Production for Daniel Radcliffe’s newest film, a supernatural thriller titled Horns, started recently and Entertainment Weekly has posted the first promotional photo of the film! A press release on the film stated “This rock and roll infused dark fantasy explores why bad things happen to good people, and what the loss of true love can do to a man.”
Daniel plays the title character, Ignatius “Ig” Perrish,who according to EW “is accused of the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend before waking up and to find horns that come with a wildly tempting power trip — he can induce people to tell the truth or compel them to give into their ugliest inner urges.”
Dan described the role as “deeply emotional and also incredibly outrageous in some ways.” and further states “To play somebody who, in the midst of a time in his life of great turmoil anyway, undergoes this horrific transformation into a devil character — it was very, very exciting.”
This morning Tom Felton participated in a photoshoot for the online store ASOS, he will be part of the Stylish Man spread in what we assume will be an upcoming issue of their online magazine, blog or in the mens section. ASOS is a mens and womens online clothing store that sells their own brand as well as known designer labels, they also have a community where you can share your looks with other members. As soon as we find out where the shoot will be released we will post!
ASOS released a few photos of Tom, which may be seen below:
The BBC has been releasing a myriad of interview snippets with J.K. Rowling that she did to promote her book, The Casual Vacancy. First up is a video interview where she says she wished she had more time to edit the Harry Potter books.
They have also posted a transcript of her interview with Will Gompertz. Some snippets may be read below:
Casual Vacancy has lots of swear words in it and lots of adult themes, do you worry that children who are fans of yours will be on an internet site where you can easily download books in one click, and they’ll suddenly be faced with really quite vivid language?
Well, I hope that we’ve made it really clear that this isn’t a book for children.
I’ve been very open about what the themes are, we’ve talked about what the story’s about. I would have thought that parents can make a very clear choice… I would have to ask why have kids got such untrammelled access to the internet that they are downloading… Well, I would be more worried about other things they could be downloading if they’re running amok on the internet on their own.
There is something of Dickens about this book.
I’m very flattered! When I did start writing it I was aware that I was doing a contemporary version of what I love, which is a big, fat 19th-Century novel set in a small community. So to an extent, swear words notwithstanding, that is what the Casual Vacancy is. It is a parochial – literally – novel that’s looking at slicing through a society, with everything that that implies. That’s what I wanted to do.
Did you create it in a similar fashion to your Potter novels – you had loads of research and described carving your novels out of it?
I did, really. I always know way more than I need to know. I have backstory on every character that I didn’t need. And, in fact, some of it was in the novel and I took it out. I just need to know much more than the reader does.
We previously reported that the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Ultimate Editions would be released on October 16th. Today, however, my friend, Michael R, let me know that he bought a two pack containing both films today at Target! They cost $49.99, the retail price is $69.99, and they are available exclusively at Target until January.
According to BFE, there are 6 discs (4 BD / 2 DVD + UV Digital Copy) and special features are as follows:
Part 1
Maximum Movie Mode: join host Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), and other members of the cast and crew, on an interactive journey through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Plus, revisit important moments from the previous films to prepare for the final battle that takes place in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Exclusive sneak peek of a scene from the upcoming film gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Dan, Rupert and Emma’s Running Competition: while filming the escape scene from the Snatchers in Swinley Forest, Dan, Rupert and Emma engage in a little competition of their own. With colorful commentary by Director David Yates, see the competitive spirit on set and this hilarious rivalry between the three leads.
The Seven Harrys: see how Daniel Radcliffe recreated the personalities of the different characters that transform into Harrys in the Privet Drive scene.
On the Green with Rupert, Tom, Oliver and James: accompany Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Oliver Phelps (George Weasley) and James Phelps (Fred Weasley) for a round of golf and get a glimpse into their 10-year friendship that developed while making the Harry Potter films.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Promotional Trailer: join Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and other cast members from the Harry Potter films on their first visit to the Grand Opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Additional scenes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: Behind the Soundtrack
Part 2
Maximum Movie Mode: Blowing Up Hogwarts– Hosted by Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom): Includes 9 Featurettes
A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe
The New Yorker has posted a very lengthy article and interview with J.K. Rowling about her book, The Casual Vacancy, which releases on September 27th. The interview touches on Harry Potter, her life before and after Potter, and more. On releasing the Potter books, and any details or plots, they reveal:
“We coined the phrase ‘denial marketing,’ ” Minna Fry, a former marketing director of Bloomsbury, recently said of the series. “The more people want, the less you give.” Ahead of each publication, she said, “we were extremely tantalizing—releasing little nuggets.” She laughed. “If you were really lucky, you’d get the title!”
Another part of the interview follows:
We were walking along a wet Edinburgh street of pubs and sandwich shops, hemmed in by the construction of a new tramline. Rowling wore a tan raincoat and stiletto-heeled boots. She seemed like someone who would gratefully return to a pre-adventurous life. Referring to the Edinburgh apartment where she finished her first book, the one that she secured with Sean Harris’s loan, she said, “I sometimes feel that everything that happened since I left that flat is a little bit unreal. And that’s where I’d go back to if it all vanished.” She once had the idea of publishing “The Casual Vacancy” anonymously but realized that her anonymity would be short-lived. “In the final analysis, I thought, Get over yourself, just do it.” She is working on two books “for slightly younger children” than her Harry Potter readers, and she has begun her next adult novel—although she has written only “a couple of chapters,” the story “is pretty well plotted.”
When talking about the book, the author of the article says:
“The Casual Vacancy” will certainly sell, and it may also be liked. There are many nice touches, including Rowling’s portrait of the social worker’s gutless boyfriend, who relishes how, in an argument with a lover, you can “obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.” The book’s political philosophy is generous, even if its analysis of class antagonisms is perhaps no more elaborate than that of “Caddyshack.” And, as the novel turns darker, toward a kind of Thomas Hardy finale, it hurtles along impressively. But whereas Rowling’s shepherding of readers was, in the Harry Potter series, an essential asset, in “The Casual Vacancy” her firm hand can feel constraining. She leaves little space for the peripheral or the ambiguous; hidden secrets are labelled as hidden secrets, and events are easy to predict. We seem to watch people move around Pagford as if they were on Harry’s magical parchment map of Hogwarts.
The Guardian has posted a brand new video interview and accompanying article with J.K. Rowling where she discusses her new book, The Casual Vacancy, as well as what she has been reading, upcoming book releases, being starstruck, and more. The article also includes some new information on the book, which may be read below (SPOILERS!)
The story opens with the death of a parish councillor in the pretty West Country village of Pagford. Barry had grown up on a nearby council estate, the Fields, a squalid rural ghetto with which the more pious middle classes of Pagford have long lost patience. If they can fill his seat with one more councillor sympathetic to their disgust, they’ll secure a majority vote to reassign responsibility for the Fields to a neighbouring council, and be rid of the wretched place for good.
The pompous chairman assumes the seat will go to his son, a solicitor. Pitted against him are a bitterly cold GP and a deputy headmaster crippled by irreconcilable ambivalence towards his son, an unnervingly self-possessed adolescent whose subversion takes the unusual but highly effective form of telling the truth. His preoccupation with “authenticity” develops into a fascination with the Fields and its most notorious family, the Weedons.
Terri Weedon is a prostitute, junkie and lifelong casualty of chilling abuse, struggling to stay clean to stop social services taking her three-year-old son, Robbie, into care. But methadone is a precarious substitute for heroin, and most of what passes for mothering falls to her teenage daughter, Krystal. Spirited and volatile, Krystal has known only one adult ally in her life – Barry – and his sudden death casts her dangerously adrift. When anonymous messages begin appearing on the parish council website, exposing villagers’ secrets, Pagford unravels into a panic of paranoia, rage and tragedy.
Pagford will be appallingly recognisable to anyone who has ever lived in a West Country village, but its clever comedy can also be read as a parable about national politics. “I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society,” Rowling says. “We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?” But it requires obliviousness to the horrors suffered by a family such as the Weedons, and the book satirises the ignorance of elites who assume to know what’s best for everyone else.
