Vanity Fair has a new interview with director David Yates!

Why did you and Warners decide to split the last installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two parts?
Three reasons. One is it’s a huge book so there’s so much stuff in it. You go through the list of things you want to put in the movie and there’s so many huge set pieces that by the time you get to the end of it you kind of go, “Whoa this would be the most expensive movie of all time.” Far more expensive than any conventional blockbuster. You have to find a way of somehow keeping all the things you want to do, so it is easy to split it across two films. [Screenwriter] Steve Kloves was working on the adaptation as we were shooting Half-Blood Prince and he just rounded us up and said, “Look guys I am having a real problem stuffing this story into two-and-a-half hours. I think narratively this might suit two parts.” There was that. I get frustrated when fans say, ‘Why didn’t you put this in or put that in?’ So it was a combination of the adaptation process and the fact that I just want to give the audience everything we can from the book, basically.

MakeupMag has a new interview with Nick Dudman, a make-up artist for the Potter films, and he talks about Fenrir Greyback.

In terms of actual make-up, Greyback is the film’s biggest creation, which Dudman and his team have designed as a seven-piece silicone prosthetic. “He’s a character with a great deal of fine hair all over him,” Dudman explained. “In the old days, if you were doing a werewolf, you would just lay loose hair on an actor, but nowadays the camera would pick that up, plus it’s such a coarse technique, it would be different every day.

“What we’ve done is punch fine goat hair into the pieces and pre-paint them, so when we apply the make-up, it won’t take as long. Because the hair has been punched, there’s no glue, so the movement will be freer. The reason we use fur is because it’s tapered and very fine. If you use human hair, yak or any other hair, because it’s been cut, it’s the same length at both ends and has a coarser flavor, whereas fur sits nicely close to the skin.

“The reason we’ve designed the make-up in seven pieces, including the ears, is that if it was just two pieces, maneuvering the silicone into position and gluing it accurately would become very difficult, so you choose sizes that you can manipulate and to allow a time frame that makes the make-up practical.”

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MSN UK News has made up list for a “dream team of stars that should help run the country”.  Included on the list are Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Fry and Julie Walters!

Julie Walters:
Title: Secretary of State for one thing and another
She’s Britain’s First Auntie, always ready with a kindly word and a shoulder to lean or cry on. Domestic squabbles, municipal tiffs, a bit of bother with the state of the pavements down your high street: Julie would know what to do and how to do it.

Daniel Radcliffe:
Title: Chancellor of the Exchequer
Comes replete with obvious wizardry credentials, essential to help us out of the global economic crisis.

Stephen Fry:
Title: Father of the nation
Writer, presenter, comedian, broadcaster, dramatist, actor, full-time national treasure and all-round good egg. What more needs to be said?

Thanks to Oclumencia we have a bunch of new high resolution photos from Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix!

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – x9
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – x12

Also thanks to So-Bonnie I have added a few new photos of Bonnie from Order of the Phoenix! (same link)

Katie Leung has been confirmed as reprising her role as Cho Chang in  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I will be posting more casting updates as they are announced! So stay tuned and keep checking out the Deathly Hallows page!

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abc family is having yet another Harry Potter weekend.  Starting this Saturday they will be showing the first few Harry Potter movies.

Saturday:
8pm – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Sunday:
4:30pm – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8pm – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire