JOHN HURT TALKS HARRY POTTER, CONFIRMS HIS RETURN

If John Hurt really likes something, he goes back for seconds.
In 1975, he did The Naked Civil Servant, playing homosexual icon Quentin Crisp for the first instance. And at the Tribeca Film Festival, he’s in An Englishman in New York, which picks up where Servant left off. But there’s another role he’s about to revisit — Ollivander the wandmaker for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
“Yes, that’s up that year,” Hurt told me on the red carpet for the p…

HARRY POTTER SKETCHES TO DRAW BIDDERS

They are images which have entranced millions of youngsters around the world and now they are set to conjure up a bidding war in Scotland. Rare artwork for the Harry Potter books is to go under the hammer later that month.
Sketches by the acclaimed artist Cliff Wright, who illustrated the book Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, are to go on display and be put up for sale at the Glasgow Art Fair.
The pen and pencil drawings are the instantly recognisable forerunners of the images which ar…

Holy Friday: The Potter’s Field

The Holy Friday Vespers service in the Orthodox Christian tradition is known for the reading of ‘The Twelve Passion Gospels.’ In the Fifth Gospel reading (St. Matthew 27:3-32), we take in:

next Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned by betraying harmless blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to it! soon after he threw down the pieces of silv…

ISAACS RECALLS ‘POTTER’ SIGNING FIASCO

Jason Isaacs has admitted that he “wanted to vomit” at a book signing for Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.
The British actor told DS that he was invited along to a signing for the sixth book in the series, only to discover later that his character Lucius Malfoy does not seem in the fantasy novel.
“I was filming in Rhode Island and someone asked me to come to a signing when number six was published at midnight,” he explained. “I went to sign what I thought wou…

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, MAGGIE SMITH, EMMA THOMPSON SET FOR NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG

Maggie Gyllenhaal will join previously announced stars Dame Maggie Smith, and Emma Thompson in the film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, to be written by Thompson and directed by Susanna White, according to Variety.
The picture, a sequel to 2005’s Nanny McPhee, will plus star Rhys Ifans and Asa Butterfield. In addition, Ralph Fiennes is in talks to take an uncredited cameo in the movie.
The film will center on a group of kids who are evacuated from the city to a farm during wartime.
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EPILOGUE FOR ‘HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS’ WILL BE SHOT WITH ORIGINAL CAST

The Harry Potter movies are reaching their dark climax with “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” coming to theaters in July. The latest trailers and posters offered a brief glimpse of the maturing Hogwarts kids as Harry gradually becomes more aware of Voldemort’s origins. Off-screen, however, David Yates and his crew are filming the final installment from J.K. Rowling’s series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” — and that includes the epic’s final epilogue, where the ori…

USA Today: How faraway Can Harry’s Magic Hold?

In USA Today’s ‘Life’ Section, page 1, above the fold, with a picture of Harry and Ginny, the best selling newspaper in America asks “How distant can Harry’s magic hold?” It is a rhetorical question, right? The essay is only to announce that the last trailer of Half-Blood Prince film will be released online tonight at 9 pm. Would any other film or book franchise get that kind of cover story treatment for the most recent release of a trailer? Another rhetorical…

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