Actor Bill Nighy (Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean) has confirmed that he will play a good guy in the Deathly Hallows films. He has not revealed the name of his character.

Bill Nighy has an announcement. “I don’t think I’m allowed to say it but I’m going to be in the next Harry Potter film,” he tells us. “I won’t say which character, but he’s a goodie. I just got the gig.” If you don’t mind us saying, it’s about time, Bill. The rangy actor has been dropping hints for aeons, once complaining that he was “the only British actor who hasn’t been in Harry Potter“. But has he read the books? “Not yet, but I will!” he says. “It’s rather like being in a Shakespeare that way, you know?” Mm.

Thanks to my friend Michael for letting me know that he pre-bought his Half-Blood Prince tickets and the runtime is listed at 2 hours and 55 minutes! I am not positive this is correct, but if the theater has it listed at that, it is probably true. So thats good news!

Tomorrow, Tom Felton will be giving us a tour of the Harry Potter set via his twitter! He sent out a tweet earlier today which says the following:

Tomorow I’ll take you round the studios with me(via twiiter : )early start though, 6 o clock .Can’t post pics though : ( sorry sound good? X

Should be great fun! I’ll post his updates for those of you that don’t want to check Twitter.

James & Oliver Phelps (Fred & George Weasley) will be attending a Half-Blood Prince premiere in Finland next month. The event will take place in Helsinki on July 16th. It starts at Tennispalatsi at 4:30pm and the movie wish start at 6pm.

Thanks SS!

In a new interview, Ben Shepard talks about being in Half-Blood Prince.

“My parents always insisted I kept my hair short and smart, but in Harry Potter I have long locks and a moustache, which unfortunately was very ticklish,” chuckled Ben. “I play a wizarding parent at the opening of Weasleys‘ Wizard Wheezes, which is a joke shop run by Ron’s brothers – it was just the most beautiful, stunning and exciting set.”

In ITV’s Behind the Magic documentary Ben gained exclusive access to the set, plus he interviewed the film’s young stars, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger).  And Ben discovered there’s a lot of romance in the new movie.   “Considering it’s quite a dark story, there’s tonnes of snogging and romance going on because Harry falls for Ginny and there’s a three-way tug of love between Ron, Hermione and fellow student Lavender Brown,” says Ben.

There is a new video interview with Jamie Campbell Bower where he discusses Harry Potter, among other things. You can view the interview here.  You need to skip the first 2 minutes to get to where he talks about Harry Potter. Enjoy!