radcliffe)
Best Female Performance (Emma Watson)
Best Villain (Tom Felton)

You can vote for your favorites to be nominated for the awards until April 9th. After that, voting will start again on May 11th for the actual winner. The ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on June 6th and will air on MTV at 9/8C.

Filed Under: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Half-Blood Prince, Tom Felton
New look at filming Wizarding Wolrd of Harry Potter
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Universal Orlando released a new sneak peak at the making of some of the footage that will be used for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, James and Oliver Phelps, Bonnie Wright, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, and more, are shown throughout the clip.

The opening date of the theme park will be revealed on March 25 at midnight EST.

Filed Under: Bonnie Wright, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, James and Oliver Phelps, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, Rupert Grint, Universal Orlando Resort, Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Potter Stars in The 100 British celebrities who really matter by Piers Morgan
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A couple Harry Potter stars have made The 100 British celebrities who really matter by Piers Morgan list! (as usual WHERE IS RUPERT!?)

6 ROBERT PATTINSON
This is quite a simple one. Pattinson’s the handsome young star of the Twilight films, beloved of teenage girls and other moody types. That fact makes him a nailed-down cert to be the most sought-after British movie star of 2010.
And that, in turn, makes him ‘matter’. The only problem for Pattinson is that, as my grandmother always likes to say, ‘One day you’re the cock of the walk, the next you’re a feather duster.’ And nowhere is that more true than in good old Tinseltown. So I wish him well, but urge him to watch his back.
And not just because of the millions of girls all over the world who’d like to attach themselves to his shapely shoulders as a matter of urgency.

33 STEPHEN FRY
It really pains me to include this grandstanding, self-satisfied old Twitter bore so high up my list. His haughty, worthy, self-righteous, morally superior and utterly inane daily witterings are as cretinous as they are unreadable. But you simply cannot deny the significance of someone who has 1.2 million people addicted to their every movement, even if he is on a temporary hiatus while he writes a book. If this is the social networking age, then, depressingly, Fry is the current British king. But it’s not, thankfully, a kingdom I ever intend to reside in.

62 DANIEL RADCLIFFE
The maths here is simple. He’s Harry Potter, and those films have collectively grossed more than most in history. Nobody is indispensable, but Radcliffe has made the lead role so uniquely his that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else playing it. Which is pretty irrelevant anyway, really, because there won’t be any more films after he finishes work on the forthcoming two-part finale. What’s going to be of much more importance to Radcliffe is what he does next. Is he going to be typecast as geeky Harry for the rest of his career, unable to be taken seriously as anything or anyone else? Or will he manage to shake off his gown and reinvent himself in a completely different way? Watching his development as an actor will be fascinating, and his future place on this list will be determined by what decisions he takes.

63 EMMA WATSON
When I was in China recently, filming an ITV documentary on Shanghai, there were very few British stars on the billboards. But one face I saw a lot was young Ms Watson, beaming down from massive Burberry hoardings.
Further investigation revealed that she is our single most popular female export out there, thanks to the huge popularity of Harry Potter. And trust me, if you’re big in China right now, then you’re about as big as it’s possible to be.
And that’s power. She’s also growing very rich, very fast, with an estimated fortune of more than £10 million.
And she was recently placed sixth on the Forbes list of ‘Hollywood’s Most Valuable Young Stars’. She’s also single, which makes her comfortably the most eligible young lady on my list. Form an orderly queue please, gentlemen.

86 DAVID TENNANT
I’ve never met him, I know absolutely nothing about him, and I doubt these two facts will ever change. But if you’re a hit as Doctor Who in this country, then you matter. Rather more irritatingly, from a personal point of view, Tennant was on TV even more than me at Christmas. Which is the main reason he’s down so low on my list.

88 KENNETH BRANAGH
The last time I saw Branagh, he was emerging from a workout with the same 6ft 7in Austrian torturer I use in LA. Once he’d got his breath back, we exchanged banter about the importance of a good physical state if you work in American TV or films. ‘It’s such bloody hard work out here,’ he moaned, accurately.
‘And the only way to cope with the long hours is to put yourself through this hell three times a week!’ Yet he does it, because he wants to stay right where he is – as one of Britain’s most successful entertainment exports.
He’s not as big a celebrity as when he was married to Emma Thompson and acting’s golden couple dominated the tabloids. But he won’t be shedding tears about that. What he remains is an outstanding talent who on his day can blow the socks off any other living British actor.

97 JK ROWLING
She’s sold over 400 million copies of her Harry Potter books, and also the movie rights for some of the biggest-grossing films in history, creating a global brand that’s worth an estimated £7 billion, making her over £500 million personally; she’s won squillions of awards; and she was even named the 48th most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes magazine. So Ms Rowling definitely matters.
She would hate to be called a celebrity, and guards her private life intensely, so she doesn’t play any part of the celebrity game. And that’s why I’ve marked her quite far down my list. But by encouraging children to read, feel inspired and be creative, she has had a greater impact on the world than most of the other names on it.

Filed Under: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, JK Rowling, Robert Pattinson, Stephen Fry
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