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Eurogamer has posted up a preview of the LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Video Game which will be released in May!
It’s been created with typical class: sunlight slants through windows, beds in the dorm rooms are ripe for bouncing on, and everywhere you look there are pots of LEGO flowers to destroy for studs, or promising stacks of bricks gently spasming on the floor, calling out for investigation. The latest LEGO game may be unusually focused on a single location, but it’s the series’ biggest area yet, and its busiest too, filled with endless distractions and little gags.
Far more than a simple interactive menu, the school is the place where Harry and friends will attend lessons, learning new kinds of spells, which will in turn open up more of the story. Starting the game – which, as the title suggests, charts the narratives of the first four books – with no knowledge of magic whatsoever, by the end of the adventure, Harry will have filled up a reassuringly spacious selection wheel of powers.
With four books’ worth of plot to wade through, over a hundred characters to unlock and thousands of colourful things to investigate, smash, and generally mess around with, Traveller’s Tales is clearly onto another huge hit. Its template might be a little too familiar to pass as genuine magic any more, but at its heart this looks like another competent and witty outing: a near-bottomless pit of collectables for OCD children, and a pitch-perfect exercise in global branding.
Shock Till You Drop is reporting that Tom Felton will play the role of “Patrick” in Todd Lincoln’s currently filming The Apparition. The film is rumored to be shot in Germany, and Tom Felton arrived in Berlin yesterday according to his Twitter.
Filming has begun on Dark Castle’s latest foray into the supernatural, The Apparition, with Todd Lincoln writing and directing.
Shock Till You Drop has had the finger on the pulse of casting news for this one and we can exclusively confirm that the Harry Potter franchise’s “Draco Malfoy,” Tom Felton, has joined the production as the third lead of the story. He’ll be playing “Patrick.”
Felton joins previously announced cast members Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Julianna Guill, Luke Pasqualino and Suzanne Ford. Little is known about the film’s story other than it concerns a couple haunted by a supernatural presence in the wake of a college experiment.
Apparition comes to you from producers Joel Silver, Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman (the latter two produced The Strangers).
James Phelps was interviewed today on BBC Radio 606 and he talked about Deathly Hallows, the new theme park and more! The full interview can be found on BBC’s site (starting at 54:30 minutes in).
Emma Watson was interviewed by the Daily Express and thanks to SnitchSeeker there are some scans online! In the interview Emma talks about Brown, Deathly Hallows and more! See the scan and read a segment below.
Escaping Potter’s grasp she starred in the BBC drama Ballet Shoes in 2007 and voiced Princess Pea in the animated feature The Tale of Despereaux but despite recently saying “I don’t want to act again” she can’t quit just yet.
Potter producers have scheduled filming to allow her to attend college and film her remaining scenes during her holidays. The last day of filming Harry Potter draws close, however.
“I will be…uncontrollable,” she says, picturing that final day on set. “It’s been half our lives. It’s made up, it’s formed us. It’s such a big part of my life it will be really sad.”
Emma is still debating whether to continue with acting long term. “I just want to be sure it’s what I want. I was so young and I don’t think I really knew the greatness of what I was signing on for. I really want to study. I would love to try theatre. I need to try stuff out. But I say all this now, I’m sure I’ll still be here in 10 years making Harry Potter 30.”
At the end of the final Potter movie the script currently calls for an epilogue set more than 20 years in the future, showing Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults.
“We will look like 40-year-olds,” she say, with Part I coming out in November and Part II in July 2011. “I can’t wait to see that.”
For now she’s happy to focus on her studies and, most of the time, to let others do the cooking.
If you haven’t noticed, we have a button to Helping Haiti Heal on the top of the sidebar, if you don’t know what it is: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! Ha ha. Anyways, its a fundraiser by some other Potter sites to help relieve Haiti after the earthquake. The fundraiser, which has, according to Leaky:
raised nearly $97,000. If we get to $105,000, Partners in Health will name the three full cargo planes (full of medical supplies and other desperately needed equipment) that we have funded after three wizards we know well: Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
JK Rowling has sent a message to everyone who has donated:
To everyone who has helped raise such an incredible amount for the earthquake survivors in Haiti: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
Like many others, I made a personal donation to the DEC shortly after the earthquake happened; but never did I expect such an amazing response from all of you. You cannot imagine how awed, moved and humbled I am to know that planes named Harry, Ron and Hermione are going to be flying off to help. I did not need this to remind me how extraordinary Harry’s fans are, but you keep giving me proofs. THANK YOU! – Jo
Donations are open until Saturday so if you haven’t donated, or even if you have, head over here to donate!
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint from the Harry Potter movies madeVanity Fair’s list of “Hollywood’s Top 40″ for 2009.
6 Daniel Radcliffe (Artist Rights Group)
Estimated 2009 earnings: $41 million
$20 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I (fee for starring in upcoming penultimate Potter film)
$20 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II (fee for starring in 2011 series finale, also filmed last year)
$1 million: Royalties from older films, other revenue 14 Emma Watson (WME)
Estimated 2009 earnings: $30 million
$15 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I (fee for starring)
$15 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II (fee for starring)
15 Rupert Grint (Hamilton Hodell)
Estimated 2009 earnings: $30 million
$15 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I (fee for starring)
$15 million: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II (fee for starring)
Thanks to Ice Cream Man we can now confirm that Rupert Grint will be attending the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter this Spring!
We are happy to announce that Rupert Grint has been confirmed to attend the opening of the Harry Potter Theme Park!
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is set to open in May 2010 at Universal Orlando Resort, and Rupert will join his co-stars Bonnie Wright and Tom Felton (who have already been confirmed recently) for the opening event.
UPDATE: This has been unconfirmed as there has been a misunderstanding:
There was a little misunderstanding in Rupert’s Agency! They just contacted us again: Rupert has NOT been confirmed yet. We will let you know more as soon as possible though!
Sky News is reporting that Mattel has created a special JK Rowling Barbie doll and they have a photo of the doll. Sadly it will not be created for mass distribution to the public.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling, tennis champion Kim Clijsters and Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria have all been given the ultimate plastic accolade: being turned into a Barbie doll.
The JK Rowling doll, meanwhile, is dressed in the black wool suit and hot pink top combination she wore at the 2009 Monsters and Critics Award Banquet.
The three one-of-a-kind Barbie dolls, which will not go on general sale, are being showcased in Mattel’s showroom at the world’s largest toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany.
Exhibitors from around the world are meeting to show off the trends that will fill this year’s Christmas stockings.
