“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth installment in the “Potter” franchise, grossed an estimated $58.3 million as reported by box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
The sixth “Harry Potter” film has seen the biggest-ever opening day thus far for the series. The movie, based on J.K. Rowling’s hit book of the same title, grossed Hollywood’s fourth-highest single-day score, trailing behind “The Dark Knight,” this summer’s blockbuster hit “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Spider-Man 3.”
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Correcton: andPOP initially reported that Emma Watson was attending Columbia University while in fact she is attending Brown University.
Harry Potter star Emma Watson will be attending New York’s Brown University in the fall, reports Perez Hilton. The British star, 19, who plays Harry’s friend Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, will be living in a dorm room and says she’s looking for some “normality” in her life.
“As long as there are no Harry Potter posters on the wall, I will be fine and happy,” she said, adding she hopes her roommate isn’t a fanatic of the series.
“I really hope they are a really massive Harry Potter fan,” teased Watson’s co-star, Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry. “I hope you walk in and the first thing you see is your face on a duvet.”
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Daniel Radcliffe loves his new home.
“I love New York very much, yes! Everyone’s been wonderful,”” said Radcliffe in a statement to E! News.
Radcliffe continues to add that he loves Broadway and that his move from the show’s original West End, London, locale to N.Y.C wasn’t difficult.
Radcliffe stars in the Broadway play’ Equus.’ The “Harry Potter” actor portrays a horse in the dark psychological drama.
Opening night is scheduled for Sept. 25, and the production will play through Feb. 8, 2009. Radcliffe has already been receiving rave reviews for his performance.
Daniel Radcliffe, the star of “Harry Potter,’ suffers from a mild form of dyspraxia.
According to E! News, the star has a neurological disorder that often impairs coordination – which is often mistaken for sheer clumsiness.
“Yes, Dan Radcliffe does have dyspraxia,” his rep says. “This is something he has never hidden. Thankfully his condition is very mild and at worst manifests itself in an inability to tie his shoelaces and bad handwriting.”
Radcliffe is about to make his Broadway debut in ‘Equus,” which is set to kick off Sept. 5.
Naked pictures of DANIEL RADCLIFFE to promote a new play are causing controversy among fans of the HARRY POTTER movies.
The young star peels off his top half and cuddles up with a topless co-star in the promotional snaps for his London West End run in EQUUS.
The pictures have already become popular among young female fans of the 17-year-old – most famous for his role in the boy wizard franchise.
But parents are up in arms and are bombarding Harry Potter fansites with emails.
One reads, “We as parents feel Daniel should not appear nude. Our nine-year-old son looks up to him as a role model. We are very disappointed and will avoid the future movies he makes.”
Radcliffe’s spokesperson VANESSA DAVIES tells British newspaper the Daily Mail, “Daniel does not want to step away from Harry Potter but he does want to show he is a rounded actor capable of very different roles. He has tremendous support from Harry Potter fans.”
The play, written by ANTHONY SHAFFER, opens in London on February 27.
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Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor best known for portraying Harry Potter, is set to star in an upcoming stage production of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play “Equus.”
The BBC reports that Radcliffe, 17, will take on the role of a stable boy with an intimate connection to his horses. The play will require Radcliffe to both appear naked and symbolically blind six horses — traits distinctly out of step with his Harry Potter experience.
Another actor from the Potter films, Richard Griffiths (who plays Uncle Vernon), will co-star in “Equus.” It is set to open in London next March.
The two actors are currently working on the fifth Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” It is set to hit screens in 2007.
Radcliffe fans not wanting to wait that long — or travel to London — can catch him in “December Boys,” a recently completed Australian film about four orphans in the 1960s.
