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Hermione Granger Tops Harry Potter Favorites List
July 15th, 2009 / Author: Mary Beth QuirkEmma Watson Heading to Columbia?
June 24th, 2009
Emma Watson isn’t just talented at playing Hermione in the Harry Potter movies, it seems this British actress is smarter than your average 19-year-old: She reportedly could have enrolled in almost any Ivy League college she wanted, but JustJared.com says she’ll be off to Columbia University.
JustJared reports that she’s listed in Columbia’s student directory “Charlotte E Watson” – her birth name is Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson – and she visited the campus last October.
But Hermione fans best stay away from her while she’s studying, as Emma has said she wants to focus on her schoolwork and not on evading admirers.
“I just want to keep it private [my college choice] for as long as I can. I probably sound like a paranoid nut, but I’m doing this because I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. I want to do it properly, like everyone else. As long as I don’t walk in, and see, like, Harry Potter posters everywhere, I’ll be fine.”
Emma Watson: I’d Go Nude
December 8th, 2008
Emma Watson might be the underrated girl-next-door type as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, but the British star says she’d shed that image – and her clothes – for the right filmmaker.
“Yes,” she says, when asked the nudity question by Britains’s Sunday Times. “For Bernardo Bertolucci. It… depends. I’m not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job.”
Emma has already come a long way from the 8-year-old who first won the part of Ron and Harry’s best girl pal, but she hasn’t let the fame go to her head, and says she still wants to go to school.
“I’m going to have a battle on my hands, because after Harry Potter has finished, I don’t know,” she says. “I definitely want to go to university.”
“I’m at a strange age, I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl any more," she adds. "[Film companies] say, ‘Oh, in a couple of years you’ll be perfect for this.’ I’ll be like, yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it’s going to be quite tough to choose between the two.”
Final ‘Harry Potter’ Movie to Be Released in Two Parts
March 13th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
Attention Harry Potter fans! There may be only two books left to translate to the big screen, but there will be three movies released.
On Thursday, Warner Bros. announced that the final ‘Harry’ film, (based on the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) will be released in two parts.
Part one of the final film will debut in 2010, to be followed months later by part 2.
In a statement, Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov said, "We feel that the best way to do the book, and its many fans, justice is to expand the screen adaptation. The Deathly Hallows is so rich, the story so dense and there is so much that is resolved that after discussing it with Jo (J.K. Rowling), we came to the conclusion that the two parts were needed to do it justice."
The movies (the sixth is in production now) are based on British author J.K. Rowling’s best-selling fantasy novels about the adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter and his friends, as they grow into maturity at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Deathly Hallows, the much anticipated final book in Rowling’s series, was published last July, selling 11.5 million copies in its first 10 days — in the U.S. alone.
The final volume is more than 750 pages, filled with several twists and turns as Harry and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley take on the evil Lord Voldemort for the last time.
