Harry Potter

A preview for Half-Blood Prince is showing in AMC theatres, and it features new shots from the film. Here are a few details about the new scenes

Lavender drawing a heart with her breath on a window; Slughorn turning from a chair into himself; candles going out in the Great Hall; Dumbledore's owl podium stretching its wings; Cormac McLaggen; extended scenes of the cave and Quidditch and more.

I saw it with Confessions of a Shopahlic at a Cinemark theatre. I just remembered more, by the way! There was also Harry and Dumbledore leaving the ministry in OOTP while the press are taking pictures, flashing lightbulbs, and theres also the trio having a convo in a courtyard.

Well there was Dumbledore saying ''Harry, I've seen you grow up into a young man.'' And there was him saying ''I'm okay Harry, I'm with you.'' There was also death eaters flying in the burrow. There was some amazing cinematography of Harry & Dumbledore in the astronomy tower. And Dumbledore drinking the potion with a shell, not a goblet! And the great hall windows shattering one by one and Slughorn's house cleaning itself and extended Millenium bridge collapsing.

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New footage included a shot of Slughorn's head popping out of his armchair disguise. The armchair then unfolded and shrunk into Slughorn. There was also a conversation between Harry and Dumbledore atop the Astronomy Tower, a group of Hogwarts students in the Quidditch stands looking up at the sky, some funny shots of Lavender hitting on Ron, and new interviews with director David Yates and producer David Heyman.

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Cinemania magazine had a HBP feature, including pictures and interview, but so far we only have exerpts translated thanks to Oesed

You can view the pictures here

And read the partial transcript here:

May’s edition of Cinemanía Magazine has an exclusive reporto of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. And although some of these images have been seen before, we managed to get our hands in few curious facts:

Rupert Grint discusses the kiss scene:

“There’s a kiss with Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown) that was a little awkward. Back when we were shooting that scene, I didn’t really know Jessie, and there were a bunch of people around us, and it was after a Quidditch match, and Ron’s head had gotten a little big, so it wasn’t particularly romantic ...”

David Yates spoke about Quidditch:

“Thanks to technology, we have managed to make a few improvements. I often thought as Quidditch as a very violent game, what with the players flying at top speed, and crashing with each other ... sort of like American football.”

According to David Heyman:

“This is the best Quidditch game we’ve ever seen.”

Tom Felton talks about his character:

“This is my favourite movie. It’s the first time I worked from the very beginning until the end of shooting.” Tom Felton’s big moment arrives when he and Radcliffe finds themselves involved in an adventure of the kind of that belongs to the sagas of James Bond or Bourne. “It was really cool. We spent a week shooting on a set that was really wet. Like a bathtub. Rolling around in the water and fighting. The sequence is longer than the one in the book. In this movie we really get to see a lot more of my character; explain why he’s such a jerk and such.”

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Trio cast interviews were featured in LA Times. In it the trio talks about the film, Quidditch and the romance. The article also featured a picture of Harry and Dumbledore in Slughorns house.

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Daniel Radcliffe on the film
"You would think that, but truly every film is different, and this time around the refreshing aspect was the adolescent romantic core of this film, which should be absolutely charming and very funny," Radcliffe said during a break from shooting. "So from that point of view, it is quite a different film, because we haven't had anything that has had this sort of light and warm and funny a core before."

Rupert on Quidditch
"I found out it was not as much fun to film as I hoped," said Grint, who was left weary and sore by the mechanized broom handle and had headaches from staring at the giant green screen that provides the backdrop canvas for computer artists to later fill in with crowds and the towering playing field. "It's going to be more fun to watch than it was to film."

Emma on the romance
"It's so much fun, and I'm really enjoying it," Watson said sitting in her pink-bedecked dressing room. "And it makes a change, because the last one was very heavy, and it is really nice to have that. . . . It's a nice break for me. And for the fans, I think it's going to be very, very funny."

Source: The Leaky Cauldron

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Third interview from Wizard Universe, this time featuring Rupert Grint, in it he talks about Rons development, his romantic scenes i HBP and funny or strange moments from filming

How would you say that Ron has evolved over the course of these films? And how would you say you yourself have you changed as an actor?
GRINT: It just sort of happens. The first three films really do feel like a different person. I think Ron is more grown up throughout the films. The next one we see him grow up a lot more because the wizard world is becoming quite a scary place. And we see him protect his sister, and we see brotherly stuff that he does in the sixth one.

Ron receives quite a bit of attention from girls in this film. I know you've mentioned in the past that shooting some of the more romantic scenes can get a bit uncomfortable. What's it like to watch those on the big screen?
GRINT: It's worse actually. This one was actually okay because my relationship with Jessie [Cave, who plays Ron's love interest] was quite fun and she was really over the top and quite intense. But it was an awkward scene to do because we'd only met each other two days before. One of the first scenes we did was the kissing one.

In the future when you look back on the making of this film, what are some funny or strange moments that you'll remember about the making of it?
GRINT: Getting my bum cast. They were making a chair for the broomstick to make it more comfortable and have my shape. I was wearing these skinny trousers and I had to sit on this chair and they managed the exact shape of my bum. They turned it into a really comfortable chair.

Also The Weasley house when we burned that down. That was an exciting part. We were standing quite close to it, a burning building, and it was quite scary and I think it got a bit out of control. That was a lot of fun.

Read the full interview here

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