Filming for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was at the Millennium Bridge in London last week and some videos and photos are now online.

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The Half-Blood Prince wall calendar for 2009 will be released on September 1st. You can pre order it HERE link at Amazon.

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In a new interview Ralph Fiennes annoucnes that he is NOT in the Half-Blood Prince film and has not yet signed on for Deathly Hallows.

Are you even in THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE? The one they’re shooting now, no, I’m not in it.

And have you signed on for the final film yet? I have not yet, no.

Has it been fun seeing yourself rendered serpentine for the two films your are in? Yeah, I particularly liked doing the first one. The second one, I think Voldemort is placed more as a sense in Harry’s head, whereas in the first one I did with Mike Newell directing, there was that fantastic scene of his rebirth in the graveyard, which I enjoyed doing. I’ve enjoyed making the movies, but I was never an avid reader of the books. It just wasn’t something I went towards. When I went to the premiere of the first one I did, I got a real sense of the extraordinary nature of it all.

Click the link above for the full interview or Read More for the parts where he discusses Harry Potter. (There is adult language in the article)

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An article in The Sun (warning: there is nudity contained in the link), claims that two streakers disrupted production of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on-location in England.

Two male streakers held up filming of the new Harry Potter movie � by darting naked through undergrowth during a woodland scene.
Stars Daniel Radcliffe and Helena Bonham Carter retreated to their caravans while security chased the pair off.
But once filming resumed on The Deathly Hallows, the duo crept back and made monkey noises at the location shoot in Farnham, Surrey.
A source said: “Seeing naked bodies was a laugh � but the joke wore thin.”

This is unverified by WB, but still very amusing I must say.

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On ITV’s This Morning, Damian Lewis, actor and  husband of Helen McCrory, announced that Helen will begin filming her scenes ‘this week’.  Helen will play Narcissa Malfoy in Half-Blood Prince.

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In an interview with the Herald Sun, one of the Harry Potter producers, David Barron told them of a new scene added to Half-Blood Prince. I am posting the segment where he explains it below, if you do not wish to know spoilers for Half-Blood Prince just skip over the quoted text.

This was brought in because Jo (Rowling) was able throughout the quite lengthy book to keep dropping little snippets of what was happening in the outside world – there’d be people reading newspapers and talking about how somebody’s parents had been killed, or somebody had been withdrawn from school because their parents didn’t think it was safe.

And we’re making aware that that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort.  The book is peppered with those moments, but we couldn’t do that quite so easily in the film.  So (the extra scene) comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrows, nobody’s safe. I think you’ll like it. It’s quite effective.”

Read the full article HERE!

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