Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Eurocom today announced the North American release of Harry Potter™ for Kinect™. Available exclusively on Kinect™ for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the game allows players to join Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™ and Hermione Granger™ on an extraordinary and magical adventure through Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and beyond.
Harry Potter for Kinect gives players the opportunity to play as some of their favorite characters from the Harry Potter series – and, utilizing the face scanning technology available only through Kinect for Xbox 360, the ability to create a wizard or witch character in their likeness, allowing players themselves to become active participants in the game.
Using Kinect controller-free and voice recognition technology, players can cast spells at opponents, repel Dementors™, battle Death Eaters, duck to avoid the wild branches of the Whomping Willow™, swim alongside Grindylows in the lake, and dodge dangerous Bludgers during a Quidditch™ match.
Harry Potter for Kinect, which is based on all eight Harry Potter films, gives players the opportunity to relive some of the movies’ most memorable moments, from being Sorted at Hogwarts to confronting He Who Must Not Be Named in a climactic final battle. Additionally, players can take on their opponents in competitive mini-games, or join forces with family and friends in co-op gameplay.
Harry Potter for Kinect is now available for the suggested retail price of $49.99 (U.S.). The game is rated E10+, appropriate for everyone 10 years and older. For more information about Harry Potter for Kinect, visit harrypotterforkinect.com.
A preview of Rupert Grint’s cameo “appearance” on the animated television show American Dad has been released online and may be seen below. Rupert plays the blonde character in the episode, Killer Vacation, airing this Sunday.
The Smith family’s tropical vacation turns out to be anything but relaxing in the all-new Halloween-themed “Killer Vacation” episode of AMERICAN DAD airing Sunday, Oct. 7 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
As we revealed a coupke months ago, Harry Potter: The Exhibition is returning to New York City due to popular demand. Warner Bros. has revealed that it will be back at Discovery Times Square in New York City Saturday, November 3, 2012 through April 7, 2013.
Harry Potter fans can purchase tickets beginning today for the chance to step inside the famous wizard’s magical world with Harry Potter: The Exhibition, returning to Discovery Times Square on November 3. Since its hugely successful run in New York City in 2011, Harry Potter: The Exhibition has been updated significantly with artifacts from the film series, including the final film.
Back by popular demand, this stop in New York City will serve as the exhibition’s return to North America after a yearlong international tour. Tickets are available for $19.50 (child 5-12), $25 (adult) and $22.50 (senior 65 and over) and can be purchased starting today online at DiscoveryTS.com, at the Discovery Times Square box office (226 West 44th Street) or by calling (866) 987-9692.
In addition to the hundreds of original props and costumes from the Harry Potter films displayed during the exhibition’s first time in New York, which the New York Times described as “quite bewitching,” and “making J.K. Rowling’s universe palpably vivid,” original artifacts from the series finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ – Part 2, will be on display for the first time, including a new vignette dedicated to the epic battle of Hogwarts™. Visitors can also celebrate the holidays at Harry Potter: The Exhibition, as the exhibition will be open during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays.
Harry Potter: The Exhibition, created by Global Experience Specialists, Inc. (GES) in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, will be displayed at Discovery Times Square from November 3, 2012, through April 7, 2013.
The 14,000-square-foot experiential exhibition, invites visitors to visit dramatic displays inspired by the Hogwarts film sets and see the amazing craftsmanship behind authentic costumes and props from the films. Harry Potter: The Exhibition offers fans a firsthand view of hundreds of artifacts displayed in settings inspired by the film sets including the Great Hall, Hagrid’s hut, the Gryffindor™ common room, and more.
“We are pleased to offer New York residents and visitors this special holiday presentation of Harry Potter: The Exhibition, now with new and exciting additions from the final films,” said James Sanna, President of Discovery Times Square. “For the first time ever we have items from each film in one location. There is no better way to celebrate this iconic series than to actually walk among the costumes and props that helped bring this world to life.”
The exhibition made its world premiere in Chicago in April 2009 before traveling on to Boston, Toronto, Seattle, New York and Sydney, and just concluded a successful run at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands. Harry Potter: The Exhibition tours major cultural and entertainment venues, museums and institutions in the U.S. and internationally.
Discovery Times Square is open seven days a week, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Savings for groups of 10 or more are available with advanced reservation. Once open, the last tickets are sold 60 minutes prior to closing. For individual tickets and venue hours, visit www.DiscoveryTS.com, call 866.9.TSXNYC (866-987-9692) or visit the Discovery Times Square box office. Follow Discovery Times Square on Facebook and Twitter for up-to-date information.
Sky Arts released the first footage from Daniel Radcliffe’s miniseries, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which premieres on December 6. Dan and costar Jon Hamm can be seen throughout the TV Lineup video below.
Thanks to SnitchSeeker for the footage.
Additionally, a new interview with the actor, done with David Stephenson, is now online and may be listened to below:
Emma Watson was featured as one of Elle Magazine’s Women of Hollywood 2012. They have posted a new photo as well as a snippet from her feature in the magazine:
“I put one of the Potter films on the other night,” she says. “And it was amazing to me that I had done all of that. I have to remind myself every now and then.”
SnitchSeeker have also uncovered part of her interview that will be featured in the November issue of the magazine, the interview also includes a quote from The Bling Ring director Sophia Coppola.
Sofia Coppola on Emma in The Bling Ring:
“She transformed into the part,” Coppola says. “She could switch back and forth between a posh British accent and a slutty Valley Girl, just like that. Oh, and I was really impressed by her hip-hop dancing.”
Emma’s take on the upcoming comedy, The End of the World:
“It was essentially a stand-up-comedy situation,” she says. “So for me, it was like landing on Mars. I was like, ‘I can’t do this, this is mad,’ but eventually I just kind of let go. I have no idea where I got half the stuff that came out of my mouth.”
Emma teasing about Guillermo del Tor’s Beauty and the Beast adaptation:
“He’s obsessed with the idea of creating worlds,” she says. “We’re even going to have this amazing language that we made up.”
Elle: You’ve said that being famous makes you uncomfortable. How so?
Emma Watson: A I’m dealing with people’s projections of me. I don’t know when people look at me if they see a beautiful dress I wore on the red carpet, or all of the magic and hype of Harry Potter. They very rarely just see who I am, which is a normal, human 22-year-old girl.
Have you had to fight for a part?
Emma: Not exactly. But after auditioning for Sofia [Coppola], I didn’t hear from her for a while. I thought, Oh my God, I really want this part, so I wrote her an e-mail being like, “Look, I know I’m not the obvious choice, I couldn’t be more unlike the girl you’d probably cast in this, and I appreciate that I have a lot of work to do, but I feel really passionate about this. Please, would you just consider me?” And I got an e-mail back saying, “You already got it.”
Are there certain types of roles you particularly want to play?
Emma: Eventually I’d love to do something where I get to sing, even though it would be terrifying.
Do you think you’re hitting your stride at a time when women’s roles are getting more diverse?
Emma: Definitely. That’s one of the reasons why it was such an honor to work with Sofia—she writes such complicated, interesting female roles. I think there’s a shift, thanks to movies like Bridesmaids and people like Lena Dunham and Emma Stone. There’s a space for female characters that are more than two-dimensional, an understanding that we can be lots of different things at once. We can be funny, we can be a little [messed]-up—it’s not just about being the martyr, the smart one or the dumb blond.
Total Film has posted a new video interview with Emma Watson where she discusses The Perks of Being a Wallflower, her future projects (Noah, The Bling Ring, Beauty and the Beast) and more!
