James and Oliver Phelps are among the newest additions to the 2012 Calgary Expo lineup! The Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo is a non-profit organization showcasing pop culture including comics, sci-fi, gaming, anime, and horror. The event will be held from April 27 – 29, 2012 at the BMO Centre, Stampede Park, in Calgary, AB, Canada. For more info & tickets, visit www.calgaryexpo.com
Good things come in pairs! British actors and real life twins, James and Oliver Phelps from the blockbuster Harry Potter films will be amongst the powerhouse lineup attending the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo April 27-29, 2012 at the BMO Centre.
The Phelp twins were recurring characters in the decade-long Harry Potter franchise, and were one of J.K. Rowlings favourite characters featured in all eight of the films. Best known for their humorous portrayal of Fred and George Weasley, the older brothers to Harry’s best friend Ron Weasley.
“James and Oliver added a lot of laughter and charm to the Harry Potter films,” says the Calgary Expo Event Director, Kandrix Foong. “Since Sunday, April 29 is World Wish Day for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, we’re very happy to add yet more guests that children and adults alike will find exciting and entertaining.”
The brothers are replacing fellow Harry Potter actor, Tom Felton, who had to post-pone his appearance due to a scheduling conflict. The twins were famous for their pranking and mischief at the school and are now bound to bring Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes to Calgary!
Various Harry Potter stars have doodled on tambourines for Sound It Out! It is a charity that “develop and delivers music based programmes of work across a diversity of communities, ages, ethnicities and genres. Sound It Out works in four key sectors – Wellbeing, Children and Young People, Cohesion and Professional Development, with a focus on working with marginalised individuals and communities.”
They asked stars to tamper with our tambourines to create a tamperine and a few Potter stars participated
James and Oliver Phelps will be attending the Emerald City Comicon which takes place March 30-April 1 at the Washington State Convention Center. They will be at a fan panel on Sunday, April 1 at 1:15 p.m. and will also sign autographs and pose for photos during the weekend. Their schedule is as follows:
Saturday, March 31
Sunday, April 1
10:30am Signing
12:30pm Photo Ops
2:00pm Signing
5:15pm Photo Ops
5:45pm Signing
11:00am Signing
12:20pm Photo Ops
1:15pm Panel
2:45pm Signing
Tom Felton was supposed to be attending the event but had to back out due to filming commitments.
The Evening Standard British film awards were held last night and a bunch of Potter stars were in attendance including Bonnie Wright, James Phelps, Clemence Poesey (Fleur), Jamie Campbell Bower (Young Grindlewald), Toby Jones (Dobby), Warwick Davis, and John Hurt. Photos of the stars at the event may be seen here.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II won the Blockbuster of the Year, People’s Choice Award. Additionally, John Hurt, who plays Ollivander in the Potter films, was honored with the Alexander Walker Special Award for his contribution to film.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II won Best Film at the SFX Awards in the Reader-Voted section. It was up against X-Men: First Class, Thor, and Super 8. James and Oliver Phelps, who play the Weasley Twins, accepted the award via a video which may be seen below.
Rupert Grint and Oliver Phelps surprised a school with a visit after a student won the visit after Warner Bros held a contest. The contest was for Rupert to visit their school for a Q&A session and Oliver was a surprise guest! You can see photos of the two in Rupert-Grint.us’s Photo Gallery!
UPDATE: Today we have been sent a press release that reveals that almost 2000 schools entered to win the contest, that is 42% of all the schools in the UK!
West Midlands school girl wins nationwide competition to win a visit to her school from Rupert Grint!
Pupils from 42% of UK secondary schools in the UK enter for a chance to win.
In celebration of the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ™ – Part 2” on 3D Blu-ray™, Blu-ray Triple Play and DVD on the 2nd December, Warner Home Video and Sainsbury’s offered one lucky person the chance to win a visit to their secondary school from Rupert Grint. Almost 2000 schools were entered into the competition which is a massive 42% of all eligible schools in the UK.
The winning school Bishop Walsh Roman Catholic School in Sutton Coldfield kept the visit a secret from pupils and revealed the surprise in a special assembly in the lead up to the Christmas break.
One of the stars of the worlds most success film franchise, Rupert Grint visited the school along with co star Oliver Phelps on the morning of the 13th December for an exclusive Q&A and personal delivery of copies of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ™ – Part 2” on Blu-ray.
Sarah Bird, Director of Marketing for Warner Home Video UK commented “We are delighted to have partnered with Sainsbury’s to give the pupils and teachers of the winning school Bishop Walsh Roman Catholic School the opportunity for Rupert Grint and Oliver Phelps to visit them. They all had a day to remember and magical memories to share with their children in years to come!”
Rebecca Singleton, Sainsbury’s head of non-food marketing said: “We had thousands of entries for our exclusive competition with Warner Bros and on top of a visit from Rupert, we were able to arrange 10,000 active kids vouchers for the winner’s school.”
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