MWS Media (the makers of The Sweet Shop) are offering fans of The Sweet Shop the chance to be a critic for the film at some test screenings in October! As you will all know, this is Matthew’s first film outside of the Harry Potter films and he plays the reporter. Visit this page to apply! If you head over to that link listen to Thomas Furr, from MWS Media to hear all the details about the screenings.

You’re invited to special showings of The Sweet Shop Movie at the Corn Exchange in Newbury. The film is about 2 hours long and there will be feedback sessions after each showing for around 30 minutes. This will be your chance to see the film for free and offer some feedback. To apply for tickets, simply fill out the form below and listen to Newbury Sound to find out if you’ve got those tickets! Please note there are no age restrictions for these tickets.

The exclusive screenings are at the following times:

* Wednesday 6th October at 2.30pm
* Saturdday 9th October at 10.30am
* Wednesday 13th October at 2.30pm
* Saturday 16th October at 10.30am

Thanks Matthew-Lewis.com!

Thanks again to g_zara on Twitter and onecinema we have some more photos from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  The first is of Harry near their tent in the forest, the other is of Harry and Hermione.  See them both in the gallery!

Thanks SS!

According to Scotland on Sunday, some handwritten pages that were originally written for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will be on display during the Wigtown Book Festival. The festival, which starts tomorrow, will be continuing until October 2nd.  The pages will be housed at ReadingLasses bookshop in Wigtown.  More information on the festival may be found here.

The original, signed manuscripts, originally written as part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, will be on show during the Wigtown Book Festival, which starts tomorrow. The Ballard of Nearly Headless Nick – a ghost who haunts Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – was eventually edited out of the second book in the series before publication.

But fans of the stories, which Rowling started writing as a single mother living in Edinburgh, will be able to read the framed pages displayed at ReadingLasses bookshop in Wigtown. The shop, owned by Gerrie and Susan Douglas-Scott, and Bex Woodsford, focuses on books written by and about women. “We’re very exciting that this bit of Harry Potter is coming home to Scotland for ten days,” Gerrie Douglas-Scott said.

The manuscripts were originally donated by Rowling to the Scottish Language Dictionaries in 2005 to help fund a new Scottish language dictionary. They are now in the hands of Ilyas Khan, a book collector and publisher of Asia Literary Review. The manuscripts have not previously been displayed in public. The exhibition was said to be a one-off and the pages will not be going on a world tour.

More promotional photos from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are now online from the 2011 Calendars which you can purchase now! Click the thumbnails to see larger versions.

2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Engagement Calendar
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Mini Calendar
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Wall Calendar

I already posted this on the site’s Twitter, but I figured I would post it here for those of you that don’t follow or don’t have Twitter.  Warner Bros. have emailed to let us know that a new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer will be released this coming Wednesday, September 22nd.

They will be emailing it over around 6pm PST (9pm EST) and I will get it up as soon as they send it!

Nick Moran, who plays Scabior (a Snatcher) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, recently spoke about how some scenes in the film were cut because they were too gory.

“The scenes I did were really, really dark, really, really dark, but when I went to see them they cut some of the worst bits out, and I was talking to producer David Heyman, saying, ‘Oh no, why’s that gone?’ He said, apparently it was like watching Saw,” Nick told Absolute Radio DJ Christian O’Connell.

Nick – who is promoting his second directorial effort, The Kid, starring Natascha McElhone – has enjoyed being part of the final Harry Potter film, which will be released in two parts. “It’s been brilliant. I’m the new baddie in the Harry Potter film. I can’t really give too much away – it’s hilarious, because your script has a watermark in it,” he recalled. “It says a number, which is on every page, so that if you lose it, everyone knows it was you. So it’s all top secret.”

Thanks SS!