Archive for the 'Harry Potter' Category

Actor Daniel Radcliffe spent some time on set of his next film Kill Your Darlings in NYC yesterday!!

DanRad plays poet Allen Ginsberg and stars alongside Silent House actress Elizabeth Olsen in the thriller to be released next year!

Check out the pics of Daniel (below)!!

He's been pretty successful in breaking away from his Harry Potter roles so far! We're looking forward to seeing how Dan takes on this character!!

[Image via Christopher Peterson/Buzz Foto.]

The boy who lived Daniel Radcliffe will never completely shake his lightning-scarred alter-ego, but that's not to say he isn't trying out a variety of new roles - and succeeding!

The surprise hit Woman In Black showed us that Radcliffe is no one-trick thestral, and now he is taking on the persona of the farther of american beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg.

Danny was spotted

[Image via Pacific Coast News.]

Thank goodness, because we don’t think we can see any other young actress out there portray our girl Katniss!

Even with all the hubub over the impending release of the Hunger Games movie, pre-production prep for Catching Fire, the second installment in the epic trilogy, is already in motion.

While Jennifer Lawrence has repeatedly said she loves playing the character of Katniss, she’s not quite ready to dish about her feelings on playing her in Catching Fire:

[Image via Wenn.]

Remember Pottermore?

No? The website that was promoted as "everything Harry Potter" from an interactive adventure to being able to buy the digital copies of the series? That one?

Still no?

Well anyway, it's finally being launched in April, after a small launch in October showed them that it was "clear that our original platform wouldn't be suitable when millions more users came on to the site."

We're not sure if anybody is actually excited for it at this point, like they were back when there were early adopters…

… unless U guys are still excited? Are U??

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The same person who has been for the past three years - Carlos Slim!

According to the Forbes Rich List for 2012, the Mexican tycoon has once again held onto the number one position, with an estimated worth of $69 billion!

Meanwhile, Microsoft's Bill Gates came in second place with $61 billion, while Warren Buffet had the third spot with $44 billion!

Other notable money bags this year include the youngest billionaire to make the list, 'Spanx' founder Sarah Blakely, Facebook's Mark Zuckberg in the 35 spot with a net worth of $17.5 billion, and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling dropping off the list as she's fallen below the $1 billion mark, due to Britain's high taxes, and her donation of $150 million to charity!

Wow! So selfless!

Can't fault her for that!

Check out the top 50 on the Forbes 2012 Rich List…AFTER THE JUMP!

[Image via WENN.]

[Image via WENN.]

Star Wars salt and pepper shakers?! Someone MUST already have these! Then again…

We've come to learn that Star Wars creators rejected merchandise ideas similar to the salt and pepper shakers.

Jason Geyer and his buddies tried to package some merch ideas, including a R2-D2 wet bar and Yoda bottle cappers for Pepsi products. You know, the kind of some fans EAT UP as swag at Comic-Con and dig through 30 boxes of cereal to find.

But the Star Wars execs weren't buying it…at all…

And who could blame them? The franchise is the second highest grossing series, behind Harry Potter, and they've made a lot of dough doing it.

The franchise has made $1.6 billion in video games, $9B in toys, and a whopping $20B in licensing fees!

Sorry Jason and Co., Star Wars will be just fine with their own merchandise.

Check out the pics below to see their ideas. Would U buy any of these?

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!

Amazon.com has just posted a listing for the Harry Potter Wizards Collection (above) and it looks Expecto Pa-totally incredible!

Here are the features of this extensive DVD/Blu-ray set: