UK Yahoo has posted a new clip from Half-Blood Prince with a lot of new scenes! It is a mix of some clips we have seen, interviews with the cast and crew and it is just awesome! I’m working on getting the video for youtube! It is 3 minutes and 53 seconds long!
The Telegraph has a portion of an interview Emma Watson has done with The Times.
“I want to forget about hair and makeup,” she said in an interview with The Times. “Sometimes on a publicity tour I can’t remember what time it is, what country I’m in. Now it’s coming to an end I’m trying to hold on to it. So I have a book, and everyone I’ve met has a page. I want to remember them and not just be left with the media version of what happened to me.”
Watson also disclosed details about the filming of her long-awaited screen kiss with Rupert Grint, better known as Harry Potter’s friend Ron Weasley. “We did it two weeks ago,” she said. “Four takes one way and two takes with the camera in the other direction. Six takes altogether.”
In the interview Watson also picked out Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix in Harry Potter, as the biggest influence on her career. The pair struck up a friendship after Bonham Carter invited the teenager to her house to discuss their scenes. “I admire her so much, she is so confident in herself, so happy,” she said. “She probably has no idea how important those two or three hours with her were to me.”
The first five minutes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are now online. Head over to Videoload in Germany, you need to register then access where it says “Exklusive” to watch the first five minutes of the film. I’m working on getting the video, hopefully I can! 😀
UPDATE: for now there is a poor quality version on youtube that you can see here. The clip is in German sadly. (I didn’t watch because I want to be surprised, when I see the movie on the 9th, haha)
UPDATE 2: The user has removed the video.
UPDATE 3: It is now on youtube with subtitles, here!
There is aa new interview with actress Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) from the Harry Potter movies where she talks about her education, working on the films and with fellow actors. There is also a GORGEOUS new photoshoot of her. You can see the photoshoot over at SoBonnie!
It was slightly embarrassing because on set everyone knew that it was The Day when we’d kiss,’ she admits. It was definitely a case of “pass the mints”. But at the moment of the scene, everything just worked. Ginny kind of initiates what happens between her and Harry. He doesn’t really know what to do because she’s his best friend’s sister, so she takes the lead. It was very calm and romantic.’
The first audition, in [producer] David Heyman’s office, was kind of strange, as I didn’t have any lines really,’ she confesses. And I had no idea of getting the part since there were probably loads of more experienced kids who’d been acting since the age of two.’ Eventually, her parents were told that she’d landed the role. We were in the car, going to our house on the south coast, and you know when you can tell that your parents have something to say to you? They were just silent for ages, as if they were about to announce they were getting a divorce. When they finally told me, I remember screaming out of the window all the way up the motorway. I was ecstatic.’
Thanks to SS we have a new image of Ron Weasley and Lavender Brown that was published in the Baltimore Sun with Jessie’s Cave’s LA Times interview. See it here in the gallery!
Thanks to WB for sending over a new press release early this morning!
On Friday, July 10, beginning at 7:00 p.m., Felton, who plays Harry’s arch rival, Draco Malfoy in the film series, will visit the Hot Topic store at the Garden State Plaza and participate in a VIP signing for 750 lucky fans who purchased the special-edition Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince T-shirt.
Starting today, while supplies last, Hot Topic will give fans the opportunity to own the limited-edition Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince T-shirt, available exclusively at the Hot Topic store at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey. The first 750 fans to purchase these specially designed T-shirts will receive a wristband, gaining them access to the Hot Topic in-store signing event on July 10, where they will have the opportunity to meet Felton and have him autograph a special Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster.
In addition, WBCP and Hot Topic will also host two unprecedented, consecutive online sweepstakes at www.hottopic.com or www.harrypotter.com/wishlist, where Harry Potter fans can enter to win a trip to the star-studded Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince New York City premiere and a VIP meet-and-greet with Tom Felton, as well as win a trip to London to visit the Harry Potter movie set, currently in production on the final installments of the celebrated Harry Potter film series.
