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It was my turn for the August 2010 desktop calendar, so I chose to do a Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme.  This calendar includes a beautiful photo of Hogwarts at night during one of the grand opening celebrations in June.  It also includes photos of different items and areas from the theme park.  Enjoy!

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Happy birthday to our favorite author J.K. Rowling who wrote seven books about the boy wizard Harry Potter whose birthday is also July 31.  However, J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 at Yate, Gloucestershire in the UK.

Here is what she wrote in the Biography section of her official website about her family of origin:

My mother and father were both Londoners. They met on a train travelling from King’s Cross station to Arbroath in Scotland when they were both eighteen; my father was off to join the Royal Navy, my mother to join the WRNS (the women’s equivalent). My mother said she was cold, my father offered her a half share in his coat, and they got married just over a year later, when they were nineteen.

Both left the navy and moved to the outskirts of Bristol, in the West of England. My mother gave birth to me when she was twenty. I was a rotund baby. The description in ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ of the photographs of ‘what appeared to be a beach ball wearing different coloured bobble hats’ would also apply to the pictures of my early years.

My sister Di arrived a year and eleven months after me. The day of her birth is my earliest memory, or my earliest datable memory, anyway. I distinctly remember playing with a bit of plasticine in the kitchen while my father rushed in and out of the room, hurrying backwards and forwards to my mother, who was giving birth in their bedroom. I know I didn’t invent this memory because I checked the details later with my mother. I also have a vivid mental picture of walking into their bedroom a little while later, hand in hand with my father, and seeing my mother lying in bed in her nightdress next to my beaming sister, who is stark naked with a full head of hair and looks about five years old. Although I clearly pasted together this bizarre false memory out of bits of hearsay when I was a child, it is so vivid that it still comes to mind if I ever think about Di being born.

And speaking of her site, her virtual calendar notes a Happy Birthday to Harry Potter, one of the most favored wizards in literature.

We would like to wish J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter a very happy birthday and hope they have many more to come!

And please feel free to add your birthday wishes to Ms. Rowling (and even Harry) here in the Comments.   In honor of Harry’s birthday, also tell us which Harry Potter story was your favorite.

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After a noticeable year-long absence of new Potter Puppet Pals, creator Neil Cicierega has released new Potter Puppet Pals videos, now with their own YouTube Channel. Known best for The Mysterious Ticking Noise, a short video of which Daniel Radcliffe himself is a fan, Neil has released two new videos: Ron’s Parents and Mustache Buddies and an introductory video with Puppet Potter himself introducing the new channel.

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One spooky prop has turned up at Harry Potter: The Exhibition in Ontario, Canada: a Dementor! Hovering nearly 10 feet (3 meters) tall, the display shows the Dementor with it’s torn robes and half-spine.  Visitors to the exhibition can get a good close-up look at the prop.  However, if I were to go, I’d make sure to bring my wand and practice up a bit on my Expecto Patronum spell.

You can see a photo of the Dementor in our gallery here.

Learn more about the new addition here, including how to get tickets to the  exhibition.

Thanks to Christine!

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Last month, Matthew Lewis was chosen to be the media ambassador for the BAFTA Young Game Designers competition.  Our friends at Snitchseeker received the first video from the reps for the contest.  It shows Lewis explaining the details of the competition.  The second video is a new interview from the London Film and Comic Con which has been released online at LeceisterSquare TV.  Lewis gives a summary of his upcoming film The Sweet Shop, in which he is the antagonist rather than the protagonist.  He also specifies that the cast party he attended earlier in the month was for The Sweet Shop, not Deathly Hallows. In the third video (also from from the London Film and Comic Con), Lewis answers questions about playing “Neville Longbottom” through the years and interacting with the cast.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be out November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011; The Sweet Shop is set to be released in the UK later this year.

Thanks to Snitchseeker

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At the recent Harry Potter panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, a five minute video clip of footage from both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was viewed by those in attendance. According to a rumour now in circulation, Warner Bros. France is quoted as saying the following (translated from Spanish):

“We can confirm that there are no plans to release the video clip of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shown at Comic-Con this last week. However, fans of Harry Potter shouldn’t get discouraged – we can confirm that in the next few days the first theatrical trailer for part one of the movie will be available online. This trailer will also be available in 3D with the release of the movie Piranha: 3D, on August 20th.”

Readers should keep in mind that this is a rumour. Check back soon for more.

Source: BlogHogwarts

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The latest Leonardo DiCaprio film, Red Riding Hood, has begun filming in Vancouver.  DiCaprio will be joined by Harry Potter actors Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black, and Julie Christie, who played Madam Rosmerta.

In Red Riding Hood a young girl finds herself falling in love, to the dismay of her parents, with a woodcutter. A werewolf haunts the medieval town in which she lives.

The film, scheduled to be released 11 March, 2011, will be directed by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

Source: Vancouver Sun.

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For their Hero Complex blog, The Los Angeles Times spoke to Daniel Radcliffe about his non-appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend.  (Please note: Warner Bros. had clearly stated that no cast members would be present for the Saturday panel promoting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, although they had managed to be able to schedule an appearance by Tom Felton at the last minute).

However, there had been wildfire rumors made at the event that Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) would actually show up at the panel along with Felton (Draco Malfoy).  When he was told this, Radcliffe was quoted by  The Los Angeles Times to have said this:

“I apologize to all the wishful thinkers for my disappointing non-presence,” …”Really? Oh, God, I had no idea. I suppose it’s like when I’m at Reading Festival and I hear that suddenly some amazing band is going to play a surprise gig and then it turns out to be total fiction.”

The Harry Potter star was actually in London and had finished post-production work on Deathly Hallows, according to the article.  It is also noted that he is “still grappling a bit with the concept that he will never wear the robes of Hogwarts on screen again”.  So, he did seem distress that there were Harry Potter fans at Comic-Con who were disappointed by his absence.

Radcliffe was also told what Felton had said at Comic-Con about his crying “like a girl” on set during the last day of filming.  This was his reply:

  “You know what, I’d love to libel him and call it a lie, but, darn, he’s absolutely right. We all three of us — me, Rupert and Emma — we just wept. And I’ve never seen Rupert Grint cry. That was really weird.”

As for what he did for his 21st birthday (June 23), Radcliffe went to Russia:

“It was fantastic. I was in St. Petersburg for my birthday, which is probably the most beautiful, the most incredible, wonderful place I’ve ever been in my life. It really is absolutely amazing. I went with two friends and it was brilliant.”

 Click here to read the complete article.

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Fault Magazine posted a behind-the-scenes video of their photo shoot with Rupert Grint on YouTube.  How contemplative and attractive he looks!

The photos will be in their July/August issue.

Source:  Snitchseeker

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Tom Felton’s (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) recent project, 13 Hrs, is set to debut at this year’s FrightFest in the UK on August 28th at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square.  It will then open in select theatres for a limited time.

Tom stars as Gary, a friend to one of the main character’s brothers.  He finished up this project last March.

13 Hrs is a horror film about a family set in the countryside and is directed by Jonathan Glendening, written by Adam Phillips and produced by Neil Marshall.  Here’s the synopsis:

A full moon hangs in the night sky and lightning streaks across dark storm clouds. Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe) returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As the storm rages on, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
Trapped, Sarah and her brothers and friends must use their heads as well as their physical strength to survive not only the thing that is hunting them down one by one – but their own entrapment as the besieged group turns in on itself. Can they survive the horror stalking them? Or is their enemy already amongst them and has it always been? Can they survive for 13 hours?

We also have the poster in hi-res here and the artwork here.

You can see the trailer here:

Here’s more information from their press release:

13 HRS

Tom Felton / Gemma Atkinson / Joshua Bowman / Isabella Calthorpe

BRAND NEW BRITISH WEREWOLF HORROR SET TO TAKE FRIGHTFEST BY STORM

PREMIERS AT FILM 4 FRIGHTFEST, SATURDAY 28TH AUGUST AT 3:15PM
RELEASED ON DVD 25th OCTOBER

Directed by Jonathan Glendening, Written by Adam Phillips and Produced by Neil Marshall
Some of the hottest young British talent has come together for a brand new take on the werewolf genre, in what is set to become one of the horror hits of the year.

From the producer of Dog Solders comes Eyeline Entertainment’s highly anticipated, forthcoming Werewolf release ‘13 Hrs’. Directed by multi-award winning film director Jonathan Glendening, the film features a remarkable young cast including Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Gemma Atkinson (Hollyoaks), Isabella Calthorpe (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) and Joshua Bowman (Holby City).

Synopsis
A full moon hangs in the night sky and lightning streaks across dark storm clouds. Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe) returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As the storm rages on, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
Trapped, Sarah and her brothers and friends must use their heads as well as their physical strength to survive not only the thing that is hunting them down one by one – but their own entrapment as the besieged group turns in on itself. Can they survive the horror stalking them? Or is their enemy already amongst them and has it always been? Can they survive for 13 hours?

Thanks to Doug for letting us know!

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