According to the Hollywood Reporter, Emma Watson has been cast in a new film!

Emma Watson is attached to star in “Napoleon and Betsy,” a period drama being written and directed by Benjamin Ross.

Watson will play Betsy Balcombe, a young, impetuous noblewoman trapped on the isolated British Isle of St. Helena who falls in love with Napoleon, who is in exile on the island.

With filming of the last chapter, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” scheduled to commence in early 2009, Watson hopes to shoot “Napoleon and Betsy” in the fall.

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Emma Watson will be appearing on Travels in Written Britain, which will show world-famous novelist George Eliot’s history told against the background of places in her life.

There will also be an extract from George Eliot’s great niece’s diary read by Harry Potter star Emma Watson.

The diary was made available by John Burton, chairman of the George Eliot Fellowship, with the kind permission of her family.

TRAVELS in Written Britain will be screened on ITV1 on Sunday at 10.45pm.

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The Biography channel, is going to re-air The Harry Potter Kids, a documentary about Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, later this month.

It will air on Wednesday, April 23rd at 10 pm (ET) and Thursday, April 24th at 2 am (ET).

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There is some new news about the JK Rowling vs. RDR books now online.  You can see another article here as well.

U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr. said the copyright infringement case was a legal close call, involving unresolved areas of American law, and was almost certain to end in years of appeals.
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“I don’t want to be influenced by either party’s attitude toward settlement,” said Judge Robert Patterson today, at the start of the third day of trial. “I think this case, with imagination, could be settled . . . . But don’t throw anything out because of my desire to move ahead.”

UPDATE: JKR released another statement about this issue.  You can also read more HERE!

The book at the heart of this case has overstepped a boundary so unreasonably that I have been forced, regretfully, to take legal action. Authors have a right to protect their works from misuse. Do I have fewer rights because many people read my books? If this book is published, it will open the floodgates for anyone to lift an author’s work and present it as their own. But if it is not published, that will be a boon not only to all who create original works, but to all who enjoy those works.

There is a new interview with Rupert Grint online where he talks about a bunch of interesting topics.

It felt like she was plotting my death every time Lavender came at me. It was all very intense but a lot of fun too. (for your best source for Jessie Cave go to my Jessie Site!)

I met Lindsay last summer and she talked about herself a lot. She said she was going to win an Oscar before she turns 25. I just kept thinking, “But you can’t act”

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This is fake, ha ha. But still amusing anyways, so I will leave it.

There is a new interview with Helen McCrory online!

If I told you what I was wearing, I would probably have to kill you; it’s a bit like working for MI5. My costume is very couture, with beautifully sculpted silhouettes. The costumes are designed by my Parisian friend. Of course, style was battered into her at an early age.

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