DANIEL RADCLIFFE’S TEARFUL GOODBYE TO HARRY POTTER
Now filming has wrapped on the last of the Harry Potter films and with Part One of The Deathly Hallows due for release on the 19th of this month, Daniel Radcliffe has talked of the cast’s tearful farewells on the last day of shooting.
“I was devastated and so upset that I cried,” he told HFPA members. “We all did. I’ve never seen Rupert Grint cry in my life before but he did. It was a very emotional day because for the last ten years my day-to-day life has been going into work and seeing those people.”
Part One ends with Voldemart getting possession of the Elder Wand and Part Two, which will be released on July 15 next year, leads to a massive battle at Hogwart’s and Harry’s final confrontation with the Dark Lord.
The six Potter films have earned more than $5.4 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing global franchise in film history—-Star Wars beats it domestically but just barely.
Daniel Radcliffe, 21, is keeping busy without Harry Potter. He is currently filming the spooky suspense thriller The Woman In Black and is taking dance lessons in readiness for his appearance on Broadway next year in the musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
“I’m apprehensive but very excited,” he said.
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MICHAEL C. HALL REFLECTS ON GOLDEN GLOBE WIN
Dexter star Michael C. Hall has revealed that being nominated for a Golden Globe award prompted him to announce that he was suffering from cancer.
Until a few days before the ceremony he had hidden the fact he was undergoing treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“I hadn’t planned to go public with it but I’m actually very thankful that I was invited to the Golden Globe ceremony because it compelled me to make an announcement,” he told HFPA members when he met them recently at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
“It made me appreciate how much energy it had taken for me to keep it quiet and once I let people know about it I had so much energy coming back to me in the form of cancer survivors or people who were undergoing treatment who reached out to me. It made me appreciate how valuable it is for people to see someone like Dexter, who they associate with vitality and life, going through it and surviving. It was a necessary step for me to come forward—and it gave me a lot back.”
Michael C. Hall, who is now completely recovered, won the Golden Globe for best actor in a television drama and he accepted it wearing a knitted cap to hide his baldness.
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MICHELLE WILLIAMS TO PORTRAY GOLDEN GLOBE ICON MARILYN MONROE
Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company have announced that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for seven weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London.
Michelle Williams who got a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in Brokeback Mountain (2006) plays Marilyn Monroe.
The iconic Marilyn Monroe has been nominated twice by the HFPA: Bus Stop, 1957 and Some Like it Hot, 1962 for which she won a Golden Globe for her Leading Role in a Musical or Comedy.
The film My Week with Marilyn chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn Monroe in which she escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with a 23-year-old assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.
Watch below a tribute of Marilyn Monroe at the 1962 Golden Globe Awards.
HILARY SWANK’S INSPIRING BOOKSHELF
The Golden Globes on HiIary Swank’s bookshelf remind her daily of her good fortune in being offered such powerful, award-winning roles.
“I look at my Golden Globes and other awards on my bookshelf as I walk by them every day and I’m in awe of the fact that I get the opportunities to play such rich, deep emotional people,” she told HFPA members when she met them at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills recently.
“There’s not a lot of these great roles yet somehow I’ve found them. I’m truly beyond grateful for the awards and the recognition for doing what I love.”
The 36-year-old actress won her Golden Globes in 1999 for Boys Don’t Cry and in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. That same year she was also nominated for her performance in the made-for-television movie Iron Jawed Angels.
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER TINA FEY RECEIVES MARK TWAIN AWARD
The Kennedy Center will present its 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on Nov. 8 in Washington.
Fey is the star, executive producer and a writer of “30 Rock,” for which she’s won two Golden Globes.
She has starred in two feature films — “Date Night” and “Baby Mama” – as well as voicing characters for two animated features. She got her start with the Chicago improv company The Second City and was a writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live” for nine seasons.
Fey is also at work on a book of humorous essays for Little Brown; she signed the deal, rumored to be worth more than $5 million in the fall of 2008.
Previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize include Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner and Bob Newhart; the first honoree was Richard Pryor.
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MICHAEL J. FOX: PARKINSON WILL BE DEFEATED
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently talked to a very courageous Michael J. Fox.The actor, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease several years ago , made it clear that for now, he does not plan anymore intrusive operations. He does not rule out, however, a cure to his disease might soon be found.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK OPENS TO ALL
Without doubt, David Fincher‘s “The Social Network” is one of the best reviewed films of the year. This despite the fact that insiders to the story of the creation of the world’s number one social network, Facebook, have openly complained about the creative license taken by the filmmakers.
True or not, many employees at the headquarters of Palo Alto-based Facebook didn’t waste a minute to watch the film as soon as it opened this Friday.
Reached by phone on Saturday, five employees who attended the screenings unanimously agreed the Mark Zuckerman, portrayed in the film by Jesse Eisenberg, did not resemble their employer.
Four out of five employees did agree Jesse looked better and “The Social Network” was a good film.
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ANOTHER PETER JACKSON SET BACK: FIRE DESTROYS PART OF WELLINGTON STUDIOS
The studio that helped make some of Wellington’s most famous films is on fire in Wellington. A huge fire at Portsmouth Miniatures Studio broke out at 3.10pm. A pall of smoke can be seen all over the eastern suburbs, rising from the building, near Wellington Airport.
The studio’s manager said she was on her way to the scene. No-one was hurt, she said. ”And that’s the main thing.” Crews from all around the Wellington region have gone to fight the blaze. Portsmouth Miniatures Studio has had a hand in many Wellington films. Its facilities were used during the making of Peter Jackson movies including King Kong and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
Read More »TONY CURTIS 1925-2010
“My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages. He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves behind fans all over the world. He will be greatly missed.”
September 30, 2010
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