For those of you who are in Brazil we have some very fun news! You can enter to win a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows poster signed by Matthew Lewis! All you have to do is answer the following question:
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) can not face this final battle alone. This time, the help of his friends will be essential, even those who are far away. If you were one of them and were with Neville (Matthew Lewis) when the Hogwarts Express the Death Eaters went through there, what would you do?
The authors of the 10 most creative answers will win an official movie poster autographed by Matthew, that Warner Bros. actor.
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) não poderá enfrentar esta batalha final sozinho. Desta vez,a ajuda de seus amigos será essencial, mesmo daqueles que estão longe. Se você fosse um deles e estivesse com o Neville (Matthew Lewis) no Expresso de Hogwarts quando os comensais da morte passaram por lá, o que você faria?
Os autores das 10 respostas mais criativas vão ganhar um pôster oficial do filmeautografado pelo Matthew, ator que a Warner Bros.
The Willow Foundation has emailed to let us know that the canvases that James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, John Hurt and Matthew Lewis did for their charity are now up for auction! Use the links below to bid on them and good luck!
In a new interview with Hero Complex Helena Bonham Carter discusses Bellatrix and the Harry Potter series.
“There’s nothing like it [Potter filming], it’s been a nice tribe,” Bonham Carter said. “I love going back year after year. It’s refreshing. A lot of times in this business, it’s so transitory — it’s just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it’s over – but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure. It was fantastically well-organized, the [assistant directors] are simply unbelievable, the best. The communication has always been seamless. It’s been a way for me to have work I can count on; I knew I was going to be working but the [screen time for the] role was limited and that was perfect, anything more than part-time takes away such a chunk of time and space and focus. It has been perfect for me, and I will miss it.”
“Bellatrix has really good fun, and she’s been a bit of surprise to me, in fact,” Bohnam Carter said. “It wasn’t really there on the page. When I took it on, I found there wasn’t a huge amount to go by in the script, and I read the book and she wasn’t necessarily on the page there either, so I did ask [four-time “Potter” film director] David Yates if I could bring a bit of other things or are these the Bibles? And he said yes, certainly, and apparently J.K. Rowling was very pleased with it when she saw it, and the childish dimension and the fact that she’s totally savage, that was a bit of departure.”
There’s often nervous laughter when Bellatrix is on screen, and for the actress, that’s the sound of success. ”I just felt she had to make an impression because there wasn’t much time in which to do so. And she had to be terrifying. She needed to be somebody you didn’t know what to feel towards. One moment she’s horribly revolting but then also weirdly sexy, maybe, or just disturbing to the mind when you watch her. There’s a lot of decaying, too, with the bad teeth. She’s been in prison for so long. The mad hair. She’s someone who has seen better times but still carries herself with the memory of what she was. She’s almost like someone who’s had too many surgeries and thinks they’re beautiful but in fact has gone the way wrong. There’s a lot of people like that now. For some reason, I can’t live with the joke that now you can either be old or you can be creepy. That’s the choice. Sad, isn’t it?”
Warner Bros’ Thailand Facebook has released two video featurettes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I entitled ‘The Characters’ and ‘The Malfoys and Bellatrix’. Watch them below:
In a new interview Emma Watson has revealed a scene that has been added to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. The scene involves the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione and Ron. Find out what that scene is below:
MTV has posted a new interview with production designer Stuart Craig where he talks about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He discussed the challenges of filming the Sword of Gryffindor scene.
Another one of the production’s major challenges — and accomplishments — was shooting the sequence in which Harry retrieves the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of a frozen lake. “There was a really demanding, complicated special-effects requirement there to do the ice,” Craig said. “I think that all works remarkably quite well, actually. Harry breaking the ice, diving in and then subsequently strangled by the Horcrux around his neck and is struggling and can’t get up quickly because of the ice above him. It’s good stuff.”Which begs the question: How did Craig and his team pull off that scene, and what do they use to make the ice look so real? “As always, well, as nearly always, there’s more than one solution. The camera on top, looking from the outside down on it. It’s big, thick sheets of Plexiglass with frosty texture on top of that,” he revealed. “When we’re underneath, it’s actually an area of wax which floats on top of the water. And wax makes very effective ice. They’re tried and tested movie techniques; there are a lot. You could write a book one day, a guidebook, to the very movie techniques — frost on window panes with some Epsom salts and brown nails.”
