HP4U News: 10/01/2010

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Deathly Hallows Wrap Party pics.
A few more brand new Deathly Hallows wrap party photo's we can share with you for the first time.
For ALL our exclusive photo's from the Leavesden Studios party and a full report just check our archives by typing 'wrap party' in the search bar.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Deathly Hallows Runtime Released
The IMAX Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows page has been updated with information on the film and includes the runtime, which is 147 minutes. For those of you that don’t want to do the math, its 2 hours and 27 minutes! They have also added the following information:

Voldemort’s power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore’s work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for them, so everything they do must go as planned.
The IMAX release will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX’s customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.

Deathly Hallows Photos and Posters Roundup
Here's a roundup of all the new photos and posters released for Deathly Hallows over the past week (once again, sorry for the lack of updates!)

Limited Edition Deathly Hallows Soundtrack to Release in December
and Track List Released
Amazon has updated their site with a new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow: Part 1 Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set Soundtrack that will be released on December 21st, it will cost a whopping $79 but has some great items included. The set will include:

Individually numbered Certificate of Authenticity
PremierCell Presentation of high quality film photography on heavy cardstock featuring two 35MM film cells cut from the movie reel. Comes with attachable easel.
7 inch double sided picture Vinyl Disc with score from the movie
DVD with 5.1 audio mix of Alexandre Desplat s score and a 7 minute video featurette of the scoring session, along with interviews with Composer Alexandre Desplat and Producers David Heyman and David Barron.
Movie Poster
Orchestral Sheet Music from recording session at Abbey Road Studios signed by Alexandre Desplat
Soundtrack on CD
2nd CD with additional score

Additionally, Free Record Shop has released the track list for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Soundtrack.

Obliviate
Snape to Malfoy Manor
Polyjuice Potion
Sky Battle
At The Burrow
Harry and Ginny
The Will
Death Eaters
Dobby
Ministry of Magic
Detonators
The Locket
Fireplaces Escape
Ron Leaves
The Exodus
Godric’s Hollow Graveyard
Bathilda Bagshot
Hermione’s Parents
Destroying the Locke
Ron’s Speech
Lovegood
The Deathly Hallows
Captured and Tortured
Rescuing Hermione
Farewell to Dobby
The Elder Wand

Order the regular soundtrack or limited edition.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Advance Tickets for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Available
Fandango has started offering advance tickets (US only) for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. To order tickets use the link below:

Deathly Hallows: Part I Clip to Air at Scream Awards
MTV has announced that a new clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I will be shown at the Spike Scream Awards. They will air on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 9:00pm EST on the Spike.

Ultimate Edition DVD News Roundup
We have a couple of things to report regarding the Ultimate Editions of the first four Potter films.

First, the Biography Channel will be airing the specials “Creating The World of Harry Potter: The Magic Begins” attached to the first film, and “Creating The World of Harry Potter: Characters,” from the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Ultimate Editions beginning this Thursday, October 14, at 9:00pm EST.

Next, there are two new videos from the Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban DVDs online:

You can buy the Ultimate Editions at the following links (and pre-order the Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

More Promotional Photos from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Some new photos from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows calendar have been released online and may be viewed here! There are also some other new promos that can be seen at the same link from the Harry Potter Film Wizardry book and a photoshoot!

Buy the calendars:
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Engagement Calendar
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Mini Calendar
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Wall Calendar
Thanks UHP and Heye-Verlag calendars and PotterNews

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I No Longer in 3D
On Friday WB announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I Will No Longer Be Released in IMAX 3D. According to the press release:

Warner Bros Pictures has made the decision to release “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” in 2D, in both conventional and IMAX theaters, as we will not have a completed 3D version of the film within our release date window. Despite everyone’s best efforts, we were unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality. We do not want to disappoint fans who have long-anticipated the conclusion of this extraordinary journey, and to that end, we are releasing our film day-and-date on November 19, 2010 as planned. We, in alignment with our filmmakers, believe this is the best course to take in order to ensure that our audiences enjoy the consummate “Harry Potter” experience.

(sorry for my lack of posting again)

Thursday, October 07, 2010

New Evanna Lynch Interview
Harry Potter Fan Zone was able to interview Evanna Lynch on their set visit last year and they have now posted their interview. She talks about being a fan of the books, Deathly Hallows and more.

Question: I’m curious if you could talk a little bit about when you first got the seventh book. Where were you? What was your reaction to reading it? Lynch: Yeah, I was invited to J.K. Rowling’s big thing in the History Museum in London. I went all dressed up and everything as usual and didn’t get recognised. Lucky. And, yeah, I read it in my hotel really quickly. My reaction, yeah, I was a bit overwhelmed. You know when you’re a fan you want to take it all in but you feel guilty when you put the book down because it’s like, “there’s stuff I don’t know in there”. I read it in a rush and sort of cried for ages after.
Question: You also play a prisoner in this film, could you talk a little about filming those scenes and how intense are they?
Lynch: Yeah, it was with John Hurt, who plays Ollivander. It’s a really spooky place because the ceilings are so low. Oh, and he has to be sort of frail and everything. And Harry comes down and then there’s Bellatrix torturing Hermione – you can hear the screams. You just get the feeling like, “how can you get out of here?”, and none of them have their wands. Yeah, it’s horrible.

Question: Is Luna much different in these two films than she has been in the past couple or is she sort of still the same?
Lynch: She’s always going to be the same [laughs]. Yeah she doesn’t change, that’s the thing about her, she knows herself so well. Most of them, they go through all these stages, where they’re like battling with themselves, but she’s so happy with herself that I think the only thing that changes is her surroundings. She has her friends this time and it makes her happier but it doesn’t really change her.

In a new interview with the Scotsman, David Thewlis briefly discusses the Harry Potter series and Daniel Radcliffe. David plays our favorite werewolf, Remus Lupin in the Potter films.

With Harry Potter the schedule couldn’t have been more different, he says; there it was mainly waiting around, sometimes for weeks. “I once got flown back from America for two days just to wait around and then got flown back again,” he says. “The thing about Harry Potter is it’s great fun because of the people – I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane and the kids.
Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you’re going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.”
Thewlis seems genuinely happy to have been mixing with muggles. As far as he’s concerned Harry Potter is a cinematic phenomenon, a one-off. “It’ll never happen again. You’ll never have three child actors going through adolescence just working on that one film, which is such a success. It’s been seven years in story time, 10 or 11 years in film time. Dan (Daniel Radcliffe] was only ten when he started and he’s about 22 now.”
I tell him I can imagine nothing worse than those years being committed to film. He laughs. “I know, but he’s remained totally sane. Not only sane but lovely and amazing. He’s a gorgeous guy, very articulate, very level-headed and funny. He’s never anything but really good company. He’s grown up into a beautiful young man and he could be a pain in the arse. I love him.”

Thanks Magical-Menagerie!

Deathly Hallows Set Report Roundup
Set reports from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have started to appear online on various fan sites. Here is a listing of the ones I have seen so far with a segment from each. There will be spoilers.
SnitchSeeker

Can you talk a little bit about the nude scene?
Dan Radcliffe: It’s not really a nude scene. I’ve done a nude scene (refers to Equus). There’s a fair amount of stripping off, but it’s only down to the pants [underwear], really, at the very most. There’s one scene where I have to because I’m jumping into a pool of ice. I’m jumping into this icy pool and, obviously, have to be in my pants for that. Jump in, locket tries to kill me and then Ron saves me at the last minute. I dress in a hurry. It’s not big, it doesn’t really worry me. It’s fine, and this time around they even heated the water, which was pretty nice. You felt cold out of the water, but when you’re in it, it’s pretty nice.

Mugglenet

David Yates: “There’s this torturing with Bellatrix. Emma was really keen to do this torturing scene. I said ‘it will be really great, and we have to be really careful of how we do it. And [Emma] completely gave herself to the process. What we did was we set up a couple of cameras and Helena got on top of Emma. Basically she was writing ‘mudblood’ on her arm. She was scoring it into her skin.”
“We just let the whole thing roll for about three or four minutes. In that three or four minutes there were some good bits, and some not so good minutes. And there were one or two really powerful bits where Emma was able to just let go a little bit and forget that she was acting. She’s still acting, but she lost herself in this process for a moment. And the screams were quite horrible to listen to. On the stage, everyone felt uncomfortable. Everyone just sort of stepped back a bit. It was a very odd energy in the room because she was kind of exploring… exercising demons really. And serving the scene in doing that. It was really interesting.”

The Leaky Cauldron

Following the mindset of doing what is for the greatest benefit to the film, the “Deathly Hallows” producers and actors each feel a true sense of duty to hold true to the books. ”Jo [Rowling] gives us the opportunities in what she has put together in Hallows to do things that I didn’t do in “Half-Blood Prince” or “Order of the Phoenix,” Yates explains. ”She’s so imaginative, so I never feel like I’m making the same movie.
Barron reiterates, and speaks to the news that actor Jason Isaacs was able to craft a unique ending for his character at the end of the “Deathly Hallows” by saying, “Obviously, we discuss with the principal cast; they all are intelligent people, they all have views on what their character would or wouldn’t do or say. Especially having been in for such a very long time, they really know their characters. But, equally, we are servicing the book and so our objective is to make proper filming rendition of the book and we wouldn’t stray too far– it’s nuisances, really– we wouldn’t stray very far from what Jo has written because she has given the characters what she felt… if they needed an ending, she’s given them an ending.

Coming Soon

Q: What kind of action do you get to do?
Matthew Lewis: There’s a whole lot this year. We’ve just been rehearsing some stunts we’re doing next week. There’s an amazing bridge sequence that I don’t want to talk too much about, but there’s going to be some cool stuff in that and that’s going to be stunts of all kinds. We’ve got lots of running. I don’t know if you can see, but I fell over last week and have a scab on my knee there. Lots of running, lots of falling, lots of firing the wands off, lots of explosions and sometimes when you lose the wands, it’s more physical and that’s good. It’s just a bit of everything. It really feels like war.

Harry Potter Fan Zone
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IGN

Deathly Hallows Part I Gets It's Rating
The Motion Picture Association of America has confirmed to the lovely folks at SnitchSeeker that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I will be receiving a PG-13 Rating.

“Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1” has been rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.

This is only the rating for Part I as part II is still in Post Production.

New Interview with Natalia Tena
In a new interview, Natalia Tena who plays Tonks, talked about Harry Potter and more!

As well as keeping people’s feet busy, Natalia has also starred in Harry Potter (amongst other things). What was it like working with those folk and is Daniel Radcliffe really a sexually dubious mummy’s boy as per his Extras appearance?
Nat: I got to pick my wand! It was very early mornings and lots of waiting interspersed with catching lots of jokes and riding on brooms. Daniel is banging and has enough energy to power rush-hour. The make-up ladies have brilliantly naughty laughs, especially Amanda and Sarah.
My werewolf husband in it, David Thewlis, reduced me to tears of hysteria various times before takes which were meant to be taken seriously and somewhere in Leavesden Studio is a plaster cast of my [bum]. Oh and Brendan Gleeson has the best hug, big arms you see.
We GOT TO PLAY THE WRAP PARTY!!!!! It was at the studio this summer, outside and just before we started playing the sky [hit] us with rain but it worked in our favour as everyone got on stage with us for cover and danced the [hell] out of it with us. There was a fairground for [eff's] sake!!!! Epic. I wore blindness-inducing pink with lashes to match and the boys scrubbed up like desperate hookers. Burgers were good too.

Thanks SS!

Deathly Hallows Photos Roundup
Sorry I've been bad on the posting front guys, been so busy!! Anyway, here's a roundup of all the latest in photos:

Premiere Magazine Scans (October 2010 Issue)
One Magazine Scans (October - November 2010)
12 High Resolution Promotional Photos
13 Scans from Products
31 Behind the Scenes Photos
15 Posters

Friday, October 01, 2010

VIDEOS: JK Rowling on Oprah
We finally have 3 videos of JK Rowling's appearance on Oprah, watch them below and enjoy! Make sure to watch fast, who knows if they will be deleted.

Thanks to Leaky and potterishmidia!